The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-08-12
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

In IL VIVC Nv UuiLIt
Secretary of War Taft will speak
at the st. Louis exposition on Ma
Mia Day." August 13.
The government denies the rumor
that permission has been granted
the Russian mine ship Diana to pass
the Dardanelles.
The Commercial Cable company of
New York, has been advised of the
interruption of the cable between
Malta and Tripoli, cutting off tele-
graphic communication with the lat
ter place.
At Paris the condition of former
Premier Waldeck-Rousseau causes
serious anxiety. 1t is feared that
the operation for stomach trouble
of four months back, has not resulted
in permanent cure.
At New York a naval board is in
vestigating reports that certain pet
ty officers ON the receiving ship Han
cock, stationed at the Brooklyn navy
yards, have been selling ratings or
promotions to sailors for cash.
WI Ting Fang, for some years the
Chinese minister at Washington, &C.
cording to his son, WI Chao Chu, has
resigned the vice presidency of the
foreign board at Pekin and is said to
have permanently retired from pol
itics.
Chief Wilkie of the United States
secret service announces the discov-
cry of a new counterfeit $40 national
bank note. 1t is on the National Bank
of Commerce of New York, series of
1882, Bruce Register, Wyman, treas
urer.
Governor Beekman Winthrop left
San Juan on his first tour of inspec-
ton of Porto Rico. He desires to ac-
quaint himself in the conditions ex-
listing in Porto Rico. His tour will
include the cities of Ponce, Arecibo
and Mayaguez.
ceived in audience General Count
Koutaissoff, military governor of IT.
kutsk, Siberia, which lends support
to the rumors that Count Koutaiss-
off will succeed the late M. Won
Plehve as minister of the interior.
Hamilton White Swift, of SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, a relative of Andrew d.
White, former ambassador to Ger
many, shot himself with a rifle at
Lost Lake, in the Adirondacks. Des-
pondency and i'll health were the caus-
es. He formerly was engaged in the
newspaper work.
No details have been received Of
the sinking of the British Steamer
Knight Commander by the Vladivos-
tok squadron except the statement
to the effect that portion of the
crew and passengers and the ships
papers are held for production as ev-
idence in court to justify the claim
that the ship was a legal prize and
therefore subject to confiscation.
At Fall River, Mass, the close of
the first week of the cotton mill
strike involved 10000 operatives. and
81 mills here finds the situation with
out a change since the strike orde
went into effect.
At Wilksbarre, Pa, between 15.--
900 and 10000 miners of the Wyom-
ing region from Pittston to Nantocke
began their spell of idleness on Aug
ust 1st. owing to the suspension on
account of curtailment in the produc-
ton.
Information has been received at
the worlds fair state building that
Judge and Mrs. Alton B. Parker have
accepted the invitation of National
| Committeeman Norman f. Mack to
be his guests on New York day. Oc-
tober 4.
The American embassy at Paris de-
clares that there is no truth in the
report that Waldrcu Shapleigh, the
student at West Lebanon, Me-. who
committed suicide by swallowing
strychnine. was a nephew of Ambassa-
dor Porter. The ambassador never
heard of him previous to his death.
Germany's foreign trade for the
last six months shows that the i'm
ports amounted TO s795.O0O.oO. an in
crease Of s25.0O0.OOO over the cores
ponding period last year. and the ex-
ports aggregated 1927 .0OO, 600. an in
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