The Chanute times., 1901-01-18
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

Large finds of diamonds are reported
in the interior of British Guiana
There is bill in the Missouri legis-
lature to punish kidnapping by hang
ing.
Thousands of people gaze in wonder
at the new trolley cars in San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
A meeting of Kansas retail hardware
dealers will meet in Kansas City, KS,
January IA and Is.
General Merriam will recommend
that the post at Fort Whipple, Ariz.,
be re-established.
A man who says he was one of the
Cudahy kidnappers writes an offer to
give away his partners.
Promoters of the an-American ex-
position expect Kansas to provide $780,
600 for its state exhibit.
An effort to have the union label put
on the Missouri governors message
was defeated in the legislature.
Christian DeWet, nephew of the Boer
general, has sympathetic audiences at
his speeches in South Germany.
The advance of sterling exchange in
London is expected to draw considera-
BILE gold from the United States.
The Cuban constitutional convention
decided, with only one vote against it,
to provide for universal suffrage.
All records of the New York stock
exchange were broken on January z
when also shares changed owners.
The gold product of Oregon for 1900
amounted to SO, 770, 900; and the states
output of lumber was s9s, l60, 900 feet.
The amount of customs receipts in
Cuba for the first eleven months OF
1900 show an increase of 81 III, 900 over
the previous year.
The Alaskan Indians have agreed to
abandon their several totems and other
emblems and unitedly adopt the Ameri-
can flag as their tribal emblem.
Delegate Flynn is active for state
hood for his home territory. He ex-
poets favorable report on the question
from the committee on territories.
Russia has made demand equiva-
lent to annexation of Liao Tung PEN
insula and Port Arthur, as well as the
complete title and possession of the
Manchurian railway.
The New Orleans camp of Confederate
veterans protests against inviting the
President to attend the Confederate re-
union in Memphis next May. The pro-
test will be ignored as far as Memphis
is concerned.
The United States is asking Kansas
to cooperate in the work of the geo.
logical survey, instead of both going
over the same ground separately.
A coroner's jury find the members
of the company of druggists, where the
great explosion, fire and loss of life oc-
Cured in New York city, criminally
liable.
The distribution of congressional
garden seeds will be greater this year
than ever before. The appropriation
is $40, 900, which adds 5000 packages
to each congressman's quota.
The o. r. T. officers scoff at the idea
that the loss of 500 members will
affect their organization which has
"a. 600 members, and which is now
growing rapidly. They still talk OF
their men routing business to "..her
roads, from all over the country.
Miss Agnes Curry, of Nortonville,
Ks, arrived at Iloilo, Philippines, safe
ly, and with her soldier boy, Sergeant
Luther C. Douglas, the young couple
went to the home OF Rev. d. S. Hib-
bard, Presbyterian missionary, and
were married.
The reapportionment bill will pass
the senate without little change. Lead
ing senators aided in its passage by
the house.
The Santa Fe company contributed
the freight on a car load of furniture
and books for the new city library at
Albuquerque.
.. xv.,ao-soo ,r-h;,as o,,t that
there are no expeditions sent out with
out adequate cause, and when neces-
sary for protection of life and property;
all of which does not agree with state