Free press., 1901-10-19
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF.

Secretary Hay is not to resign as re-
ported but is ready to go to work.
Denver had it's first snow of the sea-
son on the 11th. 1t melted as it fell.
King Christian opened the rigsdag
at Copenhagen for the first time in
years.
The American Board of Foreign Mis-
sions has just wiped out it's debt of
S1O2, 900.
The police of Tampa, Fla, are carry
ing on a vagrancy crusade against the
idle striking cigar makers.
The flow of the Beaumont, Texas oil
wells is diminishing and preparations
are being made to use pumps
Hetty Green's husband was reported
as dying, the first of the week, at his
home at Bellows Falls, Vermont.
Peru is preparing to complete its gold
tandard by melting all silver in that
ountry and shipping to market.
The Mormon apostle, Francis NJ. Ly-
man, and others associated with him,
are holding successful revival meetings
in London.
Fred C. Reitzinger, an attorney of st.
Joseph, Mo-, goes to the penitentiary
for three years for embezzling the funds
of his clients
Only seven states hold elections this
fall. They are Massachusetts,, Iowa,
Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland and Ohio.
Marquis Ito, the renowned japanese,
was taken sick at Chicago and it was
announced that he would go back home,
but he recovered speedily.
A half mile of snow sheds on the
Central Pacific, at Emigrant Gap, to-
gether with several loaded freight cars
have been burned. The loss is $40, 900.
Fifteen million dollars of city taxes
was paid into the city treasury of New
York in the first day of tax collections.
The Astor estate led off with one mil
lion and there were other large items.
The bank examiner district which
has taken in Kansas and Oklahoma
may be divided, which would give Ex-
aminer Jobes' place to two men. 1t is
| about settled that f. T. Bradley, Of
Sedan, will be first appointed.
The invention of Harry L. Thompson
Of Topeka promises to do away with
central telephone stations and switch
boards and also with all wires more
than one along given route. Every
! phone to be connected with the one
wire. No switchboard required.
Marquis Ito, the renowned Japanese
statesman, is in this country. He re-
manned several days in Minneapolis,
| Minnesota.
The postofice department has decided
that the issue of postal cards for 1901
shall have the head of President Nc
Kinley upon their stamps.
King Alfonso, of Spain, who is now
16 years old, will make round of visits
to the courts of Europe as a finishing
touch to his education. He knows the
languages of the English, French and
Germans as well as Spanish.
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, denies things
charged against him by President Shat
fer of the Steel Federation, and says
Shaffer says things (which are absofu-
tely untrue and he knows it
]. T. Bradley, of Sedan, Kas., has
been recommended by Senator Burton
to succeed National Bank examiner
Jobes, resigned.
WI Ting Fang, the Chinese minister
at Washington. sent 500 for the ran
som of Miss Stone, the missionary held
by bandits in Bulgaria.
King Edward has been ailing some.
what of late which has started the gos-
sips of the European press to guessing
that he has cancer, like his sister
once empress of Germany.
General Alger's book on the Spanish
American war is out and it is hot stuff
for General Miles and Admiral Samp
) son.
. OF the 425 reindeer which made the
nine days voyage from Siberia te
5 Alaska only 254 were landed alive
The motion of the ship constantly threw
them down.
The triennial convention of Episco
palians at San Francisco decided tina
The next meeting shall be held at Bos
ton.
: ssPlrtarch's Lives is the one book
! 50 it is said, that President Roosevelt
/ carries In his travelling bag. He say
j he can not get enough OF this bool
though he has read it many times.
a The trouble in Venezuela is largeI
: from opposing interests of asphalt com
: panies which the state department a
Washington is endeavoring to hav
settled by arbitration.