Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

appeal from the Dawes commission to
the courts.
Fire destroyed two piers, three yes
eds and tug at Newport News. Va.
Loss, S2,0O0,000.
The St. Louis Union Elevator com.
pany's five elevators in ST. Louis are to
be sold by order Of court.
The Hearst estate has bought the
Pinos Altos gold mines near Silver
City, N. NJ, for $3.50, 900 cash.
The French fishing vessel Valiant
struck an iceburg and all but four OF
the seventy-four fishermen on board
were lost.
England talks of imposing 10 per
in establishing homes for people over
IS years Of age
John Forepaugh, the circus man,
and two SpaniarC>; were killed at Tam
pa in collision between a passenger
train and street car.
Weyler has ordered the destruction
of Guasimal, Zaza, Jabaco md other
towns on the TunRs railroad line, all
in Santa Clara province.
By a carefully planned explosion at
the Aldersgate station of the under
ground railroad in London one man
was killed and many injured.
H. S. Goldberg Of Houston, Texas,
was killed and thirteen others injured
in an accident on Houston g. Texas
Central, caused by wreckers.
The AvOa. Mimi, school district and
l.. I'D
| teaching the Roman Catholic catechism
or giving any religious instruction.
Cherokee Indians have abandoned
the fight against the Indian bill, which
carried with it a clause practically de-
nolishing tribal courts and govern
ment.
Turkish authorities have condemned
to death the murderers of the agent
who was distributing the British and
American relief funds at Diarbekir,
Asiatic Turkey.
W. w. Blanchard, Newton Hanson
and an unknown young lady were
killed by an electric car at Portland,
Ore, running away and plunging
through bridge into slough.
James Nelson, one of Gods Ameri-
can Volunteers, deserted a wife and
two children in Topeka and run away
with Mrs. Mary Coates, wife of a
fool woman furnishing the elopement
money.
The bribery investigation at Topeka
has been stopped until the courts can
decide if the committee is legally con-
stituted. Representative T. c. Davis
of Wilson county claims it is not and
refuses to answer questions, although
he knows of boodling.
Jews are barred from Roumania.
PHILIPPINE rebels are not yet sub
duPd.
Chill and Brazil have formed peace
alliance.
The Iowa elevator burned at Peoria,
Ill. loss S2OO,OOO.
The Goth was Confederate Memorial
day in Missississippi and Alabama
Peter Maher knocked out steve
O'Donnell in the sixth round in Phila-
delphis.
Isaac N. Hounsel, Trenton, N. j.,
merchant, died while praying oyer his
sons grave.
Democrats refuse to allow the tariff
bill to be reported direct from the sen
ate subcommittee.
The Maher-Sharlley battle is to come
off in New York between May % and
June 10 for $4,000.
General Weyler's war policy IS caus-
ing the greatest distress and misery
and starvation in Cuba
A baseball revolt is brewing The
Chicago players are heading a move
ment against the magnates.
John A. Dittman killed his mistress,
Nellie Berg, in Detroit, and then
crossed to Windsor and killed himself.
The case against Lieutenant Eloff,
President Krugers grandson, for
slandering Queen Victoria, was dis
missed
Arnold Hallen, a Chicago book
keeper, shot himself and then jumped
out of a window, being determined to
end his life.
Rev. DIR. Pullman of the Second
Universalist church of Baltimore has
retired after twenty years passionate.
He is n brother of the Car magnate.
Banker Charles w. Spalding of Chi
cago was offered bond If he would re-
nounce Sarah Louise Erwin and return
to his wife, but he preferred Illicit love
to liberty.
When Grants tomb was dedicated
over ZOO, 900 people turned out, 55, 1000
soldiers were in line. President Nc
Kinley, members Of Congress and the
diplomatic corps took part in the cere-
monies and all states and all govern
ments were represented at the unVeil-
ing
Presidential nominations: G. NJ.
Barnes, governor of Oklahoma; W. r.
Day of Ohio, first assistant secretary
of state; Bcllamy Storer of Ohio, min
lister to Belgium; Asa G. Sharp of Ma
ryland, to q agent at the Ponca,
Pawnee and 0toe agency.
Paul Holy Track and Philip Ireland,
Indian boys, have confessed the muir
der of the Spicer family in Emmons
county, North Dakota, and implicate
Black Hawk and Cadotte. The fiends
got but S62.
Democratic leaders at Washington
express the opinion that nothing that
Cleveland says makes much difference
politically.
The floods have aligned levee and
anti-levee parties in Congress. Tho
question probably will receive atten'
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