The Chanute times., 1900-03-09
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Six cases of plague and one death
have occurred at Alden.
Russia has crowded England away
from having influence with Persia.
President Steyn of the Orange Free
State is said to favor speedy peace.
Major General Shafter has gone to
assume his new command in California.
Kaiser Wilhelm's new play was put
IN the stage in Berlin and was hissed.
Municipal officers in Germany re.
.eive severe sentences for talking too
much to newspaper reporters.
w. C. Paber, of Denver, read the
,oem required by the National Editori-
VI association program, at New Or
cans.
The recent earthquakes in Mexico
rove to have done more damage to
ife and property than first accounts
Indicated.
New York cities may direct by vote
that public lighthouses shall be estab-
ished. Buffalo provided one in 1897 at
cost of S14, 500.
Before the entry of Butler into Lady
NTH the British wounded had been
eft out for thirty-six hours. The Beers
ave them water.
The United States Milling company
he flour trust-has gone into the hands
# receivers. The bonds of the trust
ould not be foated
The Sheldon issues of the Capital
has already broken all the postoffice
records of the city and the state. Hun
dreds of money orders are daily paid
TO the Capital.
Major General Brooke, late governor
general of Cuba, is to succeed Major
General Merritt in the military de.
partment of the East on June l, wher
General Merritt will retire.
Archbishop Chapelle seems to be
constantly misconstrued in Manila. A
great fuss was raised when it was
stated that the friars would be rein.
stated, which, of course, was untrue.
Nineteen years ago, on February 81,
1881, General Joubert drove few
of British troops from Ma,
juba hill, which was a turning point
in that war. Cronje's surrender was
on the same day, in 1900.
The Japanese minister at Washington
has been transferred to st. Petersburg
The Missouri Pacific offered S1.50 a
day and wanted 500 men, to shovel
snow between Independence and Sc,
ialia. Could not get man in Inde.
pendence.
The commission appointed to inves-
igate the prisons in the Havana dis,
yTlCU has uulSllCo lIo ldOOlo. OuJ VI |
7O3 persons waiting trial the committee
has recommended $40 for liberation |
and 1876 who were under conviction
have been recommended for liberation. |
2Tae state of Vera Cruz, Mexico,
where corn is virtually the staff of life,
has very poor crop this season. Se-
yere drouth is the cause.
The bubonic plague has appeared on
he Cozumel island, off the coast Of
Yucatan. Quarantine officers in the
Iulf states and the West Indies are
lirected to observe strict quaran-
inc.
The first cargo of hemp from Manila
las reached New York by the way OF
ape Horn, after a tedious passage OF
81 days.
The army estimates of the British
var office show total expenditure of
307, 517 200, an increase over last year
f S204, ,412, 900. The total number of
fficers and men is placed at 100000,
n increase over last year of 245,147.
Predictions regarding the probable
Increase in bank note circulation
ange all the way from $50, ,OOO, 900 to
he $500, ,ooo, 900 possible. Many state
anks are contemplating taking out
hArters as national banks in order to
rofit by the circulation feature of the
roposed law.