Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-02-23
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THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

Ex-King Milan, of Servia. is dead.
Chilicothe, No, developed ten cases
OF smallpox last week.
Over 5000 private pension bills have |
come before congress at this session.
The temperature at Fort Egbert, |
Alaska, is reported at 6s degrees be
low zero.
bill to prevent negroes from prac-
ticing law is before the North Carolina
legislature.
The Michigan supreme court decides
that franchises can be assessed and
taxed as property.
It is announced that the Gould in
terests will splice the Katy on the Mis-
souri, Pacific system.
Saloon suppression by women has
extended far and wide. Vermillion, S.
D. is late instance.
Grazalema, forty miles from Cadiz,
suffered loss of many buildings by an
earthquake, on Feb. ID.
General 5. B. NJ. Young is to succeed
| General Shafter in command of the
| department of California
Two men are held at Joplin, Mo-,
suspected in connection with the
Cudahy kidnapping case.
The republicans in the Nebraska
| legislature, after month of dead lock-
agreed to go into caucus and unite on
candidate.
An oil well just struck at Hartford
City, Ind, flowed oil, which covered
five acres of ground before it was con-
trolled.
The government at Washington
seems to be Indifferent as to whether
Denmark becomes willing to sell its
islands or not.
The Palmer house, the Great North
ern and the Sherman house in Chicago
were set OF fire about the same time
the other day.
1t is becoming a common thing for
the people in Spain to stone the car
their buildings.
General James NJ. Ruggles. who
drafted the first platform of the repub-
lican party, died in Havana, ILL.,, on
Feb. 10, aged ST.
General George Nancy, of Nashville,
Tenn, died suddenly in Washington.
Of apoplexy. He had been minister to
Colombia and to Venezuela.
| A.
Mo. Pac,. the d. and Rio G.. the Col.
Southern, the Katy and the Frisco to
be grouped into one system
General Maybury Prentiss. known
as the Hero of Shilo'' died recently at
his home in Bethany, Mo, at the age
of ST.
Two Kansas City boys were gathered
in by the police because they had a
shot bag containing SS7O in gold. The
boys say they saw two men bury it in
Tarre Haute, Ind, and they dug it up
and emigrated.
The Colorado senate acted favorably
on a proposition to amend the state
constitution SO as to limit work in
mines to consecutive hours in day.
During the present session Of con-
gross there have been 1000 bills
referred to the military committee &c
remove charges of desertion.
Chauncey n. Depew has purchased q
$40, 600 home in Washington for a wed
!, ding present for his niece who is &c
marry Lieutenant John Adie, of the L.
5. Navy.
The session of the federal court al
st. Joseph. Mo-, was adjourned be
cause the Jail in which federal prison
ers are kept is quarantined on account
of smallpox.
a At an intercollegiate oratoricaI con
1 test of seven Indiana colleges. w o
TYLER. a negro, took first honors.
Signor Marconi, on the first day OF
King Edwards reign, succeeded IL
sending wireless messages from tht
: Isle of Wight to the Lizard 200 mile:
away. Perfect communication be
tween the two points has been estab
lished-
| DESTROYED two wholesale houses and
the building aad plant of the Bulletin
and several smaller places
Japanese residents of Tacoma have
organized vigilance committee t.
D prevent japanese gambling houses Il
be opened there
The Danish minister of finance i.
s desirious of raising by a ga per cent
Y loan funds to cover advances to rura
E Iaborers TO enable them to acquire
/ homes
The United States mint will ccir
q three cent pieces They viii be about
' the size of the five cent nickle, and
of the same material, but will have :
round hole in the middle