Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-03-07
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Pixies opera house in Cincinnati was
almost destroyed by fire on February
&c.
1t is rumored in Brussels that King
Leopold will spend the Easter holidays
in America
A joint resolution has been intro
duced in the Hawaiian legislature pc
titioning for statehood.
The Prussian statistical office reports
that there are 20, 500 insane patients in
the 2z0 asylums of Prussia.
A rich vein of coal has been discov-
cred north of Joplin, Mo-. at a depth
of l6 feet 1t is pronounced to be of
excellent quality.
President Palma, of Cuba has signed
the bill which authorizes the issue of
bonds to the amount of S35, 900, 900 to
pay the Cuban soldiers.
Fire destroyed Carnahan and Co.'S.
big hardware store, Al1erman's hotel
and other business houses at Loogoo-
tee, Indiana. Loss, 500, 600
General Funston will leave Denver
March 10 for Vancouver barracks,
Washington. He will assume charge
of his new command March 16.
Germany's pig iron production for
January was 7S3, s53 tons larger than
that of December by %, 4S9 tons though
December broke all previous records.
John c. Felimore,. founder of the or
der of United Commercial Travellers,
died at his home in Columbus, Ohio, on
February 81, of pneumonia. He was
the author of the ritual of the order.
Colonel Chas. T. Mills, of Springfield,
H., has received notice of his APP
pointment as secretary of the live stock
department of the Louisiana Purchase
exposition to be held in ST. Louis in
1904.
Chas. Bartholemei, confectioner,
was robbed of 81, 1878 by confidence men
who led him to believe that he was ar
ranging for the adoption of daughter
of an Italian prince. and which would
eventually net him $685.
Forces of the U. S. marshal and of
ers at Charleston, w. Va. when mob
fought them. There were three miners
killed, two mortally wounded and
others. on both sides, seriously hurt.
President springer of the board of
regents of the Normal university at
East Las Vegas, n. NJ, resigned and
President Hewitt, of the university and
16 teachers went out on strike and
have asked Governor Otcro not to ac-
cept Springer's resignation.
Chas. Carpenter, of Indiana, has had
his substitute for coal tested at the
Armour institute of Chicago The test
| shows that it generates 20 per cent less
heat and burns 20 per cent longer than
| the best Indiana block coal. The in
| gradients, he says, cost less than half
the price of coal.
The Rock Island has let the contract
for grading lie miles of proposed new
| track from Tucumcari, n. NJ, to
| point to intersect the Choctaw division.
w. r. Stubbs, of Lawrence, will do
| the work.
The corner stone of the army war
college in Washington was laid last
week, the president, many officials, in
Guiding the cabinet, justices of the SUI
preme court and represen tatives of for
eign powers and other eminent men at
tending the military and Masonic cere-
| monies.
A dispatch from Constantinople
states that the British government has
notified Turkey that if the latter mani
tests any intention of sending troops
to Arabia England will occupy all the
ports in the Red sea.
At Venice, one day recently. when
the tide ebbed the water flowed sea-
ward with such speed and volume that
all the canals of the city, including the
grand canal, were drained almost dry;
the foundations of palaces and houses
were exposed, and gondolas and
steamers stuck in the mud. where they
remained until the next tide.
Wireless messages to the Hawaiian
Islands are to be sent from the Pacific
coast according to General a. L. New.
manager of the Pacific Wireless Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company.
Two hundred Americans IN Berlin
celebrated Washington's birthday
with a supper and dance at the Kaiser
hoff. Ambassador Tower presided. A
musical entertainment preceded the
dancing
a monument erected on the spot
where General L.awton fell was ua-
yelled BY Bishop Brent with appro-
pirate ceremonies
The Wyeth Hardware & Manufac-
turing company. of ST. Joseph Mo,
are 70 make their employees stoc.,aOld-
crs In the concern.