The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-09-13
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF.

Hope for settlement of the steel
workers strike is about dead.
Geo. A. Nicke rson, a director of the
| A. II. e. S. f. railroad, is dead
Both Mitchell and Gompers advise
Shaffer to compromise, but Shaffer re-
fuses
Three hundred miners at Huntington,
Ark, of the Kansas and Texas Com.
pany are on strike.
In the ecumenical conference in Lon
don there are 10 American bishops and
27O American delegates.
A recent hail storm in Pennsylvania
froze one man to death, and several
others were badly frozen.
President Mitchell left New York
for Pittsburg, Kansas to try and in.
huence the miners to strike.
An ambergris mine has been found at
Point Conception, California, which
promises to be of great value.
Columbia, the champion of 1899, has
been selected by the yacht club to race
against Lipton's Shamrock II.
A box car was jammed through
wall of the Burlington freight Office at
St. Joseph, Mo-, and three clerks were
badly injured.
The United Mine Workers Journal
To- 4 III
that there will be general strike in
the anthacite coal region.
DR.. Roswell Park, of Buffalo is re-
puted as one of the best surgeons in
the world The nation may be thank
full that the chief executive is in such
hands
Many peach orchards about Athens,
Ohio, will be destroyed having been
condemned by the Ohio agricultural de-
partment, the trees being affected with
the San Jose scale.
The latest reports say that j. Pier
pont Morgan has obtained control of
the zinc production of the United States,
three-fourths of which comes from the
Galena-J Joplin, district.
A cloudburst did damage at Cebo,
Montana, to the extent of 1000.
Hail accumulated a foot deep on the
level and 900 feet of the Northern
Pacific track was washed away. All
wires are down.
Secretary Hay was clerk to Lincoln;
Root taught school; Griggs was law
clerk; Hitchcock clerk in a store; Gage
at Is was bank clerk; Smith was
compositor in early life; Long did
chores on farm, and Wilson at 90 was
farm hand.
The Northwestern hotel in Buffalo is
destroyed by fire. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000. One man was badly
burned.
The New Zealand government orders
most of its locomotives from Philadel-
phia, and rs per cent of other railway
stock of all descriptions from America.
Dartmouth College will celebrate the
Tooth anniversary of the graduation of
Daniel Webster, on Sept. 26, by laying
the cornerstone of Webster hall A
thousand of the alumni will parade in
revolutionary costumes.
Holland has been having war with
Sumatra since 1870 and has expended
5000, 900, 900 on it, and the Sumatrans
now say they have only begun to fight.
The French government told the
Turkish ambassador to leave France
and he left. 1t is rumored that a naval
division has been ordered to Turkish
waters.
Macon county, Missouri, farmer,
saved his cattle and kept them in good
order after pasturage gave out, by cut
ting elm trees. The cattle thrive on
the leaves and small branches
NJ. J. Collins has been appointed as
sistant general purchasing agent of the
Santa Fe, with headquarters in Chi
cago
Senator Clark, of Montana owns the
richest mine in the world, which brings
him sl2,OOO,OOO year when fully
manned. just now the mine is idle be-
cause Clark will not grant his men an
s-hour day.
The best estimates on the Texas cot
ton crop place the yield at ~ million
bales-nearly one-third decrease from
last rear.