The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-07-16
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

Many Kentuclkians have asked Gov
ernor bradley to pardon George Din
ming, the negro who killed a man
while defending his home.
Merrill Raglan was shot ff'omi -- Il M
bush near Arlington, H., by William
Veroy, who charges Raglan with. his
daughters ruin.
Fred Washington, distant relatives
OF the Father of his. country, was
frightfully and fatally mangled in u
runaway at Sedalia.
Harvest hands in Kansas want
double pay for working 16 hours per
day and five meals.
Kansas trainmen are uimporting
tramps in Kansas and selling them to-
the farmers at fifty cents and S. per
head. 01-"' SS8''"
A Georgia negro ate seven water
melons for IA reward of fifty gents and
died. t...s.,
Frank Marion, of Wichita. Kan,
while asleep, was robbed of $500 BY
two companions at Nevada, Mo- tgo - /
Near 500 picnicSers we're poisoned
by eating ham in sandwiches near
Wappinger's Falls, N. Y. No deaths
occurred. t --4-., -taas
The President pardonede Robert NJ. Z,
Allen, sentenced to five years in the
Missouri pcnitcntiary for mail rob-
berry. ,LGaa.nV 4
Grasshoppers have appeared in great
numbers in the western part of Barton
county, Kansas, Cornfeldsi have been
seriously damaged by them D, yvrsl
gresham Dingley, 30 years of age, and
engaged to another, eloped and mar
ried w. E. Hadley of San Diego Cal. { ]
Robert Downing is said to have Of
fered the daughter of Sam Small an
engagement with his company next
year. Her father is said. to not be OPP
posed to her ambition to go on the -.
stage. f''"' ~
The Phillipsburg, Kan, creamery
was opened with public NEE ting and 4
jubilation. A line of creameries is to
be opened along the Rock island road
in Western Kansas and Eastern Col
orado.
The government of Colombia has
offered for sale the exclusive right for
the manufacture and sale of matches
in that country for twenty five years
for SIPS, 900 The present price of
matches must be reduced 10 to 20 per
cent ..t-t -.t., .
Upwards of 1000 rioters were killed j
about Calcutta, India.
Turks captured and destroyed Kala-
kaba in North Thessaly.,8 tH. ,l.DDM
Iowa gold Democrats nominated a
state ticket with John ,Cliggett for
governor ~
The majority of Nebraska farmers
think farming does not payl,1at
Mrs. Bradbury, who eloped from ,
San Francisco, is penitent already .,
A religious sect in Russia breaches
and practices suicide by starvation. ~
Fully 200 lives were lost and $780,
100000 damage done by recent floods
in France.
Sixty tons Of American butter await
shipment to Australia from Van
couver .
At its Fourth of July celebration,
Tammany Missed Cleveland and
cheered Bryan. {2h23t
The Nashville conference of middle
of-the-road Pops decided to reorganize
the party.
Duluth reports four killed by light:
ming four burned to death land one
drowned. .rtrtg 81, n =.
This years Christian Endeavor con-
vention at San Francisco is record
breaker for attendance. nNH Nntnt
Four people were fatally and a scoreh
more seriously injured in trolly car
collision in Pittsburg.
Nine people were killed and Eve
badly injured by boiler explosion in
Tennessee wheat field.
Ten Pittsburg breweries have con-.
solidated and twenty-siX Detroit ones
are figuring on sale to an English Is
syndicate. y
Miss Frances Hayes, daughter of the
ex-President, is to marry Ensign Harry
L. Smith of Fremont, Ohio. h'l'i 3.
Misses Josie Saunders and Mary
Arber, of Little Rock, and Jake. and
Joe Dante, of Pine Blnff, We're drowned
while boating. 80
Bertram Hill, 6-year-old San Frau "
cisco boy, was carried off by II balloon
and fell 1000 feet or more and was.
dashed to pieces.
Charles Broadhurst discovered
burned bridge near Cottonwood, Cal,
and tagged IA Christian Endcayor spe-
cial just in time.
Dan Christie and May Mcdonald, OF
Itasca, Wis, and Burton McCurry, got
Omaha, were drowned at West SUI
perior, Wis, by their boat capsizing,y
A British warship has grabbed three
of the Solomon group of islands. - *
The British military commission has
shipped LOO horses from Buenos
Ayres to Capetown.
Intense heat caused the destruction
by fire of the shafting department. of
the Akron Ohio Iron and Steel com (
panys works Loss, 100000,
Hugh j. Lee and Miss Florence.
Leonard of Meriden, Conn, will make
a bridal tour to Greenland with Lieu
tenant Peary on his exploration. avoy-
age 800
An old man named BarlSuS en- route
from Pennsylvania to Los Angeles.
Cal, left a Santa Fe train at Garden
City, Kas., and wandered five. miles,
in to the sand hills. He was found by.
the sheriff and sent to La Junta Col !,
where his wife was waiting for him.
He was demented. SIM 70. 81