Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-14
Futures opened firm.
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

in America this year.
The salt trust has bought and closed
the salt plant at Akron, O., leaving a
large number of men idle.
Admiral Dewey has deposited the
sword given him by Congress in big
safe in the navy department.
The mayor of Havana has prohibited
the use of the Spanish flag in that city,
except at the Spanish consulate.
Quantities of explosives was found
inside the Cape Town postofice, and
that an attempt has been made to muir
der the staff at the Colesbord railway
junction.
Captain E. c. Nichols has contracted
for the sale of the European right to
use his process for manufacturing ice.
Captain Nichols formerly worked in
the q. S. pension Office at Topeka.
The Canadian Pacific has shown
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
The Bank of Engl and at their week
ly meeting raised the banks discount
the weekly meeting the governors of the
bank had raised discount rate from 81
to Az.
Australian packers are surprised and
dissatisfied because the British war Of
flee has contracted for canned meats in
Chicago. They had prepared increased
stock, expecting to supply this de-
mand.
The Spanish government has sold the
Havana floating dock for 5000, 900 to
syndicate OF Vera Cruz merchants
Several New York firms have been ask
ed for terms for conveying the dock to
Vera Cruz
Six cars of horses have been shipped
from Maryville, Mo-, in ten days,
which were bought at an average Of
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61OO head. Practically all of them
were for draft and farm use.
The secretary OF war has issued an
prder disseminating the military de-
partment of the Gulf and merging it
into the Department of the East, I'M
der command of Major General Wesley
Merritt, headquarters at New York.
Helen Gould has joined the crusade
to GUST Congress-e1ect Roberts of Utah,
the man of plural wives.
During the whole of race week Sham
rock money has ocen shy; what wasput
up was about all SiOo TO SO on Column
bia.
Three of the four vessels now under
orders for Manila will pass through
the Suez canal, and will be available
to divert to South Africa should mat
tiers there take shape requiring the
presence of a United States naval
force.
Near the Straits of Magellan, the
British ship Clifford rescued five mem.
bers of the crew of the British steamer
Tekoa, which had been wrecked on
Staten Island.
Military Governor Ludlow of Havana
has taken the strike there under his
jurisdiction. He says he has room for
many thousands of Migrants in the
fortresses, that men who will not work
are Migrants. He kindly advises the
different classes of workingmen as to
the proper course for them to get their
| grievances attended to.
The personal property assessment OF
| Pullman's Palace Car company, repre-
senting holdings in Cook county, was
raised by the board of review from
/ 81, 500, 900 to IS, 900, 900.
Ex-United States Senator James Har-
Ian, OF Iowa, is dead.
The Arkansas deaf mute institute is
destroyed by fire. Nothing was saved
and all personal effects of the officers,
teachers and inmates were lost. The
loss to the state is estimated at $780,
900 and to private parties at $4,000.
There was NO insurance.
j. Il. Williams, a travelling man who
lost his position with the Drummond
| Tobacco Company when it entered the
trust, has obtained a verdict against
the company for $50 for breach of con-
tract.
Probably IS per cent of the people
who went to welcome Admiral Dewey
were from points within 500 miles OF
New York
Two hundred and seventy-six vessels
were built in the United States during
the past quarter; two-thirds of them
were built on the great lakes