Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-16
Grain.
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Fifty-first Iowa regiment will
start for San Francisco about Sept IS
There is much sickness among the
men.
A building boom has struck Manila
and some large buildings are to be
erected, twenty-six permits having been
taken out
An electric street car coIlided with
wagon load of children, in St. Louis,
fatally injuring two and badly hurting
four others.
The increase of the worlds supply of
coffee. in August. was $40, 900 bags In
consequence coffee is lower in whole
sale centerS.
F. P. Metzger, who was appointed to
a position in the general land office
from Kansas, has resigned on account
of poor health.
Richard Calling, of Calling gun fame,
to devising improvements for agricul-
tural machinery.
Orders for recruiting two additional
negro regiments have been made; TO be
organized with company officers and
privates exclusively all coio-ed men.
A commission has sailed from Havana
for the United States to engage masons
and laborers to take the place of the
native workmen who are out on strike
Many intending exhibitors at the
Paris exposition, in Hungary. have
withdrawn their notices of participa-
ton on the ground that it will be I'M
safe to exhibit the valuable works of
art it was their intention 20 send. They
fear revolution in Paris.
An association is forming made up
of bankers, cattlemen, commission men
and others who loan money on cattle,
to protect live stock dealers from swim
dlers. The plan includes employing
the PinkertOn anency to hunt down the
thieves and secure convictions.
The London press is filled with de-
nouncements of the Dreyfus verdict
Numerous sermons. in London churches.
were severe in condemnation of France
militarism, as exhibited in this trial
The e. S. transport Morgan City
struck reef on the coast of Japan and
is wrecked. Its cargo of supplies for
Manila, was almost all lost.
The Rock Island has arranged for
Western Union electric clocks to be
placed in all its stations The time
will be corrected daily from Washing
ton.
A consignment of carrier pigeons for
military service has been sent from
Dover, England, to the United States.
The average daily attendance at the
extension of the school system is ad-
vocated.
Governor Gamblers Minute Men, a
company of 100 officers and priyates.
composed of young men in Marietta,
Macon and Atlanta, Ga. has made ap-
plication with Secretary of War Root
to be accepted as company for service
in the Philippines.
The bubonic plague in Portugal
shows no tendency to spread but rather
appears to be dwindling.
The pension committee of the G. A. r.
encampment presented report which
was recommitted to them, after hot
debate The report was not given out
for pnblicatio at the time.
The Modoc club. of Topeka, while
on their way to the G. a. R. encamp-
ment at Philadelphia. stopped at Hair
per's Ferry and sang John Browns
body'-at the base of John Browns
monument.
The Parliament building in Yelling
ton, New Zealand, is the largest wood
en- structure in the world.
a committee has been appointed to
secure good business positions for
membe of the Tennessee regiments
honorably discharged from the SER
vice.
At the fifth annual convention of the
Ancient Order of Pyramids. mutual
insurance order, organized under the
laws OF Missouri II was decided to
move the head offices IRON Topeka ia
Kansas City.