Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-04-21
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Panama railroad shows net
earnings for 1903 of 81, 746, 6ss.
Hayti has officially accepted the
invitation to participate in the Worlds
fair
The Bank of England has reduced
its rate of discount from 4 to az per
cent.
The bubonic plague is spreading
along the west coast of South Amer
lea.
The Roosevelt boys have been
brought home from school with the
mumps.
The recent pension "age order" of
the pension bureau does not allow ad-
ton to pensions heretofore allowed.
In Colombia an American gold dol
lar is worth 500 in Colombian money.
Board at an ordinary hotel is 5000 a
day.
Russia has received satisfactory as.
surances from China regarding the
japanese instructors and officers in the
Chinese army.
Chas. F. Smith, chief dispatcher for
the Rock Island at Dalhart, Tex, has
placed in operation a new form of
wireless telegraphy.
Among many valuable relics exhib.
tied in the government building at the
worlds fair is Thomas Jefferson's sun
dial, made by jefferson himself.
Amar Nath. an Indian prince, from
Lahore, India, was knocked from u
bicycle and probably fatally injured
Nath is a student at Perdue university.
at Lafayette, Ind.
Captain Boeddie, whose steamship,
the Kotic, was at Nagaski when the
war commenced and was seized by the
Japanese, will sail from San Francisco
to some Russian fort.
The Russian plans are predicated
upon Napoleons's dictum that God
fights on the side of the heaviest bat
talions," and the army is to be raised
to half million men.
The signing of the Anglo-French
colonial treaty confirms and adheres to
the treaty of 1888, with its provision
for the passage of the Suez canal. This
let's Russian warships through.
The United States transport Sheri-
dan from Manila, via Nagasaki and
Honolulu brought 300 native constabu-
larry of the Philippine islands and their
band to go to the st. Louis exposition.
A Denver judge decides that Colorado
has no law to punish election frauds.
New York city experienced mid
April storm Cor the first time in many
years.
At Findlay, Ohio, ten-year-old
school boy was killed on his birth day
while being hazed by the older boys.
All the paper factories in the federal
district of Mexico, six in number have
merged to control the output and prices
The Russian government are bar
gaining for transatlantic liners, to
form a flying squadron of fast cruisers.
The car has chosen Admiral Skey-
dloff to succeed vice Admiral Makaroff
as the head of the navy in the far
east.
Nome, Alaska. sends out warning
that there are at Nome more skilled
mechanics than can take care of the
work in prospect.
is ended with no change of old condi-
tions.
In the Fall River, Mass, Cotton
Mills 1,569,sss spindles are idle, for
an indefinite period.
U. s. District Attorney J. S. Dean is
still making war upon wholesale liquor
dealers who do jug" business in Kan
sas.
Admiral Makaroff, who lost his life
in the explosion at Port Arthur, is
well known in naval and military cir
cles in this country, he having been
here for sometime in 90 and 81.
Wild geese are so numerous in Cali
fornia that wheat growers of the
interior valleys hire men to ride over
their wheat fields and shoot the geese
that pasture on the young plants.
The house committee on banking
and currency recommends striking out
the clause in bill reducing the tax on
circulation to one-half of one per cent.
Rains have flooded the railways aud
blocked the roads throughout southern
Manchuria. The field telegraphs have
been interrupted and the country is
impossible
The U. S. canal commissioners have
been studying the sources of portable
water, within reach of the Panama
canal. 1t is needed for use of the con-
struction workers
A large number of automobiles, made
in Germany, France and Belgium have
started for the far east for use by the
Russians.
Mischievous boys set fire to the grass
and shrubbery in cemetery at Orange,
N. J., which is 200 years old, where
many soldiers of the revolutionary war
are buried
Judge Burton of the circuit court at
Richmond, KY, has declared invalid
all the various wills left by Gen Cas-
sius NJ. Clay. on account of mental
incapacity.