Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-08-07
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


Japan is to supply its army with new
modern rifles and is selling the ole
ones to China.
The national treasury has gold il
hand equivalent to all the gold certif
Gates and half the silver certificates.
The interior department has estab
lisbed free telegraph school at Sar
Juan, Porto Rico, to teach 25 pupils,
all girls.
The Texas floods extended to the
northwestern portion of the state last
week and the Grand and Saline river:
were on rampage.
The Hawaiian attorney general rule:
that Ex-Quecn Iiliuol1alani must pay
the income tax on her annual allow
ance of 81, 500 from the territory.
Fifty more of the monster locUmg
tives which are used by the Santa Fl
between Chicago and Albuquerque are
to be equipped with electric headlights
The total circulation of nations,
bank notes on July 81, 1902, was s35s,
9s4, 1s4; the increase during July being
nearly the total of the increase for the
year.
Several collieries have commenced
putting out coal again in Pennsylvani;
and it is claimed that 95 per cent of the
men at work are United Mine Workeri
in good standing.
The state line between Utah anC
Arizona is 277 miles long and in NJ
place does it cross foot of cultivated
land. 1t traverses desert which il
cut up by impossible canyons.
The transport Buford has sailed from
Manila with 462 enlisted men of the
Eighth infantry; 143 men of the FIT
zenith infantry: 1O4 men of the Twenty
sixth infantry; 81 sick; five insane; 81
discharged soldiers.
A leading opponent of the cesssior
of the Danish West Indies, of Copen
hagen, says openly that the treaty Of
legislative body just elected, and thai
it will be completed next October.
There are At establishments in the
United States at which typewriter
and type-setting machines are manu-.
featured; using total capital OF IS, AGO..
All. The foreign busidess Of this in.
dustry in 1900 amounted to s2,607,-
544.
Nearly 1,oOo.O 900 acres of Iowa land
is planted to corn this year, of which
70 per cent has been destroyed by
floods.
In Pittsburg, Pa, fire destroyed two
eight-story buildings. Six fremen
were injured. There were other build
ings damaged and the property loss is
estimated at 100000.
The Chinese minister WI is to re-
main for some time at Washington
antil Liang Cheng has time TO go from
England to Japan for visit and re
urn to Washington.
General Frederick Funston is on the
list of those to receive medals of honor
and certificates of merit, under a gen.
eral order.
Some of the largest oil producers OF
Russia are planning a combination to
open distributing agencies in England.
This will cut down the price at which
England is now buying oil.
Charles Kerney, the deaf mute teach
err, known widely in all portions of the
United States, killed himself at Deca-
tur, Illinois, the other day. Ill health
is given as the cause.
Many of the natives are attacked
with cholera in the streets of Cairo and
die in few minutes. The epidemic is
virulent.
The trustees of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, south, have decided to
raise SIS, 900, 900 endowment fund the
interest of which is to go to superan-
mated ministers, widows, and or
phans.
The continued bad weather threat
ems to ruin the Portuguese vintage
and the vines have been seriouly at
tackled by mildew.
The increase of typhoid fever around
Colorado Springs and Manitou has
caused scattering of both tourists and
residents.
All of the Filipino prisoners held in
the island of Guam who take the oath
of allegiance to the United States will
be returned on transports to the Phil
ippine islands.
Grasshoppers are stripping every
thing green at La Junta, Colorado.
They eat peaches on the trees, leaving
the stones on the stems. Alfalfa was
cut when two-thirds grown to save it.
The Gtest statistics show that the
Socialist press of Germany numbers
14O publications. of which ffty-two
are dailies.
The Scandinavian emigrants leaving
Copenhagen during nine months end
ing with March, 1902, were; From
Dennark, $3.50; sweden 1900; Nor
way. s.o49.
Latest reports give the loss of wheat
about Larimer, N. D., by the hail
storm at 10000 acres of total loss, while
much more will show . loss Of ONE
quarter to oue-bslf.