Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-02-27
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF


The Pope of Rome entered upon the
25th year of his pontificate on Febru-
airy 20.
Chicago is eating cheap beef The
packers are cutting prices by way of
competition.
The report sent out from Paris that
Miss Stone was released by the bril-
gands was a fake.
The Missouri State Veterinarian has
found CHAMBERS existing in the county
east of Mexico, Mo. 1t is among mules
John L. Sullivan came very near
death, and perhaps will die. on the
occasion of a big drunk at bot Springs,
Ark.
Yank vi, formerly minister to Wash
ingtOn, from which he was transferred
to st. Petersburg in 1896, died there on
February II.
An so mile gale struck Reno, Ne
vada. Railroad trains were delayed
by snow drifts and the prostration of
telegraph wires.
Govarnor Taft of the Philippines
told the senate committee that Aguir-
aldo ''has no idea of civil liberty or
or any kind of liberty"
The semi-annual report of the Whis-
ky trust says that the net earnings for
the last six months of 1900 were $685.
437; an increase of $500, $50, over the
same period of 1901.
The federal land office at Santa Fee,
n. NJ, has orders to withdraw from
market 125, 900 acres of land at the foot
of the Sardia mountains, to be occupied
as a new military post.
The United Mine Workers conven-
ton at Peoria, Ills, met with a storm
of Misses at a resolution to appropriate
$50 from the trades union fund for a
memorial to President Mckinley.
About 10000 pensioners die each
year, and from this time on the rate of
deaths will be much higher, as many
of the veterans and their widows have
long since passed the average length of
human life.
The Chicago Great Western railway
is buying up the stock of the st. Jo-
seph & Grand Island, and when con-
troll of the line is secvred there will be
track laid for it from st. Joseph to
Kansas City. The st. Joe & G. L. now
enters Kansas City on leased tracks.
Congressman Long of Kansas, as a
member of the ways and means COM
mittee, proposes, as a reciprocity
measure, to reduce tariffs 40 per cent
on all trade between the United States
and Cuba.
w. A. Lewis, a Spokane, Washing
ton, lawyer has been sentenced to
seven years in prison for stealing 81 900
from a woman client.
II. G. Clark has assumed charge as
lahoma e. Gulf railroad with headquar-
tiers at Little Rock, Ark.
Earthquakes continue in Shamaka
district and volcano has commenced
vigorous eruption. The number of
killed is estimated at SEQ.
The Marconi system of wireless tel
on board 20 ships and at 25 land sta
tions. The system transmits 90 words
minute.
George Gould has bought five city
-, r. g
supposed this purchase is for site for
an immense depot and extending
freight yard facilities.
The war department asks congress to
create as new division, to be known as
the general staff corps, to consider and
prepare plans for the national defense,
and for mobilization of forces in time
of war.
Frederick D. Underwood, who is
slated for the presidency of the North
ern Pacific, began railroading as a
brakeman on the st. Paul road.
A fight between troops occurred in a
suburb of Barcelona, Spain, in which
500 persons were killed and wounded,
most by artillery used by the troops.
Large quantities of surghum seed is
used in the manufacture of and sells as
buclxwheat flour.
Admiral Dewey declined an invita-
ton to meet Prince Henry, of Prussia,
| at dinner at the German embassy,
on account of Mrs Dewey's illness
The sum of $50, 900 is given to the
employees of the Boston branch of the
American Soda Fountain Company by
the will of James w. Tufts, the mil
| honaire soda fountain manufacturer.
The money is divided in amounts rang
ing from 500 to $500.
No branch of departmental work
ever grew more rapidly than the free
rural delivery system.
The Berlin missionary society's
buildings. at Fayen, near Canton,
China, have been burned by an anti
| Christian mob. The Missionaries es-
capped.
Governor Taft told the senate COM
mittee that the intervention of the
United States in the Philippines was
the best thing that ever could happen
for the Filipinos, though this country
is the loser in going there.