Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-02-16
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The senate has passed bill GREAT
ing The office OF admiral OF the navy,
Rear Admiral Dewey, tits understood
will he manned for the office
John Vlsocke, Slav, was shot and
killed in saloon vt Cleveland, o.,
Sunday might by the saloonlSeeper
The mcn'quarreed over o liquor bill
/ Francis w. llergln, q large mattress
manufactures OF st. Louis Monday
filed petition in bankruptcy. ITS
liabilities aggregate $4,000 and nib
assets are valued at $50, 100
The body of Myron w. johnson,
chief cook Of the steamer Greyhound,
was found floatlng in the bay at Sc.
attic, johnson was once a bank
cashier at Burlington, VI,
The grievance committee OF the
Union Pacific telegraphers and the
general manager Of the company
have agreed to settle the demand for
q scale OF wages at q later date,
John Salisbury was killed In a mine
at Blllott, near Moberly, Mo-, MonIlay
morning, He WINS at work In the
mine when the roof cavcd in, crush.
ing the life out OF him, He was about
25 years old,
Boston capitalists have the forma-
ton OF large lumber company TO
consolidate all the lumber mills on
the Machas river and TO purchase
several hundred acres OF timber un-
der consideration.
Jacob Gerbrandt, % night fireman at
the Hunt Stamp Works at Cleveland,
was found dead In the boiler room OF
the plant Monday, having been stab
bed through the heart. There Ia
no clew to the murderer.
"A movement to erect NJ national
memorial In honor OF Abraham Lin.
coin has been started by the Lincoln
Club OF Chicago. Senator Mason and
Congressman Dorlmer are named as
a committee to secure funds.
Mrs, Amos Palmer OF Bdgewood,
r. l., was shot and almost instantly
killed Sunday might in her home, and
her husband has been arrested,
charged with her murder. Palmer
was at one time confined in an insane
asylum.
Bert Samson, wounded at Manila,
should be Bert Hanson Of Company
X, Twentieth Kansas, lie was re.
crulted at Ottawa, Kan, last summer
and Joined the company at San Fran
cisco lie Is o farmer boy and lived
near Ottawa
The Fourth Missouri volunteers ar
rived alt st. Joseph, Mo-, from Green
Willie, 8. g., Monday. and were given q
warm welcome. The ladies OF the
city Ihaye arranged for AN elegant
banquet aud formal reception Gor the
men on Wednesday night,
Eugene Berendson, a travelling
salesman for the Mammoth Pottery
Company OF New York, was found
dead In his bed at los Angeles, A
package OF morphine was on u stand
near the bed, and II was evident that
Berendson had taken dose Of the
drug,
Delaware and Hudson train mum.
Der 4, which left Montreal, was de!
rallied near Cummings station, Monday
afternoon. The engine turned over and
the engineer, w. S, Combs, and his
little boy, 10 years old, were killed.
The rest of the train hands and pas
sengers escaped
The east and west wings OF the
state penitentiary at Huntsville, Tex,
containing prisoners and officers
quarters, burned Monday morning,
There were no casualties, the inmates
being CHARTERED in shops and other
buildings. The burned buildings cost
originally $4,000,
The action OF the miners' union in
calling u sympathetic strike at the
various mines in the Indian territory
because some OF their members were
discharged at the Hartshorne mines
of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf
railroad, is going to cause great
deal of suffering this Arctic weather
In Texas and Oklahoma, which de-
pend on the Indian territory country
for fuel.
The White Star line steamer Ger
manic sank at her pier in North
river, New York, Monday evening,
and is now lying there partially sub
merged. The accident is said to have
been due to the heavy coating of ice
which formed ON the sides Of The
steamer. The continued loading OF
coal, combined with the heavy weight
OF the ice, caused the steamer to list
and slowly sink TO the bottom. 1t is
said that no one is injured.
Yen John, the Chinese convict who
cut his throat with piece of sharp
ened steel ait the pendtentiary
at Jefferson City, Mo-, last week,
died Monday. He was in NOR
tai fear THAT the highblnders would
assassinate him as soon as he should
be released from the prison. His body
win be sent to st. Louis, where it will
be given swell Chinese burial. Yen
John had been sent up for thirteen
years for a murder committed In ST.
Louis.
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