Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-06-23
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

A Nebraska banker lost S13, 900 on
the old gold brick deal
Quarantine of the Chinese quarter in
San Francisco has been raised.
The prolonged drouth is broken by
good rains in Southern Russia.
General Pho del Pillar the Filipino
leader has been captured near Manila.
Rich gold mines are being opened in
the Berkshire hills in Massachusetts.
Mrs. Beck and Miss Drummond have
arrived in Seattle from Skagway with
$4,000.
Mrs. Moores, wife of the mayor of
Omaha, was killed in a runaway in
that city, June
Ice formed quarter of an inch thick
in North Dakota, June 9. The wheat
was cut to the grouud
The St. Louis strikers are trying to
raise 100000 to establish bus line TO
complete with street car.
The boiler of a saw mill exploded in
Fife Lake, Mich, killing three men
and injuring ten others.
Women of Washington carry kodaks
to church and take snap shots on the
way going and coming.
The reciprocity treaty with Portugal
has been proclaimed by the president
and is therefore in force.
Buffalo Jones has gone to Washing
ton with two Rocky Mountain sheep
for the Smithsonian institute,
Belle Boyd, the famous confederate
spy, died suddenly at Kilbourne, Wis
consin. She was there to lecture.
Des Moines got an extension of five
days of the time in which to complete
the census. A special order was issued.
The national conference of farmers
has been put off from July 2-3, as first
appointed, to later date not yet
named - %
There are contests before the repub-
ican national committee on delegates
from Delaware, Tennessee, Alabama
and Texas.
Nearly 1000 miners claims were
staked in the Mojave desert where
gold is said to exist plentifully. The
nearest water is miles away
A miner in Arizona got mad because
the needles of the pine cones hurt his
feet and he set them on fire, causing
the most disastrous of forest fires.
The Minnesota grand lodge, I. o. o.
F., voted to exclude druggists and
hotel keepers from the order in that
state.
The omnibus company of Paris on
the occasion of the Exposition this
year, will have ninety-two lines and
1,5OO vehicles, performing $4,000 jour
ney's day, and capable of transport
ing 1,O2s, 900 passengers.
A masher who had been ogling
school girls on the streets of Kansas
City, was fined $500 by Judge McAuley.
Remember his name to do him honor.
A mine explosion occurred at Glous-
ter, Ohio, and eight men are known
to be dead. Fifty men who were over
come by after damp are recovering.
The young emperor of China,
through his tutor, sends a message to
the western powers TO put an end to
anarchy brought about by the dowager
empress.
Twenty-one newspaper correspon-
dents have been killed or have died in
y A f,-s< 4
and many more are disabled by
wounds and sickness.
Naval Constructor Hobson has gone
to the naval hospital at Yokohoma for
treatment.
President Mckinley wears a red car
nation. much of the time, especially
when he drives out.
English troops are having serious re-
verses on the Gold Coast, Africa, whore
the Ashantees were strongly entrench-
ed.
The English and French missions at
Yunan Fin have been burned A jap
anese dispatch says this resulted from
French intrigueS
The state of New York has purchased
p acres at Caldwell, on Lake George,
for public park. The site is what
has been known as Bloody Pond since
it was the scene of desperate fighting
with French and Indians in the French
war, long before the Revolutionary
war
Mrs Gladstone. wife of William E.
Gladstone, the English statesman. died
June II.
An automobile factory at Cambridge,
Mass. has been attached by rubber
tire company.