Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-09-07
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HOGS Market, strong.
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Asa meascre Of relief the commissary
department Is now buying coffee In
Porto Rico,

department 10 now buying coffee II
; Porto Rico
The U. 8. treasury has received
SO, 100000 from the sale OF the old Gus
tom house sito In New York
Dimes, quarters and half dollars art
beng turned out Mt all the mints al
rapidly rs they can b. produced.
At Kansas City there ia rush Of
boys at the recruiting station, who
want TO become naval apprentices.
A consignment OF carrier pigeons for
military service has been sent from
Dover, England, TO the United States.
= Howard Sutherland OF West Vir-
ginia has been rendered the appoint
ment OF director Of the Porto Rican
census.
Miners In West pttston collieries,
Pa, are in an ugly mood. In II fight
with repair squad one man was kill
ed and eight hurt
At the Usage payment now going on
in cheeks, are being sent by mail to an
nuities, as has been the custom. An
nuities are being paid only TO those
who sign the bills in persons.
The Belgian chamber OF deputies has
rejected motion to revise the consti.
tuition, the vote standing 80 against 81.
The motion was intended to pave the
way for universal suffrage bill.
Under a convention recently signed
between the United States and Ger.
many, to 60 into effect Oct /, articles
of merchandise not exceeding II lbs.
in weight, may go by mail, at 1e cents
per pound.
A man recently sold to Leavenworth
jointsts q recipe for making whisky
out Of drugs. lie charged s25. Eff
teen jointists bought the recipe. Tho
revenue officers and the drinkers are
investigating.
An effort Is being made by Kansans
in Washington and by Governor Stan
ley to get promise from the president
to visit Kansas and to welcome the
Twentieth when that body Of Kansas
heroes reaches home.
The Lord Mayor Talon, OF Dublin,
and Hon. John Il, Redmond, NJ p,
have accepted an invitation to visit Inc
United States to inaugurate the move
ment In America for n monument for
Charles Stewart Parnell.
Repeated warnings have been given,
year after year, to insurers of church
property in Kansas that the National
Church Mutual Insurance Association"
Of Lisbon, Ia, is not authorized TO do
business in Kansas, does not pay losses,
is in the habit of collecting large as
sessments after having accepted full
payment on five year policies, aud has
cancelled some Of these paid up policies
before they had expired.
j. G. johnson, OF Kansas, has been
made chairman of the executive COM
mittee Of the National Democratic
Committee.
john b Leoni, an Italian sculptor,
has been sent to the insane asylum at
jacksonville. Leoni made much Of the
heroic statuary for the worlds fair.
The water question at Denison, Tex,
is becoming very serious one with
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, MS
the continued dry weather is drying
up several Of its largest tanks ut points
on the line in north Texas
In the first six months of this year
the aggregate value Of all the fish
landed in England wns over SIS, 0O0,-
900.
The first bale of cotton sold in Okla
homa brought Oh cents The owner
was given prize of $780, Cotton ID
opening rapidly.
Rock Island officials are informed
that old corn still on hand in Kansas
and Nebraska tributary to the Rock
Island road amounts to 1900, 900 BUSH
els The old corn still in store in Iowa
is estimated at 1000 bushels.
The SUMS, new Mexican tribe, and
the Apaches of Arizona are out in a
war which indicates that extermina-
tion is Che end desired.
Major John A. Logan, son OF tho late
Gen. John r. Logan, who was recently
appointed by the president n major in
the volunteer army, has been assigned
to the 33d infantry.
Eighty miles of icebergs are fioating
down the American coast Of the Straits
Of Belle Isle. They are reported by q
steamer from Montreal, which counted
more then 100 huge berga