The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-07-09
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

Russias population is 100, 2ll, lib.
Amount of public debt 50 &c. 656,0s6
Montana now has an anti-gambling
law.
There is much disease among the
Spanish troops
Miss Mary Straub, hymn composer,
Is dead in Chicago.
GalatZ, Roumania, reports many
ives lost by high water,
The government took in S13, 500, 900
more than it paid out in June.
Standard '9S wheels will be $75, as
all 90 500 wheels are now.
Louis elliot, New Orleans bank
wrecker, was given eight years in, the
penitentiary.
Five Minnesota Indians were killed
by imbibing pain killer and hair oil.
Sullivan and Fitzsimmons will 1T
be allowed to spar at Ambrose Park,
N. Y.
Bryan in an interview at Laramie,
Wyo,, praised the course of Ohio Dem
ocrats.
The president is said to havr" decided
to entirely reform the civil service
commission.
James Burger and wife were beaten
to death in bed by burglars near Ben
tonville, Ark. |
Internal Revenue Collector Well born
Of the San Francisco district has been
removed for crooked work.
Japan hrs decided to withdraw her
minister to America, as she feels in
suited over the Hawaii business.
Captain General Weyler refuses to
set any time for the trials of the Com.
petitor prisoners for various reasons
II. Russell Ward, an Englishman.
has eloped from Los Angeles With
Missionaire John Bradbury's young
wife.
A locomotive engine blew up at Nor
gan Park, Chicago, fatally injuring
Fireman John Latshaw and Engineer
John Fogg.
John Stephens family were poisoned'
at Belmont, Brown county, Ill. Only
two little girls out of six people are
left and they are very sick.
John w. Thompson, United States
marshal of West Virginia, was com
PEELED by injunction under civil service
law to reappoint the old Democratic
force of deputies.
President Gates of Amherst college
is to resign.
Twelve thousand Belgium coal min
ers are on strike.
Union Trust and Savings bank, Ta-
coma, Wash, suspended.
The New York jury that tried tho
tobacco trust couldn't agree.
The Hawaiian reciprocity provision
has been restored to the tariff bill.
Helen Keller, deaf, dumb and blind,
passed in advanced German for Rad
cliffe college.
National Republican headquarters
have been moved from Washington to
Cleveland.
James Arnold, Butte, Mont, min
Ing man, was done up for So, 900 in a
faro game in Chicago
w. NJ. Mcfarland, ex-secretary of
state of Iowa, is accused of making
employees divide their salaries with
him.
George Copeland's wife and his sister
and her child were killed by lightning
at Cadillac, and S. Bandine's 1O-year-
old daughter was .;illed at Howard
City, Mich
Mail Clerk r. T. Sherman and Bag
gagemaster w. 2. Coon, both of Ia
dianapolis, were killed in Christian
Endeavor train wreck on the Van
dalia, and Mail Clerk Samuel Parkin.
son and Fireman Frank Owens fatally
injured.
w. ]. Calhoun has declined the po-
sition of comptroller of the treasury.
Oil has been struck at depth of
400 feet in we'll at Tishomingo, |. T.,
The Bank of Usage Mission, Kan,
will go into voluntary liquidation. 1t
has capital of $1,000.
The Western Door company, door,
sash and blind trust organized last
week, has collapsed.
The cash in the treasury is classified
as follows: Gold, SITS, O76, $50; silver,
$500, 793, 922; paper, 1888, $40, 500.
Alvin Dillway, son of the president
of the Mechanics National bank, of
Boston, Mass, killed himself with
poison in that city yesterday because
he had been expelled from West Point
Mrs. John McClelland was struck
and instantly killed by lightning near
Startled, Mo-, during heavy rain
and thunder storm. All streams in,
that vicinity are rising and trains are
delayed.
Samuel Barnum was appointed res
ceiver of the Topeka Belt Railway
company There is a mortgage of
S5OO,OO0 on the read, and several
weeks ago force of men tore up the
tracks in the night.
james Wilder, wife and two chill.
dren, emigrants, supposed to be from
Benton county, Mo-, were burned to-
death in a cabin near Rochester, Ky.
They had stopped in the cabin for
few days rest from travein".
The governor of Idaho has asked
the war department for tro $ 70 pro-
tect settlers from the Bannock In
diaDs.
Chinese allowed to enter to take
part in the Nashville exposition are
said to be distributing themselves in
other cities.
Republican members of the Senate
judiciary committee have agreed upon
compromise antitrust amendment to
the tariff bill.