Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-06-06
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF,


Point, Wisconsin, has been robbed of
Sos, 900.
At the Dunkard National conference
at Lincoln, Neb.. there was a Sunday
school class of over 1000.
The Missouri state board of arbitra-
ton and mediation failed to settle the
linemen's strike in st. Joseph.
The new census gives Australia a
population of 4,55O,656; an increase
since the last census of 40, $50.
The embassies in Turkey protested
and the Sultan has rescinded the order
excluding typewriters from Turkey.
Miss Helen Gould has increased her
donation for railroad Y. NJ. c. A. at
Coffeyville, KS, from 81 900 to So. OO0
A State Historical society is making
start in Missouri. The first secretary
chosen visited Topeka to get pointers
The supreme court decides that ves-
sells plying between Porto Rico and
New York are engaged in the coasting
trade.
In obedience to the act of the Ten
nessee legislature the Maryville COL
lege will not admit colored students
hereafter.
General A. w. Greeley, chief signal
officer of the army, has sailed from
San Francisco for Manila, for tour of
inspection.
Burglary insurance saved the Blaine
county, Okla, bank the full amount of
its loss from robbery. The amount
was 81, 793. Sc.
New York had g. o. inches of rain in
go days of May. The records of the
weather bureau, extending to 1871,
do not chronicle such rainy May.
Ninety-eight Filipinos have landed
in New York en- route to the Buffalo
exposition where they will illustrate
the manners and customs of their
islands.
The Havana La Discussion says that
the country generally approves the
acceptance of the Platt amendment
and predicts the beginning of an era
of prosperity.
aMme. WI Ting Fang, wife of the Chi
nese minister to the United States. Wis
tied friends in Chicago while enroute
to San Francisco where she expects to
spend several months.
Emperor William has ordered that
the German command in China be bro
ken up and that preparations be made
to reduce Germany's forces there.
The Missouri Pacific has ordered 90
locomotives aud 5000 box cars and
expects to be able to handle the wheat
crop.
LAS long as the conditions of the
Platt amendment are on the statute
books. compliance with them must
precede our REIMBURSEMENT of the
control over the island" said member
of the cabinet.
A $50, 900. 900 combine is being formed
among coal operators of Indiana, Ohio
and Illinois.
4Generals Fred Grant and J. c. Bates
will return to their stations in the
Philippines.
1t is the earnest desire of the presi-
dent to retire from Cuba at the
earliest possible moment The ques-
ton is whether withdrawal under the
amended Plat law will accomplish the
best interest of the Cubans and its
future relations with the United
States.
DIR. A. r. Taylor. president of the
Kansas Normal school. will accept the
offer of the presidency of the new in
dustrial school at Decatur, Illinois, at
salary of $1,000 a year.
Congressman Reeder, of the Sixth
Kansas district, opposes the suit
brought by Kansas against Colorado
about the use of Arkansas river water
He says he has given the question of
irrigation and water supply for the
plains much study and believes that
Colorado. the better for Kansas.
The wheat harvest begins in Texas
and travels north at about the rate of
20 miles day.
Prosecutions of Manila traders for
furnishing insurgents with supplies
has been abandoned because it has te-
come evident that they were all guilty
alike, and to prosecute all the mer-
chants was deemed inexpedient.
The total cash receipts of the relief
association of Jacksonville, Fla, up to
May Is, was slOl,745. The number of
people still being fed at that date was
3.15s.
France. which has exported no wheat
since 1850. expects to have 1000. 900 to
/ 800, 900 tons to spare from the pres
ent crop, but hard wheat for the man.
ufacture of macaroni will have to be
imported as usual.
Both of the United States senators
from South Carolina, Tillman and No
Lauren. have resigned to take effect
on November Il. They will make a
canvass of the state, speaking in every
and then a primary election.
or caucus of their party is to decide
upon their successors.