The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-26
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

more all challenges and take life easy
for two years.
Japah's crown prince is dead.
Spain has fears now of an outbreak
in Catalonia.
Mr.. Ingalls, presence at the prize
fight aroused senatorial resentment
DR.. w. Fl. Lipscomb of DeKalb,
Miss, was convicted of murder in the
famous insurance case.
One man, two women and three chill
dren were drowned by the. flood Thurs
day near Marion, Ark.
A Greek vessel was fired on and sunk
with all oil board by an Austrian gun
boat off Gambia, Crete.
Congressman McRae of ARKANSAS has
introduced bill providing for the re-
funding of the cotton tax.
The Wilson line steamer Rialto
burned at sea, but the crew were res
cued by the Carthagenian of the AL
Ian line.
TO forestall the wool importers an
emergency clause will likely be added
to the wool schedule of the new tariff
bill.
A syndicate headed by John Vinton
Dahlgren has purchased the New York
Mail and Express from the Shepard
estate.
The Missouri river has followed the
Mississippi's example and gone on a
tear. The worst reports come from
South Dakota.
Pat Casey Is; Hugh Mcbride, %: Ed
j. Hayes, sc, were scalded to death by
collision of engines on the Union Pa
cific near Denver, and JOnn W. Berndt,
40, severely injured.
Gladstone writes that Emperor Will
lam and the new car are incapable of
ruling, and deplores that England
should heed their demands. He says
that Greece has conferred a great BEN
eft to civilization.
John Parshall, one of the six men
who buried John Wilkes Booths body,
is dead at Indianapolis, aged IS. Five
have now died and all kept their oath
of secrecy regarding the disposal OF
the remains of the assassin.
The Mississippi river is twenty five
miles wide at Cairo, Ill.
Frank w. Palmer of Chicago is said
to be slated for public printer
James Joseph Sylvester, famous
mathematician, is dead in London.
Henry C. Payne of Wisconsin has de-
cided to accept u foreign mission.
John Hull of Servia, Ind, aged "a,
shot his estranged wife and then killed
himself
Gov. Woleott of Massachusetts re-
fuses to honor a Missouri requision for
l.. f. Wilson.
1t looks as if Mckinley were getting
ready to nullify Cleveland's forest re-
serve order
Jarrett Watkins shot and killed w.
L. Benbrooll, his partner in business,
at Fayetteville, Ark.
Otis Miller, negro charged with
murder, was taken from Jail at Dune
Ion, Fla, by a mob and drowned,
Frederick Franks of Philadelp hia
killed his 9-year-old son, fatally
wounded his 5-year-old daughter and
then killed himself. Insane.
Typographical union has form ally
protested to Mckinley against the APP
pointment of Harrison Gray Otis as
first assistant secretary of war:
A Missouri Pacific passenger train
ran into five horses on the track near
Hiawatha, Kan. and Engineer Ed
Nye and Fireman Patrick Conner of
Kansas City and John Meadors, an
Atchison drummer, were killed, and
l.. +. Bacon, V. =. Piper, j. II. Meyers.
II. f. Kemp and John Appleton of
Kansas City and NJ. Osterland of Okla
homa injured.
London has made the cigarette deal
ers' license 500.
The London Daily Mail says Kaiser
Wilhelm is insane.
Chinook winds are saving the starry
ing stock in the Dalkotas.
Rhode Island Republicans nominated
Elisha Dyer for Governor.
d. r. Myers of Omaha shot his wife
and himself. He may die.
Cambridge university has made DR..
Nansen doctor OF science.
Signor Grimaldi. Italian statesman
and eX-cabinet minister, is dead.
A Polish Catholic priest in Chicago
has invented bullet-proof cloth.
A gun on Russian fronclad at
Canea burst. killing nineteen men and
wounding others
Burk'S locomotive works. Dunkirlz,
n. ". has resumed work employing
1900 hands
Secretary Sherman eontemplates the
negotiation of another Nicaraguan
canal treaty
Sugar importers are rushing in
stocks from Germany and Cuba in adj
. vance of the new tariff
Forest Reynor of New York City has
been appointed private secretary to
the secretary of the interior.
Cubans dynamited train on tres
tie in Pinar del Rio province, killing
over 200 Spanish soldiers.
Illinois Central has just paid Wilbur
+. Davidson, $4,000 Judgment fol
damages obtained in federal court n
Chicago.
The big show. elephant rip had t