Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-13
CONDENSED NEWS.

quietly.
Commissioners Evans has ordered
special examiners to keep SHARP
watch far pension attorneys adver'
tisements
A number of pensioners, alarmed by
the prospect of publication Of the list,
have asked that their pensions be can
celed.
G P. Grosvenor of Lawrence, Kan,
went to St. Joseph last Sunday and
he has not been seen or heard from
since
Great Britain probably will loan
China $4,000, 300 France and Russia
have been negotiating to raise the
money.
A list of 1873 children between the
ages of and IA has been furnished
the police board of Fort Scott, Kan,
with directions that their attendance
at the city schools be enforced under
penalty Of going to the calaboose.
The list includes only children who
have failed to comply with the com
pulsory education law.
The public debt December 81, less
cash in the treasury, showed de.
crease for the month of $40, 114,e 600.
Secretary Gage says that the mon.
etary commissions currency reform
plan in some respects is better than
his
A counterfeit of the 500 silver GER
tificate Of 1921 is so dangerous that
Secretary Gage will call in notes Of
that issue.
The government receipts for De.
cember, exclusive of the Union Pa.
cific payments, were S27,931, 4o4; ex'
penditures, 500, 216, 663
1t is reported that Senator Plat OF
Connecticut will resign to become
commissioner of insurance.
Secretary Bliss informed the Creeks
that any attempt to oppose the order
of things in the territory would be
waste of time and money.
Widow Florence Acres committed
suicide in East st. Louis because
young man refused to marry her.
Weyler, erstwhile so proud, is much
humbled. He apologized to Sagasta
and the queen regent
Russia is reported to have tricled
China by saying that the British were
coming to capture Port Arthur.
Great Britain is said to have taken
firm attitude on the Chinese ques-
tion.-that she will not recognize Chi
mas grants to other powers.
The Ripley county. court house al
Doniphan, Mo-, was destroyed by fire,
but the contents were saved There
was no insurance.
About !, 100 postofices- throughout
the country were assigned to the
money order class on January g. This
makes approximately %, 900 postoffices
at which money orders may be now
obtained or cashed.
DR.. Robert L Dabney, one of the
most prominent educators of the South,
died at his home in Knoxville, Tenn.
DIR. Charles W. Dabney, president Of
the University of Tennessee, and as
sistant secretary of agriculture under
President Cleveland, was his son.
Ex-Governor VIM ]. Stone is being
doomed for the presidency.
The Wabash train from Kansas City
to st. Louis caught fire and consumed
all the property of SIN Old Kentucky"
theatrical company, including three
valuable performing horses,
F. b. LOOMS, minister to Venezuela,
says that there is a great field foI
American manufacturers in that coun'
try.
At present the friends OF Hawaiian
annexation seem to lack four votes Of
the two-thirds required in the Senate
for ratification.
The value of United States naval
yards and stations is more than $780,
100000. Nearly 100000 was re-
quired last year to maintain warshipa
in commission.
The monetary commission appointeS
by the Indianapolis convention hG
made public its scheme of currency
reform. The plan is embodied in a
bill that will be introduced by Com
gresham 0verstreet
The Herring Hall-Marvin Safe Co,
New York, failed owing to high SAL
aries paid.
Chicago aldermen voted to allow
each private secretary and then
chose relatives.
Canada and the United States will
work together to aid Klondike pros
pectors.
Timothy I. Hier, deputy constable
at Carthage, Mo-, was caught burg
larizing store.
The navy department has ordered
100. 900 pounds of new smokeless
powder
Finuey county, Kan, began the new
year with an empty poor house and no
one in Jail.
1t is said that the fusion nomination
for Congress in the First Nebraska
district will be offered to Mr. Bryan
Two congregations at Harrison, N.
Y, were driven from their churches
by cold and held services in fire
house. !
England has made overtures for Al