The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-07-21
NEWS NOTES..

made statement in Washington ap-
pealing to the public everywhere to
come to the rescue of the flood suf-
ferers.
Indications are that the Kentucky
tobacco crop will be failure
Governor Stephens has appointed a
committee to locate a site for the
fruit experiment station in Southwest
Missouri
Governor Sayers of Texas has been
asked for large shipments of coal oil
with which to burn the hundreds of
dead animals along the flooded dis
trict
The proposition to build a new
court house at Unionville, Mo-, failed
to receive the necessary two-thirds
majority.
A mammoth cattle deal has bee
effected in El Paso, Tex. Part OF the
81, 900 head purchased by Cox Sc Kayser
will be shipped to Cuba.
Dewey home fund, 1908
d. Smith and Charles r. Williams,
Chicago, bought the Indianapolis
News for $3.50, $50.
Miss Julia Dent Grant and Prince
Cantacuzene will be married at New
port, in September.
A consolidation OF the wrought
steel, iron and tube industries were
effected at New York. The new COM
pany will be known as the National
Tube company Capital, $50, 900, o0n.
Alabama is considering the advisa-
bility of electing successor to Con-
gresham Joe Wheeler, who has been
ordered to the Philippines Attorney
General Fits holds that the generals
seat in Congress is vacant.
The Transvaal courts refuse to reg
lister American citizens unless they
take oath to bear arms for the repub-
lie in the event of war. The Ameri-
cans threaten to become British sub
jects.
Isaac L. Rice, president of the Elec-
trio Vehicle Co., has placed orders for
automobiles amounting to $5, 600, 600.
The new order is for 1900 new ve-
hi cles.
Governor McCurtain requests the
United States to remove strikers from
the Indian Territory.
Marie Sache, 25 years old, was taken
to the Bellevue hospital, New York,
crazy from excessive cigarette smok-
ing.
James Lee, convict in the Mis-
souri, penitentiary, says that Gilbert
Gates, whom Alexander Jester is &C.
cused of having murdered rs years
ago, was alive in 1894.
The big trust smelter at Omaha has
shut down. The shortage of coal is
given as the reason.
Professor Charles Jones, Ardmore,
Ind Ter, was fatally stabbed by a
pupil whom he was trying to chastise.
General Charles King, U. s, A., has
offered to give benefit lecture at
some Wisconsin city, the proceeds to
be added to the New Richmond tor
nado relief fund.
President Mckinley is working upon
plan to submit the question OF indie
pendence or annexation to the people
of Cuba. 1t is said that he believes
they would vote for annexation.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ingcrsoll, Chicago,
kidnaper of Gerald Lapiner, has been
taken to the pen at Joliet, ILL.,, to
serve out her sentence Mrs. lnger-
soil made repeated attempts to escape
while on the way to the prison.
The Central Foundry company. with
a capital of S14, 100000, filed articles
of incorporation at Trenton N. j. The
company proposes to manufacture soil
pipe and do foundry business.
Captain Thomas NJ. Woodruff, Fifth
infantry, died of yellow fever near
Santiago dc Cuba He was native
Of New York. During the war he
was major in the inspector generals
corps.
The war department announces that
the customs at the port of Havana for
June were 81, 102, 800
There are numerous applicants for
commissions in the regular army, and
the White house is fairly overrun with
them.
Secretary Alger has signed an order
presenting to the new Blces Military
academy, Macon, Mo-, two eight-inch
Columbian guns weighing five tons
each and two large pyramids of shells.
These are now at the Preside, near
San Francisco.
Yda Addie Storke. the writer, was
sentenced at Santa Barbara, Cal, to
one year in Jail for writing anony-
nous letters rejecting on private per-
sons.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has offered to
forfeit $1,000 to charity If any one
can prove she is not the authar OF
Solitude" A Colonel Joyce says he
is the author.
The Prince of Monaco declines to
fight duel with Count de Castellane
on the ground that he is bogus count
and beneath his station.
Congressman Bartholdt is in Berlin.
He says he is on an unofficial mission
to prove that the United States never
intended to form an alliance with
England