The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-16
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Senator Nelson of Minnesota oppose
the Torrey bankruptcy bill.
Samuel II. Dickinson of Hatfield,
Mass, gave $500 to colleges and
missions in his will.
Senators are trying to affect an
agreement for the reorganization of
the committees.
S. Duncan, a white trader, was killed
and eaten by cannibals on the New
Hebrides islands.
The University of Illinois is likely
to lose $780, 900 in the Globe Savings
bank failure in Chicago.
Walter C. Sanger of Milwaukee has
challenged f. C. Bald of Buffalo for
match bicycle race.
The President has nominated Colonel
William Rufus Shafter, First infantry,
to be brigadier general
The Mckinley excursion party was
greeted with salute by the naval
academy at Annapolis.
A elevator in the Elliott Square
building, Buffalo, N. Y, fell five
stories and five G. A. x. visitors were
injured.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
created 81, 500 Office for Charles w.
Dabney, jr., Tennessee Democrat.
w. ]. Bryan was rendered uncon-
scious by the collapse of piazza from
which he was speaking at st. Angus
tine, Fla.
Ed Newcomb, an Indian Territory
outlaw, was mortally wounded by
Deputy Marshal Bud Ledbetter, near
Caney, Kan.
President Hill of the Great Northern
railroad asks senators not to pass a
tariff bill that will cut off trade with
Japan and China.
John Ceronie was murdered at Kane,
Pa, while asleep by Malta member
named Morasco, sent from Philadel-
phia for that purpose.
A car loaded with whisky developed
a hot box near Indianapolis, and the
resulting explosion and fire destroyed
the train of fourteen cars.
A veteran named Dickerson, near
South Haven, Mich, drove one wife
away, then married another, but soon
shot and killed her and himself.
Secretary Alger is pushing forward
the work of relief for flood sufferers.
The Santa Fe will, on April II, ad-
vance grain rates to Galveston from
points on the Union Pacific and Grand
Island to 81 cents on wheat and 20
cents on corn.
Yazoo Delta people are in serious
straits. There is great restitution.
The population of 100000, large per
cent of whom are farm laborers, are
now left without subsistence because
of the floods.
Charles l.. Draper has confessed to
the Rev. A. B. Morey. his pastor, and
Colonel d. P. Dyer, of st. Louis. his
attorney, that he murdered Charles l..
Hastings, lawyer and abstractor, in
Judge Kirby's office, Jacksonville, ILL.,,
April 1, by stabbing him scores of
times.
A disastrous fire occurred at Knox
vile, Tenn. The heart of the city is
in ashes. Scores were injured by
dynamite explosion in the fire. The
loss is between 81, 200, 900 and $780,
OOO Buildings had to be torn down
to check the march of the fire fiend.
Several people persisted in the flames
Julio Sangully has been arrested on
a charge of attempted violation OF the
neutrality laws.
Secretary Sherman has received as
surances that General Rivera will be
treated as prisoner of war.
Mrs. Ernestine Dumke, held for muir
der at Chicago, is FRUSTRATED by the
news that both her husband and son
are to testify against her.
Governor Leedy's delay in appoint
ing a police board for Fort Scott, Kan,
has resulted in that city being with
out authorized police protection.
The United States battleship Iowa
was given her official speed trial. The
cruiser ran seventeen knots an hour,
earning 100000 bonus foi the Cramps.
Modoc Indians about Reading, Cal,
are suffering.
Greeks will not be satisfied until
war with Turkey is declared.
The Sultan of Zanzibar has issued a
decree abolishing slavery.
The Cuban debate in the senate has
developed much bad blood.
Sidewalks at Fargo, N. D., are ahoat
and are being used as RATS.
Mr.. Mckinley has decided to let
Cleveland's forest reserve order alone.
James A. Mckenzie, United States
minister to Peru, has brain fever.
c. F. Kleupfer, double murderer,
hanged himself in Jail at Stockton,
Gala.
John w. Foster is to be sent to Con-
stantinople to demand redress for
American grievances.
Postmaster Redder of Ell Reno, Okla,
was acquitted and his assistant, E. L.
Cav, convicted of embezzling.
Russell Freer, ~ years old Chi
cago boy, took a red hot poker and
burned out his baby brothers eyes.
A white tramp and two Mexicans
killed and cremated Charles Richards,
barkeeper, at FL Paso, Texas.
The st Louis Republic charges the
supreme officers of the Knights of
Pythias with loose financial manage
ment.
Bryan called on President Mckinley
at the White house and later inspected
the executive mansion in charge of
DoorlSeeper Dubois