Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-02-03
Chicago Live Stock.
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF,

f. y. Phelps, eN-mlniSter to England,
is very low at New Haven, Connecti-
cut.
The British losses in killed, wounded
and captured up to date are 1887 Off
GERS and men.
Horace Speed was promptly confirm
ed by the Senate as United States at
torney for Oklahoma.
Rubber tire makers have agreed to
increase the price of single tube bicycle
tires about so per cent.
The Burlington system is preparing
to build a double track road from
Creston to Murray, Iowa.
All the street ears in Troy, n. Y,
are tied up by a demand for 20 cents
an hour and d 10 hour day.
DR.. Swan of the Kansas board of
health, mas revoked his quarantine or
der against Oklahoma towns.
A bill is before congress to make it
unlawful to ship in interstate com
merce game killed IN violation of law.
The bacillus of the bubonic plague
has been found on dead rats in place
in Australia where d plague patient
was isolated.
Galleries in Hazleton, Pa, have
raised the wages of their 800 employees
? per cent and promise another per
cent next month.
A strike involving 5000 men en-
ployed on the Paris exposition build
ings is inaugurated. The strikers de-
mand one franc per hour.
The news of the abdicat ton of the
Chinese Emperor caused a tremendous
sensation in Japan, where it is believed
that Russia is at the bottom of it.
The official census of Puerto Rico has
! been finished. San Juan has 80, 500 in
! habitants, and Ponce has Sc, 900. There
are 957, 900 inhabitants in the island.
Miss Helen Gould has contributed
$4,000 to aid in the building of the
new home for the naval branch of the
Young Mems Christian Association in
| Brooklyn.
Governor Stanley and Secretary Co
/ burn of the board of agriculture have
suggested to James Wilson, Secretary
( of Agriculture, that he inaugurate ex-
periments in bringing sorghum syrup
to degree of perfection.
The records OF the immigration bu-
reau at Honolulu show that since June
/ 10 last Il, 500 Japanese have been land
ed there.
! There are several measures before
congress to form a government fo1
! Puerto Rico. They vary in detail but
are of nature to be easily recast into
a satisfactory law
There is a complete understanding
concerning church affairs between the
government at Washington and Arch,
bishop Chappelle, concerning church
affairs in the Philippines.
There will leave Kansas City on Feb
ruary IS special train bearing mem.
beers of the commercial club The train
viii pass to many towns in Oklahoma
to many towns in Texas. and on their
return will visit many towns in the In.
dian Territory.
The treasury department has held
that so-called sample bottles of brandy,
/ each containing about a tenth of a
quart, are not to be admitted free OF
duty as samples of no mercantile value,
but must pay the duty regardless of the
quantity imported.
The Iowa supreme court decides sus-
tanning the constitutionality of the
collateral inheritance law, passed three
years ago. It imposes a tax of 5 per
cent on all inheritances which go to
collateral heirs
Bishop Warren A. Gambler, of the
Methodist church, South, left Atlanta
for Havana to establish a church in
that city. He takes with him s., 900
raised by his personal efforts in Georgia.
This will be the first church and school
of the Methodist denomination to be
established in Cuba
The worlds supply of beans is short
The crop is short in all the larger bean
producing states. Austria, another
arge producer, is sold out
| Missouri is taking its fight against
the drainage from Chicago to the Uni
ted States supreme court The water
of the drainage canal is reported as
untainted at Joliet.
French railroads are still buying
Yankee locomotives An order has just
been received by the Baldwin Locomo-
tive works for 50 ten wheelers. They
are to be shipped by August L