Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-04-17
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

President Mount Stephen of the Cam
adam Pacific has given f55, 900 to the
Royal infrmary at Aberdeen.
Frank Sargent, president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
is to succeed 7. v. Powderly as COM
missioner general of immigration.
1t is stated that Charles Goodnough,
general superintendent of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul, will become
general manager of the c. R. I. & P
Cuba asks that this government con-
tinue the existing postal arrangements
and the present postal officials until
the Cuban appointees have become
familiar with their duties
Headed by the Right Rev Charles E.
Mcdonnell, Roman Catholic bishop of
Brooklyn, forty-nine clergymen and
missionaries left New York on pill
grimage to Rome on the steamship
Ligurie
In battle between a sheriff's posse
and outlaws in Scott county Va, five
were killed, two other possemen were
wounded and Jim Wright, an escaped
Hancock county, Tenn, murderer, shot
and captured.
A Wisconsin syndicate has purchased
twenty thousand acres of redwood
timber land in Southeast Oregon for a
consideration of nearly one million
dollars. The land sold includes the
harbor of Ghetto.
The appellate division of the supreme
court of New York has affirmed the
conviction of Johann Most on a charge
of printing in his newspaper. the Ere
heit, an improper article entitled,
Murder VS.. Murder
The largest quarterly receipts in the
history of the postal service are record
ed for the the three months ended jan
uary 1 last. The receipts were sac
OO5, GEL, expenditures, $40, 947,13 ex-
cess of receipts over expenditures, ST.
O5s, 400.
officers and soldiers of the United
States army stationed in Cuba have
been notified that on the withdrawal
of the army from Cuba they will be at
liberty to bring to the United States
their household goods and personal eff
feets without payment ofduties. They
are not, however, at liberty to bring
articles of dutiable character
The Rev. L. Dewitt Talmage is a
very sick man. He came to his Wash
ington home some time since in seri-
Gus condition and does not rally.
The United Mine Workers of Michi-
gan were called out on general strike
beginning on April l, on account of
the operators and miners disagreeing
on a wage scale.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railway the board of directors
were reelected, and they in turn re-
elected the old officers.
The U. S. supreme court refuses the
motion to dismiss the case of Admiral
Sampson, in which he sues to recover
prize monies for the Maria Theresa.
The rumored resignation of Chief
Justice A. NJ. Kelly of the international
court at Cairo, Egypt, is confirmed.
The vacancy is to be filled by Pres;-
dent Roosevelt.
Rear Admiral Norman II. Farquhar
was retired on April 10. This retire
ment promotes Captains Joseph Is.
Coghland and James Hoban Sands &c
be rear admirals.
Henry Wagner, of Salina, Kansas,
who has been appointed internal rev.
enue collector at Denver, is the MAJ
who gave "Bill Nye" his start in life.
Grain has become SO scarce for ex-
port at Boston that the trans Atlantic
steamers now leaving have been obliged
to take out coal and water as bal
last.
The supreme court of Colorado de-
cides that the Postal Telegraph Com
pany may construct lines along the
light of way of the Union Pacific rail-
poad-
The Jury system in police courts in
Cuba has been abolished, as it had
proved failure.
DR.. w. R. Middleton, surgeon in
chief of the Rock Island railroad sys-
tenn, and dean of the medical depart
ment of Iowa University, died on April
5, of blood poison contracted during an
operation.
Major Pond has closed a contract
with Miss Helen NJ Stone, the mis-
sionary, for series of 100 lectures to
be given in the principal cities of the
United States.
The postoffice department is consid-
ering the placing of the head of some
woman on one of the postage stamps
A new idea.
James Whitfield. president of the
Western baseball league, and sporting
editor of the Kansas City Star, is dead
by his own hand.
Casper Kruger, the eldest son OF
President Kruger, and twenty-four
other relatives of Mr.. Kruger, bearing
the same family name are among those
who have recently taken the cath of
allegiance to Great Britain.