The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-04-15
CONDENSED NEWS.

neXC oO days AU AllkcHle, lHu Let
s. s. Kirkpatrick was nominated by
the Republicans as the Congressional
candidate for the Third Kansas dis
trict
The British ship Ravenscram is re-
ported lost with all on board.
King Otto of Bavaria is again vio-
lently insane.
w. N Norton, Dallas. Tex, editor,
killed himself from financial troubles
Forty-five hundred coal miners in
the Pittsburg, Pa, district are on a
strike.
Governor Leedy says there will be
no session of the Kansas legislature to
pass railroad bill.
A. W. Tilton, Belle PLANE, Kan,
farmer, was choked to death by his
wind mill which was out OF order.
A half interest in the Willow mining
company's plant at Central City, Mo-,
was sold to New York parties for
SlO,O
Chief Isparhecher of the Creek ma
ton has been enjoined from interior
ing with the pastures of w. E. Crab
tree of Muskogee
The pope's efforts at intervention
have fallen through.
The Spanish minister at Washington
continues hopeful of peace.
Spanish troops are being hurriedly
dispatched to the Canary Islands
The Spanish cruisers Vizcaya and
Oquendo have reached Porto Rico.
A British brigantine, the Bella Ross,
was chased near st. Johns and fred
on by Spanish vessel.
The Twentieth infantry is under
orders at Fort Leavenworth to go
South Similar orders have been re-
ceived at Fort Cook, near Omaha.
DR.. w. Scott and John J. Hughes,
both citizens of Little Rock, Ark,
fought with revolvers and both are
fatally wounded.
The steam whaler Fridjof has
been secured for the Wellman polar
expedition to Franz Josef Land in
stead of the Laura, previously en-
gagged.
Fire at Rock Hill s. C. caused loss
of $500 and almost wiped out the
business portion of the town.
Work at the Omaha Exposition is
progressing nicely. Fifteen states are
erecting buildings
A naval reserve was organized at
o. 70 N
ton with the Texas volunteer guards
for home defense.
The Brown county, Kansas, Repub-
lican congressional delegation is for
Bailey for congress.
Walter Sanger Pullman is to buy
ranch in Colorado and go into the cat
tie raising business
Spain's naval strength is made up
of over one hundred boats, including
those building and the auxiliary fleet.
Coal operators are said to have
organized a combine to hold the gov
eminent up on coal in case of war.
All work on the wreck of the Maine
has been suspended. Seventy-six
bodies are still in the wreck.
Frank Ives defeated Jacob Schaefer
by score of 600 to 427 for the cham
pionship at 15-inch ball line billiards,
in Chicago.
Governor Pingree has recommended
an appropriation of $500, ono to place
Michigan on war footing. He
would recommend ten times that
4c C,,ho yx,tf hanf
w. c. Brann and Captain Davis are
both dead from the wounds inflicted
in their street duel at Waco, Texas.
Brann leaves a wife and two children,
and Davis wife and six children.
Brann leaves an estate of $4,000,
made out of the Iconoclast in three
years The Iconoclast has caused the
death of four men and the wounding
of eleven and sixteen children to be
made orphans.
''Coin" Harvey is seriously i'll in
Chicago as the result Of an operation
for appendicitis
Gladstone's physicians say the end
is only matter OF a few days.
The Austrian government has au-
Shorized the importation of $4,000, 900
Kilograms of foreign wheat
Riccotti Garibaldi, who is at present
In Rome, denies that he is enrolling
volunteers for service in the Cuban
cause.
The remains of Mrs Della Tudor
Parnell were inferred in Glasnevin
cemetery in Dublin. Many handsome
floral offerings were received.
Lincoln, Neb., had $780, 900 fire
last week
The Bell Telephone company earned
over 81, 900, 900 in 1897.
An earthquake shock was felt in San
Francisco Wednesday night
Fifty million dollars will be invest
ed in railroad building in this country
in 1898
Gertie Walmsley of st. Joe, aged l.,
took laudanum for disappointed love
and died.
Missouri university will give free
tuition to Masonic and Oddiellows'