Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-06-25
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thr states east of the Mississippi river.
The Santa Fe is having trouble in
handlin Spfreight arkansas City caused
by strike of freight handlers
Henry Greene, of Duluth has been
appointed civil service commissioner 70
succeed Mr.. Garfield. Mr.. Greene is
lawyer.
The head camp of Modern Woodmen
in session at Indianapolis decided to
admit Virginia, Kentucky. the District
of Columbia and Arizona. Tennessee,
Texas, Arkansas and New Mexico we're
rejected.
Attorney General Knox has large
number of cases under investigation of
parties in Alabama holding men as
slaves, and IN addition to the arrests
already made, warrants will soon be
issued for a still larger number.
Two men, said to he Bud Fair and
Frank Ellis, robbed the Adams Ex-
press company at Webb City, Mo-, of
$4,000 consigned to the Carterville
bank. Both men were captured in the
woods .hree miles from Joplin, after
chase and the money recovered.
A hailstorm covering a strip of land
mile and d quarter in width passed
over eastern Allen county, Ind, for a
distance of three miles and covering
New Haven. In places the hail fell to
depth of two inches and crops are
ruined. Many cows were killed.
The lumbermen of all parts of the
United States have, in response to
circular sent out by leading lumber
men of the west, sent $50, 900 to the re-
lief fund for flood sufferers. This
amount was received after only few
days from the time the scheme was
started and the amount is being in
creased daily.
An organization is proposed to in
sure employers of labor against strikes
1t is to be mutual company, only its
officers being known, as its member
ship is to be kept secret
The Philippines government has
drafted bill to prevent the exporta-
ton of inferior hemp. There have
been numerous complaints in the mar
lxets of the world of the inferior quail
ity of the exported hemp and the trade
in it is thereby endangered.
At White Spur, N. NJ, eight miles
from Ell Paso, a lake five miles square
and of great depth has formed behind
the levee. This is in danger of break
ing at any moment, and, Il a break
occurs, all barriers here will be swept
away.
Telegraphic service in New England
was demoralized by a heavy bank of
fog and by severe storms. The gale
blew down poles in New Hampshire
and Rhode Island and caused damage
along the coast. Other property also
was considerably damaged.
Martin D. Wood, for thirty-three
years manager of the local Office of the
Western Union Telegraph company at
Kansas City Missouri, has been sue
ceeded by George w. Bronson, for sew
enteen years chief operator at Kansas
City.
Rev. T. T. Harry, of. St Leos church,
st. Louis, has been named as bishop of
Manila by the pope and Father Harry
has accepted.
]. G. Bloom has been appointed prin-
cipal assistant engineer for the western
district of tile Rock Island with head
quarters in Topeka. This is new po-
sition.
Mrs. Vrooman, wife of Walter Vroo-
man. the noted Socialist promoter of
cooperative colonies and founder of
Ruslin college, England. has been
granted divorce from her husband.
A memorial monument TO negro
slaves and their descendants in recog-
milton of valuable domestic and pa
triotic services before and during the
Revolutionary war, the first of its kind
to be erected in the United States, has
been dedicated at harrington. Rhode
Island.
The state department has no present
intention of making any movement in
the Panama canal negotiations until
the Colombian congress meets June go
nd has given some evidence of its dis
position toward the treaty.