The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-11-25

United States troops to Havana prov
nee will begin within ten days
Des Moines, la. The Grant Club, Of
this city, banqueted Osborn w. Deig-
nan, of the Merrimac crew.
Paris.-La Petit Republique says
that during the recent trial of NJ lola
for libel Count Esterhazy was over
heard to remark that General Billot,
former minister of war; gave him s0,-
900 francs for forging the bordereau.
st. Joseph, Mo-All railways enter
ing this city are experiencing car
famine. The agents say they could do
twice the amount of business they are
doing if they had the means of trans
portation.
Santiago de Cuba. Lieutenant Luz
Glen Young of the Hist reports that it
is practicable to raise the former Span
ish cruiser Reina Mercedes.
Columbia, Motive years in the
penitentiary for forging check for
only So. so was the sentence received by
Jacob Samuels in the Boone county
circuit court.
Fresno, Call. A. Brandreth, who
claimed to be nephew of the million
aire pill maker of that name, was
found dead in his cell at the county
Jail, having been arrested on charge
of vagrancy. Alcoholism is supposed
to have caused his death. He was
graduate of Yale college and had ira
veled all over the world.
New York John Brisbane Walker
has issued an address attacking Rich
ard Croker as man who has gained
complete control of the Democratic
party, both fh the city and state, and
who is unworthy of trust" In his
address Mr.. Walker urges the forma-
ton of a new Democracy
New HAVEN, Conn, Nov. 19-At the
meeting of the corporation of Yale
university, President Timothy Dwight
presented his resignation. The resig7
nation is to take effect at the end of
the university year. Among the
friends of DIR. Dwight it has been no
secret for some time that the pres
ident contemplated his resignation
before age weighed too heavily upon
him.
Columbus, Ohio.--There was a des-
perate attempt made by two convicts
to escape from the penitentiary, as
result of which Guard Charles D. Lau-
terbach of Mount Vernon was shot and
killed, while Convicts O'Neill and At
kinson received injuries of serious
nature and both are now in the prison
hospital.
Havana. of late Havana has been
almost overrun with Americans, who
have arrived here quite without means
of support, but in hopes of getting
lucretive employment. Scores of them
are now begging on the streets OF the
city. There is really no inducement
whatever for outsiders at present, and
begging will be the almost inevitable
fate of nine-tenths of those who come
here in search of work.
New Yorl1.-A dispatch from Ha-
vana says: The news from Topeka
that John II. Veny, a Baptist clergy.
man, is about to send to Santiago
thirty negro families as nucleus for
q large negro colony, has caused an
exceedingly bad impression among the
Cubans, who are anxious that only
white immigrants shall come to Cuba.
The more rabid predict race war
should many negroes come from the
United States. A strange feature is
that the Cuban negroes are even more
bitter than the whites in denouncing
the movement.
ATLANTA, Ca, Nov 49, The house
Of representatives has passed a bill
providing for test of the constitu..
tioniality of the federal 10 per cent
tax on state bank issues. The bill>pro.
vides that commission consisting OF
treasurer, comptroller and governor Of
the state shall issue circulating cur
rency notes to the extent of Is per
cent of its capital stock to any bank
applying for the same. These notes.
will not be used as ordinary legal ten. !
der, and if the government prosecutesf
the bank or attempts to collect the 10
per cent tax the attorney general OF
state is to appeal the case to the 81.
preme court of the United States.
Washington. adjutant general
of the army has furnished the war in
vestigating commission statement
showing the authority upon which the
camps occupied during the war with
Spain were selected. 1t shows that
General Miles located the camps at
Chickamauga, Ca, Fernandina and
Miami, Fla, and Camp Alger, Va;
that General Lee selected that at Jack.
sonville, and General Merriam that al
Camp Merritt, and the other camps,
except that at Tampa, were located by
boards of officers. The report says that
a permanent camp was never contem-
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