Free press., 1901-08-31
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF.

lIlC In 60 NEWS = lt OntEFT
Collinsville, Ala, has been greatly
damaged by cloud burst
Edward VII paroled parliament with
the customary speech; his first of the
kind.
Germany intends to establish a CO.
loniaI army of volunteers, in the
Orient.
Damage to batteries at Fort Morgan,
below Mobile. from the storm are very8
extensive.
The total disbursements for pension:f
from July 1, 1900, to June 80, 1901, wa
So, 763, ,350,O33
The manuscript of uniform cur
of study for Indian schools is now
the hands of the printer.
The seven commanderies knighs
Templar, of New Mexico, have organ
lied grand commandery
All the mines at Matewan. w Va
are now employing non-union miners.
The strikers are leaving there.
Organization of women retail clerks
is being made in the cities of the coun-
try by professional organizer.
Jack Winters who stole the big pile
of bar gold in San Francisco plead
guilty and was sent to prison to sta
Is years.
President Shaffer, of the Steel
strikers claims to have well defined
plans to close the great strike, but he
has not told what his plans are
Governor Docl1ery will disband the.
militia company at Pierce City, Mo-
for their action in connection with
killing of negroes there by the mob.
German newspapers ere criticising
Count Won Waldersee, since his return
from China. on his too much talking.
He is angry and the papers are bitter.
Freight sheds and - cars, all lalft tzzo
of them full OF freight. were burned at
the Union Pacific transfer depot at
Council Bluffs, Iowa The sheds were
full of freight
George Alfred Townsend. 'sGath, y
lost at the hands of piclzpcclzet in a
street car in New York. the watch
given to him by brigham Young in
1871. Townsend values the watch al
$500.
United States Judge Estes. at Homo
lulu, has rendered decision in which
he declares that all Chinese born in the
Hawaiian islands are American citi
zens, no matter what government they
were born under.
People of Whitesbcro, Texas, have
burned alive negro ravisher.
Five people were Filled and ten ii
jured in Chicago by the collision OF
trolley car and a passenger train.
An explosion of ten tons of nloltc
metal at Youngstown. Ohio, kiilet
SIree men and injured eleven others.
From l., 1000 to L, ,0oo beeves will b,
shipped from Seattle and Vancouver t,
Dawson this fall for a winter supply.
Army rations have been sent to des
tisute people who were driven from
their homes in the late gulf coast storm.
s-lIna, Iowa, has lost block OF busi
ness houses by fire.
August sales of the Union Pacih
land department thus far aggregate 9s,
40 acres, as against GO, 900 acres sol.
, in July. The drouth had depressin.
effect upon sales generally during las
. month
, On his return to Washington the as
sistant commissioner of the genera
land Office believed that a clear hal
million dollars would be realized froE
the sale of the lots in the three new
county seat towns
Complaints are received in Washing
ton that frauds have been perpetrated
in the allotment oflands to allied tribes
in Oklahoma
Over two-thirds OF Frisco's underly
ing bonds have been converted into the
new refunding As This has resulted
in saving about $4,000 annually in
fixed charges
General Horace w. Carpenter, ez-
president of the Bank of California and
exmayor OF Oakland, has givyn $780,
600 for the endowment of a chair OF
Chinese at Columbia university.
American text books are used IN
English schools and colleges to such an
extent as to alarm the old fogies ever
there about the danger of the inculca-
ton Of American ideas by the English
youth
The town of Grand Bourg, island oi
Marie Galante, in the French Antilles,
has been destroyed by Ere Its popula-
ton is Il, 600.
General Macarthur has arrived il
San Francisco. He left Manila July 4,
and spent several weeks travelling II
Japan, leaving Yokohama August 3.