The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-10-09
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.


The Shah of Persia has divorced 1854
of his wives
Nearly 05, 600 foreigners camo to the
United States in August.
Mere than 5000, 900 in American cot.
ton goods go annually to Abysinnia.
A heavy rain has checked the forest
fires in the northeastern portion OF
Maine.
The convcyor of the Southern Pacific
elevator at Galveston is destroyed by
fire. Loss, 800, 900.
The Peruvian government at Lima
denies that the bubonic plague has APP
peared at Lima and Callao.
The lower branch Of the Baltimore
council has appropriated $4,000 for
the determination of mosquitoes.
A 1,000-acre forest on an estate at
KolIitnit, near Benthcn, province of
Silesia, has been destroyed by fire.
Five buildings were destroyed by an
explosion at the Cornell powder mills
at Shamolsin, Pa. No one was injured.
Tie present strength of the organized
militia of the United States is about
100, 900 enlisted men and 5000 officers.
The University of Porto Rico was
opened with the enrolment OF $50 nor
NAL students. 1t is the first establish
ed on the island.
Serious riots have occurred at Buda
Pest, Hungary. Striking van drivers
came in conflict with the police and GO
persons were injured, ten of them scri-
ously.
President Lathrop OF the Pennsyl-
vania Coal & Coke company, says that
what little difficulty there is between
the miners and the operators is purely
local.
Governor Peabody, of Colorado is
sustained by the attorney general in
his decision that no civil court has
right to arrest militia officer while
in service of the state.
In the ffty-eighth congress there
there will DC n men who fought in the
civil war; Al on the union side, 80 with
the rebels. In the senate there are an
equal number of union and rebel SOL
dicrs, 10 of each.
+. s. Smith, of South Bend, Ind. has
II patents for an invention which is Il
generator of steam without the use of
boiler. 1t saves fuel, does away
with safety valves. There is no stor-
age as every ounce of steam is used us
fast as generated.
street Car in Chicago crowded
with people returning from the races
was struck by passenger train at a
crossing and five people were killed.
Everyone in the car was injured. The
accident resulted from wet tracks upon
which the street car slid with locked
wheels
The balance of foreign trade in favor
of the United States for the first eight
months of this year was over 5000, O00,-
900, which is heavier than the credit
balance af any other nation for the
same period.
The Fort Wayne, Ind, gas wells are
To-. k,... ..I
consumers are shut off. There have
been As new wells put down this sum
mcr but not one of them was profit
able producer.
Six of the strikers from the Santa Fe
shops at LA Junta who own property
in La Jrnta have been taken back.
The others will not be again employed
at that place.
The American steamer Sierra, which
has sailed from Sydney for San Fran.
cisco, carries $3.50, 600 in GOLD.
There is actual war at the Canadian
Zoo. between the lumber companies
and their woodmen. The rioting ex-
tends across the river into Michigan.
The rioting mob is mostly composed Of
Italians, Firms, Norwegiaus and
Frenchmen; ali ignorant
Christian Pepper. a 81. Lonis tobac-
CO manufacturer, left fortune valued |
n 81, 900, COO.
Twelve hundred schools in Porto |
Rico opened with Go,Oco pupils Three
times that number struggled for
preference