The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-27
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

King Oscar and the queen of Sweden
are in London.
Statistics show that American wom-
EN- have 257 million dollars invested in
bank stock.
General Montenegro, one of the Tala-
COS best fighters, has surrendered to
Colonel Smith.
The bubonic plague is reported to
! have made its appearance at several
| ports on the Red sea.
General counsel of the land grants
railroads are claiming full fare for the
soldiers they have transported.
The crew of the light house steamer
at San Francisco have quit because
| their wages were cut to S3j q month.
In consequence of the failure of the
banana crop at st. Thomas, Jamaica,
the people are in starving situation.
Turkey ows all the nations and If
the Sultan pays the claim of the United
States, holders of other claims may be
affronted
The Baldwin Locomotive works turns
out an average of four locomotives u
day: employing about 5000 men in all
departments.
The Chinese government directs all
viceroys and governors to warn armed
organizations against hostile acts
against native Christians.
The Canadian Pacific having got in
line there is now solid compact of the
railroads not to pay any commissions
on any class of passenger traffic.
Governor Roosevelt, of New York,
has signed the bill to secure equal
rights to colored children in the public
schools and abolishing separate schools.
Secretary Wilson, of the Agricultural
department wants rural delivery mail
carriers to distribute on their routes to
the farmers cards containing the latest
weather forecasts and warnings
There is Union Labor grand stand
and one erected by the contractors,
both prepared for the Dewey recep.
ton in Chicago When the decision is
made as to which the admiral will use
there may be trouble.
The conventions of both political
parties in session in Chillicothe, Mo-,
passed resolutions prohibiting the
raising of campaign funds for any pur-
pose, not even for hiring carriages on
election day. Chillicothe has a Good
Government club.
The bill forbidding companies to
combine to regulate commissions has
passed the Ohio Legislature, and as
there is no veto power is now a law.
Major Thomas j. Chew, Jr., is dead.
He was a wealthy citizen of st. Joseph,
Mo-, and part owner of the st. Joseph
Herald.
The new Louisiana constitution pro.
vides an educational qualification for
voting and allows those who can not
pass in the qualifications to vote pro-
vided they or their fathers were voters
in 1867, when no black men could vote.
Two hundred walters working in the
hotels and restaurants of Des Moines,
struck for an increase in wages.
The legislature of Ohio adjourned
without acting upon the appropriation
Of 81, 900, 900 for the Toledo exposition
The supreme court has reversed
Texas court which refused negro the
right to have negroes on the jury which
tried him.
Governor Taylor. of Kentucky, is in
Washington to look after his interests
in the contest before the supreme court
for the Office of governor of Kentucky
After June l, there will be a penalty
of $500 throughout Cuba, against cock
fighting.
The total internal revenue receipts
in Cuba for the first eight month of the
present fiscal year were s55s,374.
News has been received at the war
department of the arrival at Manila Of
asa horses with the loss of but one on
the passage.
The joint committee on Judiciary OF
the Massachusetts legislature, has re-
ported a bill to abolish the death pen.
atty for murder.