Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-17
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crop has been destroyed by hailstorm.
Fire destroyed the Wholesale mil
linery stock of Lahman Bros, nj Cedar
Rapids, Iowa Loss $500
Colorado coal operators declare that
no concessions involving recognition of
the Miners Union will be considered.
Judge Kohlsaat has refused the de-
mand of some of the Dowic creditors
to change the order made in the Dowie
case.
VIM. r. Vice, the defaulting passen-
ger agent at San Francisco of the
Southern Pacific, has been located in
Honduras
Secretary Root is defending General
Wood against charges of faulty adj
ministration of Cuban affairs while
governor of Cuba.
The record shows that the ENROLL
ment for 1903 in the public schools OF
Iowa was only $50, col, as against $780,
173 the year before.
The Democratic national committee
is TO meet ut Washington on January
~ to decide upon the time and place
to hold the national convention.
The Epworth hotel at st. Louis will
be in readiness to take care of Metho-
= dists on and after April 30, who visit
st. Louis during the worlds fair.
In Germany they are beginning tc
cut down trees by electricity. A plat
mum wire is heated to II white heat by
an electric current and used like a
saw.
An explosion and FIRE at Armstrong;
cord factory, ut Pittsburg, Pa, serious
ly burned seven persons. One man is
missing. Over 100 girls were carried
down ladders by the police.
Commander Cameron McR. Winslow
has been designated as naval aid to
the president to succeed Captain w. s.
Cowles, who has been assigned TO COM
mand the new battlcship, Missouri.
Shipments of stoclcrs and feeders to
the country last week from Kansas
City were 494 cars, against 400 cars the
previous week and 472 cars the same
week last year. Kansas got 252 cars.
The war department is at work to
develop coal mine on n small island
off the east coast of Luzon, P. l., SO
that coal can be supplied in the Phil
ippines instead OF Australia and Japan.
Forest fires have swept over 80 miles
of the coast and in and out of canyons
from tue coast to Santa Monica, Cal,
and are still raging in the noun
tains. The extremes of the fire are
six miles apart and spreading in both
cold.
The first partial report of the U. S.
grand jury, sitting in Omaha, returned
indictments against ten ranchmcn for
unlawfully fencing public lands. The
ten men are among the foremost
ranchmcn of Nebraska.
OWiiI O. TO- IL II S'lili, Will iHcTcttSC
their capital stock to Sa5, 600, 900 to buy
distributing markets in New England
and refrigerator cars in the West.
A case has been started to test in
the supreme court the validity of Gov.
Peabody's proclamation suspending the
writ of habcas corpus in the mining
region of Colorado.
The Supreme court of Minnesota de-
clares that the State is under no moral
obligation to pay sugar bounty under
the law enacted in 1895 and declares
the law unconstitutional.
The birth rate of France and Ger
many is lat for Germany to each 13
children born in France.
A fire in the bedroom of Queen ALEX
some danger. Tine heaviest loss was
upon furniture and the queens treas
ured kniclS lsnaclls, mostly by water.
DIR. Wentz, of Philadelphia, says
there is nothing in the public reports
concerning his son, Edward l.. Wentz,
and that he only knows that he has
disappeared. The reports say he was
kidnapped for ransom.
Naval officials still contend that
Columbia cannot attack Panama BY
land.
Wealthy Indians, connected with In
dian Territory Development Company,
are in Washington seeking the approx
al of oil and land leases in Indian Ter
ritory.
The Park Pen company of James
Vile, Wis. offers abounty to women and
girls in its employ TO remain single.
After the females have been in their en-
ploy three years each viii be given SIS,
and S35 after five years service.
Ferdinand Morton. colorcd boy of
Washington, D. c., will represent Har-
yard college in annual debate against
Yalc.
sin his annual report Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw shows surplus for the
last fiscal year in round figures of 81
million dollars.
The accumulation of orders received
by manufacturers of Western Penn
sylvnnia is the cause of bright pros
pects for them all to get at work again
Geo. W. Waite. promoter of build.
ing the cityof Chicago is dead. aged 81