The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-02-26

prieve from the supreme court was re-
ceived granting stay for two weeks.
Martin B. Madden, president of the
Building Trades of Chicago, and M. j..
Boyle, business agent of the Electro
cal Workers union, have been indict-
ed for extortion.
The supreme court of Illinois has
set aside the verdict in the famous
Smell will case Maybelle Smell, the
Kansas City woman who figured in
the case in a sensational manner, thus
gets $1,000 a year and property val
ued at $4,000.
The building and contents of the
Kinley Manufacturing company OF
Chicago was destroyed by fire recent
ly causing a loss of $325,0OU The 300
employees, many of whom were girls,
escaped by jumping from windows.
Kansas City officers are in Winni-
peg, Man., looking up evidence against
Adam God, or James Sharpe. who en-
gagged in fatal religious riot with the
police there.
The women's suffrage bill was
killed in the Kansas house by a vote
of SO to 81.
The battleship fleet tender Yankton
has arrived at Fort Monroe. Va, the
first of the woodworking vessels to
reach the end of the long journey.
The trial of w. F. Carr at Marion,
Kan, charged with killing Express
Messenger c. A. Bailey, resulted in a
verdict of murder in the second de-
gree.
In wreck on the Illinois Central
railroad near Murphysboro, Ill.,, three
passengers were killed and SO injured.
Ella Gingles, an Irish lace maker
10 years old, was found unconscious
and bound with ropes in a bathroom
at the Wellington hotel, Chicago.
Considerable mystery attaches to the
case which the police are trying to
unravel.
Heavy earthquakes were recently
felt throughout the island of Porto
Rico. The natives were badly fright
ened but no serious damage was done.
| A $4,000 rug has been presented to
the nation and is to be placed in the
parlors of the White House. A rich
Armenian of New York is the donor.
The rug is said to be the finest in the
world.
The president has sent special
message to congress transmitting the
result of the recent conferences at
the White House on the care of de-
pendent children. He recommends the
establishment of a federal children's
bureau.
The violent earthquake recorded on
many seismographs on January % has
at last been located. Sixty villages
in the western part of Persia were de-
stroyed and between 5000 and 5000
| lives were lost.
Indictments have been returned by
the federal grand jury at Washington
against the owners and editors of the
New York World and the indianapolis
News for libel in connection with the
publication of the Panama canal fake.
Fire recently swept the business
district of Custer City, Ok, causing
loss of 100000.
By a vote of 173 to III the house
passed the bill removing the bar to
Senator KnoX's eligibility for the Of
fee of secretary of state. The bill
was first defeated on motion to sus-
pend the rules and a new rule was
necessary before the bill could be
passed.
Between $50 and 800 persons were
burned to death in fire which de-
stroyed a crowded theater in Aca-
pulco, Mexico. The fire started from a
moving picture film.
The safe in the store of Drummer &
Perry at Newton, Kan, was looted
by burglars who secured between
$1,000 and $4,000 and made their es-
cape.
Pap" Johnson, former jointist OF
Lawrence, Kan, shot and killed Mrs
Frances 'Switser at her home in that
city and then committed suicide.
Fire at ottawa, Kan, destroyed the
Saunders Music companys store and
the adjoining private bank of c. W.
Goodin, causing a loss of $4,000.
The San Francisco relief committee
has been dissolved after the expend
ing more than $S,O00,000.
A house-to-house census shows a
total of unemployed persons in Berlin
of $780,, in addition to 1888 unem
ployed in the suburbs.
Canada has modified her quarantine
against live stock from the United
States enough to admit the shipment
of horses.
The 1S-hour flyer from Chicago to
New York on the Pennsylvania rail
road was wrecked by striking rock
near Harrisburg. Beyond a severe
shaking up no one was severely in
jured.
Personal.