The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-01-17
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

King Edward has resumed horse
racing.
The Boer delegates in Holland seem
to anticipate some kind of peace over
lures.
The town of Foreman, Texas, ON the
Arkansas e Choctaw railroad is nearly
burned up.
Gasoline engines for the ears tor
pedo boat fleet have been ordered from
a Michigan firm.
Mrs. Rebecca Church, the woman
who owned the first piano in Chicago.
died the other day.
On one recent day wheat sold on the
Kansas City market three cents higher
than in Chicago.
Defective electric wiring caused the
burning of the hospital for the insane
at Williamsburg, Va
There are 1875 Mormon missionaries
working in Germany, who have Sc
cured 1000 followers.
The British war office has issued a
call for 9,396 more infantry volun teers
to go to South Africa.
The safe in the postoffice at Green's
burg, Ind, was blown open and 81, 700
worth of postage stamps stolen.
A Hawaiian prince has gone to WASH
ington to ask President Roosevelt to
give him the crown lands of Hawaii.
Admiral Schley received re ception
at Savannah, Ga, equaled by but few
ever given a public man in any southern
city.
Ketehum, tae owner of Cresceus, says
he. has received more han $4,000 in
purses and for exhibitions by Cresceus
during the season.
The Mississippi senate passed joint
resolution declaring that no text book
shall be used that gives to any other
than Admiral Schley credit for the VIC
tory att Santiago.
The agricultural department esti-
mates the average yield of wheat per
acre in the United States in 1901 at
r4S bushels. The mean average of the
past ten years is 1873 bushels.
The removal of the Liberal govern
ment of Saragossa caused an anti-Cleri-
cal riot The people set fire to Jesuit
monastery and were fred upon by the
troops Many rioters were wounded.
The census bureau announces, tho
population of the United States, inclu
ding all outlying possessions, to be ST.
233, O69, in the census year 1900 In this
the Philippines are counted at 1000
900.
1t is reported that five Central Amer
lean presidents will have a meeting in
Nicaragua regarding Isthmian canal
affairs.
The amount of German exports to tho
United States in 1901 was more than
three and half million dollars less
than in 1900, due entirely to the reduc-
ton of the export of sugar.
DIR. Charles Harbodt, one of the most
widely known chemists and metallur-
gists in the republic of Mexico, is dead.
He was formerly connected with big
smelling plant at Argentine, Kansas.
There are but three countries which
now have population greater than the !
United States, viz: China, the British Z
empire and the Russian empire.
President Roosevelt will recommend
that congress place cases of violated
treaties and to the detriment of for
eigners under jurisdiction of federal
courts.
An endowment of 81 900, 600 has been
given by Mr.. and Mrs. Harold McCor-
mick, of Chicago. to found a medical
institution. 1t is given as a memorial
to their deceased son.
General Botha has sent a note to all
Boer commanders requesting them to
keep on fighting, for the British parlia-
ment is to he asked for another war
vote. which will induce the British ma
ton to demand that the war in South
Africa be stopped.
The labor unions of Racine, Wiscon-
sin, ask the city council to reject Mr..
Carnegie's offer of $4,000 for a public
library building, because it will com
memorate the memory OF the man who
was the cause of labor troubles at
Homestead, Pa, long ago.