The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-06-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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U. riots.
]. Frank Aldrich of Chicago is being
pushed to succeed Consul General Lee
at Havana.
John L. Searlos, secretary of the
Sugar trust, was set free by order OF
Judge Bradley.
Adolph Luetgert, a rich sausage
maker of Chicago, is held without bail
for wife murder.
The beri-beri plague is killing of
Cubans by hundreds, the cowardly
doctors letting the people die.
Commissioner Calhoun will report
verbally to President Mckinley on the
condition of affairs IN Cuba.
Five children of Mr.. and Mrs. j. H..
White of WEIGH, Va, were cremated
in their house during the parents abb
sence.
Steel workers at Jones & Laughlin's
American iron works, Pittsburg. Pa. f,
are on strike against 10 per cent
reduction.
Bank of Usage Mission at St Paul,
Kan, has gone into voluntary liqui-
dalton.
A race war is en- in Pope county, Ar
kansaw. Will Gaylord, negro, was
stripped naked and whipped to death
by a mob of white men.
Women of the United Brethren
church are asking the conference at
Dublin, Ind, to strike "obey" out OF
the marriage ceremony
D,oe;Ja-+ NoKinlau oon forra1 tho
degrees on about fifty graduates of
the senior and post graduate classes
of the National University Law school
at the annual commencement exer-
cises in Washington,
Governor Budd of California has de-
cided not to interfere in the death
sentence of Walter d. Worden, found
guilty of wrecking train during the
A. R. U. strike three years ago, when
Engineer Clark and three United
States soldiers were killed.
A powder war is likely.
Elizabeth, N. j., had bicycle fu-
neral.
Isaac j. Hill, a Pennington, Ohio,
farmer, was killed by burglars.
Secretary Gage says that the admin
istration will tackle the currency
question when the tariff is out of the
way.
Professor Franciulli, leader of the
Marine band, was arrested because he
would not play airs desired by Lieu
tenant Draper.
A report that Captain Wallace of
hn it1tn
ernor of New Mexico, has caused some
excitement in Washington.
Mrs. Phoebe Phillips OF Atlantic
City, N. j., 40 years old, was shot by
boy lover because she would not
marry him.
Kentucky toll gate raiders defy
state militia and continue the depreda-
tions
A Tennessee marshal who was shot
by negro bandit who was resisting
arrest drew his gun and killed the
black
Statue of John Harvard at Cam
bridge, Mass, was daubed with Grim
son paint by Harvard students, who
defeated Princeton at baseball.
n CTeVdSS0 DtlOW DdJOu IOuSO Cuu
off communication between that city
and New Orleans and sent a disastrous
flood through fertile fields.
A mysterious fall of the floor of the
great Yerkes observatory came near
injuring the famous lens OF the tele-
scope,
Brazil has decided to reduce all gov
n,.y FOL 10, N
that of the president
General Nelson A. Miles has arrived
at Greek headquarters in Thessaly and
lunched with Crown Prince Constan-
tine.
The Government has finally deter
mined that minors cannot act as
deputy postmasters or chief clerks or
in any capacity where they will have
anything to do with making contracts.
The wire rod output has been cor
nered.
The royal family of Greece is in
danger of popular fury.
The mud island in Moro bay, Gala,
is sinking out of sight.
Johnson, the Logansport, Ind., bank
wrecker, gets ten years.
The William H. Bunge vinegar fac
tory, Chicago, burned Loss, Sl75, 900.
The volume of spring merchandise
distributed has been less than was eX-
pected.
Sergeant Tom Carroll killed himself
with carbolic acid at Junction City,
Kan.
Rowland Griggs, absent since 1861
returned to Boone county, Missouri,
and found his wife remarked. He did
not claim her
National Committeeman Long of
Florida has been selected for minister
to Portugal.
The Irish Parliamentary party will
have naught to do with the Victoria
jubilee.
Col. Chas Gordon, an American, was
killed in 81 mish with Spaniards
near Cienfuegos, Cuba.
Joe DENLY, Jr., living near Shoaley
Bend, Ark, called John Hays to his
door and shot him dead.
John E. Redmond and three other
Parnellites have been elected from the
House of Commons.
Fitzsimmons is not ready to fight.
He declines to meet Joe Goddard and
says he did not promise Corbett a go.
Laura A. Brook of st. Paul is to con-
test the will of William IamDSOn of