The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-21
NEWS BOILED DOWN.


been ordered to stop week in Homo
lulu en- route to Toxic.
The NJ S. U. land grant case prob
ably will not be decided for some time.
The inquiry is proceeding.
The resolution summoning Broker
Chapman before the bar of the Senate
was referred to the Judiciary commit
tee.
Secretary Alger will not authorize
work by the Port Arthur Canal com
pany, nor will he interfere with it at
present.
President Mckinley has decided to
decline all Decoration day invitations.
A full-blooded Nez Perces Indian is
under arrest in Washington on q
charge Of forgery.
The President has nominated Briga-
der General Forsythe to succeed
Wheaton as major general
The Senate passed bills appropriate
ing 81, 500, 900 for a public building at
indianapolis, Ind. and $500, 900 for one
at Deadwood, S. ID.
Henry L. Lee of Moberly, Mo-, mem
Der of the city council, shot himself.
Commander Booth Tucker of the Sal
walton Army has been indicted in New
York because of the noise made in the
barracks.
w. j. Calhoun has arrived at Ha-
vana, Weyler has left for the field.
Transvaal's answer to Great Brit
aims ultimatum is defiant in tone and
suggests arbitration.
Typhoon III. won the Kentucky
Derby from Ornament in the mud
The race was slow and Disappointing
Ornament was poorly ridden.
A mans corpse is among the I'M
claimed baggage in New York.
A. B. Patricks &c Co. s tannery in
San Francisco burned. Loss, $4?5, 0O0
Twenty soldiers are to ride by bicy-
Gle from Fort Missoula, Mont, to st.
Louis
Miss Nettie M. Leib, an insurance
agent of Akron, Ohio, committed sui
eide rather than face a charge of en-
bezzlement.
Nellie Smith and Mandy White, negro
women, were lynched at jeff, Ala, for
poisoning Joshua Kelly by putting
Rough On Rats in his biscuits.
The legal department at Washing
ton has decided that a permit can be
granted for dredging a channel
through Sabine lake. This is victory
for the Port Arthur people,
John Ray of Carlisle county, Ken
lucky, is in southeastern Missouri
hunting for white man to kill him
for completely in the killing of Rays
two daughters and for which |. Seay
Miller, negro, was lynched.
Some of the heirs of James Catcher,
for years a merchant of Mexico, Mo-,
who left about SIS, 900, have brought
suit to break his will, claiming that he
was of unsound mind and was under
the influence of his wife, who protited
most by it.
Denmarks ministry has resigned.
The Honduras revolution has ended.
Mile. Yvette Guilbert has become
Mrs. DIR. Max Schiller.
Omaha's new mayor has been seated
by the courts.
Tea prices are moving up on account
of the tariff
Ex-Governor Porter of Indiana left
an estate worth $4,000
c. NJ Barnes was promptly confirmed
as governor of Oklahoma.
Vice President Hobart will not vio-
late precedent to limit debate on the
tariff bill.
The Rothschilds family gave 1,00O-
900 francs to the charity bazaar fund
in Paris.
Emperor William of Germany gave
$4,000 to the Paris charity bazaar man
ayers,
The j. r. Dayton Table company
building at Quincy, ILL.,, burned; loss
$4,000,
AS the result of recent elections the
Liberals are now in full control in
Canada.
Illinois Inheritance tax law has been
declared constitutional by the state
supreme court.
Williams, Brown & Co., wholesale
shipping merchants of San Francisco,
have failed for half million.
Cattle from east of the Mississippi
river are being shipped into the pas
lures in the Indian territory.
After October l the use of No. 3
spring wheat as a contract grade on
the Chicago market will be discon-
tinued
William Charvet, a farmer living
northeast of GuthIie, Okla, was killed
by lightning while measuring wheat.
James U. Fonda got Judgment
against the Twin City Rapid Transit
company at st. Paul for SIT, $40 for loss
of his legs.
Theosophists have bought tract of
land mile square at San Diego Cal,
and will erect hotels, sanitariums,
temples, etc.
The Rumford Falls (Me.) Paper Co.
is putting in the largest paper machine
in the world one that will produce
paper $50 inches wide.
Peter Miner, a one-legged veteran
from Manhattan, Kan, aged so, stole
horse and buggy and eloped with a
l5-year-old girl near Perry, Okla, and
was Pi1en eighteen months in the
''pen" tor his fun.
A convention of Modern Woodmen
of America at Clinton, Iowa, charged
the head officers of the concern with