Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.

wires must go underground.
Schaefer and DAILY beat Ives and
GARNER at 14-inch balk line.
Ex-King Milan of Servia will soon
visit the United States.
Germany's railway claims against
Venezuela have been satisfactorily
settled.
Two 12-year-old boys captured at
Havana confessed themselves Cuban
spies.
Canada school bill has been with
drawn by the government because of
alleged obstruction.
The candidacy of Captain William
NJ. Eads for the governorship of Mis-
souri, is announced.
The Ameer of Afghanistan has or
dered a lot of bicycles for his harem.
Gen. Corrington has been ordered
to South Africa to take command of
the Matabele campaign.
Four men engaged in driving head
ing from the shaft to the slope of the
Eddy Creek colliery near Olyphant,
Pa, were instantly killed by falling
rock and fifth painfully injured.
The old Pennsylvania railroad depot
in Philadelphia was destroyed by
fire. Three firemen were killed and
three others seriously injured. Loss,
5000, OOO
Cardinal Satolli is said to attach
little Importance to the report that
the Pope has interfered between Spain
and Cuba.
One-half of the building contractors
of Cleveland will consent to an eight
hour day for carpenters, provided the
majority does.
Paul NJ. Goetz, baker at the Phoenix
hotel, Lexington, Ky, hung himself,
because his wife ceased to care for
him and asked him to kill himself.
Rev. Jenkins Lloyd Jones of All
Saints church, Chicago, advertised
his Sunday services: "Bicyclists in
vited; wheels taken care of at the
morning service"
The National Miners reelected
Phil II. Penna, Linton, Ind, presi-
dent; Cameron Miller, Massillon, Ohio,
vice president; 3. c. Pearce, Corning,
Ohio, secretary-treasurer
Missouri division of the L. A. w.
has instituted mandamus proceedings
against the Missouri Pacific road at
st. Louis 10 compel it to carry bicycles
free on a first class ticket. Writ is
returnable April 90.
Five children were suffocated by
! fire in tenement block at Turner's
| Falls, Mass.
A flowing artesian we'll was obtained
at Cairo, ILL.,, at depth of 5O7 feet,
after passing through 1876 feet of rock.
The Conservatives carried the Span
ish elections almost unanimously.
Eighteen miners lost their lives in a
colliery explosion at Wilmington, Eng
land.
Pipes made from pine burrs in Cal
ifornia are rapidly displacing Missou-
ri's corn cob pipes.
BY an explosion of a converter at
the works of the American Glucose
Company at Peoria, ILL.,, John Hoey
and a man named Burns were in
stantly killed.
The railroad companies have made
one-fare rates for all the national po-
ical conventions.
1t is freely predicted that the Colo
RADIO delegates to both the Democratic
and Republican national conventions
will bolt if silver men are not nomi-
mated.
Every window glass factory in the
United States will be closed down
May %.
Davies, the Peru bank wrecker, re-
Gently captured in New York, broke
jail at Winterset, Iowa.
Three convicts in the Western, Pa,
penitentiary were cured of consump'
ton by the new aseptolin cure.
Des Moines river is so high that fol
the first time in years fish are getting
up over the dams below Des Moines.
Prairie fires are frequent in Okla
homa. A man named Jones will
likely be lynched for disobeying the
prairie fire laws.
A favorable report has been ordered
made TO the House on the bill to pro
vide for a director.in-chief of the sci
entific bureaus of the Agricultural de
partment.
The old Grand Pacific hotel property
at Chicago Is to be torn down. Tint
Illinois Trust and Savings bank will
erect modern building on the site
, The London police have arrested
two of the employees of l. Townsen,
Burden, whose residence at New Yorl
was, on the night of December "a
4 robbed of jewelry valued at $50, OOC
, The diamonds were found upon tn
emploves