Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-07-28
Chicago Live Stock.
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

While European crops are backward
wheat seems likely to make, an average
crop.
Silver dollars are scarcely ever seen
in New York in circulation from hand
to hand.
Sioux City has had six inch rain
with streams out of banks and crops
damaged.
Senator Gear of Iowa, just buried,
went to Fort Smelling, Iowa territory,
in 1888.
A general rain has fallen over nearly
all of India. The famine areas are
benefited.
Prisoners taken as Beers and sent to
Cape Town included SO Englishmen
and Irishmen.
Miss Jessie Norman. society leader
of ST. Joseph, Mo-, is quarantined
with smallpox.
Fire in the Boston navy yard caused
a loss of S194, 900, on buildings, stock
and machinery.
A cable from Cape Town says that
10, 600 Beers of the Transvaal, viii
emigrate to America.
Spanish-American war veterans are
to hold a national meeting at Chatta-
nooga, October S-13.
President Mckinley has accepted the
70
annual encampment in Chicago.
Rev. c.. NJ. Sheldon addressed 20, 200
people at the Christian Endeavor world
convention on Commercial Problems"
1t is expected that three brigadier
generals will be ordered to China and
that they will be Gems. Grant, Hall
and Bell.
The people of St. Louis are holding
mass meetings to protest against the
continuance of the strike and boycott
by the ex-street car men.
Bocas del fora, in Jamaica, has been
visited by hurricane which was very
destructive, and il was followed by a
fire which swept the town.
President Mckinley received the
news from Minister Conger as he left
the train in Canton, where he had just
returned from Washington.
The Yaqui-Indians have been active
again of late and the Mexican troops
who are operating against them have
been reinforced with four regiments
from HermosilIo.
In San Francisco fund of SIS, 4O5
was raised for the benefit of the family
of a fireman who was killed while on
duty.
A German relief column went to res
cue party of thirty German, Ameri-
can and English missionaries in China,
and conld not find them. 1t is believed
they had been slain.
The Third regiment of the Missouri
national guard, at Kansas City, has
rendered its services to the president.
1t is expected that the First regiment,
at st. Louis. viii take like action.
Clear water in the Chicago river is
lessening the city revenue from water,
factory owners drawing their supply
from the river.
Kang Yuh Wei. for whose head the
dowager has offered 1000, has been
the adviser of Emperor Kwang Hsu,
and is considered in South China as
the wisest man in China since Confu-
cius.
An explosion wrecked a store in
Naylor, Pa, and fragments of a mans
body were found. 1t is supposed he
was safe blower.
A member of the Transvaa1 council
has been arrested at his house where
was found 5000 pounds of bar gold and
quantity of arms
Counterfeiters in Manila are doubt
ling the value of Mexican silver coins
by melting them and giving them the
stamp of American money. Arrests
have been made.
The Minnesota supreme court sus-
tains the law requiring all baking
powders to bear labels showing the
names and amounts of the substances
they are composed Of
The government has decided to have
built six submarine boats, to be placed
in the principal harbors, two of them
on the Pacific coast.
London has been suffering terribly
with heat. The hospitals were crowd
ed. Nine fatal eases in one day. La
borers quit work during the hottest
hours
There is still public land in Missouri
subject to homestead and presumption
entry s37.74s acres At the present
rate OF entry they wiz all be taken mp
within five years.