Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-07-30
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

At Pittsburg, Pa, the strike of the
packing house employees advanced the
price of meat cents a pound in a
day.
The Japanese have taken the
steamer Hsiping, recently captured,
to Sasebo, to await the action of the
naval prize court.
AS a result of the butchers strike
there has been an advance OF from 1
to cents pound in the wholesale
price of meats in Philadelphia.
The prices of meats in Milwaukee
were advanced from 1 to 2 cents per
pound wholesale. None of the Mil
waukee packing houses were affect
ed
In consequence of the presence at
sea of the Russian Vladivostok squad
ron the steamers Winghang, Heath
dene and Lennox have been ordered
not to leave Yokohoma.
The military critic of the Russ thinks
General Kuroki has delayed too long
to be able to strike an effective blow
at Lao Yang, where General Kmo
patl1in now is too strong.
The vice governor of Elizabethpol
has been assassinated. The assassin
alton occurred at Adgshakent, a
small place in the southeast corner of
Elizabethpol, close to the Persian
frontier.
The foreign military attaches as
signed to the second Japanese army
left Toxic. A great crowd assembled
at the Shinbashi railroad station to
bid them farewell. They are to sail
from Moji.
About 1900 Russian troops returned
to New Chwang. The Japanese forces
are reported to be six miles distant.
The Russian gunboat Sivouch is now
high and dry in the upper reaches of
the New Chwang river.
Japanese war ships in the Gulf of
Liao-tung are stopping the vessels car
rying contraband of war They sank
four junks off the Chinese coast All
the crews were lost. Other junks from
Chefoo for the Kwantung peninsula
with rice have been deprived of their
cargOes.
Lloyd's agent at New Chwang tel
egraphs that nearly every steamer ar
irving reports seeing mines, and that
navigation will practically cease un-
less steps be taken to explode them.
Everything at New Chwang is per
fectly quiet. There is no trouble With
the Russian troops.
The bill of health of the Peninsular
and Oriental steamer Malacca, which
left Port Said with a Russian prize
crew on board was marked Russia" 6
NJ. Hayashi, the Japanese minister
to Korea, who has been absent in
Toxic, has returned TO Seoul, Korea. 6
The commissioner of the general
land Office at Washington has with
drawn from public entry and sale a.
500 acres of land adjoining the Owl
creek reservoir site, Rapid Creek dis
trict, South Dakota. The action was
taken in furtherance of an irrigation
prospect.
Meats at Syracuse, N. Y, were ad-
vanced 1 cent a pound. Not more
than three days supply of dressed
meat is in stock at the local branches. 2
At st. Petersburg eleven million dol
lars has been allowed by the govern
ment for immediate improvements Cd
the Siberian railway.
The British steamer Persia was
forcibly detained for an hour in the
Red Sea by the Russian volunteer
fleet steamer Smolensk, which trans
ferred to the Persia a portion of the
Japanese mail seized on the Northern
German Lloyd steamer Prinz Helm
rich.
Larkin S. Campbell, Alfred L. Bailey
and Fred c. Cater of Kansas City; N.
Clyde Mitchell, of Hayti, Mo-; Fred E.
Johnson Of Malvern, and Lee c. Song
er, of Wichita, Kansas, have been ap-
pointed assistant meat inspectors in
connection with the bureau of animal
industry.
The steamer Flu Ping, from New
Chwang, reports that on July 16 the
Japanese army was within fifteen
miles of that city. The officers of the
Russian gunboat Sivoutch have sad
died horses alongside ready to make
their escape upon the approach of
the japanese.
The authorities are viewing with
equanimity the operations OF the Rus
sian privateers in the Red Sea. 1t
is said that there is little chance of
America becoming involved, because
the American vessels passing through
the Red Sea and the Suez canal, ex-
GLIDING warships and Manila trans
ports, have scarcely averaged one a
year for several years past.
General public satisfaction is man
ifested over the decision of the adj
mirRlity to patrol the Red. Sea for
the purpose OF intercepting contra