Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-03-01

man in Texas, is dead at his home in
Bell county.
Senator Garst introduced bill pro-
hibiting Sunday theaters In Iowa, pro-
viding $50 fine for actors, managers
and employees for its violation, closing
all amusement places on that day.
President John Mitchell of the Uni
ted Mine Workers arrived in Pitts
burg and went into conference with
committee of leading miners in
their efforts to GUST the district Off
Gals.
Unprecedented regulations to purge
the army of officers accused of cowar-
dice and surrendering during the war
for no reasonable cause were announc-
ed in st. Petersburg by the military
organ, the Russky Invalid.
]. Milton Turner, the Missouri ne
gro politician, appeared before the
senate committee on inter-oceanic
canals to present a proposition look
ing to the building of the Panama
canal by American negro labor
Major General Wood will leave Man.
lila for a two weeks tour of inspec-
ton on the Island of Mindanao. This
trip of the commanding general indi-
Gates that no immediate movement of
troops to China is contemplated.
Alexander S. Perkins, broker of
I, or,ly how
petition in the federal court He
scheduled his liabilities at s226,000
and assets at $500. The bulk of his
indebtedness is in unsecured claims.
Gov. Stokes of New Jersey granted
a reprieve for 30 days to Rufus John
son, colored, sentenced to be hanged
for the murder of Miss Florence AL
lison. at Burlington. Geo. Small has
confessed that it was he and not John
son who killed the woman.
The coalition party is discussing a
don, Paris and possibly New York to
hold series of meetings for the pur-
pose of calculating to the outside
world the Hungarian struggle, aspira-
lions and relations with Austria.
Fifty Dunkard families from near
Roanoke, Va, passed through Kan
sas City enroute 70 Quinter, Cove
county, Kan. eighty miles from the
Colorado state line, which Mr.. Robert
S. Lemon. immigrant agent of the
Union Pacific railway is establishing
on lands owned by that company.
In short emphatic answers to Uni
ted States District Attorney Morrison
in the immunity hearing of the beef
packers in Chicago, Commissioner
Garfield denied having promised to
treat as confidential the information
he got from the packers.
An Oregon Short Line express train
ran into landslide near Delta, Calf,
and two men were killed. The en-
gines of the train were reduced to
scrap iron. The train was derailed.
While Engineer Dennis Freel and 9TH
ers were standing by the wreck, a Sec
ond landslide swept down the noun
tain burying part of the wreck and
crushing the life from Freel and an
unknown man.
The New York Theatrical syndi-
cate which controls the business in
every town in Texas, is being investi-
gated by Attorney General r. ".
Davidson He intends to prosecute
the members of the trust and drive it
out of Texas for violation of the anti
trust act. 1t is alleged that only the
cheap and poorer attractions are book
ed for the Texas circuit, and that
Nine Bernhard would have appeared
in Texas this season but for this trust.
At Council Bluffs, Ia, Pat Grove
has been released on a bond of $1,000
signed by his brother. John Grove,
and the latter's wife and Jos. Manuel,
a wealthy farmer of his county
| Groves trial on a charge of holding
up street cars has been nut over I'M
til March
That Alfred NJ. Bard, nephew of
former Senator Bard of California,
met his death in Europe by foul play
was the statement made by Detective
Sergeant John F. Fogarty, who re-
turned to New York on the steamer
iceland, from Brussels, Belgium.
The Kansas state board of railroad
commissioners has refused to grant a
continuance in the hearing of the COM
| plant of the Southwestern Kansas
Implement and Hardware Dealers
Association, which is set for February
%.
An important Spanish statesman is
authority for the statement that the
| question is now mooted of charging
The Hague arbitration tribunal with
the settlement of the Moroccan con-
troversy, owing to the apparent inab-
ility of the delegates at Algeciras to
secure an accord.
A rupture in the relations between
the building trades Unions. respecting
mechanics and employing factories Of
Chicago has been caused by the sym
pathetic Strike question, and labor
troubles of wide extent in the building
field are threatened for the near flu.
| ture.
The house committee on mines and
| mining has agreed to make a favor
able report on the Mondell bill pro-
viding for the endowment of schools
or departments of mining in connec-
ton with state colleges for the benz
fit OF agriculture and mechanic arts.