Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1905-04-01
Chicago Futures.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

General Peter ]. Osterhaus sailed
on the steamer Faderland from New
York for Europe.
William Marconi and his bride are
which sailed from Liverpool port for
New York,
The German government has indef-
nitely postponed the International
worlds electrical conference which
was to have been held in Berlin next
month.
The division of the Russian second
Pacific squadron commanded by Ad
miral Nebogatoff, which arrived at
Port Said. from Suda Bay, Island of
Crete. entered the canal.
At Rockledge. Ca. rowboat con-
tanning a party of five returning from
Oceanus Beach to Georgiana was
overturned by squat and four of
the occupants were drowned.
In Chicago two persons were badly
hurt and a dozen others were slightly
injured when a State street cable car
ran into a Thirty-first street electric
car. Both cars were crowded.
Minister Dawson cabled from Santo
Domingo that the receipt of the news
of the failure to ratify the treaty had
caused great deal of excitement and
disappointment in Santo Domingo
Acting premier and Minister of
Foreign Affairs Tittoni announced
to parliament that the whole cabinet
had resigned, leaving the king free
to form new ministry and that his
majesty had reserved his decision In
the meanwhile Signor Tittoni and his
colleagues will remain in Office to the
transaction of ordinary business.
Colonel M. C. Green passed through
Kansas City in his private car over
the Rock Island system on his way
to Ell Paso and Old Mexico. Colonel
Green said that his trip was in con
nection with the Green Consolidated
Company. He said that the railroad
which he is building from Ell Paso to
the Pacific coast would be completed
within five years.
James Monahan, a Searcklight min
ing man. who was a passenger on one
of the storm-bound Santa Fe trains
held at Cajon Pass, Cali. for several
days, wandered away from the train
and became lost. For days he has
been trudging aimlessly among the
mountains. His shoes were worn and
his feet torn and bleeding. 1t is be-
lieved he will recover.
ed to investigate the alleged coIIec.
ton of a $4,000 Doodle fund to infu.
ence legislation to extend the tenure
of county officials began its sessions
in Omaha. The sessions are secret,
but former Congressman Hitchcock
and z. c. Hunt were permitted to be
present at the hearing.
Premier Rouvier strongly approved
the project to establish a Franco
American financial institution in Paris
during a recent conversation with
James Speyer of Speyer & Company,
New York
A survey has been made by the
Chicago Great Western for a line
from Arispe. Ia. to Carroll, Ia, and
right of way and property for ter
minals have already been bought The
survey runs through Creston, Green
field and Guthrie Center, all good
towns. 1t is the intention to build the
line on to Sioux City.
The United States transport Sum.
ner. carrying the congressional party
of fourteen, arrived at Santiago and
sailed for Havana. During the stop
here the congressman visited the bat
tlefields in this vicinity.
Allen Ephriam, an Omaha negro,
entered a room occupied by his wife
and a negro named James Stevenson,
killed the woman by shooting and
slashing her throat with knife. and
then shot himself, dying instantly.
Stevenson, who took refuge in clos
ct. was the only witness 10 the trag-
edy.
A report is in circulation at st.
Petersburg to the erect that J. P.
Morgan has intimated that he can Sc
cure a loan for Russia by the hypo-
thecation of valuable forest lands.
The report can not be confirmed
Professor Montgomery of Santa
Clara college in San Francisco. is de-
clared to have invented an aeroplane
which has made several successful
flights. being guided at viii by the
aeronaut without the sustaining aid
of balloon.
Sergius Poletik. Russian officer
who was captured on board the steam
er Nigretia enroute from Shanghai to
Vladivostok and released on parole,
and who. with Captain Zalunsky and
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