The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-28
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

Attorney General McKenna will sue
| coed him.
Ten thousand dollars, buried during
the war in London county, Tenn, was
plowed up recently.
Judge Marshall and Captain Berry
hill, Creek officials, were killed while
cutting illegal fencing in the Indian
Territory.
Mrs. Driscot and two children. re-
siding near Pike Hill, Ky, were bitten
by copperhead snake and died with
in an hour.
John w. Smith of Chicago, colored.
has failed in a number of examinations
and probably will not enter the Naval
academy.
Milliners and feather manufacturers
will fight treasury decision that IS
per cent ad valorem duty must be col
lected on ostrich piumes.
Calumet, Iowa, suffered a $4,000
fire.
Oscar Wilde's term in prison has
ended
Miners State bank, Cripple Creek,
has closed.
Liberals in Spain refuse to longer
support the government
Secretary Bliss asks the Senate to
confirm the Choctaw treaty.
A train was derailed and nine Ger
man soldiers killed and thirty-five in
jured near Metz
Judge Montgomery of Kentucky has
resigned from the Dawes commission.
The non-partisan school board ticket
was elected in st. Louis by a big ma
jority.
Two children of August Muetz, near
Redfield S. d., were killed by light
ming.
Ex-senator Ingalls, is in Washing
ton. He denounceS the sugar tariff
schedule in strong terms.
Albert M. King, aged 10, messen-
ger of the Boylston bank in Boston,
and $50, 900 are missing.
Fire that started at Newark avenue
and First street in Jersey City rem
dered sixty families homeless.
Henry Bolln, defaulting treasurer of
Omaha, must go to the pen for 10
years, says the supreme court.
Adrian Britt, former Florida pub-
Usher and politician, plead guilty in
Chicago to stealing from the mails.
A favorable report has been ordered
on the Senate bill to appropriate $3.50
900 for display at the Paris exposi-
ton in 1900.
Governor Black, of New York, has
signed the bill providing the death
penalty for train wreckers who cause
death.
Hochioji, Japanese town, was
wiped out by fire. Nearly 4 1000 houses
burned and between forty and fifty
lives were lost.
At meeting in st. Louis of the Mis-
souri, Medical association, Governor
Stephens was severely scored for Civ
ing control of the Fulton asylum to
the homeopathic and one member, Dr.
Mooney, attacked the clergy fiercely.
1t has developed in debate in the
senate that the names of United ) ties
consuls in Cuba who furnish inf. ma
ton of the state of affairs on the island
are withheld to prevent them from
being assassin ated.
Mississippi flood losses are estimated
at Sl3, 800, 900.
Forest fires are burning at many
places in upper Michigan.
Governor Black of New York has
signed the beet sugar bounty law
Senator Stewart of Nevada now pro-
poses financial rider to the tariff bill.
The steamship Paris took out 6s5, 900
ounces of silver from New York
Wednesday.
At the annual meeting OF the bank
of Mexico an Is per cent dividend was
declared
Prominent Senators agree that the
President has the right to remove
Office holders.
The remains of Banker w. S. Ladd
are missing from Riverview cemetery,
Portland, Oregon.
VIM. NJ. Myers, an old employee of J.
V. Farwell s. Co., Chicago, is under
arrest for embezzling $1,000
Arthur Sewall's ship, the Dirigo,
was 1865 days in making the trip from
New York to San Francisco.
William Van AIKEN attacked ex-Sen-
ator j. r. Mcpherson of New Jersey in
the latter's Office and attempted to kill
him.
Twelve Chicago firemen were fright
fully burned by gasoline explosion
at fire in w. H. Manley's grocery on
Forty-third street
Prince Francis Joseph of Batten-
berg and Princess Anna of Montenegro
were married Tuesday in the Cathe-
dral at Cettinje.
Ex-Governor Altgeld of Illinois, ha-
just spent two weeks in the Sacred
Heart sanitarium in Milwaukee for
nervous prostration.
Fred Horne, aged IA, is under indict-
ment at Cloud Chief, Okla, for the
murder of Alva Trip, an old soldier,
while asleep for SO.
A daughter has come to Rev. M. d.
Hardin of Harrodsburg, KY, and wife,
formerly Miss Julia Stevenson, daugh-
ter of ex-Vice President Stevenson.
State Senator Rudolph Lehfeld of
Crawford county, Iowa, returned to
the state treasurer a warrant for S67S
for salary during the extra session,
saying he had not earned it.
Governor Leedy attended temper
ance mass meeting in Topeka and Gre