Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-02-25
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The assassination of Grand Duke
Sergius weakened Russians on the
bourse.
Six men were injured, two of them
seriously. in an explosion of chemi-
Gals in the plant of the Brooklyn sui
phur works in Brooklyn. The build
ing caught fire.
The workmen have issued procla-
nations summODing the railway men
to strike February 20 and March 3,
the ewes OF days seem for proposed
popular demonstrations
Mitsui & Co, OF New York, agents
Of the Japanese government, placed
an order with a local firm for sew.
enty-f1ve locomotives, the largest
purchase ever made by foreign gov
eminent
1t is reported here that Arthur w
Wheatley, assistant superintendent of
of power of the Northern Pacific, has
resigned to become superintendent of
the Rock Island shops at Moline, ILL.,,
at $5,100 a year.
Emperor William has issued an or
Petersburg to represent him at the
funeral of Grand Duke Sergius Grand
Duke Ernest Ludwig of Hesse will
also attend the obsequies.
S. D. Workshead of the operating,
manufacturing and construction de-
partment of the National Biscuit
company, died suddenly on the
Twentieth Century train Of the Lake
Shore road at Elkhart, Ind.
Senator Clark of Montana, from
the committee on foreign relations re-
ported favorably the bill authoriz-
ing the construction of an irrigation
dam across the Rio Grande river be-
tween the United States and Mexico.
The German battleship Woerth
grounded in a fog off Kiel All at
tempts to get her off have hitherto
been fruitless. The vessel lies high
on a sandy bottom. A rising storm
from the west is rendering difficult
the work of floating the warship.
The president signed the commits
sion of Major Alexander o. Brodie as
assistant chief of the record and pen
sion Office, displacing thereby Major
Edward s. Fowler, of New York, who
has performed the duties of that of
fee since August 1, 1904, under a re-
cess appointment. Major Brodie is
now governor of Arizona and is ex-
pected to relinQuish that office and
como to Washington and assume his
new duties in a few days.
The most notable wedding of the
present winter in the South occurred
at Norfolk, Va, when Miss Anne
Fitzhugh Lee, daughter of General
and Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee, became the
bridge of Lewis Brown, Jr.. of the
Seventh United States cavalry, sta
toned at FIT. OgIethorpe, Ga, The
marriage occurred at the historic St.
PauIs Episcopal church and was a
full military wedding
The project of police of Kishinev
was attacked today by an unknown
man armed with a club. The officials
aSsailant was arrested.
Jeanne Charcote, grand daughter
of Victor Hugo, has filed a petition
for divorce in the Paris courts
against her husband, D. Jean Char
cote. son of the famous nerve special
list, and head of the French Antarctic
expedition, on tho grounds of deser-
ton. The petition creates the live
liesr interest in Paris circles, where
both parties are prominent.
The japanese government has sig
nifed its willingness to sign with the
United States q copyright treaty, pro
vided it shall not be retroactive.
At Newark. n. J.. application for
the appointment of a receiver for the
Standard Lead & Smelling Company
was made to Vice Chancellor Emory
by Alloys BeacQnbach, one OF the
stockholders of thu company. He al
leges that the company is insolvent.
II is capitalized az $1,00O.000.
Earl H Prince, the Chicago board
of trade broker against whom a petit
ton was filed in the United States
district court yesterday, was arrested
today on a charge of larceny, made
by customers OF Prince.
The Orient line steamer Origaba.
with passengers and mails for Sgd
ney, N. S. w. is ashore of Garden
island. 20 miles out of her course.
Her position is not considered dan
gereus The British cruiser Katoom-
ba has gone TO the Orizaba's assist
ance.
Dr. George Stephen Goodspeed.
professor of history at the University
OF Chicago, died of pneumonia. He
graduated from Brown university in
1850 and took his doctors degree az
Yale.