Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-05-30

around the S97, 600, 600 point
Reports from Shanghai say that
Russian army is invading Manchooria.
President Cleveland has retired Adj
nliral Meade with severe reprimand.
Railway telegraphers are holding
their ninth annual session in St.
Louis.
Germany is said TO have withdrawn
from the Alliance with France and
Russia.
Venezuela has asked the United
States to act as intermediary bctwsen
1t and France.
The supreme court has declared the
income tax law unconstitutional by
vote of to 4.
Crawford s. Valentine, Chicago
grain brokers, failed on account of the
rise in wheat.
The retirement of Admiral Meade
has resulted in the promotion of Com
modore Beardslee.
For the FIRST week in May earnings
of nearly all the s., Louis lines show a
substantial increase.
Surgeon General Wyman, who has
been investigating, says there is no
yellow jack in Cuba.
The English police are said to have
warned 400 gentlemen to leave Eng
land on account of practicing Oscar
Wildeism.
Denver dispatcher announce that
work will be begun upon the Colo
RADIO, Wyoming &c Northern at an ear
ly date.
Texas cattle shippers have organ
ICED a committee and will demand
that the railways furnish them free
transportation whenever shipments
are made.
1t is said that even il the Wander
bilts are not trying to buy tho Read
ing, the control of that road is being
sought by q syndicate friendly to
their interests.
Queen Victoria was seventy-six years
old last Thursday, and grand naval
and military celebrations were carried
ON in England and Canada on both
Thursday and Friday.
A bloody and sensational duel fol-
lowed the dismissal of the congregs-
ton of the Presbyterian church at
Troy, Ky, Sunday morning. Archi-
bald Riley, a well-connected young
man, was shot and killed, and George
B. Montgomery was so badly wounu-
ed that he will die.
W. D. Dunnaway, who resides about
five miles southeast of Walker. Yer
non county, Mo-, carved his name and
date ON the back of terrapin July 4,
1874. Last Sunday Mr. Dunnaway
saw the same terrapin about $50 feet
from where he had parted company
with it nearly twenty-oue years ago.
1t still bore the name and date carved
by Mr.. DunnaRay.
William Withers, Government Brand
Inspector at the stock yards, at Kan.
sas City, died ut his home of heart
failure Wednesday after an illness OF
several weeks. The body was taken
to his mothers home, La Junta, Col.
Mr.. Withers came to Kansas City four
years ago from Colorado, whore he
had been State Brand Inspector.
James r. Maloney, commercial
agent of the Missouri, Kansas & Tex.
as, died of inflammatory rheumatism
at his home in Austin, Tex, last Sun
day. He was fifty years old, and was
the first railroad agent ever located
in Austin, having been general
freight and ticket agent for the Hous-
ton and Texas Central when it entered
Austin as a pioneer road twenty-five
years ago.
A young girl baby was picked up
along the Illinois Central railroad
Tuesday morning near Dixon, Ill, by
Arthur WATSON, engineer of a north
bound freight, where the child had
been thrown By its heartless mother.
Investigation by the officers show
that about three weeks ago a woman
went to Dixon from Minonh, ILL.,, Civ.
lng her name as Laura Stonier, and
went to board ut Miss Garrison's, and
while there was visited by strange
man whom she refused to see. Tues.
day morning she left for the south on
the o'clock passenger train with her
baby in a card board box. After the
train was outside the limits she threw
it from the window. Both the man
and woman were placed under arrest.
A unique and successful experiment
was made at Louisville, KY, Sunday,
when the Associated Press telegrsphic
news was taken from the wire di.
rectly by type-setting machine oper.
ntor. One of the Associated Press
loops cas run into the Evening Post
room, and D. C. Boyle,
editor of the Post and
Cogan chief operator of the
Associated Press, who are both tele.
graph and linotype operators, sue.
ceeded in receiving dispatches of tho
Associated Press, putting them in
TYNE directly from the wire. A maxi. |