Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-05-21
Chicago Futures.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


German soldiers in Southeast Africa
are suffer ing fromtyphus fever
Maryland and Delaware report much
damage to fruit by severe frosts.
Jacob Coxey, of "Coxey's army"
fame, is now said to be millionaire
The Russian troops in Manchuria are
experiencing an epidemic of typhoid
fever.
The garrison at Port Arthur is try
ing to clear the entrance of sunken
barges.
Secretary Taft is spending ten days
vacation in the Adirondacks, to recruit
his health.
The Pecos valley is reported as badly
in need of rain, the drouth being the
most serious since 1856.
A final joint survey is being made by
the United States and Canada, of the
boundary line of Alaska.
Commissioner Ware says that many
veterans refuse to apply for age pen
sions, considering it 'pauper's pen
sion.''
The Nebraska grand lodge, Knights
of Pythias, adopted resolution bar
ring from membership gamblers and
Uartenders.
The explosion of sawdust at lum-
Der mill at Portland, Oregon, caused
fire which destroyed property to the
amount of $3.50, 900.
Grand Duke Cyril, whose nervous
system was shattered at Port Arthur,
is considered a case wherein cure will
be difficult and tedious
The members of the board of sol.
diers' homes managers will have their
annual tour of inspection in June.
which includes trip to Southern Cali
fornia.
A boy in New York touched a match
to a barrel of oil lying on the asphalt
pavement. Before the fire was put
out it had destroyed nearly block OF
| pavement.
The Red Cross society at Odessa has
received $500 from d. NJ. Osborn & Co,
of Auburn. N. Y, with letter which
says: ''We shall never forget what the
Russians did for the United States in
1861
The secretary of the Interior has set
apart So, 100, 900 of the reclamation fund
for irrigation projects in Colorado.
South Dakota, Oregon and North Da-
I1ota. This leaves S6,OOO,O 900 Of that
fund of So, 900, 0oo
Geronimo and ten Apache braves,
with their families, and two families
| of Comanches, are located on the St.
Louis fair grounds.
There is good prospect for settlement
oil fields by June 1, concessions being
made by both sides.
In 1887 congress chartered Lincoln
monument association and there was
raised 100000 by 81 subscriptions
from all parts of the country. There
is now discussed the question of what
became of the S1Oo,0OO
Two mills of the Schaghtlcolze Pow
der company, near Troy, n. Y, blew
up and two employees were killed and
msny buildings demolished.
When bids were opened for ss7. oOo.-
600 of New York -citys 81 per cent
bonds it was found that the Issue was
over-subscribed about seven times.
The idea that the Russian squadron
at Port Arthur is being destroyed to
- fol dc -
the enemy is secuted at st. Petersburg
The Louisiana Purchase cost the
United States SIS, 600, DOC. The ce1e-
bration OF that bargain at St. Louis
will cost more than double that
amount.
that builders OF reservoirs are liable
for all injuries or damages caused by
the collapse ofa dam constructed by
them.
After a sensational debate the Meth
odist general conference defeated a set
of resolutions condemning the attitude
of the Roman Catholic church against
the public school system of the conn
try.
Port Arthur has only coal sufficient
to last the -warships for six weeks.
The food supply there viii feed 5000
men three months only.
The second anniversary Of z. F.
Ware as commissioner OF pensions was
celebrated by banquet given by the
chiefs of the pension bureau