Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-06-05
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

ters by July 1.
The Santa Fe R. R. is to build new
hotel at Trinidad for the use of the
dining system.
France on May IS started trans.
port with 10000 rations for the Mar
Unique survivors.
The Kentucky board of health de.
clared quarantine against Indiana,
on account of smallpox.
An inch of snow fell on May 2s al
points in the Alleghenies- Gardens
and crops were damaged
Five hundred damasl1 weavers went
on strike at Philadelphia, for higher
wages, closing a number of mills.
The New York cotton exchange has
blacklisted all persons and firms who
conduct or represent bucket shops.
Snow fell throughout the northern
part of the Adirondacks on May 90.
The mercury at Malone, N Y, dropped
to 80.
Cruz. In one party of 100 W, )rlxing on
port works 10 were stricken. in a week,
10 dying.
The safe of the Colorado Telephone
company in the Denver office has been
looted of 81, 200. A trusted employee of
the office is missing.
Rochester was the coolest city in the
United States, as reported by the
weather bureau on May 20. The low
est temperature was SO degrees.
The Western federation of miners,
in session at Denver, appropriated
So, 900 for the families of miners killed
by the explosion at Fernie, B. c.
New York city went crazy wild over
Count de Rochambeau and the other
Frenchmen when they caree to dedicate
the statue at Washington of the revo-
lutionary Count de Rocha mbeau.
Twenty-seven volunteer soldiers,
now serving sentences, have been or.
derded discharged; as result of the
court decision that it is not legal for
court martial com posed of regulars to
try volunteer.
George R. Smith formerly general
master mechanic of the Santa Fe coast
lines, has secured a similar position
with the Illinois Central railroad and
left Topeka to go to Waterloo, Iowa,
where his will have his headquarters.
Fourteen thousand Norwegians came
to the United States in 1901 and it is
estimated that the number to come in
1902 will reach 80, 900.
Generals Corbin, Young and Wood
have been formally invited by Emperor
William to attend, as his personal
guests, the annual military maneuvers
next fall.
An extraditiDn treaty with Chill has
been ratified. 1t has taken several
years to bring this about and there are
many defaulters and embezzlers from
the United States in Chilli.
The United States commission has
made English the, official language of
the courts, customs service and court
of appeals in the Philippines.
The Southern Pacific r. R. has made
arrangements to place California cam
teloupes in the eastern market in
competition with the Rocky Ford
melons.
A whole battalion of Turkish troops
has been annihilatcd by rebels near
the seaport of Mocha, in the Turkish
village of Yemen, i'll the southwestern
part of Arabia.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has fully
recovered from his attack of pneu-
monia and left for Croton, Mass,
where he will resume his studies.
Members of the military and fortif-
cations committtees of congress and
some other members of both branches
of congress visited Fort Washington,
one of the defenses of the national
capital, to witness test of the disap-
pearing gun carriage. This is the first
time that the Notifications about Wash
ington have ever been visited by civil
ians.
A delegation of Creek Indians called
on the president to urge forward the
time when they may occupy and have
title to their allotments.
The Guatemalan authorities decided
to reconstruct the city of Queseltane-
nago on plain some distance from the
site of the city when destroyed by an
earthquake.
President Roosevelt told a party of
senators who called on him that he
would sign the Indian appropriation |
bill as his objections t. it had been
met by special legislation.
After July 3 the Frisco road will as
sumo the management of the Crescent, ]
the largest hotel at Eureka Springs,
Arkansas.
Anthracite coal is now selling at |
retail for delivery in the city of New |
York at s.. so ton. This is a push |
up of s1.25.
The feeling which has existed be-
tween the freshmen and sophomore |
classes of the University of Vermont |
eliminated in the drowning of Nelson I
Pease, 10 years old, of Burlington, Vt,
treasurer of the Freshman class. ]