Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-05-10
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w. j. Bryan has Joined a lodge Of
Elks recently organized in Lincoln,
Neb.
The engagement OF General Joe
Wheeler and Mrs. Geo. w. Childs
Ia announced.
Captain o. NJ, Carter has begun his
sentence in the Federal penitentiary
At LeayenwOrth.
jerry Harrison, a l6-year-old boy,
fell into u wheat hopper at salina
and wns smothered.
The Pennsylvania Republican con.
yention pledges 10 support Senator
Quay for reelection.
A colony OF twenty-seVen farmers
from North Carolina arrived at Corr
bin, Kansas, last week.
Mrs, Ida w, Moore Of Abilene,
Kansas, IL candidate for national
president of the w. II, G.
Sergeant w, c, Millllken OF COM
pnny q, Twentieth Kansas regiment
has entered the ministry,
The General Federation OF Wom-
ems Clubs will hold lts annual con.
vention In Milwaukee In June.
The $4,000 for repairs at Fort
Lenvenworth Is the largest sum ever
appropriated for that purpose.
G. G. Presson OF Pressonvllle, Kan.
sas, a member OF the 10th infantry,
died In Manila OF Malaria fever,
A score Of Princeton students were
arrested and jailed for creating n dis.
turbance at the Oriental dance hall.
An aged lunatlc who kept fourteen
officers MT bay, was caught while
asleep at Oklahoma City, Tuesday
night.
The winter wheat crop prospects
in Northwest Missouri are said to
be the best ever seen In that part OF
the state.
Gov, Roosevelt Of New York. was
the speaker at the annual celebration
OF Grants birthday 1T GaIena, ILL.,,
last week.
The explosion Of n coal oil lamp
Tuesday night destroyed. the post
Office at Antioch, fifteen miles north
west OF Paola.
An agreement has been entered into
for the exchange OF freight oft Pitts
burg, Kansas, by the Santa Fe and
Kansas City Southern.
Bishop Jesse Engle of the River
Brethren Church, II missionary in the
Transyaal, Is dead. He went there
from Abilene, Kansas.
The rebels control the situation
In Colombia. They have got possess
ion OF Lagu0ra and Carthagena, the
most important hOrbor.
In the first annual debate between
the state universities of Kansas and
Colorado, held at Boulder last week,
Colorado was the winner.
George NJ. Vineyard, drummer
from Topeka last week while drunk
shot and killed w, A. Simpson in
Kansas City boarding house.
A mortgage of $l,5OuO0O on VIM
ner's Kansas City, Lawrence a. Tope-
ka railway to the Colonial Trust Co,
OF New York, has been filed.
While riding on horseback near
Sterling, Kansas, Richard pnllister
was badly injured by lightning. The
horse he was riding was killed
George p, Dold, son of jacob
Dold, the pork packer,was found dead
in his bed at his home at Buffalo
last week. He had fatty dcgenera-
ton of the heart.
A severe hail and wind storm in
Northeastern Kansas and North
western Missouri Thursday night,
did great damage TO fruit buds. Rail
ways suffered some.
Minority report of the committee
scores Clnrk's chief accusers, and
says he was not given fair show. II
declares many witnesses for the pros
ecution were not trustworthy.
General Wood Of Cuba, has issued
a decree directing that persons under
70 years of age shan not marry with
out previously q aiming the cln-
sent OF their lawful guardians.
The Kansas University base ball
team is taking ten days'trip in
Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri.
A. S. IIallidie, builder and inventor1
Of the first cable car system, died at
san Francisco Of heart disease.
David Geddington Shields, an en-
post chaplain in the regular army died
suddenly in the hospital, lie was re. !
Gently court-martialed at San Fran.
cisco and dismissed from the army
for drunkenness.
The body Of William Sullivan, Of
the Twentieth X lsas, was inferred |
at Louisville, Kunsus, last week, af- |
ter services in the opera house which
were attended by General Metcalf,
Colonel Little and others
Peter Goet2, Il siNtcen-year-old boy
of Hays City Kansas, has been found
guilty of numbering his father who
was found dead in his yard last
month. The boy said his father was
cruel to him,
w. j. Bryan attended the Sunhow.
err League banquet ait Wichita, last
week, and spoke TO an immense
crowd of people. From there he
went TO Clay Center to attend the
Fifth district populist convention.
The japanese consuls in the yicin'
ity of Vancouver and Seattle are
alarmed at the fact that many Of the