The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-05-03
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIE F

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The Black Sea and Baltic canal has
become self sustaining.
Five men were buried alive in The
Rosebud mine at Aurora, Missouri.
Gar Nicholas has issued a decree ex-
polling Count Tolstoi from Russia.
The Shah of Persia is very sick and
hopes of his recovery are at low ebb.
AS5O,OJo fl re at Winifred, 5. d., was
started in an oil house by small boys.
A S5O,OOO fire at Winifred, s. D., was
started in an oil house by small boys.
The state railroad board will soon
issue 10, 900 new railroad maps of Kan
sas.
Melbourne, Australia, has popula-
ton of about 494, 900; slight increase
in 10 years.
The Buchey Stacker company is fit
ting up large building in Topeka for
making their machines.
Henry NJ. Cooper is appointed Mar.
shall of the United States for the west
ern district of Arkansas
Henry NJ. Cooper is appointed mar
shall of the United States for the
western district of Arkansas.
President Fish of the American Bell
Telephone company will be paid sal
airy of 100000 year after Julyl.
In New York the state tax for the
next fiscal year is fixed at one and
a quarter mills. the lowest in 40 years.
The Arkansas legislature has passed
an appropriation of $1,000, 900 for com
pleting the state house at Little Rock.
Billy Smitd, the American pugilist,
was knocked out in the eighth round
by Britisher in contest for the
championship of England.
Women taxpayers in New York
villages and towns are given the right
by new law to vote on propositions
to expend money for purposes public
England is working with the United
States for lenient treatment of China
in the matter of indemnities, while
Germany contends for full payment of
exorbitant demands.
Prof. E. b. Bryan, at Indiana Uni
versity. is offered the position of
general superintendent. of Normal
schools in the Philippines at salary
of 81, 900 year, and will accept.
A New York judge has decided that
n woman's wages belongs to her hus-
band, which would make it possible
| for man to sue for his wife's wages
even though she had received them.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron company
has finished its purchase of the Max
we'll land grant, tract of 250,0O
land in Colorado The deal involves
81 1000, 900.
A special congressional train will be
enroute to San Francisco at the same
time of the presidents trip. The con-
gressional party go to witness the
launching of the battleship Ohio. 1t
is really an Ohio excursion of three
trains; one from Washington and two
from Ohio.
Minneapolis Sash and Door manu-
facturers have agreed to quit using the
union label on their mill work. A
strike is likely to result.
The Arkansas supreme court has
decided that railroads arc not RESPONSE
BILE for the value of liquors seized
under the state law while in their
possession.
A % ton gun was being landed for a
new English fort and the derrick chain
broke and the gun crashed, muzzle
down. through the deck and the bot
torr of the ship.
An aged German of St Joseph, Mo-.
has been arrested for defrauding old
soldiers by claiming to be in the gov
eminent employ. and collecting fees
for which he promised to secure PEN
sions.
A tank 95 feet long and six feet in
diameter was loosened by the wind
and fell. with 10000 gallons of water
from the roof Of building in Chicago,
through six floors. making a hole ID
each forty feet square 1t occurred on
sunday when but few people were in
the building.