Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-07-23
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

ing series OF earthquake shocks.
A postoffice at Brame, Carter coun.
ty, Mo, has been established, with
Allen D. Swezea as postmaster.
General A. ]. Sumper, United States
minister to Ecuador arrived in New
York on the steamer Alliance from
Colon
Bubonic plague has appeared in
Rio Janeiro. The municipal and state
authorities have adopted a rigorous
measure to check an epidemic.
The battleship Duplex sailed from
CherbOurg to join the French North
poets to visit American ports in con-
nectfon with the st. Louis exposi-
ton.
Two hundred persons in Millingston,
Md, are destitute as the result of a
fire that destroyed SO dwellings and
10 places of business. The loss is
placed at $15O,OOO, with practically
no insurance.
Chinese arriving from New Chwang
report that the Russians at all points
in the field of hostilities are retiring
from their positions. Large quaint
ties of shipping is at present in New
Chwang harbOr.
1t is suspected here that the Jap
anese campaign in Manchuria, and es-
pecially in the direction of Port Ar
thur. is approaching another one of
such climaxes as marked the pas
sage of the Yalu.
Colonel Audenoud and Captain
Bardet, constituting the Swiss mill
tary mission with General Kuropat-
kin, have been recalled at the re-
quest of the Russian government to
Berne, Switzerland.
The Herreshoffs, of Bristol R l.,
will get the contract to build for EN-
peror William a duplicate of the
American racing schooner yacht In
gomar. The kaiser already has one
American built yacht.
1t is rumored that J. NJ. Hannaford,
second vice president and general
manager of the Northern Pacific, has
been offered the second vice presi-
dency of the Atchison, to succeed
Paul Morton. resigned.
General Oku sent dispatch giving
further accounts Of Russian brutal
ity. He says the charges against the
Japanese are totally unfounded 1t is
the Russians, he declares. who have
cruelty mutilated the Japanese who
fell into their hands wounded.
The divorce obtained by Lillian
Nordica, the singer, from Zoltan
Doeme was upheld by the appellate
division of the supreme court in New
York, which decides that the inter
locutory decree was not obtained by
fraud and collision, as was charged
Japanese vessels have been seen off
Kai Chou. 1t is believed that they are
keeping in touch with the advance of
the land forces and that if the Jap
anese take Ia Tche KiaO, which is
thought to be their object, it is be-
lieved that landing will be made
simultaneously at Yin Kow.
Forty thousand union employees in
the packing centers of the country
will go on a strike as the result of
the failure to secure a renewal of
the wage agreement which expired
May %, last. Both sides are making
most extensive and perhaps most
bitterly fought labor struggles in
years will be launched.
Postof1ces have been discon-
tinued at Velso, Scott county, Mo-.
and mail viii go to Graysboro; and
at Combs, Washita county, o. t.,
and mail will go to Sentinel.
Dell See. dock laborer at Su-
perior, Wis, was given verdict of
$4,000 against the Brown Hosting
and Conveying Machine company. of
Cleveland, because OF the loss Of
both of his legs, which were caught
in clam-shell unloading machine
Mrs. Florence Maybrick will be
released, as an ordinary prisoner on
ticket leave, between now and August
1. The authorities have no intention
of granting her a free pardon, but
cannot impose any restrictions on
Mrs. Maybrick after her arrival in
America.
AS Z result of having been struck
on the head by a baseball, Hiram
Williamson, % years old, Of Provi-
| dence, Md, died in the hospital,
while his bride of two weeks sat in
anguish beside his cot The cause of
death was a compression of the
brain.
GaIbraith, Pembroke & CO.. of Lon
don, owners of the British steamer
Cheltenham, captured by the ylad-
| ivostok squadron. have received a
notification that the yladivostok
prize court has conhscated the ship
and cargo.