The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-10-04
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF.


Maryland.
Eleven cases of bubonic plague are
reported at Naples.
Broom corn has jumped from sos to
Sl2O a ton in Central Illinois
The hop crop is short on the Pacific
coast between 5000 and 81 900 bales.
Stock business on the Santa Fe is
unusually heavy for this time of year.
John G. Nicolay, private secretary of
President Lincoln, is dead at the age
of 20 years.
China is negotiating to turn over q
fleet to apply on the war indemnity
due Russia.
The Rock Island will put in eleven
more stalls in its engine house at Mo-
line, Illinois.
The canning factories of Eastern In
diana have lost hundreds of acres of
tomatoes by frosts.
Admiral Sampson has been relieved
Of duty at the Boston navy yard on ac-
count of bad health.
The Imperial Ieomanry refuse to re-
enlist in the British army. They had
to wait months for their pay.
Kansas woman has been found in
Denver who is the victim of a hypno-
fist, who ought to be hung.
Judge Smith Mcpherson of the fed
eral court at Council Bluffs, holds un-
constitutional the Nebraska law against
trusts and combines.
Special rates to Dallas, Tex, Wich-
tia. Ks, Denver, Col, and Kansas City,
all during the week commencing Sept.
30. will crowd Santa Fe trains.
The Katy is erecting tie picking
plant at Greenville, Tex, with ca
pacity of 5000 to $500 ties day. The
zinc chloride process is to be used.
Chas S. Goodnight, the Texas man
who owned million acre ranch has
cut down that fgurs to 100000 acres
by numerous sales To other ranchmen.
The metric system is compulsory in
20 countries, representing 300 millions
of people. In all these countries
weights and measures are the same,
having units and its multiples by 10.
A Catholic bishop at Burlington,
Vermont, announced that parents who
send children to the public schools
would be refused absolution, and that
Catholics who were married by Pro-
testant ministers would be eX-com-
municated.
General Grosvenor is writing book
on the life and public services of
William Mckinley, the authors share
of the proceeds to be given as a con-
tribution to a Mckinley monument
fund.
A terrific wind and rain. at LeXing-
ton, Neb., uprooted trees, lifted houses
and destroyed outbuildings. Wind
mills were destroyed.
Clear Lake, S. D., reports tornado
which did great damage to buildings
and grain stacks, in the western part
of that county.
The official return, just issued, shows
A e.. ,tra ION,
camps in August contained 137,S19
persons. The deaths numbered 2,345,
of which number 1873 were children.
Carroll D. Wright, United States
commissioner of Labor Statistics, says
that every dollar taken by Massachu-
sets towns for liquor licenses costs the
towns $40.
Cleveland detectives believe they
have proof of conspiracy Matched in
the neighborhood of the Czolgosz fam
lily, more than year ago.
Rothschild & Co.'S six story depart
ment store in Chicago was damaged
sss5, 900 by the falling of inside parti-
ton walls.
The Hague minister of foreign affairs
has placed before the International
court of arbitration. copy of the Boer
appeal with a notice that he intends to
bring it up for consideration at its first
meeting.
Enoch Berkeley, of Sharon, Pa, tore
down his barn to rebuild it and found ,
can with 500 in bills. which he be.
lieves was hidden by his grandfather.