Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-08-02
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

liza; possibly from freer use of fruits
and vegetables.
A mob lynched two negroes and shot
another one at Womeldorff, Va, for
numbering policeman.
John P. Reese, president of the
Iowa Mine Workers, is nominated for
representative in congress
Governor Taft, Judge Smith and
Secretary Carpenter sailed from Naples
for Manila late last week.
The Missouri editors, after their con-
vention meeting at Kansas City, passed
over the Santa Fe to Colorado.
Mayor Phelan, of San Francisco, has
sent $500 to John Redmond as a contri-
button to the Irish Nationalist fund.
The largest fire Albany, N. Y, has
had for years destroyed the Columbian
hotel and dozen manufacturing build
ings.
Mrs. Eliza Chase Ingalls,, mother of
John j. Ingalls,. died at her home in
Haverhi1l, Mass, on July %. She was
90 years old.
About a,2oo newspapers of the Uni
ted States pay something more than
81, 900, 600 yearly for dispatches to the
! Associated Press.
Owen Grenlish, of Leavenworth,
| committed suicide in Missouri by climb
| ing on top of water tank and plung-
| ing head first into the funnel of loco
| motive.
| Green fruit is coming from the Pa
cific coast in very heavy shipments.
| At La Junta 70 cars were iced on We'd
nesday of last week, end 81 ears on
| Thursday.
The Fourth of July has been placed
| on the official list of days to be observed
at Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany. The
| American flag is to be raised over city
buildings, with appropriate music and
ceremonies
A petition is received by the commits
sioner of Indian affairs from the coun-
Gil of the Pawnee tribe for the appoint
ment of committee of Indians to pass
upon the sale of dead Indian allot-
ments, subject to the approval of the
commissioner.
The Society of American Veterans
Philippine and China Wars have been
been organized at Philadelphia. Com
mander Robert S. Hansbury, 4,1Os
Warren street. Philadelphia, Pa, de-
sires the names and addresses of all
those who served in the Philippine ISL
ands or China.
There is an unusually large entry
list in horse shows scheduled for Den
yer, Colorado Springs and Glenwood
Springs. Sixteen carloads of thor
oughbreds went west through Omaha
on July 21.
The assurance that the coronation
will come off in the second week in
August produced feeling of relief in
London business and official circles.
Adjutant General Corbin has called
down Col. Grosbeck, who was Judge
advocate in the court martial of Major
Walker, for talking about the verdict
men employed laying new steel between
La Junta and Pueblo, and the track is
being practically rebuilt, ties and all
The celebrated academy at Muenster,
which, under Catholic influences has
long ranked nearly equal to a univer-
sity, is by Emperor Williams decree,
created university.
The Utah supreme court will not
recognize church divorce; such be-
ing held void when coming only from
the Mormon church. Several estates
are affected by the decision.
The Chicago freight handlers union
having cooled down, now confess that
they were fairly beaten and viii not
renew the fight.
The Rev. Walter Culley, of the Tab
ernacle church of Boston, will become
secretary of the Baptist Young Peoples
| Union of America.
| Senator McLaurin, of South Caro-
lima, has declined the appointment Of
fered him TO the vacancy on the bench
| of the q. s. court of claims; because a
newspaper said he had sold himself to
| the administration for the place.
OF the billion and quarter pounds
of paper consumed in printing in 1900,
census statistics show that 70 per cent
was consumed by the newspapers
There were 100 persons drowned by
the SINKING of the steamship Primus,
off the port of Hamburg, after coll
lision in the river Elbe with steam
tug
AT Alliance, Ohio, several hundred
moulders at the local plant of the
American Steel Casting company. went
on strike when asked to stand good
for all bad castings