Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-10-11
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

IN TO NEW = TN 0hIEFs
Schools in Rhode Island are being
closed on account OF the lack of coal
In Porto Rico 1000 public schools
were opened with an attendance of
over $4,000 pupils.
The Scotch coal masters of Glasgow
have large contracts for anthracite coal
to go to the United States
Superintendent Fred Atkinson of the
Philippine schools has resigned to take
effect on January 1st next
King Victor Emmanuel has sent
$40, 600 for the relief of the families of
the victims of the recent storms in
Sicily.
The present house of representatives
has $50 members. The next house,
under the new census. will have $50
members
j. p. Morgan, it is reported in Lon
don, Is attempting to arrange n deal
far the Great Western railway, the
biggest line in England
- SEcS1d1 Train Oh Or coaches
passed over the Santa Fe carrying
members of the National Druggists
association at Monterey.
II is reported at Madrid that Queen
Maria Christina, the mother of King
Alfonso, has married her master of the
horse, while in Austria.
The bank deposits Of the people of
the United States amount to SIS, 500
900, 900, an average of SOS for every
inhabitant in the country.
New York real estate men say that
ground on Wall street viii soon be
worth $500 square foot At recent
sale S2G6. 2G a square foot was paid.
The sheriff of Columbia county, Pa,
arrested one hundred and seven strikers
at Ccntralia in one afternoon on
charges of rioting and melting to riot,
Gen. Weyler, it is reported at Madrid,
will resign as minister of war, because
of King Alfonso's refusal to sign a
military decree presented by Weyler
The board OF lady managers of the
St. Louis Exposition adopted Helen
Gould's resolution to purify the mid
way, excluding objectionable features
of the Chicago Worlds Fair.
Edward L. Mcneil has been sem
fenced under Iowa's new inebriate law
to one year in the inebriate ward of
the Mount Pleasant state insane lsy-
lum. This is the frst conviction of
the kind in this section of Iowa.
Secretary Root has approved the
elaborate plans prepared by the en-.
gineer corps for the war college build.
ings at Washington and at Fort Riley,
Kansas The department will proceed
at once to advertise for construction
work
The Santa Fe has not been doing
quite so much bridge work as usual
the last summer on account of the diff.
ficulty of getting steel, although there
is plenty of it to be done. 1t is estima-
ted that 1900 tons OF bridge iron have
been ordered in the past
The death roll from the hurricane in
Sicily is growing. There are 600 bod.
les awaiting burial and an epidemic is
feared.
The Santa Fe paid &c million dollars
last year, or three millions a month, |
or 81, co. 900 day, in its operating ex.
penses. and 90 per cent of this sum,
$50, 900 day, went to labor.
The hop crop of Washington is one
fifth below that of 1901: while the crop
in Oregon is HEAVIER than the last one,
sufficiently 10 make up Washington'k |
deficiency.
1t was seventy years ago on Septen. |
Der -, that the first train on the first !
railroad in America, if not in the world |
made run between Albany and Sche- |
nectady, n. Y. The cars were stage /
coach bodies on trucks with Hanged |
wheels The tracks were iron bars
spiked to wooden rail-
Contracts have been let for pneu-
matte tube mail service in Boston, New |
York, Philadelphia, Chicago and ST
Louis This exhansts the appropria-
ton, leaving out Brooklyn and Wash
ingtOn.
The Acknowledgements bank is said
TO hold from ten to fifteen millior
dollars in American eagles
a typhoOu swept over Yokohama.
Japan, which drove several steamers
ashore. II is feared that there have
been many fatalities among fisher
men.
Major General P. B. Hugher has
requested the war department to make
an appropriation for the. construction
of the post exchange or ,canteen built
ings at the Presidio near San Francis
co. TO be used by enlisted men