The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-04-17
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The rebels still have possession of
the city of San Domingo.
Every gambling house at Denver.
COL, is closed on an order by the city
! government
Insurgent and Turkish troops are
having battles daily in Melsho, north
of Macedonia.
An explosion at the arsenal at Can
ton, China, 1900 persons are reported
to have been killed.
The antitrust law enacted in Texas
applies to labor unions as well as com.
binations of capital.
j. b. Atherton, the great sugar rails
er of Hawaii, is dead. He went to
Honolulu from Boston in 1855
The supreme court of Indiana has de-
clared unconstitutional the state law
enacted in 1899 for a weekly pay day.
Rev. Henry Milburn, the blind
chaplain of the United States senate.
died at Santa Barbara, Cali, on April
&c.
The city of Paris has 10, 617 octogena-
rians, and 53l people who are 80 years
DID, of whom So will be centenarians
during 1908.
Halyard's hardware store in Joplin,
Mo-, has been robbed six times in the
past ninety days. Firearms has been
the usual loot.
The railroads have commenced call
ing in p;,sses to shippers, explaining
that the Elllins law forbids the issuing
Of such passes.
tornodo swept over Owingsvlle
Ky, and vicinity on April 8, doing
great damage to the tobacco planta-
tions and buildings.
Rev. Mrg. Il. u. Rocker, secretary of
the apostolic delegation at Washington,
has been appointed bishop Of Nueva
Caccras, Philippines.
John w. Church and wife have dis.
appeared from his ranch in Colorado.
He was formerly in the Union Pacific
general Office at Omaha.
Because of the succession of accidents
which have occurred recently in the
navy, Il board of officers is to be an.
pointed to revise the drill regulations.
Saloon keepers of New York city
have declared boycott of the products
of New York farmers They also ask
the brewers, grocers and produce inen
to join them in the boycott. This ac-
ton is taken to get even with the
farmer members of the Legislature for
putting an additional tax on liquor
sellers
A case is pending in the United
States supreme court which involves
the validity of the eight hour Law of
Kansas. The law was sustained by
the courts of Kansas and appealed to
the court of the last resort.
The Rt Rev. Geo. Montgomery, CO.
adjutor archbishop of San Francisco,
has been appointed archbishop of Ma
Mia.
Reports from Maryland tell of the
destruction by freezing of the prospects
for both the peach and strawberry
crops
One of the largest convention halls |
in the country is to be built at Los An
gcles, California, to have a seating ca
pacity of over IL, 900 people.
Wool shipments from Australia to |
the United States last year amounted
$4,000 bales, a decrease of i,7S0 bales |
from those of the previous season.
The Holland submarine boat Gram.
pus has demonstrated her ability as a
vessel of war at San Francisco by dis
charging a torpedo at a range of $50
yards and striking a stationary target
squarely in the center
The postoffice at Wellington, Ohio
was robbed of 81, 500 in cash and stamps
The robbers took tools from black
smith shop and also used dynamite
Three members of Philadelphia
school district board have been con-
victed of accepting brides from woman
school teachers for positions in the
schools
Mrs. Susan Updike is in Jail at Akron,
Ohio. She confessed TO killing Andrew
Fosnacht, who was peeping into the
windows of her home. by hitting him ]
on the head with a club.