The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-23

THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


bill by vote of 16 to Is.
The bubonic plague has made its
appearance at Buenos Ayres.
Governor Tanner of Illinois is in
Florida. He is said to be quite sick.
The Omaha Tent and Rubber COM
pany has lost it's 5000 stock by fire.
The Transvaal appealed to Germany
for mediation and Germany declined to
interfere.
George Gould and'C. P. Huntington
are to meet in Texas to talk over rail-
road matters in the southwest.
Workmen on military road in Puerto
Rico have been paid 40 cents day.
They have struck for SO cents.
Ex-Chief Justice of Kansas Albert Fl.
Horton is dangerously sick with pneu-
monia at his home in Topeka.
Among the great amount of am.
munition captured from the Beers were
several boxes of explosive bullets.
Four thousand men are added to the
10000 idle men in Chicago, by the
closing of door and blind factories.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany is about to issue $40, 1000 900 Az
per cent, fifty year, refunding bonds.
American insurance applying for ad-
mission to Japan, did not follow Japan
red tape and must amend their papers.
Professor Dean C. Worcester of Mich
igan University, has resigned. He is a
member of the new Philippine COM
mission.
The Rev. Thomas X. Beecher and
Mrs Foote Beecher Perkins, brother
and sister of Henry Ward Beecher,
died on the same day last week.
The Santa Fe management informs
shippers that an average speed of 20
miles an hour between division ter
minals will be made by all stock trains
this year.
Dealers in drugs have been making
great noise about the action of the
department of agriculture in distrib-
uting free vaccine matter for the cure
blachleg in cattle.
F. o. Popenoe. the principal owner
of the Topeka Capital has announced
that the Capital would continue as a
Christian daily indefinitely, but would
resume the publication of all general
news and matters of general interest
to the people.
The American building at Paris is
ready for occupancy; the first to be
finished.
President Kruger's tears did not
prevent his Boer soldiers from running
away from Lord Roberts.
The new British war loan of $780,
0eO,0 900, was subscribed for, on the first
day of its being offered, twenty times
over.
The internal revenue bureau has
ordered the law enforced which pro-
hibits enclosing any prizes or premiums
in packages of tobacco or cigarettes.
The Russian and French cable and
telegraph systems, in Siberia, China
and Indo-China, are to be connected.
General John L. Ewell, a hero of the
civil war, died of old age, at Cleveland,
Ohio.
The window glass workers of the
whole country are planning to start
cooperative plants, in competition
with the Trust.
In Michigan the line was generally
drawn on the temperance question in
the village elections this month. The
"wets" had a trifie the better of it.
The amount of national bank stock
held by women in America is estima-
ted at $3.50, 900, and the amount Of
private and state bank stock at $751;
DOC, 900.
Fire at Redfeld, Ia, completely
wiped out all the business houses on
the south side of Main street The
loss is estimated at $4,000
A gusher was struck at Tiffin, Ohio,
which sent a stream six inches in
diameter $50 feet high. The wind
sprinkled the country with oil for
of mile.