Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-06-19
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

that even labor strikes failed to cause a
reduction in trade.
There was heavy snow at Middle.
burg, South Africa, on June II for the
first time in sixteen years.
A thousand miles of ocean cable has
been completed and ready for shipment
for use of the San Francisco-Ho nolulu
section.
Mitchell, S. D. received seven inches
of rain the other night. The streets
were like rivers Stores and residences
were flooded.
Candidate; a village in mountain
pass in North Caucassia, Russia, has
been destroyed by n land slide. The
inhabitants escaped.
President Palma has signed the bill
fixing the salaries of members of the
Cuban senate and house of representa-
tives at So, 600 year.
A tornado broke hundreds of plate
glass at Ottumwa, Iowa, flooded base,
AAShe 70 hhN oAo W 1lTu1
buildings in the vicinity.
The British troop ship Bavarian
sailed from Cape Town on June with
400 troops ordered home to take part
in the coronation ceremonies.
At Sigourney, Iowa, the main tent
Of a circus was blown down and 25
people were injured. Miss Clara
Campbell may not recover.
The boilermakers' strike at San Ber-
nardino, Cal, has been adjusted by the
superintendent of motive power who
was sent there from Topeka.
Emperor William has ordered the
training ships Charlotte and Stoch to
cruise in the West Indies and the train
ing ships Stein and Moltlle do cruise in
the North Atlantic
The treasury department has sent
out advertisements for bids to be
opened July 10 for public buildings in
Hutchinson and La wrence, Kas., each
to be 40 by $50 feet.
Senator Burton is asking the war de-
partment to change the shifts of guards
on duty at Fort Leavenworth from
shifts of IL hours to 3 of hours each;
employing enough more men to form a
third shift.
The average condition of winter
wheat of this country on June 1 was
76.1 as compared with 76.4 on May
1902. The average of spring wheat
June was 95.4 as compared with 90 at
the corresponding date last year.
Arkansas Democrats at their state
convention named Ex-Governor James
P. Clark as their candidate to succeed
U. S. Senator J. K. Jones.
The rumor that Great Britain intends
to purchase the district of Lorenzo
Marques, in Portuguese East Africa,
has caused great excitement in Portu-
gal
A fraud order has been issued by the
postal department against the Perfect
ed Tontine Mercantile company, of
Kansas City, which is charged with
using he'mails to defraud.
H. ]. Hamlin, attorney general of
Illinois, filed bill of injunction seek
ing to restrain the insurance COM
panies doing business in the state from
operating under what he alleges to be
a trust.
There are about 90 refugee Beers in
Colorado. They are asking for a
chance to return to South Africa.
During a recent rain at Red Oak,
Ia, small stream which runs through
the town rose in few minutes 25 feet
above normal. There was three and
three-fourths inches of rain.
Transfers of Providence. R. l. kept
up a strike for more than five weeks
became hungry and returned without
conditions.
Chile :and Argentine have signed
treaty providing for a restriction of
ornaments of the two countries, gen.
eral arbitration and commercial rela-
tions.
Theodore A. Ross, for twenty-eight
years grand secretary of the sovereign
grand lodge of the 1. o. o. F., was
fonnd dead in bed at his home in East
Orange. n. j., aged rs years
Major Chas. j. Osborne, who has
been Associated Press correspondent
at st. Louis since 1861 years-will
quit active service on July l.
Col. Arthur Lynch, who served in
the Boer army, and while there was
elected to parliament from Ireland,
was arrested for treason upon his re-
turn to England.
Over 90 per cent of the hard coal
mined in the world is produced in the
United States, where the output in
1901 was 5s,s19,62 tons, with a value
of S11O, $50, 500 at the mines.
Whitelaw Reid, the special ambassa-
dor to the coronation of King Edward,
received his first news of peace in
South Africa by wireless telegraphy,
while still out at sea-
The Kansas City School of Law
graduated 81 young disciples of Black
stone the other day.
The German Atlantic Cable company
has decided to lay another cable from
Germany to the United States
The Beaumont (Texas) Lumber Com.
pany's mills caught FIRE and five acres
of yards were burned to the ground.