The Chanute times., 1897-04-02
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

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Nebraska free silver Republican
party has been launched.
Sullivan has posted 81, 900 to bind
match with Fitzsimmons.
The Union Pacific wants to buy the
Hutchinson & Southern.
Fitzsimmons will open a New York
Athletic club to teach boxing.
Bill to abolish capital punishment
has passed the Colorado Legislature.
Prospects of early tariff legislation
are bringing rush of English goods
d. M. Lower, who claimed lien on
most of Eldorado, Kan, has lost four
test cases.
Memphis has 1000 negro flood ref
uges and 3, 900 head of stock to care
for and asks outside aid
Confederate home property at Lex
ington has been formally conveyed to
the state of Missouri.
| William r. Grace of New York has
| given 5000, 900 to found a manual train
ing school for girls.
Mrs. Mary Jane Ward, the first
white woman to arrive in Shawnee
county, Kansas, is dead at Topeka,
aged n.
Anton Christensen is under arrest in
New York for swindling the Ridge
way, Mich, Creamery company out of
| $40, 900.
Actress Pauline Markham got judg-
ment for $4,000 damages for broken
leg, sustained by falling into a cellar
in Louisville.
Chicago bucket shops have won
victory in the courts, having obtained
an injunction to prevent removal of
their tickets.
Board of managers of soldiers homes
ization of the Leavenworth home for
another month.
Edward j. Ivory of New York, sus-
pected of being a dynamiter, wants
100000 damages from England for
false arrest, he having been acquitted.
The last two years have been bad
ones for Kansas mills. Only 115 of the
$50 in the state have furnished required
statistics to the state labor commits
sioner.
st. Louis election commissioners de-
cided the Democratic city ticket head
ed by Edwin Harrison was the regular
ticket thus turning down the Meri-
wether faction.
Chicago railroad men are at sea and
the traffic managers are in a state
verging on panic because of the recent
Supreme court decision against the
Trans Missouri Association.
Attorney General McKenna has or
dered the New York district attorney
to appeal the joint traffic cases to the
supreme court, where they will be ad-
vanced on the docket for early decis-
ion. This association is the king of all
the associations.
DeKalb County bank at Maysville,
Mo-, has closed.
Acme Bicycle works, Reading, Pa,
burned; loss, SIS, ,000
Operators on the old Bessemer ranges
have formed an iron pool.
The Iowa house passed bill pro-
hibiting Coxey and Kelley armies.
The outlook at Memphis is much
brighter. The waters are receding
Mrs. Sarah I. Brown of Bloomsbury,
Pa, left $50, 900 to Methodist charities.
Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Otoe In
dians are indulging in ghost dancing
in the Otoe country.
The Baroness Hirsch is expected
soon to bestow 1,S00, 600 on Hebrew
charities in this country.
The Transvaal republic and the
Orange Free State have concluded
treaties to support each other.
Cashier BREEDER of the First National
bank, Bethlehem, Pa, stole nearly
100000 He is in Denver.
Yellow Wolf, Chickasaw Indian, is
dead in Oklahoma, aged 10S His
cousin, Sallie Alverson, died at 113.
Martha Bull shot and killed her par
amour, Thomas McRea, and then
killed herself in Hancock county,
Tenn.
At the last hour President Mckinley
saved the four Barregos from hanging
at Santa Fe, n NJ, for ten days.
The original log of the May flower is
to be presented to the state of Massa-
chusetts by its English possessors.
Massachusetts, house defeated reso-
luton to erect monument to Ben
Butler in the state house yard, 81 to
90.
Illinois state senate passed the anti
department store bill and if constitu-
tional Governor Tanner will sign it.
All traffic associations will have to
disband owing to the decision of the
supreme court that pooling was illegal.
At dinner given to ex-senator Du-
bois, the silver Republicans in Con-
gress decided not to oppose the Dingley
tariff bill.
The British ship Androsa was aban-
doned in the Atlantic after terrible
struggle, the crew being rescued by
the steamer Ontario.
George and Calvin Holmes, twin
brothers, fought over Miss Higgs of
Moor's Hill, near Greensburg, Ind.
George was shot dead and Calvin
wounded.
The Joint Traffic association, acting
under legal advice, has decided to con-
tinue formally in existence and test
the antitrust DECISIONS actual scope.
Russell Sage says of the Supreme