The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-10-03
Wichita Grain.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Emigration from Greece TO the Uni
ted States is large because of failure of 3
currant crop.
st. Louis citizens started fund with
S. BIG to defray the expenses of the
prosecution of boodling officials
The Santa Fe is building a new via
duct 300 feet long over its tracks from
the depot to the shops at La Jnnta.
Stockholm has $50 telephones to the
1000 inhabitants, the largest ratio in
the world So far us known, San
Francisco is second with FOG
The war department has issued a
circular warning officers and employees
against political assessments and par
tisan activity OF ofiiceholders
DIR. Samuel Houston, of Pennsyl-
vania, has been appointed chief medical
referee of the pension bureau to sue.
coed DR.. Jacob Raub, of Pennsylvania.
A tornado left desolation in it's path
across the county south of Marion,
Indiana. Many fine residences were
destroyed and oil companies lost
thousands of dollars.
Harry Stratton, of Pasadena, Cali
fornia, has decided to contest the will
of his father, the Colorado Springs
millionaire; and by contesting forfeits
the $50, 900 left him by the will
Sir John Gordon Sprigg, prime min
lister of the colony; announced in the
assembly that he intended to introduce
a bill for the total prohibition OF the
sale of liquor to natives of Cape Colony.
Three thousand Chinese carpenters
in the great dock yards at Hong Kong
struck, leaving many vessels being
built and repaired. They ask wages
raised from so and 30 cents to G5 cents
a day.
The legislative assemblies of Bremen
and Hamburg have voted by large ma
jorities in favor of opening the frontiers
to foreign livestock. A long list of
German cities previously took the same
action,
1t was definitely decided at the last
session of the central executive com-
mittee of the International Sunday
school convention TO hold the next
worlds convention at Jerusalem in
April, 1904
The wife and child of the wealthiest
Chinaman in the northwest, were kid
mapped at Butte, Mont, and arc held
for ransom, which the llidnappcrs or
dered to be placed in Il canyon back in
the mountains.
The Minneapolis Hour mill managers
have given their worlsingmen an eight
hour schedule with III increase in the
hourly wage. The men are told that
if this is not accepted the mills will be
closed until men are found who are
more reasonable in their demands.
Bellamy Storer, United States min
lister to Spain, says that Admiral
Cervera is living thers in obscurity
and comparative poverty. No Spanish
minister will give him post. He re-
ceives no pay while off duty and can
get no assignment.
Three hundred miners working for
the Tennessee Coal company have
struck because an assessment made by
the union for benefit of Pennsylvania
strikers was not held out of his pay,
after he had refused to pay it.
The earthquake in Turllestan killed
666 persons and 1000 others were in
iured. The town of Artush was COM
pletely ruined.
Chief Edward F. Croker, of the New
York fire department, is to be tried
upon the serious charges of incomre-
tency and dishonesty.
La Plata, Macon county, Mo-, suf-
fered a serious fire; the burned district
in the center of town lost over $50, COO
worth of property.
A return of the London finances
shows that the gross liabilities March
81 were ss,s42, ZIG, gao, an increase of
1913, 597, $40, due to the South African
war.
Acting on the request of the Retail
Clerks Association, ministers in all
sections of Chicago agreed to preach on
] September 2s against the evils of sun
day trading. ~