Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-22
NEWS IN BRIEF

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health board at salary of $4,000 pen
year DIR. j. X Hickman will be his
assistant.
Nebraska National Bank of York,
Neb, failed.
R. c. Heydlauff, an Ashland, Wis,
Iorger, killed himself.
President Mckinley has to cancel
his Chicago engagements.
The w. c. L. U. is in danger OF los.
ing its temple in Chicago for debt.
Clevelands order consolidating pen
sion agencies has been suspended.
Mrs. Belinda Lull, of Roxbury,
Mass, left $500, 900 to charitable insti-
buttons.
President Faure of France is now
closely guarded when he appears in
public.
Jerry Simpson il after the sugar
trust and wants a Congressional inves-
tigation.
David B. Hill may run for Congress
uext year
American agricultural colleges will
make an exhibit at the Paris cXpoSi-
ton in 1000
The British parliamentary commit
tee censures Rhodes, the South AIri-
can magnate.
Eight tramps were killed in a wreck
on the Chicago & Northwestern near
Boone, Iowa.
Foreign relations committee of the
Senate has reported favorably on la.
waiian annexation.
Spreckels has brought second mill,
ion dollar libel suit against the San
Francisco Examiner.
Governor Drake of Iowa fell on the
capitol steps and hurt his hip, agra
waiting an old war wound,
Two reservoirs burstcd near Matte.
wan and Fishllill, N. Y, and five per.
sons were drowned and three are
missing.
There is talk of England, France,
Germany and the United States chip.
ping in to dig and control ;he Panama
canal.
The Senate foreign relations com
mittee favors prompt and decisive ac'
ton for release of the Competitor pris
oners by Spain.
The Senate has voted TO allow but
$500 per ton for armor plate, and if moi
obtainable for that to start govern
ment factory.
The Republican league, in session al
Detroit, elected L J. Crawford OF
Newport, KY, president, and voted Il
meet at Omaha next year.
George +. McCulloch, chairman OF
the Republican state central tommit.
tee Of Indiana, will lose his left leg
because of being burned by y rays.
Mine owner Nicholas c. Creede,
after whom Creole, Colo, was named,
committed suicide to get away from
his wife, who sought reconciliation.
His friends claim death was due to an
accidental overdose of morphine.
1t is rumored on Wall street that the
Standard Oil combine is rapidly alb.
sorbing the sugar trust
August Wehrheim. a Chicago real
estate man, was robbed by card sharps
of 81, 900 in a brace faro game.
William Reynolds, q laborcr, was
killed by cave-in while working on q
county bridge near Joplin, Mo.
George Decker smoked seventeen
packages of cigarettes at church pic.
mic in New Jersey and fell over un.
conscious
The Central block, the handsomest
Office building in Pueblo, Colo, wa,
damaged $4,000 by fire, caused by
electric wires crossing.
Harry Lansing, of Lincoln, Neb.
has replevined the presents he gave tC
Grace Oakley, who announced her en-
gagement to another man.
After a protracted debauch Ton
Ginger, young farmer near NiXa
Christian county, Mo-, committed sui
eide by shooting himself in the abdo
men.
A small house was blown into the
Hudson river at Verplancks. n. j.,
during wind storm and a woman ant
two children drowned.
Another big gas we'll has beer
struck ut lola, Kan, with an estimated
capacity of 5000. 900 cubic feet daily.
1t will furnish fuel for smelter Of
1900 retorts being built at lola.
A 9-year-old daughter of l.. j. Town
ley died at Atchison, Kan, from m
overdose of a patent medicine.
A Georgia mob of 1000 men lynchet
the negro asSailant of the 6-year-olC
daughter of State Senator Campbell
Texas sheriffs have raised $3.50 t
defend ex-Sheriff Cunningham of lay
lor county, Texas, charged with the
killing of Mcmahon, the circus man
at Wichita, Kan.
Frank Wray, boy living neal
Maryville. Mo-, was killed by the &C
cidental discharge of shotgun in the
back of a wagon in which he wa!
driving.
Mrs. King, an aged woman living
near Bronaugh, Mo, was accidentally
shot by her son who was handling .
gun carelessly. She will likely re
cover.
A Washington, d. C., woman mar.
ried a man named Welt, who was una.
bic to leave his work for a brida.
tour, and left alone for Atlantic City
N j., on a wedding trip.
Mrs. Mary Jane league whipped
John Colwell, business man of Perry
Okla, who, she says, slandered her.
She beat him severely with a stick anj
paid $40 fine for fighting.
Ex.COroner James McTIale Of Chica
go, prominent figure in Illinois poll
ties, died Of dropsy, He was 81 year
of age.