The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-04-25
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Loverin e. Brownies wholesale gro
Gerry in Chicago was destroyed by fire
on April II. 49,.
An April blizzard visited Central
Wisconsin last week, 1t was the worst
storm of the winter.
Western counties of Nebraska had an
all day snow storm on April 3. The
snow melted as it fell.
Jamaica is restless and n revolution
is threatened. The Legislative council
dare not increase taxation.
Mr.. Bell, of Colorado, was the only
man in congress who voted against the
pension for Mrs. Mckinley.
G.. NJ. Dickinson, U. S. consul gen.
eral, has left Constantinople to come
home. His wife is with him.
Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia,
has been appointed a member of the
board of Indian commissioners.
General Wade Hampton was buried
in the old family lot of Trinity church
yard at Columbia, S. c., on April IA,
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy was
thrown from his horse while hunting
and received bruises which confine him
to his bed.
Octavius Pruden one of the secretar-
les to the president died on April Is.
He had occupied confidential position
in the White House for many years.
Chas. Wurster was caught in a snow
slide on the mountain above Deer
Creek, Colorado, probably early in the
winter. The discovery has just been
made.
The Santa Fe runs nine special trains
from different starting points to Cali
fornia this week. Most of them are
club trains but there is one for the
Foresters
Secretary Wilson estimates that the
U. $. will pay one half of the British
tax levied on breadstuffs, and that
Russia will pay a large portion of the
other half.
Scurvy and typhoid fever are killing
the starving Russians in the Altai
highlands of Siberia. The reports give
the names of several districts in which
the number of cases run into the thou
sands. The Red Cross Society is doing
all it can.
Thomas A. Edison and Santos-D u-
mont have met and discussed aerial
navigation. Edison said he had long
been convinced of the practicability of
airships. These men agreed that gas
oline produced the most power for the
weight carried.
L. r. Moore, retired, former member
of the dry goods firm of Bullene, Moore
and Emery of Kansas City, died on IL
train, of heart disease ON April 16.
Twenty-one Sepoys who arrived at
Lathrop, Mo-, recently will return to
India soon with from 500 to 1000 mules
for the use of the British army in that
country.
Surgeon Hartsteller, U. S. navy, is to
be tried on a charge of drunkenness on
board the training ship Lancaster.
The court martial is to be held at Port
Royal, S. c.
Two big million dollar colleges in
Illinois are now managed by Kansas
men. A. r. Taylor, formerly president
of the Karsa normal, is now president
of the Milliken college at Decatur, and
E. o. Sisson, formerly of Kansas Ag-
ricultural college, is director of Brad
ley college at Peoria.
The treasury .dedartment decides
that Canada must pay the Philippine
export taxes on Manila fibre.
An American syndicate is preparing
to. erect two great cotton spinning
mills at Manchester, England.
The question of establishing a jew
ish hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas,
and a sanitarium at San Antonio,
Texas, is to be settled at the meeting
of the grand lodge of B'nai Birth at
Little Rock.
w. X. Vanderbilt Jr., ran his auto
mobile from Monte Carlo to Paris, a
distance of about 600 miles, in II hours,
running time.
1t is common practic in Mexico City
TO have boys handicapped and taken to
Yncatan as slaves. Many cases are
known 70 the police.