The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-06-13
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

President Paul Kruger is quite sick
at Utrecht.
Central Nebraska had from three to
four inches of rain within four hours.
Special trains and special coaches on
regular trains are carrying the Shriners
to San Francisco this week.
1t is said that no railroad round
house has lightning rods and that no
railroad man believes in them.
Alphonso, the young King of Spain.
has expressed his desire that horse
racing may replace bull fights in his
kingdom
Two villages have been destroyed in
Bolivia. and 70 persons killed by the
eruption of Il volcano in the territory
of Chico.
Austria has awarded a contract to an
American manufacturer of type writers
to supply all government Offices in the
entire empire
There are 5000 idle men in Denver,
Col, and all building operations are
stopped. All employed in building
trades struck.
General Christian De Wet urges the
burghers 10 do their utmost to show
Great Britain what good colonists the
Beers can make.
Twenty of the largest planning mills
in Chicago have been united in a new
corporation called the American Sash
and Door Company.
The Western Labor Union conyG1
| ton at Denver endorsed the socialist
platform, and urged Union Labor men
to support that party.
A large planning mill and car equip
ment shop in a Chicago suburb is
burned with loss of 81 900, 900. There
were l, 100 men left unemployed.
White Rcdoubt, Mount Aliani and
Mount Augustine in Cook Inlet. Alaska,
have been throwing off smoke and
steam for the past seven months Re
doubt threw out Il sprinkling of
ashes.
The American Steel and Wire COM
| pany, it is said, has secured title to
100 acres of land at Beaumont. Texas,
near the Burt refinery and intends 10
erect S., 900, 600 factory on the site at
an early day. 1t is expected that the
factory will employ at least 5000 pco-
pie.
A department store firm of Sioux
City, Ia, has been indicted by the
federal grand jury for alleged viola
tions of the postal regulation in con-
Quoting the giving away of $4,000 i'll
prizes to the holders of lucky
numbers on tickets given with pur-
| chases.
Central Iowa is deluged and high
ways, railroad tracks, some buildings
and growing crops were damaged.
Corn was washed out in many places.
The steeple of the Baptist church at
Webster City was split from top to
bottom by lightning. At Clarinda 5.s4
inches of rain fell in three hours; Des
Moines got g. ii inches.
Edouard Renau de st. Michael, who
| Pierre, has arrived with his family IN
New York, penniless but happy, hav-
! ing been saved by the merest accident.
The Choctaw lines were merged with
the Rock Island on June l. Where
each had offices they are consolidated.
The Rock Island operates the Choctaw
lines as part of the Rock Island sys-
TEN, yet each line is operated sepa-
rately, but by Rock Island officials.
The U. S. battleship Hartford, for
merly Farragut's farship, is anchored
at Mobile, the scene of her former
victory.
John Henry Barrows, president of
Oberlin college, is dead from pleuro-
pneumonia at the age of As
R. j. C. Rohm, for fifty years pastor
of the First Evangelical Lutheran
church of Galveston, is dead from
stroke of paralysis, aged so years.
| Michecotie, Mich, has been sub
merged, and the people were COM
PEELED to leave their houses. Several
bridges were carried away and the
dam,is destroyed.
Famine in Corea is causing great
distress and many deaths. People strip
trees of bark and eat it. The governor
of ore province reports 41,a5s persons
on the verge of starvation.