Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-01-31
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ha1 been appointed q pel5ion eEarail
ing surgeon.
The Galeaa hotel at Gslena, Kan.
YVES destroyed by fro ca the 900. Nc
Insurance on building Or conteuts.
4 5Chicago, while attempting to res
cue. an employee, John &. Walsh was
killed by an explosion o. sewer gas.
Arnistead Hosk;ns, colored, of st.
Joseph, Mo-, died and it was said among
his neighbors that ghost was the
cause
The Kansas Quantrell raid claims,
amounting to s362,Oo0 have been al
lowed by the house committee on
claims, 81.
The lower house of the legislature of
the state of Washington voted to abol-
ish the Office of acknowledgement so
as to save $1,000 year.
Frank Stadel, a young farmer, was
found dead in the woods near Topeka,
Kan, with bullet hole in his head.
1t is supposed he committed suicide.
The lower house of congress on the
Goth passed the bill repeating the diff
ferential duty placed on sugar i'm
ported from bounty-paying countries.
Three Hannibal g st. Joseph ice
houses were burned at Lake Contrary,
Mo-, Tues day night. There were sew
eral thousand tons of ice In the houses.
Gov. Morrill, has named these police
commissioners for Fort Scott, Kan:
j. j. Stewart, president; F. A. Lyon,
secretary; W. D. Lowery, democratic
member.
Senator Henderson offered a resolu-
ton in the senate on the 29th direct
ing the finance commi ttee to prepare
compromise currency measure. 1t was
referred.
A young child of A. P. Munroe was
burned to death at Colorado Springs
Col, while the parents were away from
home. The other children will prob
ably die.
While in Atlanta, Ga, on the Goth.
Mrs. U. S. Grant was introduced to and
warmly greeted many members of the
Fulton County Confederate Veterans
association.
James L. Minis, republican, was
elected to the legislature from Carroll
county, Mo-, on the Goth by reduced
majority. He succeeds the late Repre-
sentative Richards.
Gov Altgeld, of Illinois, issued q
requisition on Gov. Morrill,, of Kansas,
for the extradition of Katie Dugan and
Jessie Hammer, under arrest at Fort
Scott for conspiracy.
Chief of Police Broder, of st.
Joseph, Mo-, has issued an order to the
saloonkeepers of that city notifying
them that the Sunday closing law will
hereafter be enforced to the letter.
The Oklahoma senate passed bill
giving union soldiers the preference
for employment in territorial posi-
tions; also bill allowing teachers to
read the Bible in the public schools.
The work of special examiners of
the government pension bureau is be-
hind over 90, 900 cases, owing to the re-
cent lack of appropriations. There
are now 1863 special examiners in the |
field.
Fred Hoffman, ex-treasurer and pres |
emit deputy clerk of d county, Ok, was
found buried in a sand bank with a
bullet hole through his head. Il is
supposed he was murdered and robbed !
by highwaymen.
A delegation of Nebraska and low
newspaper proprietors are in Washing
ton fighting fast mail trains, which |
they say makes it impossible for
them to compete with Chicago and ,
St. Louis papers.
Eighteen Italian anarchists of Luz
gano, one of the three capitals of the !
canton OF Tcino, Switzerland, who have
been engaged in smuggling anarchist
literature into Italy, have been ex-
pelleed from Switzerland.
John H. Sullivan. 10 years old, shot
and killed William Flynn miner aged
90, on the street of Leadville, Col. +
Flynn was with Sullivan's sister, 10 /
years old, whom Sullivan accused of !
enticing away from home.
s J. Jackson, employed as solicitor
for Kansas City live stock firm, was
murdered on the streets of Ashland,
Kan, by Frank Ernest, well known
cattle man. Jackson's attention to
Ernest's wife caused the tragedy.
First Grand Chief Thomas A. Ingra.
ham of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers states that there is founda-
ton for the report telegraphed from
Oakland, CAL, to the effect that the
engineers were preparing for general
strike on the Pacific coast.
The senate committee on privileges
and elections has voted that, as the 4th
Of March was so near, when the term
Of Senator Martin, of Kansas, would
expire, it was inexpedient to give any
further hearings in the case Of Ady VS..
Martin.
The Springfield, Harrison & Little
Rock Railway Co., of Springfield, Mo-,
has been chartered to build 60 miles OF
railroad from the southern boundary
line of Missouri, in Stone or fancy
counties, in the direction of Little
Rock, Ark.
Judge Bradley, of the District of Co.
lumbia supreme court, granted the
mandamus asked for by Judge Long,
of Michigan, to compel Commissioner
Lochren, of the pension bureau, to re-