Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-09-05
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Affairs III Serviit are drifting toward
anarchy.
Lou Dillon will try to lower her .
minute record
Villages built over the ruins of Her
culaneum were nearly reached by lava
streams from Vesuvins
General Miles is receiving flattering
attention in the way of receptions, din
ners, etc, in New hampshire towns.
The Rock Island and the Milwaukee
trains we're tied up for some time at
Council Bluffs with washouts east of
thc city.
One thousand feet below the central
cone OF Vesuvius the volcano opened
like mouth, out of which bclehcd Il
fiery stream of lava.
The seven international building
trades organizations are said to- be per-
feeling arrangements for supporting
each other and arbitrating differences.
Michigan lumbermen are negotiating
for wirless biography to connect with
camps for business purposes. The
C'thi EJS are tSudIly lScAdJSu LOT weeks III
winter
Official and diplomatic circles at So
fa alike have every reason to fear that
only Il part of the horrors enacted in
the interior of Macedonia have come to
light rs yet
The cotton trade in England is in
worse state than for Is years, because
OF the short supply of cotton. Heavy
demands are made for the support of
the large number of idle cotton workers
A massacre of Christians at Adrian
opie followed panic when the forts
opened fire on the insurgents and the
Mohammedans fell upon the Chris
tians.
The Northern Pacific railroad is Of
fering Il trip to Yellowstone national
park and return for September 8, for
$S3. 95. This rate includes all neces-
sary expenses and a personally con-
Quoted trip.
Commerce between the United States
and Its non-contiguous territory
amounted to over 500, 900, GOO in the
fiscal year just ended This includes
about SIS, 900, 900 worth of gold bullion
produced in Alaska
There are IS yellow fever patients at
Merida, Mexico. At Progresso there
are 10 patients. The sanitary author
isles are working to prevent the spread
of the disease to other points in the
Yucatan peninsula.
AT ST. Louis men were working on a
derailed freight ear and lighted torch
exploded gas escaping from a bursted
pipe. The men were thrown high up
in1o the air and some badly injured.
The car, loaded with wheat, was
burned up.
1t is now considered certain that
congressional Investigation will be in
stituted to uncover the truth concern
ing the Indian Territory scandals.
The department of justice will prob
ably be linked with the interior de-
partment in making Investigations.
Great Britain has an area of rs, 00O,-
COG acres; Kansas has SO, 600. 600. In
Great Britain 80. 600, 900 acres are used
for farming; in Kansas &c, 600, 900. In
the United Kingdom 81 per cent of
| the agricultural land is occupied by
tenants; in Kansas - per cent is farnied
by owners
According to dispatch from Bel
longing to the reserves called ont by
Turkey are refusing to join the colors
rs the troops in the field have not re-
ceived any pay for months.
The strike on the Richmond, Va,
street railway. after lasting sixty days.
was called off. The company lost sI25.-
900, and the strikers lost $500 in
wages The expense of troops and
special police was $4,000 Two men
lost their lives and scores of persons
we're injured.
Fire in Budapest. Hungary, started
in four-story building. the two upper
f1oars being flats occupied by 900 work
ing people, of whom only a few escaped
without injury. About 12o persons
were burned to death.
Homer c. Price, professor OF hortl-
culture and forestry ut the Iowa state
agricultural college. has been elected
by the board of trustees of the Ohio
state university to the position of dean
OF the college OF agriculture
The Indianapolis News claims to
have certain inside Information that
the Rock Island has bought the entire
Mexican Central system.
The Turkish war minister has con.
tracted for 203 Krapp field guns and
zoo. 900 Mauser rides and loo million
cartridges