Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-04-10
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF,

VI dressed Dee1.
H. G. Squires, secretary of the min
lister to China, is in line for the place
of minister to Cuba.
Manila celebrated on April the ar
rival of the first direct American
mail steamer to reach there.
There is a scheme to settle with
European immigrants vast tracts in
the state of Chiapas, Mexico.
United States minister to China, Mr..
Conger, has commenced negotiations
for a new commercial treaty with
China.
The interior department has issued
instructions for the precaution of
those who fail to remove fences from
government land.
Robert L. Armstrong, the Chicago
newspaper man who has just been APP
pointed private secretary to Secretary
of the Treasury Shaw, is native of
Iowa.
The United Mine Workers of Michi-
gan were called out on a general strike
beginning on April /, on account of
the operators and miners disagreeing
on wage scale.
Excavations in the forum at Rome
have brought to light tomb supposed
to be older than the traditional founda-
ton of the city. 1t is considered an
important discovery.
An American company has bought
the American rights and patents of the
Marconi Wireless Telegraphy CON-
pany. The purchasing Company has a
capital of Sc, $50, 900.
Brigadier General Fred Funston ar
rived at Oakland, Cal. and Joined his
family. He is to go to Denver in few
days to assume command of the de-
partment of Colorado.
Floods did $1,000 damage in Nor
gan county, Tennessee, to farms,
fences, bridges and roads At Oakdaie
there are So families destitute and %
other families need aid.
General Funston said in San Fran
cisco on April ,. The Filipinos are
absolutely incapable of self-govern-
ment to-day, and do not think the
next generation of the race will be-
Thousands of postal cards are re-
ccived by the president, the heaviest
lot of them from Kansas, asking that
he send a message to the senate asking
that constitutional amendment he
submitted to the people providing for
the election of senators by the peo-
pie.
a Rhode Island boy wrote to the
president asking him to suggest
motto for guide through life. Mr..
Roosevelt sent the lad a steel engra-
| wing of himself, with this motto in his
own handwriting on its margin:
Don't foul; don't finch. Hit the line
hard"
DIR. L. IIeber Newton, who has been
rector of All Souls Episcopal church in
New York for 80 years, is about to
resign, to go to Leland Stanford Uni
versity, at San Francisco as special
reader.
The New York legislature passed
and Gov. Odell has signed an act
which imposes penalty of not more
than ten years Imprisonment or more
than $1,000 fine or both on persons
who advocate anarchistic doctrines by
speech, writing or otherwise.
President Roosevelt assures the vet
Grams who are employed in the depart
ments that his order forbidding all Off
GERS and employees of the United States
| to attempt to influence legislation in
| their interest was not intended to apply
| to them.
An explosion of gas in coal mine at
! Dayton, Tenn, resulted in the death
of % men, with another list of in
jured.
1t is reported from Chicago that the
beef packers of the country have form
| ed trust to make raise in the price
| of beef.
James Fl. Garfield, son of the late
| President Garfield, has accepted the
| position of civil service commissioner
rendered him by President Roosevelt;
to the place vacated by VIM. A. Roden-
| berg on April 1.
An offer of S., 1000, 600 for the ste of
Trinity church and grave yard at the
head of Wall street, New York, has
been refused.
Lyman !. Gage, former secretary of
the treasury, has been elected presi-
dent Of the United States Trust Co., of
New York.
1t is proposed that congress authorize
| the construction of memorial bridge
across the Potomac at Washington.
| The bill fixes the present cost at So
900 and makes present appropriation
of $1,000
Warning is sent out by the secret
! service of the appearance of a counter
! felt new five dollar national bank note
on the Union National bank of New
Orleans 1t is 4 Photographic print
and is deceptive.
There are % officials of the Aguin-
aldo governments now holding offices
of trust under the American govern
ment-
| April was holiday in Mexico. It
/ is the thirty fifth anniversary of the
triumph of Mexican arms against
Maximiiian.