The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-05
NEWS BOILED DOWN.


Taylor Hickman, 49, year-old In
dian boy, is in the Ohio pen for life for
murder.
Texas courts decide that the COVER
nor cannot pardon prisoners held for
contempt of court.
Senior Jose Acuma, Spanish vice con.
sui in New York, was robbed of SEQ
900 in cash and jewels.
Oklahoma's law making it criminal
to receive deposits in failing bank is
null and void, never having passed the
lower house.
The Missouri house adopted strong
resolutions attacking Cleveland for
the course of his administration in ref
erence to Cuba.
Charles Calender, u veteran actor
and one of the pioneers of minstrels,
died suddenly at the Quincy hotel in
Chicago, aged 81 years.
Arizona people are angry at Con-
| gress for its recent bond action, com
| polling the Arizona Loan commission
to fund $500, 200 railroad bonds.
III. S. JONES and other Idaho repre-
sentatives are making affidavit that
they were bribed to vote for Henry
Heitfeld for United States senator.
DR.. Nansen will visit the United
| States next fall and deliver series
| of lectures illustrated by the clothing,
! ETC., used by him in his Arctic eXplor-
| alton.
| Mrs. Martin Julian, Fitzsimmons'
| mother-in-law, is dead in New York,
but neither the husband nor son-in-
,, law can leave Carson to attend the
| funeral.
The appropriation committee of the
senate has inserted in the sundry civil
| bill an amendment carrying $l,DS5, 156
| to pay additional sugar bounty claims.
An electric car on the 1O3d street
line in Chicago was caught between
| two Chicago and Eastern railway
trains and three of the occupants
killed and three injured.
Clarence A. Austin of Marion, N Y,
was made raving maniac as result
of the hazing he received at the hands
of the sophomore class of the Uni
versity of Rochester.
Mrs Letitia Green Stevenson, wife
of the retiring Vice President of the
| United States, was reelected presi-
dent-general of the Daughters of the
| American Revolution.
Russia has again warned Greece that
her troops must be withdrawn from
Crete and adds that annexation will
not be permitted, but that Crete may
have autonomy under suzerainty of
| Turkey.
Women will be admitted to the Cor
| bett- Fitzsimmons social.
German American bank of Tona-
! wanda, N. Y, has been forced to close.
| Millbanl1, S. D., had a $780, fire
and Andrew S. Vyg was burned to
death.
There is much indignation in Eng
land over the governments Cretan
policy.
President Cleveland has called the
usual 4th of March extra session of
the Senate.
| Corner stone of the new temple of
theosophy was laid at San Diego, Cal.
Ex-President Harrison's new baby
has been named Elizabeth, after its
maternal grandma.
Farmers and lumbermen in Monon-
| gahela valley will lose 81, 5000 by
the recent flood
Ex-President Montt of Chilli is in
America studying up methods to inn
prove the Gillian navy.
The truly good people of Tyler, w.
Va, set fire to a speak-eaSy and Gre
mated four inmates.
! Ex-Auditor of State Eugene V.
Moore of Nebraska has surrendered to
answer to embezZlement.
Swedish Vice Consul Palm of Austin,
Texas, has presented Texas university
$4,000 books worth 100000.
President Cleveland has pardoned
| two Missourians: Hamilton E. Baker,
postoffice embezzler, and Henry
Mullaney, fraudulent registration.
President Cleveland has no pity for
viciousness In refusing to pardon
James b. Wilson of Indiana he scath
ingly criticised the plea for mercy for
the vile editor.
Dingley's committee has put the
rates on lemons, lines and oranges
higher than those of the Mckinley act.
Silver Republican Senators and Rep
resentativeS have called national
committee meeting for June in Chi
cago
John w. Hart. owner of the Laura
da, was convicted of fitting out IA
Cuban expedition.
The United States penitentiary at
Fort Leavenworth, Kan, will be built
by federal convicts.
A strong anti-gold and national bank
resolution was passed by the Okla
homa legislature.
Iowa retail dealers in farm machin-
cry have formed combine to make
the business more profitable.
Miss Montaine. society young
woman of Knoxville, Tenn. attempted
suicide by jumoing from hotel win.
dow at Bristol, Tenn.
Six men were almost blown to atoms
and three others fatally mutilated by
the explosion of dynamite cartridge
dropping into the fire near which they
were eating dinner a mile south of
Paducah, KY.
| Cholera has broken out along the
relief works in one state of India.
The fanatical rebels have defeated
Brazilian troops in an important en-