Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
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THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Augusta, Ga, has separate street
cars for negroes.
The Union Pacific has also issued
anti-cigarette orders.
Venezuela is at peace and all politi-
cal prisoners have been set free
There seems to be an alliance on all
lines between the Santa Fe and Rio
Grande railroads
President Mckinley has accepted the
| grand army invitation to attend their
annual encampment in Chicago
Mrs. Gen. Fred Grant was with her
daughter, the Princess Cantacuzene,
when son was born to the princess,
last week.
locomotive on the Sandusky and
Hooking Valley road jumped a trestle
and fell GA feet. Engineer Rolla Clauss
was killed.
Mail passes between Paris and Ber-
lin in less than an hour; sometimes
within So minutes. 1t goes in pneu-
matte tubes.
Gen. James H. Wilson has been re-
lieved from duty at Matanzas, Cuba,
and ordered to join Gen. Chaffee at
Talzu, China.
The power house of the electric line
from Chattanooga to Chickamauga
park is burned. Loss, $65, 900. Insur-
ance covers it.
Clear water in the Chicago river is
lessening the city revenue from water,
factory owners drawing their supply
from the river.
Railroad mail service has been es-
tablished on road 72 miles long, con-
Meeting Honolulu with other points on
the island of Oahu.
Cinnamon in Mexico steal across the
border into the United States on pur-
pose to be sent home to China free of
cost to themselves.
The Missouri Pacific will also run
three special excursion trains to Colo
RADIO common points August 10 and
September and 21
The sales of postage stamps, en-
velopes, stamp books, newspaper wrap
pers and postal cards, in the last fiscal
year. amounted to s. 2s3, 6s7 ,O1O articles,
valued at s97, 6s7,772.
One-sixth of the area of Texas has
been granted to the railroads of that
state. The grants aggregate as many
vania and New Jersey combined.
The Lehigh Valley freight house at
Buffalo. n. Y, is burned, with so cars
loaded with merchandise. Loss $780,
600.
Pocahontas, the only county seat in
Iowa without railroad, is to have
branch of the Rock Island
Labor Unions in st. Louis are, one
by one, calling off the boycott recon-
mended by Mr. Gompers. They will
ride on street cars without being fined
and will stop paying assessments levied
in the interests of the ex-street car
men.
Four hundred Mormon families have
moved from Utah to the Big Horn
basin of Wyoming.
Twenty-Five square miles of forest
on Cape Cop, in the town of Sandwich.
has been burned over
Messages by wire from Washington
to Manila are relayed at New York,
Valentia, Ireland; Brighton, England,
Havre, France: Marseilles; Alexandria.
Egypt; Suez; Alden, Arabia; Singapore,
Malay peninsula; Saigan. Cochin China;
and Hong Kong, and from thence to
Manila.
A Savannah line steamer was passing
Sandy Hook when shell. fired from
the proving grounds struck the water
$50 feet from the vessel and bounded
over it about midships.. The passen-
gers were frightened.
Lord Salisbury says that a dash
toward Pekin, without month or two
of preparation would be military sui
eide
OF the 425 saloons in jackson county
Mo-, all but are in Kansas City. The
annual license paid the county is S129.-
Sss. so.
The North Carolina supreme court
has sustained decision rendered in
Burke county imposing 81, 900 fine on
the Southern railway for giving free
pass to doorkeeper of the legislature
in 1897.
1t is now said that A. E. Stillweu
mas, in addition to the ''Orient" scheme
another for an airline road from Kan
'as City to Galveston.
The Lake Erie and Western railroad
mas followed the example of the Rock
Island, in excluding all cigarette
smokers from their employment.