Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-12-16
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THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

OhIanOma mas over 700 miles OF rail-
roads.
Charles Potter, the printing press in
ventor is dead, aged rs.
Much flour is being shipped from
Portland Oregon to South Africa.
Secretary Long in his report urges
the immediate construction of cable
to the Philippines.
Three hundred women employees of
an overall factory in Kansas City, Mo-,
have had their pay increased.
Webster Davis, assistant secretary of
the interior, has sailed for South Afri-
ca, to be away three months.
Willis ]. Abbott has been selected to
take charge of the press bureau of the
national democratic committee.
Senator Harris of Kansas, has been
appointed a temporary member on the
committee on privileges and elections
Ex-Attorney General Dawes says
that every joint at the Klondilze, near
the Leavenworth Soldiers Home, is
now closed.
Zamboango, lately taken in, has o.
600 people and is well fortified. 1t is
naval station much used by the Span
ish fleet in the past.
Clyde Mattox, the slayer of five men,
was convicted of manslaughter and
sentenced to twelve years imprison-
ment in the penitentiary.
The national council of the Grand
Army of the Republic decided that the
next reunion will be held during the
last week of August, 1900, in Chicago.
The Elgin National Watch Company
has SURPRISED its 2, 400 employees at FL
gin, Ill, by giving notice of the resto-
ration of the wage scale of 1892, the adj
vance being unsolicited
A steamer has started loaded with
structural iron for the United States
machinery building at the Paris expo
sition.
At the close of conference former
Senator Blackburn authorized the
statement that Goebel and Breckham
will contest before the legislature and
that all minor candidates will contest
before the state contest board
During the past year nearly two
thirds of the internal revenue of the
country was put up by the users of
whisky and tobacco.
The German government has con-
70 he Of 1ar
hibiting workmen's associations.
The severe cold snap continues in
Germany. In Berlin there has been
skating everywhere for some time.
The grain rates from Kansas, Neb-
raska, Colorado and Oklahoma terri
tory to the Missouri river, Chicago and
the Mississippi river, will be advanced
on January 1. Wheat will be advanced
2 cents and corn cent per 100 pounds.
The Colorado common point rate is to
apply as a maximum
Ward and Watson, who have been
operating get rich quick concern at
Minneapolis have found it convenient
to skip, having run out of suckers
The city of St. Joseph, Mo-, has de
clared forfeited the franchise granted
to construct water works costing $500,
600. A $4,000 bond given by the con,
tractors was declared forfeited, as the
time limit has passed
The ruling of the postofice depart
ment that no married woman shall
hold any position in the department
viii shortly go into effect
There are three contests for seats II
the senate, viz: VS. Quay of Pennsyl
vania: Clark, of Montana and Scott, O
West Virginia
There is row on among the New
Jersey lodges of the Knights of Honor
over the adoption by the suprem'
lodge, at Indianapolis, of a new as
sessment rate.
| Virginia steaming coal and Ohio sof
coal, is now reaching Duluth by an all
rail journey. costing ss.5O and $40
ton freight. The recent mild weathe
is all that prevented coal famine.