Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-01-02
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


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Damage done at Vancouver, B. c.,
by the recent storm is estimated at
about 100000.
The U. S. gunboat Marietta is to go
to protect American mining interests
in Venezuela.
A A. Lesuer, former editar of the
Kansas City Times, is now banker at
Antlers, 1. T.
The South Dakota insurance commits
sioner has barred the National Aid As
ISOLATION from that state
Rural free delivery carriers will be
placed under civil service rules and
protection on February 2.
Captain Richard P. Leary, q. S.
Navy, is dead. He was the first gov
ernor of the island of Guam.
Chauncey Depew was twice married
in Paris. the civil marriage on Deem
Der and the church service on the 2Sth.
A terrible natural gas explosion oc-
Cured at Kenton, Ohio. One man was
fatally hurt and six store fronts were
blown out.
General Russell A. Alger has passed
the crisis of the operation to remove
gall stones and his recovery is said to
be practically certain.
A number of railway trains were
stalled in snow in Denmark and Nor
way, last week. Most of the telegraph
wires were broken kown.
1t is estimated that the deaths from
famine in Shenshi province of China
number two and half million people,
or 80 per cent of the population.
General Taft says that civil gvoern-
ment in the Philippines was never so
well organized, and that the attitude
of the Filipinos is one of loyalty.
Former President Cleveland has &C.
cepted an appointment to the industri-
al department of the national civic
federation, created at the recent peace
conference of labor and capital leaders.
Georgians-''prominent citizens
met at Atlanta to try and secure from
the United States 500, 900, 900 to cover
the collections of cotton tax from South
ern people in reconstruction days, and
money from sale of captured or aban-
doned property during the war of the
rebellion.
The Pope has decided to send com
mission to attend the coronation Of
King Edward.
The 125th anniversary of the battle
of Trenton was deliberately celebrated
at Trenton, n. j.
Fog prevented an engineer on an Ohio
road from seeing another train and he
ran into it full speed, injuring three
persons.
Colonel Richard J. Hinton, who died
in London recently, once promised a
valuable gift at his death to the Kan
sas Historical society.
The president remains in Washing
ton during holiday week and will SCI
only visitors who have urgent anC
important business. H. needs rest.
The Mckinley Memorial association
has discovered that there are many en-
terprises of commercial nature which
are making capital out of the senti
ments of affection for VIM. Mckinley
and have issued a warning against thu
grafters.
The German government is prepared
to resort to forcible measures to compe
Venezuela to pay claims.
A tornado has done considerabl,
damage at Naples, Italy. The rive
Arno overhowed its banks causing
much damage at Florence and Plaza.
Plans are being made for a trolle,
system to connect New York and st
Louis; broader scheme than that be
ing constructed to connect the cite
on the great lakes
The Rock Island extension from Lib
eral, Kas., to Santa Rosa, n. M,
completed The Ell Paso and Eastern
from White Oaks to Santa Rosa, vii
be finished about January Is.
Senator Allison of Iowa will b
elected to his sixth term in a few
weeks. His 80 years service expire
next March No senator has serve,
longer than that. He is 70 years old
Senator Morgan is 70 and Senate
Hoar is 76.
John J. Valentine, president o
Wells, Fargo & Co. s express company
died at Oakland, California, a few day
since
The flood in the Lehigh Vale.
damaged the Valley railroad to tn
amount of $500, 900.
The First Congregational church o
Springfield, Ohio, has been destroyed
by a natural gas explosion. 1t cos
$4,000.
The epleptic institute at Craig, N. Y.
is to be visited by the chairman of tn
State board of charities for ideas to ali
in the new asylum to be built in Par
sons, Kansas
Lord Pauncefote will arrange dat
for final exchange, acting with Sec
rotary Hay, as soon as he receive
notice of its approval in England. Thi