Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-01-16
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Gasoline engines for the cars tor
pedo boat fleet have been ordered from
Michigan firm.
Mrs. Rebecca Church, the woman
who owned the first piano in Chicago,
died the other day.
On one recent day wheat sold on the
Kansas City market three cents higher
than in Chicago.
Defective electric wiring caused the
burning of the hospital for the insane
at Williamsburg, Va.
There are 1875 Mormon missionaries
working in Germany, who have Sc
cured . 1000 followers.
The British war office has issued a
call for 1896 more infantry volun teers
to go to South Africa.
The safe in the postoffice at Green's
burg, Ind, was blown open and $1,7Oo
worth of postage stamps stolen.
A Hawaiian prince has gone to Wash
ington to ask President Roosevelt to
give him the crown lands of Hawaii.
Admiral Schley received re ception
at Savannah, Ga. equaled by but few
ever given public man in any southern
| city.
Ketchum, tae owner of Cresceus, says
he has received more han $4,000 in
purses and for exhibitions by Cresceus
during the season.
The Mississippi senate passed a joint
resolution declaring that no text book
shall be used that gives to any other
than Admiral Schley credit for the VIC
tory at Santiago.
The agricultural department esti-
mates the average yield of wheat per
acre in the United States in 1901 at
14.s bushels. The mean average of this
| past ten years is 1873 bushels.
The removal of the Liberal govern
ment of Saragossa caused an anti-Cleri-
cal riot. The people set fire to 4 Jesuit
monastery and We're fred upon by the
troops. Many rioters were wounded.
| The census bureau announces tho
population of the United States, inc,n-
ding all outlying possessions, to be So.
233, O69, in the census year 1900. In this
the Philippines are counted at 1000.
| 900.
1t is reported that five Central Amc~-
lean presidents will have a meeting n
Nicaragua regarding Isthmian canal
affairs.
The amount of German exports to tic
United States in 1901 was more than
three and a half million dollars less
than in 1900, due entirely to the reduc-
ton of the export of sugar.
DR.. Charles Harbodt, one of the most
widely known chemists and metallur-
gists in the republic of Mexico, is dead.
He was formerly connected with big
smelling plant at Argentine, Kansas.
There are but three countries which
now have population greater than the
United States, viz: China, the British
empire and the Russian empire.
President Roosevelt will recommend
that congress place cases of violated
treaties and to the detriment of for
eigners under jurisdiction of federal
| courts.
An endowment of 81, 900, 900 has been
given by Mr.. and Mrs. Harold McCor-
mick, of Chicago, to found a medical
institution. 1t is given as memorial
| IN tbai, dacao cod CON
General Botha has sent a note to all
Boer commanders requesting them to
keep on fighting, for the British parlia-
ment is to be asked for another war
vote, which will induce the British ma
ton to demand that the war in South
Africa be stopped.
The labor unions of Racine, Wiscon-
sin, ask the city council to reject Mr..
Carnegie's offer of $500 for public
library building, because it will com
memorate the memory of the man who
was the cause of labor troubles at
Homestead, Pa, long ago.
The department of Agriculture scnt
A. bushels of wheat to one man IL
Texas by mail, and it had to go -
star route long distance.
In the rivalry for the organization of
the Ohio legislature the Foraker wing
OF the republicans organized the sem
ate and the Hanna wing organized the
lower house.
Governor Hunt, of Porto Rico wiz
ask the Porto Rican legislature to re-
peal the old Spanish law which forb.57
peaceable organization for the purpe.s
of increasing the profits of labor.
Henry C. Tatum, secretary and tres:
urer of the Western Commercial Trav-
elers' Association, was found dead in
bed at his residence in ST. Louis
Death is supposed to have resulted
from poison.
The headquarters, staff and band,
and the Third battalion of the Eleventh
cavalry from FIT. Myer, Va, and the
Second battalion of the Twenty-sev-
enth infantry, from PIattsburg Bar
tracks, y. Y. have been ordered to
New York City, for transportation to
the Philippines ON about Jan. 81.