Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-06-26
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


ton again on June IA.
A steamship brought 1850, 900 pine
spples from Cuba to New York the
other day.
The graduating class of Princeton
University is the largest in its history,
reaching 95s members.
Four men were killed by lightning
while picking potatoes on the Coleman
farm near Sherman, Texas.
Fire at Hubbard. Texas, destroyed a
brick block and five wooden buildings.
The loss will aggregate 100000.
King Victor Emmanuel, of Italy, has
purchased $50, 900 acres of coal land in
West Virginia at the price of SIS, 900, 600.
The king of Saxony has no children
consequently Prince George, his eldest
brother is heir to the throne of Sax
ony.
The pope has informed Judge Taft
that he agrees with him on all the
main points in Friar land negotia-
tions
King Albert of Saxony died on June
10 at Dresden. He was one of the
generals who commanded the German
army in 1870.
There is an increased immigration to
the United States from Sweden, mostly
of young men, on account of military
service regulations.
A 20 hour train, over each of two
lines, is put in operation between New
York and Chicago. Their speed is
about 40 miles an hour.
The interstate commerce commission
went to Leadville June Is to inquire
into charges filed by the board of trade
against the transcontinenta lines.
Steel manufacturers of Pittsburg,
Pa, have advanced wages an average
of ten per cent. This is done on ac-
count of the general prosperous con-
dition of the steel trade.
c. f. w. Nicely, who was sentenced
to ten years in prison for his connec-
ton with Cuban postal frauds, is
among the American prisoners turned
loose by President Palma
The latest crop rep orts from western,
northern and central Russia show
fourishing conditions. Reports from
the northwest are satisfactory, but in
the trans-Caspian provinces the drouth
and locusts will make necessary inn
mense government relief. The cattle
plague also prevails in these districts.
Mel Anderson, Jr.. of Bingham. Utah,
aged It, has been kidnapped and notice
given his father that the boy would
and would then be killed unless IS, 900
ransom was paid. A search was COM
menced for the boy at once.
Southern and Central Texas is still
suffering for rain. In some sections, it
is said, corn has been killed and cotton
is suffering severely.
scouts, committed suicide June. &c.
His mind was unsettled.
R. G. Dun & Co. report the peach
crop of the country in excellent condi-
ton.
Chilpancingo, Mexico, felt an earth
quake shock on June II and great ter
ror prevailed.
The chancellor of the exchequer an
nounced in the house of commons that
the tax on maize would be reduced
one half.
Andrew Carnegie has given 500, 900
to the American Library association for
preparation and publication of read
ing lists and index.
The May statistics of gross postal
receipts at the fifty largest post
offices in the United States show a net
increase of IL per cent over the re-
ceipts for May 1901.
The school saving bank system is
quite popular with Kansas City school
children. Within the two years that
the system has been established the
children have deposited SIT, 573. Sc and
have drawn out 81, 1852. There is still
50, sO4. "a in the bank to the credit of
the children and the deposits are
increasing.
The boilermallers on the Union Pa
cific system have been called on by the
Boiler Makers union to strike.
A new schedule cuts eight hours off
the time for mail coming from New
York to st. Louis. Much of the west.
ern portion of the country will be
benefited.
shops at Paducah, KY, have been no
titled of a general increase in wages
from to Is cents day. The increase,
which was made voluntarily, affects
about 600 men.
1t is reported that the Rock Island
will extend to Albuquerque, n. NJ. A
party of surveyors who have been at
work near that city are said to have
been sent out by the Rock Island.
Albuquerque is anxious to secure the
extension.
secret emergency door is being
built in Westminster Abbey. The
location is known only to the royal
family and few other persons, so
that in case of a panic during the
coronation service they can get i.ame-
! diate egress.