Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-03-29
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Congressman George r. Patterson
of Pennsylvania died suddenly of
heart trouble
King Alfonso has refused to accept
the resignation of the Spanish minis
tiers. The King leaves for the Canary
Islands for a visit
Reports of the illness of William
Rockefeller of the Standard Oil Com
pany, who is now in Europe, were de-
MED by his son, William G. Rookie
Teller.
President Roosevelt may veto the
bill opening to settlement 100000
acres of pasture lands and wood
reserve of $4,000 acres in the Kiowa
country, Oklahoma
Alton B. Parker's call to the South
to bring forth candidate for first
honors in the Democratic national
convention in 1908 has stirred up the
leaders of the minority party.
The South African compensation
committee, examining claims for Boer
war losses, has completed it's labors.
The claims aggregate $31O,O00,0OO.
for the settlement of which SAT COO, 900
has been allowed.
His physician having testified that
H. Clay Pierce is too i'll to take the
stand, the Missouri custer hearing
was adjourned in St Louis to be re-
sumed April 5 when it is promised
that Pierce will appear.
From Washington comes the report
that the aggregate amount that the
Pope will invest in America includes
100000 paid to the Philippine
frairs for their church lands and now
on deposit in this country
The first smoking car ever reserv-
ed for women in Great Britain left a
big London terminus for Liverpool.
The windows bore a label reading,
Ladies Smoking" The innovation
attests the spread of smoking among
English women during recent years.
The British house of commons re-
of Joseph Chamberlain, formerly col
onial secretary, recommending the ap-
pointing of royal commission to in
quire into the economy and moral
effect of Chinese labor in the Trans
vaal f..H
A section of the press of ST. Peters
burg is continuing attacks upon the
proposition of Baron Eeicq De Lobel,
representing the American Trans
Alaskan-Siberian Company, for the
construction of a tunnel under Boring
straits and a railway 5000 miles long,
from East Cape to Kansk, to form a
junction with the Siberian railway
At Omaha Pat Grove was made de-
PENDANT in divorce suit filed by his
wife, Mrs. Harriet Murphy Grove.
who asks alimony and the right to re-
sumo her maiden name. They were
married in 1888 and Mrs Grove al
leges that her husband has contribut-
ed nothing to her support for fifteen
years. Their three children are all
dead.
The United States Supreme Court
held a special meeting at Chief JUS
tice Fuller's home. The utmost Sc
crecy was preserved. 1t is assumed
that the lynching of Ed johnson, a
negro, at Chattanooga was discussed.
Only a matter of the gravest import
ance calls the members together dur
ing a recess of the court. Such a ses-
sion is almost unprecedented.
The seats to be occupied by mem
bers of the Russian national assembly
in the Tauride palace here have been
equipped with electrical apparatus
similar to the system proposed sew
eral years ago for use in the house of
representatives at Washington by
which the members press buttons and
register their votes at the clerks
desk, thus avoiding the delays of roll
calls.
Forty acres of land at Webb City,
owned by the Bradford-Kansas City
Mining Company, was sold to an
Eastern syndicate for S15O,OOO. This
is the highest price ever paid for min
ing land in the Missouri-Kansas lead
and zinc district.
The battleshi) Oregon which is re-
turning to San Francisco for repairs,
has arrived at Honolulu from the
Orient, and it is reported structural
weakness has developed under the
use of the heavy guns. For some
time there have been orders not to
use the thirteen-inch guns.
The miners and operators joint
scale committee went into session at
Indianapolis behind closed doors. The
scale committee consists of thirty -two
men-four miners and four operators
from each Ct the competitive states,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and H.
linois. The joint scale committees
convention for ratification.
Andrew Carnegie has offered $780,
600 to complete the s250,000 endow-
ment fund now Icing raised by the
Western College for Women.
The house committee on ways and
means has postponed indefinitely con-
sideration Of the Williams bill provid-
ing that ell ad valorem and specific
duties exceeding 100 per cent of the
yalue Of the articles on which they
are imposed shall be redgsed sutsi.
GENTLY to bring them down 10 the
actual value Of the goods F.s-:ns the
duty.
The senate committee on public
building grounds has authorized
favorable report on bill appropr.at.
Ing $4,000 for a postofiice building ct
Plattsmouth. Neb.