The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-03-23
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The funeral of Dr.. Manuel Quintan
president of the Argentine Republic,
took place at Buenas Ayres. Mourn
ing emblems were displayed through
out the city
The condition of Francis Kossuth
leader of the united opposition in the
Hungarian diet, is causing anxiety to
his friends. He is suffering from an
attack of govt.
The business meeting of the Amer-
can Association of General Baggage
Agents at Los Angeles discussed the
question of excess baggage. Papers
we're read and speeches made.
Secretary Taft returned to Wash
ington from New York, where he con-
suited with his brothers regarding
the question of acceptance of place
on the bench of the United States SUI
preme court.
Senator La Toilette introduced bill
making it the duty of the interstate
commerce commission to prescribe the
maximum number of hours above
which common carrier shall not re-
quire or permit employees to remain
on duty.
The Daily Telegraph correspondent
at Toxic says that as result of party
meetings the passage of the railway
naturalization bill by the diet is now
| assured. The same correspondent
says that the dowager empress of Chi
ma has subscribed $4,000 to the ia
| mine fund
In London the committee having in
| charge the celebration, on April %, of
| the fiftieth anniversary of Ellen
| Terry's connection with the stage, in
cludes all of the leading actor-manag-
ers, Charles Frohman, Cleppcn Cole
ridge, the author and artist, and many
other influential men.
In the Department of Justice and
the Bureau of Corporations there is
unmixed satisfaction over the Su-
preme court decision, not only be-
cause of the immediate effect of the
decision, but because of the way in
which they smooth the path of the
government in cases not yet begun.
Lionel Walter Rothschild, member
of parliament for the Ailsbury division
of Bucks, speaking at Gresham on the
question of exclusion of aliens and the
number of poor Russian refugees ex-
cluded from Great Britain the last few
months said he possessed evidence
that every one of these men sent back
was shot at the Russian frontier with
out trial.
Col. Knight, Major General Woods
chief of staff, has returned from a
reconnaissance of the situation in
| China He reports that there is abso-
lutely no danger of trouble and that
tranquility abounds.
Secretary Bonaparte has received
the report of the court Of inquiry to
investigate the general mix up of war
ships in the harbor of New York Janu-
airy last. The report will not be
made public until after Secretary
Bonaparte has acted upon it. 1t is
known, however, that the court found
that the grounding and subsequent
collision were accidental and not due
to carelessness or inefficiency on the
part of officers.
At the consular reform convention
Secretary Root spoke in favor Of an
improved consular service. The con
vention adopted resolutions fully ap
proving the bill introduced by Senat
or Lodge. The resolutions conclude
by expressing regrets that one of the
vital provisions of that bill have beer
removed from it" and ask that the
provision authorizing the president t
transfer consuls from one point to an
other in the same grade. be reincorpo
rated in the bill.
In a signed statement made at Shi
lob house, in Zion City, Gladstone
Dowie, categorically denied that
separation between his parents ha
taken place or was impending. H
also issued a general denial of the re
ports that have been current the has
two days of incidents pointing. to tb
speedy disintegration Of Zion.
: The total loss in the fifteen prov
! inces Investigated by special con
Missions inquiring into the Agraria
: troubles Of last year was s15.500.0O
J and not s155, 100000 as reported.