The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.

are said to be very unpromising, owing
to the unfavorable weather Unless
colder weather comes to retard the de-
velopment, the fruit will certainly be
greatly injured by the later cold snaps.
John L. Sullivan has tonsilitis
Senator Harris wife is dead at Paris,
Tenn.
New York Senate is to investigate
trusts
Ex-senator Dor sey's wife is dead in
Denver.
| Delaware's trump Legislature has
adjourned after issuing violent man
ifesto.
Boiler of the French steamer Sagha
lien exploded off the Chinese coast,
killing seventeen hands
Senator Wolcott is getting little sup
port in London for his international
monetary conference.
Germania Safety Vault and Trust
company of Louisville has gone into
the hands of a receiver.
Lillian Ashley, who sued Lucky
Baldwin in San Francisco for $4,000
for seduction, lost her suit.
A bill to grant $50 per month pen
| sion to Bishop w. Perkins widow has
been favorably reported by Senator
PETER
Leadville union miners rejected the
final proposition of the managers, al
though Governor Adams and e. V.
Debs approved it.
Henry Delgado, correspondent in
Cuba fer New York paper, who was
imprisoned by the Spaniards, is dead
in Havana hospital from an abcess of
the abdomen.
Senator Vest of Missouri has been
formally declared elected for fourth
term in the Senate. Pritchard was re-
elected in North Carolina and Hans
brough in North Dakota.
Louisiana people hung johnson and
Joiner, accused of the murder of five
members of the Cotton family, and
Williams, wife murderer, in one
night. Horrible tortures were inflicted
on the first two to wiring confessions
from them.
The Cuban League of the United
States is organizing a branch league
in every city in this country of 5000 or
more inhabitants.
Father Hellstern, deposed priest,
has filed suit for $50, 900 for alleged
SANDER against Arch bishop Katzer, of
the diocese of Milwaukee,
The dynamo of the Toronto, Ont,
electric light plant was destroyed by
fire and the streets of that city are in
darkness.
The Dodson-Hils Manufacturing
company of st. Louis has filed chat
tel mortgage to secure creditors, and
the firm is in the hands of a trustee.
President Cleveland has refused to
pardon Frank L. Turner, convicted in
Kansas for counterfeiting, and Thomas
A. Robbins, Jr., of Missouri, sentenced
to three months Imprisonment and
81, 600 fine for conspiracy.
kilograms have been sent by San
Francisco citizens committee to the
governors of Oregon, Nebraska. Wash
ington, Kansas and Iowa, asking for
contributions toward a shipload of
grain to be sent to the starving people
in India.
In refusing an application for par
don for a man convicted of pension
fraud, President Cleveland said:
"Those who, through prostitution of
the pension laws and by forgery, seek
to defraud the government and abuse
its benevolent intentions toward old
soldiers, need not expect to easily OBJ
tain clemency at my hands"
Andrew Carnegie and othel cap
italisCs have put $3,000,000 in 4, 100
acres of coal territory on the Monon-
gahela, so that they can ship out coal
in the empty ore cars at the Carnegie
blast furnaces.
j. Pierpont Morgan and the Wander
bilts who are backing the reorganiza-
ton committee of the Union Pacific,
will pay the government $45, 900, 900
for it at foreclosure. Uncle Sans net
loss will thus be only S24,o00,0O0
Bills have been introduced in the
legislatures of both Kansas and Mis-
souri, to soften the punishment for con-
tempt of court, jury being required
to assess punishment in excess of 81
hours Imprisonment or 500 fine.
Crown Point, Ind, reports pitched
battle between gamekeepers and
poachers on the 1olleston clubs game
preserve, in which Frank Costwicll and
L HCOuOIt raw WCIC anu
Charles Pratt and Alven BOSWELL Sc
riously wounded. Gamekeeper John
Blackburn was fatally shot.
Ex-Congressman William E. Mason
won the senatorial nomination in the
Illinois Republican legislative caucus
defeating the machine" and scoring
a victory for the McKinleyites. Mason
is the first of the house funny men to
be advanced to the senate. Sunset
Cox, r. g. Horr, Proctor Knott and
others notably failed of promotion.
A pool in canned salmon is the
latest.
1t is now Senator. Charles Warner
Fairbanks of Indiana.
Chicago wants to take in the whole
of Cook county in greater Chicago
The state of chihuahua, Mex, now
prohibits prize, bull and cock fights.
William L. Jones, st. Louis theat-
rical man, committed suicide, the re-
suit of dissipation. t.atEt t
Members of the Blue Island "a Chica-
go suburb) fire department are ac-
cused of starting fires to make their
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