Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-11-29
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

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Enlistments at Cheyenne, Wyoming,
number from 40 to so month.
The Minnesota state normal schools
are to give four Filipinos free tuition.
Voting machines are very popular in
the New York cities where they have
been used
The International Packing Company
of Chicago lost $343, 6O4 in one years
operations.
Car Nicholas is said to have infam-
nation of the lungs in connection with
typhoid fever.
Leipsic, Ohio, has been greatly dam
agen by tornado. Many buildings
were unroofed.
The Copenhagen municipality is ne
gotiating with American bankers for
SIS, 900, 5000 loan.
Railroads give longer limits on tick
cts sold on account of holidays this year
than heretofore.
The sale of the Camp Bird mine at
Ouray is off; the $1,000, 900 pawn ent
did not materialize.
New South Wales reports 1863, O6O
acres in wheat, and total crop of &c.
OOO,0O bushels is expected.
Thirty-two roads have signed an
agreement to carry baby carriages and
bicycles for 25 cents trip.
Towns in Arizona are under water
from floods caused by heavy rains near
the northern sources of her rivers.
A terrible famine is reported in the
Chinese province of Shensi, and the
government granaries are empty.
One New Mexico breeder has 10000
Angora goats, and there are others
with hoclls of from 1000 to 5000.
The advent of winter throughout the
Northwest starts 5000 saw mill hands
to the lumber camps in the woods
The National Grange has set apart
the third Sunday in June to be OBJ
served by all grangers as a grange
memorial day.
President Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers of America, has author
lied strike of 1000 miners of Hopkins
county, Kentucky.
The Illinois Central will lose $3.50, 900
by the abandonment of their New
Orleans terminals, on account of the
encroachment of the river.
The national organizations of Ma
chinists and of Metal workers have
agreed upon 915 hour working day;
also that there shall be neither strikes
or lock outs in the future.
The Santa Fe is to operate the st.
Louis, Kansas City & Colorado as soon
as it can be connected with the Santa
system at Kansas City.
The Siberian railway is again giving
immigrants reduced fares which had
been suspended on account of the Chi
nese trouble.
Havana now has but Sc cases of yell
low fever; the disease is abating rapid
'ly.
international troops are occupying
sacred tombs, east and southwest of
Pekin.
A new 12-inch naval gun has been
tested at Indian Head, which, with an
s5O-pound steel tipped projectile. would
pierce any armor ever made. 1t is the
first of 40 which will go on the new
battleships and cruisers.
The matter of extraditions between
Cuba and foreign countries is now in
shape to require a settlement, once for
all
Count Won Waldersee demands that
the Chinese troops be withdrawn from
the vicinity of the allied forces; or he
will fight them.
British mule buyers say that they
have purchased 46, 900 mules in Kan
sas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.
Simon Burns, of the Window Glass
Workers. is elected master workman Of
the Hayes faction of the Knights of
Labor.
Missouri is in trouble over the con-
stitutional amen dments voted upon at
the late election. 1t appears that the
notices of election published in some
of the counties did not extend over as
many days as required by the consti-
tuition itself.
From November IL to 20 heat was so
oppressive at Pittsburg Pa, as to cause
much suffering among mill men; there
was one case of prostration.
Attorney General Griggs has in
formed the president that he cannot
remain in the cabinent after March 4.
as his business sacrifices would be too
great.
Secretary Root practically agrees
with General Miles in the recommends
ton that the army of the United States
be limited to a ratio of one soldier for
each thousand people.