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

Famine exists in Santa Fe provinces,
Argentina.
James C. McMullen, vice president
and treasurer of the Chicago 6 Alto
railroad, is dead.
Robbers dynamited the safe of thsS
bank at Sully, Iowa, and got about
$50, 900
Progressive Democratic club, New
York, is out for Bryan for president in
1900.
A beet sugar factory, capacity sO5
tons per day, 70 cost $500, 900, is to be
built at Omaha.
Boomers are preparing for the OPEN
ing OF the Wichita, Kiowa and Co
manche lands for settlement.
Governor Bradley has offered $3.50
reward for each conviction of the
Greensboro lynchers of Holt
Henry T. Strauss, clerk of Langladc
county, Wisconsin, defaulted for
S3,777, and committed suicide.
Indiana Populist leaders have decide
to continue the organization in fuI
force and to form clubs in all parts OF
the state.
A gang of Italians fatally shot Po-
liccman William Bergin at Johnson-
burg, Pa and wounded several other
policemen.
L. A. nValkenburg, one of John
Wanamaker's managers, was arrested
Mt Harrisburg, Pa, on charge of at
tempting to bride Representative W.
G. Weiss.
A big horn thirty feet long with a
bell six feet in diameter was carried to
Canton, Ohio, to Mr.. Mckinley from
Decatur, H., by six men, who sold <
pictures of the horn to pay expenses.
Germany stands foremost in Europe
in electric railway construction, with ,
252 miles, almost half of the total of
Europe France has 80 miles. Great
Britain and Ireland GO and Austria A.
Jacob Fishel, defendant in a st.
Louis divorce case, shot his young
wife, her uncle, julius Schrueber, and
her attorney, Walter McIntire, in the
court room. None of the wounds are
dangerous.
Board of directors of the DENVER
chamber of commerce have unani
mously decided to ignore the invitation
to send delegates to the monetary
conference to be held at indianapolis
this month.
Governor.elect Tanner of Illinois
and Miss Cora Edith English of Spring
| field were married in st. Paul's Pro-
testant cathedral. Springfield, by Rev.
Frederick Taylor in the presence of q
church full of people.
During the Sac and Fox payment
just closed the reservation was flooded
with gamblers and whisky peddlers,
who robbed the Indians TwoIndians
have died and number are suffering
from the effects of the vile compound
sold to them for whisky.
Horatio Hale, an authority on In
dian dialects, is dead at Clinton, Ont,
aged 80 years. He was graduate of
Yale university. In 1914 he was the
philologist of the Wilkes expedition,
sent out by the American government
to discover the Antarctic continent
Officials of the Louisville e Nash
vile and Southern railways offer Sl0,-
600 for the ALBANIA train .VVreelssra.-
The recently failed bank of GardnerH
Morrow & Company of Holiday buFg,\
Pa, was insolvent for ten years, Its
shortage is S159, 730.27.
Turkeys finances are in good shape.
Germany is going to restrict emf
grafton.
Gladstone has just passed his s7th
birthday.
Famine is prevailing in the province
of Kherson, Russia.
Boston is enforcing the Sunday law
against theaters.
st. Paul ice palace project has had.
to be abandoned-too warm.
William Norris, an ex-Cou Federated
colonel is dead at baltimore. aged n.
Isaac Sucker, rich New York mer-
chant, was given SO years for arson.
Ed Rosa killed his sweetheart, Mary
Brehl, and himself at Forest City, s. D.
Japan has now larger carrying
trade on the Pacific Ocean than the
United States.
Russia is unable to compete with tho
Standard Oil company for trade with
Germany.
Lehigh cotton mills in South Easton,
Pa, are shut down for the first time in
100 years
Henry D. Purroy and his political
following have deserted Tammany to
fight Sheehan.
Ella Eager threw herself under her
husbands engine. and was ground to
pieces at New Haven, Conn.
Carlos A. Miller, an American engl-
neer, is in prison in the City of Mexico
on trumpcd up murder charge.
c. A. Walsh of the Democratic ma
tional committee is in Idaho working J
for the recollection of Senator Dubois,
Senator Thurston, in a SIC ech before
the Chautauqua circle ut Omaha, dc
clared for Cuban recognition, war OF
or war.
Comptroller of the Currency Eckels
says that he feels no apprehension over
the bank failures which have occurred
of late.
President Cleveland has included the
officers and employees of the federal
pen" at Fort Leavenworth under civil
service rules.
Father Shaw, assistant pastor OF the
Holy Angels church, St Louis, was
held up in his rectory and robbed by
stranger in the afternoon.
Three business men were held up by