Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-04-18
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

troops Will be sent to South Africa.
General Butler is to be offered the
command of the British troopsin Cana
da.
The population of the Samoan Is
lands belonging now to the United
States is $500.
Samuel NJ. Nave. of the wholesale
grocery firm of Nave & McCord at st.
Joseph, Mo-, was buried on April 12.
The police of Amsterdam claim to
have learned of a proposed attemp
upon the life of President Paul Kruger
There is fresh rumor that Lloyd
c. Griscom has effected a satisfactory
settlement with the Sultan of Turkey.
The British government favors pro-
position to China that a large portion
of the indemnity to be assessed that
country shall be met by greater trad
ing privileges instead of money.
President Mullen. of the Northern
Pacific, announces that his road will
expend this season on betterments the
sum of $40, $50, 900, more than half of
which for rolling stock and similar
equipments.
Miss Clara Greacen is the legal adj
wiser of Lyman J.LGage, secretary of
the treasury. While spending several
years as clerk in the treasury depart
ment she studied law. She is a native
of Michigan.
The report that Russell B. Harrison
thought of contesting the will of his
father was only one of the many fakes
put out by that class of newspapers
which never tell the truth if a sensa-
ton can be created.
A first lot of so flint glass workers
have gone from Pittsburg, Pa, to New
Zealand, and more are to follow. Each
workman gets 5000 for fare and ex-
penses and will be allowed $40 a week
on the outward trip.
The Yellowstone Park association
as sold all it's entire belongings to
another corporation, the consideration
being nearly a million dollars. The
sale includes four great hotels for
SIS, 600, 500, 900, $780, and 5000, ocO.
During the last fiscal year the i'm
ports at the port of New York amount
ed to $500, 900, 900, and the exports to
$500, 400, 900. At all the other ports
of the United States the imports were
1907. 700. 900 and the exports Ss76, AGO.
900.
King Edward VII is only five feet
four inches tall and weighs 257 pounds.
The young king of Italy is one inch
shorter.
The interior department complains
that it receives great amount of mail
which should go to the department of
agriculture, nota bly, requests for vaccine
for use in treating blackleg in cattle.
relief party were at work clearing
tracks on the Florence and Cripple
Creek railroad and they were buried
under a second slide of snow and rocks.
Three were killed and four injured.
Recruits for the navy are being rap
idly secured at Kansas City. The
recruiting officers say that they are
the best lot of recruits ever got to-
gether at one place. both physically
and in intelligence.
At charity ball in Cleveland the
400" women made a row because &c
pretty nurses from the hospitals cap
tured partners in the dance and the
400" women were neglected. The
sympathy of the universal world, out
side 1.-The select" is, of course, with the
nurse girls.
A New York justice decides that the
uncorroborated confession of a MUIR
derer is not conclusive evidepAe against
an accomplish.
The Kansas City Commercial club
proposes to start on May CO trade
trip over the Frisco line going through
Southern and Western Oklahoma and
Northern Texas.
Uruguay, Souts America, has about
1000, 900 people and 10000, 900 head of
stock. one-half of which are horses.
Montevideo, the capital has onefourth
of the population of the country.
The two new cutoffs the Santa Fe is
preparing for in New Mexico will make
that system 40 miles shorter from the
gulf to the Pacific than any other line.
By a vote of 16 to the Omaha Pres
bytery agreed to recommend that the
church rule forbidding the marriage
of brother-in-law and sister-in-law be
dropped.
The London county council has de-
cided to buy 225 acres of land on which
to build workmen's houses to accommo-
date 40, 900 persons The cost will be
1880, 900.
light house on the Black Sea has
been destroyed by an earthquake.
Shocks were felt in Southeastern Hun
gary.
The several local electric railroad
lines between Detroit and Toledo are
to come under one management and
the gaps filed in, making a through
line.
Representatives of steel manufactur-
ers of Sheffield, England, are looking
for site near Pittsburg, Pa, and at
other places to establish new steel
plant