Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-01-16
NEWS NOTES.

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Germany in the Transvaal.
Secretary Carlisle asks Congress for
81, 3l3, 43G to cover deficiencies.
Democrats at Memphis downed the
A. P. A. by 1000 majority.
Populists of Louisiana nominated A.
A. Booth of New Orleans, for governor.
Miss Helen Culver has decided prop
erty worth 81, OOO,OO to Chicago uni
versity.
Filley is for Mckinley, and also rec
ommends Horizontal Bill Morrison to
the Democrats.
Twelve persons were drowned by
the blowing up aud sinking of tor
pedo boat at Milan, Italy.
Senator Jones of Nevada insists on
protection for beet sugar in any tariff
bill passed by the Senate.
Two men were killed by an electric
car at Cleveland going through a
trestle seventy-hVe feet high over
Finker's creek.
First Lieutenant Swift, of the Ninth
cavalry, killed himself at Fort Robin
son, Neb., because short in his ac-
counts
r Miss Harriet Richardson, of Licking
ton, Kentucky, will christen the bat
tleship Kentucky. She will use whisky
instead of champagne.
Head Dingess and George Mahau
were shot TO death and Hiram Sweeney
and Pharoah Simons badly injured in
a fight at Huntington, w. Va, with
the Humphreys of Letcher county,
Kentucky.
Henry Thomas and Albert Stafford
of Mount Pleasant, Fla, killed each
other in duel over girl and the
girl showed no emotion.
Traders Protective association of
Chicago will ask Congress to create a
new cabinet office, that of secretary
of commerce.
The 5000 miners of the Tennessee
Coal and Iron Company have had their
wages reduced five cents per ton.
General Campos resigned his COM
mand in Cuba, but the Government
refused to accept his resignation.
Chief Justice Snodgrass of Tennes-
see was indicted by the grand jury
Tor shooting Colonel Beasley Deem
Der lG.
A stone thrown through the window
of Santa Fe car fractured the skull
of William Mum of Dallas, Tex. He
may die.
The chairman of the Republican
State Committee of Alabama thinks
Reed will secure the delegation from
that state.
At Creston, Iowa, the chorster and
pianist of the First Methodist church
quarreled and the entire congregation
became involved.
Henry ]. Mitchell of Chicago has
begun suit at Oklahoma City for di-
vorce from his wife, a prominent
Christian Scientist.
Olney is talked of for President.
Oklahomans are petitioning for free
homesteads
H. w. Byers OF Shelby county is
speaker of the Iowa house,
Mayor Pingree of Detroit has de-
clared for Reed for president
Cherokee intrudera will be given
one year of grace by act of congress.
Authorities are breaking up the
FAINTER gang of rustlers at Atkinson,
Neb.
Wisconsin is to have a special ses-
zion of the Legislature to reapportion
the state.
A woman believed to be Mrs. Colt of
Rhode Island has gone to Oklahoma
to get decree of divorce.
Attorney +. T. Harl of st. Joseph,
Mo-, was arrested, charged with at
tempting to choke his stepmother to
death.
City of Mexico vaults are glutted
with money, having $50, 900, OOOi their
vaults.
British steamer Wild Flower, with
thirty hands, is believed to have been
lost at sea.
London Chronicle recognizes the
business of Americas position on the
Venezuelan question.
Thoman's crop report makes a very
discouraging showing for winter
wheat.
Congress is trying to find a way to
prevent underValuations at custom
houses.
Passenger rates for the G. n. r.
meeting at St Paul will be one cent
per mile.
DIR. Jameson's raid was part of
plot to annex the Transvaal to British
South Africa.
The l4-year-old son of D. ]. Robin
son, Tecumseh, Ok, hanged himself
while playing.
Country bankers are sending large
amounts of gold to New York for safe
keeping.
The old war ship Constitution is not
deemed fit to be modernized but will
retire On its laurels.
J. j. Latin and man named Corbin
were killed by an explosion in the
Linsey mine at Cripple Creek.
Charles L. Baender of Moberly, Mo-,
has been appointed a cadet to West
Point Military academy.
Mr. Frye introduced bill in the
Senate to reconvene the delegates to
the international marine conference
of 1889.
E. B. Wright, Washington cores
| pondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean,
and for many years prominent news
paper man there, died Of heart failure.
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