Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-08-12
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

At Paterson. N. j.. active search is
being made by the police for Mayor
VIM. H Belcher The police say he
is wanted for embezzling sums of
money from private individuals,
amounting to over 100000.
At Youngstown, O., members of the
amalgamated lodges at the mills of
the Carnegie company, where a
strike has been on for over
year. took a vote. deciding to call
the strike off by large majority.
1t is anticipated that the annual
reports of the Texas roads will show
that the net income from operation
during the year ending June so will
exceed S17,OOO,OO0, which is consid-
cred a fine showing.
The board of physicians that has
had under observation five of the
crew of the steamer Atheniana, has
unanimously decided that they are
suffering from malarial fever and not
yellow fever.
with the German and French COM
government, which is carrying out
general revision of it's tariff relations
will next take uD negotiations with
Austria for commercial treaty
at Chicago sent a fusilade of shots
after two robbers who had stolen
goods valued at $4,000. The thieves
escaped with their booty, but three
innocent persons were shot by the
officers, none seriously, however.
The entire grain crop of Roumania
is threatened with ruin owing to the
persistent drought. There has been
no rain for two months The Holy
Synod has ordered special prayers for
rain. and professions carrying ikons
will take place throughout the coun-
try
While the crowd in Provo is large,
there is a decided falling off in the
number of registrations. 1t is be-
lieved that many will wait until al
most time for the drawing before
making their registration, in order
to avoid the necessity of two trips to
Provo
B. B. Herman, the Australian anna
teur champion. broke the worlds
quarter-mile swimming record, his
time being minutes, % LIS seconds.
# is definitely announced that the
Santa Fe has decided on the route
of its proposed trunk line from Gal
weston to the Pacific The prospect
of building a line from the Pecos Val
ley lines to Rincon has been aband-
oned
At Portland. Ore. Judge Frazier of
the State Circuit Couprt issued a tenn
porary injunction, restraining the sale
of pools at the Irvington race track.
The effect of the decision will be to
stop all betting at the track and may
result in the abandonment of the pres
ent racing season.
The records for craftsmanship in
the United States army were broken
at Fort Sheridan by Corporal Joseph
G. Smith (colored). Company G.,
Twenty-ffth infantry, from Fort Reno,
o. T. He made a score of 1S1 out of
a possible 200 in slow fire shooting.
In rapid fire shooting he made a score
of 81 out of possible 100.
Rev. John Dougherty, owing to pro-
tracted illness, has resigned the presi-
dency of Georgetown. D. c., univer-
sity. He has been succeeded by the
Rev. David H. Buel.
Harvest hands needed in the North
west are enumerated by stations in a
circular issued by the Northern Pa
ciflc road. Wages range from $1.75 to
$3.50. The largest number of men
called for are as follows: Grand
Forks, 5000; Fargo. 1000: McHenry,
400; Jessie, Sheldon, Moorhead. Graf
ton, Hannaford and Darcy, 300 each.
Every gun in the navy is to have
its duplicate to guard against any
emergency and accident, if the will
of the naval chief of ordinance is car
ried out.
Detectives made a successful raid
on coffee house in the Jewish quar-
tiers of Warsaw and captured seventy
members of the Social Democratic
party, thirty of whom are organizers.
The manager of the big flour mills
in the Slowdowice district was seized
by strikers, bound with ropes and
pitched into a sewer where he was
drowned.