Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-27
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tile Lnree udys OF Brucc.
Lord Salisbury is probably passing
through his last sickness.
Last year Havana, Cuba, exported
little over two hundred and fifty mill
lion cigars.
Maryland mas paid agents in some
western states, notably Kansas, drum
ming mp immigration to Maryland.
Another st. Louis member of the
house of delegates has been sentenced
to three years in prison for boodling.
1t costs on an average SEQ, 900 to dock,
scrape and paint one of our big iron
clads. Yet this has to be done twice a
year.
The Emperor of Germany proposes
to increase his standing army by about
80, 600 men, making the total number
CAT, 900.
The Northern railway shops at Que
bee were completely destroyed by fire
August 10. Loss, $4,000, covered by
insurance.
There are $4,000 more children in
Greater New York than the school
buildings have capacity, for them to
attend school.
The creeks passing through Green.
vile and Morrison. Tenn, have been
flooded, covering streets and damaging
| stock in stores.
American merchants have paid in
the year ending June 30, 1903, in
freight charges to foreign vessels moro
than $500, 900, OOe.
A strike of 500 stone cutters of Al.
legheney county, Pa, for an increase
in wages affects fifteen thousand men
in other labor trades.
A granite monument mariSing the
site of the birthplace of the late presi-
dent Chester A. Arthur, has been dedi-
Gated at Fraifeld, VT.
The Mason & Hamlin Co., manufac
turers of organs and pianos. at Cam
bridge, Mass, have assigned for the
benefit of their creditors.
Government statistics show that dur
ing the last fiscal year less than one
tenth of this country's exports and inn
| ports was carried in American vessels.
The Congregational summer assem-
bly, at New Buffalo, Mich, with repre-
sentativcs from many states, including
Kansas, endorsed the plan of organic
union, being considered by a number
of denominations.
Secretary Root has been in core.
| spondence with Governor Taft regard
ing the construction Of system of
railroads in the Philippine islands
amounting to some 600 miles.
Three hundred delegates and 1,O0G
visitors attended the opening at Nash
vile, Tenn, of the fourth annual con-
vention of the National Business Mems
League.
The Low Archipelago, rs group OF
islands in the Pacific is called, 90 in
number, seem to be sinking, and the
inhabitants are perishing.
| lie cOllcoGlOH VI bcVcIlU6
for the month of July, 1908, was S2?,-
16s, $50, decrease compar ed with July,
1902, of Sill, 291.
The Wabash Ind, Bridge and Iron
company has assigned for the benefit
| of creditors. Liabilities are estimated
at 5000, 900, assets at 100, 900, which is
capital stock.
Former Chief Justice Doster, of Kan.
sas, has been chosen as fifth man and
arbitrator of tile board appointed to
settle the miners and operators dis
putes in the Pittsburg, Pa, district.
Secretary of War Root has issued an
order forbidding the docking or bang
ing of horses of the army.
A New Jersey judge has decided that
rent cannot be collected from tenant
who had to move on account of bed
bugs.
On August L. 1903, Lieutenant
Swearingen, of the United States army,
landed with a company of troops on
| the lake front and began the construc-
| LlOH VI IOT1 OciI OOih II. OhiCdBO Cclc-
brated the day as its first Centen-
NAL.
Joseph Pulitzer has provided s., cOo,-
| 600 for the establishment of a school of
| journalism at Columbia College, New
| York city.
The commissioner of the general
land Office has withdrawn from entry
$50, 900 acres of public lands in Colo
RADIO, to be used in connection with the
White river irrigation project.
Pedro Alvarado is dead at Parral
Six years ago he was working in a
mine at 80 cents day. lie discovered
the Palmilto mine and his wealth is
now estimated at SIS, 200, 900.
Warden Allagood will be discharged
from his position at the Georgia state
| prison farm, aud there will be no more
whipping of female convicts in Geor-
gia-.
The war. department has at last
granted the request that the three
Kansas regiments shall participate in
the maneuvers at Fort Riley.
| At the meeting in San Francisco of
the Spanish merican and Philippine
war veterans resolution was adopted
in favor of consolidating all existing
organizations Of those classes.