Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31
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corded at Cleveland, o. No damage
was done.
The postmaster at Springfield, Mo-,
will be allowed three additional let
ter carriers from June 1.
The BLACK Hundreds" in Russia
are getting up petitions against am
nesty and arousing resentment on the
part of the liberals.
At Budapest, Hungary, Francis
Kossuth, leader of the United opposi-
tion,. declares that the rumors of a
ministerial crisis are without founda-
ton.
AS the result of the investigation by
immigration authorities in Baltimore
and other places, several leaders OF
Italian anarchists will shortly be ia
ken into custody.
A. ]. Cassatt, who arrived in Lon
don from America several days ago,
emphatically denied that he had any
intention of resigning the presidency
of the Pennsylvania railway.
The testimony and arguments in
Albert T. Patrick's hearing for a new
trial ended in New York. Recorder
Golf reserved his decision, giving I'M
til a later date for the filing of Briefs
The senate committee on foreign
relations reported the treaty between
Great Britain and Cuba, which was
signed twelve months ago, recon-
mending it's ratification with certain
amendments. 1t is expected that
these amendments will be distasteful
to Great Britain and it is considered
doubtful if that government will ac-
cept the treaty as amended.
Secretary Taft has approved an Or
der sending the headquarters and two
battalions of the Tenth infantry to
Alaska to replace the Third infantry
The Tenth infantry will be scattered
among all the present Alaskan posts,
none of which will be abandoned, as
was once suggested. Upon its return
from Alaska. the Third infantry will
be stationed at Forts Wright and Law
ton, Wash, where the Tenth infantry
now is.
At the Kentucky Trotting Horse
Breeders track at Lexington. KY,
Barney Oldfeld broke the worlds
record for fifty miles, held by himself.
He covered the distance in 1 hour, Is
minutes and seconds, the best pre-
vious record being l hour, 16 minutes
and 20 seconds. Oldfield also won
the Blue Grass sweepstakes, open to
the world at five miles. and captured
the one mile race from Paul Albert
of Germany in easy style.
A band of 100 Greeks began burn
ing the Bulgarian village of Start
china, near Monastir. When six
houses had been burned Turkish
troops appeared on the scene and kill
ed seventeen of the Greeks. The re-
mainder of the Greeks fed, the Turks
pursuing.
At Lens, France, fire has again
broken out in the Courrieres mine,
where the disaster of March 10 last
occurred, resulting in the loss of
about 1000 lives. The new outbreak
is causing galleries to fall in and the
strictest precautions are being taken
to assure the safety of the miners.
The senate has passed the urgent
deficiency appropriation bill provid-
ing for the opening of Indian reserva-
lions in the Northwest.
Chancellor Won Buelow started for
the island of Nordeney, off the north
ern coast of Germany, where he will
spend his three months holiday.
In London the detailed discussion
of the educational bill in the house
of commons is now in full swing and
there is every indication of a prolong.
ed struggle.
A fight between Cossacks and Peas
ants, resulting from the efforts of the
authorities to suppress agrarian dis
orders, has occurred in eastern Rus.
Fla. 1t is reported that four peasants
were killed and 200 wounded
The correspondent at Toxic of the
Daily Telegraph says that consequent
On q petty uloPuIC OfCl IhO lCSCPIlOh
of Jacob Schiff, the American banker,
the Japanese government has issued
a regulation forbidding the Korean
imperial household to entertain for
eign guests without first consulting
the Japanese resident general.
Russian officials are making every
possible effort to capture the murder
ers of w. H. Stuart, the American
vice consul at Batoum, Russia, ac-
cording to dispatches received by the
state department from Ambassador
Meyer at st. Petersburg, and Thomas
E. Heenan, the American consul at
Odessa.
The senate passed bills incorporat-
ing the National Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution, and au-
thorizing the disposition of lands in
the abandoned FIT. Shaw military re-
servation, Montana.
More than fifty witnesses have been
subpoenaed to appear before the in
terstate commerce commission which
will take up the Standard Oil hearing
at Cleveland, o. Commissioner Prouty
is now here and others of the COM
mission are expected to arrive from
Philadelphia.
The senate numbered among its
spectators recently a prince of India
in the person of the Maharajah, or
Galkwar of Beroda, who occupied a
seat in the gallery assigned to SEN
ators and Their families. The prince
was accompanied by his wife.