Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-17
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band of Salvadors, long haired re-
ligious fanatics, known as Fuzzy
WuzZies," looted the town of Malasi-
ia in the province of Pangasinan,
P. l.
A man believed to be William JAG
obs, Swede, entered house in Den
yer, killed Leona Flamment, So years
of age, and ended his own life by
shooting himself
The yacht Nahma, with Mrs. Rob-
ert Goelet on board, in entering the
harbor at Venice collided with an
Italian warship. Both vessels were
somewhat damaged.
The seventh biennial convention of
the International Brotherhood of Lo-
connective Engineers is in session in
Memphis, Tenn. The city is decorat-
ed in honor of the delegates and visit
ors.
Congressman and Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth left Cincinnati for Wash
lASIOA. ACy w Ill odll u1c lOI ILuS-
land, where they will be the guests of
Ambassador and Mrs Reid. They ex-
pect to return home in August
Two American fishing schooners
were towed into North Sidney, C. B.,
by the Canadian cruisers, Canada and
Gladiator. The schooners were seiz-
ed off Cape North on the charge of
fishing within the three-mile limit
Frequent conferences have been
held during the last few days between
the members of the cabinet in connec-
ton with the Anglo-Turkish dispute.
The general opinion is that the Tur-
kish troops will evacuate Tabah be-
fore the British ultimatum expires.
Alfred Russell, one of the promin-
ent attorneys of Detroit, and former
ly United States district attorney for
the Eastern district of Michigan, drop
ped dead of heart disease at the De-
troit Club while making an address at
the annual banquet of the Michigan
Society of the Colonial Wars. Mr.
Russell was rs years old and native
of New Hampshire.
The Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western Company is the only one of
the big anthracite coal companies
which will resume extensive opera
lions at once. 1t expects to be able
to operate all of it's mines with the
exception of the Taylor colliery. The
Erie, Delaware & Hudson and the
panies announce that extensive opera
lions will not be resumed until May
|. 14th.
The viceroy of Canton has paid to
the American consul at Canton, julius
G. Lay, the sum of 100000 as indem-
nifty for the mission buildings, the per-
sonal property of the missionaries
and the claims of converts as a re-
suit of the destruction of property dur
ing the rioting at Lienchow in Octob-
er last. The money will be transfer
red to the Presbyterian mission settle
ment at Lienchow.
The Associated Building Trades,
composed of building trade unions and
modelled something after the old
board of walking delegates, ordered a
number of strikes in New York on
buildings against the employment of
members of new unions formed in
place of unions which have violated
the arbitration agreement. Only in
dependent contractors were affected
by these strikes, so that they are not
in violation of the arbitration agree
ment. About 1000 men quit work, in
Guiding electrical workers, house
smiths, plasterers and plasterers' la
borers, stonecutters and horsehoers.
Certain sections of Bartholomew
and Shelby counties, Indiana, felt Il
slight earthquake shock
The house has empowered the COM
mittee on expenditures in the agricul-
|. tural department to conduct an exam
nation of the agricultural department
with a view to discovering ways of
practicing economy if possible.
The report of Captain Perry Garst,
of the battleship Rhode Island, on the
grounding of that vessel on York
Spit recently, has been received at
the navy department. 1t shows that
the cause of the accident was an error
of Judgment, and Captain Garst has
suggested a court of inquiry, which
has been ordered.
Vesuvius is again showing consid-
cradle activity. A dense column of
smoke is rising from the crater and
spreading like an umbrella, accom-
panied by loud detonations and elect
ricaI discharges, which are especially
noticeable from Resina. The main
crater is discharging sand and Gin
ders.
Word was received at Winnipeg,
Man, from Posthern, Saskatchewan,
that four Indians are dead and three
others are in serious condition as
|. the result of Florida water debauch
at Duck Lake, Indian reservation.
Already counterfeiters are at work
in San Francisco, and the city appears
to have been flooded with bogus 25-
cent pieces. The coins have scorch-
ed and dull appearance. as though
they had passed through the conf1a-
grafton.
The breaking up of the California
Raisin Growers Company and the
sharp bidding that has been going on
among the packers has advanced the
price of raisins in the sweat box to
3 1-s cents for either two or thrse-yeaI
contracts.