Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-11-27
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

WcTc iclI III odlb Lake City on NOvem-
Der IL.
Since tho general advance of the pay
Of railroad employees freight rates are
being as generally increased.
Two of the Niles, Mich, Board and
Paper company's large mills are de.
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
The ex-queen of Hawaii has arrived
in San Francisco, with the intention of
spending the winter in Washington.
The Oregon Irrigation association
pleads for early commencement of
work in that state under the law of
June II, 1902.
Charity Virgins, mother of Blind
Tom. the negro musician, is dead at
Birmingham, Ala, Of dropsy of the
heart, aged 1o2 years.
The amount allowed by the Ameri-
can Claims commission, which recently
finished its work in Pelzin, is 81, $50, 900
and the sum disallowed is 81, so4, 600.
Two men lost their lives in the fire
in the Engleville coal mine, south of
Trinidad, Col, and several others are
suffering from inhalation of poisonous
gases.
Ambassador Choate unveiled the
memorial window to Bishop Simpson
in Wesley's Chapel in London, the gift
of the American Methodists to the
mother chapel
The Union Pacific has given an in
crease of pay to its telegraph operators
amounting to about $50, 900 year.
Other favors were given the operators
at the same time.
The Ministerial alliance of Salt Lake
has organized for an effort to prevent
Apostle Reed Smoot from being ad-
mitted to the United States senate, to
which he has been elected.
Two hundred and fifty men employ
ed in the coal mines of Washington,
Indiana, struck because they claimed
the operators had failed to have the
bank mules properly fed and curried.
Traffic at Ell Paso, Texas, is suspend
ed because of street car strike, which
was caused by the discharge of the
secretary OF a newly organized union.
Y>he strike ties up car service in the city
and on suburban lines as well as the
line to Juarez, Mexico.
Three brothers named Roach were
taken to California in 1S49 by their
father who had deserted their mother,
learned by accident that their mother,
who is 90 years old, was in an Indiana
poor house. She had believed the story
that her boys had been killed by IN
dams. Her sons are wealthy and came
to see their mother and care for her.
At Black Mountain, Colo, where
there has been heavy snow fall, cat
tie are dying in large numbers. Other
districts which have suffered from
drouth report large losses
A three days fire in the town Of
Rest in Persia, destroyed 800 houses
and many warehouses and 200 persons
persisted.
Skating has commenced in Berlin
and unusually cold weather prevails
throughout Germany. Building opera
lions have suspended and horse races
called off.
Three violent earthquake shocks,
accompanied by violent winds, were
felt at Salonica, Roumania, on the
night of Nov. Is. The populace were
panic stricken.
C. Il. Cooper, chief clerk of the
Frisco railway bridge and building
department, now at Fort Scott, Kan
sas, has been identified as NJ. Netsell,
which name he was given by foster
parents in infancy; and has been be-
queathed large estate in New York,
by brother.
Thousands of bushels of apples are
rotting on the ground about Green
WITCH, Conn.,, because barrels cannot be
had; in the face of foreign demand for
American apples. Farm laborers are
also extremely scarce.
The Ministerial association of Spring
field. Ill, has sent letter to similar
organizations, calling upon them to
unite in general discussion of local
option as a rallying point and the first
step against the saloon.
The Russian ministry of the interior
will revise the laws with the object of
curtailing foreign insurance companies,
especially American.
During the fiscal year 60, 5ss persons
we're examined for civil classified SER
vice. OF these 40, 500 passed; ID. 2ss ap-
| pointed or promoted.
Among the frightening list of rail-
roads advancing wages four of tho
largest systems took their place on
November Is. They are the New York
Central, the Southern Pacific, the Pitts
burg & Lake Erie and the Union Pa
cific
At the great labor convention in
New Orleans President Sha Ter of the
| Amalgamated Association of Steel
i Workers, and President Gompers of
h the American Federation of Labor. got
Il into an alteration which raised the
temper of the whole attendance.