Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-14
LATE NEWS NOTES.

George Smith was killed by Sam
McGee near Elgin, l. t., in fight
Five hundred union carpenters OF
Detroit, Mich, are out on strike
While out fishing in Bingham Lake,
Mimi, H. Dickman and Jacob Epp
were drowned.
Churdan, Iowa, taxes Armours crib
bed corn and the big monopolist is
furious.
William Willis, aged IA, drowned
himself at Gibson, Neb., rather than
go home.
Adams county, Neb., was shaken up
by tornado Saturday, dwellings de.
stroyed and stock killed
! Battleship Oregon, which was built
on the Pacific, promises to be the feet. .
est ever constructed.
James il. Wilson died in a hospital
at Columbus, Ind. He left $4,000,
which will go to the state.
Kansas fire insurance companies
will hereafter have to obey the val
ued-policy law or quit business
Many lumber camps have been de-
stroyed and much standing pine
burned about Marquette, Mich.
Fire destroyed the Lehigh Valley
Comnany's hay sheds in Jersey City
and forty or fifty cars loaded with hay
which were standing in the sheds. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Disfgured and bloated beyond pos.
sibility of recognition, except by
clothing and jewelry, the body of
Thomas W. Mulvihill, who disappeared
at Chicago was found in one of the
reservoirs of the Union Stock Yards
company. 1t is thought to be case
of murder, and five persons have been
arrested on suspicion.
! j. Blair Simpson, justice of the peace
OF Detroit, Mich, was sentenced to
six years in Jackson prison for as
saulling Annie Hewlett
Color blind Alabamans lynched
Reddcn H. Williams, white farmer
OF Mlnitou, Greene county, for an as
SALT on his l6-year-old daughter
Chinch bugs have put in their APP
pearance all over Central Illinois and
are laying their eggs. Outlook is not
very promising for farmers.
The ice trust has put the price in
New York beyond the reach of COM
mon people and small retailsrs are
shipping theirs from Buffalo at cost
OF l5c per ton.
President Zelaya, at the head of the
Nicaraguan troops, has entered the
city Leon in triumph. The rebels,
before evacuating the city, destroyed
many public buildings and a great
deal of private property.
Luke Alexander, colored, wife MUIR
derer, escaped from the Linneus, Mo-,
Jail.
Poverty and distress in Havana has
caused deplorable condition of
affairs.
James Talbot, living near Coffey-
vile, Kan, was thrown from q cart
years of age and one of the wealthiest
men in the county.
Harry E. Howas, a colored boy, took |
refuge in a granary during an electri-
cal storm at St John, Kan, and was
struck by lightning and killed.
On its trip from San Francisco to
Santa Barbara, Cal, for its official
trial, the new battleship Oregon made
a record of lB.3 "a knots per hour,
breaking the record of the Massachu-
sets.
The bicycle craze is on the waue
among the leaders of fashion in Lon
don.
City Treasurer Michellon of Cam
den, N. j., is short 5000, 900 in his ac-
counts.
The high price of ice has COM
PEELED several small beef packers of
Kansas City to close down.
The British bark Centaur was
burned at sea April II. The crew
landed ON the Sandwich Islands after
rowing 500 miles in two open boats.
E. e. Beach of Wichita was elected
grand counsellor of the Kansas Com
mercial Travellers of America. The
next convention will be held at Leav-
enworth May and 2, 1887
The action of the British govern
ment in shielding Cecil Rhodes in con-
nection with the Transvaal trouble,
may cause the overthrow of the Sails
bury ministry.
Ferdinand Schumacher, of Akron,
Ohio, the Oatmeal King" has as
signed. Liabilities, 81, 100, 900; assets,
81 100000. Schumacher is a promi-
nent ProhibitioDist, and twelve years
ago was the candidate of that party
for Governor of Ohio.
Colonel Piano has been elected Pres
ident of Bolivia in succession to Senior
Baptisa,
Mrs. Roxby of Lexington, Ok,
burned to death from careless han
ding of coal oil in filling lamp.
The Alice and DIillville rubber mills,
Woonsocket, R. l., have started up
employing $500 hands.
Judge Maynard of the Suffolk Su-
perior court, Boston, passed on fifty
divorce cases in six hours, thus making
a record.
A tornado picked up ]. H. Lindland's
house near Clark, S. D., with ten peo-
Pile in it, carried it fifty feet and killed
Mrs. Lindland.
Henry d. Oppenheim, a st. Louis
broker, committed suicide, taking
strychnine. Cause, dependency from
physical ailments.
United States Judge Grosscup Of
Chicago has decided that the mere
request for money due, written on
noStal card is not n criminal Offense !