Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-12-09
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

A coal famine is threatened and the
factories at LuZon may be forced to
suspend operations owing to lack
of fuel.
The cabinet held a meeting to con-
slider the future position of the gov
eminent. Nothing definite was ascer-
tanned from the meeting.
The conference of plenipotentiaries
of the powers regarding Moroccan
delegates will be unable to reach AL
giers by the former date.
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph Company from ST. Petersburg
says the government intends to mob
100000.
1t is authoritatively stated that
former Governor Yates of Illinois will
announce his candidacy for the Uni
ted States senate within fifteen
days.
At Cleveland, O., Mrs. Sarah NJ.
Perkins, one of the best known suf-
fragists in Ohio, was run over and
almost instantly killed by coal
wagon.
B. A. McCarty, a 1aboring man of
Wymore, Neb., crushed his Wife's
skull with an ak and then killed him
self. Family trouble was the cause
of the act.
The Guardians ST. Petersburg
correspondent says that the Man
oh &c 1U
control and that a fierce mutiny has
broken out.
The Gar signed manifesto which
abolishes martial law in Poland. The
strike has now affected the postal
facilities here and the delivery of let
tiers was stopped.
Shipping and dock property at Wau-
keegan, ILL.,, forty miles north of Chi
cago, were seriously damaged by
tidal wave seven feet in height which
swept in from Lake Michigan. The
steamer Tioga was driven against the
pier and a small hole knocked in its
side and two tugs in the harbor were
also slightly damaged.
The twenty-one millionaires who
are wanted to testify before Commits
sioner Sanborn in the suit of the state
of Missouri against the Standard Oil
and allied companies under the anti
trust laws have secured a months re-
spite. Their hearing has been post
poned until January 5th in the hope
that the magnates will consent to APP
pear by arrangement of counsel.
Near Sterling, ILL.,, Miss Emily
Schrader, II years old, accomplished
the feat of husking 125 bushels of
corn in nine hours on her fathers
farm at Tiskilwa. She won piano.
Ten vessels with crews aggregat-
ing 100 men, bound from st. Johns to
| various harbors on the coast, were
driven seaward in a fierce gale. Much
apprehension is felt for their safety
| because cold, which followed the gale,
will probably ice up their decks and
rigging. rendering them unmanage-
| able. A year ago the crews of five
vessels driven off shore under SINH
lar conditions were rescued by steam
ers in mid-ocean.
German socialists have decided to
| initiate the agitation in Russia in
opposition to the governments pro-
| posals for increased taxation. The
| agitation will take the form of demon
strations and professions The lead.
ers intend to issue a manifesto urging
struggle for freedom. The govern
ment will use stern measures in re-
buking them if the socialists follow
out their program.
Miss Eliza Williams, the oldest un,
married woman in America, died at
Kohomo, Ind, aged 101. She was
born in Pennsylvania, Nov. 1, 1904.
She remained single in order to care
for her mother, who died at the age
of so.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany has been made defendant in two
$4,000 damage suits brought by two
prominent negro lawyers of Calves
ton, who were refused rides on motor
cars of the city because they were
colored.
signed by the owners of all the
straight single mills of the Ballard
district work in all these mills was
stopped at Seattle. Wash, and the
mills will remain closed until March
1. 1906. This action was taken on ac-
count of the congested condition of
the single market.
The Commercial Cable Company in
New York issued the following: I'VE
are advised that the delivery OF mes
sages at St Petersburg has again
with Finland is interrupted