The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-08-27
CONDENSED NEWS.
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600.
Wall street men are arranging a
fight between Dan Creedon and Kid
Mccoy.
Governor Pingree's union shoe fac
tory hands are on strike for higher
wages.
L. j. E. Blanc has 5000, 900 claim
against Ecuador for false imprison-
ment.
France wants q reciprocity treaty
with the United States under the new
tariff law.
Virginia Republicans will not nomi-
nate ticket
Annie Bradford was fined 81 and
given one minute in jail for larceny at
Mt Vernon, Ill.
John Conway, aged 5, was kidnapped
at Albany, N. Y, but was recaptured
by Argus reporters.
Secretary Sherman uses friendly
words in his communications with
Japan concerning Hawaii.
st. Louis spectators made $2,ooo,-
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Dave Francis alone made 100000.
Full bloods are in control of the
Cherokee legislature and no treaty
with the Dawes commission is likely.
Lena Collinsworth of Claiborne
county, Tennessee, starved herself to
death in So days because her husband
left her
A tramp attempted to assault Mrs.
Fenske in Schiller Park, Chicago, and
was killed by her husband and posse
of farmers.
Mrs. Ferris, widow of the Chicago
wheel builder, was married to Francis
Schlatter, the alleged divine healer, at
Pittsburg, Pa.
John Kaup, John Hamm, VIM. Wolf
and Paul A. Wolf were killed and two
men badly injured by an explosion of
elevator dust at Davenport, Iowa.
Coleman Pitzer stoned to death Rev.
H. II. Burgerine, a Methodist preacher
of Hullings, Tucker county, w. Va,
because the latter couldn't pay small
debt.
Kansas railroads have been ordered
to charge for cattle by the car load
instead of by weight.
o. r. Simmons strangled to death
at Wichita from swallowing three
false teeth ten years ago.
The Kansas state board of charities
will not permit any more horsewhip-
ping of girls at the Beloit reform
school
The Memphis railway shops at Kan
sas City are now working full force
full time.
The three big pool rooms at Kansas
City were raided and 200 frequenters
nabbed.
Kansas City bucket shops are fairly
coming money on wheat. One firm
made S45, QUO last week, making $780,
OOo for the past year.
w. f. Ewing gets the Emporia post
office.
Seven business houses at Milford,
Kan, burned; loss $4,000 with no in
surance.
The Santa Fe has consented to re-
duce rates between Kansas City and
Rice county, Kan, points.
Kentucky proposes to enforce its
franchise tax law.
Ordinary postal cards cost the gov
eminent 49, 95 cents per LOCO.
Armenians have taken to bomb
throwing in Constantinople.
Ed Thorp of Seattle cleaned up
$l3O, 900 in Klondil1e in eight weeks.
Two freights collided on the L. & N.
near Dahigreen, ILL.,, killing six rail
road men.
Asbury Park authorities no longer
allow bathing suits to be worn in the
streets
General Longstreet, aged 70, is en-
gagged to marry Ellen Dortch, aged %,
at Atlanta.
Five Cuban expeditions have re-
Gently been successfully launched at
Atlantic City, N. j.
A spell of morality has struck Coney
island and immoral shows and hotels
are being closed.
One thousand two hundred Chero'
kee braves are going to Russellville,
KY, to hold weeks celebration at
Chief Natohona's death place.
The middle-of-the-road Populists o.
Iowa have nominated a state ticket
Senator PETER of Kansas spoke il
opposition to fusion.
At Yale camp near Pittsburg, Kan
a mob of miners looted Joe Barratt''
Joint, tore down the structure anC
compelled Barratt to leave in his bare
feet
Executive officers of the Missouri
Democratic Editors association have
adopted a constitution and arranged
for big state meeting in October, a
which w. J. Bryan will be asked t.
speak.
The first case of leprosy ever dis
covered in the state of Nebraska ha
developed in Lincoln. The victim i
John Clauson, a Norwegian laborer
who has been employed on loca
railroad since 1887.