The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-01-09
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


cree, is reduced to $1,000 men.
Rural teachers in Iowa receive less
than dollar day on an average.
The cattle quarantine in Rhode Is
land and Connecticut has been raised.
1t transpires that large and enor-
mously rich diamond fields exist north
of Pretoria, South Africa.
Superintendent j. j. Dicliey of the
Western Union Telegraph Co., died at
his home in Omaha of pneumonia on
December 90
William l.. Elkins will found a home
in Philadelphia for orphan girls,
daughte.s of Free Masons, TO cost half
"A million dollars.
The four million persons of the Dis
trct of Columbia and of Maryland,
Virginia and West Virginia are suffer
ing from the coal famine.
The Iowa State Teachers association
adopted resolutions in support of the
use of the use of the Bible in connec-
tcn with moral training.
Letters of administration of the es-
tate of the late Bret Harte have been
granted in London. The total value
of the estate is placed at 81, 500.
The rate on wheat from the border
to Mexico City, by request of the gov
eminent is cut from $.4 to Sl4 Il ton.
This will encourage importations from
the United States
The pope is about to issue an ency-
clical against the practice of duelling.
lie will appeal to all Christian govern
ments to suppress the practice which
is described as u survival of the middle
ages
The naval committees of congress
have decided to authorize the appoint
ment of one more naval cadet for each
congressional district, two for each
senator and ten, annually, at large, APP
pointed by the president.
Superintendent of Telegraph Gaunt
is holding no negotiations with the
telegraph operators as reported. The
policy of the road is against recog
nizing the Telegraphers' union, but
there is no discrimination against
union men.
Near Crook, Colo, boy tried &c
find his way acme from his herd in a
blizzard. He lost his way but his
horse took him to the corral where
there was a ranchman. The boy wat
unconscious and frozen to his saddle.
He will probably recover but the horse
died.
The l6. 900 inhabitants of Pottsville,
Pa, were, with scarcely an exception
seriously affected by the leaking of a
naptha pipe at the gas plant. Hun
dreds were nearly stified. The acci
dent occurred just before dawn ano
the condition lasted the greater par
of the day. Every house in town wa:
filled with the gas.
Henry Phipps of the Carnegie Stee
company, who is now travelling in In
dia, sent to Isador Strauss $4,000
as Christmas present to the EAuca
tional alliance.
The commissioner of patents ha!
rendered a decision announcing that II
is against public policy for the Office
TO lend its sanction to the use of tn,
presidents name by registering any
trademark therefor without his ex
press consent.
Mrs. General U. S. Grant left a for
tune of sl35, 900 to be divided equally
to her four children. The will pro
vides that y memento given to her by
the empress of Japan, said to be 1,Oo'
wears old, shall go to to the Metropol
itan museum of art, at New York.
The most serious phase of the Vene
zuelan trouble is in the fact that all o.
the South American republics are in
debted TO Europeans in amounts be
yond the possibility of ever being
liquidated.
All anthracite mines of the Phila'
delphia Coal and Iron Co, and al
mines in the Wyoming region are now
working TO their full capacity.
II is reported in Berlin papers that
Prince Henry Of Prussia is going e
come TO the United States again in
1904, ts visit the S. Louis exposition.