Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-10-31
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Pope Leo is in bad health.

erosion.
San Francisco is after the National
Republican convention.
Charles d. Rose has withdrawn his
challenge for the American cup.
Payment of the Japanese indemnity
by China is causing rise in silver.
Marquis of Waterford committed sui.
eide by shooting at Curragmore.
Republican national committee will
meet in Washington, December 10 to
select convention city.
Jealousy caused Juba Walker to kill
his wife and himself at Stamps, Ark.
Marion Hardcastle shot and killed
DR.. j. j. Ray on the streets of alas,
Texas.
Francis Hinton, the Milwaukee iron
king, committed suicide in Paris ho-
tel.
Joseph Hart, gambler, was shot
and killed at Cripple Creek, COL, by
Glenn Schmidt.
An active volcano has been discov-
cred in the Olympic mountains near
Port Townsend, Wash.
Fifty of the young Turkish party
have been summarily tried and exc
cuted tosatisfy the sultan's vengeance.
A Mrs. Roush and her 4-year-old
daughter hanged themselves in Farmer
McClanney's chicken house near Cairo,
III.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage was in
stalled as co-pastor of the First Pres
byterian church, Washington.
The High school building at Delta,
Iowa, was burned, and nine children
were injured.
Cold weather has ended the yellow
fever epidemic at Vera Cruz, Mexico,
but it still prevails at Papantia.
A prairie fire near Brookville, Saline
county, Kan, threatened that place
and destroyed much farm property.
Mrs Hannah Brink of Coffeyville,
Kan, fell dead while talking to her
husband. She was 60 years of age.
Fully 100000 bushels of potatoes
have been frozen in the ground by the
sharp frosts of the past few nights
near Plainfeld, Wis.
Indian Territory National banks
hold a thirty-four per cent reserve
and Kansas banks thirty-one per cent
liability.
Postal revenue the last fiscal year
fell short of expenditures nearly $lO,-
100000.
Ray M. Moore, chief clerk in the
Southern Railway freight offices at
Birmingham, Ala, committed suicide.
Don NJ. Dickinson says that the
United States should intervene to stop
the Spaniards' atrocities in Cuba.
Washington politicians regard the
bolt of Clay in Kentucky as seriously
hurtful to Hardin.
The Chickasaw Legislature APP
pointed five delegates to confer with
the Dawes Commission on allotment.
Miss Frances Willard was again
elected president of the National Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union.
The sugar production of Germany,
Austria, France, Belgian, Holland and
Russia for 1S95-96 is estimated at $780,
923 tons.
Valuable concessions to secure rail-
way extentions have been granted to
Americans by the Mexican govern
ment.
Crazy Bruce Collan killed Phillip
and Martin Koch in Washita county,
Oklahoma, for testifying against his
father, who had killed another Ger
man.
Statistics show that the Northwest
ern roads have lost and are losing
enormous sums through ticket scalp
ing A pool is regarded as the only
remedy.
New York anthracite coal COM
panies have advanced prices to follow
ing basis: Crate Sj.75, egg 80, stove
81. Is, chestnut $500.
A lot of Cuban filibusters who start
ed for Cuba from Wilmington, Del,
have been arrested on one of the Ba-
hama islands.
Enoch A. Thompson of Minneapolis,
Mimi, claims to be the heir of the es-
tate of the late Duke of Antrim in the
North of Ireland. He declares that
his grandfather owned the property
and was forced to flee during the
arrangement TeOelllOu.
Arkansas Supreme court upheld
Governor Clark and reversed Chan
cellor Leatherman's decision, thus
knocking out for keeps prizefighting
in Arkansas without expense of ad-
ditional legislation.
Jack Henderson, a farm laborer,
who attempted to assault the wife of
his employer, James Allen, living at
Vinegar Bend, Washington county,
Ala, was found hanging to a tree
riddled with bullets.
x-Congressman George Dorsey of
the Ponca, Neb., National Bank,
which failed, was acquitted of falsily-
ing the bank books.
A fast freight train was wrecked
near East Bradford, Va, by cattle.
Three trainmen were killed and three
injured.
In trying to arrest Lee Martin, a
farmer, near Watson, Ohio, for trying
to choke a small boy to death, Marshal
Shultz of that place was killed and
officer Sweeney wounded by Martin.
National waterways convention, in
session at Vicksburg, Miss, adjourned
to meet next year at Davenport, Iowa.
There is now no cholera in Honolulu
and the quarantine has been raised.
William Coats was slain by John w.
Kitchen at Danville, ILL.,, on account
of n Girl