Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-07-08
NEWS NOTES.


a disappointed officeseelker, who then |
committed suicide.
Constitutionality OF the eight-hour |
law, which caused the tie-up of Colo |
RADIO shelters, is being tested before |
the supreme court of that state
Charles H. Griffith, druggist,
Weatherford, Ok. was shot and killed
b. drunken man whom he was try
ing to eject from his store.
Five cranks called at the United
States sub-treasury at Boston and de-
manded that the 81 oct, 0O0 in gold
just received from the mint be turned
over to them. They had to be elected.
Chairman Il. Ingram of the New
Richmond, Wis, tornado relief COM
mittee, has issued an official circular,
which shows the money loss from the
tor nado to be $3.50, OOl. Subscriptions
thus far amount to about $50. 600
A letter supposed to have been
written by Explorer Andree was
picked up off the Norwegian coast. It
was in sealed bottle and read: 81
am leaving balloon and provisions
This probably confirms the story that
the Arctic explorer is dead.
The attorney general of Texas rules
that corporations cannot be chartered
in other states to do business exclu-
sively in Texas
A train load of negroes leaving
Pana fred fusilade from the train
and riddled the Office of the Pana Coal
company with bullets, but injured no
one. Free transportation has been
offered them and the blacks are scat
tering away.
Texas pine prices have advanced
sharply on account of the lumber
trust
Kansas has quarantined against Ill
inois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and Mich
igan cattle.
A railroad may be the civilizing in
fuence 20 bring the Clay county, Ken
lucky, feud to an end. A line is to be
extended into that county.
The Bakers are withdrawing from
the scene of the encounters with the
White Howard faction. They have
no leader at present
A Sicilian Inventor has contrived a
device which it is expected to make
collisions at sea impossible. It is
called wireless telephone.
Riots continue at Brussels, where
the gendarmss repeatedly charged the
people. The troops were finally called
out. Many civilians were injured and
the cry of "Vive la Republique" was
heard repeatedly.
Madame Dreyfus' house at Rennes is
guarded day and night. and no person
may enter without first securing her
permission
Governor Lownes of Maryland has
accepted Governor Sayers' invitation
to attend the antitrust conference.
Five men were drowned in the
river near GAINESVILLE, Mo. They were
employed by the Mississippi River
Commission and were occupants of a
slzif which was overturned
The wages of all the employees on
the Ohio River railroad have been in
creased
Sedalia has arranged for a street
fair to be held in the fall.
The official crop report for Kansas
shows a better wheat yield than ex-
pected-
Otto Carpenter tried to board a train
near Centretown, No., and was killed
beneath the wheels.
4WO pI4SOACES S1NGO O0G VI SAC
Plattsburg, Mo-, Jail.
William Anderson has been arrested
near Linn Creek, Mo-, on the charge
of killing his father, George w. An.
derson, and his housekeeper.
The official government report says
that the weather was exceedingly
| favorable for Missouri crops during
the week Corn is in good condition
and the wheat yield is better than ez
pected- Oats are being injured by
rust. Much hay has been secured in
good shape. Garden vegetables are
fourishing.
John w Gates identifies Alexander
Jester as the man who murdered his
brother twenty-eight years ago. Tho
Old man wept under his vehement &C
cusations and said God forgive me-
Mrs Street says her brother killed
a man in Kansas in 1870
The negro miners at Pana, Ill. have
no money to get out Of town and the
operators refuse to aid them
The St Clair county judges AGAR
outwitted the federal authorities and
transacted business undetected, al
though deputy marshaIs were on tbs
lookout for them
The Goulds will probably establish
a new system of steamships in con.
nection with the Texas and Pacific
line and Gulf ports
Miners at MoberIy are out on /;
strike in sympathy with the striker:
in the Indian Territory.
Captain NJ. V. Mosley, farmer, neal
Troy, Mo-, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the forehead at the bed
side where his wife lay sleeping.
Troops have withdrawn from Pan;
and another strike is on The negroes
and non-union men have been dis
charged. They are in al ugly MOOD
and the situation is. ominous
Oklahoma farmers are harvesting OF
Sundays.
A boy was caught on shaft at q
mill near UnionviIle, Mo-, and ground
to death
Ten men are on trial at Athens
Texas. for the lynching of the three
HumphreyseS Three of them have
turned states evidence and made con
LESSONS voluntarily The case has