Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-05-19
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German soldiers in Southeast Africa
are suffer ing fromtyphus fever.
Maryland and Delaware report much
damage to fruit by severe frosts.
Jacob Coxey, of "Coxey's army"
fame, is now said to be millionaire.
The Russian troops in Manchuria are
experiencing an epidemic of typhoid
fever.
The garrison at Port Arthur is try
ing to clear the entrance of sunken
barges.
Secretary Taft'is spending ten days
vacation in the Adirondaclss, to recruit
his health.
The Pecos valley is reported as badly
in need of rain, the drouth being the
most serious since 1856.
A final joint survey is being made by
the United States and Canada, of the
boundary line of Alaska.
Commissioner Ware says that many
veterans refuse to apply for age PEN
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The Nebraska grand lodge, Knights
of Pythias, adopted a resolution bar
ring from membership gamblers and
uartenders.
The explosion of sawdust at a lum-
Der mill at Portland, Oregon. caused a
fire which destroyed property to the
amount of s25O,oo
Grand Duke Cyril, whose nervous
is considered case wherein a cure will
be difficult and tedious.
The members of the board of SOL
diers' homes managers will have their
annual tour of inspection in june
which includes trip to Southern Cali.
fornia
A boy in New York touched match
to barrel of oil lying on the asphalt
pavement. Before the fire was put
out it had destroyed nearly block OF
pavement.
The Red Cross society at Odessa has
received $500 from D. NJ. Osborn & Co.,
of Auburn, N Y, with letter which
says: 1--WE shall never forget what the
Russians did for the United States in
1863"
The secretary of the Interior has set
apart IS, 100, 900 of the reclamation fund
for irrigation projects in Colorado,
South Dakota, Oregon and North Da-
kota. This leaves Sc, 200, 900 of that
fund of S27, 0co,0 900.
Geronimo and ten Apache braves,
with their families, and two families
of Comanches, are located on the st.
Louis fair grounds.
There is good prospect for settlement
of strikes in the Southern Colorado
oil fields by June /, concessions being
made by both sides.
In 1887 congress chartered Lincoln
monument association and there was
raised 100000 by 81 subscriptions
from all parts of the country. There
is now discussed the question of what
became of the 100000.
Two mills of the Schaghtlcolze Pow
der company, near Troy, N. Y, blew
up and two employees were killed and
many buildings demolished.
When bids were opened for S37, OO0,
900 of New York city's 81 per cent
bonds it was found that the issue was
over-subscribed about seven times.
The idea that the Russian squadron
at Port Arthur is being destroyed to
| prevent its falling into the hands OF
the enemy is secuted at st. Petersburg.
The Louisiana Purchase cost the
United States SIS, 100000. The cele-
bration of that bargain at st. Louis
will cost more than double that
amount.
| Judge johnson, of Denver, holds
| that builders of reservoirs are liable
for all injuries or damages caused by
the collapse of dam constructed by
| them.
After a sensational debate the Meth.
odist general conference defeated a set
of resolutions condemning the attitude
| of the Roman Catholic church against
| the public school system of the coun'
try.
Port Arthur has only coal sufficient
to last the warships for six weeks
The food supply there will feed 5000
men three months only.
The second anniversary of E. F.
Ware as commissioner of pensions was
celebrated by banquet given by the
chiefs OF the pension bureau.
B. A. Lane, of Bingham, Mass, ha.
been appointed as temporary secretary
of the isthmian canal commission.
Returns from the offices of the In
dian bureau show that 456 bids for fur
nishing Indian supplies were received
at Chicago and seventy four at st
Louis.
High water is reported from Kansas
City again and 1000 people were driv
en- from the low lands to higher place
of safety. Many bridges are in dange
of being washed out and street ans
railway traffic is greatly retarded