Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-06-18
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

line heaviest electrical ana rain storm
that has visited Philadelphia in 80
years occurred on June 10. Many
sewers were flooded.
President Roosevelt has signed pro-
clamation creating two forest rescrva-
tions in L tab 10 be known as the Logan
and Manti reserves.
There are $500 men locked out br
the tie up in the building trades at
Pittsburg. Pa. and the number is ex-
pected to reach %, 900.
The postoffice department announces
that July next will be complete
holiday for all the rural free delivery
carriers in the country.
General Alexander Mcdowell Nc
Cook, U. S. A, retired suffered third
stroke of paralysis and died in Il half
hour. His home was at Dayton, Ohio.
George q. McArthnr, one of the first
chiefs of the bureau of engraving and
printing in Washington, died recently
at his home in Salem, New York, aged
II.
The machinists and boiiermallers of
the Chesapeake & Ohio railway at Hunt
ington, w. Va. have ordered all their
men out until IL settlement of the pres
ent trouble there.
Thousands of acres of crops in the
Mississippi bottoms about Hannibal,
Mo-. are lost Everything is ruined
including farm property, dwellings and
more than half the livestock.
Rochester, n. Y, has had and $780,
600 fire. The Pancoast building, with
the brick Presbyterian church adjoin-
ing, were destroyed besides rows of
houses on three other streets.
Judge Carpenter, at Denver, decides
that the appropriation act OF the last
legislature is invalid. This will make
special session of the legislature nee
essary if the supreme court sustains
the decision.
Constance, the Young daughter of
Archibald Oracle. OF New York, was
crushed to death in an elevator acct
dent ut the Hotel De la Tremerlle in
Paris Mr. Oracle is a relative of
President Roosevelt
Governor Taft, of the Philippines,
has replied to General Miles state
mcnts. made in his report, and declares
that there has been no suffering in tine
islands for want of food supplies. He
disagrees with other statements made
General Miles
The American Labor Union conven-
ton, at Denver, decided upon creating
"a committee to revise its constitution,
under which tits proposed to centralize
unions by cities, states and nations,
with divisions governing various
classes of trades.
Judge Bishop of the superior court
of Boston, Mass, ruled that if oleo-
margarine resembled butter because of
the color given to it by some necessary
ingredient it was not violation of the
statute which prohibits the use of color
ing matter to make it resemble butter.
The committee appointed by the
President and the other committees
formed to raise funds for the relief of
the sufferers by the Mont Pelee erup-
tions, have completed their work with
SS4. 900 OH hand. President Roosevelt
has suggested that the funds still on
hand be sent to Governor Taft in the
Philippines, for relief work there.
Two hundred employees of the Chcsa-
pealIc &c Ohio railroad shops in Wheel
ing, w. Va, including the office force,
struck when the company refused to
discharge William Davis, carpenter.
A number of hotels. the power house
ana other buildings at West Palm
Beach, Florida, are burned at an al
legged loss of s730,O 900.
Fire insurance adjusters place the
loss on the Buffalo, n y. Carting and
Storage company's plant and contents
at 100000. About S. per cent of the
loss is covered by insurance.
George d. Bernard, of st. Louis, pro-
prietor of large book bindery there,
teIegraphed to Mayor Beagundthal, of
Topeka, to draw upon him at the banks
there 20 the amount of 500.
Hordes of negroes and buns are be-
ing watched and many arrested in East
St Louis, to guard against levee cut
ting and deprcdations They are taken
across the river and confined.
Vermont's new local option law has a
section which the public has but re-
Gently discovered. It prohibits treat.
ing at 4 bar.
Twenty eight hundred dollars was
subscribed for the relief of the flood
ufferers by the business men of St
Joseph in less than twenty-cight min
u:es of the noon hour.
a negro of Bellevilie. H., killed
the county superin tendent for his re-
fusal to give the negro teachers GER
tifcate. At night the negro was taken
out and burned to death. The 500
negro residents of Belleville were or
rdere-; 20 leave the city but they did
not 60
The state department has no present
intention OF making any movement in
the Pan;rina canal negotiations until
the Colombiau congress meets June 90
and has given some evidence of its.di
position toward the treaty.