The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-05-03
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

me IAl Isl NEWS IN BRIEF.
Anti-Jewish riots continue in half q
dozen German districts
Eighteen hundred coal miners have
struck at Spring Valley, Illinois.
Coffee trees of Nicaragua are attacked
by disease and will not bear fruit
The Santa Fe, Prescott s. Phoenix
road has been absorbed by the Santa
Fe.
A ge1ding driving horse was sold in
New York to a Boston man for SIC 900,
last week
cloudburst at Fall City, Nebraska,
washed out 600 feet of the Missouri
Pacific track
2oO-mile railroad is being talked of
for Madagascar. The cost is estimated
at $4,000, 900.
Miss Helen Gould received 1903 beg
ging letters in one week and her mail
is still growing.
The Transvaa1 government arsenal
at johannesburg has been exploded
with loss of life.
The Beers are said to be greatly
angered because General Cronje was
tent. to st Helena.
A company of aeronauts have left
with their military balloons for service
with Kruger's army.
Colonel VIM J. Bryan says he does
not intend to attend the Kansas City
national convention.
Work is stopped on the work at Sa-
bine Pass, the government appropria-
ton being exhausted
The Ohio legislature defeated the
| Middleton bill to prevent minors taking
| life insurance policies
Governor Allen, of Puerto Rico is on
his way there on the Dolphin, which is
| expected to arrive April p.
The treasury estimate of the cost of
! the war in South Africa, if it closes
within months is $3.50, ooo, 900.
| The Iowa legislature defeated the
| bill to prohibit saloons within FIVE
| miles of a state educational institution.
| A direct 1iue of steamers is proposed
| to be employed to carry grain from
Chicago to Liverpool direct, via the
| Welland canal.
Prince Won Hohen1ohe has forbidden
| the landing in German, Dutch Bel
| gian ports of meats, grain dairy pro-
| ducts competing with German agricu1-
| ture.
Governor Roosevelt was the principal
| orator at the celebration of General
Grants birthday this year, at Galena,
| Illinois.
Cartnagena, columbia, has fallen into
| rebel hands and it is thought that Mic
| araguans helped
The Beers seem to be preparing to
take up winter quarters in Natal,
where they are collecting enormous
quantities of provisions.
The labor unions of Chicago have
issued orders to boycott the Dewey
celebration by keeping away from it.
New York has a new law for shorter
hours for drug clerks; which also pro-
hibits drug clerks from sleeping in the
! stores
The census Office building is one
| story structure covering almost a city
block and has glass roof which makes
the place like hot house. Women
| clerks faint in large numbers on the
| sunny days
| Representatives Curtis and Calder
head have been heard by the appropria-
ton committee urging for improve
ments at Fort Leavenworth and Riley.
There are pipes and no smoking
tobacco for sale in Cuba or Puerto Rico,
| though these islands are extensive pro-
| ducers of tobacco
| Peoria, Ill, hotels have posted no.
tices in other cities asking commercial
travellers to keep away from there dur
ing the session of the state convention
in May, as they will have no room for
their old customers
Arrangements have been completed
for a direct line of English fruit steam.
ers from Jamaica next year. 1t will
be subsidized 5000. 900 annually.