The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-02-26
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The safety of missionaries in Korea
is now considered as secure.
Feb. 16 was the coolest day in north
ern Ohio since Feb. 10, 1899
Colombia has become quiet. Talk of
Panama seems to have subsidized.
On Feb. II there were 300 cases of
typhoid fever reported in Watertown,
New York.
The Russian embassy is being flooded
with offers of assistance from Ameri-
cans in various walks of life.
Fire at Minneapolis, Mimi, Quilted
the Printers Exchange bnilding, six
story brick. Loss, 100000.
The mercury went down to "A be-
low zero on February Il which is a
new record for New York city.
Seneca lake in New York, was frozen
from shore to shore from Starliey to
North Hector on February II, for the
first time since 1857.
Many organizations at Cleveland
have already taken up the proposition
of erecting memorial in that city to
the late senator Hanna.
The school savings bank system
which has been put in operation in
many places in New York state is now
declared to be violation of the bank
inf act.
The request of President Mitchell
that all miners should quit work dur
ing the afternoon of the day of Senator
Hanna's funeral was quite generally
observed.
The people of the United States eat
up $50, 900, 900 worth of candy in Il
year, and there are nearly 5000 fac
tories making it, with capital of S3S.-
coo, 900.
The report that the japanese have
concentrated about 10000 troops at
Wonson on the east coast of Korea
with the object of entering Manchuria
is confirmed.
So many offers of military and medi-
cal assistance have come to the Russian
embassy from Americans all over the
country that the Russian ambassador
has cabled to Russia for instructions
in the matter.
The union of the Presbyterian and
the Cumberland Presbyterian churches
of the United States was effected at
the conference at st. Louis; after
which a banquet was rendered the
members of the two committees by the
Ere 5byterian Social Union of St Louis.
The large paint shop of the Delaware,
Lacllawanna & Western car shop plant,
at Scranton, Pa, is destroyed by fire.
Loss $50, 1000.
by the approval of the president
1000 printing artisans of Baltimore
have been given temporary employ
ment in the government printing Of
flee.
Two hundred Beers are enroute to
Mexico, their agents having purchased
an immense tract of land not far from
the Texas line. More Boer families
are to follow.
The blockade on the Central Pacific
caused by the collapse of several hun
bred feet of snow sheds has been raised
and trains are running again.
Senator Hanna attended the public
schools of Cleveland four years and
later was at the Western Reserve
Academy two years. This is the sum
of his school education.
The japanese minister at Washing
ton is receiving numerous offers of
large contributions to the war funds,
but it seems now to be probable that
Japan will refuse to accept such aid.
The house committee on territories
is patiently hearing the arguments for
double and single statehood, made by
of both propositions.
Diplomatic circles at Constantinople
seem to expect that Turkey and Bull
garia will lake advantage of Russia's
preoccupation in the far east to settle
their differences.
The Korern emperor sent liberal
presents to the Japanese troops at
Seoul and other points on the PENN
sula- This marks decided change Of
policy within week