Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-04-18
Wichita Grain
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The rebels still have possession of
the city of San Domingo
Every gambling house at Denver,
Col, is closed on an order by the city
government
Insurgent and Turkish troops are
having battles daily in Melsho, north
of Macedonia.
An explosion At the arsenal at Can
ton, China, 1900 persons are reported
TO have been killed
The antitrust law enacted in Texas
applies to labor unions as well as COM
binations of capital.
J. b. Atherton, the great sugar rails
err of Hawaii, is dead. He went to
Honolulu from Boston in 1853.
The supreme court of Indiana has de-
clared unconstitutional the state law
enacted in 1899 for weekly pay day.
Rev. Henry AIilburn, the blind
chaplain of the United States senate,
died at Santa barbara, Cali, on April
&c.
The city of Paris has 10, ST. octogena-
rians, and 531 people who are 90 years
old, of whom So will be centeuarians
during 1908.
Halyard's hardware store in Joplin,
Mo, has been robbed six times in the
past ninety days. Firearms has been
the usual loot.
The railroads have commenced call
ing in passes to shippers, explaining
that the Elhins law forbida the issuing
of such passes.
A tornodo swept over Ovingsville,
ny, and vicinity on April 5, doing
great damage to the tobacco planta-
tions and buildings.
Rev. Mrg L. Il. Rocker, secretary of
the apostolic delegation al Washington,
has been appointed bishop of Nueva
Caceras, Philippines.
John w Church and wife have dis
appeared from his ranch in Colorado.
He was formerly in the Union Pacific
general office at Omaha.
Because of the succession of accidents
which have occurred recently in the
navy. u board of officers is to be ap-
pointed to revise the drill regulations.
Saloon keepers of New York city
have declared a boycott of the products
of New York farmers. They also ask
the brewers, grocers and produce men
To join them in the boycott. This ac-
ton is taken to get even with the
farmer members of the legislature for
putting an additional tax on liquor
sellers.
case is pending in the United
States supreme court which involves
the validity of the eight hour lay of
Kansas. The law was sustained by
the courts of Kansas and appealed TO
the court of the las resort.
The Rt. Rev. Geo. Montgomery, CO.
adjutor archbishop of San Francisco.
has been appointed archbishop of Ma
Mia
Reports from Maryland tell of the
destruction by freezing of the prospects
for both the peach and strawberry
crops.
One of the largest convention halls
in the country is to be built at Los An
geles, California. to have u seating ca.
Pacity of over 1900 people
Wool shipments from Australia to
the United States last year amounted
"a. OO4 bales, a decrease of I,7S9 bales
fr,N,,o Of ~
The Holland submarine boat Gram
pms has demonstrated her ability as a
vessel of war at San Francisco bv dis
charging torpedo at a range of $50
yards and striking stationary target
squarely In the center.
The postoffice at Wellington, Ohio
was ROBBED of 81, 500 in cash and stamps.
The robbers took tools from black
smith shop and also used dynamite.
Three members of a Philadelphia
school district board have been con-
victed of accepting brides from woman
school teachers for positions in the
schools
Mrs. Susan Updille is in Jail at Akron,
Oilio- oie cOHISSSeU 10 kliIlng Andrew
Fosnacht, who was peeping into the
windows of her home. by hitting him
on the head with club
Pennsylvania has new law which
prohibits the sale of cigarettes or Gig
arctic papers to any person under 81
years of age. The penalty for viola
ton of the act is a fine of from S1oo to
$500
The Mexican Herald publishes re-
port of the capture and execution of
John Dyer, the Arizona newspaper
man who is reputed to have proclaimed
himself leader of the Yaquis in Sonora.
Dyer was for a time newspaper cor
respondent for a number of Eastern