Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-21
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fire has destroyed the Pittsburg,
Kan, marble works.
Admiral Schley, when he sails, will
proceed at once to Delagoa bay.
There are forty nations represented
in the commercial congress in Phila-
delphia.
The entire reserve force in Nova
Scotia will soon ship from Halifax to
Cape Town
And now there is p scheme, started
by ladies, to present Admiral Schley
with a home.
Chicago is laying cedar block pave
ments and crowds steal and carry into
their houses great quantities of the
blocks.
Madrid merchants threaten to close
their shops as a protest against exces-
sive taxation. 1t may result that mar
tial law will be proclaimed.
The arrival of Admiral Dewey in Yer
mont was signaled by bonfres and
Bearchlights on tall mountain peaks
from one end of the state to the other.
The influential Hanover Courier con-
siders that Germans chances will be
very poor, if England vanquishes the
Beers, as then German Southwest
Africa will be lost.
The blacksmiths and boilermakers on
The western district of the Canadian
Pacific railroad are on strike The
| company offers to remedy individual
| grievances, but refuses to recognize the
union.
It is said that Ex-President Harri-
sons fee for taking Venezuela's cause
| before the commission at Paris is $780,
BOO. The unsettled situation of the
Venezuela government may delay, if
not defeat, the collection of the fee.
It is said that the Twentieth Kansas
men who live in cities of the first and
second class will lose their votes be-
PAUSE they cannot reach home in time
to register, which is required by law to
be done ten days before an election.
The Croker estate has given the
Croker homestead at Sacramento, to
be used as a hospital for the Southern
Pacific railroad employees. The build
ing and grounds are valued at $780,
200.
Sir Michael Herbert succeeds Lord
Pauncefote as British ambassador to
the UAited States.
Tho ,oorSo1,ol ,,,c,oo,+,- oe-oe-,,,o4 -
| Pullman's Palace Car company. repre-
senting holdings in Cook county, was
raised by the board of review from
800. 900 to So. 900, 900.
On Oct. IL, 40 years ago, Columbus
sighted land OF one of the West India
islands. The incident has been cele-
brated IN some American cities.
The Canadian Pacific has shown a
disposition not to Join the bureau of
the western roads on emigrant traffic,
and has made some rate reductions
which have affected the American
lines.
Twenty-Five hundred soldiers left
San Francisco for Manila September 80.
They were of the S2nd and SD regi-
ments; also rs unassigned recruits.
The Central Pacific Railroad COM
pany has deposited in the United States
treasury s47, 900, 900 in per cent gold
bonds to secure the government that
amount of notes due the government
on the purchase of the road last Jam
nary.
Many coffee planters are abandoning
their Mexican properties and are going
into mining until the low price of cof-
fee improves, but on the other hand
some large plantations have recently
been bought by foreign capitalists who
have faith in the future of the business.
Australian packers are surprised and
| dissatisfied because the British war Of
Zee has contracted for canned meats in
Chicago. They had prepared increased
stock, expecting to supply this de-
mand.
The salt trust has bought and closed
the salt plant at Akron, o., leaving 3
large number of men idle.
Near the Straits of Magellan, the
British chip Clifford rescued five mem
bers OF the crew Of the British steamer
Tekoa, which had been wrecked o.
Staten Island