The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-09-07
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

tically settled.
There were never SO many CONNER
cial travellers on the road as now.
The Chicago plumbers have called
off their strike and returned to work.
The Missouri Press association took
Niagara Fal into their recreation
trip
Travel was heavy on the Grand
Army rates to Chicago up to the last
hour of the limit
C. p. Huntington's art collection, II
sold at auction, would probably bring
two million dollars.
Sugar refineries in Philadelphia all
closed for week on account of short
age in raw material.
Wyandotte lodge, number As, OF
Kansas City, Mo-, has just celebrated
it's send anniversary.
A company of infantry left Fort
Leavenworth over the Frisco Line, for
Little Rock, this week.
Empress Frederick, mother Of the
Kaiser and Queen Victoria's eldest
daughter is seriously sick
Prince Eui Wah, heir apparent to
the Korean throne is about to enter
college in Washington, d. c.
There are but very few of the rail-
roads of this country that have not an
increased business this year.
Messages from Peliin are sent by
carrier to Taku and are relayed Is
times after leaving Taku.
The training ship Topeka will leave
Hampton Roads September Is to make
trip to Mediterranean ports.
The supreme lodge Knights of
Pythias chose San Francisco as the
place of the next biennial meeting.
There is approximately 1000, 200 bu-
shells of grain in elevators at Galveston,
about /, 200, 900 short of their capacity.
The Press Club, Of Chicago, enter
tanned the leaders of both national
parties with an excursion on the lake.
Claims against New York city for
| injuries received by colored persons in
the recent riots, now amount to $780,
900.
The Santa Fc ice house at La Junta
has been burned, entailing loss of
about $1,000, but fully covered by in
surance.
John hewitt, half breed Indian,
who has been horse racer all his life,
had his neck broken during a race at
Olathe, Kans. His horse fell breaking
the riders neck One of Nevitt's chill
dren is a teacher at Haskell Institute
at Lawrence.
The sheriff seized 100 slot machines
in St. Joseph, Mo-, and burned them.
Two Wabash locomotives and three
freight cars, of fast eastern freight
train went through an open draw
bridge at Delray. The engine crews
had remarkable escapes.
The northern Pacific has counter
manded orders recently issued for
$500, 900 worth of new freight cars.
The failure of the wheat crop in the
northwest has led to this action being
taken.
Another ship from Australia TO San
Francisco, with fs,5oO,OOo in gold.
This is regular thing, but this is a
larger shipment than usual.
Twenty thousand packing house
employees in Che big cities may quit
work September Is If their demands
are ignored.
While reconoitering British party
found a cache of 10000 rounds of
Boerammunition.
st. Joseph, Mich, suffered the loss
of a church steeple, and near there ten
barns containing this years harvest
were. destroyed in an electrical storm
The throne OF which the Shah of
Persia sits on state occrsions is set
with jewels valued at $4,000, 600, and
the jewels on crowns and other roya,
regalia of the shah are worth $4,000
600. Diamonds, turquoises and rubies
are set in the RUG on which he sta