Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-01-07
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

NnO AISCdA year amounts 10 over one
and one-half million pounds sterling.
Mrs. John Alexander Dowie and
Mrs. Gladstone Dowie have arrived
at Havana. They decline to state the
purpose of their visit to Cuba
The Sigma M fraternity, after a
most successful meeting, closed it's
three days session in New Orleans.
A charter was granted TO the univer-
sity of Montana
The president and Mrs. Roosevelt
rounded New Years eve by entertain
ing at a childens party, the east room
being used. Later in the evening a
collation. was served.
The Netherlands battleship De
Ruyter has been ordered to be placed
in readiness to sail for the Dutch
East Indian ports during the war be-
tween Russia and Japan.
The Danish steamer Alabama. from.
the Tyne, December .. for Baltimore
which stranded at Storneway, Outer
Hebrides. is lying on her side. full of
water, and is apparently unsalvable.
Elias Hatfield, noted for his con
nection with one of the bitterest
mountain feuds was accidentally kill
ed at Bluefields. Va. He was walk
ing through a tunnel when overtaken
by a train.
Thomas w. Hart, one of the besl
known criminal lawyers in Missouri
died in Los Angeles of diabetes, aged
59Nears. He had gone to California
with the expectation that his health
would improve.
The Mackey companies of New
York declared a regular quarterly
dividend of one per cent on preferred
stock and the first dividend of one
per cent on common stock for a
period not stated.
Chas. E. Russell, of Chicago. who
pleaded guilty to having used the
mails TO promote wild cat insur-
ance companies was sentenced 20 one
year in the house of correction and
to pay fine of $500.
The foreign office has been Off
cially advised that Admiral Baron Won
Spaun, of the Austro-Hungarian navy
has been accepted as the fifth mem
Der of the international commission
which is to investigate the North Sea
incident. thus completing the organi-
Zation of the commission.
The naval observatory at Washing
ton was notified by cable from Kiel,
Germany. of the discovery of a comet
by Borrelly of Marseilles. eight as
cension one hour. II minutes, south
declination, 10 hours no minutes. This
comet was Immediately looked up
and observed by Messrs- Hammond
and Wright of the naval observatory
staff
]. Forbes Robertson and his theat
rical company and w. Safonoff. direc-
tor OF the conservatory of Moscow,
Russia. arrived in New York from
Europe
In the wreck of a Canadian North
ern train carrying a snow pillow at
Arizona, Manitoba. B. Linklater was
killed and a dozen persons were in
jured. The cabOosa overturned and
burned. Twenty persons were i'm
prisoned in the caboose and they
were rescued with difficulty.
1t is intimated that the British Cad
mus and Torch which recently sail
ed for the Tonga islands, will also
visit the Marshall islands in connec-
ton with the possible coaling there of
vessels belonging to the second Pa
cific squadron.
The stranded steamer Northeast.
ern. bound from Port Arthur to New
York, which went ashore on Diamond
Shoals and from which the crew were
rescued with great difficulty. broke
in two and the full cargo of Texas oil
ran into the ocean.
At Washington the state depart
ment has been advised by Minister
Russell at Bogota that martial law
has been declared in the departments
of Cundinamaria and Santander. The
dispatch states that this action was
rendered necessary by the activity OF
the revolutionists to Venezuela.
At Rising Sun. Ind, James Giles
pie. the defendant took the stand in
trial of the charges against him of
numbering his twin sister. Elizabeth
Gillespie. He denied that he had fired
the shot that killed her or that he
had otherwise used violence toward
her or that he was in front of the
house that night.
W. ]. Bryan has accepted an invi-
tation from the Grant Birthday asso-
citation to make the annual address at |
the observance of General Grants
at GaIena. ILL.,. on April % ]
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