Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Lightning caused many fatalities
throughout Illinois and Missouri
General Woodford, the new minister
10 Spain, will not sail till after July 20.
United Lutherans communicated
nine Minnesota ministers for violation
of church rules
New York fire department has dis
covered that drops of cocaine placed
in the eyes Of hremen enable them to
see through smoke for long periods.
A member of the French legation at
Washington is authority for the state
ment that the French police have fixed
the blame for the Charity Bazaar
holocaust on anarchists.
Burglars telephoned the Chicago po-
lice that they were robbing store at
~ Dearborn street. The police thought
it was a joke. The next morning the
store was found looted.
It is reported that the Dhanis ex.
petition of 5000 men has been mas
sacred by Mahdists in Africa.
The Spanish have about conquered
the Philippines.
Wenther in Arkansas measures from
100 to 100 degrees.
A dozen students were injured on
class day at Chicago university.
Dr. Max Schiller and Yvette Gull.
bert were married by the mayor OF
Paris.
An unusual demand for small notes
Is taken by treasury officials as a good
sign OF business improvement.
Governor Rogers of Washington
says Debs cannot engineer any revO-
lutionary movements in Washington.
There is trouble among the Usage
Indians over payment of annuity to
half breeds and intermarried whites.
Rev. Hugh Johnson commemorated
Queen Victoria's jubilee in his opening
prayer in the United States senate.
Thirty-eight indictments have been
returned against nineteen election
officers in Denver for frauds at the
late city election.
General John b. Gordon was unani-
mously reelected commander-in-ch
of the United Confederate Veterans
association.
G. M. Fagen- Bush, under arrest in
New York on charge of forgery, is
alleged to be the principal member of
a gang of swindlers whose operations
in Denver netted $4,000.
Williams college in Massachusetts,
conferred the degree of LII. d. on
President Dole of Hawaii, and the
Western Reserve university upon
President Mckinley and Judge Will
hanson of Cleveland.
Iowa fusion ticket: For governor,
T. T. White, Democrat, Keokuk; lieu
tenant governor, h. A. Plummer, sill.
YER Republican, WinnebagO county,
supreme Judge, L. G. Kline, Demo-
crat, Polk county; railroad commits.
sioner, s. b. Grain, Populist, Dallas
county; superintendent of public in
struction, &. +. Rhinehart, silver Re-
publican, Jasper county.
Ohio Republican state ticket: For
governor, Asa w. Bushnell; for lieu.
tenant governor, A. W. Jones; for SUI
preme Judge, Jacob f. Burkett; for
attorney general, Frank Monett; for
state treasurer, Samuel Campbell
Henry M. Dsugherty is chairman of
the state committee, G r. Fisher vice
chairman and Peter Durr secretary.
Japan's Hawaiian protest turns ont
to be all but an ultimatum. The
United States is warned squarely that
the treaty must not be perfected. as it
is against Japan's treaty rights. a
Senate subcommittee has been APP
pointed to investigate and report in
December. The state department has
its reply ready, but Is holding 1t back.
Broker John w. Mccartney, who
would not answer Senate committee
questions, was acquitted by Judge
Bradley's order.
Alabama coal operators have deter
mined to fight against Pittsburg
dealers.
Weyler's official reports announce
that POO insurgents have been killed
in the last ten days.
BARLEY, Nebraska's ex-state treas.
urer, has been found guilty of the en-
bezzlement of $1,000
New York tailors have won their
strike.
The Santa Fe has lost $50, 900 by
padded pay rolls.
A new Citizens party has been
formed in Chicago.
There is talk of the sugar trust buy
ing Cuba from Spain.
Confederate veterans reunion is be-
ing held ut Nashville.
The latest Liberiau emigration
scheme has proven failure.
Six trsmps were killed in railway
collision near COnrOe, Texas.
C. Fl. Anderson Of the Arapahoo
Wheel club, Denver, made 1O2 miles in
6:30:5O
Berg & Olsens saloon fell in at
Watertown, s. D., burying many
under the walls
Emma Z. Howse, a graduate OF
Stanford university, married China
man in Denver.
Captain Boycott, the Irishman whose
name became a household word, is
dead, aged 50.
1t Is said that Secretary Long con.
templates more complete Americana.
ing OF the navy.
A vein of gold ore running So, 800 To
the pound has been discovered at the
Henobia mine in Colorado.
Chicago students, members of the