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

A bronze bust of the late Crosby S.
Noyes, veteran editor of the Washing
ton Star, has been unveiled in the new
district building at Washington.
The international opium commission
has practically completed its work at
Shanghai, China. Nine recommended
tions for the control of the traffic were
adopted at the conference.
In the trial of the Standard Oil re-
batting case at Chicago, Federal Judge
Anderson ruled that each settlement
between the company and the rail-
roads should constitute an offenSe.
There were So of these settlements,
making the largest possible fine $780,
600.
The California legislature has passed
the bill providing for census of Jap
anese in that state.
H. M. Craddock of Kansas City shot
and killed one burglar and wounded
| another while they were engaged in
trying to force an entrance into his
dry goods store
A st. Louis building supposed to
be fire-proof, occupied by the Mulvihill
Furniture coRlpany, was damaged to
the extent of 100000 by a recent
blaze.
At Cleveland, O., three persons
injured when Pennsylvania railroad
train struck crowded street car on a
grade crossing.
The next session of the Trans-M Mis-
souri, Dry Farming congress will be
held at Billing, Mont. The permanent
headquarters will be in Denver.
To meet the reduction in the prices
of steel products recently announced
a reduction in wages will be made be.
ginning May 1.
The recent primary election cost
the city of Evanston, ILL.,, $2S for each
ballot cast.
A tornado struck the towns of Reece
and Utopia in Greenwood county
Kan, causing much destruction of
property and injuries to several peo-
pie. Among the buildings destroyed
were a church, schoolhouse and a
depot
The Greek residents of the packing
house district of South Omaha have
left the city since the recent riots.
An Ecuador passenger train plunged
over a cliff 100 feet high and was
dashed to pieces in the bottom of q
ravine. twenty-five persons were
killed and 40 wounded
The national meeting of the Frater
nal Order of Eagles will be held al
Omaha September 13 to 20 inclusive.
The ancient celebration of Washing
toms birthday which Philadelphia has
annually observed for years, was par
ticipated in by President-elect Taft
He was guest of honor at the annua
dinner of the First troop of Philadel
phia City cavalry which has enter
tanned every president from Washing
ton to Roosevelt.
The 16 ~battleships which made thu
remarkable voyage around the worlt
were reviewed at Hampton Roads b!
President Roosevelt from the zach
Mayf1ower. The vessels returned, at
ter travelling $4,000 miles, in bette
condition than when they started
The president visited each of the flag
ships of the fleet and addressed tn,
officers and men.
At the Alaska-Yukon Pacific expo
sition grounds in Seattle Wash, min,
: men were entombed by a cave-in o
a sewer trench.
The constitutionality of the anti
trust law of Arkansas has been upheld
by the federal supreme court in thu
: case of the Hammond Packing com
pany of Chicago.
Grant Hornaday says he will not re
open the First National bank of For
Scott, Kan The affairs of the insti
tuition will be closed up as soon a.
: possible. -
| Robbers recently entered the depo
; Office of the Wells-FargoIE Express com
pany at Hutchinson, Kan, and killet
Jesse Haymaker, the night man.
, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt ha
, given more than S1,000,000 for tn
. erection of four model tenements il
] New York for persons suffering wit
tuberculosis.