Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-03-27
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

near Lexington, is burned.
The Nebraska State board of health
reports s64 cases of smallpox in the
state.
The price of zinc ore has advanced to
S34 ton, and the producers are over
joyed.
General Funston assumes command
of the department of Colorado, on
March %.
Colorado will vote next fall on a con-
stitutional amendment for the estab-
fishing of the Australian land tax sys-
TEN.
The Chinese government has paid
S15,s70 for a site for house for it's
minister and officers of the legation,
at Washington.
Harry A Garfield, a son of President
Garfield, has declined the position of
civil service commissioner, offered him
by Mr.. Roosevelt.
The entire Kansas delegation en-
dorses j. II. Guy as candidate for
minister to Hayti. Guy is a negro
lawyer of Topeka.
The census shows that there are 707,-
26l farms i'll this country where bees
are kept, having 4,1o9, CPS swarms val
ucd at $40, ls6, 51a.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to fur
nish 100000 for free public library
building at Denver if the city will
pledge itself to provide not less than
$50, 900 year for the support of the
library.
Secretary Wilson, OF the department
of agriculture is to send 1000 bushels
of seed corn to the drought stricken
district of Missouri, also an immense
amount of garden seeds and 500 sacks
of seed cotton.
Three officials of the Vatican have
been tried on the charge of stealing
from the private funds of the pope an
aggregate of $4,000 One of them
was convicted and sentenced to eight
years Imprisonment.
The Associated Press is authorized
to say that the reports so persistently
circulated to the effect that the wife
and daughter of former Attorney GEN
eral Griggs have become Christian
Scientists are pure fiction.
Major Rosales, who recently surrend-
cred at Calbayog, says that if Lukban
had been successful in defeating the
Americans in Samar, he had intended
to constitute himself emperor and make
his minor officers princes under his au-
thority, thereby placing the island
under an absolute monarchy.
The old Lincoln farm in Indiana,
where Abraham Lincoln's mother is
buried is TO be sold for delinquent
taxes.
The supreme court Of Missouri up
holds the right of labor unions to
declare boycotts
The Indian committee of the U. S.
senate seems. determined to force the
gait of the Dawes commission. The
committee intends to attempt to fix
the limit to the time the work of the
commission must be finished on July
/, 1903.
Brig. Gen. Jacob II. Smith is to re-
turn from the Philippines to take COM
mand of the department of Texas, at
San Antonio.
The Imperial Tobacco company of
London has issued circular offering
large bonuses to its customers who
oil 70
for term of years
1t is the desire of the vatican to adj
Just church matters in the Philippines
in accordance with American views
and interests. No more Spanish bishops
will be appointed for the islands.
Max Schmahl, German sugar king,
has by will given his grandson, Otto
Schmahl, of Cincinnati, s12,oO be-
cause he was brave and loyal to his
country, in enlisting to defend Old
Glory in the war with Spain.
Laborers employed at the mines in
the Scranton, Pa, district, have a
secret organization, to compel equal
pay to the miners and to the laborers.
The miners make double as much as
the laborers, while the miners work
four hours a day and laborers work
nine hours
Great Britain, Austria and Russia
have admonished the Porte to keep
order in Macedonia and Albania.
A cattleman who intended to buy
steers while at the Fort Worth live
stock convention, was warned by Mgr.
Avery Turner of the Pecos Valley
railway that it was going to rain and
that he had better buy that day. The
cattleman delayed buying until morn
ing and it had rained all night. His
bunch of steers cost him So, 900 more
than he could have bought them for
the day before.
Givera, the insurgent leader, who
assumes to succeed General Lukbau,
who was captured by Americans, has
issued proclamation
The Iowa legislature has joint res
olution under consideration which may
result in the removal of the State
University from Iowa City to Des
Moines.
A cyclone struck Piper, Miss,
mining town, wrecixing 40 houses and
injuring IS more. The storm did
heavy damage at Garner Junction and
Belle Ellen. The mines are flooded