Hutchinson gazette., 1901-12-26
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF.

reling and raising armies. '
Spring City, Tennessee, is one Of the
towns which suffered much from fresh,
cts.
The Chcviot district OF New Zealand
has suffered great loss from nm earth.
quake,
The Rock Island will deliver all its
southern California traffic TO the South
ern Pacific ut El Paso,
A call is out for report Of the con-
dition Of national banks ut the close OF
business on December 10.
A state Of seige is proclaimed in u
number Of Russian towns on accountof
students and strikers riots,
The people of The Hague welcomed
their queen and her dislilSed husband
and sang the national hymn.
The government Of India will expend
$1,000, 600 on railroads and e7OO, 900 for
irrigation works during 1909.
Wu Ting Fang was the principal
speaker ut n commercial club banquet
in Kansas City on December 10,
All obstacles to the treaty of cession
of the Danish West Indies to the Uni
ted States are said TO be overcome,
The country about Fort Worth,
Texas is covered by snow and cattle
not in prime condition suffer terribly,
The estimates of the New South
Wales wheat crop are 10000, 900 bush
els, an average of 1913 bushels per acre.
The upper Arkansas valley reports
the coldest weather ever known there.
The divide country is also snowbound.
The Berlin authorities have been
compelled to institute relief works,
which give relief to nearly O,OOO of the
hungry.
Richard j. Hinton, the co-worker
with John Brown, and later "a jour
nalist," is dead in london where he
was born IN 1880.
1t is Secretary Cages intention to re-
linquish the treasury portfolio as soon
as President Roosevelt can find suit.
able successor and he has so informed
the president Mr.. Gage would like to
be relieved before spring.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty
against both Theodore and Laura jack
son Ann 0delia Diss De Bar, charged
with immoral practice and fraud in
London. The judge sentenced Jackson
to fifteen years and Mrs. Jackson TO
Seaen years penal servitude
London papers as whole express
satisfaction with the ratification of the
canal treaty by the American senate,
yet there are those which get whine
into their references to it,
The London Daily Chronicle remarks
anent the new treaty that 1t may aid in
good relations with the
United States but it may prove to be
expensive.
The Mexican government will soon
issue orders that all railroad employees
who come in contact with passengers
must be able to speak Spanish.
The battleships Alabama and NIassa-
chusetts were received at Havana with |
expensive preparations TO entertain the
officers while they remain.
The customs revenues in the Philip
pines for the months ending Septem-
ber 20, 1901, were $6,975, ,295 an increase
Of nearly three millions over the same
period in 1909.
Twenty women will be thrown out Of
work. at the packing houses in Kansas
City, Kas, by the decision to abolish
inspection of hog livers.
They have been receiving $50 q month.
A 1000, 900 illuminating oil company
las been chartered in New Jersey by
which is authorized to pur-
'hase and operate the interests held in
he Usage reservation by the Phoenix
)il %, and the Usage Oil Co.
Americans have taken a $3.50, 900 con.
ract for the electrical equipment of an
lectric traction system in Toxic,
apan.
Experts representing big American
rms are in Siberia to build factories
nd exploit the agricultural and min
raj wealth Of the country.