Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-06-02

Secretary and Mrs. Hitchcock spent
the past week at the worlds fair.
The first carload of the season re-
ceived in Chicago of California cherries
sold for So, 669.
Panama has established a national
real estate and mortgage bank with
81, 100000 capital
The fire at Yazoo, Miss, left SOC
families with no homes and half of
them are destitute.
Texas cattle are being dipped in
crude petroleum and then sent to
northern pastures without inspection.
The Cudahy packing plant near Los
Angeles, Cali, is destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at about $780,
900.
Eight million five hundred bushels
of coal was shipped south from Pitts
burg, Pa, during three days of last
week.
A general raid the is being made on
pool rooms in New York city. The
same thing is going on at Cleveland,
Ohio.
The negroes imported from Virginia
to fill the places of strikers at an iron
company's plant in Ohio were fired
upon in the night by strikers and their
camp houses riddled with bullets.
There is section of New Haven adj
jacent to Yale college, where there is a
reign of lawlessness Feminine resi-
dents are constantly in terror A Wig
lance committee has been organized.
The Russian and japanese govern
ments are competing sharply for the
purchase of transports in Holland and
Belgium. 1t is supposed that it is
their intention to convert them into
armed cruisers.
In the flooded regions in Greedy and
Nance counties, Nebraska, there were
thousands of stock drowned. Three
persons We're struck by lightning.
Trains were tied up by washouts.
| L Twelve lHCIlcS Oh rain 1ell.
The United States census bureau has
begun the work of gathering statistics
ing penitentiaries, almshouses, insane
asylums, etc Director North has APP
pointed about 1000 special agents for
this purpose.
Sixteen natives of che Aleutian is
lands, near Alaska, with full equip
ment for an Indian village, are on the
way to the worlds fair
In the nine months ending March,
1904, the total number of American To-
comotives sent to foreign countries was
312, valued at So, 463, O16
None of the bishops elected by the
general conference of the Methodist
church live west of the Mississippi.
Secretary Moody is indisposed and
upon the advice of his physician will
remain quietly at home for few days,
Fire at Newport, Ark, destroyed a
grocery warehouse, the Iron Mountain
freight station another warehouse and
an elevator.
The American Smelling & Refining
Company of New York, is distributing
500, 900 in cash among its employees,
on the profit sharing scheme.
All the burlap used anywhere is
made in India and is shipped from Cal
cutta.
Seven indictments were voted by the
grand jury in Chicago against the pro-
moters of race track hand books.
Secretary Taft writes from his camp
in the Adirondacks that he is getting
a good rest and is feeling much better
than when he left Washington.
During the operations of the insur-
ance plan of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers S12, 100000 has been
paid out in benefits averaging 500, 900
monthly.
James N. Tyner, the official of the
postoffice department who has had a
tediously long trial under charges
made against him has been acquitted.
The jury was out only % minutes.
A schooner laden with oil and mer-
chandise for Cape Nome caught fire at
San Francisco and one or two men
were seriously burned.
Amos Stillman, who claimed the
credit of running the first ferry boat
between New York and Brooklyn, and
the first stationary engine in Chicago,
is dead at Bloomington, Ill.
Ormonde, the world famous horse, is
dead. He was foaled in 1888. He died
at the Menlo Park stock farm. He
earned for the Duke of Westminster
stakes amounting to S142, 325.
Railroad employees are notified that
they must make their visits to the
worlds fair before August Is, as their
passes expire on this date.
Major V. NJ. Hobbs, who drove the
first mail wagon across the plains from
Independence, Mo-, to Santa Fe. is dead
at the age of 70.
Pension Commissioner Ware says he
will not quit the pension Office until
he is ''pardoned out"
For the last five years and more the
average dividends of the Standard Oil
Company has been A per cent year.