Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-03-17
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF,


Sixteen camels for the st. Louis fair
have arrived at New York.
The government of Calcutta has es-
tablished general voting powers for
the people.
The fire loss in the United States
and Canada during February is placed
at 500, o51 900.
The Price-Pancoast company's coal
breaker at Thorp, Pa, is burned, at
loss of s135,Ooo
Engineers are alarmed at the inroads
that crawfish and muskrats are making
in Mississippi river levees.
heavy rain and high wind caused
the Susquehanna river to rise again.
Wilkesbarre suffers from the flood.
A bore put down at Maitland, il
New South Wales, at a depth of 2eo
feet struck a seam of coal 81 feet thick.
General Dick is the first man of mod
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Ohio since the days of Senator Thur
man.
Negro roustabouts at st. Louis struck
for raise of SEQ a month and the
steamers filed their places with Aus
tralians.
A japanese woman secured plans of
the harbors of Dalny and Port Arthur
and took them to Toxic, getting away
as refugee.
The zinc ore market in the Joplin
district has had quite boom; the as
say basis price was S35 for ore assay
ing 60 per cent.
Thee boycott against the Fowler
Packing company on the Chicago mar
ket prevents that company from buy
ing many cattle.
Forty acres just outside the limits of
Rich Hill, Mo-, suddenly sank. carry
ing down a team of horses and pillow
into an old coal mine
President Francis of the st. Louis
exposition invited cattle breeders as
Is, to confer about an exhibition O:
range cattle.
The report of the commissioner of
Indian affairs shows that the cost to
the government to enroll and allot
lands to Indians in Indian Territory
amount to $40 for each Indian.
The per capita circulation of money
in the United States stands at $50. rs,
the total volume of money being little
over 21I billion dollars.
The Katy railroad company has con-
tracted for 1000 coal cars costing over
million dollars. They are coming in
lots of 500 They are 5000 pounds ca
pacity.
An officer of the British Army has
hunted up the records of wars for the
last two centuries. He finds lis wars,
only eleven Of which were preceded
by formal declarations of war.
The Haak Lumber company's mill
at lakewood, Michigan has been to-
tally destroyed by fire. Loss $3.50, 900.
A bill defining anarchists and pro-
viding for their punishment by death
has been introduced in the Virginian
legislature.
There were 26 men most of them
asleep in car at place east of Har-
risburg Pa. In the car there were
five barrels of gasoline. One of the
men struck a match and instantly the
car was filed with fire. Two men
were burned to death.
Deposits in the savings bank of the
state of New York amount to 81, 49,
PSI ,943.
Russian agents have given up ship
ping supplies to the Pacific coast and
agents are seeking to purchase stores at
London and New York for shipment to
Baltic ports.
Burglars attempted to steal George
Washington's will from the vault of
the Fairfax, Va, court house by blow
ing off the combination lock. This
was heard by many and the thieves
fed.
The Gar and Czarina are in a deplor-
able state of mind over the war. 1t is
feared the Cars mind is giving away.
The Czarina goes from one paryoxyism
of grief to another.
A man in Philadelphia was stabbed
in the heart. Surgeons lifted the
heart out of the body and took six
stitches in it. They then replaced the
heart and the man is recovering.
President Smith of the Mormon
church said in his testimony in the
Smoot case that not over two per cent
of the Mormons practice polygamy.
All grades of refined sugar were
again advanced in New York on March
Z Eve cents hundred pounds
Tie lower house of the Iowa legisla-
ture has passed bill making chicken
stealing felony punishable with inn
prisonment of two years and a fine of
$500.
The general Office building of the
New York Central railroad at oswego
is destroyed by fire. The American
Express company's Office and four sso-
ries of the Lake Shore hotel also were
burned.