The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-27
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF.

reling and raising armies
Spring City, Tennessee, is one of the
towns which suffered much from fresh
cts.
The Cheviot district of New Zealand
has suffered great loss from an earth
quake.
The Rock Island will deliver all its
southern California traffic to the South
ern Pacific at FL Paso,
A call is out for a report OF the con-
dition of national banks at the close OF
business on December 10.
A state of seige is proclaimed in
number of Russian towns on account OF
students and strikers riots.
The people of The Hague welcomed
their queen and her disliked husband
and sang the national hymn.
The government of India will expend
CT 900, 600 on railroads and e70o,0oo for
irrigation works during 1902.
WI Ting Fang was the principal
speaker at commercial club banquet
in Kansas City on December ia.
All obstacles to the treaty of cession
of the Danish West Indies to the Uni
ted States are said to be overcome
The country about Fort Worth,
Texas is covered by snow and cattle
not in prime condition suffer terribly.
The estimates of the New South
Wales wheat crop are 100000 900 bush
els an average of l9S bushels per acre.
The upper Arkansas valley reports
the coolest weather ever known there.
The divide country is also snowbound.
The Berlin authorities have beep
compelled to institute relief works,
which give relief TO nearly G,0O0 of the
hungry.
Richard J. Hinton, the co-worker
with John Brown, and later "a jour
nalist, is dead in London where he
was born IN 1880.
1t is Secretary Cages intention to re-
linquish the treasury portfolio MS soon
as President Roosevelt can find suit
able successor and he has so informed
the president. Mr. Gage would like to
be relieved before spring
The jury returned verdict of guilty
UlaaI,.a ,,d 7 ,a,,ra In nj
son Ann Odelia DiSs De Bar, charged
with. immoral practice and fraud in
London. The judge sentenced jackson
to fifteen years and Mrs. Jackson to
seaen years penal Servitude.
London papers as whole express
satisfaction with the ratificat ton of the
canal treaty by the American senate,
vet there are those which get u whine
into their references to it.
The London Daily Chronicle remarks
anent the new treaty that it may aid in
continuing good relations with the
United States but it may prove to be
expensive.
The Mexican government will soon
issue orders that all railroad employees
who come in contact with passengers
must be able to speak Spanish.
The battleships Alabama and Massa-
chusetts were received at Havana with
expensive preparations TO entertain the
officers while they remain"
The customs revenues in the Philip
pines for the months ending Septem-
Der 80, 1901, were SO, ga, 295 an increase
of nearly three millions over the same
period in 1899. ssv
Twenty women will be thrown out of
work at the packing houses.in Kansas
City, Kas., by the decision to abolish
microscopic inspection, of hog ivers.
They have beer. receiving $50 e, month.
A 81, ZOO, 900 illuminating oifeompany
has been chartered in New Jersey by a
company which is authorized Ito pur-
chase and operate the interests held in
the Usage reservation by the Phoenix
Oil Co. and the Usage Oil Co.
Americans have taken s75GoeO con-
tract for the electrical equipment of an
electric traction system in Toxic,
Japan a-sl'-.s
Experts representing big American
firms are in Siberia to build factories
and exploit the agricultural and min
eral wealth Of the country.