The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-02
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

| Pekin.
The population of California is /,
IS5,Cs3.
Cholera prevails in japan to an
alarming extent.
Single tube tires are 20 be higher in
price before Spring.
John Sherman was in the 18th year
of his age. He was born May 20, 1872.
An electric railway is talked about,
to be built from Lcavenworth to 81.
Joseph,
A local trust combine of undertaliers
of Louisville, Ky, is indicted for cor.
spiracy.
| Berlin celebrated the Tooth birthday
of Field Marshal Won Moltlte ON Octo.
Der 26.
The British have lea ed winter quar-
tiers for troops in Ticn Tsin for SO, 900
| month
Mayor Jones. of Galveston has
been nominated for representative in
| Congress.
Forty of the 100 students OF Miami
university, at Oxford, Ohio, have ty-
phoid fever,
Massachusetts, has 20 towns having
$4,000 or more people, larger number
than any other state.
In 1890 Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma
had combined population of os,7G5
the present census gives them 1855, .93.
There is an impression in Washington
that seven million dollars, the price
aske<; for the Danish West Indies, i.
far too large.
The 5O0th anniversary of the death
of Chauccr was COMMUNICATED by the
unwilling of memorial window in
London church.
The first installmcnt of the voluu-
teer army will leave Manila November
/. The sick will DC sent among the
first shipments.
A vessel having on board 100 passe,-
gers was boarded by pirates near
Canton, China, and several thousand
pounds in specie taken
The woman's board of missions OF
the Evangelical churches, in session in
Chicago, appropriated $50, 600 for mis-
sions in Asia and Europe
A thousand shoemakers; employed in
thirty factories in Quebec, went on
strike becusea one union mar refused
to work for weekly wages instead of
piece work. A non-unon man took
his place.
Tn. synodical conference of the Pres
byterians of Missouri begin their an
nual conference at Maryvillc October
%.
The widow of the murdered German
ambassador to China has reached the
home of her father, Henry d. Ledyard,
in Detroit.
The cities of the greatest population
rank in this order: New York, Chica-
GO, Philadelphia, st. Louis, Boston and
Baltimore After these come Clevc-
land, Buffalo, San Francisco, Cincin-
natl and Pittsburg.
A gold nugget from British Column
bia has been received in New York
which weighed fraction over 753
pounds, valued at sl5i,0OO.
The registration shows total of
4O2, ss3 voters Only about 500 wom
en- registered for the privilege of voting
for school commissioners, against 6, e34
in 1896.
The percentage of population en-
rolled in elementary secondary and
common schools in Kansas is s7.s7;
Oklahoma, "a. 10; New York 1904; Mis-
souri,, sLIs; Massachusetts,, 1871.
There have been $4,000 claims fled
for pensions for Spanish war soldiers,
of which 4,237 have been already al
lowed, most of those settled have been
claims for widows and in cases of
severe disabilities of soldiers.
There are $50 cities in the United
States with moro than $4,000 inhabi-
tants Their combined population is
1864, CPS.
There are 10 cities which according
to the census have 100000 aud over, of
population, with a total population OF
II. 7q5 500