Free press., 1901-11-23
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF,

THE LATEST NEWS Ill BRIEF.
The National Grange is in session at
at Lewiston, Maine.
Jeffries licked Rubin at San Francis
co. Rubin quit at the fifth round.
The national convention of the w. C.
T. U. held an interesting session at
Fort Worth, Texas.
The First National bank of Leroy,
Iowa, was blown up and looted with
out awakening any citizen.
Lord Kitchener has issued an order
directing that all Beers captured in
British uniforms are to be shot.
The total receipts OF Alaskan salmon
at San Francisco this season amount to
1897 ,O22 cases and II, 949 barrels.
New York state canals are to close at
midnight of November 30, for the win
ter, unless sooner closed by ice.
resolution asking the British govern
ment to send Boer prisoners to Jamaica.
The ministers of the foreign powers
are planning to meet and formally well
come the Chinese Emperor when he ar
rives at Pel1in.
Fire broke out in the Cudahy canning
building in Kansas City. destroying it
and large stock of canned meats
Loss $500
The aggregate amount of penalties of
all postmaster's bonds now in force is
about SIT, 1863, ,772, of which S29. ,246
were approved during the past year.
The police of London prevented the
| assembling in a hall to attend, an an
nounced meeting to commemorate the
legal murder of the Chicago anarchist"
a terrible gale did great damage
! throughout Denmark There was five
feet of snow at Copenhagen last week.
Many lives were lost by drifting of
vessels to shore.
At fire in Cleveland many women
were rescued from corset factory in
the fifth story. Miss Graham, the pro-
| prietor of the factory, lost her life by
! jumping. One other was seriously
hurt.
President Roosevelt has emphatically
declared that no appointments in the
| insular service would be dictated or
controlled by political considerations,
| but that he would adhere to the prin.
ciples of civil service.
The Great Northern is planning to
use the force of Smoqualmie Falls for
pulling all of it's trains from Seattle -
the summit of the Cascade range, and
the Northern Pacific may use the same
| power TO run its trains between Seattle
and Portland.
General Arthur Macarthur Is to at
tend the annual banquet of the Kansas
City Commercial club on December 10.
On November IA snow was ten inches
deep in central New York and still
falling, with the mercury at freezing
point.
The Santa Fe has 200 miles more of
road 1t is the connecting link from
Ash Fork to Phoenix, Arizona, which
has just been purchased by the Santa
Fe and which is said to be the second
largest dividend paying road in the
United States
Earthquake shocks continue at
Erzeroum, Armenia, and there have
been many casualties. Everyone lives
in tents.
a cave in at Oronogo, No, swallowed
up the entire plant of the Aurora Min
ing Company, including 100 ton mill.
Office building and engine house and
six gravel cars.
The widow of the murdered million
aire Frank Richardson, of Savannah
Mo-, last Christmas, and who is charged
with the murder. has secured a change
of venue to Platte county
By December there viii be 5000
rural mail carriers in the United States,
with total mileage of 147, ,220 miles
daily. Only one half of the number OF
routes applied for have been establish.
ed.
Richard Mayo-Smith, a professor al
Columbia college. New York, fell from
the fourth story of his residence and
was instantly killed.
Divorce proceedings are pending 70,
the separation of the Duke and Duches.
of Hesse. They are both grandchildren
of Queen Victoria.
The Lynn canal steamer City OF To
peka struck a sunken iceberg in Takr
bay. in binding storm, and cam.
near going down. As her leakage il
above load line, she viii return t.
Seattle without freight or passen
gers
The governor of Kentucky threatens
to take the refusal of the governor o.
Indiana to honor his resignation fol
Taylor and Finley into the courts, OF
the ground that the governor ot
Indiana has no discretionary powers IL
the case