Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-03-24
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The New York senate killed a bill to
tax mortgages; SO to 16.
The reported death of Osman Pasha
is denied from Constantinople.
The Kansas City Priests of Pallas
have lost all their floats by fire.
The cold wave is said to have done
but little if any damage in Florida
Cuba is to be represented at the PAN
American exposition at Niagara 1900.
All explosion at the Hercules powder
works, north of Lamotte, No., killed
two men.
Thirty cases of smallpox occurred in
the Great Northern grading camps in
Montana.
Monroe, Michigan, was under water
last week, the result of an ice gorge il
,Raisin river.
Governors Beckham and Taylor rode
from Louisville to Frankfort on the
same train.
: The Port Gibson, La, compress,
which contained 1000 bales of cotton,
is burned. Loss, 500, 900.
The Topeka is to be used as a train
ing vessel, and will be overhauled for
that purpose at a cost of S25, 900.
The British war Office has warned all
the militia VITO have not been called
out to be in readiness for service.
premier, intends to ask the parliament
to increase the poll tax on the Chinese
The transport Sumner took from
Brooklyn, enroute to Manila, 1000
cavalry. infantry and artillery recruits.
San Jacinto mountain in California
has slipped $50 feet and has numerous
assures which are apparently bottom
less.
Kruger issued q proclamation annex
the Orange Free State. Steyn coun-
tered with another declaring his state
intact.
a detachment OF medical officers is
to be sent to Manila to relieve the same
number on duty there, who want to
come home.
1t is claimnd at Berlin that Aus.
itralian canned beef is better than
American, and Germany is importing
much of it.
Firms are coming to this country by
steamers from Antwerp by the. hum
dreds. They have to steal by a chain
of guards to get away from Finland.
Herman E. Taubenecl1. late national
chairman of the Peoples party, is
dead.
The Santa Fe is building several new
dining cars and remodeling the OLD
| ones.
prairie fire started at Houghton,
S. D.. and spread over wide sweep OF
country, causing heavy losses to farms
and ranges.
Lieutenant Crawford, Admiral
Dewey's secretary, has denied the re-
port that Admiral Dewey will make a
trip to Europe this summer.
Tom Thunder, the Winnebago med
icine man, contests the naming Of
White Buffalo. a Chicago Irishman, a.
chief of the tribe He appeals to the
tomahawk.
Congressman on committees have
shelved the appropriation asked for By
ST. Louis for their Louisiana purchas,
| centennial, until a substantial fund i;
raised in Missouri.
D. r. Anthony is in the courts t.
compel the Leavenworth STANDARD
company to recognize him as one of tn,
stockholders.
The governmet never pays or re
ceives premium upon any of its issue
either of coin or paper currency
Sharps are working people along thi
line.
| The reported consolidation of tn
American Ben-Telephone compan.
with the American Telephone compan,
of New York has received distinct con
frmation-
The anti-reform party IN China
headed by the dowager empress, is be
coming more active and hostile to ev
erything not Chinese.
The Pittsburg and Gulf road wa
sold by the master in chancery. at Jor
lin, March 70. 1t was mere formalit
and attracted no local attention I
was bid in for the Philadelphia re-o1
ganization. committee
Vermont passed law to compe
railroads 70 sell mileage tickets at tw
| cent a mile. and the e. S. circuit cour
killed the Law.
The Ohio house of representative
defeated a bill providing that stree
car franchises should be submitted
> xnte OF the people