The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-08-07
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

NJ night is magnificent spectacle.
Two buildings were wrecked by ar
explosion in Pueblo of ammonia. H
p. VIM was killed
The Turkish cruiser built at the
Cranp shipyards at Philadelphia wa:
launched cd June 25.
Five hundred firms in the City o.
Mexico have been found guilty o.
evading the stamp tax.
An explosion in the tower of "a dis
tillery at Terre Hautc, Ind, destroyed
the entire plant by fire.
The clergy of Kishinef, Russia, have
been instructed to- labor 10 allay the
antiSemitic religious hatred.
The Irish land bill has passed its
first reading in the house of lords.
The second reading was fixed for Aug.
ust 8.
Negroes are migrating to the south
from Illinois and Indiana, in large
numbers, on account of the recent
riots.
Kingdom, oldest son of George j.
Gould, is to enter Columbia university
to train himself as mechanical en-.
gineer.
The Oceanic Steamship company S
steamer Sierra has sailed from Sydney
for San Francisco with S., 800 900 iii
gold on board.
For the first time since 1898 there has
been a complete suspension of work on
extensions of the Choctaw system, and
great numbers of men were idle.
An official of the state department
asserts that all obstacles to The opening
of the ports of Manchuria to the mar
lets of the world have been removed.
The construction company which is
building the Orient railway has in
creased its capital stock from ST, 900, 900
to $40, 900, 900 to provide for building
branch lines.
Four more indictments have been re-
turned by the grand jury against A.
w. Machen, the former general super
intendent of free delivery service of
the postofficc department.
When Judge Hook took his position
three years ago there were 504 cases on
the docket in the Kansas district.
There are now only $50 eases. Most CT
the old cases have been disposed Of
The battleship Kcarsarge crossed the
Atlantic in nine days, coming from
Portsmouth, England, to Bar Harbor,
Maine This closed cruise of 5000
miles without single accident to ma
chinery.
Russia has not only notified the
United States that she will raise no
objection to the opening of ports in
Manchuria to the trade of tie woxld,
but she has said the same thing to
England and Japan and it is believed
to every other power.
Nat w. Newell, who was a major in
the Union army during the civil war,
Just died at Pine Bluffs, Ark, at the
age of 49, Though entitled to an $50
month pension he would never take
cent He was schoolmate and boy
hood friend of VIM. Mckinley,
The steamship Mongolia, built for
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
was launched at Camden, n. j. The
Mongolia is the second largest ship
ever built in the United States. She
is to be used in the Philippine and
China trade. Her sister ship, the Man
churia, will be launched in October.
A. B.. Youngson, who succeeded p.
NJ. Arthur as the head of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, died at
Meadville, Pa, on July 80. Before his
death he named NJ. II. Shay. of Youngs-
town, Ohio, as his successor.
The board of governors of the Build
ing Trades employers association of
New York ordered all members of the
association to start work on buildings
at once, usin g any houseshiths, hoist
ing engineers and shorers who would
individually sign their plan of arbitra-
ton.
At the end of the fiscal year the state
ment of the treasury balances in the
general fund, exclusive of the $3.50, OOO,-
900 gold reserve in the division of re-
dcmption, shows: Available cash bal
ance s297. sO7. OOs; gold SOS, 9is, 400.