Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-06-12
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to San Francisco this week.
1t is said that no railroad round
house has lightning rods and that no
railroad man believes in them.
Alphonso, the young King of Spain,
has expressed his desire that horse
racing may replace bull fights in his
kingdom.
Two villages have been destroyed in
Bolivia, and rs persons killed by tho
eruption of a volcano in the territory
of Chico.
| Austria has awarded a contract to an
American manufacturer of type writer's
to supply all government offices in the
entire empire.
There are 5000 idle men in Denver,
COL, and all building operations are
stopped. All employed in building
trades struck.
General Christian De Wet urges the
burghers to do their utmost to show
Great Britain what good colonists the
Beers can make.
Twenty of the largest planning mills
in Chicago have been united in a new
corporation called the American Sash
and Door Company.
The Western Labor Union conven-
ton at Denver endorsed the socialist
platform, and urged Union Labor men
to support that party.
A large planning mill and car equip
ment shop in a: Chicago suburb is
burned with loss of 81, 900, 900. There
were l, 100 men left unemployed.
White Redoubt, Mount Aliani and
Mount Augustine in Cook inlet, Alaska,
have been throwing off smoke and
steam for the past seven months. Re-
doubt threw out sprinkling of
ashes.
The American Steel and Wire COM
pany, it is said, has secured title to
100 acres of land at Beaumont, Texas,
near the Burt refinery and intends to
erect SIS, 900, 900 factory on the site at
an early day. 1t is expected that the
factory will employ at least 5000 PEG.
pie.
A department store firm of Sioux
City. Ia, has been indicted by the
federal grand jury for alleged viola
tions of the postal regulation in con-
Quoting the giving away of Sc, 900 in
prizes to the holders of lucky
numbers on tickets given with pur-
chases.
Central Iowa is deluged and high
ways, railroad tracks, some buildings
and growing crops were damaged.
Corn was washed out in many places.
The steeple of the Baptist church at
Webster City was split from top to
bottom by lightning. At Clarinda SPA
inches of rain fell in three hours; Des
Moines got 3.14 inches.
Edouard Renau de st. Michael, who
was one of the wealthiest men in st.
Pierre, has arrived with his family in
New York, penniless but happy, hay
ing been saved by the merest accident.
The Choctaw lines were merged with
the Rock Island on June l. Where
each had offices they are consolidated.
The Rock Island operates the Choctaw
lines as part of the Rock Island sys-
TEN, yet each line is operated sepa-
rately, but by Rock Island officials.
The U. S. battleship Hartford, for
merly Farragut's fiarship, is anchored
at Mobile, the scene of her former
victory.
John Henry Barrows, president of
oberlin college, is dead from pleuro-
pneumonia at the age of As.
R. ]. C. Rohm, for fifty years pastor
of the First Evangelical Lutheran
church of Galveston, is dead from
stroke of paralysis, aged 80 years.
Michecotie, Mich, has been sub
merged, and the people were COM
PEELED to leave their houses. Several
] bridges were carried away and the
dam is destroyed.
Famine in Corea is causing great
distress and many deaths. People strip
trees of bark and eat it. The governor
of one province reports Al, 1853 persons
on the verge of starvation.
Henry Cole, a real estate man OF
Denver, will turn over property
valued at over $3.50, 900 to the Metho-
dist church of Denver. The interest
of the fund is to be divided; so per cent
for evangelical work, 25 per cent for
buildings and improvements and 25
per cent for charities
Acting President Steyn, of the Trans
vaal, has paralysis He gave his
parole. s-f-fr
General Funston is recovering with
fairly good rapidity from the malarial
fever.
Burlington, Iowa, had the heaviest
rain for years on June 1.
The Santa Fe is now shipping 10000
tons of coal from Trinidad to be stored
at Dodge City.
The Frisco has followed the lead Of
the Santa Fe and has appointed an in
dustrial commissioner to look after the
development of industries along its
lines.
When Governor Taft of the Philip
pines arrived at Rome the other day
L he had tonsilitis and his rneetipo rvifl,