The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-03-05

The senate cOnfereeS nave accepted
the house amendment to the penal
code bill which provides for the reg
ulation of interstate shipments OF In
toxicating liquors.
Treaties with Panama and Colombia
in relation to the Panama canal have
been ratified by the senate.
The senate has passed the diplo-
matte and consular appropriation bill
which carries $3,646.3S6.
Miscellaneous.
Mrs. Ben Teal, wife, of New York
theatrical manager, has been convict
ed of attempted subornation OF per-
Jury in connection with Mrs. Frank )
Gould's' suit for divorce. Mrs. Teal
was sentenced to one year in the penn
Tertiary.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has decided that the present
rates on -four from Kansas City TO
Chicago and New York are not unrea-
sonable. The rates from Minneapolis
are cheaper because of water compe-
tition.
The man who has been making a
series of attacks on the women OF
Berlin has been captured. He has not
yet been identified In all there have
been sc cases of stabbing of women
in the last two weeks.
A carload of soft wheat recently
sold on the Chicago board of trade for
$1.30 bushel, at the same time car
of hard wheat brought $1.15 bushel.
These are the highest prices paid on
that market for many years.
The verdict of the federal court at
New York, imposing a fine of $lOS.OOO
upon the New York Central Railroad
company on charges of granting re-
bates to the American Sugar COM
pany, has been affirmed by the SUI
preme court of the United States.
Two thousand men from the Atlantic
battleship fleet with 140 officers pa
raded the streets of Norfolk, Va. The
blue Jackets marched between solid
walls of cheering humanity.
The independent tobacco men have
protested to President Roosevelt
against the recent award to the to-
bacco trust of contract for 100000
pounds of chewing tobacco for the
army and navy.
Vandyke Stops, son of Finlay
Stops. of Pittsburg, Kan, was recent
ly found dead in his room in a Louis
vile, KY, hotel.
Five men were instantly killed and
two others fatally injured in a Jop
lin, Mo, mine when a slab of rock
weighing 30 tons fell from the roof.
In the Cooper-Sharp trial at Nash
vile, Tenn, while the aged defendant,
Col. Duncan B. Cooper, was on the
stand, it was shown that he had been
a defaulter for 100000 while court
officer
Practically complete reports from
the recent tornado in eastern Arkan-
sas show the number of dead to be
four, badly injured, 25, and les dan
gerously hurt 40. The property loss
will be large.
The Missouri supreme court has de-
cided that a city cannot divest a street
railway company of unused track, and
poles except through quo warranto
proceedings.
A Universalist church at Atlanta,
Ca; is TO operate a theater in the
church building.
The University of Paris has an
nounced officially that Mr.. Roosevelt
will deliver an address there in 1910.
John H. Order of Fort Scott has
been reelected grand master work
man of the Kansas A. o. u. w.
William Jewell college at Liberty,
Mo, which was closed on account of a
smallpox epidemic, has reopened.
Because there we're too many farm
ers on the panel of $50 veniremen
summoned to retry the Standard Oil
case at Chicago, Federal Judge An
derson quashed the panel and ordered
another in which Chicago men will
predominant.
The natural gas cases in which east
ern corporations seek to invalidate the
Oklahoma law which prohibits the
piping of the fuel out of the state,
were argued and submitted in the fed
eral court at Muskogee recently.
The town of Fisher, Ark, was
wrecked by a tornado the other day,
only two buildings being left stand
ing. Six persons were killed and
more than a score injured.
The five Indiana counties which
held local option elections the other
day all voted dry
The Kansas senate has approved the
plan 10 establish an asylum for the
criminal insane in the penitentiary at
Lansing.
After adopting declaration of prin'
ciples the North American conserva'
ton conference, which has been In