Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-05-24

Mrs. Lawton has been granted I
pension of $50 per month.

Atchson, suffered $4,000 fire last
week,
Murat Halstend, the veteran Journal.
list, is going TO teach his art In O
school,
The remnins of General Leaven-
worth are TO be brought to Fort
Leavenworth,
The Belgian government railways
will soon open contracts for 100000
tons Of coal.
The population OF Berlin, according
TO the statistics Of the municipality, Ia
now l,S43,000.
The president has approved the sem
ate bill, 1477, known AZ dhe Grand
Army pension bill.
The health OF the mad King Otto, OF
Bavaria, is completely broken and the
end Is expected soon.
The Tenth Iowa district republican
convention at Algona renominated
Congressman Dolliyer.
United States Minister to Korea
Horace n, Allen is trying to obtain
Bolu INNING CONCESSIONS
Democrats in the Fifteenth district
OF Kansas have nominated w, A. De-
Ford of Ottawa for senator.
Watches and jewery 20 the value
OF $40 were stolen from Jos, Browns
jewelry store at Sabetha, Kansas.
Mr., and Mrs, Mckinley gave u din
ner at the White House last week in
honor Of Governor and Mrs. Roosevelt.
Winfield, Kansas, has granted n If
teen year franchise for telephone
system 10 w, b, Hurst, of Springfield,
Mo,
The number Of cases of bubonc pln
que, at Sydney, N. S, w., officially re.
ported to May 10 is PIG, Of which
70 have proved fatal,
The steamer American Maru from
Hong Kong, via Honolulu, brings adj
vices that Honolulu was officially de-
clnred clean port April 30,
An imperial trade just issued at Con-
stantinople orders contracts to be
signed with foreign shpbullders for
renovating eight ironclads.
Upon his return 90 America from
Europe next August, Rev, Charles M.
Sheldon intends TO write a novel on
the servant girl problem Of America.
The Oklahoma Territorial Republi.
can convention was held at Enid last
week. Dennis Flynn will head the
delegation to the national convention
The Fowler machine shops at the
University of Kansas, the gift Of O.
A. Fowler of Kansas City, will be
formally dedicated during the CONF
Increment week in June, ~
The Yukon Territory census has
been completed, The total population
is 10000; men, $4,000; women, 1000;
children, 1900; British subjects, $500;
Americans, 5000; Indians, $50.
The Canadian government has un-
der consideration the question OF post
age on newspapers and II Is under
stood that it will be reduced from one
half cent per pound to onc'quarter OF
n cent,
The thirty-frst annual conclave OF
the Knights Templar of Kansas met
al Wichita last week, p N. lIoising-
ton of Newton was chosen grand
commander. They will meet in SaIina
nest year.
The Cairo correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Mail says; The khedive,
when giving an audience to nm Ameri-
can, expressed the hope that he might
be able to visit the United States, pos.
sibly in 1901.
The sight OF her son fighting killed
Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher, of La Grange,
III. AS the son reeled from a blow
that gashed his forehead, she gasped,
pressed her hand TO her heart, and
died almost instantly.
Rev. c. M. Sheldon has given $500 of
his share Of the profits on the Chris
tian daily to the Topeka Y, NJ. c. A.
He had already given $1,000 TO the
India famine fund and $1,000 toward
q detention hospital at the city Jail.
Buencnmino, at one time a member
of the Filipino republican cabinet,
who was recently liberated ny General
Otis, announces that he has become
reconcilcd to American sovereignty
and that he will devote hisinhuence TO
bring about peace.
In the preliminary hearing Of Ted
Broadhead, of Mound City, Kas,, who
was charged with stealing twenty-five
head Of cattle from the pasture of
N. A. Corbln, Of Blue Mound, last fall.
Broudhead was bound over to court
and his bail was fixed nj $1,000,
The republican congressional con-
vention of the First Missouri district
elected j. Z. Dockery and T 3. Morris
delegates to the national convention.
Resolutions were adopted indorsing
the administration Of President Nc
Kinley and the proposed worlds fair
TO be held in ST. Louis in 1903.
The nineteenth annual encnmpment
OF the Kansas G, A. r. was held Mt
Holton last week, together with aux
iliary societies. the L, G. A. r. and w.
r. c. W. w. Martin of 1T, Scott was
chosen department commander, Mrs.
Sarah Whiizel, Of Lawrence was chos-
en- president OF the w n, c, and Mrs.
l.. l.. Mcbride of Leavenworth Of the
l.. q, A, Il.
The Parkingson sugar works at TT.
Scott, Kansas, has been sold TO L. p.
Best, a millionaire glucose manufac'
turer, Of Davenport, Ia, for $4,000.
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