The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-06-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.


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Governor Poynter of Nebraska was
forced to give up the home which he
has been occupying Mt Lincoln, be-
cause the landlord wanted it in a hur-
ry, The board appointed to select a
mansion is divided over which house
to select.
Ex-Governor Baxter of Arkansas
died at Batesville on Wednesday. He
occupied prominent place in the pol
itics of the state.
I Major Marchand, the African ex-
plorer, reached Paris, and was re-
ceived with wild demonstrations of
admiration by the French people.
Ganeral Otis apparently is prepar-
ing his lines for cessation of hostili-
ties during the rainy season. He has
called Lawton to Manila and will
allow Macarthur to hold the railroad.
Captain Rockefeller OF the Ninth in
fantry, who disappeared near Manila
on April 2s, has not turned up and it
is surmiaed that he either is prisoner
in the insurgent ranks or dead.
1t is announced that Queen Victoria
will elevate Sir Julian pauncefote to
the peerage.
The American plan for mediation
was unanimously adopted by the Ar
! btration Committee of the Peace Con-
ference. 1t will be submitted to the
en- tire conference later.
The bottom has dropped out of the
proposed $40, 900, oOr oyster combina-
| tion.
Eight hundred wagons were burned
by mysterious fire iii the Smith
wagon works building at Pekin, Ill.
The will of Sam T. Jack, the late
theatrical manager, has been filed in
New York 1t divides an estate of
$50, 900 among his relatives and re-
quests that his widow and his brother,
James c. Jack, shall become husband
and wife.
The month of May was a record
breaker for Cripple Creek district,
Colo, the gold production amounting
to 81, G25, 900.
Mrs Stanford, widow of the Cali
fornia Senator. who built and en-
dowed the university bearing his
name, has just decided the bulk Of her
stocks and real estate, valued at $1O,-
900, 600, to the university
Two American officers in a sailboat
became becalmcd in Manila bay.
Their boat was surrounded by Fill
pinos and they were captured.
Filipinos report that friendly ma
tivcs are being killed by the Tagals,
who are returning from towns from
which American troops have been
Withdrawn.
NJ. Maneau, procurator general, de-
clared to the court of cessation that
he believed no act of treason had been
committed in the Dreyfus case and
that the artillery captain was made q
martyr by some mysterious hoax
Louis Hammer of Chicago died in
cemetery, suddenly, while attending
decoration exercises
Decoration day was celebrated in
Paris France. Benjamin Harrison
delivered a speech at the Lafayette
monument in honor of the day.
Major Marchand's arrival in Paris
will tie the signal for renewed excite
ment and demonstrations. An at
tempt will tc made to hoist him into
Boulangers former saddle.
Deweys health is rapidly improving
during his stay on shore at Hong
Kong. He has forcsworn all duties
aboard ship for the present and con-
tinues to decline social invitations
NJ Ballot de Beaupre reported to
the court of cessation in favor of re-
vision of the Dreyfus court-martial
and stated that he was convinced Es-
terhazy was the author of the now
famous bordereau.
Many European powers have issued
DEGREES against ships from Hong Kong
and Egyptian Mediterranean ports.
owing to the prevalence of the plague
but it is not believed Dewey's voyage
will be materially INSTRUCTED.
The graves of the American soldiers
at Manila and Cavitc were decorated
by their surviving comrades.
Tic ice blockade of the north por-
ton of Newfoundland continues, and
fishing operations are crippled in con-
sequence.
Gordon Wilson and Willis Floyd,
sons of prominent citizens of Coburn,
Ont, were drowned by their canoe
capsizing.
Agent Clifford, at the Cheyenne res
ervation, in Montana, has called for
additional troops, and SO men have
been sent from Fort Keogh. Officers
will not talk, and the cause of the re-
QUESTION is not known.
The steamers Corean and Ulanda,
which arrived at st. Johns, N. F.,
from Liverpool, as we'll as other ves-
sells, report immense icebergs drifting
across the north Atlantic ship routes,
and seriously endangering steamships
After sixty years the Thomas Paine
monument in New Rochelle, N. Y,
was finished by the browning of the
shaft which was erected in 1889, with
"a colossal bust of the free thinker