Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-02-24
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Government exhibits have been start,
ed to Paris.
Floods are still doing immense
damage in Great Britain.
Prince Henry of Prussia was recently
oeld up and robbed in Siam
The mutiny of the Soudanese troops
at Khartoum IS causing great anxiety.
Salvador, Central America, has
suffered from fire to the amount of
$1,000, 600.
Five hundred and fifty mules have
been shipped from San Francisco to
South Africa.
G. C. Crawford, ST. Joseph, Mo-,
merchant was chlorofornned and robbed
IN his room.
Zinc mines at Joplin were compelled
to stop work on account of their water
supply being frozen.
Kansas City, Mo-, is having an cpl
de1nic of disappearance. -Four, were
reported in one day.
Lead is being shipped from the
Galena-Joplin district, in large quanti-
ties, to Niagara Falls.
:. The gross postal receipts for January
1900 were S4, 7,919, an increase of
nearly eleven per cent.
Owing to the Texas antitrust law
the American Bicycle company now
ships these goods c. o. D.
Plague deaths at Bombay reached
4OS deaths a day. Famine refugees
aggravate the situation.
Colonel Theodore S. Case, one of the
most prominent of the pioneers OF
Kansas City, Mo-, is dead.
An engine on the Northern Pacific
jumped the icy track, west of Helena
and rolled down the mountain 200
feet. Train men were all hurt and
Brakeman Hurenden is missing.
United States Circuit Judge Taft, at
Cincinnati, decides that his court has
not original jurisdiction and therefore
denies the petition for injunction of
Governor Taylor VS.. Governor Beck
ham, of Kentucky.
John Montgomery, who was proba-
bly, the Oldest man in Iowa, was killed
by a Milwaukee train at Council Bluffs.
He was los years old his last birthday.
He was walking along the track as the
train was backing into the depot and
| was deaf.
South Dakota weather reports show
the mercury at 80 degrees below at
| Deadwood and number of towns be-
sides.
The exchange of notifications of the
Samoan treaty took place Feb. 10 at
the state department, and similar ex-
changes occurred at the foreign Offices
| in London and Berlin.
The state department will investi-
gate the allegations of ex-consul
Macrum of Pretoria, concerning the
conditions under which consular mail
and cable service were conducted.
There is good reason to believe that
the prospective revision of the official
classification will include considera-
BILE lessening of the differences in rates
load lots.
The Iowa house has passed the Ken
dali mining bill by vote of "a to 4,
requiring operators to pay for slack in
the mining of coal.
In consequence of the lack of coal
the government of Saxony has ordered
the restriction of the train service to
the limits OF absolute necessity.
The Eastern states are suffering from
high-waters, doing much damage
1t is feared that the Beers will build
dam below Ladysmith and food the
town.
Congressman Hit, of Illinois, is the
chairman of the special committee who
went to Hawaii and reported a form
Of government for that country, says
Of the bill now before congress for the
same purpose, 1T will be a serious
menace to property interests Of Ha-
vail to have it passed in its present
| form"
st. Joseph, No, has. made canvass
for city directory upon which an
estimate is made giving the population
at So, $40
The construction of the transfer
sian railway has been decided upon.
1t viii be 1900 miles long and viii cost
I5e, 900, coo roubles
The war department believes that
Aguinaldo has escaped from the island
: of Luzon- The department officials
would not be surprised to hear from
him next Is IN London or Paris in COM
pany with Agoncillo.