Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-26
LATE NEWS NOTES.

Colombia, causing the loss OF many
lives.
Charts, Rupert and Maggie Jones,
and Ida Ball were drowned in Lathrop
lake near Arvada, COL, while skating.
The Rad Star steamship Berlin sank
the British steamer Willowbank OFF
the British coast. Only the pilot of
the lost vessel was drowned.
Mrs. Tennie Willard of Bismarck,
Mo-, her infant and her sister, Ada
Hardage, were drowned while trying
to ford Forchee creek near Hot
Springs, Ark.
NJ. Currans, a cigarmaker of Atchi-
son, Kan, eloped with Mrs. ]. AZ
Head of Howard county, Mo-, taking
the wOman's four children. The guilty
pair were arrested.
All of the rooms at the Southern
hotel st. Louis, have been engaged
for the Republican National conven-
tion.
Hester Curtis, an aged woman, who
lived alone in Lafayette, Ind, was
found sitting dead in chair in her
home with her skull crushed and q
bank book in her hand. Robbers UNI
doubtedly murdered her.
A requisltion ON the treasury for
1O,275,OOO for payment of pensions
for the next quarter, was issued by
the secretary of the interior.
The stocks of seventeen firms at
Kossea, Texas, were destroyed by fire.
Twelve business houses were de-
strOyed by fire at Brookston, Texas
A jury has decided that part of the
Shiloh battlefield is worth $50 an acre.
William Myers, who was on trial Mt
Neosho, Mo-, for murder, was ac-
quilted.
The production of the Leadville
mines for 1896 exceeds in value that of
1894 by $1,000, 900.
Fire at Bluefield, w. Va, destroyed
hotel. One life was lost and several
persons were injured.
Charles Brandan, who had been a
fugitive for seventeen years, returned
to his home in Chattanooga and YVES
captured.
@. +. Meter of Quincy was caught
trying to open a safe of the Wander
OOOLH ShaiI 1dSGOiy' l4S ID uuuCT ar
rest.
The lumbermen of seven Southern
States will meet in Birmingham, Ala,
January to consider an advance in
prices.
Mrs. Hester Curtis, aged SO years
was found dead in her bed at Lafay-
cite, Ind. She had evidently been
murdered by robbers.
1t is reported that the British con-
suls have been called to Washington
to tell the ambassador the real state
of feeling on the question of war.
The Atlantic liner Spree has been
towed off Warden Ledge, where she
was stuck for three days.
The Atlantic liner Berlin collided
with and sank the British ship Willow
bark. The Willowbarlx's crew was
rescued by the Berlin.
Sir A, X. Rollitt, president of the
London Chamber of Commerce, says
that mutual concessions should be
made by the United States and Great
Britain.
Las Cruces On. N.Y. citizens have of
fered Peter Maher inducements to
train there.
Utah will become State January 4.
The Sultan is pleased over the Brit
ish-Venezuela embroglio.
st. Clair county, Missouri, lost two
bridges by the high water that cost
$4,000
The proposition for new S25, 1000
high school building at Columbia, Mo-,
was voted down.
Ex-Congressman McShane of Omaha
is at the head of the new st. Joe pack
ing and stock yards company.
The silver men have a majority of
twelve in the Senate and say that
none of the Presidents financial plans
can pass that body
State Accountant Challiror of Kan
sas reports that eX-Oil Inspector Tay-
lor collected $4,000 more in fees than
he accounted for.
Mrs. Edwin J.. Charlton, daughter of
a minister, and wife of Lawrence,
Kan, politician, has eloped with a
paper hanger named Rich.
Charles Simon, private detective and
barber of st. Joseph, got twelve years
in the penitentiary for burglary and
planning crimes for others to commit.
The Missouri University football
team has withdrawn from the West
ern Interstate Football Association.
The championship trophy for 1896 was
awarded to Kansas, which is q 5000
silver cup with gold trimmings
A. D. Thurston, who organized and
was for seven years grand chief of the
Order of Railway Telegraphers, is laid
up at Clinton, Mo-, with his wife and
six children on the charity of the pub
lie. lie is helpless with rheumatism.
Charles Il. Atwood, a Worlds Fair
designer, is dead.
Guatemalan robbers relieved Leo
pold Stein of $4,000 worth of jewels.
Delegate Flynn is fathering bill to
tax the Indian territory cattle men.
Four hundred Turkish soldier pris-
oners are reported massacred by Ar
menians at Zeitoun.
The Porte has ordered the destruc-
tion of Zeitoun and the massacre of
the Il, 600 Armenians in the city.
Thirty head of dairy cattle belong
ing to j. S. Amsden, Malone, N. Y,
were found to have tuberculosis.
Lloyd Montgomery, the boy triple
murderer of Brownsville Ore was