Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-11-26
NEWS BOILED DOWN.
HAPPENINGS FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.
A Budget of General Information Briefly
and Curtly Related In ThiS Column for
Busy bscrlbers-DomeStic and For
elgn Intelligence.

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The Civil Service commission will
expedite a case to test the law upon
political assessments.
William d. McHugh has been ap
pointed United States Judge for the
district of Nebraska.
w. s. Woodward, a gold Democrat
probably will be chairman of the com.
mittee having charge of the ceremo-
MES attendant upon the Inauguration
of Mckinley.
Helmas Romaine, a millionaire OF
Paterson, N. j., committed suicide.
The theory of murder in the Ar
buckle case in New York is growing
stronger.
William Hass, l6 years old, will be
the first murderer electrocuted in Ohio.
An examiner has been placed in
charge of the First National bank of
Saginaw, Mich.
At Holden, Mo-, William Wright
shot and mortally wounded his broth
er-in-law, George Fain.
Bloodhounds trailed burglar and
ran him up tree near Emporia, Kan,
where he was captured.
Raiders continue to destroy tollgates
in Kentucky, Notwithstanding the Wig
lance of the authorities.
The general opinion of Congressman,
according to New York papers poll.
is that an extra session will be called.
Miss Mary Pendleton, daughter of
the late United States Senator, and
John R. Abney were married in Wash
ington, ID. c.
Princeton defeated Yale ct football
"a to 6.
Pennsylvania defeated Harvard at
football 8 to 6.
Dan Stuart expects to get Corbett
and Fitzsimmons together for a finish
fight about March l.
Opium smuggling is decreasing.
Muskogee, l. t., now has a board of
trade.
Yellow pine has advanced so cents
per 1000 feet.
Kentucky mobs are still tearing down
toll gates.
New York dealers are trying to cor
ner Havana tobacco.
General Horace A. Porter is talked
of for secretary of war.
j. Ellen Fosters husband wants to
be governor of New Mexico.
President Cleveland is hard at work
on his message and receives few
callers.
Iowa's vote: Mckinley, 2s0, 57s;
Bryan, 223,96 McKinley's plurality,
j6,312
Illinois farmers have formed Chau-
tauqua association, to study farming.
Lower house of the Vermont legisla-
ture voted no on woman suffrage 1876
to 80.
California wines have been raised to
20 cents, > cents over the 1895 price
and ~ cents over 1894.
Warden McRae of Erie, Pa, jumped
from train after an escaping prisoner
and broke his neck
Texas Republicans are booming Ma
tional Committeeman DR.. John Grant
of Dallas for the cabinet.
Mayor Waters of Hot Springs, Ark,
was acquitted of killing Harry Martin,
hotel drummer, last May.
Prairie fires are doing much damage
in Lincoln and Payne counties, Okla
homa. Two people were fatally burned.
BY fire damp explosion in col
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five men were killed and fifty en-
tombed alive.
Robert w. Deutch, retired cloak
merchant of New York, committed
suicide in San Francisco by turning on
the gas.
S. Bloomquist, a Dawson, Mimi,
farmer, shot his brothers wife and
then committed suicide. The woman
may recover.
Up to date ten contests for seats in
the next Kansas legislature have been
announced. In each case the winner
has less than 100 majority.
National Grange resolved against
proposed export bounties on agricul-
tural products. A resolution in favor
of reciprocity treaties was killed.
Newspaper men are highly indignant
at the treatment received at the Cleve-
land banquet given in Hanna's honor
and have published warm resolutions.
First National bank, Sioux City,
Iowa, has gone to the wall, pulling
down with it the Sioux City Savings
bank and J. X. Pugh & Co., china and
queensware dealers.
George 81. McCluskey, a Chicago
ticket broker, deserted his wife, and to
get even she threw vitriOl on him in
the Plaza hotel in Plymouth place. He
was badly burned.
General Attorney Waggener of the
Missouri Pacific denies in toto pub
lished reports concerning United states
Marshal Neely's alleged indebtedness
to the railway.
Students of Lafayette college,
Easton, Pa, carried Henry NJ. Payne
of South Wood, L. l., to barber shop
and cut off his long black whiskers.
The victim has caused five arrests.
Lucas Reiner of Covington, Ky, is
being held in Germany by officials who
are trying to force him into the army.
He left Germany when IA years old
and is q naturalized American.
w. X. Vanderbilt got a check for
500. 477.69 from the owner of the
steamer II. +. Dimmocl, which sank
Vanderbilt's steam yacht Alva three
years ago near Boston.
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