Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-03-31
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The mayor of Centralia. Mo-, has
resigned to become a rural mail ear
rier
Citizens of Rich Hill, Mo-, have sub.
scribed literally to fund to sink a
prospect we'll
Senator Burton in his testimony in
the bribery case denies all wrongdo.
ing in his acts as charged.
The Indian appropriation bill is sus-
pended until it is known whether all
of the Dawes commission will resign.
The Fruit Growers association, at
Gentry, Ark, is trying 90 find 5000
berry pickers. Gentry has only 500
people.
The report of health department of
Kansas City shows that pink eye" is
the most prevalent malady among the
people.
A horse buyer at the Kansas City
stockyards is under arrest for securing
$500 at indianapolis, Ind, by alleged
Misrepresentation.
! The Russian general in command in
Manchuria reports to the general staff
that there troops are in splendid health
and that spring weather prevails.
Filipinos, about 300 of them. were
enroute to the worlds fair on special
| train, which stopped at st. Joseph, Mo-
I tn 1l1na u Of -.
hospital there.
A man at Ramona, l, T., drilled for
oil but got none. He bought SIS
worth of crude oil and poured it into
the hole. Experts pronounced it a
great find. A sucker was found to buy
| it.
The San Francisco mint is making
United States coin for the japanese
| government, from gold sent here for
such coinage, to be used for buying
supplies for the japanese army and
navy.
Nenia, Ohio, built an electric light
plant costing 100000 The cost of
lighting was SOB per lamp a year.
| The plant has been sold for 81 500, the
buyer contracting to furnish light at
500 per lamp.
The two so-called "Jim Grow" bills
passed by the Maryland Legislature
have been approved by Governor
Warfeld. They provide for separate
accommodations for negroes on rail
road trains and steamboats,
Kaiser Wilhelm is touring the cities
along the Mediterranean. receiving the
homage which seems to delight him.
Gov. Cummins of Iowa has been sick
| from a severe attack of pneumonia, but
his chances for recovery are improving
The New Mexican Cattle Growers
association, in session at Roswell,
adopted a resolution favoring a ma
tional leasing law.
Projectors of independent packing
packing plants hold options which run
until May / on the Kansas City plant
of the Dold company.
The Santa Fe is building oil tanks
and reservoirs for oil at division points
in California. Some of these will each
hold 5000, coo gallons of oil.
A Russian of the consulate at st.
Louis says that the middle class Rus
slams are not in favor of the war, and
war. -
In the building trades in New York
city it is estimated that 10000 men are
out of work, and the number is in
creasing daily; all from labor dis
putes.
Hand and tourist cameras, not on
tripods, will be permitted to be used
at the Worlds fair
A windstorm did damage on March
% in Christian county. Ky, amount
ing to thousands of dollars.
The birth rate among the foreign
born in Massachusetts is 81 per 1000;
among the native-born it is IL
The United States court of appeals
sitting at St. Louis has issued injunc-
blOuS dSdlHSI TdllTOdu llcheD DrOherS.
to prevent scalping Worlds fair ex-
cursion tickets.
A considerable number of refugees
are migrating from Santo Domingo TO
eastern Cuba.
General Wood has captured the last
strong fort of the Moros, on the island
of Jolo.
Eighteen Minneapolis flour mills,
owing to the poor condition of the Hour
trade, have shut down indefinitely A
thousand people are out of work.
Harrodsburg. Ky, is cut off from its
supply of water because the city owes
the water company $1,000 and has
made no provision to pay
letter written by Washington DUR
ing the revolution has been sold at
Philadelphia for 81. 900.
The United States naval hospital
ship Solace has. arrived from Manila
via Guam and Honolulu
The government is now turning out
some very handsome $1,000 and $40, 900
bills.
The Employers association of the
United States includes every branch of
manufacturing, and the organization
is making national campaign in favor
of the open shop.