Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-10-20
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

donated $500 for Galveston sufferers.
Four school rooms in Galveston have
been repaired and four classes are now
at work.
Nine hundred colored infantrymen
sailed for Manila from San Francisco.
October 1.
Deliveries of livestock in Chicago for
the nine months just closed were 2o0,
493 carloads.
Both of the assistant commissioner
chosen by China are members of the
progressive faction.
The census bureau gives the popula-
ton of st. Joseph Mo-, 1O2,979, az
against 1924 in 1890.
Admiral Sampson has been in feeble
health for more than year and shows
no signs of improvement.
The Santa Fe has contracted for 3Oe
coal cars to cost 5000, OOO They are to
be of $4,000 pounds capacity.
The striking Joplin printers, after
being idle two days, went to work and
an arbitration board is to be named.
A new SO counterfeit silver certift
cate has been discovered. It is pho
tographic print without the silk border.
General Cronje and other Boer pris-
oners at st. Helena celebrated the
birthday of Paul Kruger on October
10.
The children Of the public schools Oh
st. Joseph, Mo-, contributed $3.50 for the
children of the public schools of Gal
weston.
The American steam collier which
was sunk in the Suez canal, has been
f1oated and the canal is now open to
traffic.
The bulk of the British militia regi.
Africa are to be disbanded. In rank
and file they number about so, 900 men.
Steve Flanagan, pugilist was muir
dered in his fight with Jim Devine in
Philadelphia He did not regain con-
seriousness after receiving the death
blow.
The queen and maids of honor at
Butler, Mo-, rode in the parade in q
decorated cab, because the queens float
had been destroyed in runaway just
before the parade
Col. Cody and C. J. Jones will meet
in Yellowstone park, after the election
and from there will go to the noun
tains to capture wild animals which
are fast becoming extinct.
The Chicago Laundry trust is no
more. The independent laundries won
the fight against the trust.
BENZ. B. Campbell is dead at the age
of 73. He sank the first oil well ever
put down in the United States
All mail handled by rural delivery
carriers is to be stamped by the carriers
| and again stamped at the sending office
The United States has more than 5o,-
600 tons of coal at various points over
the world for the use of the navy;
nilla Large quantities are now on the
way to the far east.
Secretary Treasurer Ryan, of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of Illinois, tells the
Pennsylvania strikers that the miners
of Illinois have at least $500, 900 in their
treasury and would send tie anthracite
strikers $3.50, 600 if needed.
John Poone, the dead train robber, il
it really proves to be he, is remembered
in Kansas. He went to the peniten.
tiary from Shawnee county in 81 for
stealing chickens, but did not return
there at the end of his term.
Employees af the department of state
have been notified, by the direction of
Secretary Hay, that they will not be
Disseminated against In any way for
any failure to subscribe for political
purposes.
The opening of the northern half Of
the Colville reservation. in Washington
passed off quietly and comparatively
few contests are expected.
c. NJ. Scott, of Kansas, has returned
from Europe. He says that Americana
can sell a bicycle for SIS that cost the
English manufacturer $40 to make.
Telegraph communication between
Seattle and Skagway is now complete.
An association of public school
teachers in Missouri is being formed.
They propose an assessment of per
cent OF their salaries to create fund
to pension teachers after serving 20
years
The signal service squad accompany
ing General Chaffee to Pelxin, kept up
with the army with telegraph wire
and reached the American legation
with it ahead Of the signal corps Of the
other powers