Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-09-25
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

tia has issued an order abolishing the
sword as a cavalry weapon.
Lord Salisbury is sick in Switzer-
land. He has been touring the health
resorts of Southern Europe
No wonder Armour has sent millions
to take call loans in New York, where
they bring 20 per cent just now.
A hundred plumbers and gas filters
of Kansas City struck because the
Master plumbers established merger
shop.
There is somewhat less than 300 car
loads of Rocky Ford cantaloupes to be
shipped out of that district yet this
season.
The parliament of New South Wales
has passed an appropriation of mil
lion dollars a year for five years for
irrigation.
The business men of Manila are
organizing for the purpose of agitating
limited Chinese immigration to the
Philippines.
The Russian government proposes to
put a stop of poaching by Americans
and japanese among the seals of the
Siberian coast.
The unemployed natives in the rebel
districts in South Africa have become
a serious problem. Their idleness con-
stitutes a menace.
Nicholas Fish, banker, and member
of the smart set in New York, was
killed in Saloon with women, and
all of them drunk.
The shipbuilders of Great Britain
have notified their employees that they
must reduce wages as the shipbuilding
trade is steadily growing worse.
China is on the verge of another
Boxer uprising which may equal that
of 1000. They are destroying churches
and missions. They uphold their work
by referring to the hot rivalry between
Catholic and Protestant missions.
According to the census of 1901, just
completed in tabulation. the popula
ton of the administrative county of
London was 4,536,54 while greater
London. Immediately surrounding the
county. showed an additional popula-
ton of 6, 500, 900.
The great packing house at Chihua-
hua. Mexico, owned by Mexican and
Kansas City capitalists, is partially
destroyed by fire. Loss, $500, 900. par
tally covered by insurance.
The barbed wire department of the
Oliver plant of the American Steel and
Wire company at Pittsburg, Pa. is
totally destroyed by fire. Loss, about
$50, 900.
South Australian towns, were panic
stricken by recent earthquake.
Many northern towns also has earth
quake shocks
The Santa Fe has been handling an
unusually heavy passenger business
this week. both east and west bound.
The submarine telegraph cable which
is to join the United States and Hawaii
as the first link in the system to the
Philippines, has been completed in
England.
The American Board of Foreign mis-
sions has received S57, 993 through the
state department. This is IS per
| cent of the award made for losses on
mission property in the Boxer outrages
in China.
The burning gusher at Beaumont,
Texas, ceased flowing of its own &C
count and the fire was easily extin-
guished. Smouldering fire at the big
tank is all that remains of the flames.
At Charleston, W. Va, a -consta BILE
turned the striking miners out of the
company houses A cold rain was fall
ing, and many families were without
shelter.
The strike at the, White House CT
painters and decorators was speedily
settled, the New York men going back
home.
The phone habit has attacked hotels
Macy of them are putting in circuits
which serve every room, connected with
a central in the office
Justice Gray, who retired from the
U. ) supreme court last spring, died
at his home at Nahant, Mass, on Sep
TENDER Is, of paralysis. He was born
in 1928.
President Diaz, of Mexico, celebra-
ted his attaining to the age of 70 years
on September Is. The diplomatic corps,
cabinet ministers, ct al, called to con-
graduate the president.
South Australia has had its first rain
for year. It is pastoral country
and there have been heavy losses OF
sheep.
Mckinley memorial day was quite
generally observed in all parts of the
United States, on September "A, the
anniversary of the death of President
Mckinley stf
A gas and powder explosion occurred
in the Big Four mine at Norfolk, W.
Va, and IS mep were imprisoned in
the mine, with scarcely chance OF
leaFing it alive.