Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-06-13
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


ance of the Armenian massacre claims
of France.
The Arkansas river irrigation case
will come before the U. S. supreme
court in October
The census shows that the fisheries
of the United States produce annually
S45, 900. 900 worth of food.
A fire in grain fields in California
southwest of Los Bonos. destroyed co.
900 acres of grain and feed.
eThe property of Australians amounts
to a greater per capita than does that
of any other country on earth.
When the Duke of York was enter
tanned at Sydney, Australia, the stu
dents sang John Browns Body"
The Southern Pacific employees are
forbidden to have oil investments or
to engage in any outside business.
Governor McSweeny, of South Caro-
lima, refused to accept the designations
of Senators Tillman and McLaurin.
Bishop Nicholson, of the Reformed
Episcopal church, died at his home in
Philadelphia on June :, aged 10 years.
The proprietor of an Illicit Oleomar-
grrine factory in Chicago was fined
$4,000 and sentenced to six months in
Jail.
Floating rumor sets forth the terms
of lease to be given to the Union Pa
cific of the entire Santa Fe system.
Bah!
The Statement of the London board
of trade for May shows a decrease of
81, 449, 100 in imports and 81, 159, 200 in
exports.
A Louisville, Ky, pigeon few from
Alligator Lake, Miss, to his home, a
distance of 400 miles, in hours and II
minutes.
Cattlemen about Gunnison, Colo. :,
made prisoners of sheep herders who
brought sheep from Utah, and killed
$500 of the sheep.
A special train Of seven Pullman
cars took railroad commissioners from
% states to San Francisco. In the
party were nearly 90 commissioners
with their secretaries and a number of
railroad officials.
The chief of the dairy division of the
department of Agriculture, who has
spent three months in Cuba and Porto
Rico, calls up American cheese makers
to get the cheese trade of these
islands which is now supplied by
Europe
Twenty-Five per cent of the young
men examined for entrance to the mill
itary academy are disqualified on ac-
count of weak eyes
The total cash receipts of the rel EFF
association of Jacksonville, Fla, up to
MAY Is, was s1O1,745. The number of
people still being fed at that date was
3,15s.
Many of the May strikes are already
settled; some by concessions and some
by surrender of demands The pros
pect is fair for general peace in labor
matters.
The Western Passenger association
voted against giving one cent mile
rate to the G. A. R. encampment at
Cleveland 1t is thought the rail-
roads will take individual action, the
Central association having already au-
thorized it.
After a continuous sleep of two years
Michael Doran has been discharged
from the Binghampton. \. Y, state
hospital. His life was preserved by
injections of liquid norrishment all of
that time. He was for years afflicted
with epilepsy.
The Missouri state board of charities
have followed the lead of Kansas and
decided to require parties who bring
boys from the east into the state to
give bond of 80, 900 each that no dis
eased OF vicious children be brought
into the state.
DIR. Goodman of Kansas City brought
suit for sl5O,OOO damages against the
father and brother of his wife, for
giving him terrible whipping. His
lawyer is preparing another suit for
$3.50. 900 against them for alternating
his wife's affections.
Congressman Bowersock has named
TRULY c. Martin of Fort Scott and
Vernon A. Clifton of Paola as principal
and alternate for the naval cadetship
examination. They are both sons OF
old soldiers, young Martin being the
son of the state commander of the G.
A. R.
Rockefeller has given 5000, 900 for
founding an institute for medical
research.
Cuban merchants seem confident that
! the United States will make recip-
rocity treaty with Cuba.
On July there will arrive at Ber-
muda 900 Boer prisoners, with two
companies of British soldiers to guard
them.
Much ado was made in London over
the visit of % delegates of the New
York chamber of commerce to King
Edward VII They were all million
aires.
There were rs of the Filipinos who
landed in San Francisco to make dis
play at Buffalo and 10 of them were
sent back because they had iosth'
some and contagious disease.