Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-11-12
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

is one error to IL $50 correc. deliveries
Fire has destroyed ESQ buildings at
Coney lsland with loss of ST, 900, 900.
The Santa Fe is spending $50. 900 on
Kansas City terminals, mostly in Ar
gentinc, Kansas.
Commissioner Ware estimates that
there will be drop of 81, roo, 900 in the
pension roll next year.
The anthracite coal mine owners OF
Wales have formed n combine which
can put cut Il million tons year.
The plague has increased at Rio
5aneiro and vessels from all Brazilian
ports are required to be disinfected.
Notices are posted at the Trinidad,
Col, mines for miners to report for
work or they will never be employed
again.
The Cuban senate will pass the ma
tional lottery bill, but though, congress
may pass it, President Palma has de-
clared his intention of vctoing it.
The invariablc policy of the United
States is TO deal with de facto govern
men.s which malics it certain that the
new state of Panama will be fecog.
nizcd.
Statistics show that the production
of precious jewels in the United States
in 1902 amounted to S31s, 300, while
SIS, A. worth of such stones were
imported into the country in the same
time.
The report of the commissioner OF
education for the last fiscal year places
the number of pupils enrolled in the
common schools during the year ut 49,
925, ss7, or over 20 per cent OF the entire
population.
The average daily attendance of the
schools in the Uuitcd States for 1902
was 10, $685. 73, being 60 per cent of the
total number enrolled. This is the
largest average attendance of those en-
rolled ever reported.
Russia and Austria have sent an ul.
timatum to Turkey giving the Sultan
a fixed tine to agree to their reform
scheme in Mace lonia, and il Turkey
still refuses the two powers will take
steps to compel Turkish action.
Rear Admiral Coghlan, who is COM
mander-in-chief of the Caribbean sea
squa Iron, will be in supreme command
on the Atlantic side of the isthlrus, and
Rear Admiral Glass will command the
naval force en- the Pacific side.
Marine engineers of Jacksonville
and Evansville, Ind, have been ordered
to strike.
The mail service carried last year
2T2, 921 tons of second class matter re-
ccivcd from publishers, of which &c.
s05, ss4 pounds was carried within the
county of publication free of charge.
The carrying of mail cost The govern
mcnt during last year se4, 494. SAG.
There arc 1,4oo lines of travelling
pos5oflices railroads, steamboats, and
electric cars, covering 1s2, 29s miles,
with 10, 55j employees.
One OF the great New York news-
papers spends over Sa3O,OOO year for
editorial and literary work, $500, 900
for illustrations and $40, 900 for telc-
graphs, s64O, OoO for paper, and some
$3.50, 900 for other incidentals.
Window and plate glass is now
made by machinery worked by COM
pressed air by Vineland, n. j.,
There is suit flied in the district
court at Denver for the purpose of set
Ting the question as to whether labor
unions are partnerships.
The leading Canadian newspapers,
while catering to the poprlacc in choice
ossvords nearly all close their articles
OF the Alaskan boundary decision with
with confessions OF having been beaten
fairly.
All telegraphers ut the different sta
tons along the Rock Island line will
receive an advance of from 12 20 Is per
cent in wages November 1.
For the second time Sam Parks, the
walking delegate, was convicted of the
crime of extortion. It took the jury
just IL minutes to agree on guilt.
Serious electrical disturbances said
to be due TO the aurora borealis. or
northern lights, caused great incon-
venicnce to telegraph and telephone
in Chicago and were also
in New York and else
where.
In North Dakota man who pur-
chased options was sued for the amount
of his bid and Judge Pollock of the
district court. at Fargo, decided that
the dealing in options is not gambling
to the extent of being made defense
in the ease.
There lie an increasing desire among
Chinese for an alliance with
Japan.
1t is common incident in Mace
ionia for villagers to cut down their |
fruit trees to avoid paying lakes on
them. The average income of u Mace
lonian peasant is $50 year, while
their average taxes is S17-
The London Spectator contends that |
as Washington has become the most
important station in the British diplo-
matte service the salary ought to be |
raised to $50. 900.