The Globe-republican., 1900-09-06
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF


The Canadian Pacific strike is prac
tically settled
There We're never many CONNER
cia1 Travellers on the road as now
The Chicago plum mbers have called
off their strike and returned to work
The Missouri Press association took
Niagara Falls 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, if
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 45, OF
Kansas City, Mo-, has just celebrated
its 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, ID. c.
There are but very few of the rail-
roads of this country that have not
increased business this year
Messages from Pelsin are sent by
carrier to Taku and relayed Is
times after leaving Talxu.
The training ship Topeka will leave
Hampton Roads September 10 to make
a trip to Mediterranean ports
The supreme lodge knights of
Pythias chose San Francisco as the
place of the next biennial meeting.
There is approximately ., ,ooO 600 bu-
shells of grain in elevators at Galveston,
about /, 900, 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,
600.
The Santa Fe ice house at La .Junta
has been burned, entailing a loss of
about 81 1000. but fully covered by in
surance.
John Nevatt. half breed Indian
who has been a 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 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 L.. SOC, 900 in gold
This is regular thing, but this is a
larger shipment than usual
Twenty thousand packing house
employees in the big cities may quit
work September Is If their demands
are ignored
While reconoitering British party
found a cache of 14o, 900 rounds of
BoeramnunitioR-
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 on which the Shah of
Persia sits on state occrsions is set
with jewels valued at $4,000, 900, and
the jewels on crowns and other royal
regalia of the shah are vcrtk 50, ooo,-
ooo Diamonds, turquoises and rubies
are set in the rug on which he sits.