Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-04-28
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

VIM. j. Bryan is reputed to be worth
$50, 900.
The Russians have twenty thousand
troops concentrated at Talzu Shan.
Vice Admiral Makaroff's widow has
been granted an annual pension of
$40, 900.
Three thousand acres near Cork,
Ireland, will be planted this year to
sugar beets.
England owns a tract ia Africa equal
So does France.
An English stockman is in Seattle
to purchase 10000 horses in Pacific
northwest for Japan.
An Ashland, Neb., Shorthorn COW
brought the highest price, $500, at
sale at Chillicothe, Mo.
The house of commons, by vote of
23s to 1919, would legalize peaceful
picketing by trades unions.
The Goth year of John Pierpont
Morgan, which ended on April IS, was
| lhC mOSU ulSdSITOuS VI HIS llI6.
A steel foundry plant to cost between
5000, 900 and 500, 900, is to be erected
in Chicago by Jos. Z. Schwab.
New Brunswick, N. j., contractors
have been given a verdict for $500 dam
ages against walking delegate.
Brigadier General Francis Moore
goes to Fort Riley to command the
garrison and the school of instruction.
An ice field at the head of Lake Su-
perior extends so miles out from
Duluth; an unprecedented condition in
April.
DIR. Pearsons will take rest in his
donations to colleges until five of his
thirty colleges raise the sums required
of them.
The Russian minister of finance be-
lieves it may be easy to float an in
ternal loan after harvest. No foreign
kloan is desired.
Chas F. Smith, chief dispatcher for
the Rock Island at Dalhart, Texas,
has placed in operation new form of
wireless telegraphy.
The big plant of the Westinghouse
Air Brake company, of Wilmington,
: Pa, resumed operations in full, en-
ploying 1850 skilled men.
The gold reserve in the japanese
bank at Toxic is SIS, 900, 900 and SO, 500,
900 in gold was sent to America dur
ing the month of March.
A Russian company will establish an
agricultural implement factory at
Tomslz, Western Siberia. During the
first year they propose to make 1000
plows, 500 threshing machines and as
many winnowing machines as pos
sible.
C. S. Jobes' bid for the entire issue
of So, 100000 of Philippine certificates
of Indebtedness has been accepted by
direction of Secretary Taft.
Japanese authorities claim that nc
decisive action has taken place on the
Yalu river.
A Chinaman 90 years old, has won a
fellowship in Columbia university
New York, in constitutional law. His
name is Ching Yung Yen.
The Russian Trans-Siberian railway
and the Russian lines in Manchuria is
1913 miles, or practically twice the
distance from New York to San Fran.
cisco.
w. J. Harris, U. S. commissioner oil
education, says there is less illiteracy
in the middle and far west than in the
eastern states. He places Kansas sec
ond, next to Iowa, in this statement.
Four civil war monitors, the Jean
Nahant, Lehigh and Montauk, have
been sold to private persons.
, Judge Adams, of the o. S. distric+
court at st. Louis, instructed jury
that words are never justification O.
assault in this country, and no repre-
wise.
The White House is connected with
, the exposition grounds at St. Louis, a
1 o'clock of Saturday April SO, BY
, which the president will start the MIA
chinery of the fair.
The Railway Passenger association
declares against "ticlset scalpers,
, whose business in Chicago pays annu
ally nearly $500, 600 in Office rent alone
, The grand jury in the federal cour
at Topeka brought in 81 Indictment
, of which IL were against Kansas Cit,
liquor dealers for shipping whiskey t.
individuals without paying the rev
enue tax.
Federal soldiers change their uni
! forms this season from the ancien
, blue to olive drab; wearing khaki il
, summer.
Chicago, Boston and New York bank
want about one-third of the 5000. 90
| investment made by C. S. Jobes, o
Kansas.
The storm in Salt Lake and vicinit,
5 was the severest April storm for sew
e eral years. About half an inch of rail
: and five inches of snow feb during 8
mile gale.
Ireland is to have an exhibition a
: the Worlds fair which will be tn
= most comprehensive illustration eve
made of the actual industrial an
social conditions there.