Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-01


Bill to abolish capital punishment
has passed the Colorado Legislature.
Prospects Of early sarifr legislation
are bringing rush of English goods.
D. NJ. Lower, who claimed lien on
most Of EldOrado, Kan. has lost four
test cases
Memphis has 1000 negro food ref
uges and 5000 head of stock to caro-
for and asks outside aid
Confederate homo property at Lex.
ingtOn has been formally conveyed to
the state of Missouri.
WilliamR R. Graceiof New York has
given $2O0,0O0 to found a manual train
ing school for girls
Mrs Mary Jane Ward, the first
white woman to arrive in Shawnee
county, Kansas, is dead at Topeka,
aged n.
Anton Christensen is under arrest in
New York for swindling the Ridge
way, Mich, Creamery company out Of
$40, 900.
Actress Pauline Markham got judg-
ment for 1000 damages for q broken
leg, sustained by falling into cellar
in Louisville.
Chicago bucket sshops have won a
victory in the courts, having obtained
an injunction to prevent removal Of
their tickets.
Board of managers of soldiers homes
has postponed action on the reorgan-
ization of the Leavenworth home for
another month.
Edward ]. Ivory of New York, sus-
pected of being a dynamiter, wants
100000 damages from England for
false arrest, he having been acquitted.
The last two years have been bad
ones for Kansas mills. Only lis of the
$50 in the state have furnished required
statistics to the state labor commits
sioner.
st. Louis election commissioners de-
cided the Democratic city ticket head
ed by Edwin Harrison was the regular
ticket, thus turning down the Meri-
wether faction.
Chicago railroad men are at sea and
the traffic managers are in state
verging ON panic because of the recent
Supreme court decision against the
Trans-MisSouri Association.
Attorney General McKenna has or
dered the New York district attorney
to appeal the joint traffic cases to the
supreme court, where they will be adj
vanced on the docket for early decis-
ion. This association is the king of all
the associations.
DeKalb County bank at Maysville,
Mo-, has closed.
Acme Bicycle works, Reading, Pa,
burned; loss, $4,000.
Operators on the old Bessemer ranges
have formed an iron pool
The Iowa house passed bill pro-
hibiting Coxey and Kelley armies.
Tho outlook at Memphis is much
brighter. The waters are receding.
Mrs. Sarah l. Brown of Bloomsbury,
Pa, left 100000 to Methodist charities.
Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Otoe In
dams are indulging in ghost dancing
in the Otoe country.
The Baroness Hirsch is expected
soon to bestow 81, 800, 900 on Hebrew
charities in this country.
The Transvaal republic and the
Orange Free State have concluded
treaties to support each other.
Cashier BREEDER of the First National
bank, Bethlehem, Pa, stole nearly
100000. He is in Denver.
Claude NJ. Johnson, chief of the bu-
reau of engraving and printing, will
hold his job under Mckinley on ex-
Secretary Carlisle's request.
Martha Bull shot and killed her par
amour, Thomas McRea, and then
killed herself in Hancock county,
Tenn.
At the last hour President Mckinley
saved the four Barregos from hanging
at Santa Fe, N. NJ, for ten days.
The original log Of the Msyflow is
TO be presented to the state of Massa-
chusetts by its English possessors.
Massachusetts house defeated reso-
luton to erect a monument to Ben
Butler in the state house yard, 81 to
90.
Illinois state senate passed the anti
department store bill and IL constitu-
tional Governor Tanner will sign it
All traffic associations will have to
disband owing to the decision of the
supreme court that pooling was illegal.
At dinner given to ex-senator Du-
bois, the silver Republicans in Con-
gress decided not to oppose the Dingley
tariff bill.
The British ship Androsa was aban-
doncd in the Atlantic after terrible
struggle, the crew being rescued by
the steamer Ontario.
George and Calvin Holmes, twin
brothers, fought over Miss Higgs Of
Moor's Hill, near Greensburg, Ind.
George was shot dead and Calvin
wounded.
The Joint Traffic association, acting
under legal advice, has decided to con.
tinuc formally in existence aud test
the antitrust decisions actual scope.
Howe Of New York introduced bill
to dismiss government employees who
do not show proper respect for the
government and the flag.