Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-02-06
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

Rain, sleet and snow fell throughout
Texas on Jan. 81.
The Canary islands have suffered
much damage from tornado
A packing house is arranged for
| Denver, Col, with half million dollar
capital.
The Chicago board of education has
reduced the salaries of $500 grade
! teachers.
Thos. W. Patterson, the new senator
from Colorado, was at one time circus
manager.
The transport Sheridan reached
Manila on Jaa. 81, with 80 cases of
measles on board.
1t was arranged for China to pay its
first installment of indemnity to the
powers on Feb. 1.
At Beaumont, Tex, a fine is assessed
against going near an oil well while
smoking gar.
VIM. G. Nevir, general manager of
the Santa Fe coast lines, died at San
Joaquin, of paralysis.
| Australia is roaring because meat
contracts for the British army are made
in Argentine instead of in Australia.
Surgeons say that fevers, due to bad
water, cause more deaths in South
Africa than do the bullets of the Beers
covering of two inches of solid ice
covered the southern part of West
Virginia and the sleet was still fall
ing.
The highest point ever reached in the
amount of gold in the treasury was on
Jan. 81, 1902, when there was s145,-
! 576, 435.
Hearing in the U. S. supreme court
of case involving the Chinese exclu-
sion act, will be argued on the first
Monday in March.
Owners of more than half of the area
of the Isle of Pines, petition congress
to never allow the stars and stripes to
be displaced from that island.
The sum of nearly 3,ooo,ooo krone
was sent by postal orders from persons
in the United States to friends in Nor
way during the year 1901. "a krone is
81 cents.)
The Camden co. Mo-, court house,
brick building at Linn Creek, which
cost S13, 900 is burned with every book,
record and paper in it. The fire started
in sawdust cuspidore.
A census bulletin shows that while
the number of wage earners in the
printers trade increased ten per cent
between 1890 and 1900, the total wages
paid decreased one per cent.
A. Dean Cooper, treasurer of the
Graham Paper Company of st. Louis,
was killed in his bath house for his
diamonds. negro named Strother,
who had charge of the bath house is
thought to be the guilty party.
The last surviving soldier of the war
of 1912 will be granted pension of SIS
month by special act. He is 102 years
old
Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota
and parts of Iowa and northern Mis-
souri, report blizzard as being lone of
the heaviest"
On the New York market wheat lost
cents bushel between Jan. and
Jan. 81; while corn in 40 days days
has dropped cents.
Postmaster General Payne has re-
issued the order prohibiting employees
of the service from visiting Washington
for the purpose of influencing legisla-
ton.
Lyman E. Cooley, of Chicago, the
builder of the drainage canal, there, is
ready to take the contract for the en-
tire work on the isthmian canal, when
ever the route is decided.
A Telegraphers' Aid Society has been
! organized at Kansas City, which pro-
poses to pay a sick benefit of 81 day
and $50 towards funeral expenses.
James c. Needham, representative
in congress, was born at Carson City,
Nevada, in an emigrant wagon, his
parents being enroute across the plains
to California.
The latest bank statement, embra-
cling all the banks in Mexico, shows the
total banking capital to be $50, 300, 900;
note circulation, $50, 67e, e26; reserve,
S14, 239, 293, and deposits, s112, 900, 900.
DIR. E. Fahrig, a Philadelphia scien-
fist has purchased 1000 acres of land
in the western Kansas shale district,
upon his faith that it is gold bearing.
New York bankers made larger sub
scriptions to the German loan of 300,-
900, 900 marks, than any European coun-
try. The loan was over subscribed 60
-. times.
London papers say that Uncle Sam
has played big game and won in get
ting the $40. ZOO, 900 offer from the
Frenchmen to sell their Panama canal
rights
American capitalists have made large
| purchases of land in the state of Vera
8 Cruz, Mexico, where they will raise
tobacco on large scale. Mexican -
bacco is now steadily winning favor in
Europe and the United States. The
> total amount exported in the past fiscal
year was 2,O19. 1855 Kilograms.
The United States marshal has seized