Hutchinson gazette., 1901-01-24

THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF


Admiral Dewey has been confined to
his home with grip,
President Mckinley has had a seige
of grip but is improving,
The big Texas gusher has caused a
decline of and cents in Ohio oil
fields,
Tho Colorado senate has passed a
bill to put an end to prize fighting in
that state,
The provisions in the army bill
abolishing post cantcens do not apply
to soldiers homes
There is some prospect Of the United
States owning the Danish West Ind cs
prior TO March 4.
Edward Hunter & Co.'S department
store in Memphis, Tenn, Is burned at
u loss of SlOO, 900.
Senator Shelby McCullom goes back
to the United States senate another
term from Illinois.
The death rate in Berlin in 1900
increased 4 per cent, and the birth
rate only ~ per cent.
One might easily fill a column of
grip items, by selecting from only
few OF the daily papers,
The Colorado legislature has a Joint
committee to investigate the grievances
of striking coal miners.
The Colorado legislature will choose
Hon. Thos. Patterson to succeed L. q.
Senator Edward o. Wolcott.
The National Live Stock association
met at Salt Lake City on January Is,
There was very large attendance
The agricultural interests in Cuba
are asking reciprocity tariff legislation
in their favor on sugar and tobacco.
America will stand pat upon every
point Of the protocol signed by the
powers and the Chinese plenipoten.
tiaries
1t is believed in Washington that
there will be no conclusion reached Of
the Chinese negotiations for several
months yet,
Cashier Alvord, who stole 5000, 900
from the First National bank of New
York, has been sentenced to 10 years
imprisonment.
The transport Grant took $500, 900 in
gold, cabin passengers, recruits and
freight on her way to Manila, leaving
San Francisco January iG.
Frank Crowell, superintendent OF
Swift & Co.'S factory in Chicago, lost
his life while trying to save his bank
book and insurance policy in fire in
the factory.
The state of the health of Queen
Victoria is such that for the present
she must abstain from transacting
business
One hundred and fifty students were
arrested at Kieff. Russia, and expatri-
ated to Port Arthur, They thought
they were politicians, The same fate
awaits scores Of students at st. Peters
burg.
Tom H. Johnson, the American street
railway capitalist, has bought the Ba-
ker street and Waterloo underground
railway in London.
Mrs. NJ. A. McMillcan, wife OF the
editor of the New York Medical Jour
nal was badly burned in fire in San
Francisco Jan. IA.
There are thirty flag factories in the
United States, most Of them in New
York. There is ST., 900, 900 invested in
the business and 100000 is paid in
wages annually.
The stocker and feeder trade is
large for this time of the year Ship
ments to the country from Kansas
City last week were $50 cars, of which
which Kansas took 1853 cars
About tifty houses and warehouses,
at Banes, near Santiago dc Cuba, were
destroyed by recent fire, The Banes
Fruit company, an American concern,
had been employing the people there
and n large quantity of fruit and to-
bacco was in the warehouses.
In the Odessa, Russia, snow blockade
drifts hardened to ice, and in one such
tunnel was cut through n drift 400
yards long, and 3S feet deep, Many
thousands of soldiers were sent to res
cue the railway passengers, large
number Of whom froze to death.