Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-03-28
Wichita Grain.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Smallpox in a mild form is epidemic
in Salt Lake, Utah.
American bricillayers are paid more
than twice as much as British masons
The work of the coal strike commits
is concluded and their report ready for
the printer.
There is little change in the strike
situation at Cripple Creek, Colo. Coal
mine operators have paid off their men
and stopped all work.
News of the action of the senate upon
the Cuban treaty discouraged the mer-
chants of Havana and the price of
sugar dropped rapidly.
Considerable damage was done to
Montana's new state house by the
earthquake. Three great pillars in the
rotunda of the capitol were wrecked.
The home of the late widow OF Gen
eral Grant in Washington has been sold
for 500, 900. Mrs. Graut left the place
to General Fred Grant who has sold it
on: of the f;Imily
The president has appointed DR. W.
ID. Crum who has negro blood. collect
or of customs at Charleston, S. c. His
previous nomination failed of con irma-
ton by the senate.
A loss of one life and from SIS. 600 to
500, 600 resulted from Il guest in the
Clarendon hotel at Grand Rapids,
Michigan, carelessly throwing down a
lighted match in his room.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
has dismissed three high army officials
who insulted comrades for the purpose
of provoking duels lie called their
actions the work of loafers and black.
guards.
Register Cruil<shanl1 of the United
States land office at Los Angeles, has
announced June L as the date of open
ing of one million acres of land in Cali
fornia along the Colorado river to set
Element.
Congress appropriated 81, 500, 600 for
improvements at the mouth of Column
bia river, and work will commence in
June or July. The transport Grant is
being con gerted into a dredging ship
for this purpose.
An opera singer of note in Europe
and in this country was seriously in
jured by shot through the car win
dow by which she was sitting. The
train was entering Guthrie, Okla. The
shot cut her arm and broke the glass
into atoms, the small pieces cutting
her face and arms. causing many
wounds
Admiral Coghlan has been ordered
to proceed from San Juan, Porto Rico,
with his squadron to protect American
interests in Honduras ports, it being
considered more effective to send flag
officer with a squadron instead of d
single ship.
5. N. D. North has been appointed di-
rector of the census to succeed Director
Merriam.
The reichstag has adopted the appro-
priation of $3.50, 900 to cover the ex-
penses of Germany's participation in
the St. Louis exposition.
Minister Combs, of Guatemala, cables
that the president of that country has
withdrawn troops from the frontier
aud that danger of war with Honduras
is removed.
Il. J. Easley, division superin tendent
of the Santa Fe at Newton, Kansas, is
to be transferred to the New Mexico
division, changing places with T. C.
Fox, who comes to Newton from New
Mexico.
A wireless telegraph system viii be
used hereafter regularly between the
forts about New York harbor.
Stockholders in Kansas corporations
are no longer liable for double the cap
ital stock. The double liability law
has been repealed because it kept many
corporations from organizing under
Kansas laws.
The widow and children of General
Samuel Thomas have given $50, 900 to
the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat
hospital. as a memorial to General
Thomas
Firemen on the Gulf. Colorado &
Santa Fe have received an increase of
wages averaging 125z per cent.
Gambling houses and slot machines
in Tacoma, Washington, which have
been paying monthly fines for years.
have been ordered to quit business.
The Arizona territorial council has
passed the equal suffrage bill. reported
from the house by two-thirds major
ity vote.
A new kind of insurance is working
at Copenhagen. It's insurance against
celibacy- Girls pay small premium
which becomes fund to pay life an
nuities to members who do not marry
before they are forty.