Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-05-12
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Macarthur the latter succeeding Cen
eraI Otis. =.
Canada seems slightly fearful of a
Fenian demonstration and is placing
troops on the frontier.
The arguments in the Kentucky gov
supreme court April 80.
Thousands of acres of timber land
are being burnt over Cedaryille and
Centre Group, New Jersey.
The New York NJ. E. Conference
urge revision of the rules prohibiting
dancing and card playing.
The strike situation is growing worse
in Montana. A train has been derailed
to blockade passenger trains
Captain c. L. Hooper, who command
ed the cutter McCul1och in Manila bay,
is dead. He was so years old.
Five students have been suspended
from the Ohio University for playing a
non-college man in ball game.
French telephone girls will give way
to men during the exposition as the
work will be too heavy for the girls.
The Iowa legislature defeated the
| bill to prohibit saloons within five
miles of state educational institution.
The Iowa legislature has passed
levy upon insurance companies which
| is expected to bring an annual revenue
Of $3O,OO0
King Oscar, of Sweden and Norway
who is now in England, expresses en-
phatic approval of England's course in
| South Africa.
A tool trust is about to put up half
million dollar plant at Pittsburg, Pa,
at which all the plants of the combine
will be centralized.
If any man is to blame for the Utah
explosion and the loss of nearly 800
lives it will never be known, as no man
able to tell the tale lives.
Guam has been having a census ia
ken, showing the population of the
island to be s,661; of whom 5,249 are
in the capital city of Agaia.
A steel bridge is to be built over the
st. Lawrence river at Quebec for which
the contract price is $4,000. OOO. The
bridge is to be 1000 feet long and is to
be $50 feet above the water Its mid
die span will be l 800 and the end spans
600 feet each.
The reorganization army bill passed
by the senate changes staff officers
from appointive to detailed. There is
a limit of four years to such details.
The sultan of SuIu has sailed to Sing
| apore on religious mission. Incident
ally he complains of the tariff estab-
hshed by the military American
| government. l
/ The national convention of railroad
commissioners will be held at the Pits
ter hotel. Milwaukee. on May %. of
this year. The railroad commissioners
of all states are invited.
Four hundred boxmakers and help
ers employed by the factories at Bay
City, Michigan, are on strike for more
pay.
Mrs. Conklin, OF New Vernon, N J.,
the writer of books for girls and or
ganizer of the Shut In" society, is
dead.
The senate has refused to elevate
General Miles to the rank of lieuten-
ant general
The Bishops address to the general
conference recommends the abolition
Of the time limit on pastorates.
The lord mayor of LONDON has a
mansion house fund for the victims of
the Ottawa FIRE.
a late dispatch says that the Panama
Canal company has been given az ex-
tension of their concession until April
1910.
The four hundredth anniversary
the discovery of Brazil is being cele
brated in that country and in Portu
gal
> - There are said to be many French
men among the prisoners captured
With Cronje snd now at St. Helena
Don't think because corporatio
has 10 81 lie it is on its uppers-
An old bachelor says that widow
are the only second hand articles tina
sell at par