The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-12-20
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

large and deep deposit of coal has
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 to follow
The pending pension appropriation
bill carries about S145, $50, 900, of which
$3.50, 900 is for expenses.
There over 40 cases of smallpox
in Kansas City, Mo-, in one hospital.
Only one death has occurred.
The agricultural department. reports
10, 600, 900 bales 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 GIG 900, 900 pounds asked for, for
the army in South Africa, by vote of
2s4 against 8.
Gen Elwel1 Otis predicts a bright
future for the Philippines when Amer
lean energy and capital snail be
allowed full play.
The British war Office is to distribute
about $1,000 900 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
ernment for the fiscal year June 30.
1901 to June 80, 1902, will be $743, 374,-
eO4.
j. B. Comstcck, a non-union opera
tor, at Sedalia, Colorado, has been shot
in the arm. Seven men ordered him
out of the station. They fired 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 Decent Der .,
aged II years
British authorities in Calcutta
awarded a contract to an American
firm for 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 a severe storm
The tanks of the gas and light com
pany struck by 1igh thing, the gas
taking fire
The United States mail is supplying
81 900, 900 people with free delivery in
towns and cities On July L, 1899,
there were 391 rural delivery routes
and by that time in 1901 there will be
about 4, 800 routes in operation
Reports show that there have been
1898 cases of typhoid fever among the
British troops in South Africa, of which
number 3,642 proved fatal.
The Michigan legislature by a vote
of 50 to ID passed a blanket ad valorem
tax bill placing tax upon railroads,
express companies, telephone and tele
graph companies, upon the sh value
of their property, instead of upon their
earnings as the present law provides.
ten-acre prairie in the city of Chi
cago was burned over-a veritable
prairie fre-but there were enough
railway men, policemen and citizens
to have tramped it out, no damage was
done. greater than the danger to load
ed trains, and general excitement
The main building of the Iowa Agri-#
cultural college, at Ames, is DESTROYED
by fire, and other buildings are dam
aged
mosquito fleet, with the gunboat
Annapolis a chaperon, are to travel
IL, 900 miles together to the Philippines.
This fleet is sent at the request of Ad-
nira1 Remey, to do patrol duty.
It is stated that the four new am,
preue court judges. of Kansas, win be
A I'll Ellis, Beloit; c Pollock, Win
field; w Cunningham, Emporia:
Houston Whites;da H,+ol;,