Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-05-12
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

by the school board because he owned
a saloon.
The republic of Panama has a new
law excluding Chinese, Turks and
Syrians.
The U. S. treasury collected beer and
spirits duties last year amounting to
$17s, 900, 900.
The company that owns the ST. Jo-
seph. Mo-, Morning Gazette is to start
an evening paper.
There were many new strikes in Chi
cago on May 2, in all putting $500
wage earners in idleness.
Rich Hill, Mo-, is prepared to put
down four holes 1000 feet deep if oil is
not found at less depth.
Princess Victoria of Wales has re-
ceived royal consent to ride astride.
Watch the side saddle market.
The clerk OF the Hawaiian house of
representatives has been found guilty
of destroying vouchers for expenses.
At Nagasaki the people believe that
the Russian squadron in the Sea of
japan is in trap and cannot escape
The U. S. supreme court upholds the
Texas law prescribing a penalty
against railroads which permit John
ton grass to go to seed on their lines
The Venezuelan congress, after hav-
ing declared itself constitutional as
sembly, conferred on General Castro
full dictatorial powers for year, with
the title of provisional president.
The plague has broken out among
the Chinese collected at Kowloon for
transportation to the Transvaal The
charters of steamers engaged to con-
vey the coolies have been cancelled.
The French astronomer Touchet, by
using an ingenious method first en-
| ployed by Warren de la Rue, has sue
ceeded in making stereoscopic pictures
of Neptune, the planet farthest from
| the earth.
Hundreds of boys from the Denver
juvenile court will be sent into the
sugar beet fields near Longmone. Colo
RADIO, to work this summer. The boys
will be sent out in parties of twenty
five each, in charge of probation Off
Ger, and will be equipped with tents
and canning outfits They can earn
from 81. 20 to So day.
The use of Rnentgen rays in the hos
pitfalls of Germany has opened up a
new field of work for women. The
service of nurse for patients treated by
X-rays and as assistants at the use OF
them is of a very delicate nature and
Berlin courses of instruction to X-ray
nurses are to be instituted.
The current in some parts of the
Tigris river is SO strong that the Brit
ish steamboats, running on it some.
times can make no Roadway for hours
and are occasionally turned around
completely.
A Toxic newspaper sold many ex-
tras the other day on the headline,
Mobilization of the staff" Purchas-
ers of extras found that the staff re.
ferred to was that of the paper, which
was to be increased in view of the
great demand for news.
Although Bogota is son miles from
the Atlantic and only $50 from the Pa.
cific, it is less accessible from the Pa
cific because of the Andes. The town
is situated s,76O feet above the sea
the year round.
Several members of a mob which
lynched a man at Belleville, Illinois
last summer have been fined $50 each
Up to May 1 delegates had beer
chosen by Republican state conven
tions with sic instructed for Roosevelt
14s uninstructed, leaving $50 yet to be
chosen.
High water is reported from Kansas
City again and 1000 people were driv
en- from the low lands to higher place:
of safety. Many bridges are in danger
of being washed out and street anG
railway traffic is greatly retarded
Postmaster General Payne, acting
chairman of the Republican nationa
committee, and Secretary Dover, of the
committee, have issued a call for {
meeting of that committee at Chicago
on June Is.
The National Association of Retail
Grocers decided upon Cincinnati as tn,
place for the next convention
Japan is anxiously inquiring through
the United States government as t,
the fate of the japanese captured b,
Vice Admiral Makaroff's ships durin,
their raid near the Miaotao islands.
The general conference of the NJ. E
church at Los Angeles is the most nu
merously attended of any in the his
tory of the church.
Democratic state conventions which
met prior to May 1st, chose 1914 dele
gates, with 100 for Parker, for Olne,
80; for Hearst 80; for German IA; no
committed IS.
The board of appeals of the Ameri
can Trotting association has refuse,
the record of I:59s[ claimed to hav
been made by Cresceus at Wichita las
fall The report is quite emphatic.