The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-06-06
LAT EST NEWS IN BRIEF.

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on May % which covered the ground
White Horn, a mining camp north of
Salida, Colo, is practically wiped out
by fire.
Postal cards with VIM. McKinleys
portrait will be in hands of postmas-
ters by July |.
The Santa Fe R. r. is to build new
hotel at Trinidad for the use of the
dining system.
France on May IS started trans
port with 100000 rations for the Mar
Unique survivors.
The Kentucky board of health de-
clared quarantine against Indiana,
on account of smallpox.
An inch of snow fell on May 9s at
points in the Alleghenies. Gardens
and crops were damaged.
Five hundred damasl weavers went
OH strike at Philadelphia, for higher
wages, closing number of mills.
Z The New York cotton exchange has
blaclslisted all persons and firms who
conduct or represent bucket shops.
Snow fell throughout the northern
part of the Adirondaclls on May 20.
The mercury at Malone, n Y, dropped
to 33.
Yellow fever has broken out at Vera
Cruz In one party of 100 working on
port works IS were stricken in week,
10 dying.
The safe OF the Colorado Telephone
company in the Denver Office has been
looted of 81, 200. A trusted employee of
the office is missing.
Rochester was the coolest city in the
United States. as reported by the
weather bureau on May 90. The low
est temperature was So degrees.
The Western federation of miners,
in session at Denver, appropriated
So, 900 for the families of miners killed
by the explosion at Fernie, i. c.
New York city went crazy wild over
Count de Rochambeau and the other
Frenchmen when they came to dedicate
the statue at Washington of the revo-
lutionary Count dc Rochambeau.
Twenty-seven volunteer soldiers,
now serving sentences, have been or.s
derded discharged; as Il result of the
court decision that it is not legal for
court martial composed of regulars to
try a volunteer.
George R. Smith formerly general
master mechanic of the Santa Fe coast
lines, has secured similar position
with the Illinois Central railroad and
left Topeka to go to Waterloo, Iowa,
where hs will have his headquarters.
Fourteen thousand Norwegians came
to the United States in 1901 and it is
estimated that the number to come in
1902 will reach 10000.
Generals Corbin, Young and Wood
have been formally invited by. Emperor
William to attend, as his personal
guests, the annual military maneuvers
next fail.
An extradition treaty with Chilli has
been ratified. 1t has taken several
years to bring this about .andlthere are
many defaulters and embezzlers from
| the United States in Chilli.
The United States commission has
made English the official lang OF
the courts, customs service and court
of appeals in the Philippines.
The Southern Pacific r. r. has made
arrangements to place California cam
teloupes in the eastern market in
competition with the Rocky Ford
melons. <
A whole battalion of Turkish troops
has been annihilated by rebels near
the seaport of Mocha, in the Turkish
village of Yemen, in the southwestern
part of Arabia.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has fully
recovered from his attack of pneu-
monia and left for Croton, Mass,
where he will resume his studies.
| Members of the military and fortiti-
I cations committees of congress and
some other members of both branches
of congress visited Fort Washington,
one of the defenses of the national
capital, to witness test of the disap-
pearihg gun carriage This is the first
time that the Notifications about Wash
! ington have ever been visited by civil
ians