The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-02-06
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The New Mexico territorial treasury
has surplus of $3S0,00O
An American chamber of congress
has been organized in Berlin with 1o1
members
Abraham Lineoln's old home in
Springfield, ILL.,, caught fire and came
near being destroyed the other day.
John d. Rockefeller has men at work
in his private park cutting cord wood
which he sells to the poor at So cord.
A crusade in Chicago resulted in the
indictment of 121 owners Of slot ma
chimes scattered over the city, most of
them against cigar dealers and saloon
keepers
The department of state has proposed
that congress provide diplomatic and
consular officers with fund to help
destitute Americans stranded abroad
to get home.
A large shipment of contraband
quails was seized by the game wardens
of Cleveland, Ohio, and the quails were
sent to the city hospital whsre the
poor patients Toasted on them.
The Mexican Tobacco and Cigarette
Corporation incorporated at Treuton,
n. j., two weeks ago with on author
lied capital of $10O, 900, has filed papers
increasing it's capital to sl2, 600, 600.
Miss Helen Gould built 2,o90 gal
lon tank on her estate and filled it
with kerosene from which she supplies
her FIFTY employees with fuel, Poor
families are supplied with Oil from
wagons free.
The Venezuelan government has re-
ceived from banks in Mexico, Buenos
Ayres, and other South American cities
offers of funds to pay the foreign
claims. Similar proposals have been
received from Paris.
An expedition is being fitted ont 1T
Stockholm to settle the question of
whether it will pay to establish lead
mines in Greenland. Another eXpedi-
ton will be sent to catch whales on
Greenland's south coast.
The big lumber mills of Port Blank
eley, Washington, together with $4,000
acres of timber lands in Macon and
Kitsap counties, have been sold for
So, 900, 600 20 II syndicate of Michigan
lumbermen
A general Strike is on among railroad
men of Amsterdam and communica-
tons were received from all the rail
road centers of Holland that the men
are ready to strike on signal from
Amsterdam.
United states Minister Powell de-
mands of the Dominican government
a reply TO his demand for immediate
payment of the $3.50, 900 alleged to be
due to the Clyde line of steamers
Great Britain, Germany and Italy
have agreed together to consent to the
immediate removal of tine Venezuelan
blockade as soon as an agreement be.
cluded.
The sentence upon Col. Arthur Lynch
convicted of high treason in England is
committed to penal servitude for life.
Kansas Day was duly celebrated in
Topeka with banquet and speeches,
As Kansas is AZ years old the attend
ance included many native Kansans.
vesuvius is again in eruption. De-
donations are heard in Rome and a
stream of incandescent lava is issuing
from the volcano which is surrounded
with thick smoke.
The Pennsylvania r. X. Co., is to
make new line around Pittsburg 70
enable it to take freight around the
crowded terminals there, and relieve
the new York and Chicago route.
The Christian Herald's famine fund
for the relief of the suffering peasantry
of Finland, 400, 900 Of whom are re-
ported to be on the verge ofstarvation,
now exceeds SEQ, 900.
The Chicago city council passed a
bill appropriating se5, 900 with which
to purchase coal for the destitute Ac-
ton also taken will probably result in
the establishment of two municipal coal
yards
For the FIRST time in the history of
New Mexico every member Of the leg
islative council speaks English huently.