Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-08-15
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


tured the Decker piano for forty years
is dead at the age of SO.
The navy yard workmen propose to
| join with the workmen in arsenals and
| form a new labor union.
Paul Kruger, it is reported from
Rotterdam, is in a serious mental con-
dition. A specialist has been called
from Berlin.
| c. G. Sholes, superintendent of tele-
| graphy for the Santa Fe, thinks that
the telephone will supersede the tele-
graph in railroading.
The Selby Smelling company of San
Francisco offers SIS 900 reward from the
thieves who carried off $3.50, 900 worth
of their gold bricks
| The imports at Manila are now largest
from the United States, which were,
during May, about half million dol
lars. England and China come next in
list.
The Kaiser's father, mother and one
uncle have died of cancer. His own ear
has been subject to a chronic sore, with
morbid discharge at times, for many
years.
David R. Seary, grand secretary of
| the Knights of Honor, and connected
| prominently with other fraternal or
ders, die din New Orleans last week,
aged "a years.
1t is asserted in wine makers circles
in California that in the Perigord dis
-trict of France the crop of grapes has
been so enormous that wine has fallen
to less than one cent gallon.
The Topeka gas company has filed
suit in the federal court to enjoin the
city from enforcing its ordinance pric-
ing gas at 81 per 1000 feet The case
will be heard by Judge Hook in Wich-
tia on Sept. 16.
A construction company, with a CAPT
tai of a million dollars, and TOWNSHIP
company, with half million of capital,
have taken Kansas charters. They are
both for and in connection with the
Orient railroad company.
Judge Garland, of the o. S. court at
Sioux Falls, declares the freight and
passenger rates fixed by the South Da-
kota railroad commissioners to be con-
fscatory, and has issued an induction
against their being put into effect.
The gold held by the Bank of France,
now larger than ever, is 90 millions less
than that held by the U. S. treasury.
The average rent for a small house
in the suburbs of Manila, suitable for
respectable white family, is S97
month.
mad dog started at Bethany, Mo-,
and before his career of biting every
thing ended he had travelled 80 miles.
Health authorities have quarantined
hundreds of horses, dogs, hogs and cat
tie. Many have already died or been
killed.
Leading business houses, notably de-
partment stores, at Pittsburg, Pa, are
discharging their clerks by the score,
and more will have to be laid off, on ac-
count of the great steel strike. A ma
jority of those discharged are girls.
There is a mine on fire at Plymouth,
Pa, which cannot be quenched. 1t
will probably take so years for it to
burn out. To flood it is impossible,
being on a high level on the mountain
side and there are other mines below it
which would have to be filled with
water.
Special Examiner VIM. L. Yerkes has
been appointed receiver of the First |
National bank of Austin, Texas.
A through trolley line between New
York and Boston is proposed. There
are some links in the system already in
operation.
Floods of the Yangtse Kiang river
have destroyed thousands of lives and
vast amounts of property.
Naples, n. Y, and vicinity has a
grasshopper plague which is serious.
Grain is being cut prematurely to save
something.
The U. S. cruiser Brooklyn, with Adj |
miral Remeys flag, has arrived at Man |
lila from taking part in ceremonies at
tending the opening of the first Austria
Ian parliament.
The emigration from Germany by |
way of Hamburg and Bremen during |
the first six months of this year reached |
112, 96s, as ahainst lis, $40 for the CORE
spending period of last year.
Rumor says that the Santa Fe is to |
put on another through daily train be- |
tween Chicago and Galveston to be |
scheduled at SO miles an hour
Ireland has the best crop of potatoes
since 1895.
The Swedish government is consider
ing plans of installing electricity to |
to give power on the whole railway
system of that country.
The citizens of Tampa, Florida, kid
mapped the anarchist leaders of the
strike and hid them. The
strikers were then told to leave the
place; to go, and if they did not go will
ingly they would be driven. The
strikers have been threatening general