The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-10-05
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

Four brick business buildings in
Sheldon, H., are burned.
A great fire in Hamburg destroyed
several warehouses and timber yard.
Colorado is covered with snow, but
as yet railroads are not badly block
AIDED.
The Lake Shore railway company is
preparing pension system for its en-
ploycs.
Leading London actors are giving
performances for the benefit of Calves
ton sufferers.
Robbers dynamited the vault of a
bank in Centerville, Michigan, and got
away with $4,000.
Do people realize that there are an
even dozen of presidential tickets in
the field, asking for votes?
Charles Sloan, a deputy sheriff, was
killed at Lake Charles, La, while de-
Tending negro from mob
The state inheritance tax on the
estate left by Coils p. Huntington will
amount to more than 100000
New York City has contributed ST.
$50, 900 for Galveston's relief. Phila-
dclphia has sent a total of S70,3l0.
Twenty thousand dollars worth OF
opium has been seized in Havana. 1t
was struggled in cans labeled sausage.
Virginia coal is ordered in large
quantities for use of British war ships
making their headquarters at Halifax.
A Mexican was convicted of murder
al Ration, n. M. lie had killed an old
woman because he believed she had
bewitched him.
Leon Bard, u former e. S. consul at
Hamburg, is in prison for misappro-
priating part of an inheritance of two
American women.
'Oh Dear. 1t makes me tired" will
now be heard all over this great coun-
try, for chocolates and caramels are to
be advanced in price.
An Amcri> an combination is about
to establish $50 laundries in London,
ran by American employees and with
American machinery.
Frank p Sargent was reelected
grand master of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemcn and his salary
was raised to s., 600 n year.
The Australian colonies are threat
ening to make rcprisals upon American
shipping for the cutting off their vessels
e.om trade with Hawaii American
shipping laws prohibit vessels from
doing business between American
ports.
St. Joseph, Mo-, has closed the ac-
count kept in the commercial club,
which shows that s3,o?5,35 has been
sent to Galveston.
The Chinese minister in London has
said that America is the only country
strong enough to have taken such an
initiative rs she did when she stood
against the German proposition.
1t is said that the British govern
,nent has already been offered for I'M
foreground mining rights in the Trans
vaal enough to go long ways toward
meeting the cost of the war.
The total crop of flax seed of the
United States is placed at 23,4l3,o00
bushels compared with 90,0s6, 600 bush
els year ago.
The loss by the storms in various
sections of Texas is estimated at mil
lion dollars, exclusive OF Galveston
island.
Fort Worth, Texas, had flood last
week, with rise of IS feet in Trinity
river. The Cotton Belt railroad track
was carried away and the water was
four feet deep about its station. All
business had to stop.
The United Typothet@ of America
opened its Fourteenth annual session
in Kansas City on September rs. Dele
gates were present from many cities.
Associate Justice David J. Brewer,
of Kansas, will deliver course of lee
lures annually at Yale college. JUS
tice Brewer graduated from Yale in
1856.
The United States tranport Port
Albert has sailed from Seattle to the
philippines with 500 cavalry horses
asd cargo of forage and commissary
supplies