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

The Democrats and Populists OF
Shawnee county, Kan, have fused. r.
B. Kepley was nominated for sheriff.
Miss Phoebe Mckay, Flushing, N.
Y. servant, has inherited 81, 600, 900
through the death of an uncle.
Fifteen prisoners escaped from the
Lawrence, Kan, Jail by tunneling
out.
Mr.. Thorwald Solberg of Boston has
has been appointed register OF copy
rights.
It is reported that President McKin-
ley has offered the Russian ambassa-
dOrship to Carl Schurz
A movement has been started among
the Choctaw Indians to sell their lands
and then form a Mexican colony.
The President has appointed 4. v.
Powderly commissioner general of inn
migration.
DR.. Cornwall of Kansas City, who
recently killed his brother in ST.
Louis, was discharged on preliminary
hearing
John Fl. Bradbury, California mil
lionaire, and his wife, who recently
eloped, have become reconciled.
A Wyandotte, Kan, candidate for
county treasurer offers to turn his sal
airy over to church if elected.
The formal announcement of the
existence of a glue trust has been
made. The Leavenworth plant is
soon to be reopened.
Webster Davis delivered the annual
address before the national conven-
ton of college fraternities at Niagara
Falls.
The next convention of the Trans
Mississippi congress will be held at
Wichita. The congress declared for
Pacific railroad foreclosure.
Colonel c. f. Crocker, first vice pres
ident of the Southern Pacific railroad,
died at San Mateo, Cal, from paral-
ysis, aged 40.
Senator Morgan of Alabama spoke
all day Saturday in favor of the Harris
foreclosure resolution and had not
finished at adjournment.
A fee of 81 900 was allowed Deputy
Clerk s P. Mosher of the Fort Scott
federal court for acting at special mas
ter in the sale of the Fort Scott water
works
General Jose Valasquez, the most
brilliant officer in the old Gillian
army, and who did distinguished SER
vice throughout the Pacific war, died
in Valparaiso of lung disease.
The manufacturers of sheet iron and
their employees have agreed on wage
scale. Last years wage scale was
adopted The manufacturers wanted
a reduction of about per cent. About
$4,000 men return to work.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Cyrus Leland to be pension
agent and Isaac L. Lambert to be dis.
trict attorney for Kansas
A Paris dispatch says that early de.
velopments will prove that there is
some truth in the report of the Span.
ish-Japanese alliance against the
United States.
At Lexington, Ky, Judge FalconeI
acquitted Jacob S. Harris for killing
his wife's lover, Thomas H. Merritt,
holding that under the unwritten law
Harris was justified. Colonel w. C. P.
Breckenridge denounced the decision.
The Supreme court of Missouri has
refused rehearing in the Vallins
case. Inspector of Detectives Hayes
will act as chief of police until Vallins
becomes citizen of Kansas City, next
January, when he will be reappointed.
The government at Washington has
directed Minister Woodford to pres,
on the Spanish government the claim
of the family of the late DIR. Ruiz foi
SIS, 200 indemnity for his death in
Cuban prison.
The Rev. Father Butler of Chicago
who was about to be consecrated
bishop of the Concordia, Kan, diocese,
died in Rome, He was chaplain OF
Colonel Mulligan's brigade during the
Civil war.
Forest and field fires are doing much
damage in various parts OF California
Near the town of Red Bluff about a
dozen residences have been burned,
cattle ranges destroyed and standing
crops are threatened. The loss is
already over 100000.
The Central Labor union of New
York city, after long wrangle,
adopted the following resolutions;
Resolved, That the appointment OF
T. V. Powderly as commissioner Of
immigration is the greatest official in.
suit ever offered by the federal gov
eminent to organized labor"
The joint conference of the glass
bottle manufacturers and the repre-
sentatives of the Glass Bottle Blowers
association of the United States and
Canada, after a three days session,
discussing a per cent advance in the
wage scale for the blast of 1S97-0S,
finally decided on making no changes.
After Guiding the notice of the New
York police for more than six years,
Ellen Peck, the confidence woman,
now nearly 20 years OF age, is wanted
again. Her victims this time are sew
eral residents of Brooklyn. whom she
is charged with swindling out of sums
aggrcgating $4,000.
Ricvcle tubino has been cornered