Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-20

hereafter to appoint clerks without
the departments approval
Senators Stewart, Frye and Morgan
made speeches in favor of annexation
of Hawaii.
The nomination of McKenna to be
supreme justice was reported favor
ably.
Lii Hung Chang asked the President
to appoint Colonel Fred Grant minis
ter to China. The request came too
late, as Conger had been nominated.
Faulkner, Coclrell, Murphy Mitch
ell White, Rawlins, Smith, Pasco and
Jones of Arkansas were selected as
the Senate's members Of the Demo-
cratic Congressional committee.
Mad Archer" slayer of Actor Ter.
Tiss, was found guilty, but declared
irresponsible.
The President has nominated
Charles Page Bryan of Illinois as min
ister to Brazil and e. II. Conger of
Iowa as minister to China.
1t is reported that Japanese trans
port steamer Nara, foundered, so per-
sons being lost.
The ST. Louis and New Orleans
Anchor steamship line has assigned to
Archibald Woods of ST. Louis.
Mrs. Christopher Wollert killed her
13-year-Old stepdaughter, Louise, at
Algonquin, Ill.
Joaquin Miller lost toe and an ear
and had both cheeks frozen in going
from Circle City to Dawson, Alaska
The Rothschilds will build a rail-
road into the Yukon country over the
Dalton trail, to cost $4,000, 900 and be
400 miles long.
The price of coffee has been cut
again and consumers can now get ten
pounds for dollar, all because of the
war by the sugar trust.
A tin can trust is the latest
Striking English engineers are
weakening
Shoe Inventor Trip is dead at
Lynn, Mass, agek ~.
Thomas A. Edison thinks he has
ahSCONGE6u q uCW Lu6bhl,
Mrs. Mack, the New York murder
ess, gets off with Is year sentence.
Five thousand dogs have been
bought in Chicago and shipped to
KlOndike.
Parties are going to try the use Of
monkeys at manual labor in the Klon-
dixie.
The drouth in Missouri, Kansas and
Arkansas was generally broken.
Fred Funston is home from Cuba to
stay, having been wounded and cap
tured but released.
Turkey refuses to pay for American
mission property destroyed during the
Armenian outbreak.
The French court martial acquitted
CoRDt Esterhazy of treason in connec-
tiOn with the Dreyfus case.
Wine and women caused Fred Jent-
ges to embezzle SIS, roo from the Moon
Bros. Carriage Co., St Louis
Cotton mill operators in New Eng
land refuse to accept a 10 per cent re-
duction in wages and will strike.
Judge A. w. Newman of the Wis
consin supreme court was fatally in
jured by fall on an icy sidewalk.
w. E Sterne has been confirmed as
United States marshal for Kansas, to
succeed DR.. Nicely of Leavenworth.
Senator Chandler says President
Mckinley proposes to renew negotia-
tioDs for worlds bimetallism as soon
as possible.
In q naval contest Uncle Sam would
be out of powder in half an hour after
the men-of-war had fired what they
have on board.
President Patrick n. Largely, of the
State Savings bank, Butte, Mont,
was murdered by Tom j. Riley, a man
he had befriended.
At Democratic conference held in
Chicago it was decided to continue
free silver as the issue. Bryan, who
expects to be the nominee in 1900, de-
elared for fusion.
Senator Vest has introduced bill
in Congress for $50 pension for Gem
ersl Stevenson's widow. General
Stevenson protected Mrs. Vest at the
capture of Boonville the day her baby
was born
In the case of A. P. s. Stewart, q
stakeholder in the failed Capital Ma
tiOnal bank Of Lincoln, Neb., the
United States supreme court decided
that Stewart could not free himself OF
responsibility by transferring his
stock, after he knew the bank was
going to fail
The fusion free silver forces of Ore
gon will all hold their conventions at
Portland, March %.
A block tin trust is being formed
There are 100 deaths to every birth
in Cuba.
Furniture prices will be higher in
the spring
The Ness City, Kan, State bank has
quit business.
Bradstreets says the new year opens
favorably for business
The Katy road has built coach es-
pecially for carrying prisoners.
S w. Wickham was killed by q