Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-24
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

al DCWcy has Dtcn COHun6Q 10
his home with grip.
President Mckinley has had seige
of grip but is improving.
The big Texas gusher has caused a
decline of . and cents in Ohio oil
fields.
The Colorado senate has passed
bill to put an end to prize fighting in
that state.
The provisions in the army bill
abolishing post canteens do not apply
to soldiers homes
There is some prospect of the United
States owning the Danish West Indies
prior to March 4.
Edward Hunter & Cos department
store in Memphis, Tenn, is burned at
a loss of 100000
Senator Shelby McCullom goes back
to the United States senate another
term from Illinois
The death rate in Berlin in 1900
increased per cent, and the birth
rate only pa per cent.
One might easily fill column of
grip items, by selecting from only a
few of the daily papers.
The Colorado legislature has a joint
committee to investigate the grievances
of striking coal miners.
The Colorado Legislature will choose
Hon. Thos. Patterson to succeed U. S.
Senator Edward o. Wolcott.
The National Live Stock association
met at Salt Lake City on January Is.
There was very large attendance.
The agricultural interests in Cuba
are asking reciprocity tariff legislation
in their favor on sugar and tobacco.
America will stand pat upon every
point of the protocol signed by the
powers and the Chinese plenipoten-
tiaries.
1t is believed in Washington that
there will be no conclusion reached of
the Chinese negotiations for several
months yet.
Cashier Alvord, who stole $500, 900
from the First National bank of New
York, has been sentenced to 13 years
imprisonment.
The transport Grant took $500, 900 in
gold, cabin passengers, recruits and
freight on her way to Manila. leaving
San Francisco January l6.
Frank Crowell, superintendent of
Swift & Co.'S factory in Chicago, lost
his life while trying to save his bank
book and insurance policy, in fire in
the factory.
The state of the health of Queen
Victoria is such that for the present
she must abstain from transacting
business.
One hundred and fifty students were
arrested at Kieff, Russia, and expatri-
ated to Port Arthur. They thought
they were politicians. The same fate
awaits scores of students at St. Peters
burg.
Tom L. johnson, the American street
railway capitalist, has bought the Ba-
ker street and Waterloo underground
railway in London.
Mrs. NJ. A. McMillican, wife of the
editor of the New York Medical Jour
nal, was badly burned in a fire in San
Francisco Jan. Il.
There are thirty flag factories in the
United States, most of them in New
York There is s12, 900, 900 invested in
the business and 100000 is paid in
| wages annually.
The stocler and feeder trade is
large for this time of the year. Ship
ments to the country from Kansas
City last week were $50 cars, of which
which Kansas took 1873 cars.
About fifty houses and warehouses.
at Banes, near Santiago de Cuba. were
destroyed by recent fire. The Banes
Fruit company, an American concern,
had been employing the people there
and large quantity of fruit and to-
bacco was in the warehouses.
/ III InC OuCSSt, INuoSld- ohON OlOChd0C
drifts hardened to ice, and in one such
tunnel was cut through a drift 400
yards long, and SO feet deep. Many
thousands of soldiers were sent to res
cue the railway passengers. large
number of whom froze to death.
The gold product of Oregon for 1900
amounted to SO. no, 900; and the states
output of lumber was s9s, l6O, 900 feet.
In the United States senate there are
ten who served in the National army
and fifteen in the Confederate army.
Two wedding couples of Bucharest
Bavaria, were out sleighing and were
attacked by wolves and all four were
killed
The liabilities of the sixteen stock
exchange firms in London. which re-
Gently failed aggregate s2,OOO,OOo in
one case the figures reaching 100000
The Alaskan Indians have agreed to
abandon their several totems and other
emblems and unitedly adopt the Ameri-
can flag as their tribal emblem.
The secretary of the treasury has
sent to congress lengthy report about
delinquencies and unsettled balances,
drs in small amounts by officials all
over the country.
Russia has made demand equiva-
lent to annexation Of Lao Tung PENN
sula and Port Arthur, as well as the
complete title and possession of the
Manchuriau railway.
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