The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-04-10
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ia COI NEW NV DnIITs
The Iowa state senate voted 90 to IL,
to abolish capital punishment.
Holding up street cars is becoming
quite frequent in Kansas City, Mo.
Cholera has appeared at Damascus
on the eastern shore of the Mediterra-
mean sea-
Since March, 1900 national bank cir
culation has increased ST. 2S, 116, 5:S;
now being $342, l6o,770.
George J. Could with his two sons,
is on trip over the Gould system in
the west and southwest.
King Edward of England has visited
King Carlos of Portugal and then sailed
in his yacht to Rome to visit the Pope.
A violent earthquake occurred at Je-
rusalem on March 80. The population
were panic stricken, but the damage
done was slight.
A settlement of differences between
the Wabash railroad company and its
employees was said to be nearly COM
pleted ON April 6.
The assembly of the New York legis
lature has passed bill to increase the
| liquor license throughout the state
| five per cent. The vote was "a TO 81.
The United Railway company of
| Baltimore has increased the wages of
its $500 conductors motormen. The
advance will average from 10 to 20 per
| cent.
The home of Hamilton Bros, breed
ers of fine stock, south of Mexico, Mo-,
and fourteen head of horses and jacks
belonging to them, were consumed by
! fire Four of the horses were fine
stock.
Congress appropriated $50, 900 for the
expenses of the anthracite strike COM
mission, of which S12, 900 is returned to
the treasury. The stenographers got
$1,000 for their work but made $50, 600
more by making transcripts for inter
ested parties
The Berlin military authorities have
experimental with wireless biography
along the line of the military railroad
between Berlin and Zossen, and con-
| tinuous communication has been main
tanned between moving trains and the
signal stations.
Since the new legislation of last De-
cember, and up to the end of March,
1902, there have been added to the
number of national banks AL asso-
Citations with an aggregate capital of
$50, 1875, 500. On March 81 the number
of national banks was 4,S49 and their
authorized stock was $739, s30,659.
The secretary of the treasury pur-
chased on March 80 for Philippine
coinage $50, 900 ounces of silver at an
average of 49.s cents an ounce
The Ellis Island immigration bureau
reports that during March, 1876
aliens entered the port of New York,
an increase of 7,lO7 over the same
month of last year.
ArbuclSle Bros. have announced a
| further reduction of cents hundred
pounds on the price of refined sugars
making the price 4. s cents per pound
and the net price Az cents.
A third shipment of Canadian oats,
rye and barley has been ma lie for the
famine stricken Finlanders. There
were 1913, 900 bushels of the cargo.
Three hundred cigar makers in
Denver. Colo, quit work in sympathy
with the sixty women tobacco strip
pers, who are out on a strike for more
pay.
The New York board of aldermen
adopted resolution urging the pass
ing by the legislature of a bill author
izing the city to construct and operate
a lighting plant
A lunatic being taken TO the jack |
sonville, Ill, asylum on a Burlington |
train stabbed to death a deputy sheriff |
while the train was at Chaplin, III. |
The trainmen and passengers disarmed |
the lunatic while he was charging up
and down the platform, several of
them having narrow escapes.
Ii is stated at the war department
that General Wood is not TO become
governor of the Philippines as a sue
cessor to Governor Taft, even should
the illness of the latter cause his resig-s
nation.