Free press., 1901-09-21
THE LATEST NEWS Ill BRIEF.

The Santa Fe is taking east 25 to 80
carloads of cantelOupes daily.
W. P. Sullivan, of Christian county,
Mo, sold his apple crop for SAG, 600
''Polish day" at the Buffalo exposi-
ton has been postponed indefinitely.
A number of Iowa and Nebraska
creameries have combined and have
headquarters in Omaha.
There are 5000 delegates including
300 women, at the 21st National Colored
Baptist Convention at Cincinnati.
The Atlanta Constitution asserts that
while there are 10000 grist mills in the
United States, there are 10000 brew
cries
Ex-Governor Eaton, of Colorado,
leases 16,O 900 acres of land and his cash
income from it is over a half million
dollars a year.
a new SO, 600 Congregational church
at Joplin, Mo-, stone edifce, is sink
ing and has been abandoned. 1t is
built over zinc mines
Congress will have a bill before it
making an attack upon the president
with intent to murder cognizable to
United States courts and punishable
by death
American preachers who are negroes
and in attendance upon the Ecumeni-
cal council are in demand to preach
while in London, in many of the prom
| inent churches.
Those writer's and speakers who
sowed the seed by denoucing the presi-
dent as a tyrant and a wOuld-be em-
perOr are condemning the harvest they
so industriOusly prepared for and plant
ed.
Consul General Stowe has arrived at
Washington from Cape Town. He says
that six years ago the trade of the
United States in South Africa was So
OOO, 900, and that it is now 500, 600, 600
year.
The New York Tribune says: 'sOnly
two voices seem to have broken the
common outpOuring of regret and hOr-
ror over the tragedy at Buffalo. One
is that of Senator George a. Yelling
ton, of Maryland; the other that Of
Mrs Carrie Nation.
The Canadian soldiers who served in
South Africa have been barred from
the parade at the reception of the Duke
of York unless they appear uniformed
as are the militia The soldiers de-
cided that they would not appear to
receive their South African medals
| a~-aar,+ in their old uniforms
The payroll for the work being done
upon the St Louis exposition grounds
will amount to s27,5OO a day for the
next s months.
Lucy Parsons one of the first and
the worst of anarchists, now says that
the attempt to murder the president
causes her TO abandon anarchy.
A cotton storage warehouse in Brook
lyn. which has three compartments
each 100 feet long, took fire in one 70
the three which contained 10000 bales
of cotton. The damage is half mil
lion dollars.
The state of Mississippi owns Is large
farms where convicts are kept at work.
The plan in general has proven profit
able.
The Union League of Maryland has
expelled U. S. Senator Wellington from
its membership. The order saws that
the league looks upon Wellington and
his countenancing the act of traitor
with shame and loathing.
At Casper, Wyoming, Hans Wagner
was tarred and feathered and beaten
for expressing sympathy with Czol-
gosz-
There are 23.916 printing establish
: ments in the United States, over one
third of which have been established
within ten years
= Deputy Sheriff Malone, of Portland,
Oregon, was suspended for asserting
president Mckinley ought to have
been shot long ago. Suspension By
the neck instead would have been well
A plan has been started to secure
small amounts from all towns IN the
country for fund to be given to James
Benjamin Parker. the negro that saved
President McKinley's life.
Three inmates OF the national sol
diers home at Marion, Indiana, are in
the gnard house for expressing Eympa-
. thy with the attack on the president
Il Some foolish and some serious mis-
takes have been made IN the assaults
Z upon alleged sympathizers with the
+ Buffalo assassin. 1t is better 20 be
; sure
; The Grand Army of the Republfs
!, gained 3O,O1o members in the past year
: and lost s7,172. The number On the
: rolls june 90, 1901. was se5, ,O57 Ineiaas
ing e5,s5o suspended