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

E. Ii
Argentine ports have been declared
free from the bubonic plague.
Pirates are increasing in Chinese
waters and are more active than usual
Leslie E. Kelley, the inventor of the
Kelley cure for the liquor habit, is
dead.
WI Ting Fang is direct descendant
of Confucius, seventy generations re-
moved.
The president directs that the new
military post near Seattle is to be called
Fort Lawton.
The mines near Kimberley are to be
worked again, since that place has
been relieved.
Illinois carried off the prize at the
Lincoln, Neb., buttermaIzers' assecia-
ton meeting.
Five hundred and fifty mules have
been shipped from San Francisco to
South Africa.
late rumor is current to the effect
that General Cronje has broken through
the British lines.
There is a bill before congress to
provide the patent Office with a new
fire proof building.
Chicago railroads are proposing to
build an immense union station to
cover two entire blocks
French officials still cling to the hope
that America will adopt their Panama
route for the isthmus canal.
!: Secretary Root approves General
Woods policy of reducing the force of
United States troops in Cuba.
The Union broom company held
meeting in Chicago and pushed up the
price of broom corn another notch
Conference committees on the finan-
.cial bill, reported to each house an
agreement which had been reached.
The Union Pacific railroad is drop
ping off its employees who are over
certain age. The age is not stated.
A musselman mob surrounded the
British consulate, at Sidon, and
wounded the son of the vice consul.
Frank Cell, of Washburn college, took
first place at the annual oratorical con-
test of the associated Kansas colleges.
Gen. Fred Funston is now stationed
at San Isidro with three infantry
regiments and is in reality the mill
| tary governor of the province.
A company is organized with capt.
tai of Sc, 900, 900. to carry out the con-
tract for the construction of the Rapid
Transit railway in New York city.
The transferring of public works in
Havana from military, to civil control
causes alarm among employees, who
fear that only Spaniards will be en-
ployed.
The investigation of the Idaho labor
troubles practically places the state
officials on trial and the governor of
Idaho asks to be represented by attor-
neys.
Harry Vardon, golf champion of Eng
land recently defeated William Smith,
the American champion, and is now
champion of the world.
The industrial commission, having
heard the trust officials, will now listen
to workmen, superintendent and trav-
| cling statesmen. A sub-commission will
visit industrial centers for this pur-
pose,
The battleship Wisconsin is nearing
completion at San Francisco, and will
probably be ready for a trial trip be-
fore July 1.
Returned soldiers deny the reports
| that Manila has more saloons than
under Spanish rule. They say there
are as many first-class places but that
| ed
WI Ting Fang, the Chinese minister
to this country, has had conferred upon
him the degree of L. L. D. by the
University of Pennsylvania.
Princess Cantacuzene, who was Julia
Dent Grant, granddaughter of General
q. S. Grant, is i'll with typhoid fever
in ST. Petersburg, Russia.
Tie United States patent Office is a
source of revenue. The year 1899
shows surplus of receipts over ex-
penditures of S1s3, 673.
A delegation OF about twenty-five
Kansas educators, headed by superin-
tendent Nelson, go to Chicago to
attend the annual meeting of the ma
tional association of school superin
tendents.
An American syndicate is to con-
struct a $4,000. 900 steel plant in
Montery, Mexico Its first specially
win be making steel rails.