Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-03-10
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

THE LATEST NEWS In BRIEF.
Argentine ports have been declared
free from the bubonic plague.
Pirates are increasing in Chinese
waters and are more active than usual.
Leslie E. Kelley, the inventor of the
Kelley cure for the liquor habit, is
dead
WI Ting Fang is direct descendant
of Confucius, seventy generations re-
moved.
The president directs that the new
military post near Seattle is to be called
Fort Lawton.
The mines near Kimberley are to be
worked again, since that place has
been relieved.
Illinois carried off the prize at the
Lincoln, Neb., buttermakers' associa-
ton meeting.
Five hundred and fifty mules have
been shipped from San Francisco to
South Africa.
A late rumor is current to the effect
that General Cronje has broken through
the British lines
y There is a bill before congress to
provide the patent office with a new
fire proof building.
Chicago railroads are proposing to
build an immense union station to
.cOver two anfiro b1OoJ<c
French officials still cling to the hope
that America will adopt their Panama
route for the isthmus canal.
!; Secretary Root approves General
Woods policy of reducing the force of
United States troops in Cuba.
I: The Union broom company held
meeting in Chicago and pushed up the
price of broom corn another notch.
Conference committees on the finan-
cial bill, reported to each house an
agreement which had been reached.
The Union Pacific railroad is drop
ping off its employees who are over a
certain age. The age is not stated.
A musselman mob surrounded the
| British consulate, at Sidon, and
wounded the son of the vice consul.
| Frank Cell, of Washburn college, took
first place at the annual oratorical con-
test of the associated Kansas colleges.
Gen. Fred Funston is now stationed
at San Isidro with three infantry
regiments and is in reality the mill
tary governor of the province.
A company is organized with a capt.
tai Of $4,000, 900 to carry out the con-
tract for the construction of the Rapid
Transit railway in New York city.
The transferring of public works in
Havana from military to civil control
causes alarm among employees, who
fear that only Spaniards will be en-
ployed.
The investigation of the Idaho labor
troubles practically places the state
officials on trial and the governor of
neys.
Harry Vardon, golf champion of Eng
land recently defeated William Smith,
the American champion, and is now
| champion of the world.
The industrial commission, having
heard the trust officials, will now listen
| to workmen, superintendent and trav-
cling statesmen. A sub-commission will
visit industrial centers for this pur-
pose,
The battleship Wisconsin is nearing
completion at San Francisco, and will
probably be ready for a trial trip be-
fore July 1.
Returned soldiers deny the reports
that Manila has more saloons than
under Spanish rule. They say there
are as many frst-class places but that
the low groggeries have been squelch-
| ed.
| WI Ting Fang, the Chinese minister
to this country, has had conferred upon
him the degree of L. L. D. by the
University OF Pennsylvania
Princess Cantacuzene. who was Julia
Dent Grant, granddaughter of General
Q. s Grant, is Ill with typhoid fever
in ST. Petersburg, Russia
Tie United States patent Office is a
source of revenue. The year 1899
shows a surplus of receipts over ex-
penditures of s1S3, 673.
A delegation of about twenty-five
Kansas educators, headed by superin-
tendent Nelson, go to Chicago to
attend the annual meeting OF the ma
tiona1 association of school superin-
| tendents-
An American syndicate is to con-
struct a s1O.Ooo.O 600 steel plant. in
i Montery, Mexico. Its first speciality
wiz be making steel rails.