Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-12-24
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THE CREAM OF THE NEWS
BOILED DOWN.
Items of Interest From EVorywhSro
Briefly Told for the Convenience of
Busy PeOpIe-Latest Domestic and
Foreign Happenings In Nutshell

Fire in the clothing department of
the Missouri penitentiary did $1,000
damage.
The Mckinley inaugural ball will be
held in the pension building.
New York lawyers are pushing
movement for uniform marriage laws.
Ex-Governor Perryman of the Creek
nation is dead.
Colonel Henry D. Welsh of Philadel-
phia is dead. He was identified with
10S corporations in different capacities.
Over 600 Cuban volunteers have been
enrolled at Kansas City.
A boiler explosion in the Kent
Wooden mills at Centerville, R. l.,
killed four men.
Importers are rushing in wool in an
ticipation of higher tariff.
One hundred and fifty Kickapoos
have run off from the reservation.
Cleveland club of Indianapolis tore
Cleveland's picture to pieces.
Negroes are urging Booker T. Wash
ington of Alabama for a place in the
cabinet.
James Sheppard of Galveston, II
years old, shot servant girl dead be-
cause she leased him.
Four additional battalions of Spanish
troops have been dispatched to the
PHILIPPINE islands.
Five hundred men are to be dis
missed from the Brooklyn navy yard
for lack of appropriations.
Secretary of the treasury has ruled
that foreign nurses are alien laborers
and may be deported.
Captain George E. Lemon, Washing
ton pension agent and publisher, is
dead at Coronado Beach, Cal.
Lard, hams and bacon are being
rushed into Cuba because Weyler will
put up the tariff 5 per cent January l.
Roswell G. Horr died at Plainfeld,
N. j., Friday, after two weeks illness
of bronchitis and Bright's disease.
Rev. Benjamin T. Trego, an Episco-
palian preacher of Saginaw, Mich,
has abandoned the pulpit for the
stage.
Frank c. Miles, for twenty years
treasurer of the Boston Safe Deposit
and Trust company, has defaulted for
100000.
Three Proctor boys were lynched by
mob at Russellville, Ky. Win Proc
tor was shot dead in his cell and the
other two hanged. Arch Proctor, aged
20, had stabbed Aaron and Doc Grafton
to death at Adairville.
Mary Lord Drake, daughter of Gov
ernor Drake of Iowa, was married in
Denver October % to George Sturdi-
want of Centerville, Ia, and the gov
ernor knew nothing of it until he went
a day or so ago to bring his daughter
home and his niece, Mary Carpenter,
told him.
Mr.. Bland says that he will not
make fight for the Democratic NOM
ination for Speaker.
Secretary of State Olney says that
only the president has the right to
recognize the independence of people.
1t is recalled at Washington that
Spain recognized the belligerency of
the Confederacy before the battle of
Bull Run was fought
A mob again destroyed the toll gates
in Woodford county, Kentucky.
Jose Miro, Maceo's chief of staff,
confirms the report of his leaders
death.
Negroes of Louisville, KY, nomi-
mated city officers of their own race,
leaving but one vacancy on the ticket.
Chgrles R. Crisp took the seat made
vacant by his fathers death.
William ]. Carveath escaped from
the Jackson, Mich, prison, has been
returned, and confessed to having
stolen two wagon loads of miscellany
from the prison.
Gabriel Russ, John Antras, Charles
Swanson, Charles Anderson and Louis
Jackson were instantly killed in the
Virginia shaft at Ouray, Col, by the
cage falling.
Tom Sharkey got $500 of the S1O.-
600 purse he fought for, the other
81, 500 being under attachment Fitz-
simmons issued an address to the pub
lie, telling how anxious he is for
another fight.
Convict labor in New York prisons
will be abolished January 1.
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sold to an Atlanta syndicate.
Nebraska supreme court has decided
the sugar bounty law defective.
St Louis has put on 200 extra police
men to try to stem the current of law
lessness.
DR.. Fraker has located in Colorado
Springs and will found a sanitarium
for consumptives.
Federation of Labor exonerated
President Gompers from charges of un'
due activity in Bryan's behalf.
At Porter, Ohio, three children Of
William Stevens were burned to death
by fire started by themselves.
Samuel Gompers was reelected
president of the American Federation
of Labor unanimously. The resolution
condemning the courts for the Deb'
decision was voted down and free sill
yer overwhelmingly Endorsed.
Fitzsimmons is out with challenge
to meet any pugilist in the world
Sharkey preferred.
Mrs. Drayton, of scandalous motto
riety, has been married to Georg,
Haig, a divorced London whisky man
Minnesota Dairymen's association
has Endorsed Ex-Governor Hoard o
Wisconsin for secretary of agriculture
Turkish notables and Circassian la