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

who surrendered to the British, is dead.
The price of telephones in business
places in Chicago has been raised to
s175 a year.
1t is reported at Berlin that Japan
will raise loan of so million yen in
the United States.
The Nebraska NJ. E. conference voted
to admit women as lay delegates to the
general conference.
A whole week was devoted to carni-
sal mummeries at the Pan-Americau
exposition at Buffalo.
Very many readers have probably
'orgotton that VIM. Mckinley was gov
ernor of Ohio for four years.
Atlanta, Georgia, it seems probable
will be the first city in the country to
erect a monument to President Nc
kinley.
Miss Bell Hagner who acted as social
secretary to Mrs. Mckinley has been
chosen to the same service by Mrs.
Roosevelt.
The bulletins posted by the Kansas
City Journal during the Yacht race all
come by long distance telephone from
New York.
The Santa Fe announces five more
IF its homeseeker excursions, for Octo-
Der Is, November and 10 and Deem
Der and II.
The secretary of the treasury has
announced his intention to discontinue
the purchase of bonds for the sinking
fund for the present.
The monthly report issued by the
department of agriculture shows the
! average condition of cotton, at the end
of September to have been Ola per
] cent.
Miss Helen Long, daughter of Secre-
| tary Long, died at the home of the
family in Massachusetts,, on Oct. 4. She
died of pulmonary trouble of long
standing.
c. r. Thomas, of Independence, Mo-,
has been appointed superintendent of
the live stock division of the st. Louis
Worlds fair. Mr.. Thomas is secretary
of the American Hereford Breeders
association.
France and Russia seem to have
agreed on a way to force Turkey to
pay the French claim. Now it is as
serted that the Kaiser has joined these
two powers and that the three will
close in on Turkey.
DIR. f. H. King, now professor of ag-
ricultural physiology in the university
of Wisconsin, is appointed chief of the
division in the bureau of soils, in the
department of agriculture.
Few presidents of the United States
have had middle names. The list is
composed of John Quincy Adams,
William Henry Harrison, James X.
Hayes, James A. Garfield and Chester
A. Arthur, seven in all. So says the
Kansas City journal. The journal
forgets Stephen Grover Cleveland.
Abner McKinley's resemblance to the
late president is so striking that it is a
shock to anyone who now sees him for
the first time.
The conference of Methodist minis
tiers of Kansas and Missouri, brought
out the size of pay they receive. 1t was
shown that their average pay was $500
a year.
The U. S. mint is preparing to coin
three cent pieces of nickel. 1t will
be readily distinguished in handling as
it is to have hole in the center cover |
ing nearly one-half its size.
Count Won Waldersee, late command |
er-in-chief of the allied forces in China |
suffers from a badlsore on his leg and
has 10 appetite. He is growing worse.
The Rev. Doctor William C. GRAY,
editor of the Interior, a Presbyterian |
organ, is dead, at the age of 20 years
He was with the Interior for over 80
years.
1rl z. Hicks, the weather almanac
man, predicted "a regular Vulcan
storm extending from the first of
October to the sixth" Has any one
seen it about. 1t must have got lost.
Messrs. Stillwell and Sylvester of the
Orient road announce their intention |
of investing million dollars in a 16-
story Office building in Kansas City for
general offices of the road and for |
tenants.
There are ~ townships of land in the !
Douglas land district in Wyoming,
which are suspended from agricultural |
entry by order of the general land |
Office The townships appear to con-
tain oil in paying quantities, and the
suspension is to give opportunity to
develop the oil.
China is negotiating to turn over a
fleet to apply on the way indemnity
due Russia.
The Katy is erecting tie picking
plant at Greenville, Tex, with a ca
pacity of 1000 to $500 ties day. The
zinc chloride process is to be used.
The secretary of the treasury has
received letter enclosing $3.50 in
large bills, which the writer in New
York says is to make up shortage of
duties which he had paid The writer |
says: above has been great grief |
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