Hutchinson gazette., 1900-01-18
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THE LATEST NEWS nv BRIEF.

Ihcre IL uefman cruiser at Lourens
20 Marques.
Boston'smunicipal debt wasincrcased
$4,000, 900 last year.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Webster Davis Is in Cape Town,
Queen Victoria has proclaimed the
opening of parliament for January 30!
Boston shipped about4O, 900 bales of
hay last week to the British army in
south Africa
1t is rumored here that the Bank OF
Russia has advanced the bank OF Eng
gland es,OO0,Oo0
Denver expended more than two mill
on dollars on business and public
buildings last year.
p. d. Armour, the millionaire packer
S negotiating for a permanent home
Vt Pasadena, California.
There are thirty-five cases of small
ooH in the Northern Illinois normal
school located at Dixon.
Twenty-siX cotton mills have been
QUILT in Mexico during the last year,
md more are being built
A gun stock factory in Frankford,
indiana, is working on an order for 4O,-
700 gun stocks for the Beers.
Explosion of acetylenc gas burned
,hurch at Eden, Nebraska, while
watch meeting was in session.
A large carriage repository in Port
land Me-, four story brick building Is
burned, with loss of 100000.
Rev. j. X. Peck, the Oldest minister
In the Wyoming, Penn, Methodist Con-
terence, fell dead in his pulpit
According to the financial statement
the net bonded debt of New York City
on January /, 1900, was $952, 2,67O, ,O35.
1t is estimated that $4,000 Films will
emigrate this year and that practically
all of them will come to the LJrth.
west
Two shipping clerks of n WHOLESALERS
grocery in st, Joseph, Mo-, have been,
arrested for systematically robbing,
their employers.
Jobbers have tried to get q, better
discount from table glassware manu'.
facturers than is given to department
stores and failed to get it.
The reciprocity treaty between the
United States and France is being held
up by each party on the ground thatit
is too favorable to the other,
Sir Thomas Upton has again chal-
Ienged for the Americas cup. He says
he will build the finest yacht ever con-
structad
The Bird Canning company, which
has, plants at Topeka, St. Joseph and
several other points, will put one in at
0lathe.
The plan of having mail registered
by carriers when collected will be put
in operation january Is in sixty cities,
The service will be inaugurated else
where, when considered beneficial,
upon application of the local officials.
Four members of the Omaha board Of
Education are under arrest for bribery
in connection with aeontract for blinds
for school buildings
L. II. Severance, formerly treasurer
Of the Standard Oil company, has given
$780, 900 to Oberlin college. The money
will be used to erect and equip chem
ical laboratory Mr.. Severance also
donated the ground on which the build.
ing will stand.
General Joe Wheeler is very much
put out because he is given no chance
to fight the Filipinos.
All labor unions Of st. Joseph, Mo-,
are demanding from Is to 25 per cent
increase of wages, and recognition Of
the eight hour law.
The Missouri State Federation of
Labor failed to pass a resolution favor
ing the formation of labor party in
opposition to the two old parties.
There were over 100 companies
'ormally incorporated in the various
states during 1899 for the manufacture
If automobiles, and their total capital
zation reached the enormous sum at
1904. 100000.