Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-05-29
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


to enter Oakland, Cali.
Plans have been submitted for
81, 900, 900 union depot at Kansas City,
Mo.
The people of the United States pay
an average of S13 each annually for
liquor.
$4,000 for relief of sufferers in the
West Indies disaster.
Beginning June l the Rock Island
is to run through sleeper between
Wichita and Denver.
President Roosevelt addressed the
Presbyterian home missionary society
in New York on May 20.
the city council of Albany, N. V,
rejected Mr.. Carnegie's offer of $780,
900 for public library.
The Salt Lake Telegram advocates
the election of a woman as United
States Senator from Utah.
Cornelius N. Bliss, national treasurer
for the West Indies relief fund, has
received total of S94, 900.
The Shah of Persia, with his suite
and attendants, in Asiatic grandeur,
is paying visit to Rome and will visit
4, the Vatican.
President Roosevelt sent kind mes
sage to the Mexican war veterans while
they were holding a reunion at Fort
Worth, Texas.
The first appearance of the 17-year
locusts, due this year, is reported from
Evansville, Indiana. They left moth
ing green behind them.
The Topeka pension agency now has
10000 pensioners on the rolls, an in
crease of SOC in the past year. The
district covers several states
Lieutenant R. C. Day died last week
of consumption, at San Isidro, Luzon.
In the Cuban campaign he was captain
of troop L, of the Rough Riders, and
was made a lieutenant by President
Roosevelt.
Ten members of the English house
of commons have arranged to form
pool of 81, 100000 to start line of
ocean greyhounds in opposition to the
Morgan combination. They hope to
secure mail and cruiser subsidies.
The organization of societies of ma
tive sons of Kansas is spreading. Be
sides the number of them projected in
different Kansas towns there is a lodge
being organized in New York City,
where there number of bright young
Kansans
1t is 4s years since the lower house
of congress passed the Kansas-Nebras-
lxa act at IL o'clock p. m. of May %,
1854. The vote was 113 to 100. Galu-
sha A. Grow a member of the present
congress, voted for it as did Russell
Sage, who also still lives. w. NJ.
Tweed, later boss of Tammany, was
also among the ayes
Since Emperor William is to give a
statue of his ancestor, Frederick the
Great, to this country, it is suggested
that there should be statue of Wash
ingion SAINT to Berlin.
A general strike of the building
trades is on in P Portland, Oregon, where
about ., 500 men have laid down their
tools. 1t started over demand
of planning mill men for a nine hour
day. By the strike 500 business build
ings and residences, under construc-
ton, are standing statu quo.
All automobile records between New
York and Philadelphia have been
broken by party of New Workers,
who made the run from New York to
Philadelphia in four hours and eight
minutes. The distance is 103 miles.
All state employees of Minnesota
have had their salaries raised 10 per
cent. The additional cost to the state
will exceed $40 900 a year.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
Hungary narrowly escaped bomb
. which was placed in his compartment
of railroad car which he was about
to enter.
The Kansas Knights of Pythias ask
the grand chancellors of Missouri,
Indian Territory, Iowa and Nebraska
to join them in holding a jubilee at
Kansas City this fall.
A continuous rainfall of six hours
has caused numerous washouts on
roads entering La Crosse, Wisconsin,
and traffic is practically demoralized.
Charles Mcfarland of Aledo, Texas,
sold in Chicago recently carload
of Texas cattle which averaged 1925
pounds The price was $685. hun
dred pounds.
Bishop VIM. Taylor is dead at the
age of 81. He had been in missionary
service for so years prior to 1899 when
he was retired. At that time he was
bishop of Africa of the NJ. E. church.
During 1901 the total net earnings,
or clear profits, of all the railroads of
the United States were s4s3, oOo, 900; or
Sc per capita of the population of the
country.
Snow fell on May 10 in most of the
mountain towns of Colorado and
Wyoming.
The Missouri Pacific Railway has
just inaugurated a new sleeping car
service between Kansas City and