Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-03-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Presbyterian Mission near
Shanghai was raided by Chinese rob-
bers. Rev. Rufus Bent was wounded.
A gang of young toughs of Burling-
ton, Iowa, tied boy in cellar and
set fire to the house, The boy was
rescued.
Secretary Morton thinks that the
failure of crops in South Africa pre-
sents an excellent opening for Ameri-
can grain exports.
Rev. George X. Hoover was arrested
in Little Rock, charged with SANDER
by Rev. f. II. George. The court
dismissed the case.
Rev. j. u. Armstrong, former pastor
of the Independence avenue church,
Kansas City, was expelled from the
ministry for alleged immortality,
Seventy.nlne answers have been
received to the circulars asking manu-
facturers' and exporters opinions on
reciprocity, and all save one placed
opinions in favor of it on the ground
of self-interest.
Ashland Wilkes, the noted stallion,
was sold at Wichita, Kan, for Sl0,-
900.
Secretary Morton has asked for bids
to furnish seeds to the Agricultural
department for distribution.
Word has been received at the State
department that eX-Consul Waller will
sail from England about April H.
A call has been issued for q national
conference for the promotion of a
treaty of permanent arbitration be-
tween this country and Great Britain.
In battle on a train at Tagus, Cal,
two officers were wounded and one
robber was killed.
The trial of jackson and Walling
for the murder of Pearl Bryan will
begin at Newport, Ky, April Z.
Mrs. T. P. Martin, wife of u promi-
nent attorney of Fort Worth, Texas,
shot and killed herself with suicidal
intent.
A broken rail caused tine wreck of
freight train and the injury of two
men ON the Burlington, near Carroll
ton, Mo.
A Georgia girl swore that Simeon
Dean had ruined her, and after he
had served three years in the peniten.
tiary exonerated him.
The Reichstag has passed Emperor
Williams naval estimates.
1t is reported that the Abyssinians
have garroted many Italian prisoners.
France is angered by the British
Soudan campaign, but probably will
take no steps to prevent it.
The hearings given by the ways
and means committee to the dairy in
terests, which desire the regulation
of the filled cheese" traffic, have re-
suited in the preparation of bill by
Mr.. Tawney of Minnesota, under the
direction of the committee, which is
more stringent than the oleomarg-
arine law.
The House Banking committee has
reported favorably on a scheme TO es-
tablish branch national banks in
small towns.
Unknown persons OF Danville, Ky,
hanged Governor Bradley in efigy.
A powder mill at Rifton, N. Y, was
blown up, causing the death of FIVE
men.
The Northwestern millers' combina-
ton is in effect and the price of -four
has been raised.
The new Italian cabinet announced
that the war against the Abyssiniaus
will be continued
The achinery of the North Caro-
lima Republiancs is in the control of
the fusion element.
Glenn Stauther and Buck Chappell,
negroes were hanged at Belicyille,
Texas, for murder.
The Philadelphia NJ. T. conference
voted for the admission of women to
the general conference.
The twenty-eight annual session OF
the st. Louis NJ E. conference was
opened at Sedalia.
A receiver has been asked for the
Topeka Capital by j. E. Baker of st.
Louis
The gross receipts Of the thirty
largest postoffices in the country last
month increased s344,742. The total
receipts were Sc, I22, 1877, against 81
ar Al5 for February 1895.