Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-08-13
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

at the st. Louis exposition on MA
Mia Day." August 49,
The government denies the rumor
that permission has been granted
the Russian mine ship Diana to pass
the Dardanelles.
At Fall River, Mass, the close of
the first week of the cotton mill
strike involved $4,000 operatives, and
| 81 mills here finds the situation with
out change since the strike order
went into effect.
At Paris the condition of former
Premier Waldeck-Rousseau causes
| serious anxiety. 1t is feared that
the operation for stomach trouble
of four months back, has not resulted
in permanent cure.
At New York a naval board is in
vestgating reports that certain pet
ty officers on the receiving ship Han
cock, stationed at the Brooklyn navy
yards, have been selling ratings or
promotions to sailors for cash.
At Wilksbarre, Pa, between 49,
600 and 10000 miners of the Wyom-
ing region from Pittston to Nantocke
began their spell of idIeness on Aug
ust 1st. owing to the suspension on
account of curtailment in the produc-
ton.
WI Ting Fang, for some years the
Chinese minister at Washington, ac-
cording to his son, WI .Chao Chu,has
resigned the vice presidency of the
foreign board at Pekin and is said to
have permanently retired from pol
itics.
Chief Wi.kie of the United States
secret service announces the discov-
cry of a new counterfeit $40 national
bank note. 1t is on the National Bank
of Commerce of New York, series of
1882, Bruce Register, Wyman, treas
urer.
Governor Beekman Winthrop left
San Juan on his first tour of inspec-
ton of Porto Rico. He desires to &C.
quaint himself in the conditions ex-
listing in Porto Rico. His tour will
include the cities of Ponce, Arecibo
and Mayaguez.
The emperor at st. Petersburg re-
ceived in audience General Count
KoutaissOff, military governor of r.
kutsk, Siberia, which lends support
to the rumOrs that Count Koutaiss-
off will succeed the late M. Won
Plehve as minister of the interior.
No details have been received of
the sinking of the British Steamer
Knight Commander by the Vladivos-
tok squadron except the statement
to the effect that a portion of the
crew and passengers and the ships
papers are held for production as ev-
idence in court to justify the claim
that the ship was legal prize and
therefore subject to confscation.
The Commercial Cable company Of
New York, has been advised of the
interruption of the cable between
Malta and Tripoli. cutting off teIe-
graphic communication with the lat
ter place.
Hamilton White Swift, of SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, relative of Andrew D.
White, former ambassador to Ger
many, shot himself with a rife at
Lost Lake, in the Adirondacks. Des-
pondency and i'll health were the caus-
es. He formerly was engaged in the
newspaper work.
Information has been received at
the worlds fair state building that
Judge and Mrs. Alton B. Parker have
accepted the invitation of National
Committeeman Norman E. Mack to
be his guests on New York day, Oc-
tober 4.
The American embassy at Paris de-
clares that there is no truth in the
report that WaldrCn Shapleigh, the
student at West Lebanon, Me-, who
committed suicide by swallowing
strychnine, was nephew of Ambassa-
dor Porter The ambassador never
heard of him previous to his death.
Germany's foreign trade for the
last six months shows that the i'm
ports amounted to $795, 100000, an in
crease of $25.OO0.OOO over the CORES
ponding period last year, and the ex-
ports aggregated 1921, OOO, 900, an in
crease of $21. 25O.OOO.
At Port Au Prince, Hayti, the sit
uation is calmer, but the population
is still excited and all the Syrian
stores are closed, their proprietors
not daring to open them owing to
fear of the riotous soldiers and pop
ulace. The American Ministers Mr..
Powell, has advised all of those who
have consulted him to be calm, prom
Using them ehicacious protection
shortly.
Rural free delivery routes to be es-
tablished September 1, at Mercer, Mo-
Piedmont, Mo-; Pomona, No.; and
Trimble. No.