Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-08-29
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF.

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Germany intends to establish a CO.
lonial army of volunteers, in the
Orient
| Damage to batteries at Fort Morgan,
below Mobile, from the storm are very
extensive.
The total disbursements for pensions
from July 1, 1900, to June 80, 1901, was
So, 763, $50, o33.
The manuscript of uniform course
of study for Indian schools is now in
the hands of the printer
The seven Communicates Knights
Templar, of New Mexico, have organ
lied grand commandery.
All the mines at Matewan, w. Va,
are now employing non-union miners.
The strikers are leaving there.
Organization of women retail clerks
is being made in the cities of the coun-
try by professional organizer.
Jack Winters who stole the big pile
of bar gold in San Francisco plead
guilty and was sent to prison to stay
Is years.
President Shaffer, of the Steel
strikers claims to have well defined
plans to close the great strike, but he
has not told what his plans are.
Governor Dockery will disband the
militia company at Pierce City, Mo-,
for their action in connection with
killing of negroes there by the mob.
German newspapers are criticising
Count Won Waldersee, since his return
from China, on his too much talking.
He is angry and the papers are bitter.
Freight sheds and 81 cars, all but two
of them full of freight, were burned at
the Union Pacific transfer depot at
Council Bluffs, Iowa. The sheds were
full of freight.
George Alfred Townsend, "Gath,"
lost at the hands of a pickpocket in a
street car in New York, the watch
given to him by Brigham Young in
1871. Townsend values the watch at
$500.
United States Judge Estes, at Homo
lulu, has rendered decision in which
he declares that all Chinese born in the
Hawaiian islands are American citi-
zens, no matter what government they
were born under.
People of Whitesboro, Texas, have
burned alive a negro ravisher
Five people were killed and ten in
jured in Chicago by the collision of a
trolley car and a passenger train.
An explosion of ten tons of molten
metal at Youngstown, Ohio, killed
three men and injured eleven others.
From $4,000 to $1,000 beeves will be
shipped from Seattle and Vancouver to
Dawson this fall for a winter supply.
Army rations have been sent to des-
titute people who were driven from
their homes in the late gulf coast storm.
Elma, Iowa, has lost block of bust
ness houses by fire.
August sales of the Union Pacific
land department thus far aggregate o.
44O acres, as against 81, 900 acres sold
in July The drouth had depressing
effect upon sales generally during last
month.
On his return to Washington the as
sistant commissioner of the general
land office believed that a clear half
million dollars would be realized from
the sale of the lots in the three new
county seat towns.
Complaints are received in Washing
ton that frauds have been perpetrated
in the allotment flands to allied tribes
in Oklahoma.
Over two-thirds of Frisco's underly-
ing bonds have been converted into the
new refunding As. This has resulted
in saving about $4,000 annually in
fixed charges.
General Horace w. Carpenter, ex-
president of the Bank of California and
ex-mayor of Oakland, has givvn $780,
900 for the endowment of chair of
Chinese at Columbia university.
American text books are used in
English schools and colleges to such an
extent as to alarm the old fogies over
there about the danger of the inculca-
ton of American ideas by the English
youth.
The town of Grand Bourg, island of
Marie Galante, in the French Antilles,
has been destroyed by fire. Its popula-
ton is $1,000.
General Macarthur has arrived in
San Francisco. He left Manila July 4,
and spent several weeks travelling in
Japan, leaving Yokohama August 3.
They have robberies of street car pas
sengers at Melbourne, Australia.
The carriage factories of Cincinnati
have announced that hereafter they
will employ whom they please, fix their
own wage scale settle the matter of ap-
prentices and work piece work and
contract system.
Walter Jennings, son-in-law of VIM.
Rockefeller, has despoiled village
near his estate on Long Island, by buy
ing its two hotels which he proposes to
tear down. The village depended upon
these hotels for its main support.