Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-01-12
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF


'Cudahy," which appears in print SO
often of late, is pronounced ''Cuddy."
There is trouble on the Northern Pa
cifc between the company and its tele-
graph operators.
The Earl of Hopetown became the
first governor of the federated Austria
liam colonies on January 1.
The death of Ignatius Donnelly met
with long obituaries and editorials in
the papers of London. England
The increase of German exports to
the United States during 1900 was
43.47 per cent over the exports of 1899.
The public library at Seattle, Wash,
is burned The total stock of books
numbering 25 1000, valued at $40. 600 are
a total loss.
The total losses paid by fire insur-
ance companies in the United States
and Canada in 1900 is s163, 362, 700;
against S136, TIA, 200 in 1899
Dispatches from the Southern states
tell of lynching of negroes, with an
average of more than one each day;
there frequently being two or more in
one~day.
Berlin is experiencing very severe
weather. The Spree was frozen over
so sundenly that the ice enclosed IS of
the city's swan and the fire department
was called out to release them.
The supervisors of San Diego, Cali.
have fixed a penalty varying from $50
to 500 for for liberating Belgian
hares 1t will not be long before it
will become necessary TO pay bounty
for Belgian hare seal s.
Seventeen hundred workers in the
employ of the Continental Tobacco
company, in Louisville have quit
work. They find fault with their
wages and with rules formulated by
the new superintendent
Governor Roosevelt addressed the
Y. NJ. C. q. of New York city, on
December 80. Copies of the address
were sent out in time to DC read at the
same hours in meetings of the Y. NJ.
c. A in more than 100 cities
The National president of the w c.
T. q. has written the Kansas state
president that the friends of Mrs
Nation, who wrecked a saloon in
Wichita, viii have the best of counsel
in her coming trial They win be en-
ployed by w. c. t. U. friends
Isaac Morris, a pardoned Michigan
convict. has sued three ex-wardens of
the states prison at Michigan City for
So 900 pension money which he charges
they received and appropriated to
themselves.
The Chicago and Northwestern rail-
way has adopted pension system for
its employees similar 20 that in use
upon the Pennsylvania Line.
Consul Listoe. at Rotterdam. says
there is a good field in Europe for
American zinc, the zinc mines of
Europe being nearly exhausted.
The Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf
railroad has sold $4,000, 900 new con-
| solidated mortgage bonds, together
with $500, 900 general mortgage bonds,
10 syndicate of New York and Phila-
delphia bankers.
DIR. James Gibbons. a nephew of Car.
dinal Gibbons, was shot by foot pads
in New Orleans, on the night of Jam
nary ?. He will recover.
The coal miners strike in Colorado
has caused a coal famine there. and in
] Western Kansas and Nebraska. as well
as in Wyoming, Idaho and Utah.
Two of the largest stores in Bur
ling, Iowa, were burned at midnight,
while the world was welcoming the
new Century.
The Missouri Pacific has voluntarily
increased the wages of engineers of
mile, making their pay ~ cents a
mile.
Cadet Edward A Johnston, of Oregon
a Wess Point cadet, secured first place
at the semi-ahnual examination in en-
cheering, ordnance and gunnery. law
and history: an unusual distinction
The Chinaman who killed the Ger
/ man minister last June, was beheaded
on January 1 in the presence of many
/ spectators.
An entire family named Forbecock,
/ of New Sweden, Mimi, ate smoked
/ sausage without cooking and two Of
them died, the survivors also being
given Up by physicians
Samuel Mcdonald, who killed Aud
itor Morris of the War department died
| from the wounds he made upon him
self aad by the exercise of his Will
power. He was determined TO die.