The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-04-11
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

auueu by Chlcago packers 10 the price
of dressed beef.
IL. G. Squires, secretary of the min
lister TO China, is in line for the place
of minister to Cuba.
Manila celebrated on April 4 the ar
rival of the first direct American
mail steamer to reach there.
There is scheme to settle with
European immigrants vast tracts in
the state of Chiapas, Mexico.
United States minister to China, Mr..
Conger, has commenced negotiations
for new commercial treaty with
China.
The interior department has issued
instructions for the precaution OF
those who fail to remove fences from
government land.
Robert b. Armstrong, the Chicago
newspaper man who has just been APP
pointed private secretary to Secretary
of the Treasury Shaw, is "a native of
Iowa.
The United Mine Workers of Michi-
gan were called ont on n general strike
beginning on April J., on account of
the operators and miners disagreeing
on wage scale.
Excavations in the forum at Rome
have brought to light a tomb supposed
to be older than the traditional founda-
ton of the city. 1t is considered an
important discovery. y,
An American company has bought
the American rights and patents of the
Marconi Wireless Telegraphy CON-
pany. The purchasing Company has Z
capital of So, 100000.
Brigadier General Fred Funston ar
rived at Oakland, Cal, and joined his
family. He is to go to Denver in few
days to assume command of the de-
partment of Colorado.
Floods did $1,000 damage in Nor
gan county, Tennessee, to farms,
fences, bridges and roads. At Oakdaie
there are 80 families destitute and 25
other families need aid.
General Funston said in San Fran
cisco on April 3, ''The Filipinos are
absolutely incapable of self-govcrn-
ment to-day, and l do not think the
next generation of the race will be"
Thousands of postal cards are re-
ceived by the president, the heaviest
lot of them from Kansas, asking that
he send message to the senate asking
that a constitutional amendment be
submitted to the people providing for
the election of senators by the peo-
pie.
A Rhode Island boy wrote to the
president asking him to suggest e
motto for guide through life. Mr..
Roosevelt sent the lad a steel engr;.-
wing of himself, with this motto in his
own handwriting on its margin:
Don't foul; don't finch. Hit the line
hard"
DIR. r. Heber Newton, who has been
rector of All Souls Episcopal church in
New York for 80 years, is about to
resign, to go to Leland Stanford Uni
versity, at San Francisco as special
reader.
The New York legislature passed
and Gov. Odell has signed an act
which imposes penalty of not more
than ten years Imprisonment or more
than $4,000 fine OF both on persons
who advocate anarchistic doctrines by
speech, writing or otherwise.
President Roosevelt assures the vet
Grams who are employed in the depart
ments that his order forbidding all off,
GERS and employees of the United States
to attempt to influence legislation in
their interest was not intended to apply
to them.
An explosion of gas in a coal mine at
Dayton, Tenn, resulted in the death
of % men, with another list of in
jured.
1t is reported from Chicago that the
beef packers of the country have form
ed trust TO make raise in the price
OF beef.
James II. Garfield, son of the late
President Garfield, has accepted the
position Of civil service commissioner
rendered him by President Roosevelt;
TO the place vacated by VIM. A. ROden-