Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-12
LATE NEWS NOTES.

b,5I2 hacindas, or large estates, and
80, 900 small Yarns or ranches
The A. E. Burkehardt company, the
largest hats, cloaks and furs dealers
in Cincinnati failed for $250,OO0.
The Cleveland Chamber of Com
merce decided to erect new building
on the public square, which is to cost,
together with the site, S500,000.
PERKINS, comet, discovered from the
Lick observatory, is now plainly visible
to the naked eye. 1t is of the fourth
magnitude and now rises about Sis in
the morning, littla south of east.
A New York paper says flibuster-
ing expedition sailed for Venezuela
December l, whose aim it is to take
the government of Venezuela out of
the hands of President Crespo The
expedition, it is claimed, carried
enough arms and ammunition to equip
an army.
The will Of Peter McGeoch, the Mil
waukee speculator who committed
suicide, gives an estate of from $3.50, 900
to 81, 900, 900 to his two daughters and
son. The widow, Mary I. McGeoch,
gets the sum of $685. 900, in fulfillment
Of ante-nuptlal agreement with her.
General F. Miller of Keokuk, Iowa,
died at Omaha. The deceased was SO
years old, and for a quar- ter of CEN
fury has been prominent in Iowa pol
itics. In 1910 he was in the Legisla.
ture and then in Congress, where he
was a confidential friend of Clay,
Houston, Giddings and Chase.
The 1O-year-old child OF James Nc.
MILAN of Enid, Ok, was scalded to
death by tipping over a caldron of hot
mush.
Mrs Rachael Holmes, colored, aged
so, was fatally wounded at Nevada,
Mo-, by stray bullet.
John Harris, printer formerly of
Topeka, Kan, was found shot through
the head in Emporia, Kan. There is
no doubt that he was murdered by
tramps.
1t is reported from Port Townsend,
Wash, that Senator Brice of Ohio,
Editor Whitelaw Reid, ex-Secretary Of
State Foster and others have obtained
concession for a railroad from the
sea shore to Pekin, in China.
Postal employees in Washington are
now prohibited from lobbying.
Rev, George Capron of the thologi-
cal schools of Taunton and Andover,
Mass, has been divorced at Perry,
Okla.
American National Institute, an as
ISOLATION formed for the purpose of
erecting 500, 900 home for American
girls who go to Paris to study, has
been organized at New York. Society
wants to raise $250,O00: Subscriptions
now amount to $4,000.
Ex-Governor James B. Grant of
Colorado says: II believe the future
of Cripple Creek will far surpass the
widest anticipations of those who
had the greatest hopes for the future
of Leadville. Cripple Creek will pro-
duce more gold in the next twenty
years than any camp ever known.
LeadVille has produced over $tO0, O00,-
OCO in the last seventeen years. When
they have been mining seventeen
years at Cripple Geek it is safe to say
that the camp will have produced over
$500, 900, OO0."
The Charleston overland expedition,
missouri on Wheels No. g." has ar
rived in Atlanta.
Oliver Torbet, son of the ex-Mayor
of Brazil, Ind, was terribly mangled
by gas explosion.
Three men were killed and two in
jured by the wrecking of switch en-
CINE in Harlem, N. Y.
John Ford of Athens, ILL.,, arrested
in Springfield for disorderly conduct,
hanged himself in his cell.
Grant Hibbs, living near Dexter,
Iowa, shot and stabbed his wife and
shot himself. Both may die.
In Delta county, Texas, Walter Ken
nedy killed Amos Wright, who killed
Kennedy's father eleven years ago.
William Ward, prominent lawyer
and ex-member Illinois legislature,
was committed to an insane asylum.
George Morgan was convicted of the
murder of 1O-year-old Ida Gaskill at
Omaha and sentenced to be hanged.
Z. u. Cress, supposed to be from
Rushville, in Missouri or Nebraska,
was found dead in an Atlanta hotel.
The Texas Coast Canal Company,
just Incorporated, proposes to con-
struct an inland water course from
Galveston to the Rio Grande.
Durrant was denied new trial.
Nitrate trust has gone to pieces.
General Edward Wright is dead at
Des Moines, Iowa.
No silver legislation is likely at this
session of Congress.
Colonel A. c. Hargrove, prominent
Alabama politician, committed suicide.
Casper county court house, Elwood,
Neb., burned under suspicious circum-
stances.
All the TOWNSHIP boards in Okla
homa have been abolished except No.
at Guthrie.
Said Pasha, president of the council
Of state Of Turkey, has placed himself
under British protection, fearing
assassination from the Sultan's party.
Salisbury's answer to Secretary
Olney indicates a temporizing policy
on the part of England in the Venezu-
elan affair. An endless correspond.
ence and long range diplomatic cross
fire may be expected.
Joseph Hissmaier, formerly Of Chi
cago, was assassinated at Matazalpa,
nicaragua one wear AGO and his prom