Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-03-04
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
Mrs Ben Teal. wife of a New York
theatrical manager, has been convict
ed of attempted subornation of per-
jury in connection with Mrs. Frank J.
Gould's suit for divorce. Mrs. Teal
was sentenced to one year in the penf
Tertiary
Tie Interstate Commerce commits
sion has decided that the present
rates on flour from Kansas City to
Chicago and New York are not unrea-
sonab1e The rates from Minneapolis
are cheaper because of water compe-
tition.
The man who has been making a
series of attacks on the women of
Berlin has been captured. He has not
yet been identified. In all there have
been 36 cases of stabbing of women
in the last two weeks.
carload of soft wheat recently
sold on the Chicago board of trade for
$3.50 bushel, at the same time car
of hard wheat brought $1.15 bushel.
These are the highest prices paid on
that market for many years.
The verdict of the federal court at
New York. imposing fine of $108.000
upon the New York Central Railroad
company on charges OF granting re-
bates to the American Sugar COM
pany, has been affirmed by the SUI
preme court of the United States.
Two thousand men from the Atlantic
battleship fleet with 140 officers pa
raded the streets of Norfolk, Va. The
! blue jackets marched between solid
walls of cheering humanity.
The Independent tobacco men have
protested to President Roosevelt
against the recent award to the to-
bacco trust of a contract for 100000
pounds of chewing tobacco for the
army and navy.
Vandyke Stops, son Of Finlay
Stops. of Pittsburg, Kan, was recent.
ly found dead in his room in Louis
vile, KY, hotel.
! Five men were instantly killed and
two others fatally injured in Jop
lin, Mo-, mine when, slab Of rock
weighing 80 tons fell from the roof
/ In the Cooper-Sharp trial at Nash
vile, Tenn, while the aged defendant,
Col Duncan B. Cooper, was on the
stand, it was shown that he had been
a defaulter for 100000 while a court
officer.
/ Practically complete reports from
the recent tornado in eastern Arkan-
sas show the number of dead to be
four, badly injured, 25, and les dan
gerously hurt 49, The property loss
will be large.
The Missouri supreme court has de-
cided that a city cannot divest street
railway company Of unused track, and
poles except through quo warranto
proceedings.
A UniYersalist church at Atlanta
Ca, is to operate a theater in the
church building.
The University of Paris has an
nounced officially that Mr.. Roosevelt
will deliver an address there in 1910.
John H. Order of Fort Scott has
been reelected grand master work
man of the Kansas A. o. U. ".
William Jewell college at Liberty,
Mo-, which was closed on account of a
smallpox epidemic, has reopened.
Because there were too many farm
-ers on the panel of $50 veniremen
summoned to retry the Standard Oil
case at Chicago, Federal Judge An
derson Quashed the panel and ordered
another in which Chicago men will
predominant.
The natural gas cases in which east
ern corporations seek to invalidate tie
Oklahoma law which prohibits the
piping of the fuel out of the state
were argued and submitted in the fed
eral court at Muskogee recently.
The town of Fisher. Ark, was
wrecked by a tornado the other day
only two buildings being left stand
ing. Six persons were killed and
more than a score injured.
The five Indiana counties which
held local option elections the Other
, Gay all voted dry
The Kansas senate has approved the
plan 10 establish an asylum for the
criminal insane in the penitentiary a
Lansing
After adopting a declaration of prin
ciples the North American conserya
ton conference, which has been il
session at Washington adjourned.
There have been 10000 deaths from
l cholera in Russia during the presen
| epidemic which has lasted $50 days
, In st. Petersburg there have beef
!, 1928 deaths.
Slippers OF Spokane, Wash, are pre-
pairing a gigantic boycott against tb,
, Thurman and Hill railroads