Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-09
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF


Nome.
Augusta, Ca, has separate street.
cars for negroes.
The New England drouth is broken
by copious rains.
Wine is transported in France in
bulk in tank cars.
The melon crop about ST. Joseph,
Mich, is a failure.
Russia is negotiating another loan
in the United States.
American coal is being shipped to
Russia for railroad USE
Every steamship from Australia
to San Francisco brings gold.
Grass Valley, Cali, lost two business
blocks by a fire which started in
laundry.
The report of the massacre of mis-
sionaries at Pao Ting Flu has been
confirmed.
1t is said that rich gold mines have
been discovered in Hawkins county,
Tennessee.
Yellow fever exists in Tampa, Flor
ida, and the state of Alabama has de-
clared quarantine.
E. G. Rathbone finally secured bail
in Havana; several Spanish merchants
gave the necessary security.
President Mckinley has accepted the
grand army invitation to attend their
annual encampment in Chicago.
The broom corn district of Illinois
has lost its whole crop. The corn all
lies on the ground as fiat as if roller
had been hauled over it.
One of the boilers of the Spanish
cruiser Infanta Isabella gave away,
as the steamer was about to leave San
Sebastian, scalding 81 soldiers.
Mexican troops at war with the
Maya Indians in Yucatan were badly
routed in a recent fight, losing heav-
lily. There were 8 1000 Mexicans against
5000 Indians.
All of the missionaries sent out by
the Presbyterian board, and about
whose whereabouts there had been
uncertainty, are now accounted for,
although come are still in Pekin.
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces tribe,
who wanted to be sent to their former
home in Oregon has been told that
their going their is impossible as their
old country is now occupied by set
tiers.
The crack team of the Kansas City
fire department has gone to Paris to
show how Americans fight fire.
A number of Maine cotton mills are
shutting down on account of loss of
trade with China, resulting from the
war.
E. L. Swazey is gone to parts I'M
known, leaving Kansas City banks and
commission men with duplicated mort
cages on herds of cattle which may
and may not have an existence. There
is said to be 81, 600, 900 of his paper
af1oat.
Clear water in the Chicago river is
lessening the city revenue from water,
factory owners drawing their srpply
from the river.
The Chinese ministers in European
capitals have united in cabling the
Chinese government a demand that
the legations be permitted free tele-
graphic communication with their gov
eminent.
The increase in the total internal
revenue receipts for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1900, over the receipts of
the previous year were SCI, s31, 534.
Governor Beclham has decided to
call an extra session of the Kentucky
legislature to amend the Goebel cleo
ton law.
A firm of American contractors is adj
vertising for 1000 laborers to begin
work on the Central railroad in Cuba
on November 1.
During Nationalist meeting in
Cork John E. Redmond, leader of the
Irish party in parliament appealed for
election funds. Hand bills were dis
tributed discouraging recruiting in
Ireland for the British army.
John Wickersham, recently Of Kan
sas. was drowned in the White River,
Arkansas, by collision of a launch load
ed with pleasure seekers with a barge.
Lieut.. ]. B. Gridley, son of the COM
mander of Dewey's flag ship, now
attached to the Boston navy yard, is
making effort to be assigned to duty in
China
There is about $1,000. 600 insurance
to be paid, mostly by English compan-
les, on the life of King Humbert of
Italy. There is said to be none of it
carried by American companies.