The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-30
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

date for vice president, has been ap-
pointed minister to Hawaii
Representative Lanham of Texas in
PRODUCED measure to cut all Federal
salaries 33M per cent.
Sash, door and blind trust has been
dissolved
Two more Minneapolis municipal
officers have been indicted for boodling.
Convicts in San Quentin prison cary
ed each other with knives. One is
dead; the other dying.
Frank Moss counsel of the Park
hurst society, has been appointed New
York police commissioner, to succeed
Roosevelt.
Parson Davies, in behalf of Choynski,
has challenged Fitzsimmons to a match
for ST., 900 side.
Kid Evans died of concussicn of the
brain, resultant from Knockout blow
administered by Matt Semichy in a
California fight.
Chilli and Peru are to arbitrate.
Masked men have warned all negroes
to leave Davis, /. Il.
Democrats have decided not to delay
action on the tariff bill.
Ex-Governor Burleigh of Maine will
succeed Congressman Milliken.
X. of L. seceders at Pittsburg, Pa,
have returned to the old order.
Six railroad hands were killed by
landslide near Sheep creek, b. c..
Fred Hellman murderer of six wo-
men, is to hang at Paxton, ILL.,, May IA.
The inheritance tax bill passed both
branches of the New York legislature.
Governor Renfrow of Ok, will re-
new the commission of his appointive
officers.
Dr. Hunter has given up the fight
for the Kentucky senatorship and
withdrawn.
John McCleast aud John Coyne were
killed in fire at 4226 Ashland avenue,
Chicago.
Chief Joseph, the captive Nez Perces
warrior, is to travel with Cody's Wild
West show.
Twelve hundred bridge ana structur-
al iron workers, union men, in Chicago,
will strike May for As cents per hour
T. L. Carpenter, Salt Lake pay
master, was robbed of $500 by two
men at Castle Gate. Utah.
Four hundred Chicago Greeks have
gone back home to fight Turkey. Six
thousand dollars was quickly raised to
pay their passage.
Three thousand refugees are receiv-
ing rations at Natchez A siNvh break
in the levee system has occurred at
Tenoco,
Montana Stockmen's association, in
session at Miles City, petitioned Con-
cattle hides
Friedrich Evringhaus, builder from
Barmen, Prussia, was arrested for for
gerry of 1000, 900 marks on his arrival
at New York.
Dwight w. Andrews, Altgeld's state
grain inspector of Illinois, is short
$45. 600, and fraudulent management
of the office'is also alleged.
Kaiser Wilhelm is the guest of Fran
els Joseph of Austria. The emperors
Rugged each other on meeting at the
depot in Vienna.
Senator Mason of Illinois devoted his
maiden speech to a criticism of the
Senate's rules which permit a minority
to retard legislation.
Broker Chapman, the recalcitrant
Senate sugar trust witness, expects to
secure preside ntial pardon.
A court martial for the trial of an
army officer whose accounts are in bad
shape has been ordered. His name is
withheld.
No funds are available for United
States court expenses and Congress is
being urged by Mr.. McKenna to pass
an appropriation at once.
Cold weather in Illinois, Indiana,
Wisconsin and Maryland endangers
fruit, and in Virginia and the Caro-
olinas has done 81, 900, 000 damage
Volly " Smith, ex-lieutenant gov
ernCr of Arkansas, who went crazy on
the money question last fall, has just
died at the Little Rock asylum.
Colonel John Hay, the American
ambassador to the court Of st. James,
was cordially welcomed at Southamp-
ton.
Julian Zarraga, the insurgent leader
who surrendered to the Spanish, says
that he did so because the Cuban cause
is lost.
Billy Birch, the old-time minstrel, is
dead.
Ward Burlingame, prominent Kan
san. has been promoted to the chief
clerkship of the Deal Letter Office.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is
preparing to give wide publicity to all
farming experiments.
The state department will not sup
port Edward j. Ivorys claim for in
demnity against the British govern
ment.
A correspondent just returned from
Cuba appeared before the Senate COM
mittee on foreign relations. He rep
resented the condition of the island to
be intolerably bad.
James b. Gentry, the murderer of
Madge Yorke, the actress, will not
hang. His sentence has been COM
muted to life imprisonment.
The Lower Mississippi flood is men
acing New Orleans perilously close,
and the work of strengthening the
levees goes on night and day.
At the funeral of Miss Lizzie Wag-
oner, wealthy young society woman
of Cynthiana, KY, six of her female
schoolmates acted as pall-bearers.