Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-07-03
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


%, eight deaths from heat and 10 pros
trations.
Six deaths and nineteen prostrations
from heat occurred in Kansas City on
July "a.
Politics in Hawaii now centers on
the proposition to annex the islands to
California.
The strike of the steel workers has
raised the price of the plate from 20 to
80 per cent.
A heavy general rain fell in the Mis-
sissippi valley in Minnesota and re-
lieved the heated spell
The Orient grading gang which has
been at work in Emporia is now at
work in Chase county.
During heavy rainstorm at Chilli
damaged by lightning.
The heat on Saturday, July 90, beat
the record in nearly all the states ex-
cept on the Pacific coast.
Fruit and produce dealers of Phiis-
delphia receive many orders from sec
tions of the middle west.
A big dry goods store in Sioux City,
Iowa, was burned by a fire started by
the sun in a show window. There
were several people injured.
In the U. s. court at Omaha the city
of Beatrice is held for the payment Of
bonds which were issued in excess of
the statutory percentage limit.
The striking machinists and car
builders of railroad shops in New Jer-
sey want to return to work in body
but are told that they must apply as
individuals.
The appellate division of the New
York supreme court declares the law
invalid which forbids parties other
than authorized agents to buy and sell
railroad tickets.
A water spout at Cisco, Texas,
washed away ten miles OF the Texas
Central railroad. An engine went
through bridge and engineer Thos.
Beene was killed.
London streets were flooded by rain
and hail with incessant lightning. The
water entered buildings over sidewalks
and the underground railroad trains
were stopped by water.
The Chicago and Alton has been I'M
able to secure sufficient water for its
engines and much freight has accumu-
lated in it's yards.
A Tennessee friend of Pension COM
missioner Evans says that Evans would
be glad to give up his Office but will
not leave it in the face of the fight be-
ing made against him.
Ottawa university is to have a new
SIS, 900 building to contain chapel
room, four recitation rooms and three
society halls. This is in addition to
the new college building.
In st. Louis there was reported 40
deaths and rs prostrations from heat
during the "a hours ending at IL p. m.
of July "a.
An Egyptian boat, supposed to be
a, 500 years old, was dug out of the
bottom of the Nile and shipped by ex-
press to New York, whence it went by
rail to the Carnegie institute at Pitts
burg. 1t is about 20 feet long.
Secretary of State Caleb Powers, of
Kentucky, will have a new trial by
order of the court of appeals The
trial will probably occur in October.
RiceviIle, Iowa, has been practically
wiped out by fire.
Pettis county. Benton county and
the cities of Carrollton and Kansas
City, Mo, report good rains on Mon
day, July %. On Sunday all Missouri
observed the governors proclamation
to pray for rain.
General Jacob S. Coxey, apostle OF
labor, is at the head of a new steel
corporation, being the chief stockhold-
er of plant just starting at Mount
Vernon, Ohio. He says he supposes he
will have trouble with the unions.
Col John S. Mosby, the Confederate
leader, has been appointed special
agent of the federal land Office, and
will be assigned to duty in Nebraska.
Farmers of Andrew county, Mo-, met
ifimass meeting at Savannah to ar
range for the planting of 90 day corn
and COW peas to supply winter for
age. .
The British government has decided
not to release any of the Americans
who were captured while serving with
the Beers except in cases of prisoners
who are sick.
Chas. A. Spring, Jr., who was man.
ager of the Mccormick Harvester COM
pany, is dead at the age of rs years.
He is the man who kept his fortune
down to $3.50, 900 by systematically ex-
pending all over that amount in phil
anthropy.
New York now has two banks hav-
ing $40, 1000, 900 each of capital, with az
much more of surplus. They are the
National City bank and the National
Bank of Commerce; the two banks
with the largest capital in the United
States