Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-06-15
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.
The king and the people of Italy are
disappointed. 1t is girl.
Turkey has paid to France the bal
ance of the Armenian massacre claims
of France.
The Arkansas river irrigation case
will come before the L s. supreme
court in October.
The census shows that the fisheries
of the United States produce annually
SIS, OOO, 600 worth of food
fire in grain fields in California
southwest of Los Bonos. destroyed co.
900 acres of grain and feed.
oThe property Of Australians amounts
to q greater per capita than does that
of any other country on earth.
When the Duke of York was enter
tanned at Sydney. Australia. the stu
dents sang John Browns Body"
The Southern Pacific employees are
forbidden to have oil investments or
to engage in any outside business
Governor McSweeny, of South Caro-
lima. refused to accept the designations
of Senators Tillman and McLaurin
Bishop Nicholson, of the Reformed
Episcopal church. died at his home in
Philadelphia on June :, aged 70 years.
The proprietor of an Illicit Oleomar-
garine factory in Chicago was fined
SO, 900 and sentenced to six months in
Jail
Floating rumor sets forth the terms
of lease to be given to the Union Pa
cific of the entire Santa Fe system.
Bah!
The Statement of the London board
of trade for May shows a decrease of
81, 449, 200 in imports and 81, 159, 200 in
exports
A Louisville, Ky, pigeon few from
Alligator Lake, Miss, to his home,
distance of 400 miles, in hours and Al
minutes.
Cattlemen about Gunnison. Colo,
made prisoners of sheep herders who
brought sheep from Utah, and killed
$500 of the sheep.
special train of seven Pullman
cars took railroad commissioners from
| % states to San Francisco. In the
| party were nearly 90 commissioners
with their secretaries and number OF
railroad officials.
The chief of the dairy division of the
department of Agriculture, who has
spent three months in Cuba and Porto
Rico, calls up American cheese makers
to get the cheese trade of these
islands which is now supplied by
| Europe.
Twenty-Five per cent of the young
men examined for entrance to the mil
| itary academy are disqualified on ac-
count of weak eyes
The total cash receipts of the rel-e
association of Jacksonville, Fla, up to
May 10, was S1O1.745. The number of
| people still being fed at that date was
3,I5s
Many of the May strikes are already
settled; some by concessions and some
by surrender of demands The pros
pect is fair for a general peace in labor
matters.
The Western Passenger association
voted against giving one cent mile
rate to the G. A. K. encampment at
Cleveland 1t is thought the rail-
roads will take Individual action, the
Central association having already au-
thorized it
After continuous sleep of two years
Michael Doran has been discharged
from the Binghampson, n. Y, state
hospital. His life was preserved BY
injections of liquid norrishment all OF
that time. He was for years afflicted
with epilepsy.
The Missouri state board of charities
have followed the lead of Kansas and
decided to require parties who bring
boys from the east into the state Ia
give bond of 50. 600 each that no dis
eased or vicious children be brought
into the state.
DR. Goodman of Kansas City broughi
suit for $4,000 damages against the
father and brother of his wife, fo1
giving him a terrible whipping. His
lawyer is preparing another suit for
$50. 600 against them for alternating
his yzife's affections
Congressman Bo~ersock has named
TRULY C. Martin of Fort Scott and
Vernon A. Clifton of PaoIa as principal
and alternate for the naval cadetshiI
examination They are both sons o.
old soldiers, young Martin being the
son of the state commander of the G.
Ar
Rockefeller has given $500. 900 fol
founding an institute for mediea
research
Cuban merchants seem confident thai
the United States win make q recip
rocity treaty with cnsA