The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-03-01
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

WdpdSH neaC Train plleu up IN Il
heap at Dewitt, Missouri.
Washington's birthday was elabor-
ately celebrated in Manila.
Ex-U. s. Senator Stephen White died
at his home in Los Angeles, February
20.
Some of the railroads in Russia have
been blociaded by snow for several
days.
General Wade will sail from San
Francisco on March 1, for the Philip
pines.
The rate of discount of the Bank of
England has been reduced from ~ to
4 per cent.
The collection from licenses in Man
| lila are said to amount to $500, 900 in
| gold a year.
London will expend S250,00O in pre-
cautionary measures against the bu-
bonic plague.
A find of $500 worth of gold has
been made in single pocket about
| 175 miles from Manila.
General S. d. M. Young is to succeed
General Shafter in command of the
| department of California.
J. p. Morgan has furnished S10,OOO,-
600 to be used in establishing an cleo
trio railway in the suburbs of London.
Washington's birthday was COM
mcmoratcd throughout the United
States to greater extent than usual.
There is an unusual demand for To-
connective engineers and the Santa Fe
has promoted a large number of fire.
men.
An Irish member of parliament was
suppressed by the speaker when he
| attempted to address the house of COM
mons in Irish.
John S. Hopkins University, of Balti-
| more, held a double anniversary cele-
bration; Washington's birthday and
| the 25th anniversary of its own found
ing.
Eight suits are begun in the U. S.
| district court in San Francisco, against
the Union Iron Works, by the secre-
tary of the local labor council. The
suits are each for 81 600
During the past year 1878 women
have been admitted into the Society of
| Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton. The society now assists in the
support of 500 members.
Typewriting can now be done in any
language, by the use of inexpensive
attachments which can be used on any
machine A student in New York
invented the attachment and he Is now
making good pay in filling orders in
Greek. Hebrew and German.
Street railway conductors in Chicago
are prohibited from carrying an onion
breath while on duty, with a penalty
| of discharge.
Emperor William has sent titled
| chicken fancier to this country to
study our fowls. When he returned
| he took IL number OF American breeds
of chickens.
The president has issued proclama-
tion calling special session of the
senate for executive purposes imme-
diatelv upon the dissolution of the
present congress
George D. Gear has been nominated
by the president as second Judge of the
circuit court of the First district of
Hawaii.
There has been an arrangement with
Turkey whereby farming implements
are imported into Turkey free of duty.
| This has now been extended for anoth-
err ten years.
1.-TWO special Frisco trains took
eighteen coaches full of soldiers across
the country from jefferson barracks
near st. Louis. They will leave the
| Pacific coast for the Orient.
Major O. B. Gum is dead Every
body who lived in Kansas during its
first improvement era knew Major
Gum as he was connected with the
construction of many railroads as a
civil engineer.
Judge David J. Brewer, in his lee
ture in the Yale course, in New Haven,
said that "spasmodic virtue is the
poorest that any one can have. 1t is
next door to intentional vice" He
fears that the reaction in Kansas will
result in worse conditions than now
exist