Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-06-11
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Over one million miles of telegraph
wires arc in use in this country.
Work is being pushed to prepare the
Russian Baltic fleet to sail before Oc-
tober.
General Kuropatkin really seems to
be inclined to attempt march to Port
Arthur.
The last section of the second cable
connecting Germany and America was
completed June l.
The seal for the U. S. supreme court
has been in use since 1890. new seal
has been ordered.
The attendance at the worlds fair
during the last week of May was al
most 800, 900 people.
Cotton, on the New York market,
dropped l25 points on June ?, and the
bears started covering.
A lockout in Buffalo, n Y, keeps
away from work l 900 bricl1layers, hod
carriers and teamsters.
Several houses in Joplin, No, were
were filed with water.
Hundreds of clerks in Wall street
are being let out because of u univer-
sal let up of country buyers 'on
change
The Colonial Securities company of
st. Louis is charged with being in-
solvent, in an action to have receiver
appointed.
The form OF, government for the Pam
anna canal zone is the same as Presi-
dent Jefferson approved for the Louis
lana Territory.
David Rothcohild, New York mil
lionaire. is in the penitentiary for
swindling methods as promoter of the
Globe Security company.
A ten weeks old baby was killed at
Williamsburg, N. Y, by a ball batted
from field near by. The baby was
on it's mothers lap on front porch.
A tornado at Dallas, Texas, on June
3 blew the roof off the office of the
Western Union Telegraph Co. Rain
fell in torrents. Several houses were
wrecked.
The Platte bottoms in Colorado be-
came vast sea of water. A thousand
feet of the Union Pacific along Pawnee
creek was covered by water, from a
waterspout.
Lieutenant Thomas r. Ryan, son of
First Assistant Secretary Thomas Ryan
of the interior department, has been
transferred from the department of
the Philippines to Fort Sheridan,
located near Chicago.
A treaty of arbitration has been
signed between Spain an Portugal. It
conforms with article 10 of The Hague
convention.
The injunction against strikers at
Albuquerque includes the restraining
of strikers from conversing with non
union employees.
A remarkable order just received
from Rome, which forbids the opening
of collegiate courses at the Catholic
university at Washington is being dis
cussed by the trustees of that institu-
ton.
Mont Pelee, in Martinique, burst
forth in eruption on May 8, just year,
from the previous disastrous flow of
lava.
A. II. Haclzley has given the city of
Muszegan, Mich, over So, 600, oOO
The last item is $500, 900 for a manual
a=aining school.
In total cost of irrigation systems
and in total number of irrigated farms
California holds first rank. Colorado.
leads in number of acres irrigated.
Prof. I. F. Mather, principal of the
Fort Edward, n. Y. Collegiate insti-
tute has been rendered the presidency
OF the Occidental college at Los An
geles Cal.
The Worcester, Mass. Spy, one Of
the oldest newspapers in the country,
has suspended publication on account
of financial troubles. The spy was
founded in 1870
Forest fires have been raging
throughout the northern portions of
Minnesota and Wisconsin. Lumber
companies are suffering heavy losses.
q. 5. Judge Boyd could find no salts
factory hotel accommodations at
Willzesboro, n. c.. and announced that
he would take Quarters in a tent or a
car.
While veterans were casting flowers
on the waters OF the Arkansas river at
Pueblo at Pueblo Colo, foot
bridge broke down and four people
were drowned.