The Chanute times., 1900-08-31
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF
Minister Conger is expected to re-
turn to this country almost Immediate
ly.
st. Paul shows a population of 163,-
632, and its twin, Minneapolis has
902, ,s1s.
Blackleg is decimating some of the
finest herds of cattle in northwest
Missouri.
The population of st. Louis is $751;
23s; an increase of nearly 30 per cent
in ten years.
An anarchist meeting in Berlin was
dispersed by the police, who arrested
the speaker
The German police are driving ont
the anarchists since the assassination OF
King Iumbert
The population of Greater New York
is 3, ,437, 2O2; and increase of nearly 40
per cent since 1890.
Chicago has population of 1885,
SIS; an increase of 54.44 per cent since
the last census in 1890.
The United States is to build large
warehouses at Taku, China; taking the
material from our Pacific coast.
Baron Russell, lord justice of Eng
and, is dead from an operation upon
his stomach, for gastric catarrh.
The Press Club, of Chicago, enter
tained the leaders of both national
parties with an excursion on the lake.
Mexico City is asking, through the
Mexican government, that the next
Pan-American congress be held there
German soldiers write home terrible
tales of the Russians, who, they say,
kill all Chinese without regard to age
or sex.
A big circus tent was blown down
and badly torn by wind at Cameron,
Mo-, just as it had been put up. There
was no show that day.
The Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger an
nounces the engagement of Queen
Wilhelmina to Prince Frederick Adolf
of Neutrality-suspicious..
Bethel Baptist church at Fairview,
Ky., built as a memorial at the site of
Jefferson Davis birthplace, was struck
by lightning recently and destroyed.
Fitzsimmons knocked ont Sharkey
in the second round. Sharkey mix
ed up" and now declares that if he
had had ten seconds more before the
bell closed the round he would have
finished Fitz.
The provincial cities of Cuba are be-
coming self-sustaining and the mill
tary government is gradually with
drawing direct financial assistance.
The population of the city of Omaha,
Neb., according to the official count of
the returns of the twelfth census, is
1O2, $50 for 1900, against 140,452 in
1890.
| Some of the railroad officials are
warm advocates of the parcel post.
They say that express companies could
be done away with to the advantage of
the public.
Sabine county, Texas, has shindy on
tap with its negro population and Is
asking for the aid of officers of other
counties.
William NJ. Johnson, the newly ap-
pointed first assistant postmaster gen.
eral, will not begin his new duties
until late in September.
Thirty French and ten Italian ma
rines held the Pei Tang cathedral
during the seige of Pekin, having no
communication with the other for
eigners. The defense of this church
was heroic.
The National Starch company, just
organized, with capital of sl3, 900, 900,
will be a competitor of the glucose
company.
The shipments of packed goods and
canned meats from Chicago and Kan
sas City to San Francisco, on August
q, reaches l75 carloads. They are al
army supplies
Omaha is not satisfied with the cen
sus which shows loss Of $4,000 sincs
1890. An ex-mayor lays the blame
largely TO the padding Of the censui
ten years ago.