Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-08-16
wichita Grain.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

In l. " W. " - IN O0ICTs
Mexico City is to have new cattle
market and stoclxyards.
Local grain men of Topeka talk
about forming board of trade there.
Trinidad, Colo, has a water famine
With river running through the
town.
Washouts on the Texas Midland
have been repaired and the trains are
running.
The English house of commons ad-
journed to August 16, over the corona
ton period.
The Edgerton coliiery at Scranton,
Pa, secretly mined, loaded and shipped
80 cars of coal.
Mexico has had good crops of wheat
and corn and the Mexican tariff on
grain is restored.
Edward L was crowned king of En-
gland 62S years before the coronation
of Edward VII, lacking only ten days.
Earthquake shocks were felt last
week throughout Central Portugal and
along the coast. So far no damage has
been reported.
Denver and Rio Grande tracks in Colo
RADIO have been repairelz and trains are
running on schedule time. Total dam
age to this road and the Santa Fe
reached $50, 900.
The Navajo Indians are IN bad fix
The heat and drouth ruined ranges
and their stock is starving. They have
nothing left to support them but the
making of blankets.
At Klamath, Oregon, Lester and
Emory Davis we're playing in the door
yard with matches near can of oil,
which exploded and they were burned
to death. They were 6 and years
old.
The one thousandth anniversary of
the finding of the old Wurtemburg
city of Ravenburg has been celebrated
by historical procession representing
the ten centuries during which it has
stood.
It is positively stated that the Ar
mour, Swift and Morris packing in
terests at Kansas City have been
merged, and that Gustave E. Swift,
Cape Cod Yankee, is at the head of the
combine.
An English court decides that labor
ers have right to order days in which
to stop work whether employers agree
to it or not This places enormous
power in the hands of the union if the
decision stands.
Ten oyster canning companies in
Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana
propose to combine with capital at
So, 900, OOOO.
1t is said that the foreigners in the
mines at Shenandoah threaten to cut
off the ears of the men who have taken
their places in the mines to mark them
as unfair wor1men."
The entire trolley system within ten
miles of New Haven, Conn, has been
tied up by strike of 400 conductors
and motormen who went out because
few men had been discharged.
The historic building at Frankfort
on the Maine, in which the old German
emperOrs were crowned is crumbling
and braces have been placed to save it.
Blaclksmiths, helpers and body build
ers, of the Pullman shops at Pullman,
| near Chicago, quit work on a demand
for so cents day more pay. There
are $50 of them.
Former q. S. Senator Donald J. Cam
eron was driving in Scotland when his
horses SHE'D and the carriage struck
cart Both Mr. and Mrs. Cameron
were hurt; the senator severely.
Drunken clerks and deadbeats en-
ployed at the pension bureau are to be
fired, according to Commissioner Ware.
Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio, in a
speech at the Urbana Chautauqua, said
that that he does not want to go back
to the senate.
A pastor at Carthage, Mo-, is spend
ing his six weeks vacation working
with construction gang. He thinks
a years reading would not compare
with benefits to be thus gained by six
weeks close touch with the men he is
working with.
James Brady, former wealthy mer-
chant of St. Joseph, Mo-, died at the
county farm. at the age OF So. He had
lived in St. Joseph so years and was
well connected
The headquarters of the North dis
trict United Mine Workers at Shame
kin, Pa. is visited daily by hundreds
of hungry people. Relief is given out
only to strikers in good standing in the
order Many applicants who have
worked in the mines for years and
were refused aid threatened to go 20
work as non-union men.