Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-18
NEWS BOILED DOWN.


Insurance company failed.
Cuban insurgents sacked and burned
Blanquezel, Manzanella province.
Fire in the Western Department
block, Ottawa, Ont, did $3.50, 700 dam
age.
Richard Croker will probably be
Tammanys candidate for mayor of
Greater New York.
Senator Sherman says that reports
that he would back out of going into
the cabinet are ridiculous.
Marion, President Cleveland's young
est, was christened Thursday, Rev. DIR.
Sunderland officiating.
Postmaster General Wilson has been
elected psesident of the Washington
and Lee university, Lexington, Va.
Andy Wilson, Preston Hall and
Harry Brown, three horsemen, were
drowned in Pike county, KY, while on
a spree
House committee on elections unani-
mously authorized report in the Wat
son-Black contest in favor of the
latter.
Reports coming to the state depart
ment from Europe show that the
American apple made an enormous
market for itself there last year.
Stuart says Corbett and Fitz will
fight at Carson, New, March II. Gov
ernor Sadler went to the train to meet
Corbett when the latter passed through
Reno.
Illinois appellate court has affirmed
the decision removing the Farmers
Loan and trust company as co-trustee
of the Lake Street railway first mort
gage for failure to deposit S200,00
with the state auditor of Illinois.
Beginning at Hayden, l. T., Febru-
airy 16, about $1,000,000 will be dis
tributed to freedmen by James G.
Dickson, representing the government.
Captain Philo McGiffen, who COM
manded Chinese ironclad during the
late war, went crazy from wounds and
killed himself in New York.
Lower House of the Nebraska Leg
islature voted down woman Suffrage,
So to SO.
The Carnegie and other great plants
about Pittsbusg are resuming opera
tions.
Editor A. B, Clark, aged 70, of the
Newark (O.) American, was killed by
the cars.
Frank May, who was removed as
cashier of the Bank of England in 1893,
is dead in london.
United States Judge Leonard Wales
is dead at Wilmington, Del, aged 70,
from pneumonia.
Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell of Idaho Falls
was elected chaplain of the Idaho state
legislature.
A motion to disestablish the Church
of England was voted down in the
British House of Commons.
A boiler in the county jail at Frank
fort, Ky, exploded, wrecking the Office
and fatally injuring three men.
Southern cattle are quarantlned from
| February Is to November Is on line
drawn from California to Maryland.
Mrs. DIR. S. N. Burnham, a news
paper woman of Chicsgo, committed
suicide at the Commercial hotel, Jack.
sonville, Fla.
Major George Armes has traded
Washington city property for Apo
mattox battlefield and will turn it into
sheep farm.
The steel rail pool, the most success
full trade organization ever formed,
has collapsed and prices dropped So to
1915 per ton in one day.
At Homan, Ark, Sam Leigh, aged
| ,,,l 1r;11ol A1o,,, Count yu,.i0bf
his stepfather, after the latter had IA
tally dubbed the boys mother.
John B. Clancy, a dairy employee,
poisoned the milk supply of $50 people
| at Norfolk, Va, but the crime was
discovered in time to prevent use of
milk
Messenger Summers of the Santa Fe
California express shot train robber
dead near Nelson, Ariz. Apal escaped
with some registered mail packages.
DIR. John B. Gorrell of Tyler county,
West Virginia, on his death bed con-
fessed to the murder, eight years ago,
of Alex. Campbell, wealthy farmer,
whom he owed
An open letter to the women of the
United States, urging them to use all
means in their power to further the
passage of the arbitration treaty with
Great Britain, has been issued.
Havana advices contradict Weyler's
statement that Pinar del Rio is paci-
fed. 1t is stated the insurgents have
5000 we'll armed men in the province.
Spaniards in Havana are sick of the
war.
Fifty soldiers from Louisville guard
ed William Black, negro, who as
saulted Mrs j. D. Clark at Lebanon,
KY, and he was tried, convicted and
sentenced to seven years in the 'i2en,"
all in one hour.
The Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight will
occur at Carson City, New. Pete Maher
wants to fight Sharkey.
The murderous king of Benin de6es
England.
Monroe Johnson, negro burglar,
was hanged at Charlotte, N. c., for
burglary.
Bourke Cochran called on Mark
Hanna at Cleveland and held an eG'
tended conscience.
The plague has reached Afghanis
tan.
Owing to the czarins's i'll health
there will be no court balls in st.
Petersburg this winter