The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-09-24
CONDENSED NEWS.

England.
Over 100, 900 Thessalians are desti-
tute in Greece.
Senator Thurston favors Hawaiian
annexation.
General Andrade is the new presi-
dent of Venezuela.
Abner Gile, millionaire lumberman,
is dead at La Crosse, Wis.
Salvationists are to grow sugar beets
in Monterey county, California.
Sixteen contract Japanese laborers
are to be sent back from San Fran
cisco.
Ten men dropped to the bottom of a
shaft a. Nanticoke, Pa, and four were
fatally injured.
Excursion steamers collided on
North river in New York city, and
three persons were drowned.
DIR. r. b. Carter, of Kaufman and
Charles p. Russell, of Abbott, Texas,
shot each other to death.
New York Democratic committee re-
fused to reaffirm the Chicago platform.
EX-Postmaster General Wilson was
installed as president of Washington
and Lee university.
Illinois Federation of labor incor-
porated in its platform u resolution
favoring the free coinage of silver at
16 toll
Parties arriving at Port Townsend
on the schooner Volante say there are
two men for every job in Dawson City,
Alaska.
Willis i. Stanley, ex-treasurer of
Beaver county, Oklahoma, was &C
quilted of the charge of embezzlemeut
Of $40, COG of county funds.
Peoples Gas Light and Coke COM
pany of Chicago has given a $4,000
900 mortgage to the Farmers Loan &c
Trust company of New York
1t is repored from Chicago that the
three great biscuit trusts have con-
solidated.
John A. Logan, Jr's barn, contain
ing eight finely bred horses and many
elegant equipages, burned. Loss,
S75 600.
The Shoshones and Bannocks have
agreed to sell the government the
lower end of Fort Hall reservation.
Russian steamers collided. Forty
persons persisted.
Disastrous floods are reported in
Spain,
Ex-Empress Charlotte is dying at
Brussels.
President Andrews will remain at
Brown university.
Black bears are becoming a nuisance
in Yellowstone Park.
Argentntine's crops are threatened
with destruction by locusts.
Consul General Lee believes the
Caban insurgents will win OUT un-
aided.
New York silver Democrats will
name candidate for mayor Octo-
Der l..
The Fair heirs won in the Angus
Craven case in court at San Francisco.
Pueblo churches will take up col
lection for destitute miners in the
East.
A heavy fog caused the injury of
sixteen persons in an electric car col
lision in Chicago.
Paul De Pierre, eX-French Consul at
New Orleans, committed suicide at
New York.
Senator Wellington of Maryland
predicts disaster for the Republicans
of that state and resigns the chair
manship of the Republican State Cen
trial Committee.
Sharlley and Goddard have been
matched for Il battle to finish in
November.
Sicily and Calabria crops are short1
County officers at Grande, Day
county, oklahoma, are accused of
burning the court house.
John H. Sullivan is running for
mayor of Boston on a platform to Ii
censc gambling and bawdy houses,
Twenty of the MAVERICKS crew
were lost in the Arctic. Captain
Whitesidcs with his wife and six sail
DIS were saved.
The Wyandotte Mining company,
at Guthrie and will mine just south of
Baxter Springs.
Gustave Pabst of Milwaukee, and
Miss IIulda Lemp of St Louis, were
married at Vcntor, Isle of Wright,
thus uniting two great very fami-
lies
California fruit piclsers are in de-
mand.
The REV Mr. Howard" a noted
swindler, escaped from the OHIO peDi-
Tertiary.
Wheat crop of Italy is estimated at
10000, 0D0 hectolitres against 1000, 900
hectolitres in 1896.
John lIudman, a Stephens, Ark,
farmer, and two sons were overcome
by gas and killed and two attempted
rescuers fatally injured in well.
In tornado at Port Arthur at least
elk persons were killed. Much ruin
was wrought at Sabine Pass. The
wind reached velocity of eighty
miles an hour. Other coast towns suf-
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