Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-10-02
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

ted States is large because of failure of
currant crop.
st. Louis citizens started a fund with
S. to defray the expenses of the
prosecution of boodling officials.
The Santa Fe is building a new via
duct 300 feet long over its tracks from
the depot to the shops at La Jnnta.
Stockholm has $50 telephones to the
LOCO inhabitants, the largest ratio in
the world. So far as known, San
Francisco is second with 7O6
The war department has issued a
circular warning officers and employees
against political assessments and par
tisan activity of officeholders
DR.. Samuel Houston, of Pennsyl-
vania, has been appointed chief medical
referee of the pension bureau to sue
coed DIR. Jacob Raub, of Pennsylvania
A tornado left desolation in its path
across the county south of Marion,
Indiana. Many fine residences were
oSoOlONSi anu OlI lOSb
thousands of dollars.
Harry Stratton, of Pasadena. Cali
fornia, has decided to contest the will
of his father, the Colorado Springs
millionaire; and by contesting forfeits
the $50, 900 left him by the will.
Sir John Gordon Sprigg, prime min
lister of the colony; announced in the
assembly that he intended to introduce
bill for the total prohibition of the
sale of liquor to natives of Cape Colony.
Three thousand Chinese carpenters
in the great dock yards at Hong Kong
struck, leaving many vessels being
built and repaired. They ask wages
raised from so and 40 cents to 65 cents
Il day.
The legislative assemblies of Bremen
and Hamburg have voted by large ma
jorities in favor of opening the frontiers
to foreign livestock. A long list of
German cities previously took the same
sction,
1t was definitely decided at the last
session of the central executive COM
mittee of the International Sunday
school convention to hold the next
worlds convention at Jerusalem in
April, 1904.
The wife and child of the wealthiest
Chinaman in the northwest, were kid
mapped at Butte, Mont, and are held
for ransom, which the lzidnappers or
dered to be placed in a canyon back in
the mountains.
The Minneapolis flour mill managers
have given their worlsingmen an eight
hour schedule with an increase in the
hourly wage. The men are told that
if this is not accepted the mills will be
closed until men arc found who are
more reasonable in their demands.
Bellamy Storer, United States min
lister to Spain, says that Admiral
Cervera is living there in obscurity
and comparative poverty. No Spanish
minister will give him a post. He re-
ceives no pay while off duty and can
get no assignment
Three hundred miners working for
the Tennessee Coal company have
the union for benefit of Pennsylvania
strikers was not held out of his pay,
after he had refused to pay it.
The earthquake in Turllestan killed
666 parsons and 1000 others were in
jured The town of Artush was COM
pletely ruined.
Chief Edward L. Croker, of the New
York fire department, is to be tried
upon the serious charges of incompe-
tcncy and dishonesty.
La Plata, Macon county, Mo-, suf-
fered a serious fire; the burned district
in the center of town lost over $50, coo
worth of property.
return of the London finances
shows that the gross liabilities March
81 were S3.s42, PIG, $50, an increase of
S313, 597, $40, due to the South African
war.
Acting on the request of the Retail
Clerks Association, ministers in all
sections of Chicago agreed to preach on
September % against the evils of Sum
day trading.
The ST. Joseph & Grand Island COM
pany proposes to build a new $780,
railroad bridge over the Missouri river
at St. Joseph, Mo.
The interstate commerce commission
is in Wichita hearing the cases brought
against the railroads, charging dis
elimination in rates on wheat to Gal
weston.
L. Terrazas, of Chihuhua, Mexico,
owns the largest cattle ranch in the
world; with 3OO, 900 cattle. During the
past year ne sold II. 900 cattle in Kan
sas City and Chicago.
The st. Joseph. Mo-, stoclsyards COM
pany HIS let contracts for new hotel
in South st. Joseph, which is to cost
$4,000
Six thousand dollars in money has
been raised in Portland, Oregon City
and Vancouver, Washington, for the
forest fire sufferers Supplies are be-
ing rushed forward to the afflicted dis
trict.,
The cable steamer Colonia laid I64
miles of the Pacific cable, out of Vic