The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-13
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The largest business block in Menom-
inee, Mich, is burned at loss of $780,
900.
The Ohio legislature defeated a bill
requiring specified number of brake
men on freight trains.
6 Joseph F. Saunders, of Logan county,
0. t., has been appointed 81 200 clerk
in the general land office.
Admiral Dewey never voted in his
his life and never wanted to vote ex-
cept for Grover Cleveland.
General George Bidwell the prohibit
ton candidate for president in 1892.
died last week in California.
An aged colored woman at Findlay.
Ohio, died while at her organ playing
I'm Going Home Tomorrow"
Economists estimate that more than
seventeen million dollars is invested
by American farmers in their business.
On the 4th and 5th of April snow fell
all over Colorado. 1t was heavy with
wet and all kinds of wires were broken.
When Gen. Otis elects to come home
on the leave of absence that has been
granted to him, he will be succeeded
in the Philippines by General MacAr-
thur
Prof. Seaver, of Yale college, admits
that girls from the East are fatter
chested, fatter headed, lesser in lung
capacity and bigger footed than the
Western girls"
The estimate of railroad freight
agents is that there will be s., 900, 900
worth of sheep shipped from Northern
Colorado this season, requiring 1900
cars to move the sheep to market.
Captain Ralph Ingalls, of the sub
sistence department, U. s. A, now
stationed at San Francisco, was order1
ed to Manila to report for duty. He
will probably sail for the Philippines
April Is.
The Minnesota railroad commission
has issued an order compelling the st.
Paul road to change its narrow guage
lines to standard guage. This will
likely result in very interesting cases
in the courts.
Consul Furniss, at Bahia, in Eastern
Brazil, reports that the outlook for
trade there in farming implements is
bad, because spades and hoes are all
the tools used there in farming, and
these are of the crudest sort.
Judge Pangley of Toledo has decided
that provision in the Ohio statute is
unconstitutional which prohibits an
employer from discharging workman
because the employee is member of
labor union.
1t is said that Queen Victoria desires
that the son just born to the Duke AM
Duchess of York shall be christenA 4
Patrick. ~
]. C. Mckinley, manager of the only
labor union daily paper in the country,
the Cripple Creek Press, died of pneu-
monia last week.
The three war ships, California,
Nebraska and West Virginia, now
approaching completion, never have
been equalled in fighting power. They
excel in speed and each carry sixty-six
fixed guns, and have capacity for 400
tons eff ammunition.
The Spanish bonds which Spain
attempted to saddle on Cuba, aggre-
eating 5000, 1000, 900, are, of course
repudiated by Cubans. They are most
ly held in France, and the United
States will prevent any man of war
monkeying attempt to force collection.
The entire business portion of Raven
ma, Michigan, except one store. was de-
stroyed by fire in the early morning of
April 5. 1t started from an explosion
of coal gas in a saloon. The loss is
$500, 900. Several men were hurt and
H. II. Higgins was killed by the ex-
plosion Of a gas engine.
All that Americans could get of the
recent bond issue was per cent of the
s5o. 900, 900, although ten times that
amount was applied for. Those bonds
are already at a premium of 2K per
cent British bonds.