The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-10-06
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fire, at Duluth, destroyed Holston &c
60. s sash, door and blinds factory; loss
$4,000.
La Junta, Col, is to have new
freight house and five miles more of
side tracks.
The German government has just paid
$4,000, 900 pesetos to Spain for the Caro-
line Islands.
Michigan lost 100000 bushels Of APP
oles and many peaches by northwest
gale last week.
Strikers in Havana are beginning to
heed General Ludlow's warning, and
aave resumed work.
Dewey's men all received the medals
eoted to them by Congress just before
The great naval parade.
Major Russell Il. Harrison, who had
The yellow fever at Santiago, Cuba, is
nearly recovered from it.
The earthquake around Smyrna kill
I'd a thousand persons, injured 800 and
demolished 1000 houses.
The mayor of Jefferson City, Mo-,
suppressed "The Midway" which
formcd a part of the street fair there.
A famine of passenger cars Is felt
heavily at Denver; there are SO many
fall gatherings to attend all over tho
western plains.
The Thirty-ninth regiment OF u. s.
volunteers is full. 1t is stationed at
Fort Crook, but one battalion is at Van
cOuver barracks.
Fourteen Kansas City, Mo-, merchants
have been arrested for refusing to pay
license tax levied upon department
stores, under the new state law.
Dominican friars held possession OF
the college of medicine at Manila, and
General Otis drove them out and turn
cd the college over to the city educa-
+ional department.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago wants tho
city to collect rent from space under
sidewalks that is used by property
owners and claims and this would
bring the city nearly half million
dollars.
Military Governor Ludlow of Havana
has taken the strike there under his
jurisdiction. He says he has room for
many thousands of Migrants in tho
fortresses, that men who viii not work
are Migrants. He kindly advises the
different classes of worlingmen as to
She proper course for them to get their
grievances attended to.
There is nearly S5O0,0O0,0O0 of the
bonds which Spain has virtually repu-
dated The bulk of them owned by
and Germans, whose gov
ernments may seek to compel Spain to
pay.
The Army and Navy Magazine OF
Washington, D. c., will publish q num-
Der soon devoted to the Kansas volun-
teers.
A native officer has offered Major
General Otis / 200 Maccabebe tribesmen
to fight Tagals of the Laguna de Bay
district.
A typhoon prevailed in Manila, as
the Iowa troops were about to sail, and
they and Tennessee troops were de-
tanned.
General Miles has written to DIR. s.
N. Gonzales of Pensacola, Fla, that il
he, Miles, is assigned to the Philippines
he will ask the doctor to accompany
him as chief surgeon of his staff.
Major Panizzardi, the former Italian
military attache at Paris, has told sew
eral parties that Esterhazy and Colonel
Henry received 1000 francs per month
from Germany and Italy, as spies.
Judge Davis, at Lexington, Mo-, per,
petually enjoined fifty striking miners
from interfering with non-union men.
Hereafter the army and navy of the
United States will be armed with the
same rife. A supply of uniform am
munition in an emergency might be u
matter of great consequence.
President Diaz, in his message to the
Mexican Congress, noted the remarlSa-
bic growth in expectations. notably of
mineral products, and the continual
and healthy augmentation of the manu-
featuring industries