The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-07-28
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The assistant attorney general OF
Missouri rules that the fine against
the busted insurance companies must
be paid whether in the thirty days
specified or not.
The postoffice department proposes
to ask Congress for money with which
to provide automobile service to the
leading postoffices of the country.
A Chicago woman fractured the
skull of the man who was firing at
her husband with revolver.
American and foreign dignitaries
greeted Dewey at Trieste The ad-
miral, in an interview, declares in
favor of Mckinley for President in
1900
America will not withdraw one inch
from its position in the Alaskan
boundary question.
A negro farm hand murdered his
employer in Texas and lynching is
threatened.
A Kansas City woman sues her di-
vorced husband for $4,000 on the
ground that he refused to remarry
her.
Clay county, Kentucky, feudists are
calmly preparing for another out
break They are buying latest Inn
proved rifles and smokeless powder.
Chicago brewers and their workmen
signed wage agreement slightly
lettering the condition of the men.
Mount Etna is again in state of
eruption. The city of Rome was
shaken and many houses of neighbor-
ing villages have been demolished.
Mary Ann Ansell was hanged at st.
Adams, England, on the charge of
numbering her insane sister by send
ing her poisoned cake
A mortgage for S27, 900, 900 has been
filed by the new officers of the Wis
consin Central
The Santa Fe now controls the San
Francisco and San Joaquin Valley
road.
Governor Stanley has declared war
on the "Klondike," notorious resort
near Leavenworth.
Additional details of the clash in
Clay county, Kentucky, show that
three were killed and five were seri-
again ominous
Horatio Alger, the writer of boys
stories, died at NaticS, Mass.
The official weekly crop report for
M;.eN,,,; CHI ~ II x,in1I - xu1aat
Corn improved some. Some of the
oats crop will be saved. Apples are
very poor.
The price OF wheat and the other
grains continues to go down on ac-
count of the abundant supply.
The Pressed Steel Car company has
contracted with the Carnegie company
for $50, 900, 900 worth of steel plateo
annually for ten years
Young women of La Sale, Ind,
have formed kissing Bug club to
capture the insects.
SiXty-five houses burned at Quebec,
and 100 families were rendered home
less. Loss, 100000.
The street car barns of the Twin
City Electric company at st. Paul,
Mimi, burned, with sixty electric
cars. Loss, $J25, 900.
The general trend of news from
South Africa, points to a peaceful set
Element of existing difficulties.
1t is said that ex-King Milan, OF
Serva, himself planned the sham at
tempt upon his life recently made, for
political purposes.
Former Chief Justice Chambers, of
Samoa, has tired of his place in the
joint commission and has forwarded
his resignation 10 President McKin-
ley.
Tho secretary of the interior has
made ruling on the leasing Of land
in the Indian Territory, which pre-
vents the holding of large tracts by
individuals or corporations.
Mayor Jones of Toledo refuses to-
run on an independent ticket for gov
ernor of Ohio unless the 'people rise
up and call upon him to do So"
Governor McMillin of Tennessee and
the attorney generals of Washington,
Michigan, Montana and North Caro-
lima approve the antitrust convention
of governors.
Texas declines food supplies from
outside sources. An attempt is being
made to corner the seed market in the
Brazos valley. Ono mayor revokes
appeal for aid because supplies pro-
mote idleness among the negroes.
The population Of Minneapolis, )
based on the now directory, is 220, 900.
The anniversary of the surrender
of Santiago de Cuba was celebrated at
Havana
Joe P. Mulvcy was shot and killed
on thc street at New Orleans by w.
D. Roberts. They were editors of
rival weeblies and had been dcnounc-
ing each other for some time.
Timothy J. Hogan, the notorious
aud escaped bank swindler,
has been arrested in New York by the
Pinkertons. lie escaped from the
Ohio, penitentiary May 3,
1899, where he was serving five
years sentence.
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