Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-01-18
Chicago Futures.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


Harry Nally met instant death at
Webb City, Mo-, by falling down the
Mercantile Mining Company's shaft,
distance of about $50 feet.
A Kansas state baseball league was
formed in Chicago and Ed Bero, Jr.,
of Parsons, Kan, was elected presi-
dent of the new organization.
answer to the charges against the
Isthmian Canal Commission contain
ed in an article in the Independent
has been made by Secretary Taft.
Congressman Joseph C. Sibley in
an open letter to his constituents,
dated Washington, January 10, says
all his political ambitions are graft
fled and he will never again ask for
a political Office.
The general assembly of the mem
bers of the British Royal Academy
has elected Augustus Saint Gaudens,
the American sculptor, and Josef Is
raels, the Dutch painter, honorary
foreign members of the academy
While no official statement could
be obtained from the physicians it
was rumored that grave change had
shall Field of Chicago, who is i'll at
the Holland house in New York.
At council Bluff, Ia, Pat Crowe.was
indicted by the Pottawatomie county
grand jury for alleged completely in
street car hold up January II, 1908,
when about $50 was secured from
two conductors and motorman..
The attempt to fire the big zinc
smelter at Canon City, Colo, two
million dallar plant, makes the ff-
teenth attempt at incendiarism in
Canon City in the past two weeks
and convinces the citizens that an
organized gang of firebugs is trying
to burn the town.
Arthur H. Soden and William H.
Conant, owners and directors of the
Boston team of the National baseball
club, refused an offer of s250,000 for
; the grounds club and franchise, made
by NJ. ]. Reagan, who is well known
in local baseball circles. The own
ers want s275,000. :. -
: Severe weather has. so delayed
construction of the Northwestern
railway extension across Wyoming
toward the Shcshone reservation that
the road may not be completed when
the reservation is opened in June. AS
there are no railroads near the reser-
walton a movement is on foot to post
pone the opening until later in the
season. when both the Burlington and
Northwestern extensions may reach
the borders of the reservation at Ian
der and Thermopols.
Senator Long saw the president
and laid before him William T. Yer
mons answer to charges filed against
the latter for appointment as register
of the treasury. Senator Long ex-
poets a complete yindication of Yer
non. He will see the president again
within few days at which time it
will probably be decided as to wheth-
er Vernon will or will not be appoint
ed
John H. Converse, of Philadelphia,
has endowed the chair of homiletics
and pastoral theology of the Presby-
terrain Theological seminary of Oma-
ha with $4,000.
A. NJ. Linn, of the Iowa state board
of health, giving expert testimony in
the Pratt murder case. at Rockwell
City, testified that Josiah Pratt, for
whose death Mrs. Pratt is on trial.
was due to the effects of arsenical
poisoning, the poison having been adj
ministered prior to the mans death.
Druggist Mickles, from Yetter, has
already testified that Mrs. Pratt pur-
chased arsenic prior to her husbands
death, and also that he sold Persing,
the hired man, several sheets of fly
paper.
The ceremonies of opening Tain
anfu, capital of the province of Shane
Tung, to foreign trade were attend
ed by many Chinese and foreign off,
cials. The invited American guests
present included consular officials
and representatives of prominent
mercantile companies.
DR.. William Rainey Harper, presi-
dent of the University of Chicago
since its inception, one of the fore
most educators and one of tse most
learned Hebrew scholars of his thine,
died of cancer of the iinestipe
Secretary Taft has rGemmended
to the president that he Sanction the
issue of a revocable license to. the
Oil Company of California to con-
struct and maintain pipe line
across the canal zone.
The railroad and warehouse coEs
missioners were in. Webb City, NJ.
in compliance with a request frone
the Commercial Club, to investigate
a complaint made by local shippers
regarding the transfer of freight in
CARROTS from one railroad to the 9TH
err
/. Senior Obaldia, the minister from
Panama to this 1ntry, received the
following cablegram from his govern
ment: DENY uprising of Sam Bias
Indians. Personal differences be-
tween chiefs caused circulation of re-
port"
Representative overstreet, of IN
diana, SECRETARY of the Republican