The Chanute times., 1898-01-21
CONDENSED NEWS.


Iowa as minister to China
1t is reported that Japanese trans
port steamer Nara, foundered, 80 per-
sons being lost
The St. Louis and New Orleans
Anchor steamship line has assigned to
Archibald Woods of St Louis.
Mrs. Christopher WolEert killed her
I3-year-old stepdaughter, Louise, at
Algonquin, Ill.
Joaquin Miller lost a toe and an ear
and had both cheeks frozen in going
from Circle City to Dawson, Alaska
The Rothsehilds will build rail
road into the Yukon country over the
Dalton trail, to cost IS, 600, 900 and be
400 miles long.
The price of coffee has been cut
again and consumers can now get ten
pounds, for dollar, all because of the
war by the sugar trust
A tin can trust is the latest.
Striking English engineers, are
weakening.
Shoe Inventor Trip is dead at
Lynn, Mass, agek 72
Thomas A. Edison thinks he has
discovered now metal
Mrs, Mack, the New York murder
ess, gets off with a Is year sentence.
Five thousand dogs have been
bought in Chicago and shipped to
Klondike.
Parties are going to try the use of
monkeys at manual labor in the Klon-
dixie.
The drouth in Missouri, Kansas and
Arkansas was generally broken.
Fred Funston is home from Cuba to
stay, having been wounded and cap.
tured but released.
Turkey refuses, to pay for American
mission property destroyed during the
Armenian outbreak
The French court martial acquitted
Count Esterhazy of treason in connec-
tion with the Dreyfus case.
Wine and women caEsed Fred Jent-
ges to- embezzle SIS, 700 from the Moon
Bros. Carniage CO., St Louis.
President Patrick n. Lavgey, of the
State Savings bank. Butte, Mont.
was murdered by Tom j. Riley, a man
he had befriended.
AT Democratic conference held in
Chicago it was decided to continue
free silver as the. Issue Bryan, who
expects to be the nominee in 1900, de-
clared for fusion
Senator Vest has introduced a bill
in Congress for $50 pension for Gem
eral Stevenson's widow. General
Stevenson protected Mrs. Vest at the
capture of Boonville the day her baby
was BORN
In the case OF A. p S. Stewart, a
stockholder in the failed Capital Ma
tional bank of Lincoln, Neb., the
United States supreme court decided
that Stewart could not free himself OF
responsibility by transferring his
stock, after he knew the bank was
going to fail
The fusion free silver forces of Ore
gon will all hold their conventions at
Portland, March %
A block tin trust is being formed.
There are 100 deaths to every birth
in Cuba.
Furniture prices will be higher in
the spring.
The Ness City, Kan, State bank has
quit business.
Bradstreets says the new year opens
favorably for business.
The Katy road has built coach es.
pecially for carrying prisoners.
S. w. Wickham was killed by a
explosion near Williamsburg,
Kan.
Gen. j. I. Torrence's will is to ba
in Chicago by son o. his
first wife.
Frank j. Beitel, rich Texan, killed
himself at San Antonio, because of
ill-health.
Governor Black, of New York, will
let "Boss" McKane serve out his term
in the ''pen."
Jealousy and drink prompted Walter
Gait to shoot his wife and kill himself
near Fort Scott.
Mrs. Mary Sandbrink fatally shot
Dr. Shep A. Roger and killed her
self at Memphis, Tenn.
B. D. Mills, a Harlan county, Ne
braska bank president, has begun his
five years term in the ''pen."
Northwestern Elevated railway in
Chicago has sued the Daily News for
$500, 900 for libel.
w. P. Messener, a second victim of
the p. & G. wreck at Milan, Mo-, Is
dead and Holt Way is likely to die.
John MCGOWAN. j. P, shot his wife
dead at Bedford, Iowa The couple
had been thrice married and twice de
vorced.
A Missouri fair circuit is proposed,
such towns as Boonville,
Sedalia, Nevada, Holden, Rich Hill,
Mexico and Columbia.
The Republican legislative boilers,
by the Democrats. organized
the lower house of the Maryland Leg
stature with L. Schafer, of Baltimore,
IS speaker.
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