The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-05-31
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Worms are hurting the apple crop in.
Buchanan county, Missouri.
Farm .laborers of Andalusia SPAIN
are striking amt ready to fight
The Hilmon case goes to the United
! States-supreme court for the tsiird or
fourth time.
The president and party started
from San Francisco at 10 "A. m Of May
*, homeward bound
L. Miller succeeds C. S. Sutton as
auditor of the Santa be for it's Califor-
MIA line temporarily
Iowa prohibitionists have nominated
aifull state ticket and have raised
500 campaign fund
Peter Postell, a rich negro at Hop
kinsville. KY, is dead. He made
$jos,o0 inothe grocery trade.
Pennsylvania has received from the
United States SlO2, 81 q o. for money
expended by the state In the civil and
Spanish wars.
TIE British government is in har-
mony with the government of the Uni
ted States, in opposing a joint guaranty
of Chinese bonds.
Chief of Police Brod@r;. of st. Joseph
Mo-. is 20 years old and wants to re-
sign,l but the city authorities are not
willing that he should
Colonel r. Il. Van Horn, who estab-
lished the Kansas CitBJournal, and is
an eX-member of congress, celebrated
his nth birthday recently.
The Rock Island railroad manage
ment has named Miss Annette McCrea
to have charge of the work of beauti-
flying the stations on itBNlines.
The Mexican government has made
the boring for petroleum. exempt from
taxation, also granted free importa-
ton for0drills and machinery.
Aguinaldo desires to spend next win
ter inoNashington to study American
institutions so as to be more useful to
his own people in the future.
The Colorado supreme court decides
that the city of Leadville owns the
mineral rights under the land trans
ferred 70 the city for streets and alleys.
The u. S. Department of Agricul-
ture-will furnish its correspondents in
Kansas with copies of Secretary +. d.
Coburn's reports, and advises them to
study the reports carefully.
Owing to discussions in the Texas,
Legislature statement has been pre-
pared showing the. relief work. It.
shows the total cash, received at CAL
weston was 81, 243, 495. There is ball.
ance. on hand of Ss.S5G.
ID is stated by chose who know that,
the money is ready for the building of
the projected railroad from TT Smith,
Ark, to Arkansas City, Kansas.
The Santa Fe.will open an employ
ment agency in Kansas City and will
send out harvest workers only where.
employment is certain to be given
them.
The founder of '-Texas Siftings" and
hsmorist of national reputation, A.
Z Sweet, is, dead at the age CO. years.
His pen names were "Colonel Bill
Sweet" and REV, Whangdoodle.
Shamrock ii and Shamrocls l have
had another race and this time the new
craft was victorious going out but lost
by half minute coming in.
The Turkish government has ordered
all type1 riters out of the country be-
cause seditious writings on typewriters
preclude the Identification of the wri-
ter.
Vice President Roosevelt will attend
the meeting of the Rough Riders at
Colorado Springs, which opens on June
%. He proposes to make tour of the
Cripple Creek district
When all but the legation guards of
American troops left Pelxin they were
escorted out of the city by all the bands
of all the British troops A Japanese
hand joined the troops on theway.
Edward VII has changed the cele-
bration of his birthday, which occurs
in November. to May "a, which was
his mothers natal day. He did this
to inspire the making of the day En-
pire Day.
Miss Mary Emma woolley has Just
been installed as president Of Mount
Holyoke college, Massachusetts