Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-04-04
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Wisconsin legislature has passed
a drastic anti cigarette bill.
twentybarrel oil producer has
been struck at Roseville, Ohio.
The fee for joining the United Mine
Workers union has been raised from
So to $40.
The Missouri Pacific has common ced
work at Kansas City which is to cost
million dollars
Crude oil is advanced three cents
barrel in the oil fields at Lima, Ohio,
and South Lima, Indiana.
The Nebraska legislature has APP
propriated So, 900 for relief of famine
sufferers in Sweden and Finland.
strike at lion, N. Y, throws out
Of work about 5000 people employed at
the Remington typewriter works.
Governor Mcbride, of Washington,
vetoed the bill providing for a bounty
of one cent per pound on beet sugar.
About the last action of the Arizona
legislature was to adopt a resolution
protesting against joint statehood
with New Mexico.
Edward Handkerchief, of Mound City,
Mo-, was using dynamite to kill fish in
the Missouri river and had both arms
and both legs blown off.
Work of extending telegraph lines in
Alaska is seriously affected by the de-
sertion of men who leave to go to the
latest discoveries of gold fields.
Prominent merchants of Chicago pro-
pose to put in operation a line of 100
five to ten ton auto-trucks. The dray-
mems strike induced this action.
Franlzfort-on -the-Main no longer in
herits the for tunes of strangers who
die there. The Prussiau supreme court
decides that Prussia is entitled to them.
Two distinct shocks of earthquake
occurred last week in Derbyshire, Eng
land. In the town of Derby walls of
buildings swayed and considerable
damage vas done.
The volcano of Soufriere is again in
violent eruption. The country people
are terrified. The arrow root prod IL.
GERS have lost their crop while an the
drying wires, which is spoiled by vol
canic dust.
The Illinois appellate court has de-
cided that when a man is sent to prison
for the murder of his wife he is judi
cially dead and his children are entitled
to the insurance on the life of the muir
dered woman, even if it was taken out
in favor of her husband.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company
of New York has received a check for
SIC, 546. So from Mr.. Ii. e. Cary, of Salt
Lake City, Utah, being a single pre-
MUM for insurance, protection and i'm
mediate income. One of the provisions
of this contract is that Mrs. Cary shall
receive an annuity of So, 500 per annum
during her life.
A company at Joplin, Mo-, is said to
produce annually $40. 600 crop of gin
seng from a three-a acre lOt~ There is
merger forming to combine every gin
seng farm in the United States.
The Texas legislature has passed and
the governor has signed an act to pro-
hibit betting on horse races, even at
tracks where races occur.
French commission has been APP
pointed to study the falls in the Alps
and Pyrenees, with the view of utili-
zing their power asis done at Niagara
Falls.
A fire at Akron, Ohio, caused $3.50,
600 loss by the explosion of a can of
gasoline, to the American Cycle COM
pany and the India Rubber company
adjoining.
Miss Clara Barton is to retire as the
active head of the American National
Red Cross society, but she is to remain
the honorary president for life" The
active president is to be Rear Admiral
William K. Van Reypan, retired, former
surgeon general of the navy.
When President Roosevelt reaches
Des Moines, Iowa, he is to be greeted
by 16, 900 children on the state House
grounds, which is a gradual slope.
The children viii wear colors and be
so arranged as to spell the word Roose-
Welt
An attack by ladrones, on SURFACE
town on Mindanao, resulted in the
killing of q number of American Off
Gals and detachment of the Tenth
infantry was sent to recapture the
place. This is the first time American
troops have been used since peace was
declared with the Moros.
Clement Studebal1er, Jr., president
of the South Bend Watch company,
pressed the button that started the
new million dollar watch factory which