The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-02-01
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


E.sJ. Phelps, ex-mlnister to England,
is very low at New Haven, Connecti-
cut.
The British losses in killed. wounded
and captured up to date 1887 Off
GERS and men
Horace Speed was promptly confirm
ed by the Senate United States at
torney for Oklahoma
Rubber tire makers have agreed to
increase the price of single tube bicycle
tires about SO per cent.
The Burlington system is preparing
to build double track road from
Creston to Murray, Iowa.
All the street cars in Troy, N. Y,
are tied up by demand for 20 cents
an hour and 10 hour day.
DR.. Swan of the Kansas board of
health, has revoked his quarantine
der against Oklahoma towns.
bill is before congress to make it
unlawful to ship in interstate COM
merce game killed in violation of law.
The bacillus of the bubonic plague
has been found on dead rats in place
in Australia where plague patient
was isolated.
Galleries in Hazleton, Pa, have.
raised the wages of their /, 500 employees
per cent and promise another 2 per
cent next month.
A strike involving 5000 men en-
ployed on the Paris exposition build
ings is inaugurated. The strikers de-
rnand one franc per hour.
The news of the abdica ton of the
Chinese Emperor caused a tremendous
sensation in Japan, where it is believed
that Russia is at the bottom of it.
The official census of Puerto Rico has
been finished San Juan has 80, 500 in
habitants, and Ponce has 50, 900. There
are o57, 900 inhabitants in the island.
Miss Helen Gould has contributed
$50, 600 to aid in the building of the
new home for the naval branch of the
Young Mems Christian Association in
Brooklyn.
Governor Stanley and Secretary Co
burn of the board of agriculture have
suggested to James Wilson, Secretary
of Agriculture, that he inaugurate ex-
periments in bringing sorghum syrup
to a degree of perfection.
The records of the immigration bu-
reau at Honolulu show that since June
Is last II, 500 Japanese have been land
ed there.
There several measures before
congress to form government for
Puerto Rico They vary in detail but
are of a nature to be easily recast into
a satisfactory law
| There is a complete understanding
concerning church affairs between the
government at Washington and Arch
bishop Chappe1le, concerning church
! affairs in the Philippines.
| There will leave Kansas City on Feb
ruary 1s special train bearing menu
bers of the commercial club. The train
will pass to many towns in Oklahoma.
| to many towns in Texas, and on their
return will visit many towns in the In
/ dian Territory.
| The treasury department has held
that so-called sample bottles of brandy,
each containing about a tenth of q
quart, are not to be admitted free OF
duty samples of no mercantile value
but must pay the duty regardless of the
quantity imported
| tanning the constitutionaIity of the
years ago 1t imposes tax of per
cent on all inheritances which go to
collateral heirs.
Bishop Warren A. Gambler, of the
Methodist church, South, left Atlanta
for Havana to establish a ch rrch in
that city He takes with him So, 900
raised by his personal efforts in Georgia
This will be the first church and school
/ of the Methodist determination to be
established in Cuba