Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-04-14
Chicago Future
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF,

Representative Cowherd of Missouri
Is elected chairman of the Democratic
congressional committee.
The Royal Bank of Canada has en-
gagged 5000, 900 in gold bars at the assay
office for shipment to Europe
At Washington three men were
killed and one fatally injured by an
explosion at the Pintsch Gas plant.
AT special meeting of the Cuban
cabinet the loan of s35, OOO, 900 taken by
Speyer & Co., of New York, was ap-
proved.
Prosecution of bigamists in Utah is
now in prospect since the recent mani
festo from the head of the Mormon
church
Japan has agents at Vancouver B. c.,
secure for the japanese army Cana
dian veterans who served in South
Africa.
The Swiss state council unanimously
passed bill making glorifcation of
anarchist crimes punishable by i'm
prisonment
An effort is being made to import
Italians into the Delta country along
the Mississippi river, to work cotton.
supplanting negroes.
John H. Dalton, of Chicago, plead
guilty to swindling country newspa-
pers and was fined $500. He ran a
fake advertising agency.
One hundred and sixty feet of the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern rail-
road grade at Bogg's Creek, Indiana,
were washed ont on April 8.
Colombia, since Panama was divorced
from it, is only about as large as Cali
fornia and Texas together. We VEN
that most who read this do not realize
its truth.
Former Secretary of the Navy John
d. Long will serve as president of the
new $4,000. 900 trade school in Boston
made possible by the will of the late
Arioch Wentworth.
Austin Smith, of Clinton, n. Y, is
the eldest living college graduate in
this country. He celebrated his Tooth
birthday recently and graduated from
Hamilton college in 1926.
No tea famine will result from de
lays of the Siberian railroad. 1t is
now able to carry 100000 pounds of
tea which has been lying at Port
Dalny since the war began.
1t is said that there are more sick
senators and representatives in WASH
ington now than ever before.
At Belleville, ILL.,, trial Jury was
taken to Jail for refusing to return a
verdict before their fees were paid.
The first voting for president and
vice president was done in 1904; one
hundred years ago, when the Twelfth
amendment came in force.
Charles Francis, a son of the presi-
dent of the st. Louis fair association,
works as a superintendent of truck
men at the fair grounds
As Senator Burton was leaving iSt.
Louis he said he was going to Wash
ington to take his seat in the senate.
The Iowa miners and operators failed
to agree and 1850 miners are on a
strike. Every mine in Iowa is closed.
The revenues of Cuba for the fiscal
year were SIS, 700, 3O2, and the expendi-
lures were SIS, 1913, 646. Truly good
showing for new beginners.
The Japanese Baron who is the man
ager of the japanese exhibit at st.
Louis, says that thus far Japan has
spent $500, 900, 900 on the war.
Subpoenas have been sent out for
witnesses to appear before the senate
committee on privileges and elections
in the Smoot inquiry on April 20.
Commander Geo. L. Dryer, of the
cruiser Albany, succeeds Commander |
VIM. E. Sewell, deceased, as governor
of the island of Guam.
Delivery is being made to the Santa
Fe of 100 new oil cars, each of $500 |
gallons capacity. They are intended
for the California oil fields. The Santa
Fe now has between 800 and 900 of
these cars.
All collieries in the Wilkesbarre, Pa,
district were idle while miners cele-
brated the anniversary of the eight
hour victory in the soft coal district.
The Russian imperial treasury is to
save nearly sle5, 900, 900 by economies
in the budget of 1904. especially in the
civil estimates. This is all to be de-
voted to war purposes.
The commercial mineral products of
the United States in 1902 exceeded a
billion dollars in value; the exact fig
ure being 81 ,26o, 639, AIS, which is a
gain over 1901 of 16. 02 per cent.
Seven prominent city officials of Mil
are under arrest for accepting
brides.
Manchuria has possible wheat land
area as great as that of the United
States. That country is two and a
half times greater than California,
with thousands of square miles of
wheat land as yet untouched.
w. R. Dick, of Winnipeg, a pioneer
lumberman of the Canadian North
west, who, for years, practically con-
rolled the lumber interests of the