Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-01-16
Chicago Futures.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

January 2.
Kittanning, Pa, is threatened with
epidemic of typhoid fever.
The British admiralty has placed
big coal order for Hong Kong.
Ruth Cleveland, eldest daughter of
the ex-president, is dead from diph-
liberia.
The supreme court of Idaho has de-
clared unconstitutional the state de-
positary law.
The balance of trade in London for
December shows one-tenth less exports
than of imports.
Nineteen New York city policemen
who have tuberculosis, being asked to
resign, have done so.
Confederate General James Long
street died in Gainesville, Ga, aged 81
years, from pneumonia.
San Bernardino, Cal, has IA railway
outlets, with three more to be in opera
ton before next spring.
The Mount Colima volcano in Mexico
is in violent eruption, accompanied
with earthquake shocks.
John A. Benson, of San Francisco
is in Jail in New York on the charge
of bribery of federal official.
Major Hoyt Sherman brother of Gen
eral Sherman, is very sick of pneu-
monia at his home in Des Moines.
Warren Barnhart, the typefounder,
vice president of Barnhart Bros. &
Spindler, died Jan. 2; aged 81 years.
The repeated revolutions in San
Domingo are not based upon principle
but are the result of factional disputes.
A consulate general at Mul1den, Man
churia, and a consulate at An Touk, are
asked for by the treasury department.
Ia is now known that the number of
dead of victims of the theater fire in
Chicago is 5s7, all but ~ of them hay
ing been identified
A tribe of blond Mexicans has been
visited recently in Southern Mexico.
Tradition recounts their descent from
the Teutons of Europe.
The United States court has sen.
fenced two mort Alabama planters for
holding negroes as slaves. Their fines
were 1000 for each negro so held.
The Ohio river is gorged for twenty
miles or so above Cincinnati and for J
thirty miles below the city Above !
the city the ice is piled up in midstream |
twenty feet.
President Palma. of Cuba. has signed |
his veto of the lottery bill, which, as
was announced, he had prepared last /
month in expectation of the passage of
the bill 1t is hardly likely that the
Legislature can pass it over the veto.
Jas. Griffey, one of the victims of the
victims of the Rock Island wreck, was
one of the wealthiest ranchmen of
mort bern Missouri.
The new cruiser Tacoma, just fin
ished, is ordered to be put in commits
sion. 1t is understood that the Tacoma
will be sent to Isthmian waters.
Leadville. Col, has an epidemic
which has been found to be typhoid
fever. There are nearly three hundred
cases.
The Allegheny river has never been
in as alarming condition For 50 miles
the river is INSTRUCTED with ice gorges
from to Is feet high. The greatest
food in its history is expected.
The Rock Island overland train was
wrecked at Revuelto. ". NJ. a freight
on siding was struck by the Golden
State Limited. There was much dam
age done but there We're no lives lost.
Chinese cruisers at Shanghai are
for active service in connec-
ton with the Russo-Jopanese imbrog-
lilo.
A part of the British garrison ut
Hong Kong has suddenly been warned
to be in readiness for active service,
but do not know where.
Bids have been opened at the interior
to furnish the power canal
for the great irrigation dam to be built
in the SaIt river valley near Phoenix,
Arizona The work involves approx
imately 500, OOO
Receivers have been appointed to
take charge Of the business of the In
Fire Engine company,
with plants in New York, Baltimore.
Chicago, Cleveland. st. Paul and Ell
mira. n. Y.
The evidence given by the propri-
stors of the Iroquois theater shows
worse condition of affairs than had
been thought possible
Colombia has been informed that the
United States refuses to reopen the
Panama question with the Bogota