Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-07-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.


alarmed over the proposed tax on stock
sales, because it would bear heavily
on cheap mining stock transactions.
John w. Thompson, United States
marshal Of West Virginia, was com
PEELED by injunction under civil service
law to reappoint the old Democratic
force of deputies
President Gates of Amherst college
is to resign
Twelve thousand Belgium coal min
ers are on strike.
Union Trust and Savings bank, la
coma, Wash, suspended.
The New York jury that tried the
tobacco trust couldn't agree.
The Hawaiian reciprocity provision
has been restored to the tariff bill.
Helen Keller, deaf, dumb and blind,
passed in advanced German for Rad
cliffe college.
National Republican headquarters
Cleveland,
James Arnold, Butte, Mont, min
ing man, was done up for So, 900 in q
faro game in Chicago.
W. NJ. Mcfarland, ex-secretary of
state of Iowa, is accused of making
employees divide their salaries with
him.
George Copeland's wife and his sister
and her child were killed by lightning
ut Cadillac, and s. Bandine's 1U-year-
old daughter was killed at Howard
City, Mich.
Mail Clerk X. T. Sherman and Bag
gagemaster w. p. Coon, both of In
dianapolis, were killed in a Christian
Endeavor train wreck on the Van
dalia, and Mail Clerk Samuel Parl1in-
son and Fireman Frank Owens fatally
injured.
W. j. Calhoun has declined the POI
sition of comptroller of the treasury.
Oil has been struck at depth of
400 feet in u well at Tishomingo, |. Z.
The Bank of Usage Mission, Kan,
will go into voluntary liquidation. 1t
has a capital of S., 200.
The Western Door company, door,
sash and blind trust organized last
week, has collapsed.
The cash in the treasury is classified
MS follows: Gold, Si7s,O76, $50; silver,
$50, 793, 922; paper, S153, 340, s26.
Alvin Dillway, son of the president
of the Mechanics National bank, OF
Boston, Mass, killed himself with
poison in that city yesterday because
he had been expelled from West Point
Mrs. John McClelland was struck
and instantly killed by lightning near
Startled, Mo-, during heavy rain
and thunder storm All streams in
that vicinity are rising and trains are
delayed.
Samuel Barnum was appointed re-
ceiver of the Topeka Belt Railway
company. There is o mortgage OF
$500 900 on the road, and several
weeks ago force of men tore up the
tracks in the night.
james Wilder, wife and two chill
dreu, emigrants, supposed to be from
Benton county, Mo-, were burned to
death in cabin near Rochester, Ky.
They had stopped in the cabin for
few days rest from travelling.
Four masked bandits entered bank
Mt Belle Fourche, 5, d., shot off the
cashiers right ear, took all the cash
in sight and escaped. A posse gave
chase and captured them
Chinese allowed to enter to take
part in the Nashville exposition are
said to be distributing themselves in
other cities.
Republican members of the Senate
Judiciary committee have agreed upon
II compromise antitrust amendment to
the tariff bill.
The invalidatiug of $4,000 of Ia
coma, Wash, bonds, which were
fraudulently issued, caused the failure
of the Union Trust and Savings bank
of that city.
Enemies of Leon Olchafski of Scran-
ton, Pa, blew up his home with dyna-
mite. He is severely injured.
Mrs. Julia Maffitt, the wealthiest
woman in St Louis, is dying at the
age of 81.
White parasites are destroying the
grasshoppers which threatened de-
structiOn to crops in South Dakota.
Judge Charles Ford of Nevada is
charged with bigamy. He is Is years
old.
Messiah" Schweinfrrth bObs up in
Arkansas, where he is going to estab-
lish Heaven