The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-02-05
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
Capt. Sealhy of the lost liner Re-
public and Jack Binns, the heroic
operator who sent the wireless mes
sages for aid, received a remarkable
reception upon their arrival in New
York. A vast crowd was at the pier
and the men were carried on the
shoulders of a dozen men at the head
4 cheering procession to the COM
pany's offices.
The Santa Fe Railway company has
filed suit in the federal court at To-
peka against the government for $4,-
750.55 for breach of contract for haul
ing mail between Kansas City and
Chicago.
The agents of the Italian steamer
Florida, which rammed and sunk the
liner Republic have issued a state
ment in which they charge that the
latter was running at a high rate OF
speed through the dense fog.
Justice Wright of the District of
Columbia supreme court has ordered
Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and
Frank Morrison, the labor leaders adj
judged guilty of contempt, to pay the
costs in the proceedings amounting to
$1,000.
In Difference to the wishes of Pres
ident Roosevelt the California legis-
lature has postponed consideration of
all anti-Japanese legislation for one
week.
A resolution has been introduced in
the Kansas house providing for an APP
preparation of $3.50 to purchase a
bronze bust Of the late Senator Ross
of that state whose vote in the
United States senate prevented the
impeachment of President Andrew
Johnson.
The petition of the Chicago & Alton
Railroad company for rehearing of
the rebate case in which the company
and two of its officers were fined $780,
O00 has been denied by the federal
supreme court.
Delbert Lewis is dead from falling
into a vat of boiling water at the Sa-
lima, Kan, gas plant.
A heavy rain washed out many cul-
verts and bridges at St. Joseph, 10,
besides doing other damage. 1t is the
first time in many years that such
rain has fallen in January.
The Red Cross has set aside $4,000
to fight leprosy in st. Petersburg prov
ince, Russia.
The Missouri Association of County
Collectors have closed a successful
meeting in Jefferson City to meet next
year in Kansas City. d. C. McClung
of Cole county was chosen. president.
Leftwich Holman, young bank
clerk in Fort Worth Tex. whose home
is in Springfield, Mo-, is under arrest,
charged with riding safety deposit
boxes in the bank where he was en-
ployed.
The annual dinner given to the JUS
tices of the supreme court of the
United States took place at the White
House the other night.
Col. James NJ. Guffey of Pittsburg
has been unanimously chosen as the |
Pennsylvania member of the Demo |
cratic national committee to succeed !
the late James Kerr.
The Pharmaceutical States treaty |
has been ratified by the Panama as
sembly.
The Wisconsin assembly has killed |
the senate resolution for an investiga-
ton Of the United States senatorial |
primary.
Four thousand bodies have been
taken from the ruins of Messina so
far, and the number still under the !
wreckage is estimated al $4,000.
The state department has refused /,
the request OF Russia for the extradi-
ton of Christian Rodoartz, a revolu-
Zionist
At Fort Robinson. Neb., Private
Barry of the Eighth infantry was shot
and instantly killed by Private
Thomas.
Three persons were indicted for /
land frauds at the first days session
OF the Muskogee, Ok, federal grand
Jury.
Four men were killed and IL others
injured in an accident on the inclined
railway Of a coal mine near Piedmont.
w. Va.