The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-07-18
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

lhIES NcWS IN bhltf,
The broom corn crop of Illinois is re-
| ported to be short.
The Michigan peach crop is said to
be very heavy.
A revolution is Matching against the
government of Nicaragua.
Valleys through the mountains of
| Colorado have foot of snow.
The customs receipts for Cuba for
the month of June amounted to 81, $780,
| 252.
The rainfall at Kansas City during
the first eight days of July was TO
inches.
Cholera is Speeding in some parts of
China and the mortality rate is very
great.
Damage to the fisheries by the storm
along Newfoundland is estimated at
$500, OOO
Five hundred telephones were burned
out by an electric storm in Kansas City
in one afternoon.
Two Filipino generals have been
sentenced to Imprisonment for treason,
of which they were convicted.
Jacob Burkhart was killed by tor
nado near Oxford, Iowa. He was
caught by the collapse of a barn.
Margaret Haley, of Chicago, was
made president of the National Feder-
alton of teachers, at Minneapolis.
U. S. Minister to Hayti, reports all
quiet there, the new government in
San Domingo having been recognized.
The trans-Nlississippi congress is to
meet in st. Paul, MIMI, on August 10,
to discuss matters. of interest to the
West.
The statement of the London board
of trade for June shows decreases of
81, O45, 900 in imports and e119,O0O in
exports.
The foods compelled the Rock Island
trains to go over the Burlinston's
tracks between Denver and Lincoln,
Nebraska.
The Union Pacific is slowly import
ing non-union machinsts for it's Chcy-
enne shops and now claims to have 275
men at work.
submarine earthquake and giant
geyser, on the Pacific coast off Tehu-
antepec, throws u big column of water
fifty feet in the air.
William Clark, the thread manufac-
turer, died on July in England.
His thread factory in New Jersey is
the largest in the world.
The exports of Germany, except
Dresden, to the United States for the
fiscal year amounted to $780, 323, l41,
an increase of S1,571 ,621.
Lloyd Giesan, U. S. Minister to Per-
STA, and his wife have taken 1000
mile horseback ride through the cen
trail and west central portions of Per-
STA to secure commercial pointers for
the extension of American trade.
Engineers of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad refuse to haul coal pend
ing the settlement of the miners
strike.
The heaviest rainfall in years flooded
central Iowa on July and many miles
of railway were washed out. ALI of
the great through lines suffered losses.
The village of Bear Creek, Wis, has
been destroyed by fire. A dozen stores,
the postoffice, the railroad depot and
lumber mill were burned.
Orders have been sent to Samoa to
close the purchase of site for yards
and docks as. provided for in the naval
act.
The spread of cholera in the Philip
pines has slightly decreased, possibly
on account of the rain. The totals
since the outbreak are: Manila, 2,1s1
cases and LIS deaths; provinces, H.
<7s cases and 9,357 deaths.
Secretary Shaw of the treasury de-
partment has decided to weed out
assistants and heads of bureaus who
have held their places four or five
years The dispatch leaves doubt as
to whether his new system is to extend
to clerks.
Judge Hook, of the U. S. district
court has decided case involving the
right of bucket shops to use quotations
of the Chicago board of trade, the de-
cision being against the bucket shops
! An appeal will be taken to the q. s.
supreme court.