The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-09-17

| 1OlKS. Inere is lHluSelneHU lot every
body and all classes, and everyone will!
have thoroughly enjoyable time.
Special round trip rates will be made
on all Railroads. Let everyone attend
and make the Wichita State Fair, held
in the heart of the best State in the
| Union a success
Bank Cashier George A. Withers was
found dead at Piedmont, Mo. His
skull was crushed, but his money and
valuables were not disturbed.
Mrs. Ethel Mitchell, Mrs. Eva Half
ner and Miss Maggie L. Hill are in
Jail at st. Joseph, Mo-, for showing
counterfeit money made by Ransom j
Smith, arrested at Kansas City. All
are highly connected at st. Joseph.
Rebels in India are dispensing
There is an over production of cotton
manufactures in France.
The Eugene, an Alaskan vessel, is
breaking up in Albert bay. Loss,
IS, 900.
The Y NJ. C. A. of Kansas City,
Kan, was forced to close its doors,
owing over $1,000
Mrs. Blaclxhawll, wife of the noted
Indian chief, Blackhawk, committed
suicide by cutting her throat Black
hawk was going to discard her.
So many cattle and lambs have
been bought by packers and shippers
east to be fed that meat is now high
and meat animals are scarce ON the
Pacific coast
Marquis de Rochambeau is dead in
Paris His grandfather was com
mander of French forces in the revo-
lutionary war and aided in the defeat
of Cornmallis at Yorktown.
Raoul Gelpi, aged 10, died of yellow
fever in New Orleans. All Southern
cities are quarantining against the
scourge. Miss Penelope Schulze, of
St Louis, was the first victim at Ocean
Springs, Miss Biloxi, Miss, reports
three cases there.
Preparations are being made by
hundreds of Swedes in Minneapolis
and Illinois to establish a Swedish
colony in Alabama. The site for the
colony contains 1000 acres of land,
and lies ten miles east of Mobile bay,
in Baldwin county.
The Uuited States commercial agent
at Robaix says that France will re-
quire go, 600, 900 bushels of American
wheat
The government crop report for the
week ending September states that
cotton and corn have been damaged
materially by drought
Mrs j. NJ. Monk committed suicide
with a razor near Dresden, Mo-
Mrs. II. L. Spellman, mother-in-law
of John D. Rockefeller, is dead.
Colorado Silver Democrats nomi-
mated Cleveland man through a mis-
take.
Jockey John A. Griffith and Land
ger, the horse he was riding in race
at Paducah, KY, were both killed.
Mrs. Archie Cottle of Mexico, Mo-,
has sued the Chicago & Alton for $751;
900 for the death of her husband.
An incendiary fire is said to have
put a stop to the investigation of the
records of the county treasurer at
Mason City, Iowa.
The National Anti-S oiritualist Con-
ventoa at Anderson, Ind, is largely
attended from every section of the
United States.
Walter Wellman, the well known
journalist and explorer, arrived from
England, He expects to spend the
summer of 1899 at the North Pole.
Drought and extreme heat have
nearly ruined late corn in Missouri and
Kansas Pastures have been burned
by the sun, and in some places trees
have been killed during the drought
Conductor r. r. Ackert fell from his
train on the Wabash road, near Belk-
nap, Iowa, and received injuries from
which he died. He had been employed
by that road continuously since Au-
gust TO- 1888, and was its oldest con-
ductor.
All Manchester, n. H., mills are
running
Philadelphia pants makers-won their
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