Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-03-06
THE LATEST NEWS III BRlEE

Louisville is destroyed by fire
A loss of $685. by fire has hit
trunk factory at Wyandotte, Michigan.
The Standard Oil company has
bought $500 tons of hoop iron in
Cologne, France.
The Mexican government has fur
nished $4,000 in aid of earthquake
sufferers in Mexico.
The southeastern gulf states have
been de!uged by rain. Many bridges
were washed away in Georgia.
Edward VII appeared at the race
tracks on February &c for the first time
since the death of Queen Victoria.
The French Panama canal company
has decided to withdraw its offer to
sell the canal to the United States.
Telegraph operators on the Frisco
line have been given an average in
crease of Is per cent to their wages.
A case of smallpox developed in the
state capitol of Iowa, in the governor S
office. The legislature is in session.
The mill operatives of Fall River,
Mass, are voluntarily given an increase
of wages, to go into effect on April z.
All national banks are called upon
for statement of their condition at
the close of business Tuesday, Febru-
airy %.
The Pennsylvania railroad is to have
the wires of the system between New
York and Philadelphia placed in I'M
foreground conduits. Troubles arising
this.
A natural gas explosion wrecked a
home at Kokomo. Indiana, burying
four people in the ruins. Three of
them are women, who were terribly
injured. This is the third natural gas
explosion in Kokomo within a week
A German steamship recently sailed
from Savannah, Ga, with 10, 332 bales
of cotton on board. The rest of the
cargo was principally made up of 100
barrels of rosin, 4O4 sacks of cottonseed
meal and :, 49l tons of phosphate rock.
The Orient" is to be officially known
as the Port Stillwell Route" Con-
tractors are instructed to add 400 teams
to their grading force In Texas. This
when completed will give a finished
grade from Harper, Kans.. tc Sweet
water, Texas.
Argument commenced before the U.
water case between Kansas and Col
orado.
Ex-President Cleveland declined the
invitation to the banquet given to
Prince Henry ION account of illness. :"
On the same day, according to news
dispatches, Mr.. Cleveland bagged 200
ducks.
The Mexican Central railroad is get
ting some of the best men in the me-
chanical department, from the United
States.
The lower house of the Iowa legisla-
ture has passed bill increasing the
pay of district judges from 81, 900 to
$4,000 a year.
Paul Martin, it is said, has been Of
fered the portfolio of commerce and
labor when the bill is passed creating
the department. Mr.. Morton is a son
of J. Sterling Morton, who was Sccre-
tary of Agriculture in Cleveland's last
cabinet.
The Findlay Table Mandatory at
Findlay, Ohio, is burned. A hundred
men are thrown out of employment.
The U. s. court of appeals in session
at st. Louis decides that mortgages
given in one state are good in any
other state or territory, and that they
do not have to be fled.
Diphtheria among the Pueblo Ind
dams of New Mexico, is fatal in scores
of cases. The Indians are warned
from coming into towns or American
settlements.
The lower house of the Ohio legisla-
ture is now on record as favoring the
election of U. S. Senators by direct
vote of the people.
The Russian treasury has given 5o,-
900 roubles for relief of the destitute
among the victims of the earthquake
at Shamaka.
All the employees of the Singer Sew
ing Machine company, at South Bend,
Indiana. over 600 in number, went
out on a strike, not liking new fore
man.
found so miles from Tacoma, Washing
ton, the first large body of arsenic
found in America The United States
imports 81, 900, 900 worth yearly.
Admiral Schley and Captain Hobson
were the principal speakers at one
session of the Daughters of the Ameri-
5. C.
A. V. Brown was appointed post
| master at Campton, Iowa, in 1857 and
has held the Office ever since. until this
week the postoffice is to be discontin-
ued and the people served by rural
delivery. Browns wife has been his
deputy all these years and his bond
still carries the names on the original