The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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ident at the White house.
Five men confined in the Jail at Cam
den, Ark, escaped.
| Ludwig Tarantino was frozen to
Geath in his store at Dallas, Tex.
Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor of short
hand, is dead.
| Senator Edmunds is out in q letter
defending the peace arbitration treaty.
! Squatters are ordered to leave the
lands of the five civilized Indian tribes
by February 6.
| An anti-football bill has been intro
| duced in the Nebraska House of Repre-
sentatives.
Eugene Washington, negro raw
isher, was hanged by the "best peo-
pie" about Bryan, Tex.
lillian Croyle's wife and three chill
dreu burned to death in their home at
Bedford, Pa.
The Louisville G. Nashville road has
suits aggregating $685., 900 growing out
of the Cahaba bridge wreck.
President B. o. Aylesworth of Drake
university. Des Moines, Iowa, has re-
signed therefrom, it is said because of
his pronounced silver opinions.
Hough, 3-year-old son of Frank
Spiker of Caldwell, Kan, fell into a
| tub of boiling water and was so badly
burned before he could be rescued
that he soon died.
Republicans in the United States
ization after March 4. Senator Call of
ho !, Il,
will not be elected until April.
Lyman ]. Gage of Chicago would
accept the treasury portfolio if offered
him by Mckinley. Judge Nathan Golf
of West Virginia is believed to be set
tied upon as the next attorney general.
Little Pete, the boss OF Chinatown,
San Francisco, was murdered by high
binders while being shaved. He left
a fortune estimated at $500, 900, which
was accumulated chiefly by gambling.
A sod school-house near Perry, Okla,
collapsed upon twenty-five children.
Several were injured fatally.
A 15-year-old boy robbed farmer
near Perry, Okla, of his money, horses
and buggy.
An orphan asylum at Council Bluffs
was damaged by fire. Three firemen
were badly frozen.
A convict at Auberp, N. Y. was
burned to death by the explosion of
naphtha that he had stolen.
Ernest Naihaus, living near Carlyle,
ILL.,, mistook his brother-in-law, Henry
Raunning, for a burglar and killed
him.
A negro was lynched at Tallahassee,
Fla, by mob composed mostly of ne
groes.
Judge Levens of Sedal;a, who was
born the day Missouri came into the
Union, is dead.
Miss Hattie Gault, who was one of
Mrs. McKinley's school teachers, is, or
will be, an applicant for the postmas-
tership of Media, Pa. Four Pennsyl-
vania politicians are after the same
place.
Senator PETER of Kansas will return
, from the Senate to his editorial chair
and advocate middle-of-theroad Popu-
lism.
All the big plungcrs of the American
turf are now at San Francisco, and the
betting game is fast and furious.
Queen Liliuokalani is in Washington,
but refuses to say why she is there.
The Senate passed the bill reclassi-
flying salaries of the railway postal
clerks.
Attorney General Harmon will ap-
peal the Three Friends case from Judge
Locke's decision.
The Senate asked the President for
full information regarding the Pacific
railroads settlement.
Comptroller Eckels has asked gov
errors to furnish reports upon state
and private banks within their juris-
diction.
Foreclosure suit against the Union
and Kansas Pacific was filed at Omaha.
Texas will prohibit baseball on Sun
day.
The dynamo of the Toronto, Ont,
electric light plant was destroyed by
fire and the streets of that city are in
darkness.
An earthquake on Kisham island in
the Persian gulf caused the loss of
$500 lives.
President Palma of the Cuban junta,
1NSW L YIN, WILL OC oIOlSuSb NAull hOOL-
ing short of Cuban independence.
Chicago board of trade has published
a protest against the unfriendly action
of France, Germany and Switzerland
toward American meat.
Three masked men held up train
on the Southern railway near Berry
station, Ala, and obtained $3.50 from
the express safe. This is the second
robbery in month at this place.
John Hull1a, Joe Durham and Joe
Pruchu, three Oklahomans secured di-
vorces before the Cherokee strip open
ing so their wives could get claims.
Then they lived together as before.
The swift Packing company is put
ting $500, 200 into st. Joseph packing
house and stock yard property.
Miss Helen Mckinley, sister of the
president-elect. had one of the bones
in her righS wrist broken by fall on
the ice at Canton.
The prospects for the fruit crop II.
Indian Territory and Southern Kansas
are said to be very unpromising, owing
to the unfavorable weather Unless
colder weather comes to retard the de-
velopment, the fruit will certainly be
greatly injured by the later cold snaps.
John L. Sullivan has tonsilitis.
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