Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-04-11
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

Labor unions in New York City expel
members who join the national guards
1t is believed that the Memphis gem
eral offices will be moved from Kansas
City to ST. Louis.
Chicken tamales and canned pig feet
in the Philippines.
Yale College is 200 years old. Justice
David Brewer will deliver an address
at the bi-centennial event.
Since the capture of Aguinaldo, small
bands of bandits and insurgents are
constantly surrendering.
Kansas City discharges its dog
catchers, supplying their places with
officers to arrest the owners of the
dogs.
A negro of Kansas City was arrest
ed and held in Jail for ten months and
81 days before he had hearing in
court.
A wet and heavy snow preceded by
rain did s25O,OOO damage to telegraph
and telephone systems in the Pittsburg,
Pa, district
The new reduction plant of the
Copper Hill mining company of Santa
Fe, n. NJ. has been destroyed by fire.
LOST $4,000.
Announcements come now, faster
than ever of the surrender or capture
of squads of Filipinos with their COM
manders and arms.
James NJ. Barr, third vice-president
of the Santa Fe, leaves that road; he
accepted position of first vice president
of Virginia railroad.
The Nebraska house of representa-
tives by resolution united with the
whole nation in rejoicing over General
Funston's achievement.
A railroad of Ecuador is recruiting
laborers in Porto Rico and the Porto
Rican authorities are taking no steps
to prevent this emigration.
Aguinaldo is preparing manifesto,
with the assistance of the chief justice
at Manila. He will urge the insur.
gents to stop fighting American sover-
ignty.
The largest order for documentary
stamps was received by a collector of
internal revenue in New York City late
ly. 1t covered s5S7, Abs worth of
stamps.
The connecting link uniting the
Memphis and the Frisco, between Bax-
ter Springs and Miami, I. T., will be a
part of the main line between Kansas
City and Texas.
| Holy week professions were forbid
den in the chief cities of Spain because
of fear of mobs.
There are LAG regular passenger
trains running into the Kansas City
union depot daily.
Aunt Betty Bowling was born in Feb
ruary, 1896. She has lived since 1915
in log cabin, built then by her father.
For many years she has lived alone,
never having married. Though within
one mile of railroad, for so years she
had never seen a train of cars. She
died on April 5.
Augusta, Montana, has lost almost
it's entire business portion by fire. Loss
estimated at $4,000. There were also
several dwellings burned.
1t would seem useless to publish any
more warnings against the sharks who
are swindliug the ignorant and dead
easy" classes in the matter of securing
claims for them prior to the general
opening of the lands of the Kiowa,
Comanche and Wichita Indians. Thou
sands have already advanced money to
these sharks and several of them are
under arrest.
On April few prime lots of hogs
were sold in Chicago for S6.2215 per
hundred weight.
An earthquake shook the palace of
the sultan of Turkey during grand
reception. The plastering was shat
tered and the nabobs scattered, but
Abdul kept his nerve.
Concord, Neb., elected a city ticket
under a pledge from the candidates
that Carrie Nation should be employed
as their advisor, and that her direc-
lions would be followed in their every
official act.
Three of the ancient temples of jap
an have burned within a short time of
each other with loss of many lives and
immense loss of property. One of the
temples was built more than 1900
years ago.
Representative Dalzell of Pennsyl-
vania, upon his return from Cuba, said
that all opposition to American legis-
lation regarding Cuba comes from thr
politicians there. He believes that the
greater part of best element in Cuba
look forward with hopes of final an
nexation to the United States.
James Stephens, the leader of the
Fenian movement of 1866, was buried
in the Martyrs plot in Glasnevin GENE.
terry, Dublin, on March 81.
Lloyd C. Grisham, secretary of the
American legation in ConstaE.inople
has started home, the new minister,
Mr.. Leishman having presented his
credentials.
Five hundred striking girls gathered
at the factory in st. Joseph, which
they left, and succeeded in preventing
most of the girls who had taken their
| pIaces from entering the building