Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-19
LATE NEWS NOTES.

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Colo, to invest in mines.
Curtis, the bigamous editor of Ana.
mosa, Iowa, who has four wives 10 his
credit, was sentenced to FIVE years in
the penitentiary.
The body of Alexander Krell was
found in the flooded cellar of his piano
factory at Cincinnati, which was
burned Sunday. He had been drowned.
Twelve persons were seriously and
twenty-five others more or less pain
fully injured by the collision of q
freight and a passenger train on the
Cincinnati, Hamilton 6 Dayton rail-
road near Milton, Ohio. No one was
killed.
James Thompson, an employee of the
East Indian pavilion, lost his life in a
fire which occurred in the Midway at
the Atlanta exposition.
The Mexican customs collections in
November were very large, being
S2,3l3,097. Vera Cruz collected $685.
On Importations are heavy and trade
is brisk.
Chief Crowley, of San Francisco,
has decided to close all of the pool
rooms in the city if possible, directing
that all of the proprietors shall be ar
rested.
Seymour Van Zantvoord and DAN
forth A. Geer have been appointed re-
ceiVers for the Walter-A. Wood Now
ing and Reaping Machine Company Of
Hoosac Falls, N Y. They gave bonds
to the amount of SO, 225,0OO. The OBJ
ject of the appointment of receivers is
to reorganize the company and con-
solidate claims.
Moonshiner Hall was found dead by
Federal officers while raiding Illicit
stills in Alabama.
The Nicaraguan minister TO this
country has been recalled as matter
of economy.
At Big Stone Gap, Va, ledge of
rock fell on five laborers, who were
eating dinner, crushing them to death.
George w. McCammon, Adams ex-
press agent at Farmersburg, Ind, has
fled with $500 belonging to the ex-
press company
The Lexington, KY, Observer has
started boom for Ex-Governor Brown
for the Democratic nomination for
president.
The Catholics of Tecumseh, Neb,,
have adopted resolutions standing by
Father Murphy, the priest eXcommu-
nicated by Bishop Bonacum for insub-
ordination.
The Eighth Street Methodist church,
Little Rock, Ark, was burned. Fire
man AL Robbins was fatally and Fire
man George Wandonlicht badly
burned. Loss, $4,000.
Francis Boulder German farmer
living near Viroqua, Wis, killed his
wife. The sheriff found his body
hanging in his woodshed. 1t is be-
lieved that he was lynched.
There are sixty-six indictments
against A. X. Ward, the Memphis
forger.
Populist National committee will
meet at the Lindell, st. Louis, Janu-
airy II.
Fifteen Americans are imprisoned
at Saghalien for fishing in Siberian
waters.
Large dry goods store of W. ]. Echols
at Fort Smith, Ark, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000
The st. Louis delegation that cap
tured the National Republican con-
vention was warmly welcomed home
Saturday.
Nathan w. Baker of Lewisburg,
Pa, was cured of rheumatism by a
blessed Schlatter handkerchief, so he
says,
Harry Leon, a smooth Chicago crook,
secured 100000 worth of jewelry on
credit and skipped, leaving an empty
store.
Charles Mayne, capitalist, banker
His real name was Henry Merzbach.
Illinois raised in 1895 267, 425, 900
bushels of corn off l.,925, OGO, being 80
bushels to the acre, the largest crop
except that of 1874, 1877, 1879, 1883.
There are 10 firms, operating i13
salt plants, having an estimated ca
pacity of 3, 420, 900 barrels in Michigan.
Actual production for the year was
S3,C75, 75l barrels, l0O,S23 barrels more
than in 1894.
Conductor L. j. Duval of Cadiz.
Ohio, and Brakeman Michael Day of
Lexington, KY, were killed by col
lision in a tunnel on the Cincinnati
Southern near Lexington.
Three members of the House, whose
biographies appear in the Congression-
al directory, fail to give their place of
nativity. One is Representative
Crowther of Missouri, another Is Rob-
bins of Alabama and the third is
Hunter of Kentucky.
New management Of the Santa Fe
has decided to cancel every contract
of every description on January and
begin over again as though none were
in existence.
The newspapers at Rome declare
that the government will demand a
credit of Is, 900, 900 to 10000, 900 francs
for the campaign in Abyssinia. The
Italie says 10000 men will be present.
Fire at Cincinnati burned out the
interior of the building of the Krell
Piano Company, doing $4,000 worth
of damage.
Hon. B. Fl. Roberts, the Democratic
candidate for Congress at the late
election in Utah, has been appointed
editor-in-chief of the Salt Lake Her
aid.
Postmaster General Wilson has ac-
cepted the invitation of the faculty of
Vanderbilt university. at Nashville