The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-08-29
Wichita Grain.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The last horse car has left the streets
of Berlin, Prussia.
The remains of Charles Fair and Mrs.
Fair were still held in Paris on the
25th.
Two hundred car men struck unex-
pectedly in the Union Pacific shops at
Omaha.
All classes of compositors in Topeka
have asked for IA 80 per cent raise in
wages.
A cloudburst near Let's, Ia. caused
wreck on the Rock Island. No one
was killed.
Sunday, Aug. IS, was the hottest of
the year in central west; and especially
SO in Nebraska.
Pueblo has had $4,000 fire. L.
Florman lost $4,000 in fine pictures,
paints and wall paper.
Fire destroyed Parsons college at
Fairfield, Iowa. II was Presbyterian
The Santa Fe has commenced build.
ing new car shops at La Junta. They
are 100 by "a feet with a carpenter
shop at the east end
Chicago has not more than $4,000
tons of anthracite on hand at season
when the city usually has 300, 200 tons.
1t is now selling at IS. so and 50 a ton
DIR. Cramer, Lutheran pastor at EN-
poria, has accepted the presidency of
Sturgis college at Sturgis, Kentucky.
He will also be president of the Lake
side, Ohio Chautauaua.
The United Association of Plumbers
and Gas Filters, at their convention at
Omaha, appropriated $4,000 for the
locked out union at Dayton, Ohio, to
help them maintain cooperative
shop.
A forest FIRE of immense proportions
is burning on the western slope of the
Greenhorn mountains, 80 miles from
Walsonburgr COL Later: The fires
have been extinguished by heavy
rains.
The convention of the Metal Polish
ers, Buffers, Platers, Brass Moulders
and Brass Workers Union of North
America tabled, after some debate, a
resolution boycotting the militia or
ganizationA
Secretary Sherman i'm 1879 had pub
lie money deposited in banks amount
ing to S379-O00, 900. Now the treasury
has del 'sits of Slss,OOO,O 900 in 500
banks. This is the largest amount
since Sheuman's day.
About 1000 foreign delegates, repre-
senting 81 nations are at Christiana,
Norway, to attend the Y. NJ. c. A.
Worlds congress. There are 3s official
from the United States.
A hospital for the treatment of
emergency cases will be established on
the grounds of each of the twenty-five
plants of the American Steel and Wire
Pennsylvania is one of the few states
without statute prohibiting on officer
of the state from accepting federal
The Shah of Persia is in London.
He gave state luncheon which cost
SIS, 900.
General Franz Sigel died at home
New York at the age of rs years.
Many Kansans served with him in the
civil war.
Good rains have fallen in West India
which removes the immediate fear of
famine. The central provinces have
also been benefited.
The Russian government, it is said,
has lost 81, ESQ, 900 on it's steamship SER
vice, started a couple of years ago.
General De Wet, in conversation
has confirmed the statement that he
and his companions will visit the
United States before returning to
South Africa.
The international Typographical
Union, at its 4sth convention, gave
s., 600 to President Mitchell of the
United Mine Workers Union.
1t is estimated that use of oil on en-
gines ON the Southern Pacific save 5000
a month on each engine. The saving
is in using cheaper fuel and in the