Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-16
NEWS NOTES or A WEEK..

Chairman Hanna will mot take the
stump In the coming campaign.
Surgeon General SItemberg says no
more army surgeons Nre needed
The 81, Louis strikers have begun
thclr Independents lime with $1,000
capital,
The Central Trades council has voted
TO continue the fight ON the Transit
company.
The money contributed by America
to the lndin fa,rine fund has reached
the $500, ,O0O,OOO mark
The sixteenth annual reunion Of the
Sixth Kansas Cavalry Veteran Asso.
citation will he held in Galcna, August
90, -, and 2j,
Four distlllerics were ON fire Mt
once at Peoria, Illo last Friday. AN
were damaged but none were COM
plctcly destroyed,
1,'glets were born laA, week TO
Mr. and Mrs, Ben l'Ilcry of Scranton,
kNs, There Orc two girls NGd Il boy
and all urc doing well.
Capt T, j, Hayes, seward Of :he Osn-
wutomie Insane Asylum, has resigned
and will engage In the newspaper busi-
in Kansas city, Kansas,
j, j, Butler, proprietor of the
Standard hotel IN st, Louis, has been
nominated for congress by the Demo.
Gratis of the Twelfth district,
Jen Sands, n farmer near DeSmet, S.
d., was attacked by white caps hast
week, lie has had seventeen Of them
arrested and three have fled the state.
Three Of tho principals in thclynch.
ing of james Humphreys and his
TWO sons at Palestine, TcXo in May,
1893, have been sent to prison for
lffe.
l., u, Graves, Il pioneer lumbcrmnS,
and one Of the weulthlest citilens Of
Parsons, KNs. was last week adjudg-
ed insane, and he ut once committed
suicide.
Three former employees Of the st.
Louis street car company have been
arrested charged with dynumiting the
conduit Of the Olive street cable line
Saturday night,
Nine. Comucho, wife of the minister
of railroads in Mexico, started for New
York last week TO avoid the heat of her
country, and was prUstIatcd on the
train near Jersey CITY,
1t is pretty well admitted thnS the
II "a al L.. p,l1
ing of In the population of the Vest
ern Kansas counties. The decrease
in the Seventh diStrlct alone is estl-
mated at about 10000.
During the maneuvers Of the French
feet oN Cape st. Vincent Saturday
night the bNttlcship Brcnnus and tor.
pedo destroyer France collitled, the
France sinking Immediately. 4 num-
Der OF the latter's cf1w were lost
Kansas has a prison farm of ZOO
acres which is worked by comvicts. The
wheat crop this year is4,j3a bushels, the
oats, 1000 and the estimated yield OF
corn is 10000 bushels. Cabbage, on
ions and other vegetables are raised.
Contracts have been let for the
drilling Of ten gas wells near Coifey-
Willie. Thousands of acres of land
have been leased and 1t is understood
that many factories now in the In
dinna fields will be moved to Kansas.
Miss Jessie Morrison, who is In
jWll at III Dorado, Kns., charged with
the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle, bride
Of week, has failed TO secure release
through habeus corpus proceedings
and win remain in jail until her trtsl
in November.
Mrs. j. B, Hamilton of Salina, Kas.,
last week went to Cleveland, o., to
marry for the second time stephen
York, from whom she had been
divorced thirty yenrs Ngo Both had
married meanuime and raised fam.
illes.
Moior John Brown of Topeka, and
Rev. w. y, Vernon, chancellor of Quin.
daro university, Of Kansas City, both
colored, Will debate, the former for
the Democrats amd the latter for the
Republicans, at Garfield Park, To-
pckn, August 10,
William McLcllhmd escaped from
TIE Kansas state pemdtentlury eleven
years ago, while serving five year
sentence for larceny. Last week lie
99pcarpd an The pcnltentiary and ex.
pressed to the warden his desire to
rrurn and I'LL out his term, lie Yves
e'ieh a cell and put TO work. Efforts