Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-27
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

county, MO.
The railroads are combining to make
things uncomfortable for tramps.
The population of Butte, Montana,
IS 3O,47O, as against 1923 in 1890.
Belgrade, Montana, is nearly wiped
out by fire. West Riley lost his life.
The United States embassy at Berlin
sent $500 to the Galveston relief fund.
From three to five new cases of
plague are reported at Glasgow daily.
Eastern Missouri Presbyterians are
opposed to a revision of the articles of
faith.
Jefferson City, Mo-, failed to give
the required two-thirds vote for city
lighting plant.
Currency shipments to the south
and west have been heavy during the
past fortnight.
Anthracite coal cannot be had to the
amount of the usual demand in the
west for this winter
The Canadian Pacific is preparing to
make Boston its winter terminus, over
the Boston & Maine.
Ex-Governor Walcott, of Massachu-
sets, has declined the offer of the post
of ambassador to Italy
The Cuban elections so far as heard
from were quiet and perfectly orderly;
No diSf1rbonoa
A. F. Pape won the championship at
San Francisco by hitting the bulls
eye 1913 times ont of 200 shots.
The Ute Indians are stealing horses
and the governor of Colorado has told
the federal government about it.
Chicago dealers raised the price of
anthracite IS cents ton on the first
day of the strike in Pennsylvania.
The anthracite producers are taking
no contracts for coal beyond their stock
in hand; or until it is ready for ship
ment.
Seventy-two new coal mines have
been opened in Prussia this year, in
creasing the output for 1900 by $780,
| 900 tons.
Word has been sent out from Gal
more trained nurses and physicians to
| go to that city.
Grand Chief P. NJ. Arthur says it is
not likely that the brotherhood engi-
mined by non-union miners.
The Camp Bird mine at Ouray, Col,
is sold for thirteen million dollars to
an American and English syndicate.
General French has captured % loco
motives and other rolling stock from
| the Beers.
An agent of the Transvaa1 at Naples
says that Kruger is coming to Europe
to negotiate settlement with Great
| Britain.
The India cotton crop is reported ex-
cellent and a good harvest of food
grains is in good prospect. There is
already reduction in the relief list.
Missouri gives IS per cent of liquor
licenses to the highway fund. Indiana
builds highways by special assessment
The largest cottonseed oil mill in
the world which was at Houston, Tex
as, was damaged 6o,OOO by the storm,
and later was completely destroyed by
fire. The fire started by spontaneous
| combustion.
Susan B. Anthony is seriously sick
at her home in Rochester, N. Y. Col
onel D. R. Anthony and wife, with
other relatives are with her. Miss
Anthony is 80 years old.
The transport Thomas is on the Pa
| cific with 1,64S enlisted men and 81, 3OO,-
600 in cash for the soldiers in the far
East.
James A. White, supposed to be the
last of the Light Brigade of CPS of
which 600 were killed at the famous
Balaklava charge, died recently at
Upper Sandusky, Ohio.
The Lakeside Oatmeal mills, at
| Peoria, Ill, are totally destroyed by
] fire, with loss of $500, 900; insurance
$4,000. The fire was caused by ex-
| plosion of mill dust.
Prince Albert of Saxony was killed
in carriage accident near Dresden.
In South Africa, 72.1 per 1000 Brit
| ism officers have been killed or died
| from wounds, while 30.6 per 1000 of
| the officers have died from disease.
The percentages of enlisted men killed
and dead from wounds is only 10 per
| 1000
| Tn work of the relief of the sick and
injured in Galveston is well in hand,
and, under the direction of skilled
! physicians and nurses, is improving
daily.