Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-09
Wichits
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

UCP1l IAICHI n LIZ" OuyiHS COhCS III
Porto Rico
The U. S. treasury has received
So. ZIG, 900 from the sale of the old Gus
tom house site in New York
Dimes, quarters and half dollars are
beng turned out at all the minis as
rapidly RS they can be produced.
At Kansas City there is rush of
boys, at the recruiting sta ton, who
want to become naval apprentices.
A consignment of carrier pigeons for
military service has been sent from
Dover, England, to the United States.
: Howard Sutherland of West Vir-
ginia has been rendered the appoint
ment of director of the Porto Rican
census.
Miners in West Pittston collieries,
Pa, are in an ugly mood. In a fight
with repair squad one man was kill
ed and eight hurt
At the Usage payment, now going on
in checks, are being sent by mail to an
nuities, as has been the custom. An
nuities are being paid only to those
who sign the bills in persons.
The Belgian chamber of deputies has
rejected a motion to revise the consti-
tuition, the vote standing SO against 81.
The motion was intended to pave the
way for a universal suffrage bill.
Under a convention recently signed
many, to go into effect Oct. l, articles
of merchandise not exceeding IL lbs.
in weight, may go by mail, at 12 cents
per pound.
A man recently sold to Leavenworth
jointists a recipe for making whisky
out OF drugs. He charged s25. Fiji
teen jointists bought the recipe. The
revenue officers and the drinkers are
investigating.
Ar effort is being made by Kansans
in Washington and by Governor STAN
ley to get promise from the president
to visit Kansas aud to welcome the
Twentieth when that body of Kansas
heroes reaches home.
The Lord Mayor Talon, of Dublin,
and Hon. John T. Redmond, NJ. P,
have accepted an invitation to visit Inc
United States to inaugurate the move
ment in America for monument for
Charles Stewart Parnell
Repeated warnings have been giver,
year after year, to insurers of church
property in Kansas that the National
Church Mutual Insurance Association"
of Lisbon, Ia, is not authorized to do
business in Kansas, does not pay losses,
is in the habit of collecting large as
sessments after having accepted full
payment on five year policies, and has
cancelled some of these paid up policies
before they had expired.
j. G. johnson, of Kansas. has been
made chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the National Democratic
Committee.
John B Leoni, an Italian sculptor,
has been sent to the insane asylum at
Jacksonville. Leoni made much of the
heroic statuary for the worlds fair.
The water question at Denison. Tex,
is becoming a very serious one with
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, as
the continued dry weather is drying
up several of its largest tanks at points
on the line in north Texas
In the first six months of this year
the aggregate value of all the fish
landed in England was over SIS, O0O,-
900.
The first bale of cotton sold in Okla
homa brought Ga cents, The owner
was given prize of $50. Cotton is
opening rapidly.
Rock Island officials are inform ed
that old corn still on hand in Kansas
and Nebraska tributary to the Rock
Island road amounts to 800, 900 BUSH
els The old corn still in store in Iowa
is estimated at 1000 bushels
The SUMS, a new Mexican tribe, and
the Apaches of Arizona are out in a
ton is the end desired
Major John A Logan, son of the late
Gen. John R Logan, who was recently
appointed by the president major in
the volunteer army, has been assigned
to the SD infantry.
Eighty miles of icebergs are floating
down the American coast of the Straits
of Belle Isle They are reported by a
steamer from Montreal, which counted
more than 100 huge bergs
Yokohama has had one of those big
fires SO common in Japan, A square
mile of buildings was destroyed. The
famous theater street was burned
A London specialist gives Walter
Wellman assurances that the injury to
his right leg. caused by fall into a
snow covered crevasse, will not be
permanent
Men connected with the Missouri
Pacific have taken an Oklahoma char
ter for new railroad from Denver,
Colo, through the two territories to
Batesville, Ark.