Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-11-05
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

President Roosevelt celebrated his
18th birthday on October -.
All Texas is quarantincd against
San Antonio on account of yellow fever.
AtMemphis Lon Dillon became queen
OF the tro:ting turf by trotting mile
in 1:5s1s.
Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia,
is to be made Il cardinal by Pope
Plus Y.
Tile American investment in religious
and educational institutions in Turkey
is Sc, 500. 900.
Robert Wilcox, Hawaiian delegate
in congress, died last week of consump-
ton at Honolulu.
Governoc Taft hopes that the pur.
chase of the friar lands will be con-
cluded before he leaves Manila.
Four hundred express drivers in st.
Louis went Oh strike in support OF the
striking employees of the Pacific cx-
press company.
Five Harvester companies have
formed 4 trust and mapped ont the ter
ritory which they propose to control,
which includes Kansas and Oklahoma.
Advices from Washington state that
Governor Dole will probably be ap-
pointed United States district judge of
Hawaii to succeed Norris NJ. Estcc, de-
ceased.
Col. w. S. Ferguson, Of Perth, Scot
land, a famous judge of livestock, is to
judge the catule in Il number of classes
ut the international livestock show in
Chicago, November IS to December 5.
Chambers of commerce throughout
Spain have combined to urge Senior
Besada, minister of finance TO resist
the attempt OF American capitalists
TO monopolizc the Cuban tobacco
trade
The American Sunday School Union
held its eleventh annual conference in
Chicago, October %. The financial re-
port shows that in the last year $780,
900 had been raised for the work of the
society.
Competent authorities estimate the
wealth of the world at $500, 600, 000, 900
i, of which amount this country has
nearly one-fourth, and leads all the
others Great Britain comes next,
then France, Germany and Russia.
John Turner, an English anarchist,
in defense against en- order of deporta-
ton, claims through his attorney that
anarchism is Il religion, and not 4 crime
and therefore his deportation would be
against article first of tho bill of
rights.
Packing house Gamers, 1000 of them,
have joined other strikers at the Chi
cago packing houses, until the number
now out is 2,4oo. There are 16 other
branches of organized labor yet to
make demands and more than $4,000
employees stand ready to support the
strikers.
Striking miners a. Bilboa, Spain,
destroyed with dynalnise i'll one night
railroad ronndhousc, the electric
light plant and telephone plants. The
Socialists take prominent part in the
strike.
The prosecuting attorney of Phila-
delphia has brought criminal action
against persons who sold toy pistols
to children who have since died from
| the use of the pistols.
The estimate of the Jewish popula.
ton of the world is 11,O13, 1874; over
| eight and half million of them living
| in Europe and million and half in
| America.
The American Public Health Asso-
citation has endorsed the demand of the
officers of the army for the rcinstatc-
ment of the canteen.
| All telegraphers 1T the different sta
tons along the Rock Island line will
cent in wages November 1.
John C. Black, commander-in-chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic, is
at Garfield hospital in Washington suf-
fcring from a severe attack of rheuma-
tism.
The biennial session of the general
convention of the Universalist church
was held in Washington, D. C. Presi-
dent Roosevelt received the ministers
on Saturday, October "a.
Negro roustabouts on river steamers
at Memphis are demanding SIPS II
month, with one day off. Old river
men say the conditions are unprecc-
alcnted.
| Compiled reports show that there.arc
employed in the United States by street
car companies $50, 600 persons.
| A Wisconsin hard drinlser, with his
own consent, was locked in a room at
homo year. He came out in perfect
health and had lost his GRAZING for
drink. His disappearance was u mys-
terry to the neighbors-
Dan Patch has clipped the worlds
| pacing record of half mile in SIX TO
sc fat. Next he made a new pacing
record to a wagon, making the mile in
1:574.
The strike fighting at Bilboa, Spain.
is so serious that foreign consuls have
demanded protection for the ships of
their countries.
Belgium offers America important
commercial privileges in exchange for
Belgian concs ssions in China, Japan
and corea' to pc protected by tue uai,
led states,