Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-09-01
OENER an. NEWS NOTES.

rory IemulO NURSES w JhchsouVllle,
Fla, are now in the division hospitals,
and are doing excellent work.
The condition OF Miss Winnie Davis,
who is critically Ill at Narragansett
Pier, r. l., is slightly improved, At
a consultation Saturday by DR.. John
A. Wilcox and DR.. Bache emmett, OF
New York, her illness was pronounced
10 be gastrltis.
According TO Mexican reports,
twenty-siX yellow fever suspects are
held by the quarantine guards at Ea-
gle Pass, Tex, They came from points
In the infected district OF Mexico and
will be held n sufficient time TO estab-
llsh their freedom from contaglon.
A dispatch from Picking, dated Au-
gust q, says the French, Italian aud
Dutch ministers have formally de-
manded a share for their respective
natonalties in the professional
chairs at the new university, of which
an American, Professor Martin, is
president.
The contemplated state rally OF the
A. o. U. W, at Sedalla, No., on Sep
TENDER 30, has been declared or, as
with the confederate reunion and the
Woodmen of the World log rolling \
is believed the city will be taxed TO
its utmost TO care for the thousands
who will be there.
A dispatch from Camp Heglar, OPP
posite the island Of Gebel Rayan, says
the Anglo-Egyptlan expedition has
suffered rather serious loss by the
sinking OF the gunboat Ialir. The
boat sprung leak when near Shen-
dy, and within a few minutes went
down. All on board were saved.
The torpedo boat Davis, which Is
being constructed at the Wolf g. Sc
wicker Iron Works, Portland, Ore,
was given a preliminary trial on the
Willamette river. No effort was made
TO force the craft up to the required
speed, 221s knots, but 1t is announced
that the trial was satisfactory in
every respect.
Nelson Boliver Converse and MIN
ME Trotter, of New Albany, Ind, were
married Sunday at Jeffersonville,
Ind. The man is 10 years old and the
bride Is. A family Bible was brought
along to prove the girls age. She 10
an orphan and pretty. The couple
met accidentally week ago. The
groom was fascinated by her pretty
face, and, it is said, gave her a farm
to marry him.
In accordance with his newly dis
covered authority in the matter, Col
onel Funston has appointed as adJu-
tant OF the Twentieth Kansas First
Lieutenant Charles b. Walker OF COM
pany b to take effect Immediately.
Adiutant Walker has been serving in
his new capacity since the resgna-
ton Of Lieutenant d. Il. Ford, some
two weeks, and his permanent cs'ah-
ishment there will give general sat-
isfaciicn.
Over thirty people were poisoned 40
barbecue given at Morse Hill, Mo-.
Sunday, and but for the prompt at
tention of physicians 1T is probable
several deaths would have occurred.
Over score are in very serious
condition, but on fair way to recov-
cry. 4 half hour after the assembled
crowd had partaken Of the barbecue,
lyer thirty people were taken with
cramps. 1t is supposed someone
placed paris green in the meat prior
to the cooking.
Robert Weaver, a soldier, aged go,
and his 19-year-old son Fred were ar
rested Saturday night at Milan, Mo-,
and arraigned before Justice Parr, on
the charge OF assault with intent to
murder, and in default of 5000 bond,
each was sent to Jail. Weaver and his
son had gotten into drunken fight
and when Simpson White, a neighbor
boy, appeared on the scene and at
tempted to separate them, they at
tackled him with knives and inflicted
wound near the heart which, 1t In
said, will prove fatal. They then left
their victim by the roadside for dead.
IL is probable that Senior Leon y
Castillo, the Spanish ambassador to
France, will preside over the Spanish
peace commission.
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