Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-05-15

The Superior Steel Company of Car
negie, Pittsburgh suburb, has been
compelled to shut down because OF
the walkout of their 1,400 employees.
Foreign Affairs.
A Mexican troop train, bearing 25(
federal soldiers was blown up with
dynamite near the Sonora-C oahuills
state line and most of the passengers
killed.
The Irish Home Rule bill has been
reintroduced in the British parlia
ment. 1t will come up for debate on
June 6.
The discovery of new comet is an.
nounced in a cablegram to Harvard
College Observatory from Kiel.
The fate Of the Woman's Suffrage
bill was sealed in the English parlia.
ment by the votes of more than so
Irish Nationalists who voted against
1t. The measure was rejected by a
majority of AZ. The vote stood 266
to 219. The defeat of the present
measure was ascribed to the recent
outrages of the militant suffragettes.
A bomb with a lighted fuse was
placed In the main entrance of the
Grand hotel in London, where many
Americans are staying. A policeman
saw woman place the explosive and
promptly arrested her after exiting.
uishing the fuse.
Knud Rasmussen's Greenland expe-
dition has returned to Thorshaven af
ter three years absence.
Aleko Shinas, who assassinated
King George of Greece at Saloniki,
has committed suicide.
Suffragettes set fire to the resi-
dence of the editor of London Light
but the flames were extinguished be-
fore serious damage was done.
Baron Chinda, the Japanese ambas.
sador at Washington, has been in.
structed by his government to make
formal protest against the Alien
Land bill enacted by the California
legislature and is now awaiting Gov
ernor Johnsons signature.
Alice Maude Meadows, the novelist,
was drowned at Red Hill, few miles
from London, while attempting to res
cue her dog which had fallen into the
water.
Scenes of the widest disorder oc-
CURED at the demonstration in Trafal-
gar Square, London, which was under
the auspices of the Free Speech De-
Tense committee. Only the interfer-
ence of James Keir Hardy prevented
serious riot between the police and
Socialists.
The lives of 200 men and women
were jeopardized by a nitroglycerin
bomb placed among the parcels In the
London postoffice. The suffragettes
were suspected.
Suffragettes burned st. GATHERINGS,
the parish church at Hatcham, in the
southeast of London.
Contracts have been placed for the
construction in Japanese shipyards
of three more dreadnaughts.
An anarchist plot TO Kill King AL
fonso of Spain on his coming visit to
Paris has been discovered in the south
of France. Many arrests were made
Personal.
President Wilson and his family
have decided to attend the Central
Presbyterian church during their resi-
dence in Washington.
Colonel Roosevelt is to take the
stump in New York to aid Governor
Sulzer in his fight for direct pri
mary.
Former United States Senator
Frank o. Briggs of New Jersey ii
dead at his home in Trenton.
Senator Cummins of Iowa has sen
out letters calling conference O
Progressive Republican leaders t,
meet in Chicago in the near future.
Secretary of State William ]. Bryan
has left California for Washington.
Andrew Lynch, the Kansas City pc
liceman who was shot by highwaymel
the other night, is dead at the genera
hospital there.
Neil Gibson, member of the Was
oner, Ok, city fire department, wa
killed at Muskogee when he touche
the faucet of a water cooler whic
was carrying heavy charge of elet
tricity.