Hutchinson gazette., 1901-09-26
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF.

"Polsh day" at the Buffalo eSposi.
tion has been postponed indefinitely.
The race for the Americas cup has
changed TO commence on September 20.
The tedious and turbulent cigar.
makers strike ut Tampa, Fla, has ter
minated.
Shaffer of the Amalgamated has gone
to New York again and settlement Is
again in the air,
Jas. G, Patterson, president Of the
Travellers insurance company, is dead,
at the age Of so years.
The news Of the shooting OF the
president reached SitlSa, Alaska, on the
day President Mckinley died.
The plague in the Bombay presidency
Is increasing at rapid rate, the death
rate reaching $3.50 in week.
The Boston & Albany railroad has
cut local fares to compete with the
many trolley lines in Massachusetts,.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge l. o, o.
+. has decided to furnish each state
jurisdiction with copy OF the secret
work.
A Ferris wheel collapsed at the fair
grounds at Flint, Mich, and seven
people were hurt, one probably
fatally,
o. d. Barret is dead. He practiced
law for 40 years in Washington and
for 20 years was law partner of Cen
cral Ben. +. Butler
Albert Dahlquist, nm itinerant
preacher, narrowly escaped lynching
at ST, Paul, Mimi, for saying the kill.
ing OF the president was noble deed.
The president has appointed Colonel
James NJ. Bell, eight cavalry and pres
idcnt of the military board Of review,
to be a brigadier general, vice brlga'
dier General Ludlow, deceased
st. Joseph, Mo-, has new city or
dinance against speaking against the
government, or the distribution of an
archistic literature that would tend to
incitc the commission of crime.
Every telegraph instrument in the
United States was silent for five min
utes at ?;30 p. M, the hour set for
placing the presidents body in the
vault, The great ocean cables were
also pulseless.
Mr.. Cortelyou is said to have been
the only secretary to the president who
arose from subordinate clerkship.
Senator Ingalls, first gave him clerk
ship, from which he went into the
postoflice department
Liberty of political belief and free
speech are guaranteed but it is certain
that illegal speech is punishable,
The great dailies still contain coll
umns of dispatches from all prominent
towns of the world telling of the OBJ
servance Of the day of days the saddcst
in America.
The headquarters for the Chicago
division of the Santa Fe has been re-
moved to Fort Madison, which places
the Office in closer touch with all por-
tions of the division, being near the
middle of it.
Half of the coffee crop of Porto Rico
has been ruined by recent storms and
the banana crop has suffered
The gross receipss of the Kansas City
Mo-, postofiice for the month of August
were $40, 1902, against S6O,334 for the
same period last year, being an increase
of S0,s5s.
A well-known Russian of Washing
ton is reported to have full evidence
that Emma Goldman is spy in the
pay of the Russian government, making
her reports TO the Russian consul gen
eral in New York.
There are single trees in the Philip
pines worth $4,000, and all varieties
of high grade woods flourish there.
The survivors of the Twenty-third
Ohio regiment attended the funeral of
their comrade, William Mckinley,
bearing the tattered flag of the regi-
ment.
Leon Czolgosz was arrested six years
ago at Duryea, Pa, charged with an
attempt to blow up the house of Cath
olic priest. His trunk was found to
contain several sticks of dynamite with