Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-05-02
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIE F

polling Count Tolstoi from Russia;
The Shah of Persia is very sick aud
hopes of his recovery are at low ebb.
ASD,O)l fl re at Winifred. :. D., was
started in an oil house by small boys.
\ $4,000 fire at Winifred, S. d., was
started in an oil house by small boys.
The state railroad board will soon
issue 10000 new railroad maps of Kan
sas.
Melbourne, Australia, has a popula-
ton of about 494, 900; slight increase
in i years.
The Buchey Stacker company is fit
ting up a large building in Topeka for
making their machines.
Henry NJ. Cooper is appointed Mar
shall of the United States for the west
ern district of Arkansas.
Henry NJ. Cooper is appointed mar
shall of the United States for the
western district of Arkansas
President Fish of the American Bell
Telephone company will be paid a SAL
airy of 100000 year after July /.
In New York the state tax for the
next fiscal year is fixed at one and
quarter mills the lowest in 40 years.
The Arkansas legislature has passed
an appropriation of $1,000, 900 for COM
pleting the state house at Little Rock
Billy Smitd, the American pugilist,
was knocked out in the eighth round,
by Britisher in a contest for the
championship Of England.
Women taxpayers in New York
villages and towns are given the right
by new law TO vote on propositions
to expend money for purposes public.
England is working with the United
States for lenient treatment of China
in the matter of indemnities, while
Germany contends for full payment of
exorbitant demands.
Prof. Z. b. Bryan. at Indiana Uni
versity. is offered the position of
general superintendent of Normal
schools in the Philippines at salary
of SO, 900 year, and will accept
A New York judge has decided that
a woman's wages belongs to her hus-
band. which would make it possible
for a man to sue for his wife's wages
even though she had received them.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron company
has finished its purchase of the Max.
well land grant, tract of 80, OOC
acres of the richest coal and timber
land in Colorado. The deal involves
81 ZOO. 600
A special congressional train will be
enroute to San Francisco at the same
time of the presidents trip. The con-
gressional party go to witness the
launching of the battleship Ohio. II
is really an Ohio excursion of three
trains; one from Washington and two
from Ohio.
Minneapolis Sash and Door manu-
facturers have agreed to quit using the
union label on their mill work. A
strike is likely to result.
The Arkansas supreme court has
decided that railroads are not response
BILE for the value of liquors seized
under the state law while in their
possession.
A 2s ton gun was being landed for a
new English fort and the derrick chain
broke and the gun crashed, muzzle
down. through the deck and the bot
tom of the ship.
An aged German of St Joseph, Mo-,
has been arrested for defrauding old
soldiers by claiming to be in the gov
eminent employ, and collecting fees
for which he promised to secure PEN
sions.
tank % feet long and six feet in
diameter was loosened by the wind
and fell. with 10000 gallons of water,
from the roof of building in Chicago,
through six floors. making hole in
each forty feet square. 1t occurred on
Sunday when but few people were in
the building.
The irrigation case of Kansas VS. Col
orado is set for hearing by the United
States supreme court on May 10 instead
of May 6. as has been stated.
The date of the opening of the Pan
American Exposition at Buffalo is
delayed three weeks on account of the
rains and snow which delays work of
preparation.
The worst of the flood was declared
to be over on April %, both from Gin
cinnati and Pittsbr-g. and from other
points of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West
Virginia.
Machinists employed by the Illinois
Central railroad have demanded high
err wages and n nine hour day. The
boiler makers and Liacllsmiths are
ready to support the machinists in
their demands.
An elevator at Soath Bend, Indiana,
with capacity of 10000 bushels, is
burned. with about 200 carloads of
grain.
Secretary Long vii: 60 to Colorado
Springs to spend fev days with his
family there before joining the presi-
Dental excursion.