The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-03-30
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Congressman George R. Patterson
of Pennsylvania died suddenly of
heart trouble.
King Alfonso has refused to accept
the resignation of the Spanish minis
tiers. The King leaves for the Canary
Islands for a visit
Reports of the illness of William
Rockefeller of the Standard Oil Com
pany, who is now in Europe, were de.
MED by his son, William G. Rookie
Teller.
President Roosevelt may veto the
bill opening to settlement 100000
acres of pasture lands and a wood
reserve of $4,000 acres in the Kiowa
country, Oklahoma.
Alton B. Parkers call to the South
to bring forth a candidate for first
convention in 1908 has stirred up the
leaders of the minority party.
HC kOOulH AlIlCdu
committee, examining claims for Boer
war losses, has completed it's labors.
The claims aggregate $310,000,000
for the settlement of which SAT 100000
has been allowed.
His physician having testified that
H. Clay Pierce is too i'll to take the
stand, the Missouri custer hearing
was adjourned in St. Louis to be re-
sumed April when it Is promised
that Pierce will appear.
From Washington comes the report
that the aggregate amount that the
100000 paid to the Philippine
frairs for their church lands and now
on deposit in this country.
The first smoking car ever reserv-
ed for women in Great Britain left
big London terminus for Liverpool.
The windows bore label reading,
Ladies Smoking" The innovation
attests the spread of smoking among
English women during recent years.
The British house of commons re-
jected by 37S to 10 votes a motion
of Joseph Chamberlain, formerly col
onial secretary, recommending the ap-
pointing of a royal commission to in
quire into the economy and moral
effect of Chinese labor in the Trans
vaal.
A section, of the press of st. Peters
proposition of Baron Leicq De Lobel,
representing the American Trans
Alaskan-Siberian Company, for the
construction of a tunnel under Boring
straits and railway 5000 miles long,
from East Cape to Kansk, to form a
junction with the Siberian railway.
At Omaha Pat Grove was made de.
PENDANT in a divorce suit filed by his
wife, Mrs. Harriet Murphy Grove,
who asks alimony and the right to re-
sumo her maiden name. They were
III 1000 SlOWO
leges that her husband has contribut-
ed nothing to her support for fifteen
years. Their three children are all
dead.
The United States Supreme Court
held a special meeting at Chief Jus.
tice Fuller's home. The utmost Sc
crecy was preserved. 1t is assumed
that the lynching of Ed Johnson, a
negro, at Chattanooga was discussed.
Only a matter of the gravest import
ance calls the members together dur
ing recess of the court. Such a ses-
sion is almost unprecedented.
The seats to be occupied by mem
bers of the Russian national assembly
in the Tauride palace here have been
equipped with electrical apparatus
similar to the system proposed sew
eral years ago for use in the house of
representatives at Washington by
which the members press buttons and
register their votes at the clerks
desk. thus avoiding the delays of roll
calls.
Forty acres of land at Webb City.
owned by the Bradford-Kansas City
Mining Company, was sold to an
Eastern syndicate for s15O.OOO. This
is the highest price ever paid for min
ing land in the Missouri-Kansas lead
and zinc district.
The battleshil Oregon which is re-
turning to San Francisco for repairs
has arrived at Honolulu from the
Orient. and it is reported structurai
weakness has developed under the
use Of the heavy guns. For some
time there have been orders not to
.uee the fhir4een1nch guns.