Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-01-13
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

st. Joseph, No, is to have tin can
factory.
California is to have perfume farm
and factory, to be established at Mon
rovia.
Explosion of &C etylene gas burned
church at Eden, Nebraska, while
watch meeting was in session.
The annual meeting of the United
Confederate Veterans is to be held in
Louisville, KY, from May 80 to June
next.
The broom manufacturers associa-
ton has fixed as lowest prices for
brooms SO per dozen to jobbers and
| S3.25 to retailers.
Journeymen pa inters, of ST. Joseph,
Mo-, who threatened to strike, have Sc
cured an advance of 20 per cent in
wages and nine hours, instead of ten,
as days work.
| Money orders can be sent to Cuba
and Puerto Rico cheaper THAI they can
| be sent from one United States post
Office to another. The reason for this
| is that these orders escape the war tax.
The re-timbering of the main shaft
of the Kansas penitentiary coal mine is
finished and 300 convicts are at work
| digging coal to supply the urgent de-
mand for fuel on the part of the state
/ institutions.
| C. J. Hamlin, of New York, has
bought from his trainer, E. F. Geers,
the black four-year-old pacing colt
Direct Hal, for $4,000. This is proba-
bly, the largest sum ever paid for a
PAGER without record.
Collector Bliss, at Havana, is prose
cutting a local merchant for introduc-
ing tobacco leaf through the custom
house disguised as potatoes" He says
| the time has arrived when an example
must be made of somebody.
President Horace G. Burt, of the
Union Pacific, has presented to the
University of Wyoming, located at
Laramie, six blocks of valuable land
lying just north of the university, and
embracing about twenty acres.
Japan's house of representatives has
delegated one of its members to study
the trust question in the United States
The so-called Sherman antitrust law
was the work of Senator Edmonds of
| Vermont. The Senate finance COM
mittee framed bill and Senator John
Sherman reported it from that COM
mittee to the Senate The bill was
then referred to the judiciary commit
tee and Senator Edmunds drafted for
that committee, and reported to the
Senate, the bill which was made law
without the change of a word,
During the past year Colorado has
produced more gold than Alaska and
the Klondike together.
The Bird Canning company. which
has plants at Topeka, st. Joseph and
several other points, viii put one in at
Olathe.
Percival Powell, of Boston, and
David P. Todd of Amherst College will
make a tour of the important observa-
tories of Europe and then visit north
ern Africa to observe the total eclipse
Of the sun on May %. They take with
them "a inch telescope.
It is rumored here that the Bank of
Russia has advanced the bank OF Eng
gland $4,000, 900.
The earthquake of Christmas day
had marked effect upon the geysers
of Lower California, causing them to
spout with redoubled force.
The war departments assures Kan
sas conpIainers, through Representa-
tive Long, that they are not correctly
informed about hemp. The stocks in
the country are large and new hemp
from Manila will reach western farms
before next harvest, in plenty.
For two weeks from five to ten car
loads of canned meats have been load
ed at the Chicago stock yards daily
for New York by Armour and company
and the Libbey-McNeal & Libbey COM
pany. The English government has a
ship az New York which takes 3. 900, ooo
pounds ofthese goods to South Africa.
T G. Fish, president of-fhe Fish
Bros Manufacturing company died
December 81, at his home In C1intonr
Iowa. eyed Sc years. He was founder
Of the Fish Bros. wagon, beginning its
manufacture at Racine, Wis, in 1850.