Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-12-20
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF
A large and deep deposit of coal ha s
been discovered in Hungary.

been discovered in Hungary.
The Wisconsin'state grange adopted
resolutions favoring aid for good roads.
A cargo of Puerto Ricans have gone
to Hawaii to work. for sugar planters.
Others are to follow.
The pending pension appropriation
bill carries about $145, $50, 900, of which
81, $50, 600 is for expenses.
There are over 40 cases of smallpox
| in Kansas City, Mo-, in one hospital.
| Only one death has occurred.
The agricultural department reports
100000 bales as the probable cotton
production of the United States this
year.
C. P. Bentley, of Colorado Springs,
has been arrested at Clinton, Iowa,
| charged with fraudulently issuing
mining stock.
The British house of commons voted
the ZIG, 100000 pounds asked for, for
the army in South Africa, by vote of
2s4 against 8.
| Gen Elwen S Otis predicts bright
future for the Philippines when Amer
lean energy and capital snail be
allowed full play.
The British war Office is to distribute
about S1,OOo,OOO among troops who
have served in South Africa; the least
individual amount to be So.
| The members of the Irish parlia-
mentary party unanimously reelected
John Redmond chairman for the pres
| ent and the coming session.
According to estimates of the depart
ments, the expense account of the gov
eminent for the fiscal year June 80,
1901 to June 80, 1902, will be $743, 374,-
sO4
]. B. Comstock, a non-union opera
tor, at Sedalia, Colorado, has been shot
in the arm. Seven men ordered him
out of the station. They fred as they
left the station.
| Mrs. Mary L. Mclean, mother of
John R. Mclean of the Cincinnati
Enquirer, and of Mrs. Admiral Dewey
and the wife of Rear Admiral Ludlow,
died in Washington on December 9,
aged ~ years.
| British authorities in Calcutta
awarded a contract to an American
I firm for a number of locomotives; as
their bid was smaller and their time
limit three months shorter than the
| lowest bid from England.
| San Francisco has had severe storm.
The tanks of the gas and light COM
pany were struck by lightning, the gas
taking fire.
The United States mail is supplying
81, 900, 900 people with free delivery in
! towns and cities. On July 1, 1899,
there were 391 rural delivery routes
and by that time in 1901 there will be
about 4 300 routes in operation.
Reports show that there. have been
Is, 625 cases of typhoid fever among the
British troops in South Africa, of which
number 3,642 proved fatal.
The Michigan legislature by vote
| of 90 to IS passed a blanket ad valorem
tax bill placing tax upon railroads,
graph companies, upon the cash value
of their property, instead of upon their
Learnings as the present law provides.
A tenaacre prairie in the city of Chi
eago was burned over-a veritable
prairie ,fire-but as there were enough
railway men, policemen and citizens
to have tramped it out, mo damage was
done, greater than the danger to load
ed trains, and a general excitement.
|. The main building of the Iowa Agri-
cultnral college, at Ames. is destroyed
by fire, and other buildings iare dam
aged.
A MOSQUITO fleet, with the gunboat
Annapolis as .chaperon, are to travel
| 13, 900 miles together to the Philippines.
This fleet Is sent at the request of Adj
miral Remey. to do patrol duty.
It is stated that the four new SUI
preme court judges, of Kansas, will be
A 81 Ellis, Beloit. c Pollock, VIM
field; E w Cunningham, Emporia,
Houston Whiteside, Hutchinson.
Mrs Aaron A Goodrich, wife of
clerk for Minneapolis. Mimi, lumber
company, is named as one of five heirs
to SIS, 900, 900 estate
NJ Genchits, former German minis
ter of the interior, has been sentenced
to seven years Imprisonment for lese
majestic and publicl insulting the gov
eminent.
A San Francisco judge decides that
marriages of divorced people people
from Kansas during one year from the
divorce, are not valid, although con.
summated outside OF Kansas.