Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-02-24
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Gov. Folk of Missouri has accepted
an invitation to address the Kansas
Democratic Club at Topeka, Febru-
airy %. He is to select his own sub
ject
The American colony in Havana
observed the eighth anniversary of
the destruction of the Maine. Flags
and wreaths were placed on the masts
Of the battleship.
Allen c. Bates, Al years old, a ne
phew of Gen. John S. Bates, commit
ted suicide by shooting in ST. Louis
at the residence of his mother Ill
health is assigned as the cause.
Spencer F. Eddy, secretary of the
American embassy at st. Petersburg.
and Yvette Guilbert. the French sin
ger, arrived in New York on the
steamer Kaiser Milheim II from Bre-
men.
Active preparations are being car
ried on at the War department with
view to being fully prepared for any
outbreak which may occur as a re-
suit of the anti-foreign agitation
throughout the Chinese empire.
President A ]. Cassatt of the Penn
Sy1vania railway said that he had
never heard of the Bituminous Coal
Trade League of Pennsylvania, which
body presented a memorial to the
house of representatives at Washing
ton.
1t is highly probably the senate COM
mittee on finance, which is making
an investigation into the charges
filed against William T. Vernon, will
nomination for appointment as Regis
trar of the Treasury.
Rich Hill, Mo-, has two heirs to the
Metzger estate. which the kingdom
of Holland owes s12S,O0O,OO0 and is
willing to pay, in the persons of Aug
ust and Julius Elgert, two business
men of that city. They have put in a
claim for their interests.
The house committee of ways and
means decided to make a favorable
ing collectors of internal revenue to
furnish to prosecuting attorneys lists
of persons holding federal liquor tax
stamps in prohibition districts.
In London Sir Francis C. Burnand
has resigned the editorship of Punch.
Burnand has been associated with
that periodical for forty-four years
and edited it for a quarter of CEN
fury. He will be succeeded by Owen
Seaman. at present assistant editor.
There was a stormy session in vi
emma of the lower house of the reichs
rath during a debate on the Pan-Ger
man motion declaring urgency for the
bill for the separation of the AuStrO-
Hungarian army. Delegates Stern
berg and Stein violently attacked the
government several times. bringing
the crown under discussion.
Passengers from Guatemala on the
steamer Acapulco, which arrived in
San Francisco, report that the vol
cano IzaIco, which broke into erup-
ton in January, is still active. Every
ten minutes a column of flame shoots
skyward and the surrounding coun-
try is covered with ashes. No great
damage, however, has been done, and
a disaster is net expected.
Water is now being pumped only at
intervals into the hold of the steamer
Texas whose cargo took fire the other
day while the vessel was lying at her
dock in Honolulu. 1t is now believed
that the fire is under control and the
agents of the vessel say that they ex-
pect that all her lime will be Stacked
and that they will then be able to
discharge cargo. They think the hull
of the vessel is not damaged.
The Notifications appropriation bill
held the attention of the house and
was the text for much heated argu-
ment, first over the moneys and sec
ond over the location of the proposed
SIS. coo, 900 naval station for the Phil
ippines.
An engine running light on the De
troit, Toledo & Iron railroad crash
ed into the rear of a local freight
caboose near Thrifton, Mo-, and ali
of the twenty passengers were injur-
ed more or less. The mail car in
front of the caboose was wrecked. but
no mail was lost
The State department has receiv-
ed a letter from the United States Ie-
CATION at Toxic praising the crew of
the battIeship Wisconsin for their ex-
empIary behavior during their visit
to Yokohama
John A. Mccall, ex-president New
York Life Company, sent from what
may be his death bed defense Of his
own work in the company and of his
relations with Andrew Hamilton The
statement was made late 10 his son,
John C. Mccall, and others gathered
In the death chamber.