Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-01-29
LATEST NEWS in BRIEF.

York, is reelected.
The Utah legislature elected Reed
Smoot as United States senator.
Senator Kittredge, of South Dakota,
is reelected for another six years term.
The Susquehanna iron and steel mills
at Lancaster, Pa shut down for lack of
coal.
One old Plymouth Rock hen sold at
the close of the poultry show at Kan
sas City for SOL. F
A strike affecting $4,000 workers
has started at Vienna, Austria. The
trouble is over piece rates.
Arizona has asked the Wisconsin
senate to memorabilia congress to pass
the omnibus statehood bill.
There was a jubilation at Colon
when the news came that the Panama
canal treaty had been signed.
A movement has started at Indianap-
oils to buy residence for John Mitch
ell, the Mine Workers president.
All the painters employed by the
Santa Fe have been granted an in
crease of eight cents on their daily
wages. -+.-
There has been general advance of
wages along the entire Delaware and
Hudson railroad system, ranging from
5 to 10 per cent.
A crowd of citizens captured a train
of seven cars of anthracite in Brooklyn
and after having hauled the 200 tons
away they offered to pay for the coal.
They had been unable to buy any.
An official report dated Jan. II, says
that 81 cases of plague have occurred
in Chinatown, in San Francisco,
and six in other parts of the city, none
proven to have originated in the coun-
try.
REGULATIONS at Lake Forest college,
Chicago, have been temporarily sus-
pended owing to number of cases of
scarlet fever among the students. The
disease has filled the college hospital
with patients.
A letter from Mazatlan, Mex, says
one-third of the persons afflicted with
bubonic plague die, and that there had
been over $50 deaths. The population
of $1,000 has lessened one-third by
people fleeing from the city.
An earthquake is reported at Charles
ton, s. c., and it appears to have been
quite general throughout the state.
At about the same time Savannah, Ga.
felt successive shocks, and on Tybee
Island the houses were shaken.
Attorney General Knox is asking
congress for half million dollars to be
expended in the enforcement of the
Sherman antitrust law and amend.
ments to it passed in December. He
says that with this money he can, by
increase of the department force, dc
without the expensive service of special
consul.
The general manager of the Marconi
Wireless Telegraph company of Amer
lea says work is planned for wireless
stations covering pretty much all the
world.
A special dispatch from Pel1in says
the censors office has memorialized the
Dowager Empress to resign in favor OF
the emperor as the first. step in the
policy of reform.
Former Governor Hogg, of Texas, /.
to be candidate for U. S. senate,
against ]. w. Bailey, when his term
expires.
Chairman Grosvenor, of the house
committee on merchant marine and
fisheries, has appointed sub commit
tee to investigate the subject of coal
transportation.
The only woman rural mail carrier
is Mrs George Mclaughlin, of Rich
Hill, Mo. She has been regular and
an efficient carrier for the past year.
An explosion on the battleship Mas
sachusetts killed four men and wounded
two others. The ship was engaged il
target practice in the Porto Ricar
group.
William A. Richards, of Wyoming
has been nominated by the president
to be commissioner of the general LAND
office. He is now assistant commits
sioner.
Superintendent Gaunt, of the Santa
= Fe Telegraph service, denies reports
that the company is having trouble
with its telegraphers.
The only woman rural mail carrier
is Mrs, George Mclaughlin, of Ricf
Hill, Mo. She has been regula,
: and an efficient carrier for the pas
year.
An explosion on the battleship Mass
achusetts killed four men and wounded
two Others. Tile ship was engaged il
, target. practice in the Porto Ricar
group.
The United States supreme court ha
decided in case from Massachusett
; that six months stay in South Da
lkota for the purpose of securing a di
vorces does not constitute u residenc
there, and a divorce SO obtained i
void,
The supreme Court Of Nebraska ha
declared the reading of the Bible il
:. the public schools of Nebraska permits
sable so long as it does not take til
form of sectarian instruction. This
: is practical reversal of a previous de
I cision by the same court.