Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-09-04
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

for the evacuation of Manchuria
The Santa Fee recently took 44o cars
of cattle into Chicago in one night.
WI Ting Fang will remain as am
bassador at Washington indefinitely.
President Diaz, of Mexico, during
his European trip will visit the Kaiser.
A sugar refining company, with Claus
A. i5preclkels at it's head, is to be estab-
lished at Montreal
New York declines the invitation to
send state troops to Fort Riley because
of the lack of available funds.
Judge Albert H. Horton has steadily
imdroved since he w as over the fatigue
of his journey home to Topeka.
Fire of incendiary origin destroyed
twenty business houses in Livingstone,
Texas, causing loss of $780, 1000.
All tobacco interests are to hold a
meeting In London September II, in
an effort to curb fierce rate wars.
Porto Rico bought of the United
States in 1897, 81, 9ss, sss and in 1902,
$40, 719, 444 worth of merchandise.
VIM. c. Cooper died at Mount Yer
non, Ohio, on August 90, aged II. He
was member of congress from 1884 to
1894
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr,, has gone
on hunting trip, with a party Of rail-
road officialE, in South Dakota and the
Black Hills.
Prince Nicholas, third son OF King
George, of Greece, is to marrv Grand
Duchess Helen, daughter of an nrcle
of the czarof Russia.
Representative Degraffeneid of Texas
died in Washington. During vomit-
ing spell a blood vessel burst in his
brain, causing instant death. He had
been suffering from a bilious attack.
The Prussian railroad administra-
ton has reduced freight rates on ex-
ports of iron, including wire, locomo-
tives, cars, cranes and pig iron. This
action was taken in response to an ap-
peal from the western manufacturers
General Samuel L. Casey is dead at
st. Joseph, Mo. He was Kentucky
congressman during the civil war and
was sent by President Lincoln to the
south upon several confidential mis-
sions General Casey was 81 years old
Attorney General Knox has gone to
Paris ''for the purpose of obtaining u
clear title TO the property of the Pana-
ma Canal company" said Mr.. Knox.
81 shall also investigate the treaty be-
tween the Panama Canal company and
the Colombian government, which is
to be transferred to us. 1 have no
doubt that everything will go through
all right"
Peter S. Hoe, 81 years of age, the
last surviving member of original
manufacturers of the printing press, is
dead
Telephone linemen of New Orleans
went out on strike and ut once COM
mCASCo VCobAOyAhS hhC COiApdHyS
wires
In 1897 the Philippines bought mcr-
chandise of the United States to the
value of s94,5 In 1902 the amount
was SIS, 261. 1907.
Frank Yenawine, manager of the
District Messenger Company. will try
rr;r1c /, G rpoecapoarc II, 81 TocaYb NJ
He thinks girls will waste no time in
reading dime novels, playing marbles
and watching dog fights.
A special train took 253 insane peo-
pie from the state hospital at Clarinda,
Iowa, to the new hospital at Cherokee
With few exceptions they were order
ly and quiet.
The Katy dining hall and union
depot of the Choctaw at South McAies-
ter, Indian Territory, are entirely de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is $40, OoO
President Roosevelt is touring New
England. His speech at Boston on
corporations should be read by every
citizen. that they may know where to
find the president on that question.
The Kansas City-St. Louis line of the
Rock Island system will be in opera
ton within a year. The Kansas Pa
cific is to be supplied with a double
track between Kansas City and Topeka
to be used by both that road and the
Rock Island.
The U. S. landofice at Bonneville,
Mo-, decides that a valuable piece of
land in Kansas City, which is occupied
by brewery and other interests, be-
longs to the United States 1t is claimed
by a man no made settlement upon
it in 1883, when it was an island.
A cloudburst did thousands of dollars
of damage at Pana, Illinois. The Cath
Ole church lost its steeple; hotels and
a business block were unroofed, and
the Y. II. C. A. building was almost
demolished.
Sailors report line of active volca-
noes on the Pacific coast of Guatemala
and that the town of Champerico has
been abandoned on account of an
earthquake.
The Hudson City n. Y, silk strikers
returned to work at the same hours
and wages They struck June 20.