Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-03-05
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wives in London.
Russia can afford to wait. is COM
mon expression at st. Petersburg.
The Russian consulate at Shang Hal
is destroyed by fire. The cause is not
given.
A national convention of the United
Mine Workers opened at Indianapolis
on February 20.
The Japanese have captured at least
five Russian commercial steamers;
probably more.
The chemical laboratory at the Ohio
state university is totally destroyed by
fire; loss, 500, O0O
A crazy crank was arrested at the
White House with revolver on him.
He was from Chicago.
Drastic measures will be taken by
the United States government to end
anarchy in San Domingo.
Amsterdam is ready for the mobiliza-
ton of the Dutch army All leave of
absence is refused to officers.
Some army wagons shipped from
Minneapolis, Mimi, for Russia, fell
into the hands of the Japanese.
Sixty-eight per cent of all the news
papers published in the world are
printed in the English language
Six miners have been killed in a snow
slide near the Augusta mine, ten miles
northwest of Crested Butte, Colo.
At Baltimore James Warden, aged
1o2 years, supposed to be the oldest ex-
FOUNDER of Methodism in the world, is
dead.
On and after July the government
will not allow the use of private postal
cards on which is printed United States
of America.
Edward Trevette, of Utica, n. Y,
founder of the Commercial Travellers
Association of America, died at West
field, N. J., Feb. "A.
1t is said that the Santa Fe has a
man in the Pueblo station whose duty
it is to remove cinders from the eyes
of unfortunate travellers.
The japanese legation at Washing
ton discredits the reports of the sink
ing of four japanese warships and two
transports at Port Arthur.
The Manchurian railroad is guarded
by detachments of Cossacl1s of thirty
men each, who occupy high watch
towers at intervals of mile.
August W. Machen, late general SUI
perintendent of the rural free delivery
division. George E. Lorenz, of Toledo,
Samcel A. Croft ane Diller B. Croft, of
Washington, were found guilty as in
dicted" by the trial jury.
Portugal is supplying its army with
new rifles and coast defenses are be-
ing overhauled.
The United States court of appeals
upholds the sentence of Nathan Loomis,
of St. Louis, to five years in prison,
for procuring by fraud hundreds of
certificates of naturalization
Wheat at Winnipeg, Man, reached
$1.o6T bid. Local mills are short of
grain and may be obliged to shut
down.
German medical journals claim the
without the use of the surgeons knife.
1t is for the patient to walk on all
tours for 20 minutes four times a day.
The postoffice department has begun
crusade against the printing of OBJ
jectionable advertisements and stories
in newspapers and periodicals through
out the country.
A strike of 200 butchers of the Louis
vile Packing company, controlled by
the Cudahys, has become acute. The
National Meet cutters union threatens
to call off every butcher employed by
the Cudahy interest in the United
States.
President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roose-
welt each planted a tree on Washing
toms birthday, in the White House
grounds.
Fire on Feb. 25 practically wiped out
the business portion of Conneaut Har-
Dor, Ohio. Loss 500, 900.
President Roosevelt has signed an
act authorizing the sale of part of
the Red Lake Indian reservation in
Minnesota
An insurance publication of Balti-
more fixes the total loss in the Balti
more fire at $40, s64 800, of which local
companies carried $500, 900. The esti-
mated total salvage is 81, 769, 200.
A ship was towed into port at New
York which had been ten months COM
ing from Manila, with the crew COM
pletely exhausted They had been in
continuous storm in both oceans