The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-03-13
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Netherlands Staats General has
measure before it TO amend the con-
stitution to extend suffrage to all men
and women over 81 years of age.
The lower house of the Maine legis-
lature defeated n proposition to result
NIT the prohibitory law, now nearly
so years old, by vote Of "a to 46.
1t is said that the Santa Fe has /, O64
miles of road operated by the block
system of signaling. OF this twenty
four miles is operated automatically.
United States Minister Squiers has
handed to President Palma of Cuba the
signed naval station agreement Pres
ident Palma will ask the senate to APP
prove it.
The three 16,0oo-ton batttleships are
to be named Kansas, Vermont and
Minnesota, and the two 12,O0O-ton YES
sells, Mississippi and Idaho.
The Martin, Indiana, circuit court
conviction, or pleas of guilty, of selling
their votes. Fifty-six eases yet remain
to be tried.
The reciprocity treaty between the
United States and Cuba, now being
considered by the senates of both re-
publics, meets with opposition in the
Cuban senate.
There are three Clarlls in the U. S.
senate. The Wyoming and Montana
senators spell their names without the
final &C." while Senator Clarke of
Arkansas has il.
Governor Taft, of the Philippines,
may be called to the Chief Justiceship
Of the U. S. supreme court, as Chief
Justice Fuller desires to retire on ac-
count of poor health.
The steamer Montauls, which has
sailed for Hango, England, carried the
largest cargo of oats ever taken out of
Portland, Me-, about 100000 bushels.
This cargo goes for the relief of the
starving Finlanders.
Elder Uriah Smith, for So years con-
tinuously the editor of the Adventist
Review and Herald, and an author
who is known all over the world among
that denomination, died suddenly at
his home in Battle Creek, Mich
The number of bills introduced DUR
ing the Fifty-seventh congress aggre-
gated 1880, of which 3,ols were
reported and more than 1000 passed.
The house calendar is clearer at the
close of this session than ever before.
Owners of property along the west
bank of the Chicago river, between
Madison and Randolph streets, have
been awarded total of $697, CSC 80
damages by jury for the condemna-
ton of their property by the sanitary
district.
The revolutionary movement in South
China is growing more serious Pill
laying of towns is a frequent occur
renee.
A light earthquake has been felt
recently in the Island of Dominica,
British West Indies.
j. P. Morgan gave dinner, while in
Havana, to Minister Squiers. A few
prominent Cubans were among the
guests.
Business is suspended and schools
are closed in Morristown, n Y, on
the ST Lawrence, on account of an
epidemic of diphtheria.
A Berlin paper Organ of the butch
ers) asserts that the London branch of
the American packers trust is making
great efforts TO acquire oleomargarine
factories in Germany AMI Holland, in
tending to form trust out OF them.
The pension department has 1850
male employees and only $50 women, of
whom 20 are charwomen. The rcduc-
ton of the female clerks and stenog-
raphers was made under Commissioner
Evans.
: colima Mexico disputes the published
statement that there was panic there
At the time OF the recent eruption OF
The volcano. which is said to have been
slight
In Chicago a grand jury turned out
! grlst of IS indictments against opera J
.Ors Of slot mackineS