Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-20
News in BRIEF.

| work BY the Port Arthu- Canal COM
pany, nor win he interfr e with il at
present.
President Mckinley as decided to
decline al Decoration Jay invitations.
| Afull-blooded Nez Percss Indian is
under arrest in Washington on a
charge Of forgery.
The President has nominated Briga-
der General Forsythe to succeed
Wheaton as major general.
The Senate passed bills appropriate
ing 1850, 900 for a public building at
Indianapolis, Ind. and 5000, 900 for one
at Deadwood, s. D.
Henry L. Lee of Moberly, Mo-, mem
Der Of the CITY council, shot himself.
Commander Booth Tucker Of the Sal.
walton Army has been indicted in New
York because Of the noise made in the
barracks
W. ]. Calhoun has arrived at Ha-
vana Weyler has left for the field.
Transvaars answer to Great Brit
aims ultimatum is defiant in tone and
suggests arbitration.
Henry Anderson, Kansas City me-
gro thief known to the police as RED
Wade, on account of his bloody deeds,
was shot and killed by Deputy Mar
shal Matthew s Kenney, while at
tempting to escape arrest
The Kansas drummers elected Rich
ard Wagstaff of Lawrence grand coun-
selor and d. S. Russell of Hutchinson
grand secretary.
Governor Stephens, in letter to
the jefferson City, Mo-, Democratic
club says the Democratic gold boilers
must repent if they desire to return to
the regular Democratic fold and prom
Use allegiance to the Chicago platform.
He wants no compromise with them.
Typhoon H. won the Kentucky
Derby from Ornament in the mud.
The race was slow and disappointing.
Ornament was poorly ridden.
A mans corpse is among the un.
claimed baggage in New York.
A. b. Patricks & Co. s tannery in
San Francisco burned. Loss, 1925, 900.
Twenty soldiers are to ride by bicy.
Gle from Fort Missoula, Mont, to st.
Louis
Miss Nettie NJ Leib, an insurance
agent of Akron, Ohio committed sui
eide rather than face charge of en-
bezzlement
Nellie Smith and Mandy White, negro
women, were lynched at jeff, Ala, for
poisoning Joshua Kelly by putting
Rough On Rats in his biscuits.
The legal department at Washing.
ton has decided that permit can be
granted for dredging a channel
through Sabine lake. This is a victory
for the Port Arthur people.
John Ray of Carlisle county, Ken.
lucky, is in southeastern Missouri
hunting for white man to kill him
for completely in the killing of Rays
two daughters and for which l. Seay
Miller, negro, was lynched.
Some of the heirs of James Catcher,
for years merchant of Mexico, Mo-,
who left about S25, 900, have brought
suit to break his will, claiming that he
was Of unsound mind and was under
the influence of his wife, who profited
most by it.
Denmark's ministry has resigned.
The Honduras revolution has ended
Mile. Yvette Guilbert has become
Mrs. DR.. Max Schiller.
Omaha's new mayor has been seated
by the courts
Tea prices are moving up on account
Of the tariff.
Ex-Governor Porter of Indiana left
an estate worth $780, 900.
Vice President Hobart will not vio-
late precedent to limit debate on the
tariff BILL
The Rothschilds family gave l,OOO,-
900 francs to the charity bazaar fund
In Paris
Emperor William of Germany gave
$4,000 to the Paris charity bazaar man
ayers.
The ]. R. Dayton Table company
building at Quincy, ILL.,, burned; loss
$4,000,
AS the result of recent elections the
Liberals are now in full control in
Canada.
Illinois inheritance tax law has been
declared constitutional by the state
supreme court.
Williams, Brown & Co., wholesale
shipping merchants of San Francisco,
have failed for half a million.
Cattle from east Of the Mississippi
river are being shipped into the pas
lures in the Indian territory.
After October the use of No. 3
spring wheat as contract grade on
the Chicago market will be discon-
tinued.
William Charvet, farmer living
northeast of Guthrie, Okla, was killed
by lightning while measuring wheat.
James U. Fonda got Judgment
against the Twin City Rapid Transit
company.at St Paul for ST., $40 for loss
of his legs.
Theosophists have bought tract Of
land a mile square at San Diego, CAL,
and will erect hotels, sanitariums,
temples. etc.
The Rumford Falls (Me) Paper Co.
is putting in the largest paper machine
in the world, one that will produce
paper $50 inches wide.
Peter Miner, a one-legged veteran
from Manhattan. Kan, aged so, stole
a horse and buggy and eloped with a
l5-year-old girl near Perry. Okla, and
was given eighteen months in the
pen" for his fun.
c. NJ Barnes was promptly confirmed
as governor Of Oklahoma.