The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-01-14
CONDENSED NEWS.

ing the new order in the Territor.
quietly .,-,.,
Commissioner Evans has ordere'
special examiners to keep shar
watch far pension attorneys adver
tisements. istI -.
A number of pensioners, alarmed b.
the prospect of publication OF the list
have asked that their pensions be can
celed.
G. P. Grosyenor of Lawrence, Kan.
went to st. Joseph last Sunday ant
he has not been seen or heard from
since. l5. .|4t 4a ao.l ..V
Great Britain probably will loar
China el6, 000 o0o France and Russis
have been negotiating to raise the
money.
A list Of 1913 children between the
ages of and IA has been furnished
the police board of Fort Scott, Kan,
with directions that their attendance
MT the city schools be enforced under
penalty of going to the calaboose.
The list includes only children who
have failed to comply with the com
pulsory education law
The public debt December 81, less
cash in the treasury, showed a de.
crease for the month of $40, la. goo.
Secretary Gage says that the mon
etary commissions currency reform
plan in some respects is better than
his.
A counterfeit Of the 500 silver GER
tificate of 1891 is so dangerous that
Secretary Gage will call in notes OF
that issue. Iat ''rfsrI Wit.N % aTs
The government receipts for De-
cember, exclusive of the Union Pa
cific payments, were SGT, 1881, 494; ex.
penditures, $26, 2i6,663.
It's reported that Senator Platt OF
Connecticut will resign to tbecome
commissioner of insurance.
Secretary Bliss informed the Creeks
that any attempt to oppose the order
of things in the territory. would be a
waste of time and money.
Widow Florence Acres committed
suicide in East st. Louis because a
young man refused to marry her.
Weyler, erstwhile so proud, is much
humbled. He apologized to Sagasta
and the queen regent
Russia is reported to have triclSed
China by saying that the British were
coming to, capture Port Arthur.
Great Britain is said to have taken
a firm attitude on the Chinese ques-
tion--that she will not recognize Chi.
mas grants to other powers.
The Ripley county court house al
Doniphan, Mo-, was destroyed by fire,
but the contents were. saved. There
was no insurance. ..I.f.aet
About /, 100 postoffices throughout
the country were assigned to the
money order class on January 3. This
makes approximately rs, 900 postoffices
at which money orders may be now
obtained or eashed.
DR.. Robert l. Dabney, one of the
most prominent educators of the South,
died at his home in Knoxville, Tenn.
DR.. Charles W. Dabney, president OF
the University of Tennessee, and as
sistant secretary of agriculture under
President Cleveland, was his son.
Ex-Governor VIM. J. Stone is being
doomed for the presidency. 80
The Wabash train from Kansas City
to st. Louis caught fire and consumed
all the property of "In Old Kentucky"
theatrical company, including three
valuable performing horses, ,g
F. B. Loomis, minister to Venezuela,
says that there is great field for
American manufacturersin that coun'
try.
At present the friends OF Hawaiian
annexation seem to lack four votes Of
the two-thirds required in the Senate
for ratification.
The value of United States naval
yards and stations is more than $780,
100000. Nearly 100000 was re-
quired last year to maintain warships
in commission.
The monetary commission appointed
by the Indianapolis convention has
made public its scheme of currency
reform. The plan is embodied in a
bill that will be introduced by Cop
gresham overstreet
The Herring Hall-Martin Safe Co. =,
New York, failed owing to high sail
aries paid.
Chicago aldermen voted to allow
each private secretary and then
chose relatives.
Canada and the United States will
work together to aid Klondilke pros
pectors.
Timothy 7. HER, deputy constable
at Carthage, Mo-, was caught burg
iarizing store.
The navy department has ordered
100, 900 pounds of new smokeless
powder.
Finney county, Kan. began the new
year with an empty poor house and no
one in Jail. rfr
1t is said that the fusion nomination
for Congress in the First Nebraska
district will be offered to Mr. Bryan.
Two congregations at Harrison, N.
Y, were driven from their churches
by cold and held services In a fire