The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-09-22
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

King Victor Emmanuel has left on
a special train for Calabria to visit
the scene of the earthquake.
At Havana, President Palma was
unanimously renominated by the Mod
crate party convention as candidate
for the presidency of Cuba.
Despite the fact that dispatches
from ST. Petersburg have announced
that a treaty of peace has been sign
ed, both armies stand ready for a
fight.
President Roosevelt has taken sum.
mary action in the case of Frank w.
Palmer, public printer and head of
the government printing office at
Washington by removing him from
office.
Word has reached Boston of the
purchase by former President Cleve-
land of two farms, comprising some
300 acres at Tamworth, N. H. 1t is
understood Mr.. Cleveland contem-
plates making Tamworth his perman-
ent summer home.
In Rome a meeting of the cabinet
ministers probably will be held to
consider measures for the relief of
sufferers from earthquake in Gala
bria. King Victor Emmanuel has CIV
en- $4,000 for the relief of the fami-
lies of the victims.
Under guard of policemen and &C.
casionally showered with sticks and
stones, the United States mail deliv-
cry wagons, whose operation in New
Yorks busiest centers is threatened
by 800 striking drivers, are now carry
ing the mails without delay.
Because the price of cattle on the
hoof is IS ga cents per pound and live
hogs IA cents per pound, the butchers
in Germany have petitioned the gov
eminent to admit live stock free of
duty. Fifty municipal governments
have Joined in the request.
Lieutenant General Won Poguslaw-
ski, we'll reputed as military writer
since his retirement in 1890 and an
officer whose opinions were often
quoted by the Associated Press dur
ing the Russian-Japanese war, died
suddenly, aged II years in Berlin.
The Chinese magistrate of Quinsan
near Shanghai, has been arrested and
imprisoned. He is reported to have
tortured a British subject of Chinese
descent, employed on the Shanghai
Nankin railway, though informed that
the man was a British subject.
There has been a severe hand-to-
hand fight in the outskirts of Tan
gier. 1t is thought the casualties are
heavy. Raisuli, recently appointed
governor of several important tribes
between Fee and Tangier, reinforced
by 500 cavalry, is endeavoring to sub
due the outlaws, who have burned a
number of villages in the vicinity Of
Tangier. Thousands of the inhabit-
ants of these places fed to Tangier. .
While employed as a scrub woman,
Mary brennan, an aged widow, is ac-
cured of having acquired in the last
month jewelry valued at $4,000, from
a large pawn shop in Brooklyn. Her
nephew. 20 years old, is alleged to
have been used in disposing of the
plumber. About a third of the prop
erty has been recovered. The pawn
broker, through whom the nephew
disposed of the jewelry, is under ar
rest
Newspapers in New York announce,
says a Herald dispatch from Valpa-
raiso. Chile, that an American syndi-
cate with a capital of 100000, 900, has
been organized for investment in
Chilli.
Zinat, the place where Raisula, the
bandit leader has established his resi-
dence. is in flames. according to a
dispatch from Tangier. The town,
which is a days march from Tangier.
is reported to be closely invested by
men Of the Anghera tribe, and it Is
expected that Rasuli will either sur
render or be captured.
The American Zinc and Chemical
company's plant, comprising three
large buildings, located at Utah juno
ton. north of Denver. was totally de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimat'