Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-02-25
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The safety of missionaries in Korea
is now considered as secure.
Feb. 16 was the coolest day in north
ern Ohio since Feb. 10, 1899.
Colombia has become quiet. Talk of
Panama seems to have subsidized.
On Feb. II there were 300 cases of
typhoid fever reported in Watertown,
New York
The Russian embassy is being flooded
with offers of assistance from Ameri-
cans in various walks of life,
Fire at Minneapolis, Mimi, Quilted
the Printers Exchange bnilding, ask
story brick. Loss, S12O, 900.
The mercury went down to "A be-
low zero on February II, which is a
new record for New York city
Seneca lake in New York, was frozen
from shore to shore from Starkey to
North Hector on February II, for the
first time since 1857.
Many organizations at Cleveland
have already taken up the proposition
of erecting a memorial in that city to
the late senator Hanna.
The school savings bank system
which has been put in operation in
many places in New York state is now
declared to be violation of the bank
inf act.
The request of President Mitchell
that all miners should quit work dur
ing the afternoon of the day of Senator
observed.
The people of the United States eat
up S15O, 900, 900 worth of candy in a
year, and there are nearly 5000 fac
tories making it, with capital of $685.
600, 900.
The report that the Japanese have
concentrated about 10000 troops at
Wonson on the east coast of Korea
with the object of entering Manchuria
| is confirmed
So many offers of military and medi.
cal assistance have come to the Russian
| embassy from Americans all over the
country that the Russian ambassador
has cabled to Russia for instructions
in the matter.
The union of the Presbyterian and
the Cumberland Presbyterian churches
of the United States was effected al
the conference at St. Louis; after
which a banquet was rendered the
members of the two committees by the
Presbyterian Social Union of st. Louis.
The large paint shop of the Delaware
Lackawanna & Western car shop plant
at Scranton, Pa, is destroyed by fire
Loss $780, 200.
BY the approval of the presiden
1000 printing artisans of Baltimore
have been given temporary employ
ment in the government printing of
fee.
Two hundred Beers are enroute tt
Mexico, their agents having purchased
| an immense tract of land not far from
the Texas line. More Boer familie
are to follow.
The blockade on the Central Pacif,
caused by the collapse of several hun
bred feet of snow sheds has been raiseC
and trains are running again.
Senator Hanna attended the publ
schools of Cleveland four years ant
| h.
Academy two Years. This is the sun
of his school education.
The japanese minister at Washing
ton is receiving numerous offers o
large contributions to the war funds
but it seems now to be probable tina
Japan will refuse to accept such aid.
The house committee on territorie
is patiently hearing the arguments TO
double and single statehood, made b
representatives of both propositions.
Diplomatic circles at Constantinopl
seem to expect that Turkey and Bull
garia will take advantage of Russia
preoccupation in the far east to settl
their differences.
The Korern emperor sent liberia
presents to the Japanese troops a
Seoul and other points on the PENN
sula. This marks decided change @
policy within week.
The value of the Mexican dollar a
Hong Kong has jumped two points il
as many days, reaching 4s14 cents. 1
has advanced there from 81 cents with
in year.
Two Baltimore insurance companie
have had receivers appointed; the Pea
body Fire company, and the Firemen'
Insurance company.
Senator Hanna was chiefly noted TO
his strong and comprehensive grasp o
practical questions. He was not
scholarly nor an ornamental speaker
but a sagacious and forceful thinker
Mrs Leland Stanford is said to carr
a larger amount of insurance than an,
other woman in the world. Her pol
icies amount to more than 81, ZOO, 900.
Sixty Chicagoans, many of them vel
Grams, have left for Japan in parties @
five or six They propose to sail TO
Japan on different ships
1t is explained that the reason VIII
President Roosevelt did not go to Cleve
land to attend the Hanna funeral, wa
considered by the cabinet as establish
ing precedent that would becom
burdensome.