The Chanute times., 1897-01-08
LATE NEWS NOTES.

| The silver senators have unanimously
decided to oppose all combinations of
appointments to Office made in place
of silver men who were removed be-
cause of their support of Bryan.
| Cleveland justice court has decided
that Chairman Hannas son must pay
his election bets.
Burglars blew open the safe of the
bank of Alma, Mo-, with dynamite and
stole S1,s00.
Two Cinnamon were murdered and
| robbed by unknown parties at Butte,
Mont
William G. Park of Duluth COM
mitted suicide rather than stand pro-
secution for stealing $4,000 from the
sugar trust.
Thomas Kay of Mound City, Kan,
got ten years for killing his wife and
then burning the body. He is 10
years old.
County Treasurer Jenrgan, of Austin,
Texas, shot himself He was $4,000
short.
Two negroes are under arrest for
causing the Cahaba River, Ala, rail
road wreck.
Eugene V. Debs has left the Popu-
list party and is now straight So
| cialist.
The directors of the Dime Savings
bank of Chicago saved the institution
by paying in an assessment of fifty per
| cent.
The Farmers and Merchants bank
| of Beatrice. Neb., has closed. All de-
| positors will be paid at once in full
The Second National bank of Grand
| Forks, S. d., has failed on account OF
heavy Withdrawals.
The Cramp Ship Building company
of Philadelphia and the Union Iron
| works OF San Francisco have been
| awarded contracts for two warships
for Japan. They are to cost S30o0,0Oo
A close estimate of the production of
precious metals in Colorado in 1896 is:
Gold SIG, 500, 900; silver, Sl2,O5S,000.
! The miners strike at Leadville has
curtailed the output materially.
The deaths from Bubonic plague now
average 170 daily in bombay
| IN quarrel about woman at Vim
cennes, Ind, Ray Mctcalf shot and
| killed Paul Joyce, pugilist
Sankey Cunningham was hanged at
Albany. Ca, for a criminal assault
| upon Miss Katie Camp Cunnin ham
confessed his guilt in gallows 4peech.
John Lenien, hotel and saloon
keeper at West Hammond, Ind, was
found murdered in his place.
Commercial bank, Selma, Ala,
closed.
Famine exists in Santa Fe province,
Argentina.
James C. McMullen, vice president
and treasurer of the Chicago & Alton
railroad, is dead.
Robbers dynamited the safe of tho
bank at Sully, Iowa, and got about
$50, 200.
Progressive Democratic club, New
York, is out for Bryan for president in
| 1900.
A beet sugar factory, capacity eos
| tons per day, 20 cost $500, 900, is to be
built at Omaha.
Boomers are preparing for the open
ing of the Wichita, Kiowa and Co
manche lands for settlement.
Governor Bradley has offered 4 $3.50
| reward for each conviction OF the
Owensboro lynchers of Holt.
Henry f. Strauss, clerk of Langlade
county, Wisconsin, dcfaulted for
$3,777, and committed suicide.
Indiana Populist leaders have decided
to continue the organization in full
| force and to form clubs in all parts of
| the state.
A gang of Italians fatally shot Po-
liceman William Bergin at Johnson
burg. Pa and wounded several other
| policemen.
Z. A. Valkenburg, one of John
| Wanamaker's managers, was arrested
at Harrisburg, Pa, on charge of at
| tempting to bribe Representative W.
c. Weiss.
A big horn thirty feet long with
bell six feet in diameter was carried to
Canton, Ohio, to Mr.. Mckinley from
| Decatur, ILL.,, by six men, who sold
| pictures of the horn to pay expenses.
Germany stands foremost in Europe
| in electric railway construction, with
252 miles, almost half of the total of
| Europe. France has SO miles, Great
| Britain and Ireland 66 and Austria a..
Jacob Fishel, defendant in st.
| Louis divorce case, shot his young
| wife, her uncle, julius Schrueber, and
her attorney, Walter McIntire, IN the
court room. None of the wounds are
dangerous.
Board of directors of the Denver'
| chamber of commerce have unani-
| mously decided to ignore the invitation
to send delegates to the monetary
conference to be held at Indianapolis
| this month.
Governor elect Tanner of Illinois
and Miss Cora Edith English of Spring
field were married in St. Paul's Pro-
testant cathedral. Springfield, by Rev.
Frederick Taylor in the presence OF
church full OF people.
During the Sac and Fox payment
lust closed the reservation was flooded
with gamblers and whisky peddlers,
who robbed the Indians. Two Indians
have died and a number are suffering
from the effects of the vile compound
sold to them FOR whisky.
-oratio Hale. an authority on In
dian dialects, is dead at Clinton, Ont.
aged so years. He was graduate or
Yale university. In 1874 he was the
Dhilolopist of TIE Wilkes expedition,