The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-05-23
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Eight hundred men of Denver are
idle. They are union men ION strike"
Kansas City capitalists are investing
heavily in Indian Territory coal fields.
SENATOR f. Dumont Smith will adj
dress the graduating class at Kansas
University.
On May u cattle sold at the Chicago
stock yards for $7.G0, the highest price
in almost 20 years.
Andrew C. Bradley, one of the JUS
tees Of the supreme court of the Dis
trict of Columbia is dead, aged IS.
Liquid Asphalt has been found in
well near Austin, Texas. The drill
reached the asphalt at depth of 142
feet.
If the bituminous miners join the
anthracite miners, as the latter ask, it
would directly effect 440, 600 men in
and about coal mines of the country.
The city council of Mobile, Ala, has
adopted an ordinance and made an
appropriation for the determination of
the mosquito by the use of kerosene
and parafne oil.
Fifty-eight per cent of the criminals
now in federal prisons, sentenced in
the past year, are under 80 years of
age. Of the total of 1850 there are
LII who can read and write.
Prussian agricultural societies have
offered prize of 10000 marks for Il
process of drying potatoes so that they
may he stored for years, and so that
the cost of transportation may be less.
The Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott con-
graduates 4 New Jersey presbytery
upon its unanimously sustaining n
minister who declared his unbelief of
the story of Adam and Eve, as histori-
cal characters.
The 72nd general assembly of the
Cumberland Pres byterans is is session
at Springfield, Ohio. A revision of
confession of faith will be considered
to eliminate the practice of immersion
as a mode of baptism.
Miss Helen Gould's present, the $780,
900 Y. NJ. c. A. building at the Brook
Ign navy yard, was dedicated by the
sailors and marines. Ex-Secretary
John d. Long of the navy and Miss
Gould were the principal speakers.
The consulshlp at Falmouth, Eng
land, has been held by Robert w. Fox.
who was appointed by George Wash
ington, and by three of that Consul
Fox's descendants, and is now held by
Howard Fox, appointed by U. S.
Grant.
The secretary of the treasury asks
for sol, 500 for resurvey of the lines
between Colorado and the territories
of New Mexico and Oklahoma. The
distance is calculated as 3S71% miles,
and the cost at S75 n mile, the cost of
field examination added.
All grades of refined sugar were re-
duced five points in New York on May
IL.
There have been 96O cases of cholera.
with 769 deaths in Manila. The prov
inces report 2,sss cases and 2,O92
deaths from the disease.
The late rains have been general
in the irrigation belt from Wyoming
to Southern New Mexico
Work of relaying the cables in the
West Indies is hampered by the dis
covery that near Martinique the ocean
bed has dropped from 900 feet to nearly
5000 feet.
The packers propose to use their
butterine plants to compete with the
creameries in making real butter. She
ten cents a pound placed by the new
law upon butterine induces this action
of the packers.
The flow of molten lava which COW
cred st. Pierre in 90 minutes, was 20
feet high and half mile wide. When
it struck the sea the waters receded
300 feet, leaving vessels to be de-
stroyed.
WI Ting Fang, the Chinese minister
at Washington is to be recalled to
China to assist in preparing code of
Chinese laws on modern lines
There are 9,4oo men engaged in the
building trades III Washington who are