Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-01-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
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Senator Hoar favors woman suffrage.
Omaha is to have an exposition in
Omaha talks of taxing bicycles 81
per year.
Arkadelphia, Ark, power house
burned. Loss, $4,000.
St Paul people have just given up
$4,000 to clever forger.
Monster Park colliery No. 2, at
Trenton, Pa, burned. Loss, 500, 900
The Pittsburg bar turned down res
olutions excluding women from prac-
tice.
Rocky Mountain Coal Company pays
$1,000 tor each of sixty men killed in
Red Canon mine.
AS result of incendiarism in the
sugar cane fields of Cuba by the in
surgents, the price of sugar in this
country is advancing.
A Detroit judge has decided that
telephone companies cannot force Gus
toners to sign contracts, and that
courts can pass on rates.
By collision at Schooley station,
near Chillicothe, Ohio, Fireman George
Adds, Leon Matthews, j. II. Cox,
Brakeman Jesse King and Postal
Clerk j. E. Edgerton were killed.
Fire caused the loss of two lives,
the injury of one man and the destrue-
ton of two residences with their con-
tents at Wheaton, Ill.
Patrick Calvin of Indianapolis, sup
posed to be insane, opened fire on his
neighbors and wounded three. w.
B. Murphy, whose wife and son were
shot, in turn shot the maniac. The
coroner's jury said the killing was
justifable,
Two children of Abram Leonard
were burned to death six miles south
of Dallas, Tex. Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
were at church.
1t is reported that w. S. Stratton's
celebrated independence mine at Vic
tor, Colo, is to be sold to Marshall
Field of Chicago, for S7,0O0,OOO. Mr.
Stratton denies the report.
Col Thomas w. Knox, who became
distinguished as a newspaper cores
pendent in the civil war, and who has
written many stories for the young,
died at New York He was 81 years
of age.
1t has been discovered that Arno E.
Korb, who was found at his home in
New York on December, "a, last, hay
ing committed suicide, with his wife
beside him in an unconscious condi-
ton, is defaulter TO the amount of
$1,000
An Italian was assassinated in
Louisiana, the crime being laid to the
door of the Malta.
"Blocks of Five" Dudley is attorney
in twenty-five of the thirty Congress
sional election contests.
A coach left the track on the L and
e. N. near Georgetown, Tex. Two
persons jumped and were killed.
Queen Victoria knighted the Chief
Justice of Sierra Leone, who is a
negro.
1t is stated that Sir Charles Upper
will succeed Sir Mackenzie Bowel as
Premier of Canada.
An elevator in Chicago building
fell FIVE stories. killing one man and
fatally injuring another
Herman Rolling, a Cincinnati hack
man, was beaten into insensibility and
robbed of 81, 900 In gold. The scamps
overlooked 81, 1000, the balance of
fifty years saving. ~ =
Sheriff B. E. Devall of Ellville, Miss,
was compelled to open his safe and
give three masked men $4,000 county
money.
Armenians are mnch incensed at
United States Minister Terrell because
of his dispatches to America.
A 100000 company has been or
ganized to develop gold mines in
buckingham county, Virginia.
Secretary Olney will demand $780,
900 of Turkey for damages to Ameri-
cans at Kharput and Marash.
A prematurely published interview
is said to have prevented President
Cleveland from placing Professor
James Bryce on the Venezuelan COM
mission.