Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-12-15
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THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

least ms health Is much improved
The Rogers Locomotive works at
Patterson, n. J., have closed down
finally.
The St Joseph. Mo-, police Judge
wants all tramps sent to the Philip
pines to be trained for soldiers.
Secretary Pruden has carried the
messages of all the presidents to the
senate for the past twenty-five years.
Joseph w McClurg, formerly a
member of congress. and the last Re-
publican governor OF Missouri, is dead.
JOS II. Manley. of Maine, is said to
have been rendered the office of com
missioner of internal revenue, to
succeed Commissioner Wilson, de-
ceased
Owing to attempts of Boer sympa-
thizers to communicate with Boer
prisoners near Cape Town, Maxim
guns have been in readiness for dis
turbance.
reports the prevalence of the foot and
mouth disease in that part of France.
Many hides are shipped from that sec
ton to America.
The men in control of sugar planta-
tions in Cuba have been authorized to
enlist guards to prevent incendiary
fires, now that the fields are dry and
very infiammable
President Mckinley told a Virginia
delegation that he is opposed to a
Southern States on account of their
DISTINGUISHING legislation
The service of the Santa Re fast mail
train out from Kansas City is II be ex-
tended to the Pacific coast 1t viii
also service towns on the Hutchinson
* Southern branch to Blackwell
1t is stated that an arrangement is
made for the Orient road TO use Mis-
souri, Pacific terminals at Kansas City.
on the start; possibly to run over Mis-
souri, Pacific tracks from Wichita
The City of Chicago, according to
court decision. has exceeded the limit
of its bonded Indebtedness, and must
stop building bridges and making other
improvements which have been
planned.
German marine officers discovered
Sir Claude Macdonald, former British
minister to Pel1in, and Lady Macdon-
aid personally experimenting the re-
moval of treasures from the Chinese
imperial palace to the British lega-
ton.
The governors of New Mexico and
Arizona made the trip to Washington
together to ask congress for statehood
for these territories
Governor Roosevelt win on Dee. 30,
address young men on Manhood and
| Citizenship" in Carnegie hall in New
York copy of his address viii have
| been sent to every Y. NJ. G. A in the
United States and Canada and at 4
o'clock that afternoon, simultaneously
with his address in New York, his
remarks will be read to the assemblages
in the various cities
Senator Frye, in debate upon the
1
cost limit in the bill. of Sc, 900, DOC
could not be reached for years; and
as subsidized ships must carry mails
free, the actual limit is s7.5OO, 900.
Consul Hollis. at Lourenzo Marques
reports that there are at that place 6OC
men and $50 women and children who
are about to sail for New York tc
accept homesteads promised to them
Several railroads. including the Santa
Fe. agree to carry these Beers free d
charge.
The Tampa, Fla. Typographica
union decided against sympathetic
strike in support of the striking cigar
makers.
A st. Joseph. No. justice of the
peace has performed 20 marriage cere
monies and has decided some 400 civi
and criminal cases since December 1
1890, during which time hig her eour
decides, he was not a justice OF thu
peace. The trouble arises over tn,
fact that he was elected in part o
the city while that part was outside
of the city.
There is a movement in the Metho
dist church in the United States to en-
list an army of 200. 600 each pledged Il
, persistent effort TO advance the CONVEX
sion of ten persons before January i
1902; a total of 1900, 600 accessions T.
the church being the goal.
one-ffth of the population of tn,
: United States is enrolled in the publ
: schools, Is, ooo, 600 of them; and 1900,
600 more are in the private schools
colleges and universities No othe
; country in the world comes mp to thi
standard.