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

for navigation in the last week of
March.
There is gossip that Governor Gen
eral Wood may succeed General Miles
at the head of the army.
| A building in Kansas City occupied
| by the National Paper Box company
! is burned, at Il loss of 100000.
Most Rev. Charles Eyre, Roman
Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow, and
delegate apostolic for Scotland is dead,
age IS years.
A recent census of Berlin gives the
| population at ,001 ,567. The increase
for the year was lO,osG less than for
the preceding year.
An Illicit distillery, with a capacity
of 300 gallons "a day, has been discov-
| cred in the heart of New York city.
| The dstiller is in custody.
The Santa Fe round house and re-
| pair house at beaumont, Texas, are
| burned and six locomotives damaged,
| and two of them will probably be a
| total loss
A company composed entirely of shop
| girls of Kansas City has Incorporated,
| for the purpose of the manufacture of
overalls. The capital stock is all held
by the girl members.
The Mexican ambassador to this
country says that there is not and
| never has been "a lottery in the Mexican
| state of San Luis Potosi; that theA6d-
vertisers sell spurious tickets and fnb-
| 1ish false lists of prizes
Many towns in southern Mississippi
| were cut off from the outside world for
days last week by high water. At one
place fast freight train was six feet
under water and boats were sent to
take off the crew. The current was
| terrific and some of the boats were not
heard from at last accounts.
Speaker Henderson is to have oppo-
| sition in case he is a candidate for re-
election to congress from his Iowa dis
trict. State Senator 0. Il. Cartwright
will try issues with Henderson upon
charges becoming quite generalin Iowa
| that Henderson does not vote in con-
| grcss as he talked and wrote in his
last campaign.
There is buzzing among the ladies
| of the households of the members of
| the cabinet over the statements that
| Secretary Roots wife has a private
secretary who draws her pay IS a
clerk for her husband, while other
cabinet members pay for the services
of private secretaries when such are
employed by their wives.
! The Missouri and Kansas telephone
company is putting in switchboard
in their office which is $50 feet long and
will occupy the whole of the fourth (
floor of their building which is 80 by 7
$50 feet. At least 1?5 operators can {
work at it.
| President Roosevelt is to deliver the /
memorial address at National cemetery 4
at Arlington on May 30.
A member of the house of delegates
of the city of st. Louis has been SrQp, l
victed of bribery in connection with
| the franchise of a street railway
Archbishop Corrigan has written a
letter authorizing a pilgrimage from
| the diocese of New York to Rome in
honor of the pope's silver jubilee. The
first section of the pilgrimage will
leave for Rome on July l, and will re-
turn on August 81.
The commissioner of Indian affairsf
states that after the May letting of con-
tracts for Indian supplies the policy of
having the schedule bids opened at diff
ferent localities will be changed and
thereafter they will be opened INF
Washington aud nowhere else.
The United States court at Tailahas7
see. Florida, has convicted turpentine'
operator of unlawfully restraining mel
groes from their liberty and forcing
them TO work This is the first ;isnq
that federal court has ever attempted
to enforce tho statutes against peon4
age
A steamer loaded with BeaumontE
Texas. oil TO a northern city, ~
burned on the coast of North Carol<rl
The discoverers Of the wreck found IN
dicauons that tho crew VI the burned