Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-11-28
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

Laredo, Texas.
Mrs. Vanderbilt presented $500 to
the New York police pension fund for
the order the coppers kept at her
daughters wedding.
The latest presidential candidacy
story is that Allison is to get Harri-
sons strength whenever it appears
that the ex.president cannot be nomi-
mated.
At Washington, D. c., the general
assembly, K. of L., after some discus
sion,. Endorsed the boycott of national
bank notes ordered by Mr.. Sovereign
last spring.
The Shawnee county tax rolls
show that Mrs. Simon Greenspan,
widow of Allen Sells, the circus
man, is the richest woman in
Topeka. She is worth $3.50, -OO6.
Other rich women in Topeka are
Mrs. Eliza Chrisman, whose property
is valued at $3.50, 900, and Mrs. Julia
Wilhouse, who is worth 100000.
Mr.. Otey, a Virginia Congressman,
announces his purpose to introduce a
bill to appropriate $27, 900, 900 for the
benefit of eY-Confederat soldiers, con-
ditional upon an equal amount being
appropriated by the States in which
the Confederates live. His PROPOSE
ton is founded on the plea that the
$27, 000,000 represents the proceeds of
captured property turned into the
Federal treasury during the war, and
that the people of the South have a
moral claim for the money.
A good many Kansas gentle.
men who have been riding ON
railroad passes for several years
will after January pnt up the
cash or walk. Under the new
agreement of the Kansas authorities
no passes will be given to state officers
who collect mileage tees in the dis
charge of their official duties. This
applies to members of state boards.
Sheriffs will have passes as heretofore.
Clerks of district courts will also have
passes next year.
John Redfern. the we'll known Lon
don tailor, is dead.
A grand ball was given in Omaha to
celebrate the release of Debs.
Lieutenant Peary reported to the
Brooklyn navy yard for duty. He will
do no more Arctic exploring.
The st. Louis board of fire under
writers has expelled member for en-
ploying female solicitor, which is
against the rules
Judge William P. Madden, rs years
old, a prominent citizen of Mars all
county, Kan, was found dead under
his overturned wagon near Summer
field.
Professor Brooks, OF Smith obser-
Vatory, at Geneva, N. Y, who has
already a record of nineteen comets,
discovered another one in constellation
Hydra.
Annother frightful trolley car acct
dent was narrowly aVerted at CleVe-
lend. A runaway car nearly pushed
two other cars through an open draw
into the river. Many women passen-
gers tainted and one was badly injured
in crush to escape.
A mob in Madison county. Texas, is
said to have lynched the wrong negro
for riding horse over little girl.
The guilty man escaped.
Henry Martin, once superintendent
Of the schools of Atchison, Kan, has
been sent to the Nebraska penitentiary
for five years for embezzlement
Fred Chism, colored, who eloped
from Benton county, Mo-, with Rosa
fNt nt,rynua1 ,vhfkn or,n,knl It'll
the girl at Lawrence, Kan.
Brigham H. Jeffries, living near
Providence, Mo-, died from wounds in
flicted by his son, aged 10. The boy
claims that it was accidental, but he
has been arrested.
Howard Ramage and Louis Snow,
boys, were killed and two others were
badly injured by the caving in of a
bank in Louisville, in which they were
digging cave.
The Iowa coal miners have organ
lied protective association for their
state alone and elected j. w. Reynolds
Of Beacon president, They will affili-
ate with the National Federation of
Labor
Governor Morrill, of Kansas has
the sentence of Frank Van
Doran, burglar of Dickinson county,
from five years to one year, on the
ground that he did not k now what he
was doing.
S. S. II. Clark, president and receiver
Of the Union Pacific, pronounces the
rumor that an Eastern syndicate is to
buy the road false, and says that
under the present conditions such
move is absurd. Mr.. Clark also says
that it is not likely that the govern
ment will take control of the road, as
such action would involve loss to the
Ed Craighead, witness in the case of
Davis, on trial at Lincoln,
Neb., for train wrecking, testified that
Davis confessed the crime to him; that
he had asked Craighead to help him
a rail and then flag the express
and get reward. Craighead refused.
Later Davis confessed that lie had re-
moved the rail but could not flag the
train.
Great Northern officials have asked
all men in the employ of the road in
South Dakota If they were members
Of the American Railway union. Very
few men acknowledged belonging to
the order.
General Master Workman Sovereign
but by an almost unanimous
vote of the general assembly of the