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


French government favorable to Co.
iombia.
dispatch from Manila states that
no more opposition is expected on the
island eff Jolo.
There is no material ci,angc in the
Colorado miners strike, which is now
fifteen weeks old.
Two distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt at Salt Lake City on Nov. "a.
No damage vas done
Tho Colombian government has is
sued orders to raise the army to the
fighting force of 100, 900 men.
Consul Ellsworth, representing this
country, has been repeatedly insulted
10y the Colon bian government.
Numbers of foreign miners have
come to the Arkansas and Indian Ter
ritory coal fields from Colorado.
BY the Islc of Pines treaty this coun-
try receives con sdcrat:on in grants OF
coaling and naval stations in Cuba.
On the Cane Bels railway in Texas
owned by the Santa Fe. a gushcr oil
well has been struck at Ma;agorda.
The first shipment of Christmas trees
to Berlin, this season, was $50, 900 trees,
brought from the Hartz mountains
The United States has $4,000 post
-. -
and Great Britain third, with e2,4oo.
China is becoming hopeless Of re-
sisting Russia. The Picking govern.
ment, correspondent Gays, is il
despair.
The press of Colombia continues &c
severely criticisc and denounce thu
American government for it's recogni-
ton of the Republic OF Panama.
Gen. Funston. in his report Oh
Alaska says that tile principal discour-
aging features of the condition OF
Alaskan Indians are tuberculosis and
liquor.
The Knights of Pythias of Kansas
City, Mo-, initiated nearly 1000 men,
bers in one night last week. The
grand chanceilors of about u dozen
states and the Supreme Grand Chan
cellor were present.
The destruction OF the warehouses
at Fort Gibbons, Alaska, will no,
cause the troops to starvc us has been
feared Their food supplies can be
made to last to the opening OF naviga-
ton and tie soldiers are comfortably
sheltered.
Seven of the mutineers at the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth in Nov.
1901, are on trial in the U. s. district
court in Topeka.
Private pcuhion bills arc flooding the
Calendars in Congress aud Kansas
members are putting in their full
share.
Gen. John C. Black, commander-in-
chief of the G.. A. Z. attended meet
ing Of the rational council of administra-
ton i'll Boston, although his old wounds
made it necessary to carry him from
tine train in Il chair.
The Chri5tian Science people are
New York city. It is to DO dedicated
soon free OF debt.
Mrs. Caroline Quantrell, the mother
of the QuantrelI who sacked Lawrence
III 1868, died on Nov %, ut her home
in Springfield, Ohio, at 80 years of
age.
Scores of fast freight cars, loaded
with Thanksgiving turkeys, were
strung out along the Pennsylvania
main line, blocking the Chicago limited
and other through trains.
The o2oth anniversary of the land
ing of the first German colonists in
America was celebrated in Washing
ton Nov. %.
Maj. Gen. Davis, commanding the
division of the Philippines, reports the
death of numerous cavalry horses and
recommends that mounted troops be
Fcpl'tC6u with lIIhD bT y iIlcu
Beulah Thomas, who is the prose-
cnting witness in an assault case at
Arborville, Neb., was kidnapped in
the night by two men. There was no
trace left.
There was snow fall on Nov. IS
.viiich extended over eastern Nebraska
,,,l I-,rcnr .vactorp low, co,,tI,o-u
Illinois and the whole OF Missouri. At
st. Louis there was one and half
inches.
The recent heavy rains in London
cleaned the streets and washed out the
sewers, which has improved health and
rcnuced The death rate.
The shipment of st"eilcrs and feeders
from Kansas City into the ,ountry last
week were Csc cars. The week previ-
ous slierc were SCI cars shi Jed.
The Kansas building at ST. Louis is
completed and tle commission is hav-
ing it fitted ND.
There is 4 demand from Denver upon
;he coal market at Kansas City. Quo
t;itions for trslinloads are asked for.
The house of representatives threat
ems to hold the senate until the regu-
lar session begius on December :.
The colonel in command in the Grip
pie Creek coal district says that con-
di.ions are more dangerous than ever.
Eggs rosajl in New York at 4e to IS
cents dozen.