Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-09-03
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

minute record.
Villages built over the ruins of Her..
culaneum were nearly reached by lava
streams from Vesuvins.
General Miles is receiving hattering
attention in the way of receptions, din
ners, etc, in New Hampshire towns
The Rock Island and the Milwaukee
trains were tied up for some time at
Council Bluffs with washouts east of
the city.
One thousand feet below the central
cone of Vesuvius the volcano opened
like mouth, out of which belched
fiery stream of lava.
The seven international building
trades organizations are said to be per-
fecting arrangements for supporting
each other and arbitrating differences.
Michigan lumbermen are negotiating
for wirless telegraphy to connect with
camps for business purposes. The
camps are usually isolated for weeks in
winter
Official and diplomatic circles at So
fla alike have every reason to fear that
only part of the horrors enacted in
the interior of Macedonia have come to
light as yet.
worse state than for 10 years, because
of the short supply of cotton. Heavy
demands are made for the support of
the large number of idle cotton workers
A massacre of Christians at Adrian
ople followed panic when the forts
opened fire on the insurgents and the
tians
The Northern Pacific railroad is Of
fering trip to Yellowstone national
park and return for September 8, for
$50. 95. This rate includes all neces-
sary expenses and a personally con-
Quoted trip.
Commerce between the United States
and Its non-contiguous territory
amounted to over S1oo, 900. 600 in the
fiscal year just ended. This includes
about SIS, 900, 600 worth of gold bullion
produced in Alaska.
There arc IS yellow fever patients at
Merida, Mexico. At Progresso there
are 10 patients. The sanitary author
tiles are working to prevent the spread
of the disease to other points in the
Yucatan peninsula.
At St Louis men were working on a
derailed freight car and alighted torch
exploded gas escaping from a bursted
pipe. The men were thrown high up
inlo the air and some badly injured.
The car, loaded with wheat, was
burned up.
1t is now considered certain that a
congressional Investigation will be in
stituted to uncover the truth concern
ing the Indian Territory scandals.
The department of justice will prob
ably be linked with the interior de-
partment in making investigations.
Great Britain has an area of 70, o00,-
o0o acres; Kansas has 52,oo0,0oo. In
Great Britain 80, 100000 acres are used
for farming; in Kansas 90, 900, 600 In
the United Kingdom 81 per cent of
the agricultural land is occupied by
tenants; in Kansas 72 per cent is farmed
by owners.
According to a dispatch from Bel
grade, Servia, many of the soldiers be-
longing to the reserves called out by
Turkey are refusing to join the colors
as the troops in the field have not re-
ceived any pay for months.
The strike on the Richmond, Va,
street railway, after lasting sixty days,
was called off. The company lost $685.
900, and the strikers lost $780, in
wages. The expense of troops and
special police was $1,000. Two men
lost their lives and scores of persons
were injured.
Fire in Budapest, Hungary, started
in four-story building, the two upper
6oars being fats occupied by 800 work
ing people, of whom only few escaped
without injury. About 100 persons
were burned to death.
Homer c. Price, professor of horti-
culture and forestry at the Iowa state
agricultural college, has been elected
by the board of trustees of the Ohio
state university to the position of dean
of the college of agriculture.
The Indianapolis News claims to
have certain inside information that
the Rock Island has bought the entire
Mexican Central system.
The Turkish war minister has con-
tracted for 200 Krupp field guns and
200, 900 Mauser rifles and 100 million
cartridges.
Secretary of War Elihu Root has re-
signed, to take effect at the end of the
year. President Roosevelt has accept
ed the resignation.
The municipal printing plant at Bos-
ton has more than 200 maids and bach
elors employed, and Mayor Collins
talks of issuing a ulSase that they
marry or resign.
The Santa Fc round house and ma
chino shops at Beaumont. Texas. are
burned. Five engines and much, ma
chinery were totally destroyed, the
lcss being about 500. 600.