Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-02
LATE NEWS NOTES

ing.
Brakeman Richard Dempsey was
killed by Katy freight at South Nc
Alester, Ind Ter.
There are 5,707 registered voters in
Leavenworth, one-ffth of whom are
women.
]. Withers Clay, Sr., the Nestor of
Alabama journalism, is dead at Hunts
vile, aged g.
A successful test of compressed air
as motive power ON railways was
made at Rome, N. Y.
John Rech of Mays Landing, N. j.,
murdered his wife and buried her and
eluded arrest for one week.
Colorado wants the remains of Zebu-
lon M. Pike removed from Massachu-
sets and Reinforced on Pixies Peak
Managing editor George Forester of
the German Gazette, New Orleans, is
dead, aged &c, after forty years SER
vice in one position.
Over $4,000, 600 in gold and silver
was removed from the old government
building in Chicago to temporary
quarters in the Rand-McNally build
ing.
Michael Healy, brother of the no.
torious safeblower, was fatally shot
by Chicago policemen while trying
to escape, He was held for highway
robbery.
On account of the crowded condition
of the peuitentiary at jefferson City,
hereafter all persons given peniten-
tiary sentences in the federal courts
of Missouri will be sent to the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth.
Four persons lost their lives in a
tenement house fire in New York city,
William Becker of Morgan county,
Illinois, killed his father and then
committed suicide.
Fred Carroll of Columbus, Ohio, shot
his wife and cut his own throat. He
is dead. She will recover.
Governor Hogg arose in a meeting
at Austin, Texas, and opposed the
relief work among Armenians.
Karal Modjeski was christened, with
Jean de Reszke as godfather and EN-
ma Calve as godmother
Pulaski Duckworth, Arkansas
farmer, murdered his o and child
and then his own til ,at.
Congrc 5sman Cobb wan is one of the
new b. Jleships named Missouri"
The English people fear that Sails
bury's Soudan campaign will lead to
disaster
The English routed the Matabeles in
two fights, but Buluwayo is now
threatened by strong force.
Black River Falls, Wis, reports dis
astrous forest fires in the BURBERRY
patches.
Wheat crop in Missouri was never In
better condition at this time of the
year.
Frank Sweeney, leader of the union
switchmen, is dead in Chicago of con-
sumption.
Knights of Pythias encampmcnt will
be held at Cleveland instead of Mime
apolis. ....
John Ulmer of Medora, Ind, killed
Andy Dorcas and beat John Adair
fatally with big club.
Two messengers have been dis
patched from Irkutsk to inspect and
replenish DR.. Nansen's stores.
G. D. Vaughn of the Western Union
in New York has in hand an,invention
to telephone to Europe.
An unknown but handsome, we'll
dressed woman shot herself dead in
Central park, New York
New Mexico has quarantined against
Mexico cattle and $500 are held on
the border line at Palomis.
Adelbcrt II. Roberts, colored Chi.
cago lawyer, has been received into
membership in the Hamilton club.
Ex-Alderman McGTath escaped from
Jail at Fort Worth Texas, after being
convicted of the murder of James
Rushing,
Two cattle thieves were killed aud
two wounded in desperate battle by
cowmen near Erevlis lake, in Lynn
county, Texas,
Colorado reported a terrific wind
storm at Cripple Creek. John May
and John Harmon were killed by a
falling shaft.
Chickasaw freedmen met and passed
resolutions commendatory of Judge
Parker of the United States court at
Fort Smith.
Supreme court of Montana has
passed on question of mortgage re-
demption, and ruled the same as did
the Kansas Supreme court recently,
William Phillips Hale of New York
has organized the American League
of the Grand Army of the Cross, for
aggressive evangelism among the peo-
pie on Salvation Army lines.
Father Wagner and Rev. Fred We're
hahan of Champaign, ILL.,, the latter
Lutheran, are under indictment for
failure to float the United States flag
over their parochial school buildings,
The man whose body was found in
an unclaimed box at Chicago among
baggage sold for storage had evidently
been murdered, and two Chicago citi-
zens believe it is James Prosper Cha
zal, who disappeared from Salt Lake
City in 1893.
Grand opera house, Springfield, Mo-,
burned Loss, SIS, 900.
James L. Mccarthy, a policeman of
Rich Hill, Mo-, is one of the heirs to
a $50, 600, 600 estate IN Baltimore, left
by his grandfather.
Hamilton E. Baker, ex-postmaster
at Roli4, Mo-, was convicted of EN-.
bezzlement and sentenced to the pen
itentiary for two years.
Notice hass been received that the