Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-23
Grain.
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Australian federation is an almost
accomplished fact.
The st. Louis exposition opened it's
sixteenth successive annual exhibition
Sept, II.
The University OF Missouri has
thrown open its doors TO citizens of In
dian Territory.
a British nobleman is at Seattle re-
turning from the Alaskan mines, par
alyzed by scurvy.
The Cramps Shipbui1ding Company is
endeavoring to compromise with its
striking blacksmiths.
A demonstration Of sympathy for
Dreyfus was made in Hyde Park. Lon
don, on Sunday afternoon.
Young officers in the British army
have been shaving off their mustaches,
contrary to regulations and the Mar
quis of Landsowne regrets it officially
Panama is bankrupt. The subaItern
employees of the judicial administration
have had no pay for eighteen months
The military officials are paid regular
".
Kansas City, Kan, has, in course of
erection, a large cotton seed and linseed
| oil plant. 1t is located just west of the
city limits on the Rock Island and Union
Pacific tracks. Tt is about ready for
operation.
A drunken man caused an accident
on Kansas City, Mo-, cable line, on an
| incline. Five women We're badly hurt
| and many more bruised. Women were
| lying along the track for block, and
their cries for help were pitifuI.
Prophets suggest that the Beers will
take time and diplomacy by the fore
lock and raid Natal. confscate the
minis. arrest the Uitlanders for high
| treason, and otherwise resent, while
the British transports are in mid
! ocean.
The Paris Temps urges 2 pardon for
Dreyfus, to permit France to occupy
herself with the exhibition.
The Methodist Preachers Association
of New York resolved about the
shameless miscarriage of justice in the
recent condemnation of Captain Drcv-
| fus
| The American Jewish Year Book, Just
| issued, estimates the Jewish population
| of the United States 1T !, O43, 800. New
York has more than any other state,
400 200, and Illinois stands second with
5000.
! The board of aldermen of New York
City. in a series of resolutions. express
sympathy for Dreyfus and indignation
against the French nation
a New Yorker living in Paris has
offered the Berlin University s25. 900 to
endow a professorship of American
! Antiquities.
New York City paid s150,O0 for ma
terial and labor for the great arch of
welcome prepared for the Dewey recep-
ton. The Sculpture Society volunteers
ed to do their work upon it for moth
ing.
! The Methodist Ministers Association
OF Chicago used emphatic language in
condemnation of the Dreyfus verdict
Cuban planters object to free impor-
tation Of eoffeefrom Porto Rico, which,
they say. viii kill Cuban coffee indus
try.
Queen Victoria. it is reported, has
sent to Emperor William priced copy
OF her family tree. showing King David
at the top. A pet idea entertained Big
the queen is that she is descended from
the psalmist through Zedekiah's eldes;
daughter.
| The bubonic plague in Portugal
shows no tendency to spread but rather
appears to be dwindling.
Cuba has less population than Kan
sas, by probably 10000.
] All dates made for Star Pointer have
been cancelled, on account of his injur-
ing himself at New York
The Kansas City board OF trade de-
nounced the conviction of Dreyfus, and
says, France presents to an astonish-
ed world the pitiable spectacle of cor
rupt people too impotent to purge it
SELF"