Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Aul1 information regarding the Pacific
railroads settlement.
General Lees son has been reap
pointed a cadet to West Point.
Comptroller Eckels has asked gov
errors to furnish reports upon state
and private banks within their iuris
diction.
Foreclosure suit against the Union
and Kansas Pacific was filed at Omaha,
Texas will prohibit baseball on Sun.
day.
Three thousand hands in the Spring
Hill, ILL.,, mines are on strike.
An earthquake on Kisham island in
the Persian gulf caused the loss OF
$500 lives
President Palma of the Cuban iunta,
New York, will be satisfied with moth
ing short of Cuban independence.
Chicago board of trade has published
protest against the unfriendly action
of France, Germany and Switzerland
toward American meat
Three masked men held up train
on the Southern railway near Berry
station, Ala, and obtained $3.50 from
the express safe. This is the second
robbery in month at this place.
John Hulla, Joe Durham and Joe
Pruchu, three Oklahomans, secured di-
vorces before the Cherokee strip OPEN
ing so their wives could get claims.
Then they lived together as before.
The Swift Packing company is put
ting S5OO,OO into ST. Joseph packing
house and stock yard property.
A bill has been introduced abolishing
the whipping post and pillory in Della.
ware.
Miss Helen Mckinley, sister of the
president-elect, had one of the bones
in her right wrist broken by fall on
the ice at Canton.
The prospects for the fruit crop in
Indian Territory and Southern Kansas
are said to be very unpromising owing
to the unfavorable weather. Unless
colder weather comes to retard the de-
velopment, the fruit will certainly be
greatly injured by the later cold snaps.
John L. Sullivan has tonsilitis.
Senator Harris wife is dead at Paris,
Tenn
New York Senate is to investigate
trusts.
Ex-senator Dorsey's wife is dead in
Denver.
Delawares trump" Legislature has
adjourned after issuing violent man
ifesto.
Boiler of the French steamer Sagha-
lien exploded off the Chinese coast,
killing seventeen hands.
Senator Wolcott is getting little sup
port in London for his International
monetary conference.
Lillian Ashley, who sued Lucky
Baldwin in San Francisco for $4,000
for seduction, lost her suit.
A bill to grant $50 per month PEN
sion to Bishop w. Perkins widow has
been favorably reported by Senator
PETER.
Leadville union miners rejected the
final proposition of the managers, al
though Governor Adams and E. V.
Debs approved it.
Henry Delgado, correspondent in
Cuba fer New York paper, who was
imprisoned by the Spaniards, is dead
in Havana hospital from an abcess of
the abdomen.
Senator Vest of Missouri has been
forma''v declared elected for fourth
term in the Senate. Pritchard was re-
elected in North Carolina and Hans
brough in North Dakota.
Louisiana people hung johnson and
Joiner, accused of the murder of five
members of the Cotton family, and
Williams, wife murderer, in one
night. Horrible tortures were inflicted
on the first two to wiring confessions
from them.
The Cuban League of the United
States is organizing branch league
in every city in thu country of 5000 or
more inhabitants.
Father Hellstern, deposed priest,
has filed suit for $500 for alleged
Islander against Archbishop Katzer, of
the diocese of Milwaukee.
The dynamo of the Toronto, Ont,
electric light plant was destroyed by
fire and the streets of that city are in
darkness
The Dodson-Hils Manufacturing
company of st. Louis has filed chat
tel mortgage to secure creditors, and
the firm is in the hands of trustee.
President Cleveland has refused to
pardon Frank L. Turner, convicted in
Kansas for counterfeiting, and Thomas
A. Robbins, Jr., of Missouri, sentenced
to three months Imprisonment and
$1,000 fine for conspiracy.
kilograms have been sent by San
Francisco citizeps' committee to the
governors of Oregon, Nebraska. Wash
ington, Kansas and Iowa, asking for
contributions toward shipload of
grain to be sent to the starving people
in India.
In refusing an application for a par
don for man convicted of pension
fraud, President Cleveland said:
''Those who, through prostitution of
the pension laws and by forgery, seek
to defraud the government and abuse
its benevolent intentions toward old
soldiers, need not expect to easily OBJ
tain clemency at my hands"
Andrew Carnegie and Other cap
italists have put $4,000, 900 in 400
acres of coal territory on the Monon-
gahela, so that thew can shin ont coal