The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-03-27
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Smallpox in mild form is epidemic
in Salt Lake, Utah.
American briclilayers are paid more
than twice as much as British masons.
| The work of the coal strike commits
is concluded and their report ready for
the printer.
There is little change in the strike
situation at Cripple Creek, Colo. Coal
mine operators have paid off their men
and stopped all work.
News of the action of the senate upon
the Cuban treaty discouraged the mer-
chants of Havana and the price of
sugar dropped rapidly.
Considerable damage was done to
Montapa's new state house by the
earthquake. Three great pillars in the
rotunda of the capitol were wrecked.
| The home of the late widow OF Gen
eral Grant in Washington has been sold
for $50, 600 Mrs. Grant left the place
to General Fred Grant who has sold it
| out of the family.
| The president has appointed Dr. w.
| ID. Crum, who has negro blood, collect
or of customs at Charleston, S. c. His
| previous nomination failed of confirma-
ton by the senate.
A loss of one life and from SIS, 600 to
$500, 600 resulted from guest in the
| Clarendon hotel at Grand Rapids,
| Michigan. carelessly throwing down u
| lighted match in his room.
| Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
| has dismissed three high army officials
| who insulted comrades for the purpose
of provoking duels. He called their
actions the work of loafcrs and black
guards
Register Cruiltshan1 of the United
States land Office at Los Angeles, has
| announced June Is as the date of open
inc of one million acres of land in Cali
fornia along the Colorado river to set
| Element.
Congress appropriated 81, 10000 for
| improvements at the mouth of Column
bia river, and work will commence in
June or July. The transport Grant is
being con eerted into dredging ship
for this purpose.
An opera singer of note in Europe
and in this country was seriously in
! iured by a shot through the car win
dow by which she was sitting. The
train was entering Guthrie, Okla. The
| shot cut her arm and broke the glass
| into atoms, the small pieces cutting
her face and arms, causing many
! wounds
Admiral Coghlan has been ordered
to proceed from San Juan, Porto Rico,
with his squadron to protect American
interests in Honduras ports, it being
considered more effective to send flag
officer with squadron instead of II
single ship.
s. n. d. North has been appointed di
rector of the census to succeed Director
| Merriam.
The reichstag has adopted the appro-
priation of $3.50, 900 to cover the ex-
penses of Germany's participation in
the st. Louis exposition.
Minister Combs, of Guatemala, bles
that the president of that country has
withdrawn troops from the frontier
aud that danger of war with Honduras
is removed.
f. J. Easley, division superintendent
of the Santa Fe at Newton, Kansas, is
to be transferred to the New Mexico
division, changing places with f. C.
Fox, who comes to Newton from New
Mexico.
A wireless telegraph system will he
used hereafter regularly between the
forts about New York harbor.
Stockholders in Kansas corporations
are no longer liable for double the cap
ital stock. The double liability law
has been repealed because it kept many
corporations from organizing under
Kansas laws.
The widow and children of General
Samuel Thomas have given $4,000 TO
the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat
hospital, as a memorial to General
Thomas
Firemen on the Gulf. Colorado &
Santa Fe have received an increase Of J
s wages averaging lax per cent