The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-10-26
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF


newed at some western localities.
Since October there have been ll3
cases of yellow fever reported in
Havana.
Thirteen million feet of lumber and
two mills were burned at Oshkosh Wis
cons.n, recently.
The Chicago and Alton road is to cx-
pend $500, 900 on its general shops at
Bloomington, Ill.
Crown Prince Gustavus has been
named as regent during the illness of
King Oscar of Sweden.
The treasurer of the Galveston relief
fund states that the total of contribu-
lions to date is 81 ,095, 9O2.
The American cereal company's ware
house in Chicago is burned and n
bicycle companys plant also.
Four millions more of gold has just
arrived in San Francisco from Aus
tralia. All steamships bring it,
General Wood has authorized the cs-
Enlistment of % additional public
schools in the province of Havana.
North Dakota sold to the government
last week over n million and half
pounds, gross weight, of beef cattle,
at cents per pound.
Canadians are smuggling Chinese
over the boundary lines between Van
couver and Whatcom by the hundreds;
and the brown men all smuggle opium
on their trip.
The Pan American Medical Congress
which is to meet in Havana in Decem---
Der, has sent invitations to medical or
CARNATIONS in the United States to
send representatives.
A party of railroad engineers, who
have runs in Oklahoma and New Mexi-
co, are in Chicago enjoying vacation.
There are of them, all old friends,
who 90 together for good time.
Fifty feet of valuable property is
washed from the bank of the Missouri
river at st. Joseph and much other
valuable property is threatened.
October 1G was the last of the Rock
Islands homeseekcrs excursions pre-
viously authorized, but new deal has
been made which continues them on
every Tuesday in October and Novem-
Der.
S. w. Miller, general live stock agent
of the Missouri, Kansas G. Texas rail-
way. with headquarters in Fort Worth
has been appointed assistant general
freight agent of the road, with head
quarters in Chicago.
Captain John B. Adams, past COM
mander-in- chief of the G. A. Il. dropped
dead at the state house in Boston,
October 10.
Sister Baptista. was accidentally kill
ed at boys school in Helena, Mon
tana Her name was Flynn and she
was 90 years old. She went to Nom
tana from Leavenworth, Kansas.
The National City bank, of New
York has secured $500, 900 of gold in
South Africa, which represents the
first output of the mines there since
the breaking out of the Boer war.
The Ohio supreme court has con-
frmed the full validity of the law which
makes man liable to three years in
prison who is found begging outside
of his own county and who refuses to
work.
September receipts of grain in Chi
cago were 36,972 cars; of which the
Santa Fe took in the largest number;
!, l60 cars.
Bya vote of 10 20 the Chicago
board of Education refused TO permit
the use in the schools of a book Of
selected Bible readings.
The several railroads entering Gal
weston have decided to build bridge
over Galveston bay which will be tive
and one-half miles long, double track
and ten feet higher than any of the
former structures.
The Venezuelan government an
nounces that Venezuela will not make
an exhibit at the Pan-American expo
sition, to be held in Buffalo in 1901.
The sugar market is demoralized.
Prices are given Is and 20 points under
trust prices of short time ago. The
quotation for fine graduated is 1876.