Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-17
THE LATEST NEWS in BRIEF

lature to punish kidnapping by hang;
ing.
Thousands of people gaze in wonder
at the new troney cars in San Juan;
Puerto Rico
A meeting of Kansas retail hardware
dealers will meet in Kansas City, KS;
January IA and Is.
General Merriam will recommend
that the post at Fort Whipple, Ariz.i
be re-established.
A man who says he was one of the
Cudahy kidnappers writes an offer to
give away his partners.
Promoters of the Pan-American ex!
position expect Kansas to provide $780,
900 for its state exhibit.
An effort to have the union label put
on the Missouri governors message
was defeated in the legislature.
Christian DeWet, nephew of the Boer
general, has sympathetic audiences at
his speeches in South Germany.
The advance of sterling exchange in
London is expected to draw considera-
BILE gold from the United States.
The Cuban constitutional convention
decided, with only one vote against it,
to provide for universal suffrage.
All records of the New York stock
exchange were broken on January
when also shares changed owners.
The gold product of Oregon for 1900
amounted to s3,77O, 900; and the states
output of lumber was s9s, 1000 feet.
The amount of customs receipts in
Cuba for the first eleven months of
1900 show an increase of 81, III, 900 over
the previous year.
The Alaskan Indians have agreed to
abandon their several totems and other
emblems and unitedly adopt the Ameri-
can flag as their tribal emblem.
Delegate Flynn is active for state,
hood for his home territory. He ex-
poets a favorable report on the question
from the committee on territories.
Russia has made a demand equiva-
lent to annexation of Lao Tung pen
insula and Port Arthur, as well as the
complete title and possession of the
Manchurian railway.
The New Orleans camp of Confederate
veterans protests against inviting the
President to attend the Confederate re-
union in Memphis next May. The pro-
test will be ignored as far as Memphis
is concerned.
The United States is asking Kansas
to cooperate in the work of the geo.
logical survey, instead of both going
over the same ground separately.
A coroner's jury find the members
of the company of druggists, where the
great explosion, fire and loss of life &C.
Cured in New York city, criminally
liable.
The distribution of congressional
garden seeds will be greater this year
than ever before. The appropriation
is S17O, 900, which adds 5000 packages
to each congressman's quota.
The O. R. T. officers scott at the idea
that the loss of 500 members will
affect their organization which has
"a, 900 members, and which is now
growing rapidly. They still talk of
their men routing business to other
roads, from all over the country.
Miss Agnes Curry, of Nortonville,
Ks, arrived at Iloilo. Philippines, safe
", and with her soldier boy, Sergeant
Luther C. Douglas, the young couple
went to the home of Rev. d. S. Hib-
bard, Presbyterian missionary. and
were married.
The reapportionment bill will pass
the senate without little change. Lead
ing senators aided in its passage by
the house.
the freight on car load of furniture
and books for the new city library at
Albuquerque.
Count Waldersee whines out that
there are no expeditions sent out with
ut adequate cause, and when neces-
sary for protection of life and property;
all of which does not agree with state
ments from other sources.
Judge Kohlsaat, of the federal court
il Chicago, has enjoined that city from
enforcing the recently passed 75-cent
gas ordinance.
The first iron war vessel ever built
in the world was the United States
steamship Michigan, which is still on
duty on the great lakes.
Seventeen hundred workers in the
employ of the Continental Tobacco
company, in Louisville have quit
work. They find fault with their
wages and with rules formulated by
the new superintendent.
Thirteen thousand dollars reward for
the capture of and delivery of Pat
Grove with no condition about his
conviction.
Dozens of trains are showed under
in Southern Russia. Several Russian
steamers are missing. Sebastopol is
full of vessels taking shelter from the
gales
A windstorm did fearful havoc in the
vicinity of Reno, Nevada A passen-
ger train was hurled from the track
On another train baggage car was
lifted from It's trucks.
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