Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-01-01
Wichita Grain
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ton bill carrying s13o, 1897, oOO
A semi-official announcement now
places the Italian claims against Vene-
izuela at So, OOO, 900.
Deaf-mutes from Kansas, Nebraska
and Missouri will attend grand ball
in St Joseph, Mo-, on Dec. %.
Recent heavy rains flooded four COL
liers in the Schuyllsill region. This
will further curtail the production of
anthracite
Fire in Brooklyn on Christmas morn
ing destroyed the cooperage plant of
the Arbuckle sugar refinery. A fire.
man lost his life.
A nameless giver proposes to give
the New York city school board busts
of President Lincoln to be placed in
every public school
The Vaughan Machine Works at
Peabody, Massachusetts,, burned on
the morning of Dec. 90, damaging the
concern to the extent of SIS, 900.
Numerous railroad employees on many
lines receive advances in wages, rang
ing mostly from to 10 per cent, in
some cases commencing with December
earnings and in others to take effect on
January l.
The U. S. supreme court decides that
it would be against public policy to
annnr1a1 tho Of 1ifo
upon the life of man who was ex-
ecuted for a crime. Justice Brewer
wrote the decision.
DIR. PEBBLES, known to many Kan
sans, with two other mental cure"
men, were convicted by jury in the
U. S. court at Detroit, Mich, on the
charge of attempting to obtain money
by fraud, and for using the mails for
that purpose.
The total amount expended in the
state of New York for the support of
elementary, secondary and higher edu-
cation in that state during the last
school year was $40, 331, 957, of which
secondary education cost Sc, CPS, 225;
high schools, 81, 445, Os3, and academies,
81, 1O2. 625. Teachers salaries amount
ed to So, 716, $50.
The Pennsylvania New York special
made the record of running 131 in 1913
minutes, including four full stops. The
run was from Crestline. Ohio, to Fort
Wayne, Ind, and it was made on Dec.
%. On the same day the Limited on
the Lake Shore road run 134 miles in
127 minutes. A part of this run was
made in a dense fog.
Oil has been discovered oozing from
the banks of the Coon river near Grant
City in Sac and Fox county, Iowa. A
quart of the oil sent to Ames college
for analysis is said to have been found
to be so per cent pure. The discoverer,
a woman, has quietly leased 5000 acres
i'll the locality.
Bloomington, ILL.,, suffered 5000, 900
fire on Christmas night. Two large
store buildings, supposed to be fire.
proof were burned, the stock in one of
them destroyed, and in the other dam
aged 25 per cent.
The Mexican government has grant
ed concession to an American COM
pany to build and operate railroad
between the city of Oaxaca and the
port of Vera Cruz. The distance is
about $50 miles. The proposed road
Al.
err road at Oaxaca.
The total number of cattle slaugh-
tered on account of the disease in New
England is about 1000, of which 76l
were destroyed in Massachusetts,
where most of the cases have been
found.
The Standard Oil company paid a
cash dividend of million dollars and
at once sent out notice that it had ad-
vanced the price of oil one cent gal
Ion to middlemen, who in turn must
put on another cent to the consumer.
Between Christmas and New Years
day the president will not make any
appointments for receiving callers, and
that, during that week, he will have
no regular Office hours. He will spend
as much time in the open air, horse
back and carriage riding, as his duties
will permit.
Five hundred million dollars gold is
the amount of American capital in
vested in Mexico by Liz American
companies, firms and individuals, ac-
cording to estimates prepared by Con-
sui General A. D. Barlow, at Mexico
City. Seventy per cent of this amount
is invested in railroads. while $50, ooo,-
600 is in mining.
The same block in Knoxville, Tenn,
which burned in 1897, causing loss of
over 81, 900, 600, was on fire again on
December % The fire started in a
knitting mill.
The track used jointly by the Santa
Fe and the Colorado & Southern be-
tween Denver and Pueblo is to be
double tracked next year.
The death list of the railroad COLI
sion at Byron, Cal, reached 25.. with
several others in critical condition.
Reports of the cause of the wreck are
conflicting.
The Idaho state mining inspector es-
Inmates the mineral output of the state
for the year of 1902. at slo,9e4, 81;
gold, s., f67, e33; silver, s., ~, 6sa;
lead, 5,o35,65