The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-01-22
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

A receiver has been appointed for
the Gill Lumber company of Cleveland,
Ohio.
The weekly report of deaths from
pneumonia in New York City gives the
number at 239.
The Russian government is said to
have threatened to occupy Pekin should
China aid japan.
The legislative, executive and ju-
dicial appropriation bill, as passed by
the house, carries $29, I'll roo.
The Colorado State Federation of La
Dor adopted resolutions denouncing
the state administration for calling
out the militia.
Charles Foster former secretary of
the treasury and former governor of
Ohio, died of paralysis at Springfield,
Ohio, on January 8.
Private Blake, of the 18th United
States artillery, committed suicide at
Santiago, Cuba. He hanged himself
by his belt in railroad cut
There is a species of brook trout
found in Nebraska which are more
hardy and thrive better than those
from the hatcherics.
The celebration of the formation of
the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
l.. 4 -, l,o hold ~ O,,,obn on, Nov, 90 ,,av+
the fiftieth anniversary of that event.
Brigadier Frederick D. Grant has as
sumed command of the department of
the Lakes in accordance with the ter
ritorial redistricting army act recently
passed by congress.
The lower house of congress commit
tee ON judiciary fixed February "a, 25
and 20 as dates for hearing of the
-Grosvenor anti-union bill The oppo-
-nents of the measure will be heard
first.
The National Wool Growers Con-
vention at Portland, Ore, filled the
theater there with sheepmen from the
western states and representatives of
allied interests from all over the coun-
try.
The city building commissioner of
Chicago, when GO halls had been ex-
amined, reported that only FIVE
needed no changes to conform with
the law. The other SO were ordered
closed.
And now, after exhausting a long
list-of material for railway ties they
are being made of scrap leather. They
are ground and nodded hard enough
to hold spikes, and are expected to last
35 years.
The Rock Island road has contracted
for IA acres at Tucumcari n. NJ, atS125
an acre, for terminals of the Choctaw
extension from Amarillo, Texas.
Ex-Congressman briggs, of Brooklyn,
has been sentenced to a day in Jail and
a fine of 81 900 for accepting money to
promote contract with the postofice
department.
Commodore William DUNCAN, U. S.
N, retired, died at his home in Balti-
more. During the Spanish war he was
a member of one of the navy depart
ment advisory boards.
The Pennsylvania coke trade has
started upward again. In week 4, 496 |
more ovens were fired at Scottdale.
In England discovery has been
made of quick process of carbonizing |
peat, which promises to the world a
vast supply of new fuel at a much |
lower cost to the consumer.
If either Russia or Japan should ac-
quire dominant position in Manchu-
ria as the result of war, the United |
States will still insist on retaining |
whatever privileges in Manchuria were
conveyed to her by China by treaty.
The most reliable news received at
st. Petersburg is that the. mass of Rus
sian troops in the far east are concen-
trated at VladivOstock or on the north
ern frontier of Korea
Another attempt to wreck train in
Colorado has occurred. The spikes
and fish plates were removed from two
rails at Adobe. on the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad.
Unless congress relieves manila
hemp from export duty, France will
impose tax on other goods shipped
TO that country.