The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-08-09
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Rear Admiral John Irwin, retired,
died July 90, aged 60 years.
Fire did $4,000 damage in the Boecl1.
Ter Lumber company's yards in st.
| Louis.
Emperor Nicholas has ordered the
organization of an army of 3Os, 500 re-
cruits.
Eighteen of the twenty railroads
entering Chicago have approved of
| plans for union station.
tory expects wheat crop this year of
| from IS to GO million bushels.
There are reports of serious damage
| to crops in Sweden from the hot weather.
Forest fires are burning in several up
| land districts.
| The Santa Fe is about to double the
capacity of its shops at San Bernardino
| and to increase the force from 500 to
about 900 men.
General Miles has ordered the organi-
cation of nine more companies of coast
artillery, making 106 of the 1875 compa-
nies provided for by law.
Cotton spindles of South Carolina in
| creased 800, 1868 in the past two years.
That state now takes second place in
| the manufactured cotton output.
Fire in Chicago destroyed the plants
of the Simplex Railway and Appliance
csmpany, the Western Rawhide Tan
ming company and the Hammond Buggy
company.
In Norway, where saloons are per-
mitted only beer, the saloons are closed
on Saturday afternoons, which is the
general pay day, and savings banks
are open until midnight.
The name of the transport Samoa has
been changed to Dix, in honor of Cen
eral John A. Dix. who gave the famous
order: ''If any man attempts to haul
down the American flag shoot him on
the spot"
The manufacturers at Tampa, Fla,
representing over $4O,00O,000 capital,
have issued manifesto declaring that
they would move elsewhere if the citi-
zens of Tampa did not suppress the an
archist leaders and protect them in their
business.
The editor of the Cincinnati Price
Current says that so cents bushel for
corn at Chicago is all that can reason
ably be expected. He figures on the
total supply from the present crop and
old stock as about equal to the annual
consumption export demand not taken
into consideration.
Secretary Long cautions naval Off
GERS against giving any public utter
ance of their sentiments regarding the
Schley-Sampson investigation.
An oil company, with a paid up cap
ital of 81 500, 900, has incorporated in
Utah. The company has 5000 acres in
the Green River, Utah, oil fields.
The Frendenblatt, the organ of the
Austro- Hungarian foreign office, COM
menting on the proposed German tariff
law, says: "If Germany wishes tariff
war, Austria, Russia and the United
States will be ready to undertake it"
Probably majority of the people of
Kansas have believed for 25 years that
| the Benders were killed and buried
near Cherryvale.
A prehistoric city has been found on
the Navajo reservation between Duran
go, Col, and Pennington, N. NJ, in
which is a palace of a thousand rooms,
older than the Aztecs.
The American Forestry association
will hold summer meeting at Denver
August 27-eo. 1t is expected that
James Wilson, Secretary of Agricul-
ture, will preside.
I. d. Skinner, the oldest travelling
man in the United States, has just cele-
brated his golden wedding at st. Jo-
seph, Mo.
The Columbia has sailed the Consti-
tuition out of any chance to meet Sham
rock IL
A Kanass City firm bought 10000
bushels Of oats on the market at Min
neapolis, Minnesota.
The British house of lords has voted
half million dollars TO Lord Roberts,
who commanded in the South African
i war