Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-13
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

the new pope.
North Dakota is having August frosts
with but little damage. Minnesota
sends like reports
1t is said that there are 1000, 600
spindles in the cotton mills in the north
because of the price of cotton.
Prime Minister Balfour told the
house of commons of his action to pro-
tect Chinese journalists at Shanghai.
Scores of Chinese reformers are under
sentence of death, and reign OF terror
has caused scores of reformers to hide
Russia is driving from Finland many
prominent Finlanders, also numbers of
students who refuse to enter the mill
tary service of the Car.
The Panhandle division of the Santa
Fe is to be relaid will, heavier rails
after which faster engines will be put
on that line to Amarillo.
During a fierce wind and rain storm
a steamer was torn from it's moorings
at La Crosse, Wis, and swept through
a closed draw of a wagon bridge; losing
its pilot house and upper works.
Russia is said to have notified Japan
that foreigners will be barred from
Manchuria now, but when quiet is re-
stored there, say six years hence, the
country will be opened to free COM
merce.
Strikes are prevalent in several in
dustrial centers in Spain. Most of the
strikes come from demands for the re-
lease of strikers who have been put in
prison for crimes connected with
strikes.
The Port View mills of the McKees-
port Tinplate works resumed work
without any disorder. There was a
crowd of strikers congregated around
the mill gates, but the non-union work.
men were not molested.
The Idaho Springs, Colo, miners
union asked Governor Peabody for
military protection and protection
against punishment. The governor
referred the union to the courts of
Idaho Springs.
1t is doubtful whether the great labor
problems awaiting adjustment in the
anthracite region will ever be settled
by the Cancellation board. The opera
tors and the miners each have three
members of the board and SO far nearly
every vote is a tie.
The general superintendent of the
Rock Island has ordered dispatchers
and station agents to refuse to fur
nish cars to move wheat from In
dian Territory until the stations and
division points are cleared of loaded
wheat caas waiting to go forward.
A story comes from Omaha to the eff
feet that the Armour Packing company
proposes to build an electric railway
from Sioux City, Iowa to Kansas City,
and will acquire controlling interest
in the street railways of Sioux City,
Omaha, St Joseph aud Kansas City.
Six Chinese reform journalists at
Shanghai are under sentence of death
but they have been taken under the
protection of the British flag and the
English government refuses to surren.
der them to certain death.
Thos. Lowrey, of Minneapolis, and
J. J. Hill, of St Paul, now virtually
own all of the thick vein coal lands of
southern Illinois.
The opponents of the Panama canal
treaty at Boeota are flibustering in an
attempt to delay action upon the treaty
until the time limit is passed.
General Leonard Wood is to be
placed permanently in command of the
Moro country and governor of the
Moro province.
Indiana lets ont 400 convicts on sealed
bids; not more than 100 to any one
contractor. The proposals received
are ranging from As to so cents day
| per man.
President Palma, of Cuba, sent n
| revenue cutter to eject certain railroad
| surveyors who were trespassing on the
United States naval reservation at
Guantanamo bay.
A number of officials of the California
& Northwestern railroad were badly
! injured by premature blast while in
speeding the new line.
Lunacy in England has increased to
| great extent and now statistics show
that the proportion of population of in
sane persons is one in $40.
The Monarch Investment company
| of Kansas City has had it's mail held up
by fraud order from the postoffice
department, which rules that the plans
of the company in opening townsit@s
in Oklahoma it in effect lottery.
Kingdom, oldest SON of George j.
Gould, is to enter Columbia university
to train himself as mechanical en-
gineer.
The strife among Western railroads
over interchangeable mileage tickets,
it is predicted, will bring all of them
to fat two cents a mile passenger
| rate.
Helen NJ. Gould has been asked to
act as arbitrator in the strike in the
Holyolse paper mills by the leader of
the striking cutter girls. The strike
involves O0cl euauloyas