Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-11-14
LATE NEWS NOTES.


Chauncey Black of Pennsylvania
says that the Democrats must nom
mate Western man, to win the pres
dency.
Office seekers are already attacking
Colonel Bradley, governor elect OF
Kentucky.
John Dillon, the famous Irish NJ. p,
is about to marry Mary Mathew, grand
niece of the celebrated Father
Mathew.
Joseph Z. Johnston, silver Demo
crat, has announced himself as a can
didate for the Alabama gubernatorial
nomination.
Commodore Heichborn, chief of the
Naval Construction Bureau, has made
his annual report and recommends
liquid fuel for torpedo boats
First Assistant Postmaster General
Jones in his annual report recommends
disseminating experimental free de-
livery
Electricity as the motive power on
suburban roads formerly operated by
steam seems to have been q striking
success.
Officers of the Federal Government
offer various objections to the Union
Pacific plan of reorganization. 1t is
expected that the Government will
take some action Immediately tow ard
securing its lien.
Discovery has been made of an ex-
tensive scheme to supply discharged
employees of the Santa Fe with forged
letters of recommendation Forgery
has been used by the same parties to
secure transportation.
The Hanlon- Bubear boat race has
been declared off because the proprie-
tor of the lake on which 1t was to be
rowed refused to permit it on Sunday.
A Washington dispatch says the presi-
dent is said to have decided upon the
appointment of John L. Peak of Kan
sas City as minister to Switzerland, to
fill the vacancy due to the resignation
of James o. Broadhead of st. Louis,
and the information is received from
such sources as to place its reliability
beyond all reasonable question.
A Chicago, Burlington & Quincy pas
senger train made the trip between
Chicago and Mendoza, eighty miles, in
eighty minutes, including five stops
and two slow-ups. superintendent
Rice estimates the stops and slow-ups
caused loss of twenty minutes This
makes the actual running time sixty
minutes, or at the rate of eighty miles
an hour
A Topeka, Kan, dispatch says Frank
Mileham, who, as money order clerk
of the Topeka postoffice, was short
$4,000 in his accounts, settled with
Postmaster Arnold to-day and his
bondsmen have been released from
their obligation. His father, John
Mileham, paid the money.
At New Orleans, La, Sunday
morning, at the historic convent
of the Usurline Nuns the statue of Our
Lady of Prompt Succor was crowned
with a diadem of gold and jewels
whose intrinsic worth is many thou
sands of dollars. The occasion was
made one of great pomp and ceremony
by the prominent Catholics of this
city and state. 1t was very much on
the order of the recent celebration in
Mexico and is really the first ceremony
of its kind that has ever taken place
in the United States.
At Lexington, Mo-, the jury
in the Krueger-Kansas City cleo
ton fraud case disagreed after
being out over twenty-eight
hours and were discharged.
A sensation has been created
in Cherokee county, Iowa by
the arrest OF George Mon
tague, wealthy German farmer, on
the charge of killing Mr.. and Mrs.
Schultz, an old couple, two years ago.
The murder was a most brutal affair,
the heads of the victims being beaten
to jelly. Montague is brother of
the murdered woman, and was arrest
ed at the instance of neighbor
Milton Sellers, wealthy farmer Of
Fayetteville, Ind, was shot dead in
his home by robbers.
An enthusiastic mass meeting of
Cuban sylnpathizers was held in New
York city. Many noted Cubans spoke.
Judge Little of Xenia, Ohio, arbitra-
tor of the mining wages question for
Ohio, has found in favor of the opera
tors and against the miners.
Albert w. Gridley, a wealthy citizen
of Batavia, ILL.,, committed suicide In
New Orleans, La, as the result of in
temperance.
The body of Mrs. James b. Eustis,
late wife of the embassador to France,
who died in Ireland, was buried at
Louisville, Ky.
A. C. Probert, ex-president of the de-
funct savings bank at Shell Lake, Wis,
was arrested for illegal banking and
embezzlement of $4,000.
In a collision on a grade north of
Girard, Ran, G. w. French and
Charles Abend, travelling men, and
three other persons were injured. Six
cars were wrecked.
The new Mexican issue of $50, 900, 900
five per cent silver bonds is merely for
the convenience of the holders of mis-
cellaneous claims against the nation,
so they may convert them into seeur-
ity readily marketable in Europe.
The Vienna correspondent of the
London Telegraph says news from
Constantinople indicates that even the
foreigners are in danger, and that the
Central European powers have decided
to employ energetic measures to de-
fend the lives and the property Of
their subjects.
KnW