The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-12-16
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

In st. Petersburg orders have been
issued for the mobilization of the Sec
ond Volga regiment and the Terek
cossacks.
A boat from the Turkish corvette
Mansura, manned by forty seamen has
sunk in the road-stead. Nineteen of
the crew were drowned
At Dayton, Ohio, Charles Fraver, 81.
years of age, shot and killed his wife
and then himself. The cause of the
double tragedy is mystery.
The first armistic between the COM
batants at Port Arthur was declared
December for the purpose of bury
ing the dead. 1t lasted for period of
six hours.
The Japanese troops occupied
Kasaka hill, fronting on Port Arthur
December G. The Russian armored
cruiser Bayan is reported to be
aground.
The navy department is informed
that the cruiser Columbia and the dis
patch boat Dolphin, with Secretary
Taft and his party as passengers, left
Colon for Pensacola
The superior Armenian clergy have
petitioned the government to restore
church property seized under the Won
Plehve regime. 1t is believed the Pc
titiOn will be granted.
At Lincoln, Neb., the supreme court
ruled that Thomas Dehnison of Omaha
is subject to eXtradition to Iowa to
stand trial on the charge of completely
with Frank Sherclffe in the Pollock
diamond robbery.
An international conference con-
corning the status of hospital ships in
war time will be held at The Hague
December Is. A majority of the pow
ers will be represented by their re-
spective ministers.
The appointment of Rear Admiral
Davis to represent the United States
on the international commission on
the North Sea incident is favorably
commented upon by government Off.
Gals and naval officers at Paris.
The postmaster general has ap
pointed former Congressman James
Rankin Young of Philadelphia, super.
intendent of the dead letter Office to
fill the vacancy caused by the death
of D. P. Leibhart last September.
Lieutenant General Grippenberg,
commander of the second Manchurian
army, has arrived at Hardin.
In Rome the condition of General
Ricciotti Garibaldi is improved, and
his physicians now have hopes of his
recovery.
At Lima, Ohio, r. E. Woods. secre-
tary of the Home and Savings bank,
over $4,000, and who forbade his at.
torneys for asking for a new trial,
was sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary.
According to the secretary of the
bureau, who managed all conventions
and congresses at the Worlds Fair,
100000 persons attended the 245 ma
tional and international gatherings
held in ST. Louis, as a result of the
exposition.
Warrants charging grand larceny.
second degree, have been granted
against former President Emory, |
Cashier Paul Wiener and Assistant
Cashier William P. Leudeke of the
German bank, which was closed by |
the state banking department several |
days ago at Buffalo, N. Y.
A dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger |
from Kieff, Russia. announces that 20 |
persons have lost their lives there |
through drinking poisoned brandy.
The Mexican astronomical society |
has awarded its chief prize. gold |
medal, to Professor Pickering of Har- |
ward University, who discovered the
ninth satellite of Saturn.
Sasoneff, the assassin of Minister
of the Interior Won Plehve. has recov-
cred from the wounds he received
from the explosion of the bomb that !
killed the minister