Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-12-17
LATE NEWS NOTES.

LATE NEWS NOTES.
Senators Cullom and Call made
speeches urging that the independence
of Cubans be recognized,
A motion to defer consideration by
the Senate of the immigration bill UNI
til January was defeated.
The treaty providing for the location
Of the United States Mexican boundary
west of the Rio Grande was extended
one year
Representative Barrett introduced
bill providing that members of the
Presidents Cabinet be chosen from the
House and Senate.
Mr.. Sherman appointed Senator'S
Wolcott, Hoar, Chandler and Gear as
the Republican Caucus committee on
international Bimetallism.
Walter Lyman, inventor of the Ly-
man gun sight, is said to be dying at
Middletown, N. Y.
Dingley, It is said, will be McKinley's
secretary of the treasury, though he
would rather remain in the House.
Vernon White, aged 10, of Omaha,
udhGCA AlAloC4A AZ pAuJs
Movement for Canadian independ-
ence is rapidly gaining ground.
Bryan will speak at Democratic
banquet in Chicago, January 8.
Standard Employment company of
st. Louis has been barred out of the
mails.
Ex-President Harrison refuses to be-
come senatorial candidate in Indiana.
Brown Bros. Tobacco company's
plant, Winston, N. c., burned. Loss,
$500
Paper manufacturers have formed
trust with general offices in New York.
Andrews Packing company, Pueblo,
Colo, has assigned with SEQ, 900 liabili-
ties.
Late William Steinway bequeaths
nearly his entire fortune to his imme-
date family.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalina has arrived in
San Francisco, en- route to Washington
and London.
Mrs. Mckinley is visiting her cousin,
Mrs Lafayette McWilliams, on Lake
avenue, Chicago.
England, Russia and France are said
to be preparing for decisive action in
reference to Turkey.
The Cuban junta in the United States
has recently invaded Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and Missouri.
Actor J. X. Emmett secured a di-
vorce in New York from his wife,
whose stage name was Emily Lytton.
President Faure of France is being
urged to confer the medal of the Lee
gion of Honor ON Sarah Bernhard
Great demonstrations were made in
Madrid upon official announcement of
the death of Maceo.
The fiftieth year of journalism of
Alexander Mcclure of the Philadelphia
Times was celebrated with banquet
The Joint Traffic Railroad associa-
ton is to be investigated by the Sena-
torial interstate commerce committee.
The monitor ram Puritan, just placed
| in commission at the Brooklyn navy
yard, was thirry-two years in building
On Nov. 3Oth the John A. Salzer Seed
Co., La Crosse, Wis. the largest seed po-
tato growers in the world received an
order for three thousand bushels of
seed popatoes from one firm in Texas
Senator Wolcott is in full charge of
the senatorial investigation of the pro-
dosed international silver agreement.
Conditions for extremely high prices
for wheat before another general har-
vest have not been so favorable for
many years.
Three children of John Palingwest
Irwin, Pa, played with coal oil in
front of an open CRATE, caught fire and
burned to death.
Scar Face Charley" noted Modoc
Indian chief, has just died on the Qua
paw reservation from consumption,
aged over eighty years.
Senator Baker has introduced bill
to pay the widow of Bishop w. Perkins,
! the dead Kansas congressman, a $50
per month pension.
Democratic senators all agree that
nothing beyond the passage of the APP
preparation bills can be accomplished
the present session.
The Lodge immigration bill has been
substituted for the house bill in the
bEhdltq dllAl Will Jfloo' ASaL 10 AAOb
to be the dumping ground for foreign
outcasts, and restrictions will be
| placed, too, on those who want admis-
sion. They must be able to read in
their native language and to read the
United States constitution. A motion
20 postpone until after the holidays
got only 10 votes-all Democrats.
Senator Wolcott will be chairman of
the Republican committee on Interna-
tional Bimetallism.
Senator Chandler introduced a bill
providing for 10 per cent reduction
of federal employees salaries.
Permanent national Republican
headquarters have been established in
the Glover building, Washington.
A report to Mayor Strong Of New
York says that 5000 buildings in the
city are unsafe.
James G. Tesk, the first mayor elect
ed by the people of Sedalia, Mo-, died
in Denver, Colo.
The British steamship Kaisaw ar
rived at New York with $4,000 pack
ages of tea, most Of the cargo from
\ China.
Ambassador Uhls daughter, Miss
Lucy. was married at Berlin to Prof.
Guy Thompson Of Harvard.