The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-02
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF,

hiBohoihc PortS nave Deen declared
free from the bubonic plague.
Pirates are increasing in Chinese
waters and are more active than usual.
Leslie E. Kelley, the inventor of the
Kelley cure for the liquor habit, is
dead.
WI Ting Fang is direct descendant
of Confucius, seventy generations re-
moved.
The president directs that the new
military post. near Seattle is to be called
Fort Lawton.
The mines near Kimberley are to be
worked again, since that place has
been relieved.
| Illinois carried off the prize at the
Lincoln, Neb., buttermakers' associa-
ton meeting.
Five hundred and fifty mules have
been shipped from San Francisco to
South Africa.
A late rumor is current to the effect
that General Cronje has broken through
the British lines.
There is bill before congress to
provide the patent Office with a new
fire proof building.
Chicago railroads are proposing to
build an immense union station to
cover two entire blocks.
French officials still cling to the hope
that America will adopt their Panama
route for the isthmus canal.
Secretary Root approves General
Woods policy of reducing the force of
United States troops in Cuba.
The Union broom company held a
meeting in Chicago and pushed up the
price of broom corn another notch.
Conference committees on the finan-
cial bill, reported to each house an
agreement which had been reached.
The Union Pacific railroad is drop
ping off it's employees who are over
certain age. The age is not stated.
British consulate. at Sidon, and
wounded the son of the vice consul.
Frank Cell, of Washburn college. took
first place at the annual oratorical con-
test of the associated Kansas colleges.
Gen. Fred Funston is now stationed
at San Isidro with three infantry
regiments and is in reality the mill
tary governor of the province.
A company is organized with a capt.
tai of S6,000,000 to carry out the con-
tract for the construction of the Rapid
Transit railway in New York city.
The transferring of public works in
Havana from military to civil control
causes alarm among employees, who
fear that only Spaniards will be en-
ployed.
The investigation of the Idaho labor
troubles practically places the state
officials on trial and the governor of
Idaho asks to be represented by attor-
neys.
Harry Vardon, golf champion of Eng
land recently defeated William Smith, :
the American champion, and is now
champion of the world.
The industrial commission, having
heard the trust officials, will now listen
to worlkmen, superintendent and trav-
cling statesmen. A sub-commission will
visit industrial centers for this pur-
pose,
The battleship Wisconsin is nearing
completion at San Francisco, and will
probably be ready for trial trip be-
fore July l.
Returned soldiers deny the reports
that Manila has more saloons than
under Spanish rule. They say there
are as many first-class places but that
the low groggeries have been squelch-
ed.
wu Ting Fang. the Chinese minister
to this country, has had conferred upon
him the degree of l.. L. ID. by the
University of Pennsylvania.
Princess Cantacuzene. who was Julia
Dent Grant, granddaughter of General
U. S. Grant, is i'll with typhoid fever
in st. Petersburg, Russia.