The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-19
Wichita Grain
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

There were CAB prosecutions for les
majestic in Germany in 1901.
Forest fires are DESTROYING millions
of feet of valuable timber in Oregon.
The volcano Kilauea, in Hawaii,
continues to show unusual activity.
Fire at Prentice, Wis, burned one
whole business block and part of au-
other.
Prince Ye, son of the King of Korea,
has entered the Ohio Wesleyan uni
versity.
The thermometer quite generally
reached &c degrees on the morning of
the l9th in Nebraska.
Besides the 1000 Norman Mission
aries in Germany there are several
! hundred in Switzerland.
President Roosevelt has been elected
an honorary member of the Brother
hood of Locomotive fremen.
Striking GOLFERS to the number of
$40 were fined at Doncaster, England,
for leaving work without notice.
Sept. was the send anniversary of
the admission of California as a state.
This is legal holiday and was duly
celebrated.
The anniversary of the death of
President Mckinley will be appro-
priately observed in the churches of
Washington.
Marconi now is able to send wire
less message 1900 miles and expects to
establish communication across the
Atlantic soon.
The remains of soldiers dying at
posts within the United States can not
be disinterred and sent home at govern
ment expense.
6The sanitary force of Santiago, Cuba,
have struck because their pay is not
regular, and the city is returning to
the filthy condition which was the rule
under Spanish control.
A net increase of Q per cent occurred
in the receipts at the fifty largest post
offices in the United States last month,
as compared with August, 1901. The
largest increase 26.6 per cent was at
Des Mbines, Iowa.
The Cuban government, in eonjunc-
ton with the government at Washing
ton, will take the most active measures
against Nicely, the dcfaulter in the pos
tai service in Ouba, to compel restitu-
ton of the funds, which he cmbezzled-
Ottumwa, Iowa, electric lines, were
tied by strike of motormen and con-
ductors, in sympathy with the striking
linemen.
The funeral of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles.
L. Fair, at San Francisco, was simple,
and only attended by relatives and a.
few intimate friends. The bodies ar
rived there on the 10th.
Seven years ago stock exchange seats
in New York city sold as law as $13,-
500. The other day western man,
name unknown, paid ISL 900 fora seat,
besides the membership fee of 1000.
Maine, as usual. elected "a full Re-
publican ticket Including She entire
delegation in congress.
Now that the boodling aity officials
Of st. Louis have begun to tell on each
other there is good chance for them
all to be punished. One mans story
caused the arrest of eighteen members.
of the city legislative bodies
The White Star line has ordered
built at Belfast, steamer which is
20 feet longer and Few feet wider
than the Cedric, now the largest steam
err in the world.
Hayti is grateful to Germany for tho
destruction of the revolutionary gum
boat which they cali a pirate craft
Mamma" Lemon is dead. She gain
ed the name. in charitable work for
homeless and destitute children, which
has reached every part of the country,
She died at her home at Council Bluffs,
Iowa.
w. S. Hopewell, general manager OF
the Southern Pacific, was bitten by a
rattlesnake near San Pedro. He eau
terized the wound with a lighted cigar
and then rushed for doctor.