Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-03-07

More than 100 lives were lost IN tue
wreck on the Interoceanic Railroad in
Mexico.
Two buildings fell Saturday in New
York, killing FIVE men and wounding
10 others.
The Nebraska House recommended
$780, appropriation for drought
sufferers.
The pope will on next Sunday cele-
brate the seventeen anniversary Of his
coronation.
The silver Democrats in congress
are getting up an address to the party
in the country.
A sale of $3.50, 600 of new per cent.
government bonds has been made at
119A in New York.
Fire damaged the city hall at Brook
lyn, N. Y, Tuesday morning to the
amount of $4,000.
All of the Japanese officers who
have been serving in the German army
have been recalled to Japan,
Ten thousand dollars for charity is
the result of ball given by Germans
in New York last Tuesday.
George w. Prince was nominated by
the Republican Congressional Conven-
ton of the Tenth Illinois District.
Captain Henry Howgate was &C
quilted on two indictments for for
gerry and embezzlement. Seven are
still pending.
4Ex-County Treasurer Van Auken
has been indicted by the grand jury
at Mason City, Iowa, for forgery Of
public records.
A coroner's jury is investigating at
Lowestoft the Elbe disaster, Miss An
ma Buckner, the only female survivor,
being witness.
Mr.. Fithian spoke at length in Con-
gress on Wednesday, censuring the
President for his course during the
Chicago strike.
Nelson Morris says that the French
government offered to admit Ameri-
can cattle if sugar discrimination
should be abolished.
4Fire broke out at Dalton, Ohio, early
Tuesday morning, and assistance was
called from neighboring towns. Great
loss was sustained.
A recent census of Salt Lake City,
gives it population of 1880, an in
crease of 3,137 as compared with the
federal census of 1890.
California ships from twenty-five to
fifty car loads of cabbage weekly to
Texas and Missouri River points.
Colma and Baden are the principal
shipping points.
An explosion at the White Ash coal
mine at Cerillos, N. NJ, has closed the
entrance. Forty men are inside. A
driver has been found dead near the
mouth of the tunnel.
"rhe Arkansas and Missouri Yellow
Pine Lumber Company" is the title OF
corporation formed in st, LOUIS.
The company controls all the yellow
pine lumber in Missouri and Arkansas
and will fix the prices.
The Mexican man-of-war La Lioer-
tad, which was believed to have been
lost during the recent northers on the
gulf, is now anchored off the jetty
channel, at New Orleans, out of coal
and with her sails split.
The British Bi-Metalic League has
telegraphed to Senator Allison OF
Iowa, saying that it expresses the
deepest regret and sympathy with the
family and nation at the death of
Samuel Dayton Horton, whose labors
have done much for international
monetary reform.
The San Francisco agents of China
and Japan bankers are checking the
flow of silver form Colorado, Utah and
Nevada to the Orient by way of New
York and are shipping bullion to Hong
Kong and Yokahoma from this port.
Silver shipments are increasing month.
ly. The cost of shipping 1000 in fine
silver from Denver to Hong Kong via
New York and London is S19.O6 and
by way OF San Francisco S14 The
bank of California and the French
bank have in large measure changed
the flow of the immense output which
is regarded as pronounced CONNER
cial triumph for the Western states.
Noble Shepard, the shanty-boat
murderer, pleaded not guilty when ar
in the Criminal Court Satur-
day ut st. Louis, to two indictments
charging him with murder in the first
degree. Shepard killed Thomas Nor
ton ard Lizzie Leahy on Christmas eve
on a shanty boat at the foot Of Poto-
mac street. Lizzie Ieahy was found a
day latey with her head crushed in.
She fingered at tho City Hospital one
month and died. Morton's body was
found buried in the sand week after
the killing. Shepard made fully a
dozen confessions to the police after
his arrest The case was put on the
docket for trial April l. Shepard's
father, Robert Shepard, is here in the
interest of his son. His home is at