Hutchinson gazette., 1901-05-02

THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIE F
The Blacl, Sea and Baltic canal has
become self sustaining.

The Blacl, Sea and Baltic canal has
become self sustaining
Five men were buried alive In Tho
Rosebud mine at Aurora, Missouri
Car Nicholas has issued decree eX-
pclling Count TolstoI from Russia,
The Shah OF Persia is very sick and
hopes Of his recovery are at low ebb.
As5O,OD) II re at Winifred, $, D., was
started in an oil house by small boys.
\ $50, 1000 fire at Winfred, s. d., was
started in an oil house by small boys
The state railroad board will soon
issue 10000 new railroad maps Of Kan
sas,
Melbourne, Australia, has n popula-
tion of about 40i ,OOO a slight increase
in 10 years,
The Buchey Stacker company is iit-
ting up large building in Topeka for
making their machines,
Henry NJ, Cooper is appointed Mar.
shal Of the United States for the west
ern district of Arkansas.
Henry NJ. Cooper is appointed mar
shal of the United States for the
western district Of Arkansas.
President Fish OF the American Bell
Telephone company will be paid sal
ary OF $780, 900 year after July /.
In New York the state tax for the
next fiscal year ia fixed at one and
a quarter mills, the lowest in 40 years,
The Arkansas Legislature has passed
an appropriation Of sl,OOO,OO for COM
pleting the state house at Little Rock,
Billy Smitd, the American pugilst,
was knocked out in the eighth round,
by a Britisher in a contest for the
championship of England,
Women taxpayers in New York
villages and towns are given the right
by new law to vote on propositions
to eSpend money for purposes public,
England is working with the United
States for lcnient treatment Of China
in the matter of indemnitics, while
Germany contends for full payment OF
eXorbitant demands,
Prof. H. Il, Bryan, at Indiana Uni
vcrsity, is offered the position of
general superintendent Of Normal
schools in the Philippines at a salary
Of 81, 900 year, and will accept.
A New York Judge has decided that
woman's wages belongs to her hus-
band, which would make it possible
for a man to sue for his wife's wages
even though she had received them.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron company
has finished its purchase of the Max
well land grant, tract Of 100000
ncres Of the richest coal and timber
land in Colorado. The deal involves
81, 900, 900.
A special congressional train will be
enroute to San Francisco Mt the same
time of the presidents trip The con.
gressional party go to witness the
launching Of the battleship Ohio. II
is really an Ohio excursion OF three
trains; one from Washington and two
from Ohio.
Minneapolis Sash and Door manu-.
facturers have agreed to quit using the
union label on their mill work. AL
strike is likely to result.
The Arkansas supreme court has
decided that railroads are not RESPONSE
BILE for tho value OF liquors seized |
under the state law while in their
possession,
A os ton gun was being landed for |
new English fort and the derrick chain
broke and the gun crashed, muzzle
down, through the deck and the bot.
tom OF the ship.
An aged German of St. Joseph, Mo.
has been arrested for defrauding old
soldiers by claiming to be in the gov.
ernmcnt employ, and collecting fees
for which he promised to secure pen.
sions.
A tank 95 feet long and six feet in
diameter was loosened by the wind
and fell, with 10000 gallons of water,
from the roof of building in Chicago,
through six floors, making hole in |
each forty feet square. 1t occurred on
Sunday when but few people were in |
the bGilding.