Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-15
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

WI Ting Fong, the Chinese minister
ut Washington, will DO transferred
soon to Toxic, Japan.
Steel and iron workers and their
employees were unable to agree upon q
wage scale. About IS, 600 men proba-
bly, will strike.
Mrs Swift, an Eastern woman,
awoke whom her train reached Oak
land, CAL, to find that 50, 700 in money
and three valuable diamonds had been
stolen from her.
E. Silk of Moberly, Mo, has been.
sentenced to twenty years imprison-
ment for killing boy.
jim Bing, New York laundryman,
cut prices. Now he is missing and
Highbinders are suspected of the
work.
A tornado swept western Kentucky
and southern Illinois. Much damage
was done at Paducah. Three persona
are known to have been injured IA
tally.
Mexican physicians have discovered
a narcotic, which is harmless, and
which produces tranquil sleep for the
insane.
Actor Radcliffe will be returned to
New York for trial ON a charge of
wife-beating.
Austin A. Ball, merchant of La
Tour, Mo-, and married, has mysteri-
ously disappeared
Paul Elliott shot and killed two men
and mortally wounded a woman near
Hayden, l. T., and escaped
Chinese paid over half million for
a plot of ground near Philadelphia,
which will be used as Chinese bury
ing ground.
Father August Talton, the first and
only negro priest in this country, is
dead, and will be buried at Quincy,
Ill
Senator Quay has announced that he
will be a candidate to succeed himself
in the Senate, thus refuting reports
that he intends retiring.
Thomas Flood, one of the tramps im-
plicated in the alleged accident ON the
Wabash at Wellsville, has been ar
rested and charged with murder
Railroads continue to conflscate all
coal ON their tracks. A Cleveland firm
will make test case of it. The rail.
roads claim as justification their con-
tract to haul the United States mail.
The will is ON file in Chicago of John
Spooner, an eccentric sailor, by which
Sl,700 is set aside for the maintenance
Of mis- dog after his death.
Captain Francis Yorke Mahon OF the
yt.ct ROYAL oh 1,f,,,aa1A b.,
death in London because of inability
to pay his debts.
United States Consul General Leo
reported that he had been able to use
only $4,000 of the $50, 900 appropriated
by Congress for suffering Americans
in Cuba.
The Bradley Martins of New York
are reported to have taken tho late
Barney Barnato's unfinished palace in
London.
In a London interview, Senator
Wolcott says that prospects are good
for international bimetallism.
Kansas stockmen complain of viola
tions of the new law requiring rail-
roads to furnish transportation, and d
meeting to demand enforcement may
be held in Topeka or Kansas City.
Services in the Senate chamber for
the late Isham G. Harris of Tennessee
were attended by the President, his
cabinet and most Congressman.
The electric light works of okla
homa City burned, leaving the city in
complete darkness. The loss is $685.
OOO
Minister Hoshi of Japan says that
the Japan Herald's report that his
country will seize Hawaii is without
foundation.
Many Kentuckians have asked Gov
ernor Bradley to pardon George Dim
ming, the negro who killed q man
while defending his home.
Merrill Raglan was shot from am
bush near Arlington, Ill, by William
Veroy, who charges Raglan with his
daughters ruin.
Fred Washington, distant relative
of the Father of his country, was
frightfully and fatally manRled in
runaway Mt Sedalia.
Harvest hands in Kansas want
double pay for working 16 hours per
day and five meals.
Kansas trainmen are nimporting
tramps in Kansas and selling them to
the farmers at fifty cents and S. per
head.
A Georgia negro ate seven water
melons for reward of fifty cents and
died.
Frank Marion, of Wichita, Kan,
while asleep, was robbed of $500 by
two companions at Nevada, Mo.
Near 500 picnickers were poisoned
by eating ham in sandwiches near
Wappinger's Falls, N. Y. No deaths
occurred.
The President pardoned Robert N.
Allen, sentenced to five years in the
Missouri penitcntiary for mail rob-
berry.
Grasshoppers have appeared in great
numbers in the western part of Barton
county, Kansas. Corn6elds have been
seriously damaged by them.
Miss Lou Dingley, niece of Con-
gresham Dingley, 30 years OF age, and
engaged to another, eloped and mar
ried w. E. Hadley of San Diego. Cal
Robert Downing is said to have Of
fered the daughter OF Sam Small an
engagement with his company next
year. Her father Is said to not be OPP
posed to her ambition to 90 on tho
stage.
The Phillipsburg, Kan, creamery
was opened with public meeting aud