Hutchinson gazette., 1899-12-21
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The colored teachers OF Oklahoma
have territorial association.
The London metal market is fiat.
Tin has collapsed and copper Is lower
A Georgia railway orders that EN-.
ployes must stop using cigarettes or be
discharged,
Senator Baker will act as chairman
of the civil service committe, and be q
member Of the Indian committee
Buffers reverse caused a slump in
the London stock market; consols took
the largest drop than in any day in his
tory,
The navy department wants 5000 re.
crcits Immediately to prepare for SER
vice on the new battleships and cruisers
being constructed,
The house adopted resolution for a
holiday recess from Wednesday, De-
cember 20, to Wednesday, January 8,
and the senate concurred.
The statistician of the agricultural
department reports 100000 bales as
the probable cotton production of the
United States for lsO0-l0OO.
The British government has accepted
the offer of more men from Australia;
suggesting that the men should be
mounted and good shots,
Fifteen hundred emigrants from the
Canary islands have arrived in Havana
making a total of 1000 who have ar
rived thus far during December.
Mr.. Curtis OF Kansas, has introduced
bills to reimburse Leavenworth and
Atchison for money expended for pay
ing around their public buildings,
Representative Sulzer, of New York,
has introduced n joint resolution de-
claring that n state of war exists in
South Africa, and according belligerent
rights to the Transvaal government
Senator Harris has introduced bill
authorizing the pensioning Of persons
who have served in the army or navy
of the Confederate states of America
and who afterwards served in the army
or navy of the United States and hon
orably discharged,
There Is n rumor that President Nc
Kinley hestates to place the name of u
woman on the Paris commission, on tho
ground Of legality,
w, II. Booth, who swindled the ex-
change National bank ut Atchison out
of several hundred dollars recently by
claiming to be member of an Arlian-
sas lumber firm, has been sentenced to
four years Imprisonment.
A burglar at Pittsburg, Pa, took
from show window suits of clothes
with SIS and $40 bills pinned on them
to show the price; in all about $500.
For several months expert account.
ants have been at work on the books
of county officials and made n report,
showing shortages in the Office of Coun-
ty clerk Nash, of 80, 3S3 SO, and Circuit
clerk Chesmit, of 80, ,OO2. 10 at st. Joseph,
Mo.
Mr.. Bowersocls, of Kansas, has intro
duced the following pension bills: Hon
orable discharge for Jesse Dots, pension
to Florence Il. Wilbur, Emmett Gillooly,
Mary Mclaughlin, William II. Dessler,
A. NJ. Templer, Joseph Fipps, and for
the relief of the University of Kansas
Very Rev. DR.. James G. Callahan, vi
car general of the diocese of Little Rock,
Ark, is dead at st. Vincent's hospital,
New York, aged 60 years
The Trans-Mississippi Wholesale Gro
GERS association is trying to devise
some means of heading off the further
encroachments of the tobacco trust.
Representative Curtis has introduced
bills applying the general pension laws
to the state militia and providing that
none but ex-soldiers shall be employed
at pension agencies, except stenogra-
pliers and typewriters