The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-02-05
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

the FIJI islands.
The japanese government is buying
cattle in the Philippines.
The blizzard caught the Rock Island
with a train load of California fruit.
A gas explosion in a coal mine at
Cheswicl1, Pa, killed nearly $50 men.
The new constitution of Panama
will have an article prohibiting gamb-
ling.
jackson, Miss, had 13-inch snow
fall on January 20; the heaviest in 25
years
There has been an advance of three
cents in the price of coffee in whole
sale lots.
Since 1910 the worlds production of
meat has increased 81 per cent and
grain 400 per cent.
The prohibition of coal exports by
the Japanese government threatens to
create fuel famine in Manila.
The business portion of Parllersburg,
Va, and several residence districts
were under water for several days last
week.
Up to January 30 the Maryland leg
islature was still taking its one vote a
day for United States senator without
result
A shipment of 5000 bales of cotton
to Japan has left Houston, Texas, by
rail TO San Francisco. The shipment
required Al cars.
At Wheeling, w. Va, the flood cur
rent left large cakes of ice in all the
thoroughfares, in houses, yards and
lawns, piled up several feet high.
The Panama constitutional conven-
ton approved the keeping of $4,000, 900
of the money to be paid by the United
States untouched for future emergen-
cies.
Twenty coal operators employing
J,UUU miners dDOuU dycuucNlIc. W.
Va, unanimously voted not to reduce
wages to miners this year. This means
no strike.
Captain d. g. Parr, of Louisville,
KY, by his will left Ss5O,OOO to found
and support refuge for old and in
firm women, $500, 900 of which is avail
able at once.
Chairman Tams Bixby asked for an
additional appropriation of $3.50, 900 for
the Dawes commission which he de-
clared would be enough to complete
the work.
In nearly all the vineyards of Central
Asia the grapes are produced from cut
tings of American vines.
The District of Columbia is outbid-
ding New Jersey in the issuing of
charters to corporations.
During the last year California pro-
duced twice as much gold as Alaska,
and Colorado produced more than
three times as much.
Fire at Louisville, KY, destroyed the
Goddard storage warehouse, entailing
losses upon several wholesalers which
aggregate about S225,O0O
Europe has four and II half miles of
railroad for every 10000 people; the
United Statss has twenty-five.
The amount of cement made in this
country in 1908 was 25,753, 504 barrels,
valued at almost one dollar barrel.
England gets about five million dol
lars worth of new gold from Africa
every month and $1,000, 900 worth out
of Australia
Mrs. Ruth Brown Thompson, daugh-
ter of John Brown, THE Liberator,"
died at her home in Pasadena, Cali,
on January Is, aged rs years.
Heavy snow drifts on st. Louis street
car tracks held hundreds of people over
night at their places of business, they
being unable to reach their homes.
The estate of wisheld S. Stratton,
the original Cripple Creek miner, has
Just been appraised at 50, 900. The
state will claim $4,000 as inheritance
tax.
The Kansas City Journal observes:
Korea is about the size of Kansas. Fan
CIV Kansas sitting quietly and allowing
Russia and Japan TO come in and slice
up her real estate