Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-04-26
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

King Oscar and the queen of Sweden |
are in London.
Statistics show that American wom- |
en- have 257 million dollars invested in |
bank stock.
General Montenegro, one of the Tala- |
Cos best fighters, has surrendered to |
Colonel Smith.
The bubonic plague is reported to
have made it's appearance at several |
ports on the Red sea.
General counsel of the land grants |
railroads are claiming full fare for the |
soldiers they have transported.
The crew of the light house steamer
at San Francisco have quit because
their wages were cut to S35 month.
In consequence of the failure of the
banana crop at st. Thomas, Jamaica,
the people are in starving situation.
Turkey ows all the nations and if
the Sultan pays the claim of the United
States, holders of other claims may be
affronted.
The Baldwin Locomotive works turns
out an average of four locomotives a
day; employing about 1000 men in all
departments.
The Chinese government directs all
viceroys and governors to warn armed
organizations against hostile acts
| against native Christians.
The Canadian Pacific having got in
line there is now solid compact of the
railroads not to pay any commissions
on any class of passenger traffic.
Governor Roosevelt, of New York,
has signed the bill to secure equal
rights to colored children in the public
schools and abolishing separate schools.
Secretary Wilson, of the Agricultural
department wants rural delivery mail
carriers to distribute on their routes to
the farmers cards containing the latest
weather forecasts and warnings
There is a Union Labor grand stand
and one erected by the contractors,
both prepared for the Dewey recep-
ton in Chicago. When the decision is
made as to which the admiral will use
there may be trouble.
The conventions of both political
parties in session in Chillicothe, Mo-,
passed resolutions prohibiting the
raising of campaign funds for any pur-
pose, not even for hiring carl lagos on
election day. Chillicothe has a Good
Government club.
The bill forbidding companies to
combine to regulate commissions has
passed the Ohio Legislature, and as
there is no veto power is now law.
Major Thomas j. Chew, Jr., is dead.
He was wealthy citizen of st. Joseph,
Mo-, and part owner of the st. Joseph
| Herald.
The new Louisiana constitution pro-
vides an educational qualification for
voting and allows those who can not
pass in the qualifications to vote pro-
vided they or their fathers We're voters
in 1867, when no black men could vote.
Two hundred walters working in the
| nOI6lS anu rcSGduTdnlS VI OcS hOlAcS,
struck for an increase in wages
The legislature of Ohio adjourned
without acting upon the appropriation
of 81 ZOO, 900 for the Toledo exposition
The supreme court has reversed
| Texas court which refused a negro the
right to have negroes on the jury which
tried him.
| Governor Taylor. of Kentucky, is in
Washington to look after his interests
in the contest before the supreme court
for the Office of governor of Kentucky
After June 1, there will be penalty
of $500 throughout Cuba, against cock
fighting.
| The total internal revenue receipts
in Cuba for the first eight month of the
present fiscal year were S55s,374.
News has been received at the war
department of the arrival at Manila of
457 horses with the loss of but one on
the passage.
The joint committee on judiciary of
the Massachusetts, Legislature, has re-
ported bill to abolish the death pen,
atty for murder.
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