The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-09-20
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF.

The Santa Fe is taking east 25 to 30
carloads of canteloupes daily.
W.P. Sullivan, of Christian county,
Mo-, sold his apple crop for $4,000.
"Polish day" at the Buffalo EXPOSE
ton has been postponed indefinitely.
A number of Iowa and Nebraska
creameries have combined and have
headquarters in Omaha.
There are 1900 delegates including
300 women, at the 21st National Coored
Baptist Convention at Cincinnati.
The Atlanta Constitution asserts that
while there are 30, 900 grist mills in the
| United States, there are 10000 brew
cries.
| Ex-Governor Eaton, of Colorado,
| leases 10000 acres of land and his cash
| income from it is over half million
dollars a year.
A new $40, 900 Congregational church
| at Joplin Mo-, a stone editice is sink
ing and has been abandoned. 1t is
| built over zinc mines.
Congress will have bill before it
making an attack upon the president
with intent to murder cognizable to
United States courts and punishable
by death.
American preachers who are negroes
| and in attendance upon the Ecumenl'
| cal council are in demand TO preach
while in London, in many of the prom
| inent churches.
Those writer's and speakers who
sowed the seed by denoucing the presi-
dent as Il tyrant and would-be EN-
peror are condemning the harvest they
so industriously prepared for and plant
| ed.
Consul General Stowe has arrived at
Washington from Cape Town. He says
that six years ago the trade OF the
United States in South Africa was &c..
600. 600, and that it is now SEQ, 900, 900
year.
The New York Tribune says: "Only
two voices seem to have broken the
common outpouring of regret and nor
ror over the tragedy at Buffalo. One
is that of Senator George A. Yelling
ton of Maryland; the other that OF
Mrs. Carrie Nation.
The Canadian soldiers who served in
South Africa have been barred from
the parade at the reception of the Duke
of York unless they appear uniformed
as are the militia The soldiers de-
cided that they would not appear to
receive their South African medals
except in their old uniforms.
The payroll for the work being done
upon the st. Louis exposition grounds
will amount to $4,000 day for the
next IS months.
Lucy Parsons, one of the first and
the worst of anarchists, now says that
the attempt to murder the president
causes her to abandon anarchy.
A cotton storage warehouse in Brook
lyn, which has three compartments
each 100 feet long, took fire in one TO
the three which contained 10000 bales
of cotton. The damage is half. mil
lion dollars.
The state of Mississippi owns ID large
farms where convicts are kept at work.
The plan in general has proven profit
able.
The Union League of Maryland has
expelled U. S. Senator Wellington from
its membership. The order says that
the league looks upon Wellington and
his countenancing the act of traitor
:. with shame and loathing.
At Casper, Wyoming, Hans Wagner
was tarred and feathered and beaten
, for expressing sympathy with Czol-
gosz.
There are 23,916 printing establish
ments in the United States, over one
third of which have been established
within ten years.
Deputy Sheriff Malone, of Portland,
! Oregon, was suspended for asserting
president Mckinley ought to have
been shot long ago" Suspension by
the neck instead would have been well.
A plan has been started to secure
. small amounts from all towns in the
/ country for a fund to be given to James
. Benjamin Parker, the negro that saved
President McKinley's life