The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-11-29
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF,

Georgia and the Cardinals report
snowfalls of two inches.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton has
reached the age of SO years.
Striking linemen in Chicago cut 300
telephone wires in one night.
Five business houses in Frankfort,
Indiana, burned on November 81. Loss
$s5, 600
| The British ambassador to Turkey is
pressing British claims upon that coun-
try's cash.
For this years receipt Lester Reiff
has $50, 900, Johnnie Reiff, S25, 1000 and
Danny Maher $4,000
The Nebraska supreme court has de-
cided that cities have no power to give
away valuable franchises.
The Central Passenger association
has officially announced that passes
will be abolished January /.
The inheritance tax to be paid by the
heirs of Cornelius Vanderbilt to the
federal treasury is $361, s03.43.
The late election cost the city of New
York $67O, 900. The state also spent
$50, 900 in connection with this election.
A Boston barber was fined $50 for re-
fusing to shave third year divinity
student at Harvard university, because
he was a negro.
The Chinese courts caravan journey
toward Pekin leaves the people along
the route half ruined by contributions
levied upon them.
San Francisco has one telephone in
strument for every sixteen persons
Greater New York has one for every
forty-cight persons.
Major George, of the U. S. coast sur
vey, tells that the survey of 1870 de-
veloped the fact of subterranean
stream under Wellington, Kansas.
ton say thep expect half million Wis
itors at the Chicago stockyards to at
tend their stock show next week.
Wabash college authorities did not
observe founders day by dismissing
recitations and the students rebelled
They even imprisoned President Kane
and it was an hour before he escaped
through a window while the students
jeered him.
Polish school children are unmerci-
fully logged by Prussian school teach
ers for not learning the catechism and
prayers in German. A riot resulted
and many persons were arrested and
imprisoned, their sentences extending
even to two years in some cases.
Excepting in official capacity none
but British subjects can be present in
Westminster Abbey at the coronation
of King Edward.
Returned army officers from the Phil
ippines say that English and German
firms have done large business in
smuggling war supplies to the Filipino
insurgents.
Parties from st. Louis and Indianap-
oils have bought 10000 acres of land
in Woods county, Texas, and are ne
gotiating for another tract of 5000
acres; both to be occupied by colonies.
The state of Idaho has sold $4,000
acres of pine land and has received the
last payment on the bargain. The
tract brought the state Sl01 ,652.
An earthquake in the Canterbury dis
triet of New Zealand devastated the
township of Cheviot and injured many
people.
Colonel Arthur Lynch, of the Boer
army, was elected a member of parlia-
ment, at Galway, Ireland, by nearly a
vote of three TO one. His election is
likely to be contested on the charge
that he is a traitor.
The total vote at the Ohio state cleo
ton was $40, 147:.of this the vote for
| governor was 1851 less. Governor
Nash's plurality was 67,467
Citizens of OslSaloosa, Iowa, lack only
two thousand dollars Of $4,000 they
propose 10 use in erecting building
for the Y. NJ. c. A. Work is com
meneed.
The mayor of Ottawa, Ontario,
bought liquor during prohibited hours
and was fined. lie told the court that
ne accepted disqualification for his Office
which extends two years