Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-02-16
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

The Austrian census shows Vienna
10 have population of !, 635, 641.
Burlington, Iowa, experienced the
worst blizzard for years on February
The Dowager Czarina. it is said will,
visit her sister, the new queen of Eng
land
VIM. NJ. Evarts celebrated his SD
birthday on February 6. His eyesight
is almost gone.
The Omaha street railway has suf-
fered a loss a s135, 900 worth of its
property by fire.
An American company is reaching
out for the control of the salt business
in Great Britain.
1t is public belief that the C. B. & @
officials are perfecting plans to absorb
the st. Joseph and Grand Island.
Joseph Dain. of Chillicothe, Mo-, in
ventor of the Dain stacker and others
modern implements. died on Feb. 3.
Women faith cure heaters in Chicago
are destroying drug stores la Nation.
They claim that drugs are devils stuff.
The South Carolina house of repre-.
sentatives has passed a bill appropria-
ting $500, 900 for Confederate pensions.
Mr.. Carnegie is anxious to retire
| from active business. and is said to
have arranged to do SO at an early date.
John II. Kirby. of Houston. Texas,
| has made contract to furnish the San
ia Fe with 1000, 900 ties within FIVE
years.
Samoa is reported as peculiarly fit,
| by position, soil and climate. for the
cultivation of coffee, tea, tobacco and
cotton.
a national conference is in session at
Philadelphia to try to form national
federation of churches and Christian
workers.
The F]atbush car stables of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit company are
burned at loss of $500, 900; ITO cars
were destroyed.
a contract for eight steel bridges on
the Mexican National Tehuantepec
railway has been given to an Ameri-
can firm; because of the quality of
| American work and the rapidity with
which it can be done.
1t IS generally expected that. bye
| and bye, State Treasurer Grimes, OF
Kansas, will resign and become pri-
vate secretary to Senator Burton. and
that Assistant State Treasurer Kelly
will be appointed treasurer.
DR. Homer c. Stuntz of Mount YER
non. Iowa, has been appointed pre-
siding elder of the NJ +. church in the
Philippines.
The six cream colored horses selected
to draw the gun carriage bier carrying
the body of the queen became fractions
and they We're taken out and sailors
took their places.
The recumhcnt statue Of Queen Vic
toria. chiseled thirty years ago. is be-
ing prepared for its place on the top
of the marble sarcophagus. by the side
of the prince consort's statue.
4 perpetual injunction has been
granted against the cereal trust against
an attempt to freeze out small stock
holders.
The union strike and boycott against
the New York Sun has been called off.
The Sun knew nothing OF this action
before it was taken.
. The Christian Scientists of Missouri
succeeded in having the requirement of
two years attendance upon some med
, ical college stricken out of the bill
regulating the practice of healing. be-
fore It was passed by the legislature.
The Diamond Match company. in
their animal statement, show their
net earnings to be equal to 1873 per
6 cent on the SIS. 600. Ooo capital stock
Resolutions have been passed by Con-
federate veterans OF Savannah Ga,
, against the invitation Of President Nc
, kinney to attend their reunion in Mem
phis-
The Rock Island has = new track
. layipg apparatus with which three
miles of track a day can be laid 3y one
engine and one gang of men. 1t is in
) use upon the Liberal extension.
There. is difference of six hours and
four minutes between Greenwich time,
, the English standard, and Central
time of the American standard.
; The steward Of a British steamer
from Alexandria. Egypt. is dead from
tile plague. Seven OF the crew are
! dead. The steame= lies in the harbor
of Hull
? The Herford sales in Kansas City, on
two days running. exceeded IN amount
of the average of sales made, all pre-
, vious records The averages were over
: 500 on each of the TWO days