The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-06-09
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

bill appropriating $4,000 for state
tuberculosis sanitarium.
]. Schanrock, prominent planter
near Meridian, Miss, was attacked by
maddened bull in his pasture and
gored to death.
At Sterling City, Texas, the 7-year
old son of Mr. Edwards was bitten
twice by a rattlesnake, dying in aw-
full agony in short time.
At LODI a procession of Jews carry.
ing red flags came into conflict with
Cossacks, who fired, killing three per-
sons and wounding several others.
At st. Petersburg the council of the
empire has approved the recommen'
dations of the passport commission
which include universal recognition
of foreign passports.
In New York Gessler Rosseau, who
was convicted of sending an Internal
machine to the pier of the steamship
Umbria, was sent to state prison for
not less than three nor more than five
years.
At Vienna the government has
overruled a recent decision of the mu-
nicipalty prohibiting the slaughter OF
cattle according to Jewish rites,
which alleged that the method EN-
ployed entailed undue suffering.
King Oscar, at sitting of the coun.
Gil of ministers declined to sign the
law requiring separate consular
system for Norway. The ministers
Immediately rendered their resigna-
tions but the king refused to accept
them
In London five American women
golfers participated in the opening
meeting. Emily Lockwood of Lexing-
ton. Mass, won the second handicap
prize with "a minus 2. Miss a. r.
Oliver. British, took the first prize
with 81 minus 4.
John A. Benson of San Francisco ap-
peared in the criminal court at Wash
ington and gave bonds in the sum or
$4,000 to answer to the indictments
of bribery and conspiracy in connec-
tio1 with the charge of appropriating
public lands to his own use.
At Kansas City, Mo-, Miss Frances
B. Johnson, cashier in the employ of
d. D. Drake a money lender, was
fined 800 and sentenced to serve 30
days in the county Jail on the charge
of exacting usuriouS interest. This
is the second conviction in the cru
SADIE against money lenders who
charge 10 per cent month interest
At San Francisco the merchants
exchange has received advices from
London to the effect that the Austral-
ian steamer Pingsuey, which sailed
from Puget Sound April 25 last, have
been in collision at Woosung, China.
Both vessels have been damaged. The
former has been beached. The dam.
age sustained by the Pingsuey is in.
siinificant.
The Russian government for the
third time has warned China that
unless she can bring Japan to make
an agreement defining the line of the
neutral zone north of Tie Pass Rus
STA will consider herself forced to
use Monaghan territory for military
operations. M. Polotiloff, the new
Russian minister to China, left st.
Petersburg for Pellin.
At Des Moines, Ia, Secretary of the
Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, who was
the guest of the Bankers club at a
luncheon, repeated his assurances
that government finances were in no
danger. mo one is authorized to say
that / will be a candidate for the presi-
dency," said the secretary in answer
to a question. 1T is a subject which
even l do not discuss"
At Warsaw the Socialists have is
sued a manifesto stigmatizing as
traitors the national democrats who
urged the workmen to resume week.
declaring the Socialists intention TO
continue fighting the government re-.
gardless of the consequences. q
The formation Of a corporation, to
include all the hop growers of Wash.
ington, Oregon. California, New York
and even England, is proposed. The
plan includes a linking of all the hop
growers in the territory named and
placing the hops upon the market at
the discretion OF a sales committee.