The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-02-12

| dSdlHSI the COlupduy.
The South Dakota house has de-
feated a bill recently passed by the
senate giving the right of suffrage to
women.
| While summoning aid for his wife,
who had died suddenly on the street
in ST. Louis, Sebastian Stoll fell dead
beside the body of his wife.
AS an experiment an attempt is to
be made to raise the sunken liner Re-
public which lies 300 feet below the
surface. The John Arbuckle Wreck
ing company of New Bedford, Mass
will make the trial.
The Catholics of Kansas are send
| ing in protests to the legislature
against the proposal to furnish free
text books to the school children Of
the state.
Seventeen men are dead as the re-
suit of an explosion in a coal mine
near Birmingham, Ala. Five of the
dead are white and IL are negroes
The disaster was caused by windy
shot
The first dividend of the failed First
National bank Of Fort Scott, Kan,
amounting to S5 per cent, has been
paid to depositors.
The officers and members of the
executive committee of the National
Editorial association held a meeting
in Kansas City and chose Seattle,
Wash, as the meeting place in August
The historic Lincoln railroad
COACH" in which President Lincoln
is said to have travelled to Washing
ton for his Inauguration, was recently
destroyed by fire at Sharpsville. Pa.
The federal grand jury sitting at
ments against Gov. Haskell and six
other prominent citizens of Oklahoma
on charges of conspiracy to defraud
the government in connection with
Muskogee town lots.
Three men were killed outright and
another was fatally injured when two
live stock trains on the Chicago, Mil
waukee G. st. Paul railway collided
at Powersville, Mo.
Attorney General Major of Missouri
has filed a suggestion in the supreme
court that If hearing is held on the
Standard Oil company's proposition,
that the state be allowed to be repre-
sented.
Jacob F. Gmelich, Republican, was
declared to have been elected as lieu
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state assembly in. joint session when
the recount committee reported that
Gmelich had received 346,642 votes as
against 346,465 for William r. Painter,
Democrat.
AS the result of a street duel at
dead, another man seriously wounded
and the night chief is in Jail charged
with the shooting.
Henry Lair, charged by the govern
ment with being a promoter of the
white slave" traffic, has been con-
victed at Chicago and sentenced to
two years Imprisonment and to pay a
fine of $4,000.
Rather than be driven from the
state under the custer decision the
Standard Oil company of Indiana has
proposed that the state of Missouri
go into partnership with it in the man
agement of the Missouri business.
Because of a split fingernail Pad
erewski, the great pianist, has been
given $4,000. He cancelled several
engagements on account of the acct
dent.
The stuffed body of Napoleon's ia
nous charger Vizir, presented to him
by the sultan of Turkey has been dis
covered in the cellars of the Louvre
palace.
The price of eggs on the Kansas
City market took a tumble the other
day from 80 cents to 80 cents dozen.
The International Harvester COM
pany has decided to pay the fine of
$12, 900 assessed against it by the dis
trict court of Shawnee county, Kan,
and approved by the state supreme
court, without carrying it to the fed
eral supreme court.
Capt. f. F. Qualtrough of the battle
ship Georgia is under arrest on his
own vessel at Gibraltar, charged with
having been intoxicated at recent
banquet.
The American residents in Rome
are preparing to celebrate the centen-
NAL anniversary of Lincoln's birth.
Oklahoma officials have been tenn
porarily restrained from interfering
with the piping of natural gas out Of
the state by Federal Judge Campbell.
Harrison Weber, a Kansas City
druggist, was recently fined $500 in
the municipal court for selling cocaine
illegally.
Personal.
Mrs. Hannah West, 80 years old,
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