Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-02-17
CONDENSED NEWS.

that the government will not accept
anything less than the principal Of
the debt due to it from the Kansas
Pacific
Prof. E ]. James, University of Chi
cago, will represent the United States
at the International Congress Of Com
mercial Instruction at Antwerp, April
IS, 1898
Fort Worth, Texas, was visited by
$500, 900 fire.
w. j. Calhoun of Danville, Ill, says
that he will accept the Interstate
Commerce Commissionership if it is
offered to him.
A stove trust is on the tapis
Another revolt has occurred in Nj
caragua.
The courts have knocked out Colo
radios eight hour labor law
A salt trust is the latest New York
state production.
Henry Twiehaus of Wright City,
Mo, shot and killed his wife from
jealousy.
Judge Macfarlane Of the Missouri
supreme court is suffering from ap-
pendicitis.
A Chicago man prop ses for 5000, 600
to lift ohio's capital and put another.
building under it
The Victor, COL, city council fred
the whole police force for letting four
prisoners burn to death.
E. D. Coburn, secretary of the Kan
sas state board of agriculture says he
is not candidate for governor.
A. 7. Pigg of the St Nicholas hotel,
Topeka, was publicly horsewhipped by
Josephine Morris, negro girl.
Queen Victoria in her address to the
British Parliament asked for an in
crease in the funds provided for de-
Tense.
Mrs. James o. West of New York
was robbed of $1,000 worth of dia-
monds and jewelry at Frank L. Nor.
tons in St Louis.
The Senate naval committee has con-
cluded to allow $500 per ton for armor
plate for the Alabama, the Wisconsin
and the Illinois
Ed Hodgman, the Chicago Building
Trades council absconder, has been
arrested in Northwest Territory. He
only stole $685.
The Senate passed the bill intro
duced by Senator Jones which ratifies
the treaty made by the Dawes COM
mission with the Seminole Indians
Stephen Rutowski, aged S, and
Stephen Lueweski, aged 10, fought
duel with knives at Detroit, Mich,
and the latter was fatally carved.
Two thousand students of the Rush
Medical college, the Chicago College
of Dental Surgery and the Marquette
college had fight with forty police.
men at HI rison and Wood streets,
Chicago, and twenty-five arrests were
made because the boys persisted in
snowballing in the street.
A peanut trust is proposed.
Hypnotism by machinery is the Ia
test.
Five thousand Jap" laborers are te
be taken to the Klondike.
An Eastern syndicate has boughtup
all the Cleveland, Ohio, breweries.
Officers of the cruiser Montgomery
distri buted aims in Matanzas.
Lady Henry Somerset announces
that she no longer advocates the prin-
ciple of regulation of vice in India.
A Spanish countess is one of the
latest to secure Fargo, N. D., di'
Vorce.
W. E. D. Stokes has Tweed's pri-
vate papers and promises sensation,
The Hill-Fontaign Cotton company's
block at Harrison, Ark, burned; loss
$50 900.
A German silk factory, employing
1900 hands will locate at Paterson,
N. ].
William M. Evarts has passed his
sOth birthday, and is gradually grow
ing blind.
Ex-Mayor Sutro of San Francisco, /,
aged 80, and immensely wealthy, is !
demented.
Charles H. Martin, North Carolina
Populist congressman, has gone crazy
on finance.
The bail bonds in the case of Sheriff
Martin and his deputies at Latimer,
Pa, aggregate $500, 900.
Albert Rehm and Herman Necker
shot each other fatally in duel over
woman near Sexton, Ia
Harry Griebel of Little Rock, Ark,
fatally wounded BERTHE Lingo, his
sweetheart and then killed himself
Jealousy,
The total crop of cotton for the year
1s96-97 amounted to $3.50, 7O5 bales,
valued at s2s9, 900, OOO
Consul Barnes of Cologne reports
that an order has been issued prohib-
iting the sale of American hams
Speaker Reed says that he has not
changed his mind-that he is still OPP
posed to the annexation of Hawaii.
Standard Oil company has begun a
fight on the independent companies Of
Indiana.
A. Goodman, secretary Of the Mis-
souri, State Horticultural Society, has
accepted an invitation to deliver a
course of lectures before the students
Of the State university.