Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-03-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Pat Casey Ii; Hugh Mcbride, l3; Ed
j. Hayes, 80, were scalded to death BY
collision of engines on the Union Pa
ciic near Denver, and Jonn W. Berndt,
40, severely injured
Gladstone writes that Emperor Will
lam and the new car are incapable OF
ruling, and deplores that England
should heed their demands He says
that Greece. has conferred great ben,
eft to civilization.
John Parshall, one of the six men
who buried John Wilkes Booths body,
is dead at indianapolis, aged O.. Five
have now died and all kept their oath
OF secrecy regarding the disposal OF
the remains OF the assassin.
The Mississippi river is twenty-five
miles wide ut Cairo, ILL.,
Frank w. Palmer of Chicago is said
to be slated for public printer.
James Joseph Sylvester, famous
mathematician, is dead in London.
John Hull of Scrvia Ind, aged 81,
shot his estranged wife and then killed
himself.
Mr.. Ingalls, presence at the prize
fight aroused senatorial resentment.
Gov Wolcott OF Massachusetts re.
fuses to honor Missouri requision for
E. +. Wilson.
1t looks as if Mckinley were getting
ready to nullify Cleveland's forest re-
serve order.
Jarrett Watkins shot and killed w.
L. BenbrOok, his partner in business,
at Fayetteville, Ark.
Otis Miller, negro charged with
murder, was taken from jail at Dun el-
Ion, Fla, by mob and drowned
Frederick Franks OF Philadelphia
killed his O-year-old son, fatally
wounded his 5-year-old daughter and
then killed himself. Insane.
London has made the cigarette deal.
ers license $780,
The London Daily Mail says Kaiser
Wilhelm is insane.
Chinook winds are saving the starry
ing stock in the Dakotas.
Rhode Island Republicans nominated
Elisha Dyer for Governor.
d. r. Myers OF Omaha shot his wife
and himself. lie may die.
Cambridge university has made DR..
Nansen q doctor OF science.
Signor Grimaldi, italian statesman
and eX-cabinet minister, is dead.
A Polish Catholic priest in Chicago
has invented a bullet-proof cloth.
A gun ON a Russian ironclad at
Canea burst. killing nineteen men and
wounding others
Burks locomotive works, Dunkirk,
N. Y, has resumed work employing
1900 hands,
Secretary Sherman contemplates the
negotiation of another Nicaraguan
canal treaty.
Sugar importers are rushing in
stocks from Germany and Cuba in adj
vance of the new tariff.
Forest Reynor of New York City has
been appointed private secretary to
the secretary of the interior
Cubans dynamited train on tres
tie in Pinar del Rio province, killing
over 200 Spanish soldiers.
Illinois Central has just paid Wilbur
F. Davidson, a $4,000 Judgment for
damages obtained in federal court at
Chicago.
The big show elephant Tip had to
be strangled to death at Bridgeport.
Conn, because of recently developed
murderous ferocity.
John O'Rourke, John Burns and An
tonic Molinaski were fatally burned at
the Emma b'ast furnace, Cleveland,
O., by explosions of molten metal.
The first bill to pass the extra SEES.
sion of the Senate was one to give q
$50 per month pension to Gen. Steven
sons widow; 43S bills and Joint reso-
lutions we're introduced at the second
sitting
Governor Stephens has appointed w.
c. Scarritt and r. l.. Gregory to be pc.
lice commissioners of Kansas City.
The Mississippi is playing havoc in
Mississippi and Pemiscot counties Mis-
souri,
Chas Rodatinsl1y, wife and baby,
were fatally burned at Omaha, gaso-
line stove exploding in their moving
wagon and causing their team to run
away.
Francis NJ. Rhodes of Hannibal will
have to pay back S0,s47 received as
pension money because he had catarrh-
al ophthalmia before going into the
army.
Special Policeman John Redick killed
an unknown negro, who carried $50, at
Fort Scott.
John p Tracey of Springfield Mo-,
is an applicant for the Office of Com.
missioner of Internal Revenue.
A s6,OOO,O 900 bridge is to be built
across the st. Lawrence river opposite
Quebec.
Rev. George H. Wells of Dover, Ill,
was killed by the cars near Wanna
tOsa.
Wyoming ranch owners are despond-
ent over hard weather and losses Of
stock.
People along the Arkansas river are
building 1000 bushel boats to haul
corn to New Orleans.
Nothing is expected to come of tho
attempt to change the Senate rules so
as to prevent filibustering.
Fifteen thousand bales of cotton
were burned in compress at Sheffield,
Ala Loss, $4,000; partially insured.