Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-07-17
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

ported to be short.
The Michigan peach crop is said to
be very heavy.
revolution is Matching against the
government of Nicaragua.
Valleys through the mountains of
Colorado have foot of SNOW.
The customs receipts for Cuba for
the month of June amounted to ST., esq.,
252.
The rainfall at Kansas City during
the first eight days of July was 7.2
inches.
Cholera is Speeding In some parts of
China and the mortality rate is very
great.
Damage to the fisheries by the storm
along Newfoundland is estimated at
100000
Five hundred telephones were burned
out by an electric storm in Kansas City
in one afternoon.
Two Filipino generals have been
sentenced to Imprisonment for treason,
of which they were convicted.
Jacob Burkhart was killed by a tor
nado near Oxford, Iowa. He was
caught by the collapse of barn.
Margaret Haley. of Chicago, was
made president of the National FEEDER
alton of teachers, at Minneapolis.
II MiniStar 70 Hou%; oil
quiet there, the new government in
San Domingo having been recognized.
The Mississippi congress is to
meet in st. Paul, MIMI, on August 10,
to discuss matters of interest to the
West.
The statement of the London board
of trade for June shows decreases of
81, O45, 900 in imports and el19, 900 in
exports.
The floods compelled the Rock Island
trains to go over the Burlington's
tracks between Denver and Lincoln,
Nebraska.
The Union Pacific is slowly import
ing non-union machinists for its Chey-
enne shops and now claims to have 275
men at work.
A submarine earthquake and a giant
geyser, on the Pacific coast off Tehu-
antepec, throws a big column of water
fifty feet in the air.
William Clark, the thread manufac.
turer, died on July : in England.
His thread factory in New Jersey is
the largest in the world.
The exports of Germany, except
Dresden, to the United States foy the
fiscal year amounted to 500, 323, 141,
an increase of 81 ISL, 621.
Lloyd Giesan, U. S. Minister to Per-
STA, and his wife have taken Zoo
mile horseback ride through the CEN
trail and west central portions of Per.
STA to secure commercial pointers for
the extension of American trade.
Engineers of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad refuse to haul coal pend
ing the settlement of the miners
strike.
The heaviest rainfall in years flooded
central Iowa on July and many miles
of railway were washed out. All OF
the great through lines suffered losses.
The village of Bear Creek, Wis, has
been destroyed by fire. A dozen stores
the postoffice, the railroad depot and a
lumber mill were burned.
Orders have been sent to Samoa tc
close the purchase of a site for yards
and docks as provided for in the naval
act
The spread of cholera in the Philip.
pines has slightly decreased, possibly
on account of the rain. The totals
since the outbreak are: Manila, 2,1Sl
cases and LIS deaths; provinces, r.,
476 cases and 9, 1857 deaths.
Secretary Shaw of the treasury de
partment has decided to weed out
assistants and heads of bureaus who
have held their places four or five
years. The dispatch leaves doubt a.
to whether his new system is to extend
to clerks.
Judge Hook, of the U. S. district
court, has decided case involving the
right of bucket shops to use quotation.
of the Chicago board of trade, the de
cision being against the bucket shops
Supreme court.
1t has been decided by the New Yorl
Conrt of Appeals that person whose
likeness is used for advertising pur
poses, without his consent, has nc
remedy in law.
For the first time infection among
cattle has been detected among cattle
in New Mexico and several counties in
the southern part have been quaran.
tined.
Extreme heat is reported from the
north and central provinces of Italy
There were four deaths from sunstroks
at Milan in one day.
The Berlin consulate reports show
that the exports to the United States
for the past quarter were S1,952, $50
an increase of 1924, 424. For the fscal
year the exports were ss,as4, GOT, an
increase of 81, 619,O15-
The mine operators of Michigan have
sent an ultimatum to their men to re.
turn to work at the terms offered, by
July 12.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany has been notified TO remove their