Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-25
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

armor plate for S24O ton as that for
which the government pays $40.
Alaska is clamoring for representa-
ton in Congress.
Kyle was finally reelected Senator
by the South Dakota Legislature
John I. Baker, one of the founders
of the Republican party, is dead.
Female legislators in the Colorado
House voted for the high hat measure.
Steel rail war renewed. Nearly
$50, 900, 900 of orders booked since the
pool was dissolved.
George w. Adams, once famous
Chicago grain speculator, killed him.
self. He died pauper.
The street railway strike at Calves
ton, Texas, was won by the employees,
who returned to work.
Preacher Goodwin of Mayfeld, KY,
had to flee from an avenging mob on
account of domestic misconduct.
The Transvaal asks 81 1867, 900 indem-
inty of England for the Jameson raid.
The Everglades have been conveyed
by the government to the state of
Florida.
More than 500 priceless documents
have been stolen from the congress
sional library recently.
Stephen c. Woodson has been nomi.
mated postmaster at st. Joseph, Mo.
Confirmation is improbable.
The President has pardoned ex- Bank
President Porterfeld of Nashville,
Tenn. serving 1O-year-sentence.
The death sentence of Alexander
Allen, convicted in Arkansas, has been
committed to life Imprisonment.
Reeds policy to bar all except tariff
legislation at the extra session has
been practically decided upon.
Senator Thurston gave notice of an
amendment to the sundry civil appro-
priation bill for the appropriation of
81, OO5, 15G to pay unallowed sugar
bountics under the act of 1895.
Edison says telescope photography
is very simple to even novice.
General Carlos of the Cuban junta
failed to appear in court at Baltimore.
His bond was forfeited.
Bob IDgersolls clerk attempted sui
eide. Four persons closely associated
with the agnostic have killed them.
selves recently.
A bill to equip the National Guard
with 45-caliber Springfield rifles passed
the House.
An heir to the Carnegie millions is
expected to arrive at an early day.
Congressman-elect Champ Clark is
preparing history of the war of 1912.
Forty-one days have expired and the
Oregon legislature is still unorganized.
Santa Ana river will be turned from
its course to provide electricity for
California cities.
Dr. S. Gratz Moses, one of the oldest
and most prominent physicians in st.
Louis, died of old age, in his s5th year.
John Jacob Astor's S5,O0O,OOO hotel,
which is in course of erection next to
the Waldorf, will be called the Astoria.
John Wilkins, a prominent farmer
horse and was instantly killed, while
drunk.
Frank A. Vanderlip, Chicago news
paper man, will be Lyman j. Cages
private secretary.
Two masked man held up local
train at Watova, l. r., and robbed the
conductor and brakeman of 80. so and
a revolver.
The President has signed the act
authorizing the secretary of the navy
to arrange for the transportation of
contributions to relieve the famine
sufferers in India.
Governor Renfrow of Oklahoma has
promised to exert his influence toward
making an application of the single
tax theory in the disposition of school
lands in that territory.
The dead and severed body of Jenison
Mcclure, son of Ex-Governor Mcclure,
was found on the Atchison, Topeka &c
Santa Fe railway track near Purcell,
Ind. Ter.
The White Star steamship line is
having a new twin screw steamer built
for Liverpool and New York service.
1t is 704 feet long, or rs feet longer
than the Great Eastern.
Governor Stephens has appointed G..
W. Jones, business manager of the
Post Dispatch, election commissioner
of st. Louis.
Joseph Murdoch of Scott county,
Va, who was supposed to have been
murdered twenty-five years ago, and
for which crime Bud Lindsay served
twenty-onc years in the Virginia pen
itentiary, has returned to his former
home. Lindsay died recently.
Governor Stephens has pardoned w.
Z. Van Wye of st. Joseph from the
penitentiary. Van Wye was sent up
for two years for selling the Kansas
City Sunday Sun and was pardoned in
order to testify against the proprietor
of the paper.
President Cleveland intends to veto
the sundry civil bill and the general
deficiency bill. The first message car
ried over s51, 000, 900 as it passed the
House, end when it is returned from
the Senate will provide for at least
$50, 600. The general deficiency bill
carries more than S0,0OO,0OO.
Professor William L. Tomlins, with
the aid of thirty members of the Apollo
club, the famous musical organization
of Chicago, has tried the effects OF
music upon the hundreds Of unfortun-
ates confined in the Kankakee insane
asylum. Excellent results were
achieved and it is the intention TO con-
tinue the work.
In the district court at Fort Scott