The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.

SANTA re aU OTlduuO, Oh', Jlc Car
getting loose and dashing into loco
motive.
The murderers of Joel Mack at No
wata, |. r.. have been captured. One
is boy named Hobbs, the other his
brother-inlaw.
The United States supreme court re-
fuses to release Broker Chapman, who
refused to testify in the Senatorial
sugar investigation.
Fred WALLPAPER, Ed Nav and Will
lam Turner were killed in a snowslide
at the Consolidated Mining company's
mines near Brigham City, Utah.
Five hundred employees of the Amer
lean Tube and Iron company at
Youngstown, Ohio, are on strike
against reduction of ten per cent in
wages.
Joseph T.. Kelly, who murdered
Cashier SticlSney at Somersworth, N.
H., was captured, dressed in woman's
clothes, in house of Ill repute in
Mont real.
Albert Il. Cont, an immigration in
spector at Philadelphia. was fired for
clipping with the wife of f.. Grimm,
treasury department clerk at Wash
ington.
Frank Brown, a Davis, |. T., negro,
murdered Charles Mccormick for n
few dollars and was captured buried
in a sand pile, only his woolly head
sticking out.
Ex-State Treasurer Joseph BARLEY
waived preliminary hearing at Lincoln,
Neb., and was bound over to court in
the sum OF $50. 600 to answer for en-
bezzling $50O,O00
Maria Ewing Martin got judgment
for IS, 900 damages against the Third
Avenue Street Railway company in
New York for the death of her father,
General Tom Ewing.
DR.. Angel goes 10 Turkey, not as
regular minister, but on a special mis-
sion, to force that government to pay
indemnity for the outrages perpetratcd
on American missionaries.
japanese delegates to the postal
congress at Washington say Japan is
not after Hawaii and would make no
objection TO annexation of Hawaii to
the United States.
Extinguishment of the tribal sover-
eighty system is in sight After Jan
uary next, the United States Terri
torial courts have exclusive jurisdiction
in the Indian Territory. Two judges
will be appointed.
Bryan is to make fifteen speeches in
the First Missouri Congressional dis
trict. Ex-Governor Stone and Champ
Clark are also down for speeches
James T. Lloyd of Shelby county will
have the Democratic nomination for
Congress The election is on June /.
Kirksville, Mo-, is excited by an in
FAINT murder mystery.
Congressman Meyer of Louisiana
says that if the cane fields of Louisiana
are submerged there will be no profit
able crop for three years.
1t Is charged that 500, 100000 set
aside for Indian famine sufferers has
been misappropriated by English Off
Gals The details of the charges rival
the case of Warren Hastings.
Chicago now proposes to spend So
900, OOO in identifying the lake front.
Rev. Wilbur &. Williams, McKin-
ley's old pastor at Columbus, is dead at
st. Louis.
Gladstone is very severe on the
rulers of Germany and Russia for their
action in the Cretan imbroglio.
Women are to be admitted to Drake
university at Des Moines hereafter,
and students who insult them will be
expelled.
President Mckinley has laid down
the law to Dick Kerens to the effect
that there must be harmony or no fed
oral plums will fall to Missouri.
The federation's convention at Ade-
laide, South Australia, by vote of %
to II, rejected an amendment to allow
women to vote for members of the
house Of representatives.
b. p Waggener of Atchison, Kan,
general attorney for the Missouri Pa
cific, proposes to prosecute Representa-
tive Keefer of Leavenworth for Grim
inal libel, for charging him with
boodling.
Joseph X. Yeater, a pioneer mer-
chant of Sedalia, is dead
There is a growing feeling among
the Democrats of the House against
the Bailey policy of acquiescence in
adjournment after adjournment pend
ing the House debate on the tariff
bill.
The free silver Republicans are not
pleased with the Presidents monetary
commission selections.
Germany hereafter will permit only
a brief stay there of any Germans
naturalized in America who may visit
that country.
The engagement of Miss Jane Camp
bell of New York to Prince Carlo de
Faustino of Italy declared off for some
unknown reason.
Lucky" Baldwin placed mortgages
for 81, ZOO on his California prop
erty in favor of the Hibernia bank of
San Francisco.
Officers of the Citizens street rail-
way of indianapolis have been in
dicted for the violation of the Scent
fare law.
Charles w. Spalding, eX-treasurer of
the University of Illinois, has been ar
rested on the charge of embezzlement
of university funds.
William Dawson, ST., president, and
Robert L. Miller, assistant cashie r,
are under arrest charged with wreck
ing the Bank of Minnesota of st. Paul.
The London Chronicle says the ar
rappamantS for the 0ueen'S diamond