The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-12
LATE NEWS NOTES.

Serious strikes and bread riots are
occurring in Madrid and martial law
has been proclaimed.
| The Pennsylvania Lead company,
doing business at Pittsburg, went into
the hands of receivers yesterday. The
| liabilities are 81, 100000
1t is said that John A. Logan, son Of
| General Logan, has applied to Major
| Mckinley for appointment as minister
to Austro- Hungary.
The Michigan supreme court has re-
fused to take up the petition for man
damous to compel the BUSTING of Gov
ernor Pingree as mayor of Detroit.
Hereafter every tramp found beg
| ging in New York is to be arrested
and locked up. Old offenders are to
be sent to the island and made to
work.
| Tewfik Pasha, until recently Turk
ish minister for foreign affairs, has ar
rived at Marseilles in fear of his life
He says reign of terror prevails in
| Constantinople
| A. w. Linderstrom, a farmer living
on Anderson's island, near Tacoma,
| Wash, went home angry and blew out
| the brains of his 5-year-old son with
gun, following this by blowing out his
own brains.
Judge Andrew, of the supreme court
| of New York, has decided that baby
| shows are illegal and that the Society
| for the Prevention of cruelty to chill
| dren has the right to prevent such ex-
| hibitions.
Charles Willard, an eccentric bach
| elor who died at Battle Creek, Mich,
| recently, left $4O,0 for library
/ building for the city schools, 5000
for Y M. C. A. building and $4,000
for the Baptist college at Kalamazoo.
The Chinese Six Companies, the most
| powerful, richest and most far-reach-
ing Chinese organization in America,
| went out of existence at the beginning
| Of the Chinese New Year 1t had been
power for years. and went to pieces
because of dissension among the sew
| eral companies composing it.
EX-Queen Liliuokalani had pleas
| ant visit with Mrs. Cleveland. .s~-
Gold and silver Democrats in Ken
lucky are getting together
Illinois Steel company employees
wages have been cut 10 to 20 per cent.
Frank j. Lauer of Chicago fatally
shot his sweetheart, Ollie Sullivan.
Murderer j. w. Beaumont sawed out
of Arapahoe, Okla, jail during n
| storm
Town of Wabbaseka, Ark, was
wiped out by fire, only one building
remaining.
San Francisco discovered two cases
where diphtheria was cured by vac
| cination.
James Richards, a hermit farmer,
was shot dead by robbers near Ann
Arbor, Mich.
Boys dormitory at Genesee Wesley
an seminary at Lima, N. Y. burned;
loss $4,000.
The Moscow National bank, at Mos
COW, Idaho, failed. The deposits are
about $1,000 and the assets consid-
erably more than that amount
The Christian Endeavor society cele-
brated its sixteenth birthday the world
over on the 2nd ~
Senator Teller's desk was covered
with floral tributes on his return to
| the senate after reelection.
A department of trade and commerce
said to be in McKinley's mind.
James Shellhammer, 10, shot and
killed Grace Clark, II, at Apolla, Pa,
and then shot himself fatally.
Dawson, county, Nebraska, has sold
| $3.50, 900 of irrigation bonds and work
ON canal will begin at once.
Thomas II. Stout, defaulter in the
sum of SIG, 600, five years ago in New
| York was arrested in Cincinnati.
William Albert Cunning, murderer
of Mrs. Mary Lenning of Chicago, is
| dead of his self-intlicted wounds.
Lady Somerset was operated on by
London doctors and is doing well. A
| carriage accident was the cause.
Bradley's bank at Eldon, Iowa, was
| looted by burglars, who used nitro
glycerine and escaped with stolen
team.
Romulus Cotell, who killed Alvin
| Stone and wife and Ira Stillson at
Talmadge, Ohio, gets only life term
in the pen.
General A. ]. Smith of st. Louis was
buried with military honors from the
| church of the Immaculate Conception.
Six hundred men employed on canal
work at Tonawanda, n. Y, quit work
when notified of % cent per day re-
| duction.
Lee Mcfarland of the Second Ma
tional bank, Parkersburg, w. Va, has
embezzled $4,000 of the banks funds
and lost it in speculation.
Malcolm Douglass is dead at the Nor
man asylum, at Guthrie. Okla, of alco-
| holism. He had just received $4,000
Inheritance from Scotland.
Oklahoma Populists have knocked
out the territorial militia.
Mrs. Schroeder and her four chill
iren were burned to death at Hobo
| zen. n. ].