The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-11-13
Wichita 1.-Two Stock
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

than the United States.
Dowie complains that many checks
contributed to his fund are bogus
The ratio of error in delivering mails
is one error to 1850 correct deliveries
Fire has destroyed $50 buildings at
Coney Island with loss of 1900, 900.
The Santa Fc is spending $50, 600 on
Kansas City terminals, mostly in Ar
gcntinc, Kansas
Commissioner Ware estimates that
there will be IA drop of 81, 700, 900 in the
pension roll next year.
Wales have formed II combine which
can put cut Il million tons year.
The plague has increased ut Rio
Janeiro and vessels from all Brazilian
ports are required to be disinfccted.
Notices are posted at the Trinidad,
COL, mines for miners to report for
work or they will never be employed
again.
The Cuban senate will pass the ma
tional lottery bill, but though congress
may pass it, President Palma has de-
clared his intention of vetoing it.
The invariablc policy of the United
States is TO deal with de facto govern
men.s which makes it certain that the
h.,
nized.
Statistics show that the production
of precious jewels in the United States
in 1902 amounted to $31S,3 while
sos, 4i2,7T6 worth of such stones were
imported into the country in the same
time.
The report of the commissioner OF
education for the last fiscal year places
the number of pupils enrolled in the
common schools during the year at 15,
995, SS7, or over 20 per cent of the entire
population.
The average daily attendance of tho
schools in the Uuitcd States for 1902
was 10, 900, 273, being 50 per cent of the
total number enrolled. This is the
largest average attendance of those en-
rolled ever reported.
Russia and Austria have sent an ul-
timatuIn to Turkey giving the Sultan
II fixed time to agree to their reform |
scheme in Macedonia, and if Turtcy |
still refuses the two powers will take
steps to compel Turkish action.
Rear Admiral Coghlan, who is COM
of the Caribbean sea
will be in supreme command
on the Atlantic side of the isthmus, and
Rear Admiral Glass will command the
naval force en- the Pacific side.
Marine engineers of Jacksonville
and Evansville, Ind, have been ordered
to strike.
The mail service carried last yeal
e72, 9?1 tons of second class matter re-
ccived from publishers, of which &c.
5O5, Ss4 pounds was carried within the
county of publication free of charge.
The carrying of mail cost the govern
mcnt during last year SEA 494, SAC.
There are 1,4Oo lines of travelling
pos.otiices railroads, steamboats, and
electric cars, covering 49,, 29s miles,
with 10, 555 employees
One of the great New York news
papers spends over $4,000 year for
editorial and literary work, $500, 900
or illustrations and s14o, 900 for tcle-
graphs, se4o, 600 for paper, and some
1850, 900 for other incidentals.
Window and plate glass is now
made by machinery worked by COM
pressed air by a Vineland, N. j.,
There is a suit filed in the district
.ourt at Denver for the purpose of set
ling the question as TO whether labor
Unions are partnerships.
The leading Canadian newspapers,
while catering to the populacc in choice
# words nearly all close their articles
IN the Alaskan boundary decision with
With confessions OF having been beaten
airly.
ALI telegraphers at the different sta
ions along the Rock Island line will
eccive an advance of from 12 % Is per
emit in wages November.
For the second time sam Parks, the
rallSing delegate, was convicted Of the
rhine of extortion. Il took the jury
nst IL minutes TO sgrce on guilt