The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-01-08
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.
Miscellaneous.

The missouri insurance department
has barred from the state the Walla
Walla Fire Insurance company. The
concern has gone into the hands of a
receiver.
With II passengers aboard the Nor
wegian steamer, Texas, from Chris
tiana, arrived at Savannah, Ga, with
fire in her hold. The flames were
quenched after long fight.
A volcano at sea and field of boil
ling water off the coast of Georgia has
been reported by British officers to
the photographic office at Norfolk, Va
Three business blocks and five tene'
ment houses were destroyed by fire
in Skowhegan, Me-, causing loss OF
100000.
The relief work in the earthquake
stricken section of Italy is being rapid
ly systematized and the survivors are
being rapidly transported to Naples
and Rome.
Beach Hargis, charged with the
murder of his father at Irvine, KY,
has been released in $4,000 bail.
The court of claims mas awarded
100000 to Oregon for money expenc
ed during the civil war in protecting
Washington and Idaho.
The bubonic plague has made Its
temperance in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Gov. Hoch of Kansas has issued an
appeal in the name of the state Red
Cross Society, for relief funds for the
Italian earthquake sufferers.
The taking of testimony in the in
vestigation of the Kansas state peni
tertiary at Lansing has been com
pleted. The committee will report tc
Gov. Hoch before the expiration oil
his term of office.
Over 5000 persons exchanged New
Years greetings with President and
Mrs. Roosevelt at the annual recep
ton at the White House this year
Last years record was broken by
over 700.
The cool work of a fireman at Erie
Pa, averted a panic when the Parl
theater was discovered on fire during
performance. Nobody was injured
but the theater was badly damaged.
The Atlantic Battleshiip fleet has
passed Alden, Arabia, bound for Suel
on it's voyage around the world.
Abraham Ruef, convicted of briber!
| at San Francisco, has been sentenced
| to IA years Imprisonment.
The petition of Count Boni de Cas-
| telane that his three sons be taker
| from their mother, formerly Anna
| Gould, now Princess de Sagan, ant
| placed in his mothers care, has beer
denied by the Paris court.
The Democrats have organized a so
| ciety to establish newspapers through
| out Kansas to begin an educationa
campaign to teach the people the prin
ciples of Democracy. The action was
taken at a conference of leading Dem
| ocrats recently held in Topeka.
Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma, has
| issued a proclamation announcing the
| defeat at the recent election of the
| two constitutional amendments, one
changing the location of the state
Torrens land system.
NJ. Clemenceau the French premier
| was recently fired upon in Paris by 6
| Corsican named Benedict. The Off
cial was not hit. The would-be assas
sin was arrested and disarmed.
Between 20 and 80 oil men were
held up and robbed of their valuables
just outside of. Tulsa, Ok, by two
masked men. The robbers escaped
| on horseback
One of the two warrants issued in
1874 for the arrest of John Bunyan
was sold at auction in London for S22
Later reports from the appalling
earthquake disaster in Italy place the
death list at 100000, Scores Of cities
and towns were overwhelmed and the
entire Calabrian region was laid waste
At Reggie nearly the entire population
of $4,000 was wiped out. Fire added
to the horrors of the catastrophe and
many injured were burned to death
Four thousand soldiers in barracks
in Messina were buried under the
ruins.
According to reports from Antelope
Valley, Cal, thousands of cattle are
roaming the government ranges in
that section with nothing to eat and
hundreds are said to be dying of star
walton.
Peter Marquardt. past grand mas
ter of the grand lodge of Odd Fellows
of South Dakota, was killed by a
switch engine in the railroad yards at
Madison recently.
Great pressure is being brought to
bear upon senators and representa-
tives in favor of the passage of the
postal savings bank bill.
Oklahoma has decided to allow her
criminals to remain in the Kansas
penitentiary until the result of the
joint investigation is made known.
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