Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-24
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

apollS hatly turned down all arbitra-
ton offers from the operators who
have not yet signed the 1903 scale.
The naval appropriation bill, carry
ing nearly hundred million dollars,
was completed in the house, after one
of the busiest days of the present con-
gress.
1t has been decided by the clearing
house banks of San Francisco that
all San Francisco commercial banks
will open for business at 10 a. M,
May %.
The supreme council of the Royal
Arcanum in the United States con-
vened at Old Point Comfort, Va, and
will be in session for eight days. Su-
preme Regent Virgins is presiding.
The Security Savings bank of Los
Angeles has bought the Southern
California Savings Bank and a mer-
ger will follow The combined re-
sources of the two banks are $22, O20,-
3O5.
The funeral of Father Gapon, who
was found hanged May 10, in a cot
tage at Ozerki, Finland, and who is
believed to have been executed by
revolutionists for treason, was held
there.
The senate committee on inter-
oceanic canal voted in favor of con-
structing a sea level canal Senator
Carmack's return from Tennessee
broke the deadlock which occurred at
a former meeting.
The general conference of the M.
E. church South, at Birmingham,
Ala. voted $4,000 to be expended to
assist the Pacific coast Christian Ad-
vocate and authorized an enlarged
building at Shanghai, China.
Anniversary week." which en-
braces annual sessions of all the mis-
sionary and publication societies of
the Baptist church in America began
at Dayton, o., with the convention of
the Women's Home Mission Society.
The house committee on interstate
and foreign commerce authorized a
favorable report on an omnibus bill
carrying between twenty and twenty
five projects as lads to navigation"
and authorizing an appropriation of
something in excess of $1,3O0,000.
Acting Governor Atkinson has re-
proved for one week five Koreans
who were sentenced to be hanged.
hn Gx,n wiz nf
the murder of a fellow countryman
on the island of Hawaii on December
%, 1905. They tortured him for near
ly two days before he succumbed.
Strong reactionary influence is be-
ing brought to bear on the Gar to
induce him to dissolve the Douma at
once for drawing up a reply to his
address from the throne which is
highly unsatisfactory to the bureau
Gratis. The Cars advisors are al
most unanimous in their desire to
suppress the Douma.
Stanford university will be recon
structed at once, and by next Septem-
Der every building necessary to the
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feet condition. The work has al
ready commenced, and there is plenty
of money on hand to assure the trus-
tees that the repairs may be &C
complished as quickly as they de-
sire.
The members of the Lake Carriers
Association expect another strike on
the great lakes due to the breaking
off of the conference with the firemen
and oilers. There is also trouble with
the tugmen, package freight handlers
and scoopers.
Two more bodies were recovered
from the Shenandoah City colliery.
This raises the death list of the ex-
plosion to seven.
The brick-makers strike, which in
wolves nearly all the yards between
Albany and Kingston, reached cris-
is when $50 Italian union men open
ed fire on 500 negro non-union work
men who refused to be persuaded to
quit work at Coeyman's yards. The
Italians were too far away to do much
damage.
Six men, alleged to be safe blowers,
arrested a month ago by Policeman
Haas single handed, after dynamit-
ing the Marshall Vinegar Company's
safe, broke. Jail at Marshalltown, Ia,
saving their way out.
The opinion is quite general in st.
Petersburg that parliament's adop-
ton of the reply to the speech from
the throne will make conflict with
the crown inevitable since it contains
a number of points upon which the
supporters of the government say it
it impossible for the emperor to
yield.
Secretary Taft urged before the
house committee on interstate and
foreign commerce the military neces-
sity of a government cable to Guam
tanama, Cuba, Porto Rico and the
isthmus of Panama.
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
1-3 cents for either two or three-year
contracts.
There is considerable discussion
among cardinals in Rome over the
circular mite recently sent to them
over the signature of Cardinal
Oreglia, dean of the Sacred college,
after a dinner given by the Ameri-
can ambassador, which function wac