The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-12-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
! Interesting Items Gathered from all
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft of Our Readers.
Domestic Items.

stroyed by fire. The loss is placed at
$4,000.
A Memphis, Tenn, street car con-
ductor shot two negroes as tile result
of a dispute over a transfer.
The tenth annual international live
stock exposition occurred at Chicago
stock yards. 1t is the largest ever
held.
The number of deaths so far re-
corded this year from football is 20
with 100 seriously injured and 1000
minor accidents making the most dis
astrous football record.
Armour & Co., made a statement to
the Chicago Stock exchange showing
that the company made a net profit of
80 per cent during the past year on
their capital stock of $4,000, 900,
A mummy of Rameses King Of
Egypt supposes to be 5000 years old
has been brought to New York.
The United States is concentrating
its forces for the purpose of interven-
ing in the affairs of Nicaragua.
The hog cholera epidemic in Kansas
is a much more virulent form of the
disease than ever before has been
found in the state, according to c. E.
Sutton president of the Kansas board
of agriculture.
After auditing 1,335,575 vouchers
and writing as many checks the gas
consumers of New York have had re-
turned to them $10,351, OPT who were
entitled to a rebate of 20 cents per
thousand feet on their bills under
decision reducing the rate to so cents.
The decision of the court declaring
the Standard Oil company an illegal
corporation had a depressing effect on
all stocks and large amounts were
sold at reduced figures.
For the purpose of controlling abso-
lutely in tAis country and Canada the
manufacture Of flying machines the
Wright company has been formed by
men representing in the aggregate
S1,000,000,00 The Wright patents are
depended upon to prevent competition.
Twin brothers married twin sisters
at Harper, Kansas.
The Oklahoma National Guard Rifle
team defeated the men from the Mis-
souri, National Guard in match at
Chandler, Ok.
The members of the National Water
way commission who made a trip down
the Missouri river from Kansas City to
st. Louis report finding nine feet the
shallowest stage of water and declare
that they did not find a river in Europe
in as good condition to be navigated
as the Missouri
The Chickasaw Indians will send
two representatives of the Chickasaw
Nation to Washington at a salary of
$4,000 year each.
Three new cases of infantile paral-
ysis all in the family of H. F. Hedges
of Syracuse, Kan, have been taken to
the University Medical school at
Rosedale.
The American Federation of Labor
is planning to open fight to unionize
the employees of the steel trust which
they admit may result in serious
tieup of the building industry.
Several heaps of bodies estimated
at 16S were found in the remote parts
of the Cherry, ILL.,, mine where they
had persisted from the foul gases
from the burning mine.
The tent in which George Washing
ton lived during the Revolutionary war
has been sold to the Valley Forge
museum of Pennsylvania for $4,000.
Twenty prisoners confined in the
city Jail at Tulsa, Ok, were compelled
to attend Thanksgiving services and
were then released.
AS result of a meeting of the
school superintendent of Indiana a
petition will be presented to the next
legislature asking for laws to pro-
-hibit the playing of football in the
state.
The st. Paul mine at Cherry, ILL.,,
with 200 bodies of miners not yet re-
covered has been sealed with concrete
and all rescue work has been abandon
ed. It is expected to take weeks to
smother the fire.
In the presence of $1,000 people the
football team from Missouri Univers-
dty defeated the University Of Kansas
team by a score of IL to at Kansas
City. The gate receipts were $4,000
The Rev. DR.. Parkhust in a recent
sermon in discussing the suffragettes
movement said it appeared to him
more in the light of an eruption and
was a mighty poor return for the
gallantry of American men.
At conference between Gov
Stubs and C. S. Clarke vice-president
of the Missouri Pacific Railroad COM
pany it was promised that s75O,OOO
would be expended as rapidly as posi-
BILE in improving the Central Branch.
The Burlington Railroad company
will spend 100000 in building new
freight terminals and depot at St
Joseph, Mo.
An Atchison, Kan. church has been
closed and the minister discharged be-
cause the congregation was unable to
.