The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-01-04
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF
The population of Berlin, including
the suburbs, is 2,469,676.
Active war continues in South
Africa and more troops are going
there.
The Chinese minister, Mr., WI, re-
CARDS the joint note to China as harsh
and severe.
Berlin street railways are changing
the storage battery system to the
trolley system.
The English pro-Boer press is very
quiet since the disasters to British
arms are so frequent.
Frank Richardson, stakeholder in
the Cracker trust has been murdered.
at bis home in Savannah, Mo.
Consul General Stowe, of Cape Town,
South Africa, arrived at his home in
Kansas City on December "a.
Collections are being taken in the
churches of Russia to build an ortho-
dox Russian church in New York.
The Missouri Pacific has awarded
contract for $500 box cars to tho
American Car and Foundry company.
The gunboat Bennington is to be
repaired in the Philippines. 1t has
| proven to be valuable there on account
of its light draft.
Indiana's states prison, at Jefferson
Vile, has discarded striped clothing
| for its inmates. None but those re-
fusing to obey prison rules have worn
| stripes for some time.
An information. syndicate has been
formed to develop the mineral re-
sources of Damaraland. The scheme
| includes colonization, mining, irriga-
| ton and railroad construction.
There are now shelters along tho
Arkansas river all the way from
Pueblo to Leadville. The newest one
is at Florence, which cost S750,000. 1t
has q capacity of GOO tons of ore a day.
John d. Rockefeller's son, John D.,
Jr., has subscribed $95o,OOo for the
founding of an institution of learning
for boys and girls, to be located in
New York, city and to be completed by
March l.
Paul Morton, second vice president
of the Santa Fe says that the Nicara-
guam canal will be built and that it
will benefit the cities on the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts, whose increased
trade will be taken from the trade now
done by the interior cities The all
water rates which will be given coast
city merchants aud manufacturers can
not be met by the railroads which
serve the interior cities.
A glass marble factory was placed in
! a receivers hands after working about
two months The cause is the prefer
once of the boys for marbles other
than glass marbles
Gov. Pingree, of Michigan, asked the
state department for requisition for
man who is in Cuba. The depart
ment took the ground that Cuba was
solely under military control, and re-
ferred the request to the Secretary of
War. Gov. Pingree will probably re-
ceive reply from Governor General
Wood of Cuba
The supreme court of California de-
cided that bonds and stock sbelonging
to Mrs. Jane L. Stanford, which were
in New York City, are taxable in Cali
fornia because of their owner being a
resident of that state.
A.. L. Lawshaw. deputy auditor of
the postoffice department, has been
appointed auditor for the Philippine
islands
Twenty thousand tons of steel rails
and fish plates for the Victorian rail
wars have been ordered from Chicago
Steel company
The wheat crop for 1900 is see, 229,-
SOS bushels; area now in winter wheat
is 80, 2ss, 5e4 acres; condition on Doc 1
was Oil. The production of corn in
| 1900 is estimated at e.l05. los. SIG BUSH
els
More than 5000 persons, four-fifths
Of whom went to the United States,
emigrated from christiana in 1900. as
against $500 N isse.
The crew. 50 in number and com
posed of Chinese. of the transport Han
cock, was DISCHARGED in San Francisco
and will be returned 10 China