Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-07-22
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

At Libson United States Minister
Charles Page Bryan entertained Ad-
miral Prince Louis of Battenburg, of
the British navy, at lunch
Policeman Rabasa died as a result
of wound received in the conflict be-
tween Cuban artillerymen and civil
ians in tenderloin district of Havana
At Lodz three persons were killed
and six wounded by a volley fire by
Cossacks during anti-government
demonstrations in Kanien Emma
street.
Arbogast and Bastian company,
whose executive provision house was
destroyed by fire in Allentown, Pa,
estimate their loss at 100000; insur-
anee, 100000.
Thomas Dillon, 102 years old, has
been sworn in as a special policeman
at the free swimming pool opened in.
Akron, o. Akron claims he is the
oldest police officer in the world
The race riots in New York in
which more than a score were injur-
ed broke out again in the district
known as San Juan Hill, despite the
efforts of the police, who thronged
district. More serious trouble is an
ticipated.
The Car has changed his plans
about going to Moscow and he will
not visit that city. The recent assas-
sination of Project of Police Count
Chuvaloff has alarmed the Emperor
and his advisers have warned him not
to go there
Vice Admiral Jorge Montt has ar
rived at San Francisco from Chile on
a tour of the world. The admiral's
mission abroad is to look into modern
naval problems, with the idea of lend.
ing assistance in the reconstruction of
the Chilean navy.
Incorporation papers have been re.
ceived by the organizers of the H.
linois and Missouri Tunnel Company,
formed for the purpose of e2-cavating
tunnel under the Mississippi river
between st. Louis and East st. Louis,
ILL.,, for the handling of traffic.
An official copy of the decision of
the Supreme Court of the state of
Nebraska in the case of the Rev. Will
liam Murphy against Bishop Bona
cum of Lincoln, Neb.. upholding the
right of Father Murphy to retain pos
session of the church property at
Seward, Neb.. was delivered to the
pope, who promised to examine the
question in the hope of finding some
way of ending the litigation between
the bishop and Father Murphy.
Admiral Wirenius, chief of the gen
eral staff of the navy, says that the
report of a mutiny on board and the
sinking of the battlcship Catherine
II, circulated in Vienna and printed
in the United States, is without foun.
dation.
The Macedonian committee has
sent letters to Hilmi Pasha, the Tur-
kish inspector general, and European
civil agents warning them that they
will be assassinated if captured. Sew.
eral members of the Bulgarian revo-
lutionary bands have been hanged
Typhoid fever is epidemic at Col
linsburg. small town rs miles south.
west of Pittsburg, Pa. There are
about 80 houses in the village and in
every house there is from one to five
cases of the disease Five children of
a family named Little have died.
John d. Rockefeller fears that some
crank may attempt his life. He has
given the attendants at his Forest Hill
mansion at Cleveland, o., the strict
est orders to admit no one to the
premises He has increase his per-
sonal body guard and will not admit
any one to see even his private secre-
taTy.
At South Bend. Ind. thousands of
acres of timothy as well as much
oats and barley near the southwest
corner of this county and are still adj
vancing. Farmers are attempting tc
stay their rayages by blowing deep
burrows
Private adyices from Washington
received in Honolulu say that Gov
er1cr Carter will reconsider his re
signation 1t is stated that while in
San Francisco, Secretary Taft. at the
request of President Roosevelt, asked
Carter to withdraw his resignation.
Commander Robert e. Peary of the
United States navy, in the steamer
Roosevelt, sailed July 10 for the Arc
tic regions in search of the north pole
Peary will be engaged ashore until
just before sailing There will be no
ceremony at leaving Peary says the
time for celebration will be when he
returns If he is successful
Fire destroyed the handsome sum
mer residence at Lenox. Mass. known
as the Appleton house, owned by An
son Phelps Stokes of New York and
occupied by Eric B. Dahlgren of New
York Loss S100.0n0.