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

ROUNDS before the Brooklyn Athletic
club.
Congressman Walker of Massachu-
setts has introduced a bill providing
for the issue of $3.50, O0O, 900 216 per
| cent bonds to be used in cancelinR
legal tender notes. treasury notes and
silver certificates.
President Mckinley, Senator Hanna.
members OF the cabinet and ether mo-
tables attended the dinner of the
Washington Gridiron club.
Ex-Governor Thomas Fletcher of
Missouri is a candidate for the Office of
register of the treasury.
Senator Cullom has prepared bill
to appropriate $50, 900 for a peace mon
ument at Appomattox, in commemora-
ton of the close Of the war.
Jack Steele of Georgetown, Texas.
shot and killed M. w. Dim nitt in
court during trial.
At Okolona, Ark, Charles Clayburn
killed Deputy Sheriff Rolling and Con-
stable Dickerson.
The czarovitch is hopelessly ill
The thread mills at Kearney, N. j.,
have closed indefinitely, and 1000 men
thrown out of work,
England is preparing to send so, 900
soldiers to South Africa in anticipation
OF an outbreak Of hOstilities early in
the summer.
Since the change Of administration,
over $4,000 applications for pOstoffices
have been filed at the pOstOfice de-
partment.
The Panama scandals have been re-
vived and forty-Rine deputies are in
volved.
It is reported from Washington that
G. M. Barnes Is slated for governor Of
Oklahoma. Powell Clayton and Cyrus
Leland are pushing his candidacy
The English war Office is about to
test the deadliest known man slayer,
a machine gun capable of discharging
1000 shots in 1913 seconds.
The New York Times, Herald and
Tribune, and Philadelphia Ledger,
Record and Telegraph have quit the
United Press Association and Joined
the Associated Press. The United
Press is said to be ON its last legs.
Wholesale bribery and corruption is
charged in the passage of a law by the
Nebraska legislature abolishing the
felony clause in the present gambling
law and substituting one of misde-
mcanor. The charges are to be in
vestigated.
1t is claimed that the big department
stores of Chicago come under the anti
trust decision of the Transmissouri
case.
Criminal proceedings may be brought
against former officers in the Missouri
National bank, as the result of an in
vestigation now going on.
The survivors of the crew of the
clipper ship T. F. Cakes charge Cap
tain Read with incompetency and with
deliberately starving them, while he
himself had plenty.
Webb McNall, insurance superin-
tendent of Kansas, says he will refuse
lice Asses to all fire insurance companies
taking the Clarkson book of rates
Mrs. Fannie Beardsley, ten years.
clerk in the Kansas adjutant generals
Office, has been removed. 1t is said
that all other Republican officeholders
will be treated similarly.
Attorneys of principal Western rail-
roads are figuring on new contract
to evade the supreme courts antitrust
decision.
Western Senators have appealed to
the president to revoke President
Cleveland's forest reservation procla-
nation.
Governor Lowndes, Republican, of
Maryland formally declares his candi-
dacy for the United States Senator
ship against German.
Senator Smith of New Jersey pro
poses to offer an amendment to the
tariff bill to pay bounties on farm pro-
ducts.
Congressman Simpson of Kansas
spoke in the House in favor of duty
on hides.
Michael Davitt denounces the meth
DDS of Scotland Yards in obtaining
evidence of dynamite plots and upholds
the Irishmen of America.
Yale defeated Harvard in joint de-
bate this year.
The Order of Equity at indianapolis,
Ind. has assigned.
Government railroads for Switzer-
land have been proposed.
Two thousand four hundred Wichita
women have registered.
The Peoples party was ruled off the
official ballot in Chicago
The anti-kinetescope bill has been
passed by the Maine Senate.
Whisky is going higher, as tine re-
suit of pool meeting in Cincinnati.
Destructive frosts are reported from
Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama.
The Iowa legislature mas passed
law to shut out all but regular doctors.
About $50 Greeks sailed from New
York on the Campagne to fight Turkey.
A National Good Citizens conven-
ton is TO meet in Nashville, Tenn,
May 10.
The anti-department store bill was
tabled in the Illinois Legislature,
Exporters of canned food products
of the Pacific coast are protesting
against the Dingley tariff bill.
Northwest Kansas Methodist confer
ence voted unanimously to admit wo-
men to general conference.
Offensive partisanship will not be
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