Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-04-03
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


eral Wood may succeed General Miles
at the head of the army.
A building in Kansas City occupied
by the National Paper Box company
is burned, at loss of 100000.
Most Rev. Charles Eyre, Roman
Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow, and
delegate apostolic for Scotland, is dead,
age IS years.
A recent census of Berlin gives the
population at 1901, 567. The increase
for the year was 1O,Os6 less than for
the preceding year.
An illicit distillery, with capacity
of 300 gallons day, has been discov-
cred in the heart of New York city.
The distiller is in custody.
The Santa Fe round house and re-
pair house at Beaumont, Texas, are
burned and six locomotives damaged,
and two of them will probably be o
total loss.
A company composed entirely of shop
girls of Kansas City has incorporated,
for the purpose of the manufacture of
overalls. The capital stock is all held
by the girl members.
The Mexican ambassador to this
country says that there is not and
never has been a lottery in the Mexican
state of San Luis Potosi: that the ad-
vertisers sell spurious tickets and pub
lish false lists of prizes.
Many towns in southern Mississippi
were cut off from the outside world for
days last week by high water. At one
place a fast freight train was six feet
under waite. and boats were sent to
take off the crew. The current was
! terrific and some of the boats were not
heard from at last accounts.
Speaker Henderson is to have oppo-
sition in case he is candidate for re-
election to congress from his Iowa dis
trict. State Senator o. b. Cartwright
will try issues with Henderson upon
charges becoming quite general in Iowa
that Henderson does not vote in con-
gross as he talked and wrote in his
last campaign.
There is a buzzing among the ladies
| of the households of the members of
the cabinet over the statements that
Secretary Roots wife has private
secretary who draws her pay rs u
clerk for her husband. while other
cabinet members pay for the services
of private secretaries when such are
employed by their wives.
The Missouri and Kansas telephone
company is putting in switchboard
in their office which is $50 feet long and
will occupy the whole of the fourth
floor of their building which is 30 by
$50 feet. At least i25 operators can
work at it.
President Roosevelt is to deliver the
memorial address at National cemetery
at Arlington on May 80.
A member of the house of delegates
of the city of st. Louis has been con-
victed of bribery in connection with
the franchise of a street railway.
Archbishop Corrigan has written a
letter authorizing pilgrimage from
the diocese of New York to Rome in
honor of the pope's silver jubilee. The
first section of the pilgrimage will
leave for Rome on July /, aud will re-
turn on August 81.
The commissioner of Indian affairs
states that after the May letting of con-
tracts for Indian supplies the policy OF
having the schedule bids opened at diff
| ferent localities will be changed and
thereafter they will be opened in
Washington and nowhere else.
The United States court at Tallahas.
J see. Florida, has convicted a turpentine
| operator of unlawfully restraining ne
groes from their liberty and forcing
them to work This is the first time
that a federal court has ever attempted
to enforce the statutes against peon'
age.
| A steamer loaded with Beaumont
Texas, oil to northern city. was
burned on the coast of North Carolina
The discoveries of the wreck found in
dicatlons that the crew of the burned
steamer had been rescued.
Spain is cultivating most friendly re
| lations with the United States, being
influenced to that end in the interest
of the many Spaniards in Porto RicC
and the Philippines.
After 81 fatal cases of cholera were
reported at Manila japan has declared
quarantine against Manila. NJ
white persons have had the cholera a
yet.
John Purcell, master mechanic of thu
Chicago division of the Santa Fe, ha
been promoted to the position of super
intendent of the Topeka shops.
Gov. Gen. Wood of Cuba and Presi
dent elect Palma of Cuba held con
ference with President Roosevelt t.
arrange for the transfer of the govern
ment of Cuba to the newly elected off
Gals
There is still possibility that tn
St Louis exposition will be postpone'
until 1908.
General Funston went from Wash
ington to spend day or two with hi
parents in Kansas; from there he goe
L r.l . g 20
+, to his new command in Denver.