Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-06-09
Chicago Live Stock.
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

About $1,000 is paid out each week
by Paola hog buyers.
Five thousand fresh troops are aboat
to sail for South Africa
All grades of refined sugar have been
advanced another 10 points.
Ii Hung Chang has been confirmed
in the viceroyalty in Canton.
Denmark is fortifying Christiana
and buying quick firing field guns.
Another 10 cents advance on a hun
dred pounds of sugar has been made.
Americans in Paris observed memo
rial day at the grave of General La
fayette.
The white population of Alaska was
1000 in 1890 and is now estimated 10
be 1000.
The president has appointed z. f.
Stackeable collector of customs for the
district of Hawaii.
Emperor William congratulated
Queen Victoria by wire upon the sue
cess of Lord Roberts.
The great paper mill and warehouse
at Parke Falls, Wisconsin. is destroyed
by fire, at loss of $500, 900.
The government does not approve
the bill passed by the Prussian diet
taxing large department stores.
Commissioner of Pensions Evans
figures it out that there will be a few
survivors of the civil war left in 1910.
Americans in Berlin hung American
flags at the embassy and consulate and
celebrated in the evening at a restau-
rant.
The tenth biennial reunion of the
Society of Cookers Iowa Brigade viii
be held at Keokuk, Ia, on September
&c and 81.
Correspondence has been found show
ing the Beers invited the BasutOs-
savages to rise and drive the British
| into the sea
Conrad Blair died on the farm in
Miami county, last week, which he
took as claim 43 years ago. and has
lived on ever since.
The American authorities at Hong
Kong have employed spies to aPprise
| General Macarthur and Rear Admiral
Remey of flibustering expeditions
Captain d. A Hiner, the pilot who
took General Grant from Fort Donel-
son to Pittsburg Landing, is dead, aged
/ 6s He was on the rivers for over so
years, being pilot most of that tine.
The first Chamber of deputies at The
Hague rejected, by 90 to 20 votes the
government bill to insure workman
against accidents
Ex-Commander in Chief, Rea, Of tie
G. A. r., died at Minneapolis, MINI,
May 2s.
The Locomotive Engineers decided
at their Milwaukee meeting that fire.
men cannot be members of both BROTH
erhoods of Engineers and of Firemen-
General Otis has been appointed d
Major General to succeed General
Merritt, retired
Jas Jefries was barred ont from
umpiring ball game at Trenton N
J. played at the Y. NJ c. a athletic
grounds
The savings bank at Sheldahl, Ia,
has been-robbed of 81. 900. There were
four robbers and fifty citizens who had
gathered after the explosion were held
OF with rifles until the burglars got
away.
The Congress gold mine. in Arizona,
has been sold for 81, 500, 900, 70 New
York crowd
The customs, internal revenue and
postal receipts in Cuba during
April amounted TO $3.50, 3s7.
The mud volcanoes about Eel river,
Cali, are very active, sending large
streams of blush mud about the con-
sistency Of hot tar, but the mud is icy
cold.
There are thick layers of anthracite
in the Yampa district of Colorado and
a movement is on to utilize it by a
mine and steel manufacturing plant.
and q railroad from raver TO Salt
lake uassin0 br Il