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

Benton, Ark, was almost wiped out
by fire.
The greater New York bill passed
the assembly Of to So.
Lovern, California train robber,
committed suicide in Jail.
French chamber of deputies voted
for an income tax, ESQ to 20.
New York attorneys are drafting q
bill for international arbitration.
Chicago purchasers of unclaimed
baggage bought corpse at auction.
Four men were suffocated in a car
of oats in wreck at North Judson,
Ind.
Pullis Bros Iron Company, St
Louis, has assigned. Liabilities, S5O,-
600; assets, S5l5, 600
w. c. T. U. ladies praise Speaker
Reed for prohibiting smoking IN tho
House of Representatives.
Perry Belmont is the probable nom
inee of the New York Democrats for
Governor this fall.
The premium on gold bars has been
raised, with the object of making ito
export less probable.
Major Edward Leslie, well known
inventor, committed suicide at Patter-
son, N. j., by taking morphine.
BY fire damp explosion in a mine
at Brunnerton. New Zealand, five men
were killed and sixty buried alive.
Two warehouses, containing $4,000
barrels of whisky, wero destroyed
near Louisville, Ky.
Senator Sewcll of New Jersey has
been awarded a medal for bravery at
the battle of Charlottesville in 1868.
The House Committee have decid ed
to faTorably report the bill permit
! ting the bottling Of liquor in bond.
Formal charges of housebreaking
have been preferred against Lieuten-
ant Fitzgerald of the Seventh Cavalry.
Clara Barton is allowed to work in
| Armenia only under Turkish commits
sion and by lists furnished by the
/ Turks.
Shops of the Baltimore &c Ohio
Southwestern at Washington, Ind,
have been closed, throwing 400 mon
out of employment.
A. A. Wiley of Bertrand, Neb, ac-
cused of insulting girl, was brutally
whipped by mob of excited women
and driven out of town.
General Weyler is out with another
proclamation calling the insurgents
bandits and incendiaries and declaring
they will be shot when caught.
Spaniards at Madrid expect war be-
tween Spain and Uncle Sam to be the
result of the Cuban resolutions.
Huldah Smell of Kern county, Cali
fornia, claims she is the widow of
Andrew j. Davis, the millionaire
whose estate has long been in litiga-
ton at Butte, Mont.
Senator Allen introduced resolu-
tion declaring that Congress should
not adjourn without restoring the
free coinage of silver and taking from
the Secretary of the Treasury the
power to issue bonds.
Luther A. Lawson, Populist news
paper man, has been nominated to
succeed Congressman Grain OF Texas
Robert Mantell married Charlotte
Behrens, his leading lady, the day
after she was divorced from Mr.. HUM.
British royalty is asking for an in
creased allowance for the Prince of
Wales on behalf Of has children.
Miss Mamie Cabaune, member of an
old and wealthy ST. Louis family, has
taken the veil and become nun.
The Senate passed a joint resolution
allowing ex.President Harrison TO ae-
cept decorations from Brazil and
Spain.
A statement to Congress from the
Interior Department shows the cost OF
the Union Pacific Railway to have
been $50, 600 mile.
Mrs. darlington Booth lectured at
Sewicllley, Pa, on "S!um and Shelter
Work in Large Cites" and in an in
terview said she and her husband were
too much Americauized was the cause
of the Salvation Army split.
George Hall, who broke out OF the
Milan Jail, where he was confined on
a charge of forgery, was shot and
killed at Vancouver, il. C., in attempt
ing to evade arrest
Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys in
Pennsylvania, have been purchased
and combined by New York syndi-
cate, a $1,000, 900 deal.
Governor Altgeld and the board OF
trustees of the University Of Illinois
have been indicted at Champaign for
failure to fly the National flag over the
school buildings.
The equestrian statue Of General
Hancock win be unveiled at Washing
ton, May l. An illegal levy was made
on it by "a creditor of Henry Elliott, its
sculptor, for $50 debt
Engineer Jack" Smith Of the Hot
Springs railroad went to Chicago on o
bridal trip, and while the bridegroom
slept the bride took $3.50 wallet, two
trunk checks and bicycle and started
for Reed City, Mich, but was arrested
GA board the traiA