Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-22
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Arizona is harvesting banner crop
ofalfalfa.
The Santa Fe now has It's own line
into Beaumont, Texas,
General Maxine Gomez declines to
be n candidate fot president Of Cuba.
Rural mail wagons are to carry
weather signals of the day, commencing
soon.
About 500 West Pointers are in
camp at the Pan-American exposition
Mt Buffalo.
An American syndicate is confident
of obtaining n monopoly Of the entire
Swiss coal Market
The town Of Chipley, Fla, has been
destroyed by incendiary fires, supposed
to have been set by negroes.
A ship load of resin has arrived at
ST. Petersburg from Pensacola, Florida,
in spite of Russia's discriminating duty.
Another case which is likely to result
in death-murder-has occurred in Il
prize ring at Lowell, Massachusetts,,
The seconds and referees are arrested.
A thousand girls Of the shirt waist
makers union in New York have struck
for more pay. The union says that it
is the first of many walSouts unless
wages are raised.
Coal miners of Kansas Missouri, Ar
kansas and Indian Territory sent delo-
gates to meeting at Pittsburg, Kas.,
and will demand that the operators
sign a union scale
Four-hfths pr the town Of FNrsund,
Norway, on the North Sea, has been
destroyed by fire. The church, post
office, state bank and schools were gut
ted. About 1000 people are homeless.
The Russian ministry furnished II
special car for Count Tolstois trip TO
Crimea. Tolstoi went there for the
benefit of his health, The Importance
of this bit of news is in the fact that
Count Tolstoi is always antagonistic to
the government
A delegation of fullblood Creeks WIS.,
tied the interior department to protest
against allotment They were told
that their treaties and the action of
Congress governed all that; that the de-
partment had no authority TO take any
action.
Two hundred wood workers of Dem
YER struck because their walking dele
gate, who had been permitted TO 60
through the mills once month to find
out the number Of non-union employees,
was prohibited from continuing the
practice.
Jamaica has an enormous crop Of
fruit and the cultivators of it are dis
satisfied with prices offered.
There is only one $4,000 United
States note outstanding and the treas
ury department wants to know where
it is.
Vice President Roosevelt stopped at
Hutchinson on his return trip from
Colorado, long enough to talk to the
veterans assembled there, together
with thousands of citizens. He did not
leave the train but spoke from the rear
platform.
Chicago has 4,4O3 lawyers, $50 of
whom have entered the profession from
law schools during the last year. There
are / 900 more lawyers than doctors in
the city. The average lawyer in Chi
cago earns less in year than the av-
erage skilled artisan.
A horse and mule buyer for the Brit
ish government is authority for the
statement that it costs $500 to get $50
horse from the Missouri river to Cape
Town, and that the average life of the
American horse after landing there is
three months.
The appraising of the Chiclsasaws
and Choctaws has been completed.
Powers county, Colorado has been
pounded by u hailstorm which destroyed
all crops.
Boss Shaffer, of the Amalgamated
Steel Workers, says that the men in the
west who have not obeyed his strike
order 'arc no longer union men," and
Secretary NJ. S. Tigue has revoked
their CHARTERS.
Illinois is proud of her wheat crop
this wear, which was almost one.half as
J much as the crop Of Kansas.