Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-07
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

business.
Ex-Governor st. John is now attend.
ing to his large interests in Missouri
coal fields.
Brigadier Generals James FL. Wilson
and Fitzhugh Lee have been placed on
the retired list
The New York Sun says that j. R.
Burton reminded the New Workers OF
Roscoe Conkling.
The Big Four railroad system ha:
advanced the salaries of its telegraph
operators 12ls{ per cent.
The business portion of Park River,
n. d., is destroyed by fire. Loss over
$1,000 with only partial insurance.
Governor Shaw, of Nebraska, is send.
ing out warnings to sheriffs of that
state against permitting prize fighting.
The American Biscuit company has
given its employees an opportunity to
become shareholders in the trust on
very favorable terms.
The interstate commerce commission
has ordered a reduction of 20 cents a
ton on coal on shipments to points in
Kansas and Nebraska.
A saloon man has put in claim to
have the cost refunded of the stamps
destroyed with the beer which he said
had been ''nationized.
The coffee and sugar war has been
settled again; this time with an ad-
vance of one-half cent per pound on
coffee. Jobbers will be pleased.
An auction sale of Angora goats at
the Kansas City stock yards disposed
of 1900 hundred of them. The high.
est price paid for ewes was $3.50.
Senator Edward o. Wolcott has re-
signed as a member of the Republican
national committee from Colorado, and
Archie NJ. Stevenson has been desig-
mated as his successor.
William NJ. Evarts is dead. He has
been very feeble for several years and
for time was nearly blind. This
greatest of American lawyers of his
generation was SO years of age.
Fifty years ago, on March 4. Galusha
A. Grow first took a seat as a member
of Congress. He served ~ years and
then was private citizen for a third
of a century, returning to congress
again in 1894. He is now &c years old.
The Hereford sale in Kansas City
disposed of 2O2 head for $50, 555. The
COW Cleopatra brought 1,OlO and the
bull Pretorian S905.
John Julian, but little more than 81
years of age, was sentenced by Judge
Wofford, of Kansas City. to 40 years in
the penitententiary FOR robbing a man
of 81. 81 and locking him up in his ice
chest.
Sir Cavendish Boyle has been ga
zetted governor of New Foundland in
succession to Sir Henry McCallum.
appointed governor of Natal.
The new reduction plant at Colorado
City has commenced work with $50
men. The plant comprises 10 build.
ings covering acres. The cost is
$3.50, 900. 1t will treat Cripple Creek
ores.
Rev. Henry Blatchford is dead at the
age of 9s. His life was spent as mis-
sionary with the Chippewas of the Lake
Superior region.
Striking coal miners at Gallup, n.
NJ. have been enjoined from in any
way interfering with negroes who have
taken their places.
The new Illinois apportionment law
gives Chicago more than one-third OF
the voting strength in the legislature.
Magistrate Crane, of the Harlem, N
Y. police court, advised the police to
''go into any place where they are sure
there are gambling games, batter
down the doors, smash partitions and
clean the place out from cellar to
attic"
The railroad telegraphers' paper pub.
fishes list of 10 men who refused to
go out on the Dolphin strike and asks
the o. r. I. men to shun them.
The district court at Charitan, Iowa,
awarded Thos Burke 1000 damages
damages for injuries received when
initiated by the Modern Woodmen.
There were more than IS Santa Fe
trains day out of Cleburne, Tex, for
80 days. During that time there
1,19. engines turned on the round
table.
Mayor Ames, of Minneapolis, MINI.
has issued an order to the police to see
that no glove contests or sparring
matches shall take place in the city in
the future.
Fifty-six years ago one florist in
New York did all the business He
sold 5000 worth for Easter The sales
in January this year amounted to
5000, 600 and for the year 1899 to over
Sc, 600. 600
The railroads Of New Zealand, all
under government control, have 1000
miles of track, at a cost of $50, 200. 900.
Their operation show profit in 1893
OF about s.. 900, 900.
The grazing leases for the Usage
reservation are TO belet in Washington
this year, on April /.