Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-09-26
Chicago Futures.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


will sho we'd that he left an estate val
ned at ST, ISL ESQ.
Massachusetts Prohibitionists in
state convention ut Worcester nomina-
ted Il full ticket.
The Philippine government mas au-
thorized the enlistment of 1000 MOros
in the const;tbulqry.
The United States transport Sher-
man has arrived at San Francisco from
Manila with tine Tenth infantry.
More than 5000, 900, 900 pounds OF
sugar valued at. over 500, 900, 900, was
brought into the United States in the
fiscal year just ended.
Congressman Vincent Borcign, the
only republican in the kentucky con-
gressiOnal delegation in congress, died
on September 16 ut London, KY.
Forty-two women and children were
poisoned from eating ice cream at a
church carnival in Bellcna, New York.
An old lady was the worst affected
C. Sam Nichols, u newspaper man,
who has founded numerous papers in
Kansas, Missouri, Colorado and wy
oming since the close of the civil war,
died in Salt Lake aged 60 years.
Fort Leavenworth is to be supplied
with a motor car with all kinds of tools
for any necessary repairs, even while
the troops are on the march. It is
The old claim of the government
against the Kansas Pacific railroad be-
fore that became part of the Union
Pacific system, has just been paid at
the end of long litigation. The amount
paid if $500, 3O3.
Eleven hundred and thirty. eight
trains arrive daily in Chicago upon
twenty-three railways, carrying an av.
eraSc of 100000 passengers. OF these
trains 34s are for through traffic and
S04 for suburban business.
General Baldwin, commanding the
dep lrtment of Colorado, regrets tn
aOolishing of army canteens He saws
IL has caused Il marked difference in
discipline, and that in the absence of
canteens the enlisted mon resort to vile
brothels clustered about u fort.
The detachment of soldiers received
their ncwriflcs, 1000 Kra@-J orgensons,
while in camp and on guard at Cripple
Creek. With the rifles were 60, 900
rounds of ammunition. This is ii c
first new equipment sent to the Colo
RADIO department under the Dick bill.
A piece of land near the theological
seminary at Chester, Pa, is said to
be sinking. The villagers insist that
some subterranean agency is ut work.
The mine owners association of Grip
pie Creek district, announces that it
will not employ men belonging to the
Western Federation of Miners in the
future.
The department store of Wolf &
Marx ut San Antonio, Tex, is burned,
entailing n loss of over 5000, 900.
Schcle's roof garden was also de-
stroyed.
The department of stenography and
business in Missouri university at
Columbia has been indefinitely discon-
tinued.
Admiral Francis A. Cook, who COM
manded the Brooklyn at Santiago, has
been retired after 40 years service, on
his own application.
Rough estimates of the financial loss
due To the storm are 50, 900, 600 on and
around Manhattan Island alone
Eighteen lives are known to have been
Der will be doubled.
Col L. ". Jewell and General W. II.
Jewell were both in the civil war, bus
OF opposite sides. Their regiments
were both at Gettysburg but they did
not see each other then nor Lave they
seen each other since the war They
met last week at the home of their sis
ter at Lynn, Mass.
Judge Rogers, of the federal court at
s.. Louis sustained in 4 decision the
absolute right of employers to dis
miss employees for any reason; and that
the so-called blacklist may be made
and given out for the use of others.
dictionary of the ancient Egyptian
language which contains ESQ. 900 words
or subj .cts, has been complied by the
Berlin Academy o: Sciences
Coal operators of the Wyoming re-
gion look upon the decision of Umpire
Wright, giving them the right to dis
charge employees, as a very import
ant one
At the recent encampment in califor-
mia w. p Kelly of Co. d. 9th Kansas,
and 4. c. Kelly. of the nth Kansas,
met for the first time since their en-
listlnent during tine civil war.