The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-05-16
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.
4 heavy snow fell in Northern Min
nesota on May 9.

4 heavy snow fell in Northern Min
nesota on May g.
| Alexander c. Brodie has been APP
| pointed governor Of Arizona.
A thousand priests attended the
| funeral of Archbishop Corrigan.
Thirteen thousand immigrants ar
rived at New York in two days of last
wca.:.
An order was issued for general
strike of anthracite miners to take
place on May IL.
Eleven hundred descendants of
Brigham Young are to hold reunion
at Salt Lake City.
President Palma of Cuba continues
to receive the most flattering reception
at each place visited.
Cable communication between many
of the West India islands is interrupted
by shocks of earthquake.
Naval cadets from Annapolis attended
the interment of Rear Admiral Samp-
son in Arlington cemetery
The northeast cell block of the state
reformatory at Pontiac, ILL.,, is destroy
ed bY FIRE, at loss of 100000.
The business portion of Rifle, Col,
on the d. & r. G.. railroad, has been
almost entirely destroyed by fire.
The Chinese government promptly
arranged to pay indemnity for the
murder of French priest at Chu Fling.
The island of Martinique, the scene
of the recent volcanic disaster, was the
birthplace of Josephine, Empress of
| France.
Inhabitants of the southern part of
Martinique were dependent upon St.
Pierre for provisions and arc menaced
with famine.
Senior Valdez, editor of paper at
Manila, upon second libel suit
brought against him has been SEN
fenced TO six months banishment.
Three thousand Jewish families,
comprising $4,000 persons, will leave
Romania for the United States. This
results from systematic persecution.
The Santa Fe has contracted to ship
1000 cars of cattle from points on its
Pecos Valley line, at the rate of 200
cars day. Shipments on the Purcell
line have ceased because of improve
ment in Texas pasturage.
First Lieutenant Alphonso STROLLER,
of the Filipino scouts, who commanded
the small detachment of soldiers who
captured LulIban, the noted Filipino
insurgent leader, is to be appointed
second lieutenant in the regular army.
The Colorado supreme court upholds
the city ordinance of Denver regula-
ting wine rooms; reversing the district
court. The supreme court says that
discrimination against women on ac-
count of their sex would not be good,
but because of immortality that would
result the regulation would be sus-
tanned.
i Admiral Dewey and all the captains
of the North Atlantic squadron that
could be obtained were the pallbearers
at the funeral of Rear Admiral Samp-
son.
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sidering Senator Hannas appeal for
new trial of Estes G. Rathbone, the
postoffice official at Manila under SEN
tence.
Dust from the eruption on the island
of st. Vincent covered the roads and
houses, an inch thick, on the island OF
Barbados, 100 miles distant.
According to the London Daily Mail
Year Book the debt of the United
States is the smallest of any of the
great nations being one and four
tenths per cent of its wealth.
An Indiana bank cashier has been
sentenced to five years imprisonment
for gambling away S7O,O 900 of the funds
of national bank.
, A snow storm in Southern Germany
: on May z, severely damaged fruit
! prospects. There was one foot of
, snow.
: Pension Commissioner Ware is kind
, and gentlemanly in his Office relations
: but the army of clerks in his depart
, ment will find that he is q worker and
} will not tolerate shirlsing or side-step-
ninp ON their mart