The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-12-18
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

On Wall street stocks incline to 4
lower level.
Half of the Messina orange and lemon
crop has been destroyed by q hailstorm.
Fire destroyed tine wholesale mil
linery stock of Lahman Bros, at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. Loss SIS, 000.'
Colorado coal operators declare that
no concessions INVOLVING recognition of
the Miners Union will be considered.
judge Kohlsaat has refused the de-
mand of some of the Dowic creditors
to change the order made in the Dowie
case.
VIM. r. Vice, the dcfaulting passen-
ger agent at San Francisco of the
Southern Pacific, has been located in
Honduras.
Secretary Root is defending General
Wood against charges of faulty adj
ministration of Cuban affairs while
governor of Cuba.
The record shows that the enroll
mcnt for 1903 in the public schools OF
Iowa was only $50, 2Ol, as against $780,.
173 the year before.
The Democratic national committee
is to meet at Washington on January
II to decide upon tho time and place
TO hold the national convention.
The Epworth hotel ut st. Louis will
be in readiness to take care of Metho-
dists on and after April 80, who visit
st. Louis during the worlds fair.
In Germany they are beginning to
cut down trees by electricity. A plat
mum sire is heated to II white heat by
an electric current and used like
saw.
An explosion and fire at Armstrong;
cord factory, at Pittsburg, Pa, serious
ly burned seven persons. One man is
missing. Over 100 girls were carried
down ladders by the police
Commander Cameron McR. Winslow
has been designated as naval aid to
the president to succeed Captain W. S.
Cowles, who has been assigned TO COM
mand the new battleship, Missouri.
Shipments of stockers and feeders to
the country last week from Kansas
City were 494 cars, against 430 cars the
previous week and 472 cars the same
week last year. Kansas got 252 cars.
The war department is ut work to
develop coal mine on small island
off the east coast of Luzon, P. l., so
that coal can be supplied in the Phil
ippines instead of Australia and japan.
Forest fires have swept over 80 miles
of the coast and in and out of canyons
from the coast to Santa Monica, Cal,
and are still raging in the noun
tains. The extremes of the fire are
six miles apart and spreading in both
directions. The weather is intensely
cold.
Tho first partial report of the U. S.
grand jury, sitting in Omaha, returned
indictments against ten ranchmcn for
unlawfully fencing public lands. The
ten men are among the foremost
ranchmen of Nebraska.
Swift & Co., it is said, will increase
their capital stock to S35, 900, 900 to buy
distributing markets i'll New England
and refrigerator cars in the West.
A case has been started to test in
the supreme court the validity of Gov.
Peabody proclamation suspending the
writ of habcas corpus in the mining |
region of Colorado
The Supreme court of Minnesota de-
clares that the State is under no moral |
obligation to pay sugar bounty under
the law enacted in 1895 and declares
the law unconstitutional.
The birth rate of France and Ger
many is 147 for Germany to each Is
children born in France.
A fire in the bedroom of Queen Alex
andra of England placed that lady in
some danger. the heaviest loss was
upon furniture and the queens treas
ured lSnicls lSnaclSs, mostly by water.
DR. wentz, of Philadelphia, says
there is nothing in the public reports
his eon, Edward l.. Wsntz,
and that he only knows that he has
Tho reports say he was
for a ransom. l