Free press., 1901-09-28
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF.

''Polish day" at the Buffalo exposi-
ton has been postponed indefinitely.
The race for the Americas cup has
changed to commence on September 26.
The tedious and turbulent cigar
makers strike at Tampa, Fla, has ter
minated.
Shaffer of the Amalgamatedh has gone
to New York again and settlement is
again in the air.
Jas. G. Patterson, president of the
Travellers insurance company. is dead,
at the age of so years.
The news of the shooting of the
president reached Sitlza, Alaska, on the
day President Mckinley died.
The plague in the Bombay presidency
is increasing at rapid rate, the death
rate reaching 6 1856 in a week.
The Boston & Albany railroad has
cut local fares to compete with the
many trolley lines in Massachusetts,.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge L o. o.
F. has decided to furnish each state
jurisdiction with copy of the secret
work.
A Ferris wheel collapsed at the fair
people were hurt, one probably
fatally.
o. D. Barret is dead. He practiced
law for 40 years in Washington and
for 20 years was law partner of Gen
eral Ben. f. Butler.
Albert Dahiquist, an itinerant
preacher, narrowly escaped lynching
at ST. Paul, Mimi, for saying the kill
ing of the president was noble deed.
The president has appointed Colonel
James NJ. Bell, eight cavalry and pres
ident of the military board of review,
to be brigadier general, vice briga-
dier General Ludlow, deceased.
st. Joseph, Mo-, has new city or
dinance against speaking against the
government, or the distribution of an
archistic literature that would tend to
incite the commission of crime.
Every telegraph instrument in the
United States was silept for five min
utes at 2:3O p. M. the hour set for
placing the presidents body in the
vault. The great ocean cables were
also pulseless.
Mr. Cortelyou is said to have been
the only secretary to the president who
arose from subordinate clerkship.
Senator Ingalls, first gave him clerk
ship, from which he went into the
postoffice department.
Liberty of political belief and free
speech are guaranteed but it is certain
that illegal speech is punishable.
The great dailies still contain col
towns of the world telling of the OBJ
servance of the day of days the saddest
in America.
The headquarters for the Chicago
division of the Santa Fe has been re-
moved to Fort Madison. which places
the Office in closer touch with all por-
tions of the division, being near the
middle of it.
Half of the coffee crop of Porto Rico
has been ruined by recent storms and
the banana crop has suffered.
The gross receipss of the Kansas City
Mo-, postofice for the month of August
were $40, ,192, against 500, s34 for the
same period last year, being an increase
of 50, 1858.
a well-known Russian of Washing
ton is reported to have full evidence
that Emma Goldman is spy in the
pay of the Russian government, making
her reports to the Russian consul gem
eral in New York.
There are single trees in the Philip
pines worth 10000, and all varieties
of high grade woods flourish there:
The survivors of the Twenty-third
| Ohio regiment attended the funeral of
their comrade, William Mckinley,
bearing the tattered flag of the regi-
ment.
Leon Czolgosz was arrested six years
ago at Duryea, Pa, charged with an
attempt to blow up the house of Cath
Ole priest. His trunk was found to
contain several sticks OF dynamite with,
caps and wires
Veterans of the Mexican war in re-
union at Independence, Mo-, adopted a
memorial asking congress to increase
their pensions to 81 day.
The last great act of the great Kaiser
is the product of his great mind. He
has commanded all the doctors in Ger
many to shave off their whislzers- His
reason is. Of course, small one,-mi-
erobea
! The receipts of the ST Joseph, Mo-,
postofice were s14.5o4, against s1s. .1o9
for the same month last year, an in-