Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-01-21
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

number at 800.
J The Russian government is said to
have threatened to occupy Pel1in should
China aid Japan.
The Legislative, executive and ju-
dicial appropriation bill, as passed by
the house, carries s29, 200.
The Colorado State Federation of La
Dor adopted resolutions denouncing
the state administration for calling
out the militia.
Charles Foster, former secretary of
the treasury and former governor of
Ohio, died of paralysis at Springfield,
Ohio, on January o.
Private Blake. of the 18th United
States artillery, committed suicide at
Santiago. Cuba. He hanged himself
by his belt in railroad cut.
There is a species of brook trout
found in Nebraska which are more
hardy and thrive better than those
from the hatcheries.
The celebration of the formation OF
the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
is to be held at Omaha on May 20 next,
the fiftieth anniversary of that event.
Brigadier Frederick D. Grant has as
sumed command of the department of
the Lakes in accordance with the ter
ritor;al redistricting army act recently
passed by congress.
The lower house of congress commit
tee on judiciary fixed February "a, %
and &c as dates for hearing of the
Grosvenor anti-union bill. The oppo-
nents of the measure will be heard
first.
The National Wool Growers Con-
vention at Portland, Ore, filled the
theater there with sheepmen from the
western states and representatives of
allied interests from all over the coun-
try.
The city building commissioner of
Chicago, when SO halls had been ex-
amined. reported that only five
needed no changes to conform with
the law The other SO were ordered
closed.
And now. after exhausting a long
list of material for railway ties they
are being made of scrap leather. They
are ground and nodded hard enough
to hold spikes, and are expected to last
80 years.
The Rock Island road has contracted
for IA acres at Tucumcari n. NJ, at SIPS
an acre, for terminals of the Choctaw
extension from Amarillo, Texas.
Ex-Congressman briggs, of Brooklyn,
has been sentenced to day in Jail and
a fine of $1,000 for accepting money to
promote contract with the postoffice
department.
Commodore William DUNCAN, L. S.
N. retired, died at his home in Balti-
more. During the Spanish war he was
a member of one of the navy depart
ment advisory boards,
The Pennsylvania coke trade has
started upward again. In a week 4, 496
more ovens were fired at Scottdale.
In England discovery has been
made of quick process of carbonizing
peat. which promises to the world a
vast supply of new fuel at a much
lower cost to the consumer.
If either Russia or Japan should ac-
quire dominant position in Manchu-
ria as the result of war, the United
States will still insist on retaining
whatever privileges in Manehuria were
conveyed to her by China by treaty.
The most reliable news received at
st. Petersburg is that the mass of Rus
sian troops in the far east are concen-
trated at Vladivostock or on the north
ern frontier of Korea.
Another attempt to wreck train in
Colorado has occurred. The spikes
and fish plates were removed from two
Grande railroad.
Unless congress relieves manila
hemp from export duty, France will
impose a tax on other goods shipped
to that country.
A house committee has reported IA
vorably on bill to set apart certain
lands in Arizona to be known as the
Petrifed Forest park.
A Burlington passenger train crash
ed through a bridge at Rockford,
thirty miles from Deadwood. and nine
persons were injured, several seri-
ously.
Seven hundred persons, men, women
and children, took part in a rabbit
drive near Echo. Oregon, and it is es-
timated that 10000 rabbits were
killed.
WI Ting Fang. the former popular
Chinese minister at Washington, has
been again promoted in the Chinese
foreign Office.
A Mormon party were crossing
prairie near Garland. Wyo.. and dis
covered current of gas issuing from a
} cleft in the rocks, which they ignited
and they were scorched.
The strike of the union type founders
which has lasted since October 1, has
been declared of by union officers who
instructed the men to return to work
at the best terms they could secure.