The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-19
CONDENSED NEWS.

China to succeed Charles DENLY
Secretary Sherman and Premier
Laurier are trying to adjust differ
ences between the United States and
Canada.
Creek Indians who short time ago
refused to give their names for enroll
ment, are now focking to town for
that purpose.
Missouri school children have SUBJ
scribed S2O6 toward the erection of
monument TO the dead poet Eugene
Field.
Robert r. Lincoln says that he can
not forgive his daughter nor the. man
with whom she eloped.
Near BRENNAN, Tex, Herman Ger
ken was killed by Henry Wellmann,
his sweetheart's father.
Mount Vesuvius' eruption is becom-
ing more active. 1t presents grand
spectacle.
Spain is negotiating for six war YES
sells ordered by Brazil during the war
scare between that country and the
Argentine Republic.
Monkeys in India have the bubonic
plague. The authorities are trapping
and isolating them.
President Zelaya of Nicaragua has
decided to sell the national railroad
and steamb boats His action may pre-
cipitate another revolution.
SPANS grant of autonomy will be
gaZetted November %.
Secretary Bliss has decided that no
Creek warrants shall be paid until
Congress gives further instructions.
Representatives of the United
States, Canada and Great Britain have
begun a supplemental sealing confer
ence.
The state superintendent of instruc-
ton in Kansas reports that there are
71s district schools in that state where
the average daily attendance is less
than five pupils
The Meadow Lawn farm, consisting
of $50 acres, near Nation, ILL.,, has
been purchased by Grand Chief 7. NJ
Arthur for the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, and home will be
established for dependent engineers,
their widows and orphans.
President Barrios, dictator of Qua
temala, has price of $4,000 on his
head and is in hourly dread of assas-
sination.
M. n. Ferguson won the honor in
the oratorical contest at Fulton, Mo-,
to represent Westminster college in
the state contest.
w. T. Bailey, sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for ten years for forgery,
from Greene County, Missouri, has
been pardoned by the Governor.
A. NJ. IRVINE of Memphis Tenn, is
down with a genuine case of yellow
fever at the home of his brother-in-
law, Sherman Houston, near Malta
Bend, Mo.
Mrs Anna McDermott, widow OF
Rock Island, Ill, has filed suit against
Mr.. NJ Schnell, wealthy contractor,
for S75 900 for breach of promise.
Julio Quesada, under sentence of
death at Havana, has been pardoned.
Annexatlonists in Havana have been
warned not to hold any more meet
ings.
Mount Vesuvius is in eruption. The
crater of 1895 is discharging large
streams of lava.
Trial of the Competitor prisoners
has been delayed owing to the illness
of the president of the court.
Ex-Premier Crispi of Italy has been
sustained by the courts in his conten-
ton that only Parliament is able to
deal with the bank scandals.
A family of five named Dreyfus COM
mitted suicide in Paris. They were
related to Captain Dreyfus, who was
convicted of treason.
Consul Bartleman reports that Eu-
ropes production of beet sugar this
year is !, 500, 900 tons.
Peter Dump Sedalia mo farmer,
fell off windmill and probably will
die.
A Spanish newspaper says that
American interference in the Cuban
war will not be tolerated.
R. c. Willis says that his brother-in-
law, George Dumrauf, killed Frank
Dayle at Hannibal, Mo.
The choir boys of Rev. Mr. Dixon's
church in New York refused to sing
because he supported Seth Low.
The Oklahoma supreme court set
aside the Sc per cent increase in valu-
alton made by the equalizing board.
Senator Jones has returned to Wash
ington, and speaking of the recent
elections, said that they demonstrated
beyond question that Democracy was
gaining ground.
Senator Harris says that to avoid
the loss of many millions, the Central
Pacific and Kansas Pacific should bt
sold together.
Fifty thousand dollars has beer
raised by the citizens of Guthrie, Ok
as bonus for the building of the
Frisco road from Sapulpa, l. T., t.
Guthrie.
The relatives of A. A. Holmes o
Hiawatha, Kan, q prominent q. A.
MEMBER, removed his remains in thu
cemetery because a negro was buried
next to him