The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-08-04
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

ment in the lead and zinc helds Oh
Missouri. Two more corporations
have applied for charters to do bust
ness in the state.
Mrs. George S. Norton was buried
sitting in her old armchair ut Pawl-
N. ]. 1t was the oldest funeral on
record
Miss Mayme Spalding, niece of
Bishop Sralding of Peoria, ILL.,.
eloped with Robert NJ. Lysle of that
city, Protestant and divorced man.
They were married in Chicago
Bert Kimball, an aeronaut, was
drowned at Hillsdale, Mich. His par
achute dropped into lake.
Albert r. Parsons, Chicago, son Of
the late Anarchist Parsons, was adj
judged insane and ordered sent to the
asylum at EIgin.
Paul Corcoran, the striker charged
with the murder of Joseph Cheyne, in
connection with the Wardner strike,
was given seventeen years in the pen
itentiary by jury at Wallace, Idaho.
The Populist state convention ut
Frankfort, Ky, nominated John G.
Blair of Nicholas county for governor
and adopted platform indorsing
Wharton Barker, Philadelphia, for
President and Ignatius Donnelly,
Minnesota, for Vice President.
The Mccormick Harvesting Machine.
company is erecting 5000, 600 Irvine
mill at Chicago
There are indications that the Pres
ident and Secretary Alger have ar
ranged truce whereby the war Sec
rotary will remain silent and the adj
ministration keep neutral position
in the Michigan Senatorial fight.
Consul McCook of Dawson City re-
ports that about $4,000, 900, instead
of $50, OOO 0Oo, as expected, will be
taken out Of that district this season.
One thousand Italian contract la
borers, en- route to Hawaii, will pass
through the United States Congress
failed to apply the immigration laws .
to the colony.
Automobile are causing many acct
dents in European cities and laws to
regulate their speed may be enacted.
Seth Lowe announces that II the
Pope is permitted to join the peace
he will insist upon Gen
eral Booth OF the Salvation army re- .
ceiving the same recognition.
President and Mrs. Mckinley arc at
Lake Champaign on months vaca- .
ton.
The Guatemala Central railway has !.
been bought by New York synd icate.
Both the Santa Fe and Frisco have ,
completed lines to Blackwell, Ok.
The new insane asylum for South
east Missouri will be located in Stod-
dard county.
The St. Louis street car companies
have consolidated Capital $4,000, 900.
Andrew Carnegie offers to give Fort
Worth, Texas, $50, 900 for a.. public
library.
Judge Otis of the United States dis
trict court at st. Paul has decided
that express companies cannot be
to submit statement of
gross earnings to the railroad COM
mission of the state.
The Southern Kansas of Texas will
comply with the law and open general
offices in the state.
pig iron famine is reported.
An advance in the, price of shoes
is contemplated by the big manufac-
turers.
All Yu, Shanghai, China, a, former
attache of Dewey's squadron, has been
granted a pension of $50 per month.
Henry Novels, negro who attempts
ed to assault young lady at Hatties-
burg, Miss, was captured at Bond,
Miss, tied to tree by u mob and
shot TO death.
4. Thever, Long beach, Cal, shot
and killed Miss Dorothy Mckee and:
attempted to shoot her companion. a.
young man named Baker, after which.
he fatally wounded. himself. Thevcr-
was jealous OF Bakers attentions to.
Miss Mckee.
The commercial treaty between,
France and the United States has BEEN
closed 1t is, calculated to encourage
relations. between the two,
republics.
A convict in the Missouri pcniten-
tiary committed suicide by leaping to-
his death from an elevated stairway.
He fell LOO. feet
The Red river in Arkansas, con-.
tinues, to, rise and the farmers along.
the valley fear a flood.
Two louisville mediums attempted,
but failed, to communicate with In-f
gersoll's spirit. They say that he is
yet too weak in the spirit world to be
able to- make himself manifest.
Admiral Dewey, interviewed al
Trieste. says he is in fne health, and
feels young, although he will be CO in
December.
A Russian doctor claims to have dis
covered a system of wireless tele-
phony.
President Kruger Of she Transzaal
denies that he contcmplates resigning.
The Volxsraad has officially expressed
"a l.