The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-03-22
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

Sixteen deaths are reported from the
storm in Arkansas.
A timber fire swept clean large
fruit farm near Macomb, Mo.
Four hundred Italians destroyed a
new pest house just as it was finished
Vt Orange, New Jersey.
The Associated Chambers of Com
MERGE of Great Britain urge tariff pro
lection for British commerce.
February reports show an increase
of English imports of 2,0G9, 700 and a
decrease of exports of e2,1s2, 400.
The season of shipping eggs has COM
menced; fifteen carloads of eggs were
received in Kansas City in one day.
The city of St. Petersburg is acquir-
ing its street car lines and proposes to
convert them into electric railways.
The college of medicine and literary
buildings at the University of Iowa, at
Iowa City, have been destroyed by fire,
at a loss of $250,OOO.
The Western Union capitalization is
S7O3 per mile of poles and Sl41 per
mile of wire. In Great Britain it is
about twice as much.
President Diaz of Mexico is threat.
ened with competition at the next
election, which is something he has
not experienced in the past
dispatches seldom miss day in tell
ing of Andrew Carnegie giving $25, 900
or more to some town; some days there
are two or three of these items.
Major General Young is on his way
from the far east to relieve General
Shafter, at San Francisco, when the
latter will be retired from service.
Trade journals say that there are
now accumulated in New York 500
carloads of American farm machinery
awaiting shipment to foreign lands.
The United States treasury had on
March Ia, S4s2,e13 ,O23 in gold. The
increase during the past year has been
500, 604.sl4; but wait until the new
revenue act is in force.
Mrs. Mckee, daughter of General
Harrison, living at Saratoga, N. Y,
could not go to Indianapolis during
the sickness of her father for the reason
that her two children were having an
attack of the measles.
Great Britain has 100 people to the
mile of telegraph wire; the United
States has but 81 to the mile, while
Switzerland has 22o and Belgium 321.
In the United States there are l,1ls,-
Os6 miles of telegraph wires and all
Europe has 1856, 267 miles
The census shows that the popula-
ton of the Bombay presidency has
been reduced million and half since
1891.
Fire in the Boston Daily Advertiser
and Record seven story granite front
building resulted in three proof read
ers being burned to death and about
dozen more or less injured.
Porto Rican emigration of laborers to
Hawaii and elsewhere will be an adj
vantage to those who remain. The
ISLAND is over-populated and there is
not work for all.
+. w. Read, of Lawrence, who settled
here in 1857, says that he used to loan
money to the farmers and now the
farmers want TO loan money TO him.
Japanese miners are taking the
places of strikers in New Mexico and
t is proposed to bring Japanese to Col
,rado.
The disfranchising OF illiterates in
Maryland will result in an organized |
york in educating the blacks in that
tate. Truly, God maketh the wrath
4 man to praise him and the residue
hereof doth he restrain"
General Miles and staff are to visit
'ubz to make inspection of military
,osts.
On April 1, all bucket shops in the
United States must quit or change
heir methods so a. not TO come under
he penalty of the new federal law
'hich provides for 6nes from $500 to
/, 800, and the managers may be sent
, the penitentiary.
The Omaha and winnebago indians
re claiming large portion of-Dakota
nd Dixon counties. Nebraska. under