Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-04-23
LATEST NEWS in BRIEF.

The Panama railroad shows net
earnings for 1903 of 81, 746, 6ss.
Hayti has officially accepted the
invitation to participate in the Worlds
fair
The Bank of England has reduced
its rate of discount from to 81 per
cent.
The bubonic plague is spreading
along the west coast of South Amer
lea.
The Roosevelt boys have been
brought home from school with the
mumps-
The recent pension ''age order of
the pension bureau does not allow adj
ton to pensions heretofore allowed
In Colombia an American gold dol
lar is worth 500 in Colombian money
Board at an ordinary hotel is $500
day.
Russia has received satisfactory as
surances from China regarding the
japanese instructors and officers in the
Chinese army.
Chas. F. Smith, chief dispatcher for
the Rock Island at Dalhart, Tex, has
placed in operation new form of
wireless telegraphy.
Among many valuable relics exhib-
tied in the government building at the
worlds fair is Thomas Jefferson's sun
dial, made by Jefferson himself.
Amar Nath, an Indian prince, from
Lahore, India, was knocked from a
bicycle and probably fatally injured
Nath is a student at Perdue university.
at Lafayette, Ind.
Captain Boeddie, whose steamship,
the Kotic, was at Nagaski when the
war commenced and was seized by the
japanese, will sail from San Francisco
to some Russian fort.
The Russian plans are predicated
upon NapOleons's dictum that GOD
fights on the side of the heaviest bat
talions," and the army is to be raised
to a half million men.
The signing of the Anglo-French
colonial treaty confirms and adheres to
the treaty of 1888, with its provision
for the passage of the Suez canal. This
lets Russian warships through.
The United States transport Sheri-
dan from Manila. via Nagasaki and
Honolulu brought 300 native constabu-
larry of the Philippine islands and their
band to go to the st. Louis exposition.
A Denver Judge decides that Colorado
has no law to punish election frauds.
New York city experienced mid
April storm for the first time in many
years.
At FindIay, Ohio, a ten-year-old
school boy was killed on his birth day
while being hazed by the older boys.
All the paper factories in the federal
district of Mexico, six IN number. have
merged to control the output and prices
The Russian government are bar
gaining for transatlantic liners, to
form flying squadron of fast cruisers.
The car has chosen Admiral Skey-
dloff to succeed vice Admiral Makaroff
as the head of the navy in the far
east.
Nome, Alaska, sends out warming
that there are at Nome more skilled
mechanics than can take care of the
work in prospect.
The strike on the Panama railroad
is ended with no change of old condi-
tons.
In the Fall River. Mass, Cotton
Mills 1869, sss spindles are idle, for
an indefinite period
U. s. District Attorney j. S. Dean is
still making war upon wholesale liquor
dealers who do jug" business in Kan
sas
Admiral Makaroff, who lost his life
in the explosion at Port Arthur, is
well known in naval and military cir
cles in this country. he having been
here for sometime in 90 and 90.
Wild geese are so humorous in Cali
fornia that wheat growers of the
interior valleys hire men to ride over
their wheat fields and shoot the geese
that pasture on the young plants.
The house committee on banking
and currency recommends striking out
the clause in bill reducing the tax on
circulation to one-half of one per cent.
Rains have flooded the railways and
blocked the roads throughout southern
Manchuria- The field telegraphs have
been interrupted and the country is
| impossible.
The U. S. canal commissioners have
been studying the sources of portable
water. within reach of the Panama
canal It is needed for use of the con-
struction workers.