The Globe-republican., 1901-07-25
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

August 10 is Missouris eightieth
birthday.
VIM. Farrell, known as the lumber
king of Arkansas, is dead.
Striking machlnists are pretty gan
orally going back to work
The Michigan salt trust has cut the
price of salt from 20 cents to As cents
a barrel
OF the striking machinists at water
bury, CT, 500 returned to work without
concessions.
The postoffice department now pays
So, 600 year for fares of mail car
riers in Kansas City.
r. II. Newell, the humorist known
for 40 years Orpheus G. Kerr, was
founded in Brooklyn.
Large sections of Russia are threat
ened by famine on account of prevail
ing dry weather and heat.
Turkey has paid that old indemnity
claim of 800, 900 at last and the funds
are received in Washington.
Indiana and Ohio oil producers raised
the price of crude oil twice IN three
days, cents a barrel each time.
The Rock Island took 20 carloads of
trunks and valises to FL Reno as an
extra freight train from Kansas City
Richard b. Hubbard, ex-governor of
Texas and ex-minister to Japan, died
at his home in Taylor, Texas, July L.
a northeastern Missouri stoclx1nan
is arranging to ship cattle from
his section by the train loac to pastures
in northern Wisconsin.
One recent days receipts at the
Kansas City stoc&yards, official count,
We're 80, O23- This breaks all records.
Scarce feed and water accounts for it.
The Turkish government has issued
edict prohibiting Turkish children
from attending foreign schools. the
EN- ployment of Christian nurses
governesses in Turkish families.
A white diamond, a perfect stone OF
astonishing fire, found in South Africa
in 1894, has been purchased in London
by New York firm. Some English
men had planned to buy it for coro-
nation present to King Edward
The question of the retention or
withdrawal of the friars from the
Philippines is up for consideration just
now. The Catholic authorities at
Manila they have no intention OF
withdrawing them. The Filipinos
would be glad to retain them if they
were assured that the friars were dis
possessed of the arbitrary power they
Governor Richards, in charge of the
Opening" was for many years cow
puncher N Wyoming and served four
years governor of Wyoming. He
knows all about the west and its Gus
TOMS
j. P. Conway, late local live stock
agent of the Santa Fe at Kansas City
has been appointed general live stock
agent.
The Duke of York and Cornwall is to
succeed his father, Edward VII as
grand master of the united grand lodge
of masons of England.
The Baroness Won Ketteler, widow
of the murdered German minister to
China, and daughter of Henry B. Led
yard, of Detroit, is suffering from ner-
vous prostration at her estates in
Westphalia-
John Francis Stanley, Earl Russell,
tried before the house of lords for
bigamy, plead guilty and was sentenced
to three months Imprisonment in HoI-
1oway prison, where he is assigned
luxurious apartments ia which he can
be supplied with his own food and
wines
The war on liquor sellers at Rich
mond, Ind, has resulted in criminal
assaults upon the home defenders by
the liquor sellers.
When the Carnegie family came to
America Sd years ago they were so
poor that Andrews mother borrowed
eleven shi1lings from a neighbor. This
has never been paid and nephew OF
the woman who loaned the money has
made the fact public Mr.. Carnegie
has decided to settle a comfortable
endowment on the heirs of the bene-
factor