Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-01-11
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Mrs. Stella Brennan, convicted at
Minneapolis, Mimi, for numbering her
three stepchildren, has been sentenced
to life imprisonment
The resignation of Captain R. o.
Richard of the signal corps of the
United States army has been accept
ed by the president
1t is understood in London that
China will shortly follow the example
of Japan and propose raising her le-
cations at Washington, London, Paris,
Berlin and ST. Petersburg to the rank
of embassies
A CHILEAN syndicate made the low
est bid for the building of railroad
from africa, Chile, to Lapaz, Bolivia.
The tender of the syndicate was SILL.
100000. An American syndicate with
drew its tender
W. Morgan Shuster, collector of
customs for the Philippine archipe-
lago, will accompany William ]. Bry-
an on his visit to the southern islands
of the group as the representative of
the civil government
Robin, the great sculptor of France,
if not of the age, now is at work on
a white marble bust of Mrs. Potter
Palmer of Chicago. He declares Mrs.
Palmer's head a fine Roman type, and
has grown quite enthusiastic over it.
E. H. Hartman, the railroad mag.
nate, is behind an independent com.
pany which will operate a factory to
build gasoline motor cars. There is
a report that the factory may be built
in Kansas City and negotiations to
that end are said to be under way.
Orders have been prepared at the
navy department reconvening the
court martial at Mares Island navy
yard which tried Ensign Wade, engi-
neer officer of the Bennington at the
time of the explosion. the findings in
that case having been disapproved by
the secretary of the navy. The find
ings will be sent back to California
for revision.
The Supreme Court of the United
States granted the petition of the
state of Oregon for leave to file bill
for an injunction against Secretary
Hitchcock in the matter of the own
ership of a large area of land in the
klamath Indian reservation. The
state claims the lands under the
swamp law and asks the court to ad'
judicate the claim.
The Slovo, the conservative organ
which recently turned upon Count
White, delivers a broadside not only
'impugning the motives of the premier
in the present war against the Reds,
but openly attacking the records of
members of the cabinet.
A serious blow has struck the
American export trade by Brazil, &C.
cording to advices received by ca
BILE from Petropolis, the diplomatic
suburb of Rio. This is to the effect
that an order has just been issued
putting in force the new tariff, which
bears with great severity upon i'm
ports of American flour grains and
many other important commodities.
The postmaster general has re-
moved D.. P. Mexican as postmaster
at Esbon, Jewell county, Kan. John
H. McCammon was appointed to fill
the vacancy. McCammon's appoint
ment was made on recommendation
of Congressman Reeder. Walter N.
Lyngar was selected for the Office at
Opolis Crawford county, Kan, to
succeed l. A Hopkins, resigned. Jesse
H. Critics and John A. McGrath were
appointed rural mail carriers at Car
bondale.
A grand jury drawn especially TO
consider about 1000 cases of alleged
election frauds was sworn in in the
supreme court in New York. This
Jury was impaneled at the request
of States Attorney Mayer. who says
he has about / 900 election cases in
which no arrests have yet been made
and which he will present to this
jury.
Three Chinese implicated in the
assination of American missionaries at
Lienchau were executed in the prem
ises of the joint commission and many
others were punished
According TO an of-cial report the
last case of yellow fever has disap.
peared from Havana and there are
no suspicious cases under observa-
ton. Since the first appearance of
the disease in October there have
been sixty-nine cases, twenty-three of
which resulted in death and forty
six of which were discharged cured.
In Austria series OF earth shocks
we're felt at Agram. Gill, Laibach.
Marburg and Gratz. Buildings crack
ed and the inhabitants fed panic
stricken from their houses.
Private John Murphy, of the Elev-
enth infantry, stationed at Fort Rus
sell. wyo.. is dead and two other sol
diers may die as a result of a New
Years spree. during which they
drank largely of cocktails composed
of bay rum. lemon juice and hair
tonic.
News regarding the progress OF the
dry dock Dewey reached the navy de.
partment in wireless message from
the U. s. s. Glacier. The dry dock is
making about three and one-half