Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-01-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Joseph Wicker, wife and two chill
dren were drowned in the Prairie Dog
fork of the Red river, in Randall coun-
ty, FeXas, while attempting to ford
!. the stream. -,..s,..s.. ,s:,a.>.
c. l.. Mitchell, an insane patient at
Mattewan asylum, Poughkeepsie, N.
! Y, set fire to the institution in five
places but the blaze was extinguished
with little loss. q, tt
A verdict for Fir. Kelley was rem
! dered at Pontiac, ILL.,, in the case
where one Marshall sued for $1,000
damages from thesreSult ofyAis wife
.tal1in g, treatment at Dwight Nor the
1 morphine habit 8 &'a
I RIM. Wallace, Ike Heiwan," w. b.
Derrick, Thomas McElroy and Pleas
ant Neville have been arrested at
Fayetteville, Tenn, for obstructing
the United States mail. They held
! train until a mob could take and
| lynch Joseph Robertson and Eliza
! MeGaba, two negroes en- route to th9
pen.
Bertram e. Atwater, o young Chi
cago artist, was waylaid and MUIR
dered by footpadsiat Webster Grove,
Mo-, st. Louis suburb. Sam Foster,
a colored cx-conyict, land Peter and
John Schmidt, toughs, confessed the
murder. They had a narrow escape
from being ,1ynched. Atwater was on
his way TO visit Miss Geneyieve Orion.
to complete their wedding arrange
ments.
The Kansas City Times is to be sold
at public auction February 20. No bid
under $4,000 WIFI be received. 1t is
said that Wiley o. Cox, the receiver,
will buy the paper for q syndicate Of
Missouri Democrats.
A pool is being formed in New York
to bid for bonds. ~.
China. has agreed TO open the rich
West river to commerce.
Miss Steele, daughter of the mayor
of Helena Montanay will christen the
cruiser Helena.
Delagoa bay has not. been sold to
Great Britain.
Chief Alexander Tail, Usage Indian
treasurer, is short $4,OOO-"just like
the pale face" ~
Current rumors say the car and the
Turk have made an offensive and de-
fensiye alliance.
Daniel Gore shot at Joseph Backer
in Justice Shotwell's court at Wauke-
kan, ILL.,, and killed John Dillon.
Russia is appropriating sufficient
money for its navy to wrest from Eng
land the title of mistress of the seas.
Mayor Wallbridge of st. Louis has
announced himself as a candidate for
the Republican nomination for gov
ernor.
Alabama Republicans and Populists
meet in separate convention in Birm'.
. ingham April %, but will probably
fuSe,.s,,- -e-,a"-,.,,,,--s s,,-.,. o.,
Councilman Swain of Alton, Iowa,
gave Mayor Renfrow good humping
for insulting languagein council meet
ing. Il M Ea:;S I
! Cleveland has advised, President
Crespo of Venezuela to try to re-estab-
lish diplomatic relations with Great
/, Britain.
Attorney General Harmon favors
putting United States marshals onN
salary and abolishing the scandafF
breeding fee system.
The administration is said to be
again after the scalp of Governor
Hughes of Arizona. s...
The Senate has finally confirmed
the promotion of Colonel Coppinger to
be Brigadies General w.
The defunct Sherz bank at Meta
mora, H., owes $l02, 500, and the as
sets may realize $4,000.
A Tilted girl sta bbed her tickle sutton
in the presence of her rival at prayer
meeting in a Kentucky town.
A woman of Liverpool, who was one
of Henry Irving's pensioners, was
murdered by her boarders son.
The lower house of Congress has
adopted ringing Armenian resolutions.
Congressman Money of Mississippi
won in the Democratic senatorial eau
Gus on the twentieth ballot to succeed
j. q. George.
Senate committee on military affairs
reports unanimously for General Cop
pinger's confirmation, despite strenu-
GUS A. p. A. opposition.
Yang Yu, Chinese minister at WASH
ington, has been recalled to PelSin and
promoted to the presidency of the
board of sacred worship.
Mrs. Beakman, aged 10, daughter OF
Chief of Police Conlin, New York, has
located at Fargo to get divorce for
non-support. She married at l3.
American members of the Salvation
Army are contemplating throwing off
the yoke of obedience to England.
They want the American army indie
pendent.
Maryland sends George L. Yelling
ton, Republican member of Congress,
to the Senate to succeed Gibson, Demo
crat. B. -
Utah sends Frank j. Cannon and
Arthur Brown to the United States
Senate with but two dissenting Re.
publican votes in the legislature.
Inthe Eighth Texas Republican dis
trict convention Mckinley had walk
over.
~ Colored Republicans in mass meet
ing at San Antonio, Texas, declared
for Allison for President.
The Nebraska delegation will be
for Mckinley with ex-senator Mander-
son as dark horse.
/ The Missouri river is. rapidly cutting
q new channel on the Kansas side at
Atchison, and within year it will be
in its old bed of thirty years ago.