Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-12-31
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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State Reformatory, Elmira, N. Y.s
was damaged 100000 by fire.
Wood pump people Of ohio, Indians
and Illinois have pooled.
Nicaraguan government is calling
for 100000 voluntary loan.
General Harrisons wife's watch
stolen from him was returned to him
from Chicago.
Coffee and sugar trust war has
knocked off second half cent per
pound from coffee.
The late Henry Pierce, ex-mayor Of
Boston, distributed 100000 in pub
lie requests.
Bank of Minnesota and its stock
yards branch at st. Paul have been
forced to the wall.
Mayor Swift of Chicago vetoed the
ordinance reducing street car fares
from cents to4.
Lynn, Mass, board of trade raised
$4,000 to furnish work for unemployed
in the shoe industry.
Kate Fields body arrived in San
Francisco from Honolulu and was ak
once cremated.
The Sugar trust has secured 174O
shares of the Woolson Spice company's
stock, for which it paid 1905, 900.
Only go shares are held outside the
trust The trust has declared q war
OF determination on the Arbuckel
business because they opened a sugar
refinery in opposition to the trust.
CtbfOa hnn,,1 "a l.,
pathizing with Cuba, resolved that the
Cameron resolutions were inopportune.
Residents of Honolulu expect the an
neXatiOn question to be considered az
McKinley's special session of congress.
Two young men are dead from
drinking wood alcohol taken from the
Nation, Ill, gas works, and others
are likely to follow suit.
Uncle Sam advanced the Union
Pacific, including interest, 500, s46, 2s5,
and holds the bag for S53, 2s9,!9 The
Central Pacific owes the governments
S60,31s,377.
Senators Thurston and Shoup made
a flying visit to Mark Hanna at Cleve-
land to urge the selection of man
from the silver district for a place in
the cabinet.
Jerry Burke, negro boy, hacked
Mrs. John Pos and mother, Mrs Cav
anaugh, with an ak, at Clio, Livings-
ton parish. La, and as they were
neither Of them dead when the mob
captured the boy, he was riddled with
bullets instead of being burned alive.
Spanish cabinet decided to make no
reply to President Cleveland's mes
sage. Spain is in hard lines. The
entire Philippine colony is in revolt.
The true situation is concealed by the
Spanish. A recent reported victory
was in reality a disastrous defeat.
German officers are in the insurgent
ranks.
John L. Sullivan is penniless. He
can't even pay 1918 florists bill in
Boston.
Jim Stone, negro ravisher, was
lynched at Mayfeld, Ky.
Masonic hall, New Brunswick, N. j..
was destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000,
Governor Morton has fatty refused
executive clemency to John Y. McKane.
Isaac Fishbeen, Fordyce, Ark,
merchant, was murdered in his store
in the night.
Miss NJ. A. Alexander has been APP :
pointed clerk of the United States
court at Enid, Okla.
Four colored men were killed and
Stems saw mill on Bayou Oar
bonnie, La.
Lord r. T. Brooke, who has had so
many escapades in Oklahoma, is in
Jail at Perry for contempt of court.
La Lucha, Havana paper, charges
that the lingo speeches in the Senate
on the Cuban question are made to
SELL
William Nichols, n Guthrie, okla,
farmer, was murdered it is supposed
by neighbors because of intimacy with
q neighbours wife.
A Southern Pacific train was held up
by three men near Comstock, Tex,
and three money packages taken from
the express car.
Four thousand men, led by Frank
Meyer, survivor of the Virginius
massacre, paraded in New York as a
Cuban sympathy demonstration.
Fitzgerald, Ca, the veterans town,
has just experienced SIS, 900 fire; i'm
sured for one-third. Both sides Of
Grant street from Pine to Magnolia
were burned over.
Twenty miners were imprisoned by
gas explosion in Baltimore shaft No.
2 OF the Delaware & Hudson Co., at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, but were soon res
cued.
Governor Morrill, of Kansas, Govern
or Holcomb of Nebraska and Governor
Stone of Missouri declared in letters
to the New York journal that their
states would aid Cuba, and Governor
elect Leedy of Kansas, in an interview Z
at Topeka, declared for the passage by
congress of the Cameron resolution.
The sheriff of Kankakec county, Ill
inois, has seized Joe Pate len and for
ty-eight other racers under attachment
for 81, 900.
The Hamburg dock laborers on
strike are suffering and the employers
probably will win.
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