Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-10
THE LATEST NEWS in BRIEF

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''Cudahy," which appears in print so
often OF late, is pronounced "Cuddy."
There is trouble on the Northern Pa
citie between the company and its tele,
graph operators.
The Earl Of Hopetown became the
FIRST governor of the federated Austria
liam colonies on January l.
The death of Ignatius Donneily met
with long obituaries and editorials in
the papers of London, England.
The increase of German exports to
the United States during 1900 was
A. AZ per cent over the exports of 1899.
The public library at Seattle, Wash,
is burned. The total stock of books
numbering $4,000, valued at $40, 900 ard
! total loss.
The total losses paid by fire insur-
ance companies in the United States
and Canada in 1900 is SI63, 362, 700;
against s136, 773, 200 in 1899.
Dispatches from the Southern states
tell of lynching of negroes, with an
average of more than one each day;
there frequently being two or more in
one day.
Berlin is experiencing very severe
weather. The Spree was frozen over
so sundenly that the ice enclosed 10 of
the city's swan and the fire department
was called out to release them.
The supervisors of San Diego, Cali,
have fixed penalty varying from $50
to S1OO for for iberating Belgian
hares 1t will not be long before it
will become necessary to pay bounty
for Belgian hare scalps.
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.
Governor Roosevelt addressed the
Y. NJ C. A. of New York city, on
December 80. Copies of the address
were sent out IN time to be read at the
same hours in meetings of the Y. NJ.
c. A. in more than 100 cities.
The National president of the w. C.
T. U. has written the Kansas state
president that the friends of Mrs
Nation, who wrecked a saloon in
Wichita, will have the best of counsel
in her coming trial They will be en-
ployed by w. c. T. U. friends.
Isaac Morris, pardoned Michigan
convict, has sued three ex-wardens of
the states prison at Michigan City, for
$4,000 pension money which he charges
they received and appropriated to
themselves.
The Chicago and Northwestern rail-
way has adopted pension system for
its employees similar TO that in use
upon the Pennsylvania Line.
Consul Listoe, at Rotterdam, says
there is a good field in Europe for
American zinc, the zinc mines of
Europe being nearly exhausted.
The Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf
railroad has sold $4,000, 900 new con-
solidated mortgage bonds, together
with $500, 900 general mortgage bonds,
to syndicate of New York and Phila-
delphia bankers.
DIR. James Gibbons, nephew of Car
dinal Gibbons, was shot by foot pads
in New Orleans, on the night of jan
uary .. He will recover.
The coal miners strike in Colorado
has caused coal famine there, and in
Western Kansas and Nebraska, as well
as in Wyoming, Idaho and Utah.
Two of the largest stores in Bur-
ling, Iowa, were burned at midnight,
while the world was welcoming the
new Century.
The Missouri Pacific has voluntarily
increased the wages of engineers Of
local freight trains a qnarter of a cent
mile, making their pay AZ cents a
mile.
Cadet Edward A. Johnston, of Oregon
| a West Point cadet, secured first place
at the semi-ahnual examination in en-
cheering, ordnance and gunnery, law
and history; an unusual distinction.
The Chinaman who killed the Ger
man minister last June, was beheaded
on January 1 in the presence of many
spectators.
An entire family named Forbecock,
of New Sweden, Mimi, ate smoked
sausage without cooking and two of
them died, the survivors also being
given up by physicians
Samuel Mcdonald, who killed Aud
itor Morris of the War department died
from the wounds he made upon him
self and by the exercise of his will
power. He was determined to die.
At Lyons, Colorado. not pound of
coal could be had with wood hard to
get.
The South Carolina state dispensary
reports sales in 1900 of nearly s., 500, 900
being $3.50, 900 more than the previous
year, with total profits of s474,17s.
There are 80 dispensaries for liquors
aud % for beer.
The addition of the Pecos Valley
road to the Santa Fe system increases
ths mileage of the Santa Fe 800 miles
s0d makes its total length $500
piies