Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-09

cleS IN washington
Portland, Ore, Populists have nom
mated Pennoyer for mayor
New England Methodists are for
woman lay delegates.
Ex-Consul Waller is expected at
Denver in about two weeks.
Three men were killed by an explo.
sion in the Gile mine, Ward, Col.
Omaha doctors located bullet for
extraction by means of Roentgen rays.
Ballington Booths rival to the War
Cry will be called the Volunteer Ca
zette.
Herman Kirchoff, Chicago manu-
facterer of sash, doors and blinds, has
failed for 100000
Mrs. Florence Fenton of Topeka,
Kan, eloped with her husband whom
she was SUNG for divorce.
Sixteen people were drowned in
Little Sexton and Buffalo creeks,
Boonville, KY, by cloud burst.
Richard Ringer of Friend, Neb., cut
his throat as soon as the doctors told
him he had hydrophobia.
Farmer Vaughn of Barber county,
Kan, got cartridge IN his pipe and
its discharge killed him.
Military professors at several col
leges report that they are not properly
supported by the faculties.
If Speaker Reed doesn't get the
presidential nomination he will retire
from politics and practice law
No. 3 mill of the Lawrence Manufac-
turing company, Lowell, Mass, has
shut down, throwing 1000 men out of
work.
Seventy captured insurgents have
recently been sentenced to be shot in
Havana province, Cuba, by court mar
tial.
An 1S.year.old darkey boy, charged
with, but probably guiltless of, as
saulting white woman, was lynched
by citizens of Tupelo, Miss.
The French senate voted, l55 to 50,
lack of confidence in the government
because of its latest Egyptian declara-
ton and then adjourned to April "a.
Alaska gold fever is undated. Sit
kans propose to drain lake back of
the capital aud gather wagon loads of
gold brought down by the glaciers.
The canteen at Fort Robinson, Neb.,
has been closed because Crawford cit
liens complained of the government
selling liquor without State restric-
tions.
Ed Pollen, a railway employee at
Clinton, ILL.,, murdered his wife, form
erly Myrtle Greene, and his mother-in-
law, Mrs. McMullen, and attempted
suicide. Jealousy,
Anna Norberg, aged II, of Salina,
Kan, died of burns received while
fighting a prairie fire.
Peter Schmidt was convicted of muir
der in the first degree for killing b. A.
Atwater, the Chicago artist, at Web
ster Grove, Mo, several months ago
Missouri bankers want the state
board of equalization to adopt a uni
form rate of bank stock assessments.
Rate now runs from 40 cents on the
dollar in some counties to as high as
10 cents on the dollar in others.
Congressman Frederick of Kansas,
spoke strongly in the House for the
Cuban resolutions.
The Hannibal and ST. Joseph depot
at breckenridge, Mo-, was destroyed
by fire. Considerable baggage and
freight were consumed. The depot
was one of the finest on the line.
The infant son of George Wyatt of
st. Joseph, Mo-, died of morphine poi
soning, administered by a trained
nurse because the little one became
restless.
Eugene Perryman, local politician
of Topeka, Kan, who threatened to
kill his divorced wife, Alice, was
placed under $500 bonds to keep the
peace.
Moses Harmon, the Kansas free
thinker and editor of the newspaper
| Lucifer has been released from the
Federal penitentiary after serving ten
months for sending obscene literature
through the mails.
At Junction City, Kan, discharged
soldier shot and killed Henry Turner
a quiet and inoffenslve negro. The
murderer escaped and is still at large.
President Diaz's utterances on the
Monroe doctrine in his recent message
to the Mexican Congress, were well
received by all the Central and South
American republics with the exception
of Chilli.
The w. C. T. U. have hoped onto
the President for firing Governo
Hughes of New Mexico.
A number of high German court OF
ficials have subscribed S75, 900 to pre-
vent the publication of DIR. Fried
mann's book exposing court scandals
Rev. C. L. Berry, leading Presby
terrain minister of Oklahoma, well
known in Kansas and Missouri ha
been indicted at Pawnee for receiving
money in his bank when it was in fail
ing condition.
Tammany has engaged the AuditC
rum for headquarters during tn
Democratic convention.
Il is believed that the cloudburst i
Kentucky caused the loss of siXtee
lives.
A negro who attempted to assault
white woman was lynched at TupelC
Miss
Governor Bradley of Kentucky ha
bills printed in Louisville announcin
his candidacy for President.
Spreckels says the worlds suga
supply this year is 100000 tons shor
Matt Adams, defaultng distriC
clerk, Denver, has been caught
England.