Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-09-11
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Sir Thomas Upton will challenge
for the Americas cup again.
1t is proposed that Manila shall
have an electric street railway.
The Colombian government is nego-
tiating for another war vessel.
A good beef steak costs A cents a
pound in Berlin. Now quit kicking.
Generals Botha, De Wet and Delarey
have gone from The Hague to London.
Marcopi claims that he has solved
the problem of simultaneous messages
without wires.
President Wiley, chief chemist of the
department of agriculture, is very i'll
at Venice, Italy.
Carupano, Venezuela has had an
earthquake shock which was heard
along the Caribbean shore.
The total visible supply of cotton is
said to be 1,3O9, 497 bales, of which
800, 497 are American cotton.
General Cronje, the Boer leader,
says he lost 20 dear relatives in the
war, yet he is ready to forgive.
On the AID anniversary of the Uni
versity of Chicago half million dol
lars of new gifts were announced.
A non-union worker at Mount Car
mel, Pa, died and the union men Sc
lected as pail bearers refused to act.
The federal penitentiary at Leaven-
worth is to have brace of fine blood
hounds to capture escaped convicts.
Violent storms CT the hurricane tive
caused great damage in the southwest
ern part of France to vineyards and
orchards.
1t is expected a commercial line of
the Marconi wireless telegraph system
will soon he in operation extending
from England to Italy.
The first installment of Chinese in
demnity funds, $4,000 will be at
once distributed among sufferers at
the hands of the Boxers.
Edward Eggleston, author of 1.-THE
Hoosier Schoolmaster" and other popu-
lar books, died at his home on Lake
George, N. Y, on September 3.
The board of trustees of the Iowa
State agricultural college have decided
to wait year before electing success
sor to the late VIM. lBeardshear. hoping
to have chance to offer the presidency
of the college to Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wilson.
The big engines used on the Santa
Fe system have increased to the extent
that the saving in fuel and in wages of
enginemen and trainmen is cut in two
on some of the divisions. The moguls
haul as much tonnage each as two of
those generally in use only one year
ago.
The fish pack of this season is said
to be 40 per cent less than usual, in
the northwest.
Alfred Jones. who laid out the town.
site of Omaha, and was the first post
master there, recently died.
Mgr. Guida, the appointed papal
delegate to the Philippines, is hasten
ing his departure to his new field of
labor
Thomas ]. Lane, who captured jeff
Davis when he was trying to escape to
England, was struck by train at
Swissvale, Pa, on Sept 5, and died
from injuries received.
The Missouri river is making good
Roadway in the work of leaving st.
Joseph and its half million dollar
steel bridge high and dry, by cutting
out the Kansas bottoms
A Texas legislative committee after
investigation, condemns in strong
language the contract system of the
management of the state penitentiary.
They say the system is disgrace to the
state; that convicts are shot dead upon
the least provocation and are worked
when sick or disabled.
A Moravian engineer threw bomb
loaded with bullets at Max Won Gut
man, an Austrian coal mine, magnate,
which exploded in such manner as
to kill the assassin instead of his in
tended victim.
President Roosevelt is receiving a
multitude of sympathetic and congrat-
ulatory messages from foreign lands.
from rulers and great men, upon his
escape from death.
The ST. Vincent volcano, the Sou
friere, was in eruption simultaneously
with Mont Pelee. Awful detonations
were heard along the southern islands
to Trinidad.
Over IS, 900, 900 worth of opium was
brought to San Francisco by Japan
csc liner. This was in the course Of
ordinary trade.
Fire of incendiary origin at Living
ston, Texas, destroying twenty bust
ness houses causing loss of s135, 900.
One firm lost $40, 900.
Sociologists are disturbed by the
vital statistics just issued, showing
marked decline in the English birth
rate which is most noticeable in fash
ionable quarters
The 35th trades union congress in
session in London will demand legisla-
ton creating supreme court of arbi-
tration with compulsory power to set
tie labor disputes