Free press., 1904-06-25
Chicago Futures.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Col. Harrington, of the marine corps,
has served over 40 years.
The Chicago chief of po!.re has 800
policemen at Chicago race, to prevent
bookmaking.
Sixty miners in the Cripple Creek
district have been arraigned on the
charge of murder.
The grand jury Denver returned2o
indictments charging frauds at last
falls election.
1t is evident that large reinforce
ments are to be placed at General Kuro-
patkin's disposal
A mail carrier out of Sedalia, Mo-,
was robbed and the robber is now GER
tain of term in prison.
The funeral of Abner Mckinley was
held at the home of the late president
in Canton, Ohio, on June 13.
The story of the finding of two in
fernal machines at the palace occupied
by Car Nicholas is positively denied.
The coal supply at Port Arthur is
low. It is estimated at only 2,4OO tons
of cardiff and 5000 tons of Japanese
coal.
The finest train of the Northern Pa.
cific was held up in Montana and its
express car demolished by dynamite.
The engineer was killed in the fight
with the robber
The U. S. weather bureau is to add
wireless telegraphy to the, equipment
of all vessel reporting stations, which
will be in connection in range of 200
miles from coasts.
The National Association of Veterans
of the Mexican War will hold its next
tembe@ Is and on the exposition
grounds at st. Louis, on September 16.
During May the Standard Oil COM
pany handled 3s3, GA, SO barrels of oil
and of this amount 81, ,922 35 barrels
came from Chanute, the rest from the
country around Neodesha, and Indian
Territory.
GRANDSON OF EXPLORER. The first
Lewis and Clark centennial flag ever
raised was unfurled upon the Oregon
building at the worlds fair by George
Roger Clark, the 1o-year-old grandson
the pioneer explorer.
Evansville, Ind, was flooded by the
breaking of the banks of an artificial
lake. The police think that the walls
had been purposely damaged.
The long horns have nov practically
all disappeared in Texas. Their place
has been taken by graded and thor
oughbred cattle of larger size and
value.
Sterling, Colorado, suffered from a
cloudburst which left 18 inches of
water in the town. Hail and wind de-
stroyed the alfalfa crop, just ready for
harvest.
George w. Hendricks, who was
thought to have been the tEaia~ robber
killed at Glenwood Springs, Col, is in
Jail at Omaha under a penitentiary
sentence for forging express money
orders.
Kansas City lawyer was found
guilty of embezzlement, non support of
his wife and in6delity, yet the judge
declared that this was not sufficient to
secure his disbarment.
The stern of the sunken battleship
Petropavlovsk is visible below low
tide.
5Three are dead and two wounded,
one fatally, as the result of a duel
fought on the streets of Bryansville
Indiana, over feud between two fam
lies.
The joint army and navy board has
postponed until next fall the consider
alton of the question of control of
wireless telegraph systems operating
on the coasts of the United States,
The forty-eight Philippine commits
sioners to the worlds fair spent sew
eral days in Philadelphia inspecting
industries and sight seeing.
The comptroller of the currency
has issued call for the condition of
national banks at the close of business
June 9.
The first session of the American CO.
operative congress is being held in the
hall of congresses at the worlds fair;
Alonzo Warden presiding.
The Russian war office has adopted
the United States models for army
tents
Robbers blew open the safe in the
postofice at Laurel, near Billings,
Montana, and secured about s., 600.