The free press., 1901-04-25
CONDENSED PARAGRAPHS.
GleaningS of the Weeks News From
Our Exchanges.
COURT WILL NOT RETURN TO PEkIh
President and Cashier of Bank Commit
Suicide-Cousiderable Alarm on Ac-
count of the Recent Floods
Other Items of Interest.

The oil fever is raging at Houma,
Louisiana.
The Shamrock has been launched at
Dumbarton
Count Won Waldersee lost nearly all
his possessions in the palace fire.
The New York Merchants Associa-
tion committee have gone to Beaumont.
Beauomnt, Texas oil is being used at
Jennings, La. with much success as
fuel.
Sixteen carloads of cotton seed were
shipped from Meridian for expectation
to Europe
The manager Of the county farm near
Canton, Miss. has been arrested,
charged with cruelty to prisoners.
years of age and one of the oldest citi-
zens. He had been in i'll health for
some time.
The taxation of the people of Eng
land has been doubled in the past year,
the burden falling on the rich.
The working forces of the Clark and
Hartman syndicates, which are strug-
Cling for the same right of way through
Utah. may come to blows.
Mrs Frank NARROW of Huntsville
came to life during her funeral services.
She showed faint animation for several
hours when she was again pronounced
dead and buried.
The jury in the case of Capt. Gar
nett Ripley, charged with being in
conspiracy which resulted in the assas-
sination of William Goebel, render
verdict of not guilty
The Tartar general at Feng Tt Man
churia has borrowed of the Russians,
on the securiy of the poll taxes, the
sum of 40, 900 tael to be applied in
forming force of military police.
There has been more alarm through,
out the Ohio Valley on account
of floods than at any period since Feb
ruary 1894, when the Ohio river
reached it's highest stage of y feet and
8 inches at Cincinnati.
The Quaterly Review prints an ar
ticle on the chracter ana attributes Of
Queen Victoria, written by one whc
was very close to her during life. 1t
deals with her peculiarities, views and
prejudices
Native reports say that General Feng
Tso Tsai, commanding in the province
of Yum Non with 5000 infantry and
3, 900 cavalry well armed and disci-
plined passed through Cheng Lu bound
for Pisan.
Charles Brown and z. L. Candy,
president and cashier, respectively, Of
the First National Bank Of Vancouver,
Wash. which was forced to suspend,
committed suicide by shooting them
selves two miles from there, and their
bodies were found Monday.
The storm has been generally through
Ohio and Mississippi valleys, and much
damage has been wrought TO property
and crops. Canton, o., was cut OF
from the rest of the world by snow
Poles and wires were prostratcd over
wide alea.
Pao Ting Flu, has been for the last
four days big military camp of French
and German soldiers on the way to the
front. 1t is now estimated that 5000
French troops and 6, coo Germans wiz
form the entire force when all the re-
inforcements have arrived
1t is reported in London that the
Chinese court will not return to Pekin
that the palace was burnt as a part Of
the plan for the reopening OF state Of
war by the Chinese, and that the Chi
nese do not believe the allies can ever
agree among themselves
England's now tax imposed to meet
the heavy charges growing out Of the
Boer army prove beneficial to American
exports. Experts of the Treasury De
partment believe that the United
States will profit to some degree by the
export of one shilling per ton on coal
shipped out of the United Kingdom.