Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-23

will be held January 12, at King.
fisher.
Representative Ray of New York
proposes federal divorce reform by
Law.
Senator Ellsworth of Buffalo, N Y,
is determined on anti-cartooR leg sla-
ton.
Beverly Ward, Jr., killed himself
near Short Hills, N. J.. because of UNI
requited love.
Lew Wallace says there will be war
between Japan and the United states
over Hawaii.
United States court house at Ard
more, L H., was burned by ineendi-
aries; loss, $4,000
The London Daily Mail will provide
a ship for Peary in which TO sail for
North pole.
John Morgan was hanged at Ripley,
Ia, before 10000 people for the MUIR
der of the Green family.
Henry Ulrich, ex-watchman at the
Cunning asylum in Chicago, admits
completely in the morgue robbery.
Engineer j. D. Rausch and Firemen
o. L. Gremer and C. q. Dester were
killed in a railway collision at Clinton,
Ind.
William Terriss, a popular actor,
was assassinated by a maniac super al
the entrance of the Adelphi theater,
London.
Fire destroyed the Letts-FletcheP
company's wholesale grocery building
at Marshalltown, Iowa. Loss, $780,
zoos insurance, Ss1, OO0
The Omaha World Herald is resist
ing an injunction issued by circuit
court judge, in regard to publication
of license board resolutions.
They are still hanging negroes in
Simpson county, Mississippi, for the
recent Brown Smith family murders.
Miss Florence Shepherd of Chicago
declined to marry Z. L. Deshong after
her family had made all arrangements
for the wedding, even to inviting the
guests.
Secretary Gage has cut the salaries
of oil employees more than 10 years of
age to not exceed 5000 per year.
Friends of annexation, fearing that
the Hawaiian treaty will fail, are
talking of buying the island for $4,-
OOO 900.
Republican members OF the Ways
and Means committee have decided
that the Dingley law shall not be
changed in any feature
Consul Fleming reports that Brit
,ish corporation will establish shoe
factory in Scotland, capable of turn.
ing out 90, 900 pairs of shoes weekly.
A member of the Union Pacific reor-
ganization committee is quoted as
saying that the committee will not pay
the governments price for the Kansas
Pacific.
J. H. Mccarthy of Little Rock was
awarded the contract to build the flrst
fifty miles of the Springfield, Little
Rock & Gulf railroad.
w. II. Sears of Lawrence, Kan,
private secretary to Senator Harris, Ia
reported to have taken an interest In
the Chicago company lately organized
for making gold from the baser met
ais.
George Gill and Williams Smith, tho
two negro murderers to be hung ct
Lagrange, Ga, January :, are living
in the presence of the gallows on
which they are to meet their death,
that instrument being erected IN the
corner of their cell.
John Kelsey, of South Bend, Ind,
made a sure thing suicide tho other
day by hanging himself and blowing
himself to pieces with a dynamite
cartridge, which he had prepared with
slow fuse beforehand. He had re-
Gently been released from the Logans-
port insane asylum
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Luscher Of
Quincy, ILL.,, are the parents of what
is claimed to be the smallest baby
ever born. At birth she weighed q
trife less than pound her face Ia
about as large around as a half dollar
feet IL inches long, and her whole
body could be put in a quart cup
The rubber trust is on top again.
St Louis is 20 have a new S2,OOO,o oo
hotel.
Stock Exchange bank, e. Reno
Okla, failed
Alabama iron companies are ship
ping to japan.
w. j. Bryan was highly honored in
the City of Mexico.
John D. Rockefeller has lost 50. 0oo,.
QUO in mining in Washington.
New York National Guard refuses
to wear convict made uniforms
The government officials estimate
the wheat crop at 53or 900, 900 bushelA
Luke Davis and John Parks were
suffocated in mine at Hnrtshorne,
1T.
An appropriation of s44. ts1 is pro-
posed by Congress for Oklahoma fed
eral courts
Croker proposes TO make James B.
Eustis chief of Taa.many to oppose
Hill.
Union eloakmallers arc to make a
fight on the sweating system in all
cities