Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.


the Torrey bankruptcy bill.
Samuel II. Dickinson of Hatfield,
Mass, gave $4,000 to colleges and
missions in his will.
Senators are trying to affect an
agreement for the reorganization Of
the committees.
S. Duncan, Awhile trader, was killed
and eaten by cannibals on the New
Hebrides islands.
The University Of Illinois is likely
to lose $500, 900 in the Globe Savings
bank failure in Chicago.
Walter G. Sanger of Milwaukee has
challenged q. c. Bald of Buffalo for q
match bicycle race.
The President has nominated Colonel
William Rufus Shafter, First infantry,
to be brigadier general
The Mckinley excursion party was
greeted with salute by the naval
academy at Annapolis.
A elevator in the Elliott Square
building, Buffalo, N. Y, fell five
stories and five G. A. r. visitors were
injured.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
created "a, 500 Office for Charles w.
Daoney' 1r, Tennessee Democrat.
w. J. Bryan was rendered uncon-
scious by the collapse of piazza from
which he was speaking at st. Angus
tine, Fla.
Ed Newcomb, an Indian Territory
outlaw; was mortally wounded by
Deputy Marshal Bud Ledbetter, near
Caney, Kan.
President Hill of the Great Northern
railroad asks senators not to pass a
tariff bill that will cut OFF trade with
Japan and China.
John Ceronie was murdered at Kane.
Pa. while asleen nv a Mafa. member
named Morasco. sent from Philadel.
phia for tbat purpose.
oar o,dod Nth whisky davA1onod
~ "a -. -a . III " uo1ot ~ IT,
resulting EXPLOSION and Are destroved
the train Of fourteen cars
A veteran named Dlckerson, near
south Haven, Mich, drove one wife
away tnen married announcer, put soon
shot ana killed her ana himself.
Secretary Alger is pushing forward
the work OF relief for Hood sufferers.
The Santa Fe will, on April II, adj.
vance grain rates to Galveston from
points on the Union Pacific and Grand
Island to 81 cents on wheat and 20
cents on corn.
Yazoo Delta people are in serious
straits. There IS great destltution.
The population OF ZOO, a large per
cent OF whom are farm laborers, are
now ", lefI wv. WiShou' subsistence because
Vi Une noouS'
Charles L. Draper has confessed to
the Rev. A. D. Morey, his pastor, and
ottornay +bo+ bs Tn,,rdareJ Cba,ies T.
HastinGs Iawver and abstractor, in
Jndoe Rirbv,s ofice JacksonviIIe nj
Anr;l / NV stabbino him scores NJ
times.
A disastrous fire occurred at Knox.
Vile, Tenn. The heart of the city is
in ashes. Scores were injured by a
dynamite explosion in the fire. The
loss is between $1,000 ,OOO and $780,"
VOO. buiialngs h1u 70 pe torn eown
20 " cleIA vno LnalCn VI Wv! ~. ~ ~ a nou'
Jr1;o SangrIv has baen arrested nm
a charge Of attemnted violation of the
neutrality laws.
sacretarv Sherman has rece;ved "a.
surances that General Rivera will be
treated as a prisoner of war.
Mrs. Ernestine Dumlxe, held for MUIR
der at Chicago. is FRUSTRATED by the
news that both her husband and son
are to testify against her.
Governor Leedy's delay in appoint.
inc police board for Fort Scott, Kan,
has resulted in that city being with
out authorized ponce protection'
The United States battleship Iowa
was given her official speed trial. The
cruiser ran seventeen knots an hour,
earning 100000 bonus fol- the Cramps.
Modoc Indians about Reading, Cal,
are suffering.
Greeks will not be satisfied until
war with Turkey is declared
The Sultan of Zanzibar has issued a.
5acran abolisbino slavery
nj Co., ,oI.4. - a., h..
dora nI Ia 1nrob boJ biood N'' nus
Sidewalks at Fargo, N. d., are ahoat
and are being used as rats
Mr.. Mckinley has decided to let
Cleveland's forest reserve order alone.
James A. Mckenzie, United States