The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-01-05
Chicago Futures.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

John Heber Philips, aged 80, known
as a newspaper writer and circus
press agent, died at Denver, Colo, OF
pneumonia. He was born in Chi
cago.
Louis Dalyrymple, an artist and
caricaturist, died suddenly of acute
parasis in the Long Island home in
Amityville, where he was taken a
month ago.
During a general fight near Balm
bridge, Tenn. at a negro dance, Chas.
Inman and Henry Ireswell were shot
to death. Jim Redman. the murder
er, escaped. :,
At Chicago the board of trade has
frowned upon the trading in bids
and offers" which have been adopt
ed as substitutes for puts and calls
since those privileges were abolish
ed. !.
A special from Washington says the
Will oClli a oque1ui Oh
and not a single ship to European
waters for use in the Russian crisis,
in case American life and property
are menaced.
Not having tasted food for five days
Mrs. Winnie Sullivan was taken from
a furnished room at 247 Adams street,
Brooklyn, suffering from starvation.
She is at the Brooklyn hospital in a
critical condition.
Mail advices from Manila state that
the wanton killing of one of the white
sailors on board the battleship Wis
consin by two negroes of the crew
resulted in a race war, in which the
negroes were badly beaten and would
have been killed except for interior
ence of the officers.
A large and brilliant wedding at
Washington Court House. O., was that
of Miss Ruth Milliken. daughter OF
Col. b. H. Milliken of this city, and
Hon. w. w. Westerfeld, assistant Uni
ted States district attorney at New
Orleans. The ceremony was per-
formed in Grace NJ E church. which
was magnifcently decorated with
flowers.
Secretary Shaw and the United
States treasurer are defendants in
suit instituted in the Federal court
in Washington to recover from the
government the value of twenty-five
steamboats, alleged to have been ia
ken from James E Montgomery dur
ing the Civil War by men represent
ing themselves to be military officers
of the United States.
The United States supplied more
than one-half of the petroleume pro-
duced in the world in 1904. A state
ment of the worlds production of
petroleum; prepared by the British
board of trade. puts the petroleum
production of the world in 1904 at
9,103, 100000 gallons, of which 4,91G,-
600, 900 gallons were produced in the
United States.
An advertisement appearing in a
local paper in San Francisco offers
for sale Tanning and Washington is
lands in the South Pacific under in
structions of the registrar of the Brit
ish high commissioner court for the
Western Pacific.
The Philippine commission has en-
acted law making it a crime to ex-
port silver from the islands. Passeng
ers on ships will not be allowed to
take with them no more = sn % pesos
in silver and 1850 pesos in gold
Miss Alice Roosevelt will go to
New York the latter part of January,
to make final additions to
her trousseau. She will wear her
grandmother's wedding gown. but her
bridal robe will be entirely new.
War department officials are con-
siderably interested in the criticisms
which come from the Philippines in
regard to the scouts of the islands.
It has been recommended from an au-
thoritative source that the expendl-
lures on account of that branch of
island defense shall be materially re
duced.
Advices from Moscow say the situa-
ton there is graver than ever. Hos
tilities have spread to the neighbor-
ing districts and the peasants are re
spending to appeals and arDsing them
selves