Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-02-15
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

QeISu, dCCOTOlnS 10 an Imperial re-
script published in the Russki In
valid
men at st. Petersburg has decided
not to pay losses sustained on ac-
count of agrarian movements, riots
or revolts.
The Crofters of Barra island, Heb
rides, have seized the neighboring is
land of Vatersay and declare their in
tention to resist by force of arms any
attempt to dislodge them.
The internal revenue report for
1905 shows that the business of the
Philippine islands amounted to $685.
100000 in gold. The amount of taxes
collected was 100000 in gold.
Reports from the Baltic provinces
say that Governor General Sollogub's
plan of sweeping the revolutionists
and their leaders from the provinces
is rapidly approaching completion.
Bills providing for the establish
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the continuation of the war taxes
passed the budget committee in Toxic
and doubtless will pass the house Of
representatives.
Commissions have been appointed
to examine the projects of two
American promoters for the devel-
opment of the Asian railroads, one
road to run from Ashkent to Omsk
and the other to extend from Chita
to Boring Sea.
Colonel Gordon w. Lilly, "Pawnee
Bill" owner of the celebrated wild
west show, arrived in Washington
for the purpose of inducing congress
to reserve one hundred thousand
acres in the Washita reservation in
Oklahoma, which he promises to
stock with American bison.
More than a million infants have
been sacrificed to the various concoc-
lions known as soothing syrups and
pain killers and over twice that num-
Der killed by impure milk was the
declaration made by Prof. H w. Wi
ley, chief of chemistry bureau Of the
department of agriculture in Wash
ington.
Following the meeting of the presi,
dents of several anthracite coal roads
in New York there was an intimation
given in quarters friendly to the op-
orators that the anthracite coal which
had been mined was so much in ex-
cess of the demand that shut down
in the mines may be necessary if
there is no strike on April 1.
The winner of the $4,000 for cor
rectly naming the attendance at the
st. Louis exposition in 1904 was
Frank Campbell, a convict in the Ne
braska state penitentiary, who still
has one year more to serve for en-
bezzlement. The winner, however,
will receive only s12,500 of the prize.
Fearing that he might have difficulty
in securing the money while impris-
oned, he agreed to pay lawyer half
of the prize in case he was success
full in securing it. Campbell's attor
ney had conference with him at the
penitentiary in regard to the DISPOSE
ton of the money which will be re-
ceived in few days.
Pleas of not guilty to charges of
granting illegal rebates were entered
before Judge Bethea in the United
States district court by representa-
tives of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad Company.
Farm hands found a woman I'M
conscious in a cave on the Niagara
river near Lasalle. She was most
extensively dressed. Doctors say she
was not exhausted by cold but by
hunger. The New York police are
trying to find out whence she came.
The Venezuelan government has re-.
quested the government of the Uni.
ted States to take charge of its con.
sulate in France. Secretary Root has
decided to comply with the request
and will give the necessary instruc.
lions to the American ambassadors.
The hunger for sovereign power
and the attempt to restrict the con.
stitutional rights and functions OF
the chief of state in such a way as
"even the president of republic
would not submit to- are declared
by Premier Federvary to be the real
causes of the crisis in Hungary.
Simon Lake, the inventor and
builder of submarine boats. has ar
rived in ST. Petersburg to submit to
the admiralty for its approval the
final plans for four big lake cruiser"
submarines, which he is building for
Russia.
The steamer Srinano. recently re.
leased from the Japanese auxiliary
service, arrived on her first trip to
the United States since she resumed
the service, bringing the officers of
the new Japanese battleships, Kato-
ri and Kashima, being constructed in
England.
A telegram from Antofagasta.
Chile, says that the railroad laborers
at Oruro, Bolivia, are on strike and
that fifty men are said to have been
killed during rioting there. The au-
thorities are attempting to pacify the
strikers. Cruisers have been ordered
to Antofagasta with troops.
Thirteen revolutionists were con-
demned by drum-head court martial |
and executed at Libau in the Xaino-
den district. Among the number was