Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-01-30
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

dent is finished and presented. 1t
covers 1919 type written pages.
Six thousand troopers from various
regiments in India are about TO start
from Calcutta for South Africa.
The official census gives Canada a
population of 1863, 666, an increase in
ten years of more than half million.
Mother Joseph founder of the Sisters
of Charity in the Northwest, died at
Vancouver, B. c., on Jan. 20 at the age
of so years.
The Fl. Wetter Manufacturing COM
pany's stove foundry at Memphis, Ten
nessee, is burned, with quarter mil
lion dollar loss.
A plantation of so acres is proposed
for the growing of henbane in Colorado,
which sells for $4,000 a pound. The
planters figure on a 50, 900, 600 crop.
A slight shock of an earthquake was
felt at St Louis on the morning of Jan.
"a. 1t was felt at some surrounding
towns and extended to Kasas City, st.
Joseph, Quincy and Leavenworth.
1t is curious fact that at the trial
of Mrs. Richardson, of Savannah, Mo-,
for killing her husband, that every
relative of the dead man are her most
most loyal defenders.
Prof. Cialek, an Austrian authority,
predicts that the United States will
conquer the economic supremacy of the
world, and will succeed in organizing
the capital of the world to create
trust thereof.
The charges made by Miss Merideth,
friend Assistant Secretary and treas
of the United Mine Workers Union,
against President John Mitchell were
not sustained by the indianapolis con-
vention of the Union.
A. Dean Cooper, treasurer of the
Graham Paper Company of st. Louis,
was killed in his bath house for his
diamonds. A negro named Strother,
who had charge of the bath house is
thought to be the guilty party.
And still there are eastern men who
have not found out that there are no
forced mortgage sales in Kansas. Off
Gals frequently receive letters from
these men asking for newspapers which
publish DEGREES for such sales.
Captain Hobson, of Santiago fame,
asked for retirement from the navy on
account of his eyes. The examining
board decided that his eyes would soon
get well.
Shipments of cattle from Texas to
Cuba are resumed. Shippers have been
heretofore handicapped by quarantine
regulations.
The Illinois Central railroad is to
have sy stem of telephones connecting
all principal stations for use of officials
and employees in transmitting orders.
John L. Sullivan, while playing the
part of Simon Legree in Uncle Toms
Cabin at the Academy of Music in Bos-
ton, whipped the man who represented
Uncle Tom until he screamed and
tainted. The old bloat was probably
drunk.
Four armed tramps took possession
of a Denver and Rio Grande freight
train and locked up the train crew in
the caboose. Pueblo officers were
ready for them and now they have
commenced serving $50 days each for
vagrancy. Then they will be prose
cuted on graver charges
Earthquakes continue in Mexico. A
number of large cities have been shaken
up, with great losses of life and prop
erty.
The records of the temperature at
Honolulu for 1901 shows the highest
recorded was SO and the lowest 81 de-
grees, while the prevailing temperature
was between 20 and so degrees.
Kaiser William has asked the people
of Berlin not to illuminate the city on
his birthday, January 81, but use the
money they would expend in that way
for helping the unemployed and needy.
The Annual report of the interstate
Commerce Commission repeats its asser-
ton in its last report that the act to
regulate commerce cannot be enforced
as it now stands The commission
points out the requisite amendments
The proposal has been made that on
February % delegation of prominent
colored men from throughout the coun'
try shall await upon President Roose-
welt and ask him to open the doors OF
West Point, Annapolis and the state
agricultural colleges to the colored
men.
The two-hundreth anniversary of the
first French colony at Mobile, Ala, is
observed on the 22nd and 23rd of this
month.
| President Roosevelt will decline all
invitations to deliver public speeches
while congress is in session, save only
at the opening of the Charleston ex.
position.
Gold has been discovered at Way
Evansville, Ohio, which an assay al
( Denver shows to have PC ounces of gold
and g ounce of silver per ton. A com
rany has been formed ~ develop it