Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-05

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gasoline became ignited when it flowed
into blacksmith shop and an explo-
sion followed the flash of fire envelop-
ing eight persons.
A bust of Thomas Moore, the Irish
poet, was recently unveiled in the Cor
coran Art Gallery at Washington,
with addresses of eulogy by promi-
nent speakers.
In the federal district court ut st.
Louis, Judge Sanborn, who came from
st. Paul for the purpose, appointed
b. l.. Winchell, president of the road,
and Thomas Fl. West, of the Union
Trust Company, as receivers for the
st. Louis & San Francisco railroad.
A receivership was urged by the
North American Trust Company as
the only solution of the roads tinan-
cial difficulties.
Four persons were killed and sew
eral others injured when two fast
Missouri Pacific passenger trains met
head-on near California, Mo. The
wreck was caused by mistake Of
train dispatcher.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men, in convention at San Francisco,
opposed the proposed Workmen's
Compulsory Compensation act now be-
fore congress,
An army OF grasshoppers eighteen
miles long and five miles wide was re-
ported in northeastern New Mexico
and moving in a northeasterly direc-
ton. Farmers fear a general grass
hopper plague in the Southwest, espe.
cially in Texas, western Oklahoma
and New Mexico.
In the trial of w. M. Wood, presi-
dent OF the wool trust, the state pro-
duced checks and vouchers showing
that Wood authorized the payment
OF $2,605 for planting" dynamite dur
ing the strike at Lawrence, Mass.
A dislocated neck caused the death
of Luther McCarty, of Springfield,
Mo-, one Of the claimants of the
heavyweight honors in the prizefight,
ring, in a fight with Arthur Pelkey,,
at Calgary, Alberta. A hard blow on
the jaw forced McCarty's head back,
suddenly rupturing the spinal cord.
Pelkey was Immediately placed under
arrest on charge of manslaughter.
The affair probably means the end
of boxing matches in Canada.
Foreign Affairs.
Field Marshall holman Won der
Goltz, OF the German army, consid7
cred one of the foremost strategists
of the age, has asked Emperor Will
lam to be allowed to retire.
1t is reported in Germany that the
Kaiser intends to visit England in
August.
The coroner's jury at Calgary, AL
berta, has exonerated Arthur Pelkey,
the prizefghter whose blow killed
Luther McCarty in the prize ring
there.
The first through cut OF the Panama
Canal from east to west was COM
pleted the other day when two steam
shovels working from opposite direc.
tons met at Culebra.
Love and diplomacy entered into
the marriage in Berlin of Princess
Victoria Louise, the only daughter of
the German emperor and Prince
Ernst August youngest son of the
duke of Cumberland. In brilliancy
the ceremony far outshone any SINH |
lar event in recent years. Many
crowned heads were present and the |
wedding gifts to the young couple |
we're valued at more than 100000. |
Turkey has definitely ceded the ISL
and of Cyprus to Great Britain.
Englands alliance with Japan is |
much anxiety in the British |
empire because of the present trouble |
between the United States and Japan
over the alien land legislation.
The proposed plan for a tunnel I'M
der the Panama Canal has been |
abandoned by Colonel Cocktails be- |
cause of the enormous cost.
Tommy Burns prize fight arena, in |
which Luther McCarty was killed at
Calgary, Alberta, by Arthur Pelkey,
burned to the ground shortly after |
the tragedy.
In a battle near Sacramento, IN
Northeast Mexico, 100 federals were
ambushed and killed by rebels.
Vesuvius is again showing renewed |
activity.
Personal.