Hutchinson gazette., 1898-11-17
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United States mail from Elden tc
Varck, Kan, has been awarded TO n
u, Smith, OF London, Ky.
The Tloga National bank, OF 0tta'
wa, ~. Y, OF which Senator 4. e.
Platt Is president, will reopen its
doors for business on Thursday morn
ing,
Larker S, Campbell, OF Kansas, and
Matthew \. Farley, Of Missouri, have
been appointed taggcrs In the bureau
OF animal industry OF the United
States agricultural department.
The comptroller OF the currency
has approved the National BANK OF
Commerce, OF Kansas City, as u re-
serve agent for the National Bank OF
Seneca, Kan,
Tho London Daily Chronicle says;
"We are reliably informed from the
Congo Free State that the Belglans
have captured llohr, u Dervlsh post
ninety miles north OF leJaf, on the
White Nile"
Miss Alice CorneNu Is dead nt 81,
Johns hospital, Springfield, ILL.,, OF
cancer, Her father was treasurer OF
the Wabash railroad and she was the
sister OF Countess Joleaud de ST, Mau'
rice, Paris, France.
The war department has received
the following report from Santiago
de Cuba; Sanitary report, Noyem'
Der 12.-Total sick, LOO; fever, all
kinds, 57l; deaths, Edward Moss, prl'
vate, Company II, Twenty.third Kan
sas, November u, typhoid fever"
A, j. Raney, well-known farmer
living a few miles south 81 Coifey-
willie, Kann committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart
with revolver. Dependency over
bad health Is supposed to have been
the cause. lie leaves wife and four
children.
Lieutenant q. Dresel, OF the United
States navy. committed suicide Ia the
CarrolltOn house Monday by shooting
himself In the head. From papers
found on his body 1t Is surmiscd that
he killed himself because he had been
ordered to Manila to join the United
States steamer .Hallro.
William HIckley Gross, archbishop
OF Oregon, Roman Catholic church,
died at st, Joseph's hospital in Baltl'
more, Nd, Monday Of heart disease.
Archbishop Gross went to Baltimore
to attend a celebration at St. Charles
college, Dliott City, Nd, and was
taken sick on November G.
Senator Gallery OF Louisiana will
geek to secure national aid through
congress to educate the South on The
question OF quarNuines, Yellow fe-
Yer experiences and the probability
~ establishing closer relations with
yellow fever country south suggests
ibis sort OF plan.
Fred Hesler, Jr,, and Joe Molzen, OF
Newton, Kan, left Monday for Water
town, n. d., where they have been
subpoenaed as witnesses in a mur.
der trial. NJ, W. Green is charged
with the murder OF j, A. Gallagher
The four worked on the same farm
in this county last summer.
The United States transport steam
er st. Paul, laden with army supplies
and Christmas goods for the soldiers
In the Philippines, viii leave San
Francisco on Thursday, There are
1900 packages for the soldier boys
so Christmas win not be devoid Of its
Santa Claus features to the boys ON
the other side of the world,
In an interview Monday Congress
man d, B, Henderson OF Iowa, said;
II see my name is being mentioned
in connection with the speakershlp
OF the next house. This Is wholly
without my authority. / am not q
candidate for that office. II Mr.. Reed
desires reelection, and presume
he does, | am for his reelection"
The Rsdon iron works, OF San
Francisco, have placed with the
American Tube and Iron Company, Of
MIiddletown, Pa, large contract for
pipe, for the draining of the Com
stock mine at Virginia City, New
These mines will be drained to q
depth Of 1900 feet below the collar
Of the shaft. Pumping will begin
January |.
The state Of Texas raised the yel-
low fever quarantine Monday and the
quarantine inspectors and guards
were withdrawn. All existing quar-.
antnes in the South against the fe-
YER, so far as it extends to disinfec.
tion and detention, win be raised,
though the usual regular inspection
at ports will be continued all the
year around.
BY cave-in at the Tenth street
gravel pit, Lafayette, Ind, shortly
before noon Monday, Refers Wilson
and George Walters were killed, and
Peter Stalcy was seriously injured
Two other men had narrow escapes
A brother OF Wilson was killed in this
same way few years ago, within
100 feet of the place where the acci
dent occurred.
Mrs. S. "A. Black was found lying
on the floor of her room dead Mon
day evening in Maryvlle, No., by
neighbor who went to see her. Her
appearance indicated that she had
been dead some time. Mrs. Black was