Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

nois legislature.
The Dallas (Ore.) National bank has
been closed.
Sholl Lake, Wis, reports disastrous
forest fires.
Tennessee miners are going to work
at the reduction.
Princeton won the annual debate
with Yale this year.
A $4,000 Logan statue will be un.
yelled in Chicago July 96.
Governor Black, of New York, has
signed the antitrust bills.
George Ratliff killed Belle Walker
and himself at Leadville, Col.
Ex-Secretary Olney has been elected
a director of the Frisco railway
Senator Call of Florida has been
forced out of the race for reelection.
Exchange bank of Atkinson, Neb.,
failed.
Lord Salisbury thinks the peace of
Europe is on firmer basis than ever
before.
London papers scold bitterly be-
cause the Senate did not ratify the
arbitration treaty.
c. H. j. Taylor has resigned by re-
quest as recorder of deeds for the Dis
trict of Columbia
The anti-Sunday base ball bill was
defeated in both branches of the Iowa
Legislature.
Robert Fl. Martin, treasurer of Co
lumbar university, Washington, d.
c., is accused of embezzling SEQ, $50
William D. Rowland, treasurer of
three wrecked New England mills,
drowned himself at New Bedford,
Mass
Oakleigh Thorne, an Easton, Pa,
capitalist, and wife are believed to
have persisted in the charity bazaar
fire in Paris.
Merchants Refrigerator Co., 159 to
1853 Chambers street, New York,
burned. Thirty fremen were over
come by smoke and John Rhinehart
killed.
Buffalo" Jones of Oklahoma wants
to corral the few remaining buffalo in
Yellowstone park to preserve the
species from becoming extinct
Forest fires have broken out afresh
in the mountains of eastern Kentucky
and West Virginia and are sweeping
over wide stretch of country.
Rufus P. Vassar, grandson of the
founder of Vassar college at Pough-
keepsie, n. Y, is under arrest at San
Francisco charged with embezzlement
Banker Howard Potter who died re-
Gently, cut off James Brown Potter's
former wife Cora and her children
from any participation in his estate.
The Oceanic Phosphate company of
San Francisco has sent schooner in
fearch for an unplaced island rich in
guauo, southeast Of the Hawaiian
islands.
Fritz Christian of Harlemville, Col
umbia county, n. Y, farmer aged
so, swallowed a small lizard at a
spring and in two years it grew to ten
inches in length and killed him.
Alex. Harris and wife, Helen Vas
book, their hired girl, and Nelson Me
Holt, the hired man, were murdered
by William Pouch, farm hand, near
Milwaukee, to whom Harris had given
bed for the night.
The United States attorney general
says Secretary Alger has no power to
grant permit to the Port Arthur peo-
pie to dredge channel in Sabine lake
but the secretary says he will not OBJ
ject to their doing so.
The Wichita reservation will be
opened to settlement by September /.
George Welton Fishbacll of Missouri
has been selected by W. J. Calhoun as
secretary to accompany him to Cuba
in pursuance of tine Ruiz investigation.
Major General Pedro Diaz has sue
ceeded General Rivera as commander
of the Western army of the insur-
gents.
Major Mcnamara, G.. A. r. veter-
an and Irish Fenian, committed suicide
at Kansas City because he could not
pay $50 bill.
The Turks have burned Velestino.
Rome had quite violent earthquake
shock, but no damage was done.
Fire destroyed the Brigg &c Fleming
tobacco works at Wilson, n. G. Loss
SO, 600.
German statesmen are much excited
over the American tariff bill
A number of young women students
have been expelled from Wellesley col
lege for indulging in beer and ciga-
rette parties.
The Atlanta Constitution has
changed hands and will hereafter sup
port the gold standard.
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Webb McNall, state superintendent
of insurance, has issued an order to
nonresident and home fire insurance
companies doing business in Kansas
requiring them to either discontinue
the use of Harrison Clarksons advisory
rate book or discontinue their Kansas
business.
Brigader General Frank Wheaton,
commander of the department of tho
Colorado, has retired after forty-seven
years of active service.
E. Kellogg Beach, retired million
aire of Chicago, shot himself dead in
the bathroom of his home because of
i'll health.
Grand requiem mass for the victims
of the charity bazaar fire in Paris was
celebrated in Notre Dame cathedral,
which was deliberately draped. Pres
ident Faure and many other distin-
guished people were present. Wreaths
were sent by the Emperor and Em-
press of Germany.
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