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

Costa Rican volcanoes show unusual
activity.
During July the total coinage of the
United States mnts was S4,75G, 800.
Japan is to supply its army with new
modern rifles and Is selling the old
ones to China.
The national treasury has gold in
hand equivalent to all the gold certifi-
Gates and half the silver certificates
The interior department has estab-
lished free telegraph school at San
Juan, Porto Rico to teach 25 pupils.
all girls.
The Texas floods extended to the
northwestern portion of the state last
week and the Grand and Saline rivers
were on rampage.
The Hawaiian attorney general rules
that ExQuecn Liliuolsalani must pay
the income tax on her annual allow
ancc of 81, 800 from the territory.
Fifty more of the monster locono-
tivcs which are used by the Santa Ee
between Chicago and Albuquerque are
to be equipped with electric headlights.
The total circulation of national
bank notes on July 81, 1902, was $685.
9s4, 1874; the increase during July being
nearly the total of the increase for the
year.
Several collieries have commenced
putting out coal again in Pennsylvania
and it is claimed that 95 per cent of the
men at work are United Mine Workers
in good standing
The state line between Utah and
Arizona is PIT miles long and in no
place does it cross foot of cultivated
land. 1t traverses a desert which is
cut up by impossible canyons
The transport Buford has sailed from
Manila with 462 enlisted men of the
Eighth infantry; 143 men of the Fift-
zenith infantry; 1O4 men of the Twenty
sixth infantry; 81 sick; FIVE insane; Gl
discharged soldiers.
A leading opponent of the cesssion
of the Danish West Indies, of Copen-
hagen, says openly that the treaty of
cession will surely be ratified by the
Legislative body just elected, and that
it will be completed next October.
There are AZ establishments in the
United States at which typewriters
and type-setting machines are manu-
featured; using n total capital of So, AGO.
43l. The foreign busidess of this in
dustry in 1000 amounted to S2,607,.
544.
Nearly 100000 acres of Iowa land
is planted to corn this year, of which
II per cent has been destroyed by
floods.
In Pittsburg, Pa, fire destroyed two
eight-story buildings. Six fircmen
were injured. There were other build
iugs damaged and the property loss is
estimated at $500, 900.
The Chinese minister WI is to re-
main for some time at Washington
until Liang Cheng has time TO go from
England to Japan for visit and re
turn to Washington.
General Frederick Funston is on the
list of those to receive medals of honor
and certificates of merit, under gen.
eral order.
Some of the largest oil producers of
Russia are planning combination to
open distributing agencies in England.
This will cut down the price at which
England is now buying oil.
Charles Kerney, the deaf mute teach
err, known widely in all portions of the
United States, killed himself at Deca-
tur, Illinois, the other day. III health
is given as the cause.
Many of the natives are attacked
with cholera in the streets of Cairo and
die in few min utes. The epidemic is
virulent.
The trustees of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, south, have decided to
raise S., 900, 900 endowment fund the
interest of which is to go to superan-
nuated ministers, widows, and or
phaRs.
The continued bad weather threat
ems to ruin the Portuguese vintage
and the vines have been seriouly at
tackled BY mildew.