Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-01-07
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

A large part of Wheaton, Mimi, is
destroyed by fire. Loss 100000.
Captain Frederick Pabst, the Mil
waul1ee brewer, died on January 1.
The Russian government has ordered
$500, 900 pounds of American meats.
The powers" are resolute in their
purpose to apply reforms in Macedonia.
Earthquakes were felt on the morn
ing of December 81 at Penfeld, Paris
and Bloomington, Ill.
Judge Owens of Honolulu lost his
mother and his sister Amy in the
theater fire at Chicago.
Fargo Squiers, eldest son of the min
lister to Cnba, accidentally shot and
killed himself a. Havana.
Grant C. Gillette did not reach Kan
sas City on the day he had set for a
meeting with his creditors.
A destructive storm. with snow, in
Georgia caused several deaths from fly
ing debris and on a plantation every
tenants house was destroyed.
Japan has completed the purchase
of the Argentine warships Moreno and
Rividavia, building at Genoa. Italy,
for which Russia also was negotiating.
VIM. Page, an American, was caught
.,4 IN ho ~ 81
breaking He was sentenced to IL
years imprisonment and sixty lashes.
Burglars dynamited the safe of o.
Cohen. jeweler and pawnbroker, of
Des Moines, Iowa, and secured $4,000
in cash, diamonds, watches and other
property.
The postmaster general has appoint
ep Edward f. Kimball, of Massachu-
sets, superintendent of the money
order system of the postofice depart
ment.
The present Hawaiian light house
keepers are all taken over into the
United States light house service which
will pay them for their services from
and after January l.
1t is officially announced at st. Pc
tersburg that in view of the reports
current abroad of renewed attacks on
the Jews that Kishineff was never
| quieter than at the present time.
A leading society womao of Louis
vile. Ky. has had attachments granted
against her to secure the payment OF
notes given for grocery bills and mer-
chandise amounting to S14,7Ss. One
bill for groceries amounts to 900.
An important industry in South Chi
cago was tied up because union en-
gineer was told that his wages would
be cut, leaving $50 men idle.
| The Louvre hotel on Lake avenue,
Chicago, Il three story and basement
brick structure, is totally destroyed by
fire. Three persons were killed and
four others were injured.
The Chicago fire has aroused theate1
owners aud municipal officials every
where to the necessity of obeying city
ordinances as well as careful attention
to the condition of theater buildings.
The Republican congress convention
for the Eighth district of Georgia wa:
forced to hold its meetings in the
streets in very bad weather.
The Stationary Engineers union o.
Chicago demand their wages increased
from IS cents to 37z cents an hour
The demand includes 125 employed il
Office buildings.
Moses T. Clough, Vim. Shaw ant
BENZ. w. Kinney, three prominent mer
of Troy, N, Y, lost their lives in the
burning of the Troy club house. Others
had narrow escapes.
The Sociaty of the Army of the Cum
berland has decided not to admit t.
membership members of the telegraph
corps.
There are many cattlemen in Texa
who have come to the conclusion tina
perhaps overproduction has had just a
much to do with the slump in cattl
values as'h has market manipulation.
Fire at Bethlehem, Pa, damages
the large union depot. The Unite'
States Express company succeeded il
removing all valuable packages ant
over 100000 in money.
After a mild Christmas wild white
storm broke over New York whicl
caused number of marine disasters
The department of commerce an
labor is to take charge of the nava
reservation at Guantanamo bay, Cuba
In eight days time Minneapolis mill
booked orders from Japan for almos
100, 900 barrels of flour; with more O
the business in sight
James A. Remick, a capitalist an
lumberman, who owned large tracts G
lumber along the Pacific coast, died a
his home in Detroit aged 60 years.
A Typographical union is earnestl
protesting against the use of typesei
ting machines in the government print
ing office
A tornado in Alabama blew dow
several houses in Dundee Two Chi
dren were killed and several person
were badly injured.
The O. S. government has agreed
donate to. Santa Fe, n. NJ, the abal
doncd Fort Marcy reservation Of III
acres It lies in the heartsof rhe cit
and is called worth sibo,w 900. It wi
be used fdr high school.