Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-03-12
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Lodge, Montana. Stock suffered.
The Netherlands Stats General has
measure before it TO amend the con.
stitution to extend suffrage to all men
and women over 81 years of age.
The lower house of the Maine legis-
lature defeated a proposition to result
nit the .prohibitory law, now nearly
so years old, by vote of "a to 46.
1t is said that the Santa Fe has ], o64
miles of road operated by the block
system of signaling. OF this twenty
four miles is operated automatically.
United States Minister Squiers has
handed to President Palma of Cuba the
signed naval station agreement. Pres
ident Palma will ask the senate to APP
prove it.
The three 16, OOO-ton batttleships are
to be named Kansas, Vermont and
Minnesota, and the two IL, OO0-ton YES
sells, Mississippi and Idaho.
The Martin, Indiana, circuit court
imposed sentences upon &c men, on
conviction, or pleas of guilty, of selling
their votes. Fifty-six cases yet remain
to be tried
The reciprocity treaty between the
United States and Cuba, now being
considered by the senates of both re-
publics, meets with opposition in the
Cuban senate.
There are three Clarks in the U. S.
senate. The Wyoming and Montana
senators spell their names without the
final 'e," while Senator Clarke of
Arkansas has it.
Governor Taft, of the Philippines,
may be called to the Chief Justiceship
of the U. S. supreme court, as Chief
Justice Fuller desires to retire on ac-
count of poor health
The steamer Montauk, which has
sailed for Hango, England, carried the
largest cargo of oats ever taken out of
Portland, Me-, about 10000 bushels.
This cargo goes for the relief of the
starving Finlanders.
Elder Uriah Smith, for SIS years con-
tinuously the editor of the Adventist
Review and Herald, and an author
who is known all over the world among
that denomination, died suddenly at
his home in Battle Creek, Mich.
The number of bills introduced DUR
ing the Fifty-seventh congress aggre-
gated 1880, of which 3,91S were
reported and more than 1000 passed.
The house calendar is clearer at the
close of this session than ever before.
Owners of property along the west
bank of the Chicago river, between
Madison aud Randolph streets, have
been awarded total of S697, ESQ., SO
damages by a jury for the condemna-
ton of their property by the sanitary
district.
The revolutionary movement in South
China is growing more serious. Pill
laying of towns is frequent occur
renee.
A light earthquake has been felt
recently in the Island of Dominica,
British West Indies
J. P. Morgan gave dinner, while in
Havana, to Minister Squiers. few
prominent Cubans were among the
guests.
Business is suspended and schools
are closed in Morristown, n. Y, on
the ST. Lawrence, on account of an
epidemic of diphtheria.
A Berlin paper (organ of the butch
ers) asserts that the London branch of
the American packers trust is making
great efforts TO acquire oleomargarine
factories in Germany and Holland, in
tending to form trust out of them.
The pension department has 1855
male employees and only $50 women, of
whom 20 are charwomen. The reduc-
ton of the female clerks and stenog-
raphers was made under Commissioner
Evans.
Colima Mexico disputes the published
statement that there was panic there
at the time of the recent eruption of
the volcano, which is said to have been
slight.
In Chicago grand jury turned out
grist of rs indictments against opera
tors of slot machines
Chester Longs name cannot be
transferred from the house to the sem
ate pay roll until his resignation as
representative-elect to the Fifty-eighta
congress is accepted
Chas. Bartholemei, confectioner,
was robbed of 1873 by confidence men
who led him to believe that he was ar
ranging for the adoption of a daughter
of an Italian prince, and which would
eventually net him $780, 900.
The work of remodeling the execu-
tive mansion in Washington was COM
pleted inside of the appropriation.
Enlistment officers are told that the
colored regiments have but few vacan-
cies and these are held for men who
have seen service.
On March 2 the Mississippi river was
above danger line from Memphis to
Helena A great area was overhowed
on the Arkansas side, driving farmers
from their homes
The volcano at Colmina, Mexico, is
still active Great quantities of lava
flowed down the sides of the volcano.
EARTHQUAKES are reported at Acapulco.