Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-01-06
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Van Buren,, Ark, has had $40, 600
fire.
A Frenchman has been restrained in
Cincinnati from enlisting soldiers to
aid the Beers.
1t is runored here that the Bank 81
Russia has advanced the bank of Eng
gland $4,000
Representative Curtis, of Kansas, is
confined to his house in Washington by
another attack of boils
British agents are busy in rural dis
tricts Of Germany hiring veterans for
service in South Africa.
The number of textile mills construct.
ed, or begun, in the United States in
1899, is 299, against 262 for 1893 and lis
for 1897.
The American Bell Telephone com
pany has declared a regular quarterly
dividend of per cent and an extra
dividend of IL per cent.
Russell Harding, the newly appoint
ed general manager of the Missouri Pa
cific, was formerly division superinten-
dent of that road in Wichita.
The Baldwin works at Philadelphia
have received a second order for ten
passenger engines for the state rail
ways of France, to be delivered in time
for the rush of travel to the Paris ex.
position.
An official investigation of the meth
DDS and purposes of the Kansas Grain
Buyers Association is going on. It Is
alleged that the association is a trust.
formed for the sole purpose of fixing
the price on grain.
Already %, 900 applications for pen
siOns have been fled by the soldiers OF
the last war. Pension attorneys are
working hard to multiply cases. One
regiment, the Ninth Massachusetts,,
has sent in $50 applications.
Hartford City, Indiana glass factories
have fired up. They have been idle
since last June This gives work to
1900 glass workers. The other mills
Of the glass trust in Indiana start up
at the same time, employing total of
$4,000 workers.
By buying government envelopes in
lots of 500 person can have his name
and address printed as return notice
without additional cost.
The ST. Joseph and Grand Island
railway company declared two divi-
dends during the year just closed,
amounting to five per cent on its pre-
ferred stock.
An order has been issued from the
Santa Fe Offices that the mechanical
department is to reweigh private line
cars often and to stencil correct weights
thereon.
The interstate commerce commission
has extended the time to railroads to
equip their rolling stock with approved
couplers, six months, is July 1, 1900.
The nominations of Chase Doster and
! Edwin E Carroll, both of Kansas, to
be second ieutenants in the regular
army have been confirmed by the sen.
| ate.
Buffalo" Jones, who is in Washing
ton, will suggest to congress that pro
vision should be made to preserve the
bison of North America. He claims tC
| have in Western Texas the only herd
| Up to recess the record of congress:
stood: Total bills introduced, 5,O15
joint resolutions 95; simple resolutions
IS; grand total. 5,175 measures Of al
kinds.
The news from the Argentine repub
lie about the new wheat crop is highly
satisfactory. The news from India
will be less favorable, some idea o
which may be gathered from the fac
that over million agriculturists ar
now in receipt of government aid. The
foreign wheat holder is frmer thar
the Englishman-
Secretary Gage is credited with be
/ ing offered the presidency of New
York City bank when he gets through
with the cabinet. The plan is TO OF
ganize the largest bank in the UniteC
States and place Mr.. Gage in charge.
The Rard & Latin powder mills a
Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, started n
, the other day. For more than a yea
the mills have been under construction
The plant is one of the largest In tn
United States It consists OF sixty-fiv
buildings. covering several hundrel
acres Of land.