Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-12-13
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF


Patterson, N. j., have closed down
finally.
The st. Joseph, Mo-, police Judge
wants all tramps sent to the Philip
pines to be trained for soldiers.
Secretary Pruden has carried the
messages of all the presidents to the
senate for the past twenty-five years.
Joseph W. McClurg, formerly a
member of congress, and the last Re-
publican governor of Missouri, is dead.
Jos. H. Manley. of Maine, is said to
have been rendered the Office of com
missioner of internal revenue, to
succeed Commissioner Wilson, de-
ceased.
Owing to attempts of Boer sympa-
thizers to communicate with Boer
prisoners near Cape Town, Maxim
guns have been in readiness for a dis
turbance.
The American consul at Bordeaux,
reports the prevalence of the foot and
mouth disease in that part Of France.
Many hides are shipped from that sec.
ton to America.
The men in control Of sugar planta-
tions in Cuba have been authorized to
enlist guards to prevent incendiary
fires, now that the fields are dry and
very infiammable.
President Mckinley told Virginia
delegation that he is opposed to a
reduction of representation of the
Southern States on account of their
DISTINGUISHING legislation.
The service of the Santa Fe fast mail
train out from Kansas City is to be ex-
tended to the Pacific coast. 1t will
also service towns on the Hutchinson
& Southern branch to Blackwell
1t is stated that an arrangement is
made for the Orient road to use Mis-
souri, Pacific terminals at Kansas City,
on the start; possibly to run over Mis-
souri, Pacific tracks from Wichita.
The City of Chicago, according to a
court decision, has exceeded the limit
of its bonded Indebtedness, and must
stop building bridges and making other
improvements which have been
planned.
German marine officers discovered
Sir Claude Macdonald, former British
minister to Pekin, and Lady Macdon-
aid personally experimenting the re-
moval of treasures from the Chinese
imperial palace to the British lega-
ton.
The governors of New Mexico and
Arizona made the trip to Washington
together to ask congress for statehood
for these territories.
Governor Roosevelt will on Dec. 80,
address young men on Manhood and
Citizenship" in Carnegie hall in New
York. A copy of his address will have
been sent to every Y. NJ. c. A. in the
United States and Canada and at 4
with his address in New York, his
remarks will be read to the assem- blages
in the various cities.
Senator Frye, in debate upon the
ship-subsidy measure said that the
cost limit in the bill, of 1000, 900
could not be reached for years; and
as subsidized ships must carry mails
free, the actual limit is 81, 10000
Consul Hollis, at Lourenzo Marques,
reports that there are at that place 600
men and $50 women and children who
arc about to sail for New York to
accept homesteads promised to them.
Several railroads, including the Santa
Fe, agree to carry these Beers free OF
charge.
Tho Tampa, Fla, Typographical
union decided against a sympathetic
strike in support of the striking cigar
makers.
A st. Joseph, Mo-, justice of the
peace has performed 20 marriage cere-
monies and has decided some 400 civil
and criminal cases since December 1,
| 1899, during which time higher court
decides, he was not justice of the
|. peace. The trouble arises over the
fact that he was elected in part OF
tho city while that part was outside
of the city.
There is a movement in the Metho.
dat church in the United States to en-.
list an army of 200, 900 each pledged to
persistent effort to advance the CONVEX.
sion of ten persons before January 1,
1909; total of 1000, 900 accessions tc
the church being the goal.
! One-fifth of the population of the
United States is enrolled in the public
schools, Is, 900, 900 of them; and 2,000,.
900 more are in the private schools,
colleges and universities. No other
country in the world comes up to this
standard.