Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-01-23
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

The Kentucky legislature elected
James b. McCreary to the United States
senate.
The Jupiter mine at Breux, Austria,
was suddenly flooded causing the death
of 43 men.
An international tournament is being
of King Edward.
Alex McClintocll, the noted breeder
of Attorney stock, died suddenly at his
home at Lexington, KY.
Wire and wire nails are advanced 81
ton by action of a meeting of manu-
facturers at Pittsburg, Pa.
Over 100 persons were severely in
jured by a great wind storm which
swept over Vienna, Austria.
Judge Grosscup, of the U. S. court in
Chicago, decides that the city has the
right to regulate the price of gas.
y Spaniard at Chadron, Neb, says he
touched the button to blow up the bat
tleship Maine, in Havana harbor.
The Santa Fe routes lines west of
Albuquerque have been officially given
the title of ''Santa Fe coast lines"
The Kentucky Daughters of the Con-
federacy are calling upon the legisla-
ture to prohibit Uncle Toms Cabin"
from playing in the state.
London police officials have been
warned by those of New York that
.arge gang of swindlers are gradually
making their way to London in patches.
London financial circles believe that
negotiations for peace have been opened
with the Beers. The stock exchange
evidently takes a hopeful view of the
outcome.
Captain Joseph r. Eaton, now cap
tain of the Boston navy yard, has been
selected to command the battleship
Oregon. which is now fitting out on the
Pacific coast The Oregon will remain
in the Pacific waters.
The wool growers of the Ohio farm
ers' institute protest against recip-
rocity treaties that would effect the
price of wool. They show that Argen-
tina produces 2ls times as much wool
as the United States. the most of which
is exported, as the population is sparce.
VIM. y. Springer, for the National
Livestock Association. told the house
committee on agriculture that IA more
liberal treatment OF oleomargarine was
| given by foreign countries than in the
United States He opposed the large
tax proposed to be put on artificial but
| ter.
Oscar S. Strauss, formerly L. 5. min.
| lister to Turkey, has been appointed a
member of the committee on arbitra-
ton at The Hague, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of eX-Prcsident
| Harrison.
When Funston's confirmation was up
one of the opposition senator's asked,
What has Funston ever done?" Quick
as flash Senator Harris replied: He
saw Opportunity's face: we can all see
her back"
Madison, Wis, has a curfew law
which excludes children from the street
by o'clock in winter and o'clock in
summer.
The Congressional Military commit
tee went to West Point TO figure on the
making of provisions of larger estab-
lishment, on modern lines.
Twenty-Five thousand men employed
in the steel mills west of Pittsburg,
| Ohio, have been given an increase of
wages.
Statistics show that there We're in the
1901. The number of persons lynched
was larger than the number of persons
sentenced to death by the courts.
1t is reported that SIG. 200, 900 has
been subscribed in Paris for building
and equipping a new system of electric
street railways in the City of Mexico
and introducing low fares.
Lewis Nixon, the shipbuilder, has
succeeded Richard Croker as chief Off
GER of the Tammany organization
which has ruled New York so long.
Portia Knight, the American actress,
has compromised her breach of promise
suit against the Duke of Manchester
and gets 81, 900 and costs of legal pro-
ceedings.
Sugar planters and merchants of the
Danish West Indies have petitioned the
Danish government to secure tho Amer
lean market for their sugar when the
sale of the islands is completed.
Joseph B. Foraker has been elected
by the Ohio legislature to succeed him
self as United States senator. The vote
was 81 for Foraker and SO for Chas. w.
Baker, the Democratic candidate.
Ben F. Daniels, just appointed U.
S. Marshal of, Arizona, lost an ear
when he was city marshal of Dodge
City, KS, in Its wild and woody period.
He was also rough rider at San Juan
hill, Santiago, Cuba
Gold to the amount of $3.50, 600 has
been sent in one shipment from st.
Joseph, No., bank to st. Louis