The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-06-18
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

was i'll, set fire to her clothing and
committed suicide.
The average. condition of all wheat
according to the government crop re-
port, is s75.
proving ground exploded. Several
officers narrowly escaped death.
The Texas House adopted o resolu-
tion ordering that charges against
certain State University professors be
investigated.
Mayer and Sharkey were freed by
Magistrate Cornell, who said that they
had not violated the Horton law
The Cleveland jury decided that
Sunday ball in Ohio is an infraction Of
the law, thus putting an end to the
game on that day in the Forest City.
Alvin G. Clark, the noted maker of
telephone lenses, is dead.
Chairman Towne of the Silver Re-
publicans says that organization will
hold the balance of power.
Millers' National Association in ses-
sion at Chicago, petitioned Congress to
incorporate a reciprocity section in the
tariff bill.
The one hundred and forty first
commencement exercises of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania were held, 4s3
students graduating.
William Andrews, negro, was con-
victed of assault and sentenced to
death in Maryland. A mob took him
from the officers and killed him.
Assistant Attorney General Vande-
venter's finding on the Missouri State
University's land claim is not favor.
able to the university.
Ambassadors of the United States
at London, Paris, Brussels and Berlin
will protest against discriminat ions
against American meats
The Senate finance committee has
decided to withdraw the clauses plac-
Ing an increased tax on beer and an
import duty on tea.
Five train men were killed in col
lision on the Omaha railroad near
Hudson Junction, Wis.
Len Hepburn and Miss Pet True,
Webb City children, eloped to Column
bus Kan, and were married
John Anderson and Andrew johnson
were drowned in the lake near 10th
enburg, Neb., while fishing.
Republicans carried the Chicago
judicial election by big pluralities, and
twelve of the seventeen districts in
the state.
a brewers trust is in process of or
ganization in Pennsylvania, under the
name of the Pennsylvania State Lii
quor League.
Charles Barber, a Washington at
torney, shot Dorothy E. Squires, a
typewriter girl; and then killed him
self on the street.
Joseph Richardson, the 'spite
house" millionaire, is dead in New
York. His house was four stories high
but only five feet wide.
Special Consul Calhoun has returned
from Havana and says the island of
Cuba will soon be ruined. The interior
is now depopulated.
Sheet and plate glaciers of Boston
struck to enforce a nine-hour work
day.
Lightning struck a powder factory
near Rosenheim, Bavaria, exploding
1000 pounds of gunpowder. Many
houses were shattered, but no lives
were lost.
Mrs. Sarah A. Granger, sister of
Stephen A. Douglas, the Democratic
leader of antewar days, died at her
home near Clifton Springs, N. Y, aged
Sc years.
NJ. Paul Casimir-Perier, uncle of the
ex-president of that name, is dead in
Paris. He was born in Paris in 1912,
and was the second son of the minister
of Louis Philippe.
A man claiming to be Schlatter, the
alleged healer, who was reported to
have persisted in Mexico, is in Cleve-
land.
$4,000 hospital is to be added to
the Union Printers Home at Colorado
Springs Colo.
Ex-Congressman Sorg of Ohio has an
nounced his candidacy for the United
States Senatorship.
The Universal Postal Congress has
decided to hold its next assembly at
Rome, Italy, in February, 1903.
Rev. C. o. Brown, who was principal
in a famous scandal case at San Fran
cisco, has been accepted by the com
mittee of ministers appointed to pass
upon his case. He will preach in
Chicago
Reports from the Phil ppines say
that the Spanish have put to death
twenty five Catholic priests who SYM
pathized with the insurgents.
Modern Woodmen will pay suicide
claims after three years membership.
John L. Cooper, ex-mayor of At
lanta, is an embezzler.
c. G. Barrentine and John Brown
fought to the death with axes near
Cabot, Pulaski county, Arkansas.
William N. Boggs, paying teller of
the First National bank of Dover,
Del, is short SIS, 900, and has skipped
out
The British ship Zeileika, bound for
New Zealand from New York, went
ashore and twelve men were drowned
Charles Moran and II. NJ. Summer
field, the expert wire tappers, who
were arrested in Denver, Col, were re-
leased, as nobody appeared to prose-
cute them.
The merchants of Peru are petition
ing the government to adopt the gold
currency stan lard.