Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-01-20
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.
There is a German cruiser at Louren-
20 Marques.
Boston's municipal debt was increased
100000 last year.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Webster Davis is in Cape Town
Queen Victoria has proclaimed the
opening of parliament for January 30
Boston shipped about &C, 900 bales of
hay last week to the British army in
South Africa.
1t is rumored here that the Bank OF
Russia has advanced the bank Of Eng
gland es,OOO,OO
Denver expended more than two mill
ion dollars on business and public
buildings last year.
P. D. Armour, the millionaire packer
is negotiating for permanent home
at Pasadena, California.
There are thirty-five cases of small
pox in the Northern Illinois normal
Twenty-six cotton mills have been
built in Mexico during the last year,
and more are being built.
A gun stock factory in Frankfort,
Indiana, is working on an order for 49,
600 gun stocks for the Beers.
Explosion of acetylene gas burned a
church at Eden, Nebraska, while
watch meeting was in session.
A large carriage repository in Port
land Me-, four story brick building is
| burned, with loss Of 100000.
Rev. J. K. Peck, the oldest minister
in the Wyoming, Penn, Methodist Con-
ference, fell dead in his pulpit.
According to the financial statement
the net bonded debt of New York City
on January 1. 1900, was $685., 676, 035.
1t is estimated that 900 Firms will
emigrate this year and that practically
all of them will come to the north
west.
Two shipping clerks of WHOLESALERS
! grocery in ST. Joseph, No. have been
arrested for Systematically robbing
their employers.
.Jobbers have tried to get a better
discount from table glassware manu-
facturers than is given to department
stores and failed to get it.
1 The reciprocity treaty between the
United States and France is being held
up by each party on the ground that it
is too favorable to the other.
Sir Thomas Upton has again chal-
lenged for the Americas cup. He says
he will build the finest yacht ever con-
structed.
: The Bird Canning company, which
} has plants at Topeka, ST. Joseph and
several other points, will put one in al
Olathe.
The plan of having mail registered
by carriers when collected will. be put
in operation January Is in sixty cities
The service will be inaugurated else
where, when considered beneficial
upon application of the local officials
Four members of the Omaha board o.
Education are under arrest for bribery
in connection with contract for blinds
for school buildings.
L. h. Severance, formerly treasurer
of the Standard Oil company, has giveI
SEQ, 900 to Oberlin college. The money
will be used to erect and equip chem
D zeal laboratory. Mr.. Severance ais
donated the ground on which the build
: ing viii stand
General Joe Wheeler is very mucl
: put out because he is given no chanc'
to fight the Filipinos.
All labor unions of St Joseph, No.
g are demanding from Is to 25 per CEN
S increase of wages, and recognition O
t the eight hour law.
S The Missouri State Federation o
I Labor failed TO pass a resolution favor
d ing the formation OF a labor party il
y opposition to the two old parties.
i There were over 100 companie
e formally incorporated in the varioui
e states during 1899 for the manufacture
o of automobiles, and their total capital
: ization reached the enormous sum o
j s5e4. 800. 900.
The British residents Of Mexico hav
If contributed $780, 900 gold to the Brit
n ish Soldiers relief fund. Many English
d men have gone home to enter the army
\ The abuse CT the war Office and Lor
= Lansdowne. the secretary Of state 70
< war, and Lord Wolseley, continues IN
e abated in the press and among til
T public Of London
E Retail butchers Of Minneapolis an
le the northwest have advanced the pric
% on zeal and pork one cent pound
le Is dlaBcuit fer the paelzing houses to 3
cure enough Cor the increased demand