The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-10-10
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Schools in Rhode Island are being
closed on account of the lack of coal.
In Porto Rico 1900 public schools
were opened with an attendance of
over so, pupils.
The Scotch coal masters of Glasgow
have large contracts for anthracite coal
TO go to the United States.
Superintendent Fred Atkinson of the
Philippine schools has resigned to take
effect on January LIST next.
King Victor Emmanuel has sent
$4,000 for the relief of the families of
the victims of the recent storms in
Sicily.
The present house of representatives
has $50 members. The next house,
under the new census, will have 3s6
members.
j. P. Morgan, it is reported in Lon
don, is attempting to arrange deal
far the Great Western railway, the
biggest line in England.
A special train of Z or coaches
passed over the Santa Fe carrying
members of the National Druggists
association at Monterey.
1t is reported at Madrid that Queen
Maria Christina, the mother of King
Alfonso, has married her master of the
horse, while in Austria.
The bank deposits of the people of
the United States amount to So, 500,-
900, 900, an average of $loS for every
inhabitant in the country.
New York real estate men say that
ground on Wall street will soon be
worth $500 Il square foot. At a recent
sale $780, a square foot was paid
The sheriff of Columbia county, Pa,
arrested one hundred and seven strikers
at Centralia in one afternoon on
charges of rioting and incitiug to rios
Gen. Weyler, it is reported at Madrid,
will resign as minister of war, because
of King Alfonso's refusal to sign a
| military decree presented by Weyler.
The board of lady managers of the
st. Louis Exposition adopted Helen
Gould's resolution to purify the mid
way, excluding objectionable features
of tbs Chicago Worlds Fair.
Edward E. McNeel has been SEN
fenced under Iowa's new inebriate law
to one year in the inebriate ward of
the Mount Pleasant state insane asy-
lum. This is the first conviction OF
the kind in this section of Iowa.
Secretary Root has approved the
elaborate plans prepared by the en-
gineer corps for the war college build
ings at Washington and at Fort Riley,
Kansas. The department will proceed
| at once to advertise for construction
work.
The Santa Fe has not been doing
quite so much bridge work as usual
| the last summer on account of the diff
ficulty of getting steel, although there
| is plenty of it to be done. 1t is estima-
ted that 1900 tons of bridge iron have
been ordered in the past.
The death roll from the hurricane in
Sicily is growing There are 600 bod
| les awaiting burial and an epidemic is
| feared.
The Santa Fc paid sc million dollars
last year, or three millions a month,
or 81, 90, 900 a day, in its operating ex-
penses, and 80 per cent of this sum,
500, 900 day, went to labor.
The hop crop Of Washington is one
fifth below that Of 1901; while the crop
in Oregon is HEAVIER than the last one,
sufficiently to make up Washington S
deficiency.
1t was seventy years ago, on Septem-
Der "a, that the first train on the first
railroad in America, if not in the world
made Il run between Albany and Sche-
nectady N. Y. The cars were stagS
coach bodies On trucks with Hanged
wheels. The tracks were iron bars
spiked to wooden rail.
Contracts have been let for pneu-
matte tube mail service in Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago and st.
Louis This exhausts the appropria-
ton, leaving out Brooklyn and Wash
ington.