Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-18
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

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There is German cruiser at Louren-
20 Marques.
Boston's municipal debt was increased
$4,000, 900 last year.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Webster Davis is in Cape Town.
Queen Victoria has proclaimed the
opening of parliament for January 80.
Boston shipped about 10000 bales of
hay last week to the British army in
South Africa.
1t is rumored here that the Bank OF
Russia has advanced the bank of Eng
gland $4,000, 900.
Denver expended more than two mill
ion dollars on business and public
buildings last year.
P. D. Armour, the millionaire packer
is negotiating for permanent home
at Pasadena, California.
There are thirty-fve cases of small
pox in the Northern Illinois normal
school located at Dixon.
Twenty-siX cotton mills have been
built in Mexico during the last year,
and more are being built.
A gun stock factory in Frankfort,
Indiana, is working on an order for 49,
600 gun stocks for the Beers.
Explosion of acetylene gas burned
church at Eden, Nebraska, while
watch meeting was in session.
A large carriage repository in Port
land Me-, four story brick building is
burned, with loss of 100000.
Rev. J. K. Peck, the Oldest minister
in the Wyoming, Penn, Methodist Con-
ference, fell dead in his pulpit.
According to the financial statement
the net bonded debt of New York City
on January 1, 1900, was $685., 676, OBS.
1t is estimated that 1000 Films will
emigrate this year and that practically
all of them will come to the north
west.
Two shipping clerks of WHOLESALERS
grocery in st. Joseph, Mo-, have been
arrested for Systematically robbing
their employers.
Jobbers have tried to get a better
discount from table glassware manu-
facturers than is given to department
stores and failed to get it.
The reciprocity treaty between the
United States and France is being held
up by each party on the ground that it
is too favorable to the other.
Sir Thomas Upton has again chal-
lenged for the Americas cup. He says
he will build the finest yacht ever con-
structed.
The Bird Canning company, which
has plants at Topeka, st. Joseph and
several other points, will put one in at
Olathe.
The plan of having mail registered
in operation January Is in sixty cities.
The service will be inaugurated else
where, when considered beneficial,
upon application of the local officials.
Four members of the Omaha board of
Education are under arrest for bribery
In connection with a contract for blinds
for school buildings.
L. b. Severance, formerly treasurer
of the Standard Oil company, has given
B6O, 900 to Oberlin college. The money
will be used to erect and equip a chem
ical laboratory. Mr.. Severance also
donated the ground on which the build
ing will stand.
General Joe Wheeler is very much
put out because he is given no chance
to fight the Filipinos.
=, All labor unions of st. Joseph, Mo-,
are demanding from Is to 25 per cent
increase of wages, and recognition of
the eight hour law.
The Missouri State Federation of
Labor failed to pass a resolution favor
ing the formation of labor party in
opposition to the two old parties.
| There were over 100 companies
formally incorporated in the various
states during 1899 for the manufacture
of automobiles, and their total capital
fzation reached the enormous sum of
S504, 800, 200.
The British residents of Mexico have
contributed $500, 900 gold to the Brit
ish Soldiers relief fund. Many English
men have gone home to enter the army.
The abuse of the war Office and Lord
Lansdowne, the secretary of state for
war, and Lord Wolseley, continues un-
abated in the press and among the
public of London.
Retail butchers of Minneapolis and
the northwest have advanced the price
on veal and pork one cent a pound. 1t
is difficult for the packing houses to Sc
cure enough for the increased demand.