Free press., 1901-09-14
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF.
Hope for settlement of the steel
workers strike is about dead.
Geo. A Nickerson, director of The
A. T. & S. F. railroad, is dead.
Both Mitchell and Gompers ad, ise
Shaffer to compromise, but Shaffer re-
fuses
Three hundred miners at Huntington,
Ark, of the Kansas and Texas Com
pany are on strike.
In the ecumenical conference in Lon
don there are 10 American bishops and
27O American delegates.
A recent hail storm in Pennsylvania
froze one man to death, and several
others were badly frozen.
President Mitchell left New York
| for Pittsburg, Kansas to try and in
fuence the miners to strike.
An ambergris mine has been found at
Point Conception, California, which
| promises to be of great value.
Columbia, the champion of 1899, has
been selected by the yacht club to race
against Lipton's Shamrock II.
A box car was jammed through
wall of the Burlington freight Office at
st. Joseph, Mo-, and three clerks were
badly injured.
The United Mine Workers Journal
of Indianapolis, considers it improbable
that there will be a general strike in
the anthacite coal region.
DIR. Roswell Park, of Buffalo is re-
| puted as one of the best surgeons in
the world. The nation may be thank
full that the chief executive is in such
| hands
Many peach orchards about Athens,
Ohio, will be destroyed having been
condemned by the Ohio agricultural de-
partment, the trees being affected with
the San Jose scale.
The latest reports say that J. Pier
! pont Morgan has obtained control of
the zinc production of the United States,
three-fourths of which comes from the
| Galena-Joplin, district.
cloudburst did damage at Cebo,
Montana, to the extent of SO, 900.
Hail accumulated foot deep on the
level and 900 feet of the Northern
Pacific track was washed away. All
wires are down.
Secretary Hay was clerk to Lincoln;
Root taught school; Griggs was law
clerk; Hitchcock clerk in a store; Gage
at Is was bank clerk; Smith was a
compositor in early life; Long did
chores on a farm, and Wilson at 20 was
farm hand.
The Northwestern hotel in Buffalo is
destroyed by fire. The loss is esti-
mated at S4O,O 900. One man was badly
burned.
The New Zealand government orders
most of its locomotives from Philadel-
phia, and rs per cent of other railway
stock of all descriptions from America.
Dartmouth College will celebrate the
Tooth anniversary of the graduation of
Daniel Webster, on Sept 20, by laying
the cornerstone of Webster hall. A
thousand of the alumni will parade in
revolutionary costumes.
Holland has been having war with
Sumatra since 1870 and has expended
$500, 600, coo on it, and the Sumatrans
now say they have only begun to fight.
The French government told the
Turkish ambassador to leave France
! and he left. 1t is rumored that a naval
division has been ordered to Turkish
waters.
A Macon county, Missouri, farmer.
saved his cattle and kept them in good
order after pasturage gave out, by cut
ting elm trees. The cattle thrive on
the leaves and small branches.
NJ. ]. Collins has been appointed as
sistant general purchasing agent of the
Santa Fe, with headquarters in Chi
cago.
Senator Clark, of Montana owns the
richest mine in the world, which brings
him S12. 900, 600 a year when fully
manned. just now the mine is idle be-
cause Clark will not grant his men an
s-hour day.
The best estimates on the Texas cot
ton crop place the yield at 215 million
| Od1oS -hSSAI4y Ouc-IA1Tu oScrtdSc 1rOn
last rear.
For the first six months of the curren
year the Mexican Central railroad failed
to earn its fixed charges It fell short
about SIS. 600, while for that period OF
last year it had surplus of S177, ,Oo0.
All but two of the paper hanging
firms of Washington, d. c., have sus-
pended business because the paper
hangers struck for $500 day instead
of 81 so, the price they have been re-
ceiving-
Farmers of Western Illinois declar.
that corn tassels are repollenizing.
j They look upon it as a miracle.