Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-08-25
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

England is also having extremely
hot weather.
Companies E, F, G and H, and regi-
mental band of the First .. S. Infau-
try, have arrived at Fort Leavenworth
from Cuba.
Clear water in the Chicago river is
lessening the city revenue from water,
factory owners drawing their supply
from the river
Pueblo, Colo, lost lumber yard
and ware houses with Is dwellings by
fire, which occurred in the Bessemer
steel works suburb.
Hans Kramer, an American tourist,
slipped from the Rax Mountain in Aus
tria. He was found after 80 hours
with both legs broken.
The Japanese government has given
permission to the United States to es-
tablish hospital in Japan at any
place the United States may choose.
The largest coal deal ever transacted
in Eastern Ohio las just been closed
rem, Wells and Smith townships pass
into the hands of Cleveland capitalists.
About $500, 900 will be paid into the
hands of the land owners in a few
days.
The comptroller has approved the
National Bank of Commerce, of Kansas
City, as a reserve agent of the First
National bank of Madison, Kas. The
Union National bank, of Kansas City,
has been revoked as a reserve agent
for the Shawnee National bank, of Ok
lahoma.
Plans for gigantic fruit garden are
being formulated in London according
to reports. The entire Soudan is to be
turned into an orchard. the expecta-
tons being that it's product will sup
ply the whole of Europe with those
fruits that can be raised only in hot
and moist climates.
Acting Superintendent Goode, of the
Yellowstone national park, telegraphed
the interior department that another
| big forest fire has broken out there and
| is now raging between the lake and
the upper basin. The department
wired authority for the employment of
outsiders to assist in fighting the fire,
but none could be secured. The in
terror department has requested the
war department to detail for this pur-
pose some of the men engaged on the
roads there.
There are nearly one hundred cases
of typhoid fever in Winnipeg, Canada.
General Chaffee was heard from at
Matow on the 18th. Matow is about
II miles beyond Ho-Si-Wu.
| Grape growers of California have ig-
nored the schedule they made of SIS
and $50 ton for grapes, and are sell.
ing to the wine makers at sI3 and 81
ton.
a million tons Of American soft coal
has been contracted for to go to France.
The miners strike in Germany and
Austria has caused a scarcity of coal.
Baron Russell, lord justice of Eng
and, is dead from an operation upon
|
An Austrian general. with a yard
long name, has been arrested for in
sulting the new queen of Servia.
Seven men forcibly took possession
of mine near Joplin, Mo-, and have
been arrested on the charge of stealing
the mine.
The Hamburg dock laborers, who
are on strike, protest against the
kaiser calling them fellows without
honor and without fatherland.'
Mrs. General Funston writes to a
friend in Kansas that she is going to
Manila to join her husband
Every shop, every train and Office,
every ship, were silent and still; every
wheel, every stroke of engine werG
hushed, throughout the great South
ern Pacific system of railroad lines,
for a period of seven minutes, while
c. P. Huntington's body was being
consigned to the tomb. During the
short suspension of business $4,000
/ men in all sections Of the United States
remained idle
VIM. Steintz. for % years champion
chess player of the world, died, insane,
in New York. His family is supported
by the newspaper and chess clubs.
There is yellow fever in Cuba but
less of it than usual in August. SAM
/ tary work has accomplished this.
There are no cases among American
soldiers yet.
Clinton w. Graham, reported wound
ed in China, is son of Colonel Graham
Of the Twenty-seeond Kansas He
was, before enlistment, newspaper
man of Pottawatomie county, KS