Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-12-12
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Governor Bliss, of Michigan, has
voluntarily rclinquished his pension.
Geo. w. Waite. promoter of build
ing the city of Chicago is dead, aged So
The appraisal of the estate OF Coils
p. Huntington amounts to SIS. 3O1, 765.
Sir Henry NJ. D,wano, Inc new Brit
ish am bassador, has arrive at WASH
ington.
Judge VIM. Springer, of Indian Ter
rizory, is dead in Washington from
pneumonia
The Republicans of Louisiana will
offer $500, 900 for the next national
convention.
The Kansas building at St Louis IS
completed and the commission is hav-
ing it fitted up.
There was sold in the Kansas City
market III 1902, 0,o24, $40 cattle aud
1O,T47, 3os hogs.
St, PANTS German Lutheran church
1T Fort Wayne, Ind, is destroyed by
FIRE. Loss, SIS, 600.
Senator Frye, of Maine boasts of be-
ing the only great-grandfather in the
United States senate.
The grand jury in Honolulu has in
dictcd some members of the Hawaiian
Legislature for grating.
The total income of American farm
crs for last year was about five billion
five hundred million dollars.
Six hundred glass workers who have
been idle since last winter, are again
working ut New Castle, Pa.
Panama citizens turned out to a
man for the demonstration following
the signing of the canal treaty.
There is demand from Denver upon
the coal market at Kansas City. Quo
tations for trainloads are asked for.
A Justice of the peace ut Telluride,
Col, issued lot of John Doe warrants
to the sheriff TO be used in disposing
of trouble breeders.
The international Banding Corpora
ton of New York, has made further
engagement for importation of s125, 900
gold in japanese yen.
Manufacturers in the Fox river val
ley in Illinois gave notice of return
to Il ten hour day. There are 1000
wage carners affected. At Batavia
$50 machinists quit work.
France denies the report circulated
in the United States that the French
colony of ST. Pierre and Miquelon, off
the coast of Newfoundland, was to be
sold by France to that country.
Tire brief sessions of the senate last
week were confined to routine business
The sessions averaged less than half an
hour. During two sessions OF the house
of "a few minutes each, several newly
elected mem beers were sworn in. This
gives them mileage FOR the special scs-
sion.
Stcerage passengers to the number
of 800 have sailed from New Yorl,
for Liverpool. This is the largest
number of storage passengers evc:
carried from the United States on one
steamer
Tie United States exceed by s94S. 900
the amount expended during the fiscal
year for postal service by Germany,
which in This particular has expended
the largest amount among ali foreign
governments.
Majo: C. T. Kilibournc, paymastcr
of thc department OF Dallot;, and ex-
treasurer of the Philippines, died ON
train near Chicago on December /
The country house OF VIM. w. Har-
rison, Tine Towers" ut GIenside,
suburb of Philadelphia. has been
robbed of jcwelry valued AZ So, 900.
A private at Clmp Goldield, Cripple
Creek, has been arrested as spy and
he will be trie: by court martial Ad.
jutant General Eell said that the mar
was employed as detective by the
Miners union.
Since September IS Butler, Pa. hae
had 300 cases of typhoid fever and Is
deaths. The cause is said to be the
pollution OF water used.
The gunboat Bancroft, which recent
" has served rs station ship at San
Juan, Porto Rico, has gone from PEN
sacola, Fla, to Colon.
The indications now are that the
treaty with Panama will be t, ansmit-
ted to the senate before the adjourn
ment of congress for the Christmas
holidays
Burning of the 81 Louis Transfer
Company's stables, at which IT'S horses
perished, caused a loss of about sz0,-
GOO. The insurance is SEA, 500
President Roosevelt and Pension
Commissioner Eugene Ware have ae-
ccptcsl invitations TO make addresses
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