The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-05
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The last horse car has left the streets
of Berlin, Prussia.
The fruit companies in Jamaica are
talking of forming Il trust.
Russia is forwarding preparations
for the evacuation of Manchuria.
The Santa Fe recently took 44O cars
of cattle into Chicago in one night.
WI Ting Fang will remain as am
bassador at Washington indefinitely.
President Diaz, of Mexico, during
his European trip will visit the Kaiser.
Judge Albert II. Horton has steadily
imdroved since he as over the fatigue
of his journey home to Topeka.
All tobacco interests are to hold u
meeting In London September II, in
an effort to curb fierce rate wars.
Porto Rico bought of the United
States in 1897, 81, 1888, SIS and in 1902,
$40, 7l0, 444 worth of merchandise.
Telephone linemen of New Orleans
went out on strike and at once com
menced destroying the companys'
wires.
In 1897 the Philippines bought mer-
chandise of the United States to the
value of s94, 597 In 1902 the amount
was S., ,s67.
The United Association of Plumbers
and Gas Filters, at their convention at
Omaha, appropriated $4,000 for the
locked ont union at Dayton, Ohio, to
help them maintain a cooperative
shop
Secretary Sherman in 1879 had pub
lie money deposited in banks amount
ing to S279, OOO, 900. Now the treasury
has deposits of SIPS, 1000, 900 in 500
banks. This is the largest amount
since Sherman's day.
Frank Yenawine, manager of the
District Messenger Company, will try
girls as messengers in St. Joseph, Mo.
lie thinks girls will waste no time in
reading dime novels, playing marbles
and watching dog fights.
The Prussian railroad administra-
ton has reduced freight rates on ex-
ports of iron, including wire, locomo-
tives cars, cranes and pig iron. This
action was taken in response to an APP
peal from the western manufacturer
General Samuel L. Casey is dead at
st. Joseph, Mo. He was Kentucky
congressman during the civil war and
was sent by President Lincoln to the
south upon several confidential mis-
sions. General Casey was 81 years old.
A special train took 253 insane peo-
pie from the state hospital at Clarinda,
Iowa, to the new hospital at Cherokee.
With few exceptions they were order
ly and quiet.
The Katy dining hall and union
depot of the Choctaw at South McAlcs-
ter, Indian Territory, are entirely de-
stroycd by fire. The loss is $4,000.
President Roosevelt is touring New
England. His speech ut Boston on
corporations should be read by every
citizen, that they may know where to
find the president ON that question.
The Kansas City-St. Louis line OF the
Rock Island system will be in opera
ton within year. The Kansas Pa
cific is to be supplied with double
track between Kansas City and Topeka
to be used by both that road and the
Rock Island.
The U. S. landoffice at Bonneville,
Mo-, decides that valuable piece of
land in Kansas City, which is occupied
by brewery and other interests, be-
longs to the United States. tits claimed
by man " ho made settlement upon
it in 1858, when it was an island.
A forest fire of immense proportions
is burning on the western slope of the
Greenhorn mountains, 80 miles from
Walsonburg, Col. Later: The fires
have been extinguished by heavy
rains.
The Santa Fe has commenced build
ing new car shops at La Junta. They
are 100 by "a feet with carpenter
shop at the east end.
Chicago has not more than $4,000
when the city usually has 100000 tons.
1t is now selling at so and 50 ton.