The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-10-14
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

for home consumption. This will
leave 100000 bushels for export.
Chicago-Policema Bernard Kueb-
Ter, of the Twenty-second street sta
ton, was shot and instantly killed at
1880 Sunday morning by one of two
men whom he was arresting.
Paris-The government has issued
) special orders to the garrisons of nu-
merous towns near the capital to send
, Immediately to Paris 500 infantry
each. The journal des Debats de-
clares that these reinforccments will
amount to 10000 men. The paper ex-
presses the hope that the country is
not on the eve of revolution. All
the troops will be supplied with two
days rations and sixty rounds of ball
cartridges,
Little Rock, rk-Reports from va
rious portions of Arkansas indicate
great damage to the cotton crop by
excessive rains. In the bottom lands
the cotton is reported as sprouting in
the bolls and the bolls are rotting
rapidly. 1t some localities the crop is
almost entirely ruined.
Seattle, Wash. The government sur
vey party under George Eldridge and
Robert Muldrow arrived from Alaska
on the steamer Al-Ki. The party has
been surveying all summer at Cooks
inlet.
Topeka-Miss Ethel Henry, the l6-
year-old daughter of M. B. Henry of
this city, committed suicide by taking
a dose of strychnine. She was stu
dent at the Topeka high school No
cause is assigned by her parents, but
it is believed by her schoolmates that
love affair had something to do with
the case.
-Cincinnati-Howard Clark, who was
wanted in Louisville for murder and
burglary, and his girl, Hattie Maho-
ney, were both killed while resisting
arrest on the Indiana side of the river
near here. Clark was wanted for the
murder of Officer Hefferman, at Louis
vile, last August, and was attempting
to escape in skiff by rowing down
the Ohio river.
Albany, N. Y.-William P. Douglass,
ex-police justice and incorporation
counsel of Jersey City, and one of the
best known men in New Jersey, is
supposed to have jumped into the river
during Saturday night from the
steamer Dean Richmond, somewhere
between New York and this city.
St. Johns, N. F.-Mr. Parsons, edi-
tor of the Evening Telegram of this
city, and Mr.. Herder, it's proprietor,
were sentenced to thirty days impris-
onment for contempt of court in pub
Lshing structures upon the judges of
the supreme court No such penalty
had been inflicted in Newfoundland
during the last forty years.
London-Dr. Nancy Guilford who
no longer denies that she is the mid
wife of Bridgeport, Conn, but declares
herself absolutely innocent of any
connection with the death of Emma
Gill, says that she sailed for England
under an assumed name owing to San
other matter, which she will explain
at the proper place" She is now in
the infrmary of the Holloway Jail,
London, suffering from nervous col
lapse.
London-A dispatch from Alexan-
dria says: 1.-The troops who have re-
turned from Khartoum are dying like
flies from enteric disorders, supposed
to be due to canned beef and indul-
gence in cheap spirits"
Berlin-Princess Trubetzkoi, who
dition demand from the Italian gov
eminent, charged with forging docu.
ments, committed suicide to-day at the
police station. There are several
ladies of high rank or wide reputation
known as Princess Trubetzkoi or
Toubetsl1oi. Among them are the
wife of the grand marshal of the Rus
sian court, and the American novelist,
who was formerly Miss Amelie Rives
It is quite inconceivable that either of
these ladies is the Princess Trubetzskoi
referred to in the above dispatch.
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position last week was nearly $50, 900.
Chauncey M. Depew and visiting New
Workers viewed the sham battle
fought by the Indians on the exposi-
ton grounds Few of the distin-
guished visitors from the Empire
state had ever seen Western Indians
and their methods employed in peace,
and they proved most interesting.
Detroit, Mich.-Joe Pingree, son of
Governor Pingree, who has for two
months been looking after the sick
soldiers of the Michigan regiments at
Montauk Point and in New York hos
pitfalls, returned Sunday and is confined
to his fathers house with fever, which
threatens to develop into typhoid.
Victoria, B. C.-The steamer Amur
arrived from Skaguay, Alaska, with
about 300 pounds of gold dust and a
number of passengers from Dawson.
Officers of the Amur report that the
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