Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-08-08
LATE NEWS NOTES.

been appointed chief examiner of land
claims in the interior department.
Charles Phillips, Rock Island rail-
road conductor, died in Topeka from
the effects of injuries received while
batting balls to friends.
At Hutchinson, Kan, Charley Max
well, who, with two other boys, went
bathing in the Arkansas river was
drowned.
William Lewis, ranchman living
forty miles from Cheyenne, Wyo., was
found assassinated. He had been &C
cused of cattle stealing.
Continuous rains have ruined the
rice crops in many parts of Japan and
a famine is feared. Many lives have
already been lost and the damage done
is enormous.
Ella Peake and Charles Elliott, bal
loonists, were fatally injured at re-
sort near Jackson, Mich, their balloon
catching fire in mid-air and collapsing.
Twenty rioters were killed and many
injured as the result of an attack on
the bakeries in Tabornes, Persia. The
Russian consul tried to restore order,
but failed.
Governor Altgeld of Illinois has de-
cided not to call another extra session
of the legislature at present, holding
that the members of the present body
are incompetenLs.
As the result of quarrel over a
young woman, Hill Picou and his
friends shot Henry and Albert O'Neill
dead in front of the church at Gideon,
La, during revival.
An important case before the court
of claims is the claim of the Choctaws
and Chlckasaws against the Wichitas.
The killing of the negro boy at
Washington by Miss Flagler is causing
great discomfort among the negroes Of
the district, and mass meeting will
be held.
William and Annie Keith were killed
by the cars at Louisiana, Mo-
The Illinois legislature comes in for
a vigorous roast from Governor Alt
geld.
Thomas F. Messick of Liberty, Mo-,
is said to have misused $4,000 of school
funds.
Wages were advanced twenty-five
cents ton at the Birmingham, Ala,
rolling mills.
The st. Joe Lead company, Bonnie
Terre, Mo-, has advanced the wages Of
their men fifteen per cent.
Ten thousand people were present
at the close of the national prohibit
ton camp meeting at Decatur, Ill.
The Missouri State Roads associa-
ton will call four district conventions
this fall to consider the question Of
good roads.
At Oxford, Ala Ivy Sanford shot
and instantly killed Mrs. Mary Griffin
as she came out of church. She refused
to marry Sanford and two weeks ago
was welded to Thomas Griffin, and
Sanford became insamely jealous
Judge Taylor of Terre Haute, Ind,
decided that the Nicholson temper
ance law is imperative.
Sheriff Tamsen and ex-keepers of
the Ludlow street Jail, New York,
were indicted for allowing three pris-
oners to escape.
Miss Jennie w. G. Goodwin, a stem
ographer at the Kansas City stock
yards, has gone into the live stock
commission business on her own ac-
count. She is the first woman in the
United States to go into the commits
sion business.
Pierce Chiles, base ball player was
arrested at Sedalia on the charge of
having criminally assaulted the 15-
year-old daughter of man nan |
Davis, prominent citizen of Coffey-
vile, Kan.
Elizabeth Flagler of Washington
shot and killed a 14-year-old colored
boy for stealing fruit but was exoner-
ated by the coroner's jury.
Governor Morrill, has decided that
Election Commissioner Frank Herald
was guilty on three counts of the
charges preferred against him. R. B.
McAllister succeeds Herald.
The navy department has decided to
punish officers guilty of lending money
at usurious rates or winlSing at it.
The civil service attempt to secure
suitable printers for the government
printing office was failure.
Bids have been asked for the con-
struction of three new torpedo boats.
Vice President Stevenson is taking
his daughter on trip to Alaska for
her health.
Telephone manufacturers are form
ing a combination to protect their
customers from the Bell company.
Indiana coal miners decided to do
no more work until the scale is adj
vanced, which will be in October l.
The school moneys of Missouri APP
portioned among the counties this year
is ss71, 225. 80.
George G. Taylor of Kansas City and
Miss Mayme Landeman of'Lexington,
KY, were married. 1t was an elope-
ment.
Mrs. S. Newly and son and two
children of Samuel Harrison were
drowned in cloudburst near Caspar,
Wyo.
The Indians are returning to their
reservations, and all is quiet at Jack.
sons Hole.
General Coxey has been nominated
for governor of Ohio by the Populista
A $4,000 fire occurred on the
Brooklyn docks.
Fitzsimmons will do his final train
ing at Corpus Christi and Corbett at
San Antonio.