Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-23
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

nOG weather.
Companies E, F, G and H, and regi-
mental band of the First U. S. Infan-
try, have arrived at Fort Leavenworth
from Cuba.
Clear water in the Chicago river is
lessening the city revenue from water,
factory owners drawing their supply
from the river.
Pueblo, Colo, lost lumber yard
and ware houses with Is dwellings by
fire, which occurred in the Bessemer
steel works suburb.
Hans Kramer, an American tourist,
slipped from the Rax Mountain in Aus
tria. He was found after 80 hours
with both legs broken.
The japanese government has given
permission to the United States to ,es-
tablish hospital in Japan at any
place the United States may choose.
The largest coal deal ever transacted
in Eastern Ohio las just been closed
and $4,000 acres of coal lands in War
rem, Wells and Smith townships pass
into the hands of Cleveland capitalists.
About $500, 900 will be paid into the
hands of the land owners in a few
days.
The comptroller has approved the
National Bank of Commerce, of Kansas
City, as reserve agent of the First
National bank of Madison, Kas. The
Union National bank, of Kansas City,
has been revoked as a reserve agent
for the Shawnee National bank, of Ok
lahoma.
Plans for gigantic fruit garden are
being formulated in London according
to reports. The entire Soudan is to be
turned into an orchard, the expecta-
tions being that its product will sup
ply the whole of Europe with those
fruits that can be raised only in hot
and moist climates.
Acting Superintendent Goode, of the
Yellowstone national park, telegraphed
the interior department that another
big forest fire has broken out there and
is now raging between the lake and
the upper basin. The department
wired authority for the employment of
outsiders to assist in fighting the fire,
but none could be secured. The in
terror department has requested the
war department to detail for this pur-
pose some of the men engaged on the
roads there.
There are nearly one hundred cases
of typhoid fever in Winnipeg, Canada
General Chaffee was heard from at
Matow on the 18th. Matow is about
IL miles beyond Ho-Si-Wu.
Grape growers of California have ig-
nored the schedule they made of SIS
and $50 ton for grapes, and are SELL
ing to the wine makers at SO and S14
a ton.
has been contracted for to go to France.
The miners strike in Germany and
Austria has caused a scarcity of coal.
Baron Russell, lord justice of Eng
and, is dead from an operation upon
his stomach, for gastric catarrh.
An Austrian general, with yard
long name, has been arrested for in
sulting the new queen of Servia.
Seven men forcibly took possession
of mine near Joplin, Mo-, and have
been arrested on the charge of stealing
the mine.
The Hamburg dock laborers, who
are on a strike, protest against the
kaiser calling them 'fellows without
honor and without fatherland.'
Mrs. General Funston writes to a
friend in Kansas that she is going to
Manila to join her husband.
Every shop, every train and Office,
every ship, were silent and still; every
wheel, every stroke of engine were
hushed, throughout the great South
ern Pacific system of railroad lines,
for a period of seven minutes, while
C. P. HuntingtGn's body was being
consigned to the tomb. During the
short suspension of business $4,000
men in all sections of the United States
remained idle.
VIM. Steintz, for % years champion
chess player of the world, died, insane,
in New York. His family is supported
by the newspaper and chess clubs.
There is yellow fever in Cuba but
less of it than usual in August Sani-
tary work has accomplished this.
There are no cases among American
soldiers yet
Clinton w. Graham, reported wound
ed in China, is son of Colonel Graham
of the Twenty-second Kansas He
was, before enlistment, newspaper
man of Pottawatomie county, KS.