Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-08
NEWS BOILED DOWN,


came noted through the Tilton Beech
or case, is suffering from stroke Of
paralysis.
Johannes Brahms, the eminent mus
zeal composer, is dead in Vienna from
cancer Of the liver
President Mckinley has decided to
reduce the forest reserves covered by
President Cleveland's proclamation,
but will not annul the order.
Secretary Sherman is said to have
quietly protested against the proposed
summary court martial of General Ri
vera, the captured Cuban leader, and
civil trials said to have been ordered
by the Spanish government.
Richardson building, largest in Chat
tanooga, Tenn, was totally destroyed
by fire. A capitalist and an architect
persisted.
California supreme court denied a
rehearing of Theodore Durrant's APP
plication for new trial.
Clashes of authority as to disposition
Of relief for tornado sufferers at
Chandler, Okla, are reported, and Ad-
jutant General Jameson ordered to
the scene.
Topeka people were thrown into a
state Of wild alarm by small tornado.
Colonel Fred Grant and John A.
Logan are exceedingly chagrined at
their failure to obtain the places they
wished under the new administration.
The German newspapers continue to
print articles advising the government
to adopt retallatory measures in the
event of the new American tariff bill
being passed.
The Transvaal government demands
80, $50, 665 for actual and IS, OO0,O 900 for
moral and intellectual damage from
Great Britain for indemnity as a re-
suit of the Jameson raid.
Governor Thornton has resigned tho
governorship Of Arizona.
Over 1000 weavers of West Hoboken,
N. j., have struck for higher wages
H. I. King, ~ years old, was fatally
injured near Sedalia by a premature
explosion Of dynamite.
Fire in the George r. Otte Carpet
company, Cincinnati. did $500, GOD dam
age.
William E. Clayton, assistant super
intendent of the United States fish
hatchery, has preferred seventeen
specific charges against Superintend-
emit w. T. Page, of the Neosho. NO.,
hatchery, of misuse of government
funds, materials and labor, excessive
drinking on duty, profanity, gamb-
ling, immortality, falsifying vouchers
and inquisitions, and violation Of reg
ulations.
Trinity church, New York, will cele-
brate its 2OOth anniversary May s.
Carnegie has the contract for build
ing the first steel freproof building at
Toxic, Japan.
"Little Phil" son of General P. H.
Sheridan, has been appointed a cadet
at West Point
Miss Kate Mickles Bradley, daugh-
ter of the late Colonel George b. Brad
ley, United States army, has become
professional model
All of the buildings of the Shame
kin, Pa, Powder company and three
dwellings half mile away, were COM
pletely wrecked by an explosion.
Rear Admiral John H. Russell is
dead in Baltimore, aged 70.
Ball players are up in arms against
the new National league contract they
signed.
The reported recall of Consul Gem
eral Lee from Havana is denied at
Washington,
Patrick Crowley, chief of police of
San Francisco for thirty-seven years,
has resigned.
Four colored women were killed and
many people wounded by tornado at
Gradys, Ark.
Another titled foreigner has arrived
in Detroit to marry an heiress. He is
a Hungarian count.
Indian supply bids are wanted at
Chicago May and New York May rs
aggregating S2,25O,OoO.
Trouble is expected in Hawaii be-
tween Americans and japanese, and
the American flagship Philadelphia
has been ordered to Honolulu.
The recent storm and rain through
out Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and
Nebraska has been the most terrific
ever known at that season.
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formal objection to the Dingley bill,
the former over silk and the latter over
hides and other raw materials.
Modern Woodmen won out at La
crosse, Wis, in test suit to determine
the society's right to exclude liquor
sellers from membership.
Lottie Morrill, of Denver committed
suicide by morphine on Burlington
train while going to Lincoln, Neb.,
with Frank B. Massey to be married.
The Spaniards refused permission to
Correspondent Marriott to 60 to the
field to secure the effects and body Of
the late E. C. Crosby of the Chicago
Record.
Five counties in Mississippi will be
under water for thirty days. The
danger line has shifted south of Green
Vile. Gunnison, Miss, is under four
feet of water.
Mississippi food sufferers find their
troubles Increasing from wind and
rainfall The father of waters has
broken all records. About seventy
Ave people have been drowned and
thousands of homes destroyed.
Hugh Miller, aged 95, of New York,
who is under arrest in Brooklyn for
incendiarism, confessed to having
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