Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-07-29
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


an additional duty of 10 per cent on
imported leaf and plug tobacco with
stalks removed.
Trading on the bourse was irregu-
lar. Prices had an upward tendency.
Russians were buoyant on NJ. Whites
arrival at Paris.
The body of the late General Black
mar, commander-in-chiefo OF the Grand
Army of the Republic, who died at
Boise, Idaho, last Sunday, arrived at
Boston, Mass.
At Findlay, o., local boat factory
has completed a handsome launch for
the King of Portugal, to cost $4,000.
The boat is seventy feet over all with
twelve foot beam.
A bomb was thrown in the center
of Byelostok, Russia, killing several
persons and severely wounding
number of others, including the chief
of police and his son.
A fast north bound train on the
Queen & Crescent road was wrecked
at Whitney, Ala. Two coaches and
three sleepers left the tracks. No one
was killed, but several were injur-
ed
Emperor William is expected at
Copenhagen July &c or July 81 on
one day visit to King Christian. 1t is
expected that the condition of the va
cant Norwegian throne will be dis
cussed.
The government has instructed it's
representative at Morocco to COM
municate to the sultan Russia's con-
sent to participate in the national
conference concerning Morocco re-
forms.
Dispatches from st. Petersburg ap-
pearing in the newspapers announce
that Emperor Nicholas has left on a
short cruise aboard the yacht Polar
Star. His destination, they say, is
unknown to them.
United States Minister Leishman at
COnstantinople has cabled the State
department confirming the reports of
an attempt to assassinate the sultan
He says that between thirty and forty
were killed by the explosion.
At Paris Rene de Saint Marceaux,
the sculptor, has been elected to mem
bership in the Academy des Desbaux
in the place of the late Dubois, and
Paul Richer, member of the Academy
of Medicine. has been elected to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild.
Colonel Kremarenko, chief of police
of Helsingfars, Finland, was shot by
a man named ProcOpe and is in a
critical condition. Procope was ar
rected and has been identified as an
accomplice of the man who recently
attempted to assassinate former Gov
ernor Missojedoff.
Somewhere between the Nebraska
state line and Denver is little jew
eIed box containing a part of the anat-
omy of William Gregory of Provi-
dence, R. l., son of the late Govern
or w. c. Gregory. 1t was his good
luck talisman. A reward of $4,000
has been offered for its return. Greg
DRY was enroute from the Pacific
coast when he lost the treasure
Growing out of the sensational ar
rest some weeks ago, in an apartment
on Riverside drive in New York of
two men charged with the larceny of
$4,000 and attempts to secure $500,
Champe S. Andres. well known at
torney and politician, has been warn
ed against sailing for Europe as he
had planned. He was threatened
with arrest if he should attempt to
depart.
In the investigation of Chairman
Morton into the Equitable affairs it
has been discovered that chemicals
were used to make erasures in the
books of the company. 1t is stated
positively that the erasures were not
made to remedy clerical errors but
were in pursuance of a definite OBJ
ject. The erasures cover up trans
actions of a year ago.
Premier Rouvier sent an official to
the Turkish embassy to express the
congratulations of the government on
the escape of the sultan from assassi- !
nation.
Advices received at Paris say that |
the Duke of Orleans, who in May last
left with an expedition on board the
Belgica with the intention of bring
ing back members of the ZeigIer
Arctic exploration party from Shan
non island, saved eight fishermen
from a perilous position in the Arctic
regions.
A stage coach collided with an auto
mobile at Axle ains The occu-
pants of the coach were severely In |
jured and minor injuries were re-
ceive6 by those in the automobile.
who included the Countess Of Essex.