Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.


NEWS IN BRIEF.
The House Invalid Pension commit
tee has recommended pensioning the
heirs of Quantrells victims.
The House Indian committee has
petitioned for an opportunity to take
up the Dawes Indian territory organi-
cation bill
Electrocution will be the method of
capital punishment in Ohio after July
list.
Indiana mine owners have been ar
rested for issuing metal checks which
pass as currency.
Bill Raider, Oklahoma outlaw, was
given life Imprisonment for his part in
the Dover train robbery.
The lower house of Congress has re-
quested the State department for the
papers in the Mrs. Maybrick case.
Chief Wa-Pa-Sho of the Sac and Fox
Indians is in Jail for refusing to send
his children to the government school.
Four rebel victories have occurred
in Cuba in the last week, according to
Key West advices, and the Spanish
loss has been 800
The British ship Blairmore was cap
sized by q squall in San Francisco
harbor and sank in six minutes, drown
ing six of her fifteen sailors.
Governor McGraw of Washington
has called out the militia to quell
disturbance made by Washington and
Oregon fishermen ON the Columbia
river
A. Grand Haven, Mich, deputy
state game wardens have seized nets
to the value Of $95, 200, on the ground
that the meshes are smaller than the
lawful size
Kate Gray, a Philadelphia female
sharper, has been victimizing Cotnr
gressmen by representing herselfas
the widow of a Cuban patriot who was
killed while fighting with Gomez.
At Millican, Tex, john Brooks
went to the train and caught his
daughter, Mollie, and A. C. Worrels,
clipping, when he shot the girl dead,
seriously wounded her lover, and then
went to the quarry where he worked
and sitting down on a box of dyna-
mite blew himself to atoms.
Five masked men made futile at
tempt to rob and wreck an Iron
Mountain train at Gad's Hill, Mo-, by
means of misplaced switch, but an
extra, an engine and cab, came ahead
of the regular train, when the men,
being fOiled, mounted their horses and
got away.
A bold attempt at escape was made
by the prisoners in the st. Joseph Jail
by cutting the bars from n grated
window. BY accident the first pris-
oner to attempt to escape was discov-
cred and driven back. Four murder
ers are among the forty-four prisoners
in the Jail.
Peter Glenn and wife have deserted
Ballingtor Booth and goue back to
the regular Salvation army.
Six thousand five hundred women
and children are massed at Buluwayo
and are in danger from the rebels.
Senator Tillman of South Carolina
will deliver an address on free silver
at Pertle Springs, Mo-, April ls.
j. Reuben Phillips of South Caro-
lima, violater of revenue laws, has
been pardoned by the President. r.
Frank Mckinley was killed by q
Pennsylvania railway train at Eliz-
abeth, n. S., less than an hour after
his marriage.
Rains during the past week have
placed the wheat in Central Kansas
in q splendid condition, not a poor
field being reported.
Chairman w. ]. Harrity of the Ma
tional Democratic committee is for
Ex-Governor Pattison for President.
Peter Schmidt was convicted of muir
der in the first degree for killing Il. A.
Atwater, the Chicago artist. at Web
ster Grove, Mo, several months ago.
The sentence of fine and imprison-
ment against Chapman, the broker
who refused TO answer the questions
of the Senate Sugar investigating com
mittee, has been affirmed.
Cornelia Morse, aged 30, wife of a
Philadelphia business man, started on
her wheel to take lunch with her
husband, when she was run into by
produce wagon and killed, a shaft
piercing her breast.
Kentucky tobacco growers have or
ganized the Central Kentucky To-
bacco Growers Association; capital,
Sl00, 900.
Clara Barton's Red Cross relief
movement in Armenia is proving sue
cessful Turkey does not cast a straw
in her way.
August Witteman was fined 81 900 in
United States court in New York for
importing Carl Baltzer to run type
press
Rudolph Kleberg, sound money
Democrat, was elected to succeed w.
g. Grain as congressman from this
Eleventh Texas