Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-11-21
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF.

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T. L. held an interesting session at
Fort Worth, Texas.
The First National bank of Leroy,
Iowa, was blown up and looted with
out awakening any citizen.
Lord Kitchener has issued an order
directing that all Beers captured in
British uniforms are to be shot.
The total receipts of Alaskan salmon
at San Francisco this season amount to
1897 ,O22 cases and l., 949 barrels.
New York state canals are to close at
midnight of November 80, for the VIM
ter, unless sooner closed by ice.
Leading men of Jamaica adopted
resolution asking the British govern
ment to send Boer prisoners to Jamaica.
The ministers of the foreign powers
are planning to meet and formally web
come the Chinese Emperor when he ar
rives at Pekin.
Fire broke out in the Cudahy canning
building in Kansas City, destroying it
and large stock of canned meats.
Loss S15O,OOO.
The aggregate amount of penalties of
all postmaster's bonds now in force is
about SILT 1863, 772, of which $50, us, 246
were approved during the past year.
The police of London prevented the
assembling in hall to attend an an
nounced meeting to commemorate the
legal murder of the Chicago anarchist"
A terrible gale did great damage
throughout Denmark. There was five
feet of snow at Copenhagen last week.
Many lives were lost by drifting of
vessels to shore.
At fire in Cleveland many women
were rescued from corset factory in
the fifth story. Miss Graham, the pro-
prietor of the factory, lost her life by
jumping. One other was seriously
hurt
President Roosevelt has emphatically
declared that no appointments in the
insular service would be dictated or
controlled by political considerations,
but that he would adhere to the prin-
ciples of civil service
The Great Northern is planning to
use the force of Smoqualmie Falls for
pulling all of its trains from Seattle to
the summit of the Cascade range, and
the Northern Pacific may use the same
power to run its trains between Seattle
and Portland.
General Arthur Macarthur is to at
tend the annual banquet of the Kansas
City Commercial club on December 10.
On November IA snow was ten inches
deep in central New York and still
falling, with the mercury at freezing
point.
The Santa Fe has 200 miles more of
road 1t is the connecting link from
Ash Fork to Phoenix, Arizona, which
has just been purchased by the Santa
Fe and which is said to be the second
largest dividend paying road in the
United States.
Earthquake shocks continue at
Erzeroum, Armenia, and there have
been many casualties. Everyone lives
in tents.
A cave in at Oronogo, No., swallowed
up the entire plant of the Aurora Min
ing Company, including 100 ton mill,
office building and engine house and
six gravel cars.
The widow of the murdered million
aire Frank Richardson, of Savannah
Mo-. last Christmas, and who is charged
with the murder, has secured change
Of venue to Platte county.
By December ? there will be 5000
rural mail carriers in the United States,
with total mileage of 147, 22O miles
1aily. Only one half of the number of
routes applied for have been establish
ed
Richard Mayo-Smith, a professor at
Columbia college, New York, fell from
the fourth story of his residence and
was instantly killed.
Divorce proceedings are pending for
the separation of the Duke and Duchess
Of Hesse. They are both grandchildren
of Queen Victoria.
The Lynn canal steamer City of To
peka struck sunken iceberg in Taku
bay. in a binding storm, and came
ms boz 1a1I .
above load line, she will return to
Seattle without freight or passen-
gers.
The governor of Kentucky threatens
to take the refusal of the governor of
Indiana to honor his resignation foe
Taylor and Finley into the courts, on
the ground that the governor of
Indiana,has no discretionary powers in
the case.
As the Santa Fe Switchmen in the
Pueblo yards quit without the sanction
of the officials of the Switchmens
Union, General Manager Nudge viii
pay no attention to the men but hire
others to fill their places.
Five hundred strikers, mostly ma
ehinists, returned to work in the Snip
building yards at San Francisco. The
terms of agreement made are kept Sc
'cret.
The Chinese exclusion act expires by
limitation next May. Congress may
work it over this winter.