Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-12-29
THE LATEST NEWS In BRIEF


least his health is much improved.
The Rogers Locomotive works at
Patterson, n. j., have closed down
finally.
The st. Joseph, Mo-. police judge
wants all tramps sent TO the Philip
pines to be trained for soldiers.
Secretary Pruden has carried the
messages of all the presidents to the
senate for the past twenty-five years.
Joseph W. McClurg, formerly
member of congress, and the last Re-
publican governor of Missouri, is dead.
Jos. h. Manley. of Maine, is said to
have been rendered the office of com
missioner of internal revenue, TO
succeed Commissioner Wilson, de-
ceased.
Owing to attempts of Beer sympa-
thizers to communicate with Boer
prisoners near Cape Town, Maxim
guns have been in readiness for a dis
turbance.
The American consul at Bordeaux.
reports the prevalence of the foot and
mouth disease in that part of France
Many hides are shipped from that sec
ton to America.
The men in control of sugar planta-
tions in Cuba have been authorized to
enlist guards to prevent incendiary
very inf1ammable
President Mckinley told Virginia
delegation that he is opposed to a
reduction of representation of the
Southern States on account of their
disfranchising legislation.
The service of the Santa Fe fast mail
train out from Kansas City is to be ex-
tended to the Pacific coast. 1t viii
also service towns on the Hutchinson
& Southern branch to Blackwell.
1t is stated that an arrangement is
made for the Orient road TO use Mis-
souri, Pacific terminals at Kansas City,
on the start; possibly to run over MIS-
souri, Pacific tracks from Wichita
The City of Chicago, according to a
court decision, has exceeded the limit
of it's bonded Indebtedness, and must
stop building bridges and making other
improvements which have been
planned
German marine officers discovered
Sir Claude Macdonald, former British
minister to Pekin, and Lady Maedon-
aid personally experimenting the re-
moval of treasures from the Chinese
imperial palace TO the British lega-
ton.
The governors of New Mexico and
Arizona made the trip to Washington
together to ask congress for statehood
for these territories.
Governor Roosevelt will on Dec. 80,
address young men on Manhood and
Citizenship, in Carnegie hall in New
York. copy of his address viii have
been sent to every Y. NJ C. A in the
United States and Canada and at
o'clock that afternoon. simultaneously
with his address in New York, his
remarks will be read to the assemblages
in the various cities.
Senator Frye, in debate upon the
ship-subsidy measure said that the
cost limit in the bill. of s., 600, O0c
could not be reached for : years: and
as subsidized ships must carry mails
free, the actual limit is S7.5OO, 600.
Consul Hollis, at Lourenzo Marques,
reports that there are at that place GOO
men and $50 women and children who
are about to sail for New York &c
accept homesteads promised to them
Several railroads, including the Santa
Fe, agree to carry these Beers free OF
charge
The Tampa, Fla, Typographical
union decided against sympathetic
strike in support of the striking cigar
makers
A St. Joseph. Nc, justice of the
peace has performed 20 marriage cere-
monies and has decided some 400 civil
and criminal cases since December /.
1899, during which time higher court
decides, he was not justice OF the
peace. The trouble arises over the
fact that he was elected in part Of
the city while that part was outside
of the city
There is a movement in the Metho-
dist church in the United States to en-
list an army of 200. 900 each pledged to
persistent effort TO advance the CONVEX
sion of ten persons before January /.
1902; a total of 1000. 900 occasions tc
the church being the goal
one-ffth of the population of the
United States Is enrolled in the public
schools, Is, ooo, 600 of them: and 1000
eco more are IN the private schools.
colleges and universities. No other
country in the verdi comes up TO thiz
standard