Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Leavenworth, was burglarized and
S7O0 worth of jewelry stolen.
General Franklin's selection as
member of board of managers of sol.
diers' homes has been approved by the
President.
Herman Schuaritzka's wife tried to
kindle fire at Cleveland with coal
oil and burned herself and two chill
dren fatally.
The vote in the M. E. conferences
or the admission Of women stood ;,6l5
to 2,529, eighteen votes less than the
necessary threefourths
John r. Hanna, president, and How
ard Evans, cashier of the closed Amer.
lean National bank of Denver, are
under arrest for receiving deposits
after the bank was lnsolvent.
Cloud burst in Beaver county, Okla,
washed away the houses of j. q. Den
ison, w. s. Cople, William Edwards,
II. Palmer, NJ. S. Scott and Munroe
Wilson, and did other damage.
Mrs. Anna Corning OF New York
city has filed suit in the United States
court at Wichita against Meade c0un-
ty, Kansas, to recover $4,000 on
bonds issued to aid in the construction
of the Rock Island Railway company's
line. The bonds were issued in 1885,
and the county has defaulted in the
payment of interest coupons for the
past four years.
Cubans want independence now, mot
Canadian home rule.
Mckinley got the delegates from the
First Michigan, the district including
Detroit.
The schooner Competitor has sailed
from Florida With men and arms for
Cuba.
Weyler offers to release Bishop Diaz
and brother, Alfred, if they will leave
Cuba.
Nicola Telsa now claims to be able
by new discoveries to see the human
heart without an operation.
A Boston man has given 500, 900 to
establish department of compare.
tive pathology at Harvard.
Bill for the erection Of govern
ment penitentiary on the Leavenworth
military reservation has been favor
ably reported. 1t provides for an APP
preparation of S;5O,O0O.
Congressman Cooper of Wisconsin
has bill in hand to put additional
taxes on beer made of other than
malt, hops and water. 1t is aimed at
the users of glucose, fusil oil and
drugs in making beer.
Senator Cannon of tab has a scheme
to make ground map of the United
States, showing the surface contour
of the country.
Presbyterians and Congregational
lists are fusing in Oklahoma.
Peace negotiations between Italy
and Abyssinia have been broken off.
Albert Somerville of New York shot
and killed his cousin, Ella Somerville,
ut Richmond, Texas, while she was
leading him to her fathers house from
a drunken carOusal.
At a silver rally in the auditorium
at Memphis. Editor Il. w. Carmack of
the Commercial Appeal, and Attorney
General Patterson had fist fight on
the stage.
Eighty-fve silver miners were buried
alive by a cavern in the Santa Eulalia
district in Northern Mexico. Eighteen
escaped, thirty-seven have been taken
out, seven of whom are dead and
thirty seriously crushed, and many
will not live. There is very little
chance of recovering alive the thirty
men yet under the earth.
f. T. Jaeger of Shenandoah, Iowa,
went crazy, killed his sister, Mary c.
Johnson, and attempted suicide.
Bob Chambers, negro robber and
barn burner, was taken from officers,
tied to a tree aud shot near Cranberry,
N. C.
Baron Won Hammerstein, a German
editor, was sent up for three years,
disfranchised and heavily fined for
fraud.
Bay conference OF Congregational
ministers voted 40 70 81 to suspend
Rev. c. o. Brown of San Francisco for
ungentlemanly conduct.
Leon Say, French political econo-
mist and fnancier, is dead
Editor Frank Coleman of the Hunts
vile, Ala, Argus, was shot and badly
wounded by r, E. Spriggins in street
duel.
American National bank, Denver, has
closed doors.