Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-10-08
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Grain exports are increasing at all
Russian ports, especially the expor-
tation of wheat to England.
1t is authoritatively denied that Min
lister Lessar is negotiating at Picking
for the cession of the Manchurian rail-
way to China.
Dispatches from different points in
New York and Pennsylvania report
heavy frosts and it is feared that
much damage was done to crops and
fruit.
At Providence, R. l., George t.
Newhall was appointed temporary re-
ceiver of the Nautical Preparatory
school on the ground that the corpor-
alton is insolvent
The Iowa state treasury has COM
pleted preliminaries looking to the col
lection of collateral inheritance tax
from the estate of the late James Cal
lahan, which is said to be worth $40,
OO0,00O0. The state will recover half
a million.
A dispatch from Strasburg, Germany
Announces that D. H Goss, president
of the American institute there, has
shot and killed himself. No explana-
ton is yet obtainable Of the cause of
Mr.. GOss' suicide. The American
Institute at Strasburg is closed.
The emperor left ST. Petersburg for
Odessa to review the Eighth army
corps. The commissiariat department
is already prepared to furnish win
ter outfits for half million men
About 478,0OO sets of fur capes, cloaks
and boots are proceeding to the Far
East.
The Rev. DR.. Patrick Gibson Robert
aged II years, one of the best known
Episcopal clergymen in st. Louis, is
dead, after an illness of seven years.
The deceased was born in Richmond,
w. Va. A widow and five children sur
vive, one of whom is Dent Robert,
managing editor of the San Francis
co Examiner.
The engagement of Captain Louis
N. Bash, L. S. A. now serving in the
Philippines, to Miss Bertha Runkle, of
New York, author of "The Helmet of
Navarro" which created such SEN
sation when published in serial form
has been announced. Captain Bash is
the son of Major Bash, retired. Miss
RunkIe spent the summer in the Isle
of Wight, gathering material for her
forthcoming book. The wedding is to
take place at her New York home late
in the autumn.
The Chilean training ship, Genera.
BaQuedano, has arrived in San ran.
cisco, As days from Yokohama. The
vessel carries 43 officers and a CREW
of 337, mostly cadets of the Chilean
navy, and has been making leisurely
voyage to Asiatic countries. She is
now on her way back to Valparaiso.
Charles F. Martin, secretary of the
National Live Stock association, while
journeying from Denver to Cheyenne
Wyo., was seized with hemorrhage
of the lungs and expired in a few min
utes after being removed from the
train at Greeley, Kansas.
General Harrison Allen, deputy aud.
itor for the postoffice department
died suddenly, aged GO. General Al
len was born in Pennsylvania, but
moved to Fargo, N. D., received the
appointment of United States marshal
for that district. He was appointed
to the office of deputy auditor by Presi-
dent Mckinley. He served with dis.
tinction in the Union army during
the civil war.
Consul General Cordova, of Hondur-
as, says that the boundary question
between Honduras and Nicaragua
will be settled by arbitration.
E. j. Davis, commissioner of crown
lands, and a member of the Ontario
legislature, has been unseated as the
result of a petition against his re-
turn for North York at the bye-elec-
ton in February, 1903. This leaves
the government without majority on
the floor The speaker, however, has
the privilege of casting a vote in the
case of tie.
Rear Admiral Jewell, commander
in-chief of the European squadron. has
informed the navy department that he
will hold the autumn practice of his
squadron at Aboukir Bay this year.
Russian agents are displaying great
activity in securing coal at Liverpool
for Vladivostok They offer IS ton.
plus three per cent upon the ships
departure and another, 1878 on arriv-
al at Vladivostok. The firms general
iy are fighting shy. but a few ships
have been dispatched, Hong Kong
being the osteRsibIe destination.
The municipal authorities OF Mos
COW, on account Of the appearance of
Cholera ate Saratoff and Mimi Nov
gorod, have adopted extraordinary
measures TO treat and isolate any
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