The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-08-15
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

| McAiCo Niey 10 W nave new CdtUlc
market and stocllyards.
Local grain men of Topeka talk
about forming board of trade there.
Trinidad, Colo, has water famine
With a river running through the
town.
| Washouts on the Texas Midland.
have been repaired and the trains are
running.
6The English house of commons add
journed to August 16, over the corona
ton period.
The Edgerten colliery at Scranton,
Pa, secretly mined, loaded and shipped
| 30 cars of coal
Mexico has had good crops of wheat
and corn and the Mexican tariff on
grain is restored
Edward l was crowned king of En-
gland 6os years before the coronation
of Edward VII, lacking only ten days.
Earthquake shocks were felt last
week throughout Central Portugal and
along the coast. so far no damage has
been reported.
Denver and Rio Grande tracks in Colo
RADIO have been repairek and trains are
running on schedule time. Total dam
age to this road and the Santa Fe
reached S15O,OO
The Navajo Indians are in bad fix.
The heat and drouth ruined ranges
and their stock isstarving. They have
nothing left to support them but the
making of blankets.
At klamath, Oregon, Lester and
Emory Davis were playing in the door
yard with matches. near can of oil,
which exploded and they were burned
to death. They wore and years
old.
The one thousandth anniversary of
the finding of the old Wurtemburg
city of Ravenburg has been celebrated
| by historical procession representing
the ten centuries, during which it has
stood.
1t is positively stated that the Ar
mour, Swift and Morris packing in
terests at Kansas City have been
merged, and that Gustave Z. Swift, a
Cape Cod Yankee, is at the head of tho
combine.
An English court decides that labor
ers have right to order days in which
to stop work whether employers agree
to it or not. This places enormous
power in the hands Of the union if the
decision stands.
Ten oyster canning companies in
Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana
propose to combine with capital at
$1,000, COCO.
1t is said that the foreigners in the
mines at Shenandoah threaten to cut
off the ears of the men who have taken
their places in the mines to mark them
as unfair worllmen."
| The entire trolley system within ten
miles of New Haven, Conn, has been
tied up by strike of 400 conductors
and nsotormeR who went out because
a few men had been discharged.
The historic building at Frankfort
on the Maine. in which the old German
emperors we're crowned is crumbling
and braces have been placed to save it.
Blacksmibhs, helpers and body build
ers, of the Pullman shops at Pullman,
near Chicago, quit work on a demand
for so cents day more pay. There
are $50 Of them.
Former u. S. Senator Donald ]. CAM
eron was driving in Scotland when his
horses SHE'D and the carriage struck
cart. Both Mr.. and Mrs Cameron
were hurt; the senator severely.
Drunken clerks and deadbeats EN-
ployed at the pension bureau are to be
fired, accordingsto Commissioner Ware.
Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio, in a
speech at the Urbana Cbautauqua, said
that that he does not want to go back
to the senate.
A pastor at Carthage, Mo-, is spend
ing his six weeks vacation working
with construction gang, He thinks
years reading would not compare
with benefits to be thus gained by six
weeks close touch with the men he is
working with.