The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-12-11
Chicago Futures.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Governor Bliss, of Michigan, has
voluntarily relinquished his pension
Geo. w. Waite, promoter of build
ing the city OF Chicago is dead, aged 81.
The appraisal of the estate OF Coils
y. Huntington amounts to s2s. 3oi, 7o5.
Sir Henry NJ. Durano, the new Brit
ish ambassador, has arrive at Wash
ington.
Judge VIM. Springer, of Indian Ter
riaory, is dead in Washington from
pneumonia.
The Republicans OF Louisiana will
offer 5000, 600 for the next national
convention.
The Kansas building at St Louis is
completed and the commission is hay
ing it fitted MP.
There was sold in the Kansas City
market in 1902, 1904, $40 cattle and
10, AT, 39s hogs.
St, Paul's German Lutheran church
1T Fort Wayne, Ind, is destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000
Senator Frye, OF Maine boasts of be-
ing the only great-grandfather in the
United States senate.
The grand jury in Honolulu has in
dictcd some members of the Hawaiian
Legislature for grating.
The total income OF American farm
crs for last year was abou: five billion
five hundred million dollars.
Six hundred glass workers who have
been idle since last winter are again
working at New Castle, Pa.
Panama citizens turned out to II
man for The demonstration following
the signing OF the canal treaty.
There is n demand from Denver upon
tine coal market ut Kansas City. Quo
tations for trainloads are asked for.
A Justice of the peace ut Telluride,
Co.., issued 1t of John Doe warrants
to the sheriff 20 be used in disposing
of trouble breeders.
The international Banking Corpora
ton Of New York, has made n further
engagement for importation ofS125 900
gold IN Japanese yen.
Manufacturers in the Fox river val
ley in Illinois gave notice OF return
TO ten hour day. There are 1000
wage carners affected. At Batavia
$50 machinists quit work.
France denies the report circulated
in the United States that the French
Colony of 81 Pierre and Miquelon, off
the coast of Newfoundland, was to be
sold b. France 10 that country.
The brief sessions of the senate last
week were confined to routine business.
The sessions averaged less than half an
hour. During two sessions OF the house
OF few minutes each, several newly
elected mem bers were sworn in. This
gives them mileage FOR the special scs'
sion.
Storage passengers 10 the number
Of | 500 have sailed from New Yorl,
for Liverpool. This is the largest
number of steerage passengers ever
carried from the United States on one
steamer.
The United States exceed by s94s, ooC
the amount expended during the fiscal
year for postal service oy Germany,
which in this particular has expended
the largest amount among ali foreign
governments.
Major c. +. Kilibourne, paymaster
of the department OF Dakota and ex-
treasurer OF the Philippines, diei on 4
train near Chicago on December 1.
The country house OF VIM. W. Har-
rison. "Ine Towers" at Gleuside, u
suburb of Philadelphia. has been
robbed Of jcwelry valued at SOS, 600.
A private at C,mp Gold6eld, Cripple
Creek. has been arrested as a spy and
he will be irie by court mortal Ad'
iutant General Bell said that the man
WIS employed as detective Sy the
Miners union.
Since September IS Butler, Pa, has
had ! 800 cases OF typhoid fever and i
deaths. The cause is said to b the
pollution Of water used.
The gunboat Bancroft, which regent
" has served rs station ship 1t San
Iuau. Porto Rico, has gone from Pen
sacola. Ia, 10 Colon.