The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-08-17
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

suspected anarchists are being ar
rested throughout Germany.
The corn crop of this country is now
estimated at 2,l0O,00O,OOO bushels.
Sailors are scarce on the Pacific
coast Vessels cannot sail for lack Of
them.
Ex-street car men of st. Louis are
asking for franchise for an opposi.
ton street car line.
Smokers of cigarettes will no longer
be employed in Swift & Cos packing
houses in Chicago.
Mrs. Lucy Parsons was one of the
five anarchists arrested in Chicago
where riot occurred.
English investors knock hard on the
placing in America one-half of the new
ten million pound loan.
Frank Pettigrew, son Of U. S. Sem
ator Pettigrew is a staff officer with
the Boer General Botha.
President Mckinley has accepted the
grand army invitation to attend their
annual encampment in Chicago.
Raisin grapes in California have been
damaged by red spiders so that at
least third of the crop isdestroyed.
Sickness in the army in the Philip
pines is aboue per cent, which is con.
sidered remarkably good showing.
A tornado visited New Rochelle, N.
Y. Its path was about 40 feet wide
and four miles long. Much property
was destroyed.
The Farmers Federation was fully
organized at the Topeka meeting last
week. The officers chosen are already
at work placing 800, 900 of bonds with
which to establish commission houses
in Kansas City and Chicago.
The department of justice has given
a decision that Puerto Ricans are aliens
within the meaning of the naturaliza-
ton laws. 1t says that the treaty with
Spain left all questions of their civil
and political rights for congress to de-
termine, the president having no au-
thority in the matter until congress
acts.
At the funeral of Mrs. Jane Donnol
at Palmer, Illinois, the casket was car
ried from the farm where she had lived
since she was married II years ago.
Six of her sons carried the casket and
and the aged husband walked at the
head of the coffin. There were at the
funeral $50 grandchildren and great
grandchildren.
A case of bubonic plague was discovs
cred on vessel in Hamburg harbor.
All the Baptist missionaries in East
ern and Central China are in Shanghai
now.
1t transpires that Herbert Il. Stimp.
son, who killed himself in Wichita was
not Herbert b. Simpson, the son of
the late William Simpson of the
Smithsonian institute at Washington,
d. C. The suicides name had been
changed to Simpson by act of the Vir-
ginia legislature. He was the son Of
Count Ravene, of Berlin, Prussia.
Clear water in the Chicago river is
lessening the city revenue from water,
factory owners drawing their supply
from the river.
Hans Kramer, an American tourist,
slipped from the Rax Mountain in Aus
tria. He was found after 80 hours
with both legs broken.
A Union Pacific train was robbed
near Hugo, Colorado and one passenger
killed. Everyone in the sleeping cars
lost their valuables. 1t was the east
bound train which left Denver on the
evening of August 4.
Turkish troops have RECOMMENDED
slaughtering Armenians and destroy-
ing their villages. Ali Pasha, the
commandant at Biuis lead them. Sex,
age or condition is not considered by
the butchers.
The surgeon general Of the U. s.
army says that all vacancies for assists
ant surgeons have been filed. APP
plications keep coming in.
Nathan Young, a nephew of Brig.
ham Young, has come from Australia
to Utah after an absence of 50 years.
He was supposed 70 be dead.