Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-28
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

Some of the railroads in Russia have
been blockaded by. show for several
days.
General Wade will sail from San
Francisco on March i, for the Philip
pines.
The rate of discount of the Bank of
England has been reduced from AZ to
per cent:
The collection from licenses in Man
ia are said to amount to $500, 900 in
gold year.
London will expend s25O,O in pre-
cautionary measures against the bu-
bonic plague.
A find Of $500 worth of gold has
been made in single pocket about
175 miles from Manila.
General S. B. NJ. Young is to succeed
General Shafter in command of the
department of California
J. P. Morgan has furnished $4,000:
900 to be used in establishing an elec-
trio railway in the suburbs of London:
Washington's birthday was COM
memorated throughout the United
States to greater extent than usual:
There is an unusual demand for To-
connective engineers and the Santa Fe
has promoted q large number of fire.
men.
An Irish member of parliament was
suppressed by the speaker when he
attempted to address the house of COM
mons in Irish.
John S. Hopkins University, of Balti-
more, held double anniversary cele-
bration; Washington's birthday and
the 25th anniversary of its own found.
ing.
Eight suits are begun in the U. S:
district court in San Francisco, against
the Union Iron Works, by the secre-
tary of the local labor council. The
suits are each for 81 ZOO.
During the past year 1878 women
have been admitted into the Society OF
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton. The society now assists in the
support of 500 members.
Typewriting can now be done in any
language, by the use of inexpensive
attachments which can be used on any
machine. A student in New York
:.ro.+o1 +la 90, obr,aot ,.d ba e no,r
making good pay in filling orders in
Greek, Hebrew and German.
Street railway conductors in Chicago
are prohibited from carrying an onion
breath while on duty. with penalty
of discharge.
Emperor William has sent titled
chicken fancier to this country tc
study our fowls. When he returned
he took a number of American breed:
of chickens.
The president has issued proclama
ton calling a special session of thu
senate for executive purposes imme
diately upon the dissolution of tn,
present congress
George D. Gear has been nominated
by the president as second Judge of tn,
circuit court of the First district O
Hawaii.
There has been an arrangement will
Turkey whereby farming implement,
are imported into Turkey free of duty
This has now been extended for anoth
er ten years.
1.-TWO special Frisco trains tool
eighteen coaches full of soldiers acros
the country from jefferson barraclx
near st. Louis They will leave tn
Pacific coast for the Orient.
Major o. B. Gum is dead. Every
body who lived in Kansas during it
first improvement era knew Majo
Gum as he was connected with tn
construction of many railroads as
civil engineer.
Judge David J. Brewer, in his lee
ture in the Yale course, in New Haver
said that 'spasmodic virtue is tn
poorest that any one can have. 1t
next door to intentional vice" q
| fears that the reaction in Kansas wi
result in worse conditions than no,
exist.
A heavy fall of saow has occurred i
Madrid, the first in eight years.
In strict obedience to law the treal
ury department raised the tariff o
Russian sugar because of bountit
paid by Russia; applying the sam
principle and law as has been used
dealing with other counties. B.ussi
has retaliated by putting duty On ii
importation of American machiner.
steel and iron goods. which is pra
tically prohibitive. Our govern mer
claims thai Russia has violated treat
rights by doing SO.
Mrs. VIM. Thaw, of Pittsburg, Pa
has given properly of the value OF S6t
600 to thu, Omaha Presbyterian The
logical s. .minary.
1t is freely expressed by cabin
officers that when the Cuban goveri
ment is successfully in operation Il
United. States troops will be wit
drawn.
Army headquarters at Omaha
adveI Using for twenty stoclzy co
pontss;" alsofor 4es cavalry horses #
the Fourteenth, to be organized
Leatvenworth.