Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-05-08
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Twenty-one of the surviving officers
who fought under Admiral Dewey in
the battle of Manila Bay celebrated
the 18th anniversary of the famous
naval engagement with banquet at
Washington.
Senator Thompson OF Kansas and
five of his colleagues recently called
on President Wilson and insisted that
the tariff remain on sugar.
The fiscal system of the United
States governing deposits of federal
funds in national banks has been rev.
olutionized by Secretary McAdoo OF
the Treasury Department who an
nounces that beginning June l all
government repositories will be re-
Quired to pay interest at the rate OF
2 per cent year. 1t is believed that
the new rule will bring into the fed
eral treasury more than 100000 of
revenue annually.
The Panama canal will be ready
for the first battleship to use as a
means Of transit from the Atlantic
to the Pacific some time next Octo-
Der, say the officials of the canal COM
mission. The total working force now
numbers 44,773 men, divided into
three shifts of eight hours each.
Tla x,nook 1yNIunipnnc natifinn QVpr
received by the Postoffice Department
was received at Washington the other
day, protesting against Sunday clos
ing of postoffices. 1t weighed twenty
one pounds.
The United States bureau OF educa-
ton has issued an appeal for agri-
cultural teachers in high schools.
BY a vote Is to l the senate canal
committee decided to put over to the
regular December session OF congress
all questions of Panama canal tolls
including the Root amendment to re-
peal the free passage provision of the
canal law.
In a decision of momentous import
ance, especially to railroads, the fed
eral supreme court has laid down the
general principle that a creditor OF
corporation, not a party to reorgani-
cation, may hold for debt the corpor-
atoms successor. Corporation law
yers declared the decision was d.
rect blow at the practice of reorganiz-
ing corporations to get rid of enor-
nous contracts or escape payment to
unsecured creditors.
Mortality statistics OF the various
states and cities for 1911, just made
public by Director Durand of the CEN
sus bureau, show decided improve
ment in the death rate throughout
the country. Seattle, Wash, has the
lowest death rate, S.S per thousand
and Memphis, Tenn, has the highest
rate, 21.3 per thousand.
Domestic Items.
Two men lost their lives as the re-
suit of fire at Kansas City which
destroyed livery barn and the four
story annex to the Helping Hand. The
two victims were employees of the
Helping Hand and were asleep when
the fire broke out. The loss was
100000.
Lands estimated to be worth from
$40,O00,00O to $6O,0OO,O00 have been
taken from the Southern Pacific Rail
road Company and returned to the
federal government by order of Judge
Wolverton in the United States dis
trict court at Portland, Oregon.
e. E. Kindley, newsdealer at Cot
feyville, Kan, was shot in the thigh
by robber who hid in the basement
of church. Kindley's wound is not
serious.
The main levee near rerriday, La,
has broken, turning the food waters
Of the Mississippi upon 900 square
miles Of rich farming country. Tween
ty thousand people are made home
less.
While Mrs. John A. Arnold waS
singing in the choir at a Muskogee
Ok, church thief entered the choir
loft and stole her hat and pins valued
at $40.
A woman sent to Jail at York. Pa.
on a charge of larceny went on a
hunger strike" and the authorities
were compelled to release her.
An explosive concealed among some
rags that were being fed into shred
der at a paper mill at Clinton, Iowa
was detonated, wrecking a part O
the plant, killing two men and injur
ing three others
At Ladysmith, Wis, Peter Fluri, {
farmer, placed a charge of dynamit,