Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-01-10
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Colombian army. by national de-
cree. is reduced to $4,000 men.
Rural teachers in Iowa receive less
than dollar day on an average.
The cattle quarantine in Rhode Is
land and Connecticut has been raised
1t transpires that large and enor-
mOusly rich diamond fields exist north
of Pretoria, South Africa.
Superintendent j. j. Diclley of the
Western Union Telegraph Co., died at
his home in Omaha of pneumonia on
December %.
William l.. Elltins will found a home
in Philadelphia for orphan girls,
daughte.s of Free Masons, to cost half
a million dollars.
The four million persons of the Dis
trict of Columbia and of Maryland,
Virginia and West Virginia are suffer
ing from the coal famine
The Iowa State Teachers association
adopted resolutions in support of the
use of the use of the Bible in connec-
ticn with moral training
Letters of administration of the es-
tate of the late Bret Harte have been
granted in London. The total value
of the estate is placed at 81 500.
The rate on wheat from the border
to Mexico City, by request of the gov
erument is cut from SPA to SI4 ton,
This will encourage importations from
the United States.
The pope is about to issue an encv-
clical against the practice of duelling.
He will appeal to all Christian govern
ments to suppress the practice which
is described as a survival of the middle
ages. ~
The naval committees of congress
have decided to authorize the appoint
ment of one more naval cadet for each
congressional district, two for each
senator and ten, annually, at large, APP
pointed by the president.
superintendent of Telegraph Gaunt,
is holding no negotiations with the
telegraph operators as reported. The
policy of the road is against recog-
nizing the photographers union, but
there is no discrimination against
union men.
Near Crook, Colo. boy tried to
find his way acme from his herd in
blizzard. He lost his way but his
horse took. him to the corral where
there was ranchman. The boy was
unconscious and frozen to his saddle
He will probably recover but the horse
died
The 10000 inha bitants OF Pottsville,
Pa, were, with scarcely an exception.
seriously affected by the leaking of
naptha pipe at the gas plant. Hun
dreds were nearly stifed. The acct
dent occurred just before dawn and
the condition lasted the greater part
of'the day. Every house in town was
filed with the gas.
Henry Phipps of the Carnegie Steel
company, who is now travelling in In
dia, sent To Isador Strauss $4,000
as Christmas present to the Educa-
tional alliance.
The commissioner OF patents has
rendered decision announcing that it
is against public policy for the office
to lend its sanction to the use of the
presidents name by registering any
trademark therefor without his eX-
press consent.
Mrs General L. s Grant left for
tune of Sl35, 900 TO be divided equally
to her four children. . The will pro-
vides that y meinento given TO her by
/ the empress of.Japan. said to be 1000
years old, shall go to to the Metropol-
itan museum of art, at New York.
+ The most serious phase of the Vene-
zuelan trouble is in the fact that all of
the South American republics are in
debted to Europeans in amounts be-
yond the possib ility of ever being
1iquidated.
All anthracite mines of the PhiIa-
dolphin Coal and Iron Co, and all
mines in the Wyoming region are now
working to their full capacity.
1t is reported in Berlin papers that
Prince Henry of Prussia is going to
come to the United States again in
1904, to visit the ST Louis exposition.
The court house at Marshall, Clark
county. H., is burned The loss is
somewhere near SO. 600. It is believed
that the fire was of incendiary origin.
The tale is told that Gar Nicholas of
Russia trst proposed the institution OF
TIE Hague peace conference in obe-
dienc- TO ;.drice from spirits at Sc
ance.
An elevated RAILWAY company OF
Chicago has raisesl the wages of It's
moIormen from q TO 9Th cents an
hour This voluntary act on the
part of TIE company