Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-20
NEWS BOILED DOWN,

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Two Russian officers and 100 soldiers
were killed in railway accident.
Masked men held up Southern Pa
cifc train at Lozier, Texas, and got
$4,000.
Fred HOLMAN was hanged at Pax
ton. ILL.,, for the murder of Mrs. w.
Geddes
South Australia has experienced
ninety earthquake shocks the past
three days.
Pingree's pet bill to raise railroad
taxation was killed by the Michigan
Senate.
John Bloor, secretary of the Mon
tana Senate, was sent to Jail one year
for hiding bill.
John Wanamaker thinks a new
party will be organized as protest
against bossism.
The Philadelphia monument to
George Washington was unveiled by
President Mckinley, who delivered a
brief tribute to Washington's memory.
Frank A. Vanderlip Of Chicago will
succeed Scott Wike as assistant secre-
tary of the treasury.
Professor Barnard of Nashville trav-
eled twelve miles on his flying machine
the other evening.
John Smith, Chicago negro candy
date for naval cadetship, has arrived
in Annapolis and created a sensation
President w. p Nichols of the New
Orleans Bank of Commerce was given
tree years in the ''pen" for embezzle-
ment.
w. D. Bradford, a San Francisco
millionaire, is contesting the splitting
law. He was sent to jail for splitting
in street cars.
Dave Cotton, Henry Williams and
Sabe Stewart, three negroes, were
lynched at Rosebend, Tex, for at
tempting to assault white girl.
Four Sydney daily papers were fined
$500 each for contempt of court by inn
proper comment on the Frank Butler
murder trial
William Watt and Charles Feirdach,
brickyard employees of Burlington,
Iowa, are near deaths door from
drinking embalming fluid.
State Senator McMullin of Arkansas
shot at Editor j. N. Smithee of the
Little Rock Gazette, for editorial
structures on railroad legislation.
The Cunarder Lucania made the run
to Queenstown in days IA hours and
81 minutes travelling 21.sO knots per
hour and breaking the ocean record.
Stephen R. Mallory, son of the Con-
federate naval secretary, was elected
senator from Florida on the twenty
fifth ballot He is Chicago platform
man.
John Rosenberg, a convict in San
Quentin prison confessed to killing
Blanche Lamont to save Durrant's
neck but it soon developed however
that he did not land in America until
six months after the Emanuel church
murders occurred.
Governor Black of New York has
signed bill practically abrogating
the state civil service law.
w. ]. Dunn, we'll known city con-
tractor of Pittsburg, Pa, was given
six months in the county Jail for$for-
geries amounting to $50, 900.
The dead body of N. B. Clark, cap
italist of Grand Rapids, Mich, was
found on the lake shore at Milwaukee,
with every evidence of murder and
robbery.
Because of cinder in her eye, Ade-
lima Patti was unable to sing in Lon
don and lost So, 500.
Employe Bellac of the cinemato-
graph booth at the charity bazaar in
Paris confesses that he was RESPONSE
BILE for the holocaust of May 4.
The annual field day sports at Vas
sar college took place Saturday. The
young women who participated in the
games wore blouses and boomers.
The sports were witnessed by the 900
students and instructors.
In fight between three women en-
ployes of the Dallas cotton factory,
two were fatally and the third slightly
wounded.
Mrs. James Ewin and Jessie and
Eleanore Davis, sisters, aged 10 and
years, respectively, were drowned In
the Schuylkill river through the cap
sizing of small pleasure steamer.
Mrs. Richard c. Kerens sent 500
to the National American fund in aid
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Germany, Russia and France are
said to be united against England on
the Transvaal and Egyption questions.
Tammany leaders announce that
Richard Croker will soon arrive and
will be in personal charge of Tamma-
ny's Greater New York municipal cam
paign.
Max Maretzek, one of that famous
trio of conductors and managers of
Italian opera in earlier days, which in
cluded Strakosch and Mapleson, died
in his home on Staten Island, aged 70
years
Kansas Republicans want Warden
French removed from the Leavenworth
federal penitentiary and B, ]. Lynch
given the place.
Minister Buck, envoy to Japan, has
been ordered to stop week in Homo
lulu en- route to Toxic.
The decision of the government
against the exchanging of the bank
bills for silver coin has caused panic
In Havana. Prices of bread, milk and
other necessities of life have doubled
within the past few days.
E. p Edgerton, civil service commits
sioner during President Cleveland's
FIRST term, is dead at Cleveland, Ohio
William Carey, aged so years. COM
mitted suicide near Chillicothe, MO.
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