Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-15
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.
Count Won Waldersce has rcachet
Germany from China.

Inc government expects TO put 1
100000 printing plant ut work at Man
la.
Myon A, Decker, who has manufac
tured the Decker piano for forty year,
is dead at the age Of 49,
The navy yard worlSmcn propose X
join Wth the worlSmcn in arsenals ant
form new labor union,
Paul Kruger, 1t is reported from
Rotterdam, is in "A serious mental con
dition. A specialist has been called
from Berlin.
c. e, Sholes, superintendent of tele
graphy FOR the Santa Fe, thinks that
the telephone will supersede the tele'
graph in railroading
The Selby Smelling company of San
Francisco offers S25, 900 reward from the
thieves who carried off S9s3, 900 worth
of their gold bricks,
The imports at Manila are now largest
from We United States, which were,
during May, about half million dol-
lars, England and China come next in
list.
The Kaiser's father, mother and one
uncle have died Of cancer, His own ear
has been subject to chronic sore, with
morbid discharge ut times, for many
years,
David r. SeNry, grand secretary Of
the Knights Of Honor, and connected
prominently with other fraternal or
ders, die din New Orleans last week,
aged 81 years
1t is asserted in wine makers circles
in California that in the Perigord dis
trict Of France the crop of grapes has
been "a enormous that wine has fallen
TO less than one cent II gallon.
The Topeka gas company has filed a
suit in the federal court to enjoin tho
city from enforcing its ordinance pric-
ing gas at 81 per l,Oos feet. The case
will be heard by Judge Hook in Wich.
tia on Sept, 10.
A construction company, with capi-
tai Of million dollars, and townsite
company, with half million of capital,
have taken Kansas charters, They are
both for and in connection with the
Orient railroad company.
Judge Garland, Of the L. S. court at
Sioux Falls, declares the freight and
passenger rates fixed by the South Da-
kota railroad commissioners TO be con-
flscatory, and has issued nm INDUCTION
against their being put into effect.
The gold held by the Bank Of France,
now larger than ever, is &c millions less
than that held by the U, s. treasury.
The average rent for il small house
in the suburbs of Manila, suitable for
respectable white family, is SS07 a
month.
A mad dog started at Bethany, Mo-,
and before his career of biting every
thing ended he had Travelled 80 miles,
Health authorities have quarantined
of horses, dogs, hogs and cat
tie. Many have already died on been
killed.
Leading business houses, notably de-
partment stores, at Pittsburg, Pa, arc
discharging their clerks by the score,
and more will have to be laid off, on &C.
count Of the great steel strike. A ma
iority of those discharged are girls.
There is a mine on fire at Plymouth, !
Pa b., which cannot be quenched. 1t
will probably take so years for It to
burn out To food it is impossible,
being on high level on the mountain
side and there are other mines below it
which would have to be filled with
water.
Special Examiner VIM. L. Yerltcs has
been appointed receiver of the First
National bank of Austin, Texas.
A through trolley line between New
York and Boston is proposed. There
re some links in the system already in
peration,
Floods of the Yangtse Kiang river
ave destroyed thousands of lives and
pst amounts Of property,
Naples, N. Y, and vicinity has
rasshopper plague which is serious.
rain rs being cut prematurely to save
omething.