The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-03-02
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Jack smith, aged lOi, tne OLDEST
man in Texas, is dead at his home in
Bell county.
Senator Garst introduced a bill pro-
hibiting Sunday theaters in Iowa, pro-
viding $50 fine for actors, managers
and employees for its violation, closing
all amusement places on that day.
President John Mitchell of the Uni
ted Mine Workers arrived in Pitts
burg and went into conference with
committee of leading miners in
Gals.
Unprecedented regulations to purge
the army of officers accused of cowar-
dice and surrendering during the war
for no reasonable cause were anLounc-
ed in st. Petersburg by the military
organ, the Russky Invalid.
j. Milton Turner, the Missouri ne
gro politician, appeared before the
senate committee on inter-Ocean1c
canals to present proposition look
ing to the building of the Panama
canal by American negro labor.
Major General Wood will leave Man
lila for a two weeks tour of inspec-
ton on the Island of Mindanao. This
trip of the commanding general indi-
Gates that no immediate movement of
troops to China is contemplated.
Alexander S. Perkins, broker of
Boston, filed voluntary bankruptcy
petition in the federal court. He
scheduled his liabilities at $226,OOO
and assets at $500. The bulk of his
indebtedness is in unsecured claims.
Gov. Stokes of New Jersey granted
a reprieve for 30 days to Rufus John
son, colored, sentenced to be hanged
for the murder of Miss Florence AL
lison, at Burlington. Geo. Small has
confessed that it was he and not John
son who killed the woman.
The coalition party is discussing a
proposition to send delegates to Lon
don, Paris and possibly New York to
hold a series of meetings for the pur-
pose of calculating to the outside
world the Hungarian struggle, aspira-
lions and relations with Austria.
Fifty Dunkard families from near
Roanoke, Va, passed through Kan
sas City enroute to Quinter, Cove
county, Kan. eighty miles from the
Colorado state line. which Mr.. Robert
S. Lemon, immigrant agent of the
Union Pacific railway is establishing
on lands owned by that company.
In short emphatic answers to Uni
ted States District Attorney Morrison
in the immunity hearing of the beef
packers in Chicago, Commissioner
Garfield denied having promised to
treat as confidential the information
he got from the packers.
An Oregon Short Line express train
ran into landslide near Delta, Calif
and two men were killed. The en-
gines of the train were reduced to
scrap iron. The train was derailed
While Engineer Dennis Freel and 9TH
ers were standing by the wreck, a Sec
ond landslide swept down the noun
tain burying part of the wreck and
crushing the life from Freel and an
unknown man.
The New York Theatrical syndi-
cate which controls the business in
every town in Texas, is being investi-
gated by Attorney General R. v.
Davidson. He intends to prosecute
the members of the trust and drive it
out of Texas for violation of the anti
trust act. 1t is alleged that only the
cheap and poorer attractions are book
ed for the Texas circuit, and that
Nine. Bernhard would have appeared
in Texas this season but for this trust.
At Council Bluffs. Ia. Pat Grove
has been released on bond of 81, 800
signed by his brother, John Grove,
and the latter's wife and Jos. Manuel,
a wealthy farmer of his county.
Groves trial on charge of holding
up street cars has been nut over I'M
til March.
That Alfred NJ. Bard. nephew of
former Senator Bard of California.
met his death in Europe by foul play
was the statement made by Detective
Sergeant John F. Fogarty. who re-
turned to New York on the steamer
iceland, from Brussels. Belgium.