Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-02-06
NEWS IN Brief.
Topeka grand jury adjourned with
ont indictinr nnV hndv.snaIchars

committee voting to in his favor,
and against Higgins, being on strictly
party lines.
Marcus Norris of Louisiana, Mo-,
picked up pocketbook at Bowling
Green containing nearly $4,000
in money unidentified checks.
Name of elizabeth Bates, Dover,
Kan.," was in the pocketbook.
Morris wrote to the owner,
she went to Louisiana and got the
money. She offered Morris S25 for his
honesty; he declined it, but she pre-
vailed upon him to accept IS.
George Dusenberry of Osawatomie
was In Paola and meeting Rev. George
Hill of the latter place, asked him for
forty cents. Mr.. Hill said he did not
have that much money with him, but
gave the boy ten cents and started to
walk on, when the boy, who was car
! ryiDg gun, shot him in the left side
of the neck. Mr.. Hill will probably
die; the boy is in jail,
Ex-City Treasurer Bolln of Omaha
has been rearrested for embezzling
SlO5,OOO, aud it has been discovered
that his bond for Ss0O,O0O as treasurer
of the school board is missing.
Judge Cole sentenced Broker Chap
man to pay fine of 500 and go to jail
for 80 days for refusing to answer the
Senate Sugar Trust Investigating Com
mittee.
Mrs, Celeste Carleton, the mother of
viii Carleton, the poet, is dead.
The census of Mexico has been com
pleted. The population is 1882, 057
Disbarment proceedings have been
brought at Wichita against Assistant
Attorney General Campbell.
Indiana grave robbers were caught
attempting to steal a corpse aud
forced to replace it at the point of
pistol.
The body of a young woman was
found near Fort Thomas, Ky She
had been beheaded and the head was
missing.
FX-Senators Gear, Iden and Abbott
of Ohio, have been indicted on charges
of bribery.
Lloyd Montgomery, IS years old,
was hanged at Albany, Ore. He mur.
dered his father, mother and a neigh
Dor.
1t is said that Mrs. Potter Palmer is
going to Washington and tell Mr.
Cleveland that she wants Mr.. Palmer
appointed ambassador to Berlin.
Congressional bill appropriatng
$4,000 additional to complete the
public building at Topeka will be re-
ported favorably to the House.
The Public Buildings committee and
Committee on Rivers and Harbors are
making trouble for Reed by insisting
on making appropriations that he has
placed under ban.
Students of the State University of
Columbia, Mo-, are forming fire bri-
gade.
A National Sunday School Teachers
Seminary is to be established at jack
son, Tenn.
George D. Todd, a Republican, was
elected mayor by the city council of
Louisville, Ky.
Fred Closing shot burglar dead in
his fathers hardware store at Calmar,
Iowa.
An aged negro and his wife were
murdered at their home near Houston,
Texas, probably by robbers.
Japan and England are increasing
their squadrons IN Eastern waters, to
be prepared for Korean complications.
One hundred and twenty-five indict-
ments, recently returned, were stolen
from the circuit clerk office at Inez,
Ky.
President Cleveland has ordered the
Dawes commission to draw bill for
recognizing the Indian Territory
government.
Mr.. Chamberlain has ordered che
British agent at Pretoria to go to Jo-
hannesburg and report the actual con-
diton there.
The Pickler Indian bill for discon-
tinuing military officers as Indian
agents is meeting with strong opposi-
tion.
Hon. j. G. Dudley will resign as
chairman of the Democratic State EX-
ecutive committee of Texas and run
for Congress In the Fourth district.
The House ways and means COM
mittee decided to push an investiga-
tion OF the Determinations against the
United States exports and report q
bill authorizing retaliation.
1t is believed that notwithstanding
charges there won't be much trouble
in confirming Nagle's appointment as
marshal for Oklahoma.
Divorces were granted to three mem.
bers of one family at the same time at
Salem, Ill. A general family row
caused the separations.
The custom of serving wines at Cab
met dinners is said to be gong out of
date.
The Choctaws organized the Tushlla
ests in the Indian Territory.
Cuban insurgents are not expecting
any good to result to them from the
Senate resolutions, it is said.
Members of the National Board of
trade were received at the White
house by President Cleveland.
Mrs. Julia Iligginson Of Boston,
who eloped with j. w. Smith. will
contest her husbands divorce suit
The Indian territory tribes are try
ing to head off the citizenship move
ment by giving up their tribal courts.
Harvey Page, wife and two young
sons, aged respectively 3 years and 3
months, were burned to death in their
homo IN Morinoo fnt,-y,chir cir rniiac