Hutchinson gazette., 1901-10-03
THE LATEST NEWS N BRIEF.

Maryland,
Eleven cases of bubonic plague are
reported at Naples,
Broom corn has jumped from sos to,
Sl90 ton in Central Illinois.
The hop crop is short on the Pacific
coast between $4,000 and 2i 900 bales,
Stock business on the Santa Te is
unusually heavy for this time of year.
John G, Nicolay, private secretary of
President Lincoln is dead at the age
of 10 years,
China is negotiating to turn over
fleet to apply ON the war indemnity
due Russia,
The Rock Island win put in eleven
more stalls in its engine house at Mo-
line, Illinois,
The canning factories Of Eastern In-
diana have lost hundreds Of acres Of
tomatoes by frosts,
Admiral Sampson has been relieved
of duty at the Boston navy yard on nc
count Of bad health.
The Imperial Yeomanry refuse TO re-
enlist in the British army. They had
to wait months for their pay.
A Kansas woman has been found in
Denver who is the victim of hypno-
tist, who ought TO be hung,
Judge Smith Mcpherson of the fed
eral court at Council Bluffs, holds un-
constitutional the Nebraska law against
trusts and combines.
Special rates to Dallas, Tex, Wich-
ita, KS, Denver Col, and Kansas City,
all during the week commencing Sept.
30, will crowd Santa Fe trains.
The Katy is erecting a tic pickling
plant at Greenville, Tex, with ca
pacity of 5000 to 4,5OO ties a day. Tho
zinc chloride process is to be used.
Chas, S, Goodnight, the Texas man
who owned million acre ranch has
cut down that fgurs to 1907 900 acres
by numerous sales TO other ranchmen.
The metric system is compulsory in
20 countries, representing 300 millions
of people In all these countries
weights and measures are the same,
having units and its multiplcs by 10.
A Catholic bishop at Burlington,
Vermont, announced that parents who
send children TO the public schools
would he refused absolution, and that
Catholics who were married by Pro-
testant ministers would be eX-com-
municatcd
General Grosvenor is writing book
on the life and public services OF
William Mckinley the authors share
of the proceeds to be given as u con-
Lribution to u Mckinley monument
fund.
A terrific wind and rain. at LeXing-
ton, Ncb., uprootcd trees lifted houses
and destroyed outbuildings. Windy
mills were destroyed.
Clear Lake, s. d., reports tornado
which did great damage TO buildings
md grain stacks, iu the western part
of that county,
The official return. just issued, shows
that the South African concentration
camps in August contained 1889
persons. The deaths numbered 9,3i5,
of which number ,S7S were children.
Carroll d. Wright United States
commissioner of Labor Statistics, says
that every dollar taken by Massachu-
setts towns for liquor licenses costs the
towns $50.
Cleveland detectives believe they
have proof of u conspiracy hatched in
the neighborhood of the Czolgosz fam
ily, more than Il year ago.
Rothschild & Co.'S six story depart
mcnt store in Chicago was damaged
S?95 900 by the falling of inside parti-
ton walls
The Hague minister of foreign affairs
has placed before the international
court of arbitration, " copy OF the Bocr
appeal with notice that he intends to
bring it up for consideration at Its first
meeting,
Enoch Berkeley, of sharon, Pa, tore
down his barn to rebuild it and found
Il can with S7OO in bills which he be-
lieves was hidden by his grandfather.