Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-31
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF.

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failed.
Word comes that Indians are again
destroying game about the White
Rocks, Utah, agency.
The fertilizer building in Armour's
packing plant at Omaha is burned with
$50, 900 damage to building and stock.
Hall Caine, the Manxman novelist,
has his ambition gratifed by his cleo
ton to parliament for the Isle of Man.
The war department has ordered that
school teachers in the Philippines be
sold commissary stores at cost.
Marconi has succeeded in transmit
ting telegraph messages through the
air, without wires, for nearly $50 miles.
James D. Richardson, of Tennessee,
is elected sovereign grand commander
of the southern jurisdiction of Scottish
Rite Masons.
A wealthy tax dodger of Indiana has
been fined 81 900 and compelled to pay
back taxes on property he has been
hiding for II years.
Mrs. McKinley's shares in gold mines
in Nevada have been greatly enhanced
by the discovery of lead of ore that
will assay 500 to the ton.
The director of the census estimates
that the population of the United
States, including the new possessions,
in 1910, will be about 100 million peo-
pie.
A large number of small-fry black
bass and salmon are being shipped
from California to Hawaii to stock the
streams there The islands have no
fresh water food fishes.
C. H. Alexander, formerly president
of the Dallas street railway company,
and now the head of big Beaumont
oil company, has been found guilty of
arson and sent up for five years.
Judge Cantrill instructed the jury
which tried Caleb Powers last week for
conspiracy which resulted in the killing
Of Governor Goebel, strongly for con-
viction; at the close of the second trial
at Georgetown, Kentucky.
The anarchist propaganda in favor
of general strike is proving fruitful
in Spain. Leading anarchists assert
that committees throughout the world
representing eight million workers, are
now awaiting the signal for a univer-
sal strike.
A land slide in Becobel, of the Bar
BADGES, destroyed nearly 100 houses and
ruined the best plantations in the ISL
and.
Detective Calvin D. Grim, who was
personal guard to President Mckinley
at the Inauguration, death in Gin
cinnati, from a shot by a criminal he
had just arrested.
Venezuela has been making quarter
" payments of SIS, 900 and current in
terest upon an old claim due the United
States, but has defaulted on the pay
ment due this month.
The British government has placed
an order for /, 800 mountain horses for
South Africa, with parties at Cheyenne,
Wyoming.
The Schlitz Brewing Company is sued
for $40, 900 damages by a woman who
alleges that they made her brother-in-
law drunkard ank a loafer by stalking
him to start a joint in Kansas City, KS.
In one day 500 claims were located at
a new gold discovery at Buelah, 35
miles from Pueblo. Rich free milling
ore has been found there. Pueblo peo-
pie are excited.
John Redmond has left Cork to come
to America ''to appeal to Irish-Ameri-
cans to take their place in fighting the
battles of the mother country.
Rev. Geo. w. Turner, a pastor at
Tower Hill, Illinois, has been sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary for
sending obscene letters through the
mails.
Twelve more Boer leaders, including
Commandant Scheepers, whase capture
was announced August -, have been
permanently odhiSuSu 1iOh EOuOA
Africa.
Three departments of the Hammond
packing house at Hammond, Ind, are
destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
The British war Office has sent out
bills over the kingdom ordering reserv-
lists, militia, yeomen and volunteers to
report to headquarters with the view of
active service.
Admiral Francis Bunce (retired) of
the U, S. navy, died October 10, at
Hartford, Connecticut. He had cancer
of the tongue and his tongue was re-
moved, the cancer then attacking his
throat.
Herr Maurier, an anarchist editor of
Berlin, has been sentenced to prison
for publishing articles which rejoice
over the death of President Mckinley.
Hay lands which surround La Crosse,
Wisconsin, are burned over with an
enormous destruction of stacks thou
sands of tons. 1t is thought that
tramps started the fire.
The postal statistics show that in
1900 money orders have been sent from
this country to Sweden to the amount
of 121< million dollars more than was
received here from Sweden.