Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-03-05
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UOhh USlpu Wis SilOG anu kllleu, .Dy
a man named Hurst, over a claim Con.
test at Guthrie. ionf'' aah'a@ 2'i'
Hon. w. c. Whitney has written to
friends in Jackson, Miss, that he is a
sound. money, man and not presi-
!, dental candidate. s,c.g,., ,,,.rr.
l., President Cleveland has bought, a
| duekIshooting farm. on the, Potomac,
Tin Stafford county, Virginia, about
forty miles below Washington, '., I
By the collapse of a. gallery during
polo game at Fall River, Mass, Mar
rieus Maynard was killed, six fatally
injured and two dozen more hurt.
a subcommittee Of the Senate is
considering Senator MIitchell's propos-
al to elect Senators by difeet vote of
the people, and will report Tuesday.
Robbins, Democrat, of the Fourth
Alabatna congressional district, has
been unseated, in favor of W. +. AID
rich, fusionist, because of ballot-6ox
stuffing, m .. .
A petition for liberal Sunday laws,
containing $1,000 names, was handed
into the senate chamberat Albany. n.
y, on an oak carriage trimmed with
silver. lq
Captain Wiberg, First Mate Peter
son and Second Mate Johanson of the
steamship lIorsa were convicted at
Philadelphia of carrying an armed eX-
petition to Cuba in violation of the
neutrality laws.
Pruitt Turner, who had been respited
twice, was hanged at Van Buren,, Ark.
Willis Burton, negro, resisted ar
rest by Dallas officers and was shot
dead.
The Postoffice department has begun
vigorous war on bond investment com
panies.
Arkansas cattlemen are after Secre-
tary Morton to change the cattle quar-
antinc in that State.
The administration is said to advise
more moderate action concerning
Cuba than Congress desires.
Consul Manyon has cabled from o.
hannesburg that the Beers are dis
posed to treat the Americans leniently.
The House is preparing for war
with the Senate on the question of
congressional clerks-congressmen all
want clerks.
Gross abuses of the congressional
mail franking system have been eX-
poSed-one man sent his shirts to u
New York laundry.
The House, when the judicial, legis-
lative and executive appropriation bill
came up for consideration, cut Private
Secretary Thurbers salary from s., 900
to SO, 500.
Business portion of Florence, s. c.,
burned; loss Sl0) 900, half insured.
George Williams, a printer, was. ere
mated.
Body snatching seems epidemic
Seattles cemeteries are depopulated
to fill the vats of San Francisco med
zeal colleges.
A gasoline stove explosion at Eureka,
$. d., killed Mrs. Frank Pickett and
two children, Hattie aged and Clar-
ence aged 4.
Rev. Ferdinand BergmeYer, a Fran
ciscan priest, was fatally shotat Santa
Barbara, Cal, by a demented employee,
Il. Ii. &. krusemeyer.
Two indictments against J. o. p
Burnside for embezzling $4,000 from
the Postofiice department at Washing
ton in 1888 have been dismissed.
Funds sufficient to complete the
Grant monument have been secured
and it will be dedicated April %, 1897,
the anniversary of his birthday.
Scores of people are dying in Sgd
ney, Australia, from sunstroke Ter
rifle storms have occurred, crops are
ruined and stcok is starving.
Miss Overman confessed on the wit.
ness stand in San Francisco that she
had entered into plot with Mrs. Da-
wilson to blackmail Rev. Mr.. Brown.
A final decree of foreclosure was
granted against the Fort Scott Water
company's plant.
Bruce Barnett of Sedalia has been
selected to represent the Missouri
University in the interstate Oratorical
contest
Gold has been discovered in the City
Creek canon, within the city limits of
Salt Lake City, Utah. Assays are re-
ported running as nigh as 500 gold
and $40 in silver per ton.
Manitoba legislature, after an all
nights session. adopted 81 to Z, rcso-
luton protesting against Dominion
government interference in Manitoba
school matters.
Republicans and Populists will fuse
in Alabama.
Kinghsher Okla, is to have Con-
gregational college.
Evening News, Washington daily,
has suspended.
Detroit white lead works were dam
aged SG5, 900 by fire.
Six thousand garment workers in
Baltimore are on strike.
Prohibition in Iowa is dead for five
years, the constitutional amendment
being defeated in the legislature
+. L. Woodward of the Lawrence
scientific school at Harvard has de-
vised lamp bywhich cathode shadow
graphs are obtained in five seconds.
General Lewis Merrill, who com
manded brigade known as "Merrills
horse" in North Missouri during the
civil war, is dead in Philadelphia,
aged g.
Administration Democrats refused
to submit the free silver question TO
primaries in Nebraska and abide by
the result in sending delegates TO