Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-08-28
wichIts Grain.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

of Berlin, Prussia.
The remains of Charles Fair and Mrs.
Fair were still held in Paris on the
25th.
Two hundred car men struck unex.
pectedly in the Union Pacific shops at
Omaha.
All classes of compositors in Topeka
have asked for 80 per cent raise in
wages
A cloudburst near Let's, Ia, caused
a wreck on the Rock Island. No one
was killed.
Sunday, Aug. IS, was the hottest OF
the year in central west; and especially
SO in Nebraska.
Pueblo has had a $4,000 fire. L.
Florman lost $500 in fine pictures,
paints and wall paper.
Fire destroyed Parsons college at
Fairfield, Iowa. 1t was Presbyterian
institution, founded 1875.
The Santa Fe has commenced build.
ing new car shops at La Junta. They
are 100 by "a feet with carpenter
shop at the east end.
Chicago has not more than 5O,0
tons of anthracite on hand at season
when the city usually has 800, 900 TONS
1t is now selling at so and SO ton.
DIR. Cramer, Lutheran pastor at EN-
poria, has accepted the presidency of
Sturgis. college at Sturgis, Kentucky.
He will also be president of the Lake.
side, Ohio, Chautauqua.
The United Association of Plumbers
and Gas Filters, at their convention at
Omaha, appropriated $4,000 for the
locked out union at Dayton, Ohio, to
help them maintain cooperative
shop.
A forest fire of immense proportions
is burning on the western slope of the
Greenhorn mountains, 80 miles from
Walsonburg, Col. Later: The fires
have been extinguished by heavy
rains.
The convention of the Metal Polish
ers, Buffers, Platers, Brass Moulders
and Brass Workers Union of North
America tabled, after some debate, a
resolution boycotting the militia or
ganization.
Secretary Sherman in 1879 had pub
lie money deposited in banks amount
ing to s279, 900, 900. Now the treasury
has deposits of SIPS, DOC, 900 in 500
banks. This is the largest amount
since Sherman's day.
About 1000 foreign delegates, repre-
senting 81 nations, are at Christiana,
Norway, to attend the Y. M. C. A.
Worlds congress. There are 3s official
representatives from the United States.
A hospital for the treatment of
emergency cases will be established on
the grounds of each of the twenty-five
company.
Pennsylvania is one of the few states
without a statute prohibiting on officer
of the state from accepting federal
appointment.
The Shah of Persia is in London.
He gave state luncheon which cost
SIS, 900.
General Franz Sigel died at home
New York at the age of 7s years.
Many Kansans served with him in the
civil war.
Good rains have fallen in West India
which removes the immediate fear of
famine. The central provinces have
also been benefited.
The Russian government, it is said,
has lost 81 ,25o,oo on its steamship SER
vice, started couple of years ago.
General De Wet, in conversation
has confirmed the statement that he
and his companions will visit the
United States before returning to
South Africa.
The International Typographical
Union, at its 4sth convention, gave
So, 900 to President Mitchell of the
United Mine Workers Union.
1t is,estimated that use of oil on en-
gines on the Southern Pacific save 5000
month on each engine. The saving
is in using cheaper fuel and in the
wages of coal handlers and trains.
Southeastern Iowa has had another
series of electrical and wind storms.
The Japanese minister at Washing
ton says Japan has no thought of
claiming sovereignty over Marcus is
land.
The supreme lodge of Knights of
Pythias by vote of 90 to 30, dropped
the plan for a sauitarium at Hot
Springs, Ark.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, suffered very
heavy damage by wash outs of street
railway tracks, bridges and sidewalks
and flooding Easements
Anthracite is sold in Indianapolis at
50 a ton.
Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria.
was 70 years old on August 10.
Kansas City, Kansas, according to a
census report, is, next to Chicago, the
largest packing center in the United
States
United States Minister John G.. A.
Leishman has informed the Turkish
government tina. he will not discuss
further subjects with it till it has set
tied those agreements with American
interests.