Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-01-28
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


maintain peace.
On January Is there were in opera
ton 81 ,O66 rural delivery routes.
The Mississippi legislature has re.
elected Senators McLaurin and Money.
With the thermometer at IS below
zero fire at Dawson, Alaska, caused a
loss of $685. 900.
Vice President Winchell, of the Rock
Island says that his road is not going
to build shops at Denver
] Eleven election judges and clerks in
Denver, have been arrested charged
with violating the election laws.
George Francis Trains brain weighed
fifty-three and eight-tenths ounces;
or six ounces more than thesaverage.
The Carnegie furnace and steel mills
at Newcastle, Pa. are reopening with
reduction in wages of nearly so per
cent.
The ice field which blocked naviga-
ton at Milwaukee for 4s hours, was
driven into the lake by change of
wind.
Nearly l 900 men were thrown out of
employment in South Chicago by the
closing of the Iroquois Furnace COM
pany's plant.
The upper house of the Norwegian
parliament by an almost unanimous
vote adopted a bill authorizing women
to practice law.
The Vredenburg Lumber company of
Springfield, Ill, has lost its large lum-
Der yard by fire. Eight herses were
burned to death.
The United States attorney general
says that railroad companies have no
right to confscate coal consigned to
private individuals.
Mayor J. NJ. May, inventor of farm
machinery, is dead, aged 90 years. He
once owned TIE best portion of that
city but died in poverty.
Pittsburg made great preparations
for breakup of ice in the rivers and
a flood, which would endanger millions
of dollars worth of property.
The report circulated in the United
States from The Hague that former
President Kruger is SO feeble that his
friends are most anxious regarding
him, is incorrect. Mr.. Kruger is en-
joying excellent health.
Last year sO4,796 passengers were
brought to the United States from for
eign countries by the steamship lines
and over two-thirds of this number
came for the purpose of making their
homes here. One-ffth of them were
Storage passengers
Ice at the mouth of the Des Moines
river formed gorge flooding the low
lands and threatening the town of
Alexandra. This Mississippi is held
fast by ice causing rising of water
over the same territory flooded last
| summer.
Three persons were burned to death,
two were fatally hurt and ten were
badly injured in gas explosion that
wrecked the Seltz hotel in Marion,
Indiana.
There were $4,000 homeseekers on
the special trains from Chicago, for
points in Texas, Oklahoma and New
Mexico, in one day last week.
1t is said that the Missouri Pacific is
to build new shops at Sedalia to cost
| 81. SOC, 900. The city gives a cash bonus
of 100000. The company agrees to
employ 1,600 men in the shops.
George Francis Train died January
/, New York, where he had lived for
| some years.
|, Mail advices from Bogota indicate
that the war feeling in Colombia is dy-
ing out and there is general desire to
allow the Panama secession to pass
without disastrous war.
| The largest cyanide mill in the
world, located at Florence, Col, is de-
stroyed by fire. 1t was being dis
mantled, the machinery to be shipped
| to Utah. Carelessness caused the fire
Meadville, Pa, was in the grasp of
the worst flood in it's history on jan
uary 81. The entire fire department
was called out to assist in saving prop
erty.
Racine had snow drifts ten feet high
on June21 The blizzard ragged all
night in Southern Wisconsin, stalling
cars on electric railways. Railroad
trains were delayed,
1t is stated that of the nearly 600
| who lost their lives in the Iroquois
theater fire, nearly one-fourth were
teachers or pupils Of the public schools
/ The cheapest postal service in the
world is that of japan, where letters
are conveyed all over the empire for
two sen-about 7-1oths of penny.
Nathan Perry Beers, for sixty-six
years teacher in the schools of New
York, has just retired During his en-
tire career he never administered cor
poral punishment to pupil.
People of Pelxin, H.. has filed suit
against Chicago for $4,000 They
claim that the opening of the sanitary
canal has caused the Illinois river to
overflow and ruin crops,