Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-01-15
Wichita Grain
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Employees of the United States Steel
company have taken 10000 shares of
stock in its profit sharing plan.
Ii is announced that Emperor Will
liam of Germany will reach Rome
April 25 on visit to the Italian court
The Car of Russia will visit the court
May IL.
&c. Eggleston, chief train dispatch.
er of the Katy, died of pneumonia at
his home in Parsons on January 9.
He was 40 years old and had been in
the service fer 20 years.
States Attorney Deneen is called
upon by the Illinois Manufacturers
association to empanel special grand
jury to act upon illegal methods of
coal dealers to raise the price of coal.
Assassination, wrecking of homes
with dynamite assisted by mobs, and
general reign of terror followed the
victorious war of the anti-saloon league
against the saloons of Winslow, In
diana.
Fire in the warehouse of Franklin
MacVeagh & Co., wholesale grocers, at
Sixteenth street and Newberry avenue,
Chicago, caused loss of 500, 900 which
the insurance companies must stand
for.
The superintendent of the money or.
- oF
ment handles more than $500, 900, 600
year. His salary is So, 600; one dollar
for each S1OO, 900 for which he is re-
sponsible.
The Edwards building at Fargo, N.
D., is destroyed by fire. The building
cost SIS, 900 two years ago. 1t was oc-
cupied by numerous firms and the total
loss 5000, 900, with about s135, 200 in
surance.
Railroad lines west of Chicago are
developing a plan to lengthen their
schedules of fast freight trains in the
interest of economy. To make fast
time the trains are necessarily shorter
than the same engines could handle on
slower time.
That portion of history" which
dresses jeff Davis in voman's apparel
when he was captured, is met by the
identical outer garments which he
wore on that occasion, and which are
still in the possession of the govern
ment, in the original box in which
they were sent from Georgia to General
Schoield by the officers who arrested
Davis. There is not one of the article
which were ever a part of woman's
apparel.
Andrew Carnegie offers the District
of Columbia another S35O,O for the
of Washington on the same conditions
as the original gift
Bids for building SO, 900, 900 worth of
warships were opened at the navy de-
partment in the presence of representa-
tives of all concerns interested.
The Santa Fe is to adopt the plan OF
the Union Pacific and will estab lish a
gasolene engine at such of their water
tanks as are now depending upon wind
mills to pump water.
Postmistress Minnie Cox (colored,
of Indianola, Miss, has left the place
under compulsion. The people are
angry because the postoffice has been
closed on account of the abuse of the
postmistress.
The San Francisco Chronicle derides
the so-called California Agricultural
society as worthless to the state. The
Chronicle concludes long article with
with this: "We want board like the
Kansas Board of Agriculture-a board
which will do something for the agri-
cultural interests of the state.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson pre-.
diets that the United States will make
sugar to export, after supplying home
demand. He also says he expects to
see sugar retail at two cents pound
after giving good profits to the farmer,
the manufacturer and the merchants,
wholesale and retail who furnish it to
the public.
Manuel Range, editor of the Manila
Libertas, has been sentenced to six
months imprisonment at hard labor
and to pay fine of $1,000 gold for
libeling General Bell.
An article is in circulation stating
that the Orient road and the Western
Union Telegraph company have made
a contract to work together for 25
years: also that the American Express
Company has contracted with the rail-
road company on like conditions
Charles J. Ollardt, Chicago ticket
broker. pleaded guilty to forgery in
Chicago, making himself amenable to
serve term of ninety-cight years in
the penitentiary. There are several
others of the same gang who may get
long sentences
The barracks at Fort Brady, Mich,
are destroyed by fire. Loss, $50, 900.
There was lack of water in the stand
pipe.
Mitchell and Huron, South Dakota,
are strong candidates before the legis-
lature for selection as state capital, as
it is expected that the capital win be
removed from st. Pierre
The Spanish finance minister is pre-
pairing for presentation to the chamber
a financial scheme providing for the
free coinage of gold and the absolute
prohibition of the coinage of silver.