Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-04-07
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Governor General Wood is the father
Of a 10-pound girl, born in Havana.
The Belgian state railways have or
dered IL locomotives from Philadelphia.
c. II. Grosvenor, of Ohio, has been
nominated for sixth term in Con-
gress.
The Iowa senate has passed bill to
tax the capital stock and surplus Of ex-
press companies.
War is brewing between Nicaragua
on the one hand and Costa RIGA and
Salvador on the other.
The Merchants National Bank of
Rutland, VT, has closed its doors. The
cashier is short $145, 600.
Forty-eight young women have just
| graduated from the Women's law
course OF the University of New York.
The bill in the Iowa legislature to
prohibit the railroads. from issuing
| passes to public officials was defeated.
Two banks at Keene N H, have
petitioned for an assignee. Both owe
more than the amount of their assets.
In congress the policy of rushing
officers through grades of the army
| just prior to retirement is being criti-
| cised.
The italian chamber of deputies
forced their president to adjourn with
out session, by raising a tumult and
| pelting him with paper balls.
The hearing by the Texas Railroad
Commission at Austin brought together
the general officers of the railroads in
terested and the chiefs of the various
| orders of railroad men.
Paul Kruger's last proclamation
| warns women and children to leave
| Bloemfontein as he intends to lombard
and destroy the city and to shoot the
| burghers he may capture there,
Word comes from Copenhagen that
the negotiations going on anent the
sale OF the Danish West Indies, are
blocked by the question of who shall
bear the expense of the transfer.
The industrial commission heard
complaints in Chicago against depart
| ment stores. The small traders say
they are forced out OF business and the
clerks complain that their wages are
cut to an average of $4. so a week, so
per cent of the places being given to
women.
All the accused men, in custody at
Frankfort, charged with conspiracy in
the Goebek assassination, waived ex-
animation
Rumors are current that the Illinois
Central contemplates purchasing the
Gulf & Ship Island railroad, now build
ing, and changing its Gulf terminus
from Gulfport to Biloxi.
THE plant of the Mountville, Pa,
| manufacturing company. makers of
agricultural implements, is destroyed
by fire. The loss is estimated at $780,
600; insurance S32, ZOO.
The new order allowing postofice
money orders to be cashed at any first
or second class post Office. no matter
on what Office they are drawn.
Governor Taylor of Kentucky says
he will continue to act under the agree
ment which provided that there should
be no change until action of the SD
preme court.
/ A correspondent cables that the
Boer forces have been reequipped and
he says he is fully convinced that 49,
| b-x- 1a.a I'd p,
aid the republics.
A rate of one fare plus So has been
made for the Mississippi congress
TO be held at Houston, Tex, on April
II to 90.
The duke of York has accepted from
q resident of Cork thousand packets
of shamrock seed, which will be sown
upon the graves of Irish soldiers in
South Africa.
About 800 men, one-half the force
employed by the Knoxville Wooden
Mills, have quit work because the COM
pany opposes their joining labor
unions
The commercial treaty committee OF
the Italian chamber of deputies has
approved the reciprocity arrangement
under the Dingley act recently signed
at Washington.
/! Fire at New Brunswick, Y. J., did
100000 damage to the Consolidated
Fruit Jar factory. Three hundred
hands are thrown out of employ
nent-
+ The treasury department has closed
the purchase of a site for federal
building in oskaloosa, Iowa. The
nrice was s6.eoO.