Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-30
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF


turn to this country almost Immediate
ly.
st. Paul shows population of 1884,
632, and its twin, Minneapolis has
2O2, s1s.
Blaclkleg is decimating some of the
finest herds of cattle in northwest
Missouri
The population of st. Louis is 575,-
23s; an increase of nearly 20 per cent
in ten years.
An anarchist meeting in Berlin was
dispersed by the police, who arrested
the speaker.
The German police are driving out
the anarchists since the assassination of
King Humbert.
The population of Greater New York
is 3, 437, 2O2; and increase of nearly 40
per cent since 1890.
Chicago has population of $685.
SIS; an increase of 54.44 per cent since
the last census in 1890.
The United States is to build large
warehouses at Taku, China; taking the
material from our Pacific coast.
Baron Russell, lord justice of Eng
and, is dead from an operation upon
his stomach, for gastric catarrh.
The Press Club, of Chicago, enter
tanned the leaders of both national
parties with an excursion on the lake.
Mexico City is asking, through the
Mexican government, that the next
Pan-American congress be held there.
German soldiers write home terrible
tales of the Russians, who, they say,
kill all Chinese without regard to age
or sex.
A big circus tent was blown down
and badly torn by wind at Cameron,
Mo-, just as it had been put up. There
was no show that day.
The Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger an
nounces the engagement of Queen
Wilhelmina to Prince Frederick Adolf
of Neutrality-suspicious..
Bethel Baptist church at Fairview,
| KY, built as a memorial at the site of
jefferson Davis birthplace, was struck
by lightning recently and destroyed.
| Fitzsimmons knocked out Sharkey
in the second round. Sharkey mix
ed up and now declares that if he
had had ten seconds more before the
bell closed the round he would have
finished Fitz.
The provincial cities of Cuba are be-
coming self-sustaining and the mill
| tary government is gradually with
drawing direct financial assistance.
The population of the city of Omaha,
Neb, according to the official count of
the returns of the twelfth census, is
1O2,555 for 1900, against 14O,452 in
1890.
Some of the railroad officials are
warm advocates of the parcel post.
They say that express companies could
be done away with to the advantage of
the public.
Sabine county, Texas, has a shindy on
tap with its negro population and is
asking for the aid of officers of other
counties.
William NJ. Johnson, the newly ap-
pointed first assistant postmaster gen.
eral, will not begin his new duties
until late in September.
Thirty French and ten Italian ma
rines held the Pei Tang cathedral
during the seige of Pekin, having no
communication with the other for
/ eigners. The defense of this church
was heroic.
The National Starch company, just
organized, with a capital of s13, 900, 600,
will be a competitor of the glucose
company.
The shipments of packed goods and
canned meats from Chicago and Kan
sas City to San Francisco, on August
%, reaches IT'S carloads. They are all
army supplies.
Omaha is not satisfied with the CEN
sus which shows loss of $4,000 since
1890. An ex-mayor lays the blame
largely to the padding of the census
ten years ago.
A deputation of prominent Cubans
have visited the president to discuss
with him the coming constitutional
convention in Cuba and the resulting
| Independence of the island. They ex-
pressed themselves as being encour-
aged at the sentiments expressed by
Mr.. Mckinley.
Caleb Powers father is an old man,
a farmer of moderate means. He has
almost exhausted his resources in his
sons defense. Powers mother has
been Frustrated since her sons convic-
ton and life sentence.