The Globe-republican., 1901-05-09
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF
smallpox is raging in Indiana.


Under George Gould's management
the fortune left by Jay Gould has
doubled.
OF the 5000, 900 negroes in the Uni
ted States there are probably 1904
college graduates.
Three tons of metal are handled
daily in the brass foundry at the Santa
Fe shops in Topeka.
Harvard college has decided to con-
fer the degree of L. L. D. upon Presi-
dent William Mckinley
Henry NJ. Cooper is appointed Mar
shall of the United States for the west
ern district of Arkansas.
Typhoid fever prevails in and about
Metz. One Bavarian regiment lost 10
men by it. leaving PSI sick.
Topeka capitalists will build big
cold storage plant at Bentonville,
Ark, for storage of apples
The Santa Fe will make quite an ex-
tcnsive exhibition at the Pan-Am eri-
can exposition this summer.
The Prussian diet was closed by
royal edict last week The failure of
the l1aiser's pet canal bill caused it.
Intense heat caused the closing of
most OF the bar mills in Pittsburg, Pa.
Several worl>men We're FRUSTRATED
The hello girls of the exchanges in
Central Kansas are planning to hold
a convention at Beloit this summer.
Jared D. Terrell, of Michigan, chief
clerk in the comptroller's office, of the
treasury. has been selected a auditor
for Cuba
The Santa Fe has increased its force
at san Francisco on account of the
large number of soldiers to be muster
ed out there
Express receipts for goods to be ex-
ported are not exempt from tax under
decisions of the supreme court in the
matter of bills of lading.
Colorados new law makes it the
province of the trial jury to TX the
penalty and the curry may render a
verdict to hang murderer
Official statistics show that there oc-
CURED in France. oo2 strikes in 1000,
compared to 40 strikes in 1899, and
that during the year 1900 there
a22, ia working people without en-
ploymeut in France.
The Rocky Mountain region has been
having unheard of rains. In Salt Lake
there was , =. inches of 1t. The deserts
of Utah. Southern Nevada and North
ern Arizona and New Mexico received
such a drencning as was never known.
Governor Dietrich. of Nebraska, has
resigned and the first act of Lieut..
Governor Savage as successor to Gov.
Dietrich was to sign the commission
| for Senator Dietrich. The new sena-
| tor will go to Washington soon
The Fort Scott s Memphis laid off
| its track and bridge hangs t wo days to
| cut the total of the months expense
| account.
Grant Gillette. of cattle notriety in
| Kansas. fell into a shaft at Mexican
mine of which he is approximations.
| and received serious INJURIES.
| c. z. Fullington. of Wichita, has
purchased from New York land com
| pany %, 900 acres IA Meade county for
about $4,000. Two-tis:rds of this land
| is classed as wheat ard alfalfa land.
| portion of it IS IN the artesian well
| district.
The countries Will, large armies have
| the number of soldiers to 10, 600 in.
| habitants here stated: France, 13s
Germany, 1o2; Russia. loo; Italy, s.
Austria. so: Spain, 70; Denmark, 90
| Sweden, 90; Holland. 20; belgium, 80
Portugal. GO; United States, TO-
4 Many May Day strikes occurred
among them 2.eo0 cooks and walters
in San Francisco restaurants; miner.
in Colorado: sIneIters in Montana
, machinists in several cities; brick
makers in New Jersey; carpenters in
Connecticut and Ohio; plumbers II
Il Michigan and Ohio
The Santa Fc is circulating panph
let's IN Europe printed in both German
| and English. 1t tells of the prosperity
in Kansas and of conditions existing
| in Oklahoma. Texas. Colorado nns
| other states along its tracks.