Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-03-12
LATE NEWS NOTES.

house company, at Louisville, XIV,
was destroyed by fire together with
its contents. Loss, S25O,OCO.
Sweat shops were denounced at
big meeting at Central Music hall,
Chicago, and the Sulzer bill for the
Federal regulation of tenement house
construction was warmly Endorsed.
Forty-nine citizens of Mitchell, S.
d., have been arrested, charged with
participating in the sackng of the
Mail newspaper office February "a.
The editor, Mcbride, has brought suit
for SO, 900 damages.
Omahgs Salvation army remains
loyal to British rule.
Over 10000 soldiers are cared for in
the national homes.
Alexander Miller, an expert forger
from Pittsburg, Pa, is in Jail at
Omaha.
Roland Burnett of Oklahoma City,
is an applicant for $40 per month
pension.
Choctow, Oklahoma &c Gulf railroad
shops have been located at Shawnee,
Oklahoma.
James Judge, a laborec from New
York, got drunk at Guthrie and was
killed by the cars.
Oklahoma officers killed Outlaw
George Miller and wounded and cap
tured James Harbolt.
New York Railroad Commission has
reported favorably on plans for $780,
OOO,OOO underground railroad.
Indian Agent Freeman has given
Colonel John b. Skinner, a merchant,
fifteen days to leave the Usage reser-
walton.
Nebraska Democrats have decided
to vote on the financial question at
their primaries, national delegates to
abide by the result.
Minnie Swanger, aged L., will be
tried for murder at Holidaysburg, Pa.
She put rough on rats in the coffee
and killed her uncle, W. McGregor.
j. NJ. Brady of Canton, Ohio, archi-
tect of the Akron, Bedford & Cleveland
bridge, where the recent disaster oc-
Cured, has been arrested for man
slaughter.
Mrs. Kendrick, Thomas Knapp and
George Gould of Newark, Okla, have
been given year each in Jail for at
tempting to defraud settler out of
his claim.
William Craig, formerly superin-
tendent of the Duluth Water company,
has been indicted for manslaughter in
furnishing impure water to Perry w.
Smith, who died of typhoid fever.
Official statistics of zinc production
in the United States for 1895 show the
total production to be 1856 short
tons, against75, 32S short tons in 1891.
By states the figures are as follows,
the first set representing 1895 and the
second 1894: Eastern, 9,494, against
7,4OO; Southern, 1907, against 1876;
Illinois and Indiana, 37,739, against
2S,972; Ka nsas, 25,775, against 25,5Ss;
Missouri, 1895, against 1892.
Eight hundred union painters at
San Francisco have struck for SO day
instead of $3.50. The contractors will
put i'll non-union men.
The President has committed to six
months Imprisonment the sentence of
two years, imposed in Oklahoma upon
Wah Hu No Ha, alias o. Shan Kolk, for
assault with intent to kill.
The President sent to the Senate the
nominations of Laura Goodfellow to
be postmistress of Fort Leavenworth,
Kan, and Joseph L. Schmuke, to be
postmaster at jackson, Mo.
Russia ridicules SPANS attitude
oward the United States.
Congress will endeavor to adjourn
the first week in May.
Christian Conrad of Delaware coun.
ty, Iowa, is dead, aged l1G.
Woman suffrage has been tabled in
the Iowa Senate, 20 to 50.
Official denial of the murder of the
| Queen of Corea now comes from Rus.
sion sources.
Robbers bored a hole in the safe Of
the county treasurer at Crede, Colo,
and found it empty.
Rev s II. Hawlev, who is collecting
money for needy Nebraskans, is de.
nounccd as a fraud by citizens Of
: Fremont,
Professor George L. Burr of Cornell
has been chosen historical specialist
for the Venezuelan boundary com.
mission.
King Humbert has sent a special
message to Abyssinia to Conclude an
honorable peace and then abandon the
country.
Philip j. A. Harper, retired, senior
member of Harper Bros, New York,
is dead at Hampstead l.. LACED ~,
from kidney trouble.
Venezuela refuses to pay the British
indemnity demanded for the arrest Of
Barnes and Baker, English officers,
on the Uruan river, in 1894.
England has issued blue book con-
tanning the evidence of her claims in
the Venezuela dispute. II contains
nothing that has not already been
published from time to time.
Premier Canovas of Spain has given
out a long statement expressive of
friendship for the United States, but
protesting against the recognition of
the Cuban insurgents, which would be
regarded by Spain as hostile act
The Oklahoma Statehood bill is to be
separated from the Arizona and New
Mexico bill, because of the free silver
agitation. oklahoma hopes thereby
to get in at this session of Congress.