Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-31
Foreign Affairs.

in the price of gasoline in Texas.
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Foreign Affairs.
Forty thousand citizens Of the
United States now in Mexico are about
to lose all they possess, according to
Mrs. Paul Hudson, wife of the pro-
prietor of the Mexican Herald, the
American newspaper published in the
City of Mexico.
Seven men were killed by the ex-
plosion of a ton of gunpowder at the
plant of the Canadian Explosive Com
pany at Beloiel. Pieces of brick and
wood fell mile away.
Without declaring war and appar-
emily trusting that the jealousies of
the powers will prevent any European
interference, Turkey has begun an in
vasion of Bulgaria.
A further detachment of the mutt
nous Swiss Guards has left the Vati-
can. Some of them threatened to
make unpleasant revelations.
The Vatican at Rome recently was
in a state of siege as the outcome of
the mutiny of the Swiss guards, whose
demands in the form of a memorial
relating their grievances and setting
forth the conditions on which they
would remain in the service were fat
ly rejected. Three leaders in the
movement were expelled from the Vat
lean. Four othrs left at night, and
twelve have requested leave to depart
for their homes in October.
Fourteen German coal miners were
found dead in mine near Geilen-
kirchen, Prussia. A fall of coal en-
tombed them for twenty-four hours.
After a desperate fight lasting three
days the Mexican rebels captured Tor
reon, according to wireless dispatch
from Zacatecas.
The whole kingdom OF Wurtemburg,
Germany, was shaken by a sharp
earthquake recently. Many chimneys
collapsed.
Alarmed by threats Of the rebels to
attack the port Of Frontera on the east
coast of Mexico the American consul
has asked Washington to send gun
goat.
United States Charge Williams at
Pekin, China, has called upon Rear
| Admiral Nicholson for guard of ma
rines from the Asiatic squadron to
Kuling, in Kiang ST province, where
Americans are said to be in danger.
The sublime porte has Issued formal
orders to the Turkish army to occupy
Thrace and Adrianople.
Personal.
Representative Victor Murdoch of
Kansas experienced a new thrill at
Boston. He packed himself in a first
class mail package and was shot at
express train speed through the pneu-
matte tube that runs beneath the city
streets from the postoffice to the Bos-
ton & Maine Railway Station.
President Wilson has nominated
L. E. Pinkham of Hawaii to be gov.
ernor of Hawaii.
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President Wilson has nominated
Preston G. West of Oklahoma to be
an assistant attorney general attach
ed to the Interior Department
| Ralph Reynor, driving 7-passenger
green-bodied Speedwell motor car, with
nickel trimmings, belonging to Col
Willis Wood, has flashed over a route
from Kansas City to the Atlantic
Coast. Reynor was arrested in Ports
mouth, Va, in company with two
women who made the trip with him.
! Paul Little, prosecuting attorney
r announced that he would nolle pros tn,
+ charge Of first degree murder agains
g the Rev. Marion Caps of Whit
r Bluff, Ark. Capps was convicted an,
r sentenced to hang on charge tina
he burned to death his children, Pris
celia, years old, and Rosie. 2. Tn
S supreme court reversed the sentenc
n and remanded the case for new tria
e
Il Archibald C. Hart, Democrat, wa
$ elected to the house from the Sixt
e Congressional district of New Jerse
IS to succeed the late James Martin.