Hutchinson gazette., 1897-08-19
CONDENSED NEWS.

Many towns in Western Kansas are
unable to get cars to haul wheat.
Albert Bial, the we'll known New
York music hall manager, is dead.
The Union Iron Works of San Fran
cisco will supply diagonal armor for
the Wisconsin at $500 ton.
Figures given out at the patent Office
show that a considerable proportion
of inventors are women.
The Dingley law rates on bicycles
are likely to shut out American wheels
from Germany through retaliation.
French makers of straw hats are
reaping harvest supplying sunbon-
nets for horses.
The mayor of Lincoln, Neb, has re-
moved the chief of police for making
war on the gamblers.
Pamphlets calculated to strengthen
opposition to the federal courts are to
be dist outed broadcast over Kansas.
1t is reported from Chicago that the
Dingley tariff on crockery will cause
10 or Is per cent advance in prices.
1t is officially announced that Ethan
A. Hitchcock of St Louis has accepted
the position of minister to Russia.
The boil worm is after cotton in
Texas. Not much damage has been
done yet.
Mrs. Angel's mother testihes that
her daughter was never married to
Jay Gould,
The Presbyterian Board of Home
Missions will send two ministers to
the Klondike country.
Professor Lincoln of Wisconsin Uni
versity was disfgured for life by an
explosion in his laboratory.
Fire destroyed half the business
part of Cleveland, Ok. 1t is said the
fire was of incendiary origin.
Ten Missouri Pacific freight cars
were wrecked between Neal and To-
ronto, Kan. Loss S35, ,OOO
The Populists, Democrats and Silver
Republicans of Wyandotte county,
Kan, will fuse on county ticket.
Populists, Democrats and Silver Re-
publicans of Harvey county, Kan,
have nominated a fusion county ticket.
ExCongressman Treloar has pur-
chased the Mexico, Mo-, Tribune, the
only Republican paper in Audrain
county
Attorney-General Crow and Insur-
ance Commissioner Orear of Missouri
are preparing to wage war on the in
surance combine.
Congressman Ashley B. Wright was
found dead in his sitting room by his
wife at his home in North Adams,
Mass.
Osman Digna, the famous Dervish
general, has been summoned by the
Khalifa to make final stand against
the Anglo Egyptian expedition.
Reese S Downey, who own q 1876
acre apple orchard few miles east of
Atchison, sold their entire crop to
New York men for $4,000.
Miss Adelaide Fairbank, only daugh-
ter of the Indiana Senator, was mar
ried without her parents knowledge
to DR.. Horace X. Allen, Jr.
parliamentary committee has rec
ommended to the French deputies a
moderate tax on theater tickets,
heavy tax on passes and the abolition
of season tickets.
Fifteen thousand persons attended
the political picnic at Hughesville,
Mo-, and heard speeches by Congress-
men Dockery, Clark and Cooney and
others.
1t is rumored in Wall street that
Comptroller of the Currency Eckels,
who. term soon expires, has been in
vited to accept the presidency of
trust company.
j. A. r. Elliott of Kansas City won
the Ka0sns ity Star cup from Sim
Glover of Rochester, N Y, by SEQ re
of 99 to a. in match shot at 100 live
birds in Rochester.
H. S. Snyder, Sheldon, Mo-, farmer
back from the KlondilIe, said at Soda
liza that he had found gold worth S575
in eleven days and would return in
tho spring, but that the hardships Of
the country could hardly be exagger-
Rted.
One-half of the DEVILS backbone, the
rocky fortress of the Hat6elds in West
Virginia, was shattered by dynamite
by sheriff's posse. Several of the
posse were wounded, but the Hatfelds
escaped.
United States Senator McLaurin Of
South Carolina is seriously ILL.,
John Briaben Walker, editor of the
Cosmopolitan, says that his new uni
versity, of which DIR. Andrews, for
merly of Brown, is to be president,
will be called the Cosmopolitan uni
versity and be conducted on the Chau-
tauqua correspondence plan.
As q result of u game Of base ball
be tween Rocllport and Stumptown,
Mo-, Abertus Sons killed Lon Hayes
by striking him with brickbat on the
base OF the brain. The boys were
about i3 years old and of good fam
uies