Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-10-14
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

1t is officially announced that IA
new cases of cholera, six of which
proved fatal, occurred in Poland DC.
tober s.
A mail train bound for Vladikavkaz
left the rails and was wrecked. Tween.
ty-seven persons were killed and
thirty-five injured.
But three printing houses were af-
fected by the strike of union printers
which was inaugurated in Omaha
About thirty men are out.
Following a meeting of Dayton
typothetae open shop notices were
posted by nine more employing print
erS in Dayton O., and the men walk
ed out.
Doctors in the hospital at Bordeaux
to the number of 100 struck owing
to the refusal of the directors to sat
isfy claims. The authorities are call
ing on private practitioners to under.
| take the care of patients.
At Annapolis the authorities Of the
naval academy announced the situa-
ton in regard to the diphtheria among
the members of the fourth class mid
shipmen is now well in hand and that
no further danger is anticipated.
G. c. Coleman, attorney general of
Kansas, is in Washington to make
motion before the Supreme court for
the advancement of what is known
as the Kansas-Colorado CASE in
which the state of Kansas seeks to
prevent the state of Colorado from di-
verting the waters of the Arkansas
river.
Governor Folk says he can not ac-
cept Lawson's invitation to serve On
the committee of governors in the in
surance disclosures. The governor
wired Mr.. Lawson saying he appre-
ciated the invitation, but his official
duties would not permit him to en-
gage actively on such a committee
and that he could not accept without
knowing more about what was to be
done and what other governors would
be on the committee.
Word comes from Washington that
Secretary of War Taft has approved
the finding of the chief engineer
which denied the request of the SOUTH
ern Pacific railroad to construct a
drawbridge across Carquines straits.
The secretary holds that the only
kind of bridge that could be built
there is a pier bridge sixty feet above
the water The construction of the
bridge would considerably shorten the
running distance of the Southern Pa
and Sap.
ramentO-
Because of the hostility shown by
Kansas and Missouri to the Standard
Oil Company, the company threatens
to abandon the Sugar Greek refinery
at Kansas City, Mo, the largest in
the country. The refinery operates
exclusively on Kansas and Territory
oil, and the Kansas trouble is familiar
to everybody. Missouri is now suing
to GUST the company from the state.
In Minnesota a man may marry his
adopted daughter. This decision has
been reached by members of the
county attorneys force after due and
careful deliberation. Acting upon it,
Herman Dahm, GO years old, and Ag-
mes Dahm, his 22-year-old adopted
daughter, have been made man and
wife at Dayton.
The strike movement at Moscow
is causing uneasiness among the au-
thorities, not only on account of the
threatening nature of the demonstra-
tions at Moscow, but also owing to
the probability of their extending to
st. Petersburg and other cities and
starting wave of labor troubles SINH
lar to that which followed in the wake
of the January disorders.
Captain F. J. Drake has been de-
tached from duty as captain of the
yard of the Mare island navy yard
and ordered to the command of the
battleship Captain Richardson Clo-
yer, who has completed his tour of sea
duty.
At Berlin the government has re-
ceived an answer from General Won
Trotha, commanding the German
forces of Southwest Africa, to cabled
request for information concerning
the reported Boer plot to overthrow
the German rule in Southwest Africa.
The strike at Moscow has spread
to the bakers. There is only sufd-
silent white bread to last two days.
The large crowds of strikers in the
streets are assuming a threatening
attitude The employees of the street
railways who have joined the strike
have rendered many Of the cars use
less
A run was started on the Dime Saw
ings bank at Peoria, Ill. The bank
has taken advantage of the thirty
day notice law on all except check ac-
counts. Dougherty was large stock
holder in the bank