Hutchinson gazette., 1902-02-27
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF
Cape Colony, South Africa Is having
heavy losses by floods.

Cape Colony, South Africa Is having
heavy losses by floods,
Eggs sold in Chicago the other day
at three dozen for dollar,
The steel trust has divided $40 ooo,.
600 among It's stockholders,
The Pope Of Rome entered upon tho
@5th year of his pontihcote ON Febru.
AIRY 20,
Chicago Is eating cheap beef, The
packers are cutting prices by way Of
competition,
The report sent out from Paris that
Miss Stone was released by the bri.
gands was II fake
The Missouri State Veterinarian has
found glandcrs existing in the county
east of Mexico, Mo. 1t is among mules
John l.. Sullivan came very near
death, and perhaps win die, on the
occasion OF big drunl, at Hot Springs
Ark.
Hank vi, formerly minister to Wash.
ington, from which he was transferred
to st. Petersburg in 1896, died there on
February II.
An 80 mile gale struck Reno, Ne.
vada, Railroad trains were delayed
by snow drifts and the prostration of
telegraph wires,
Goyarnor Taft of the Philippines
told the senate committee that Aguin.
aldo "has no idea of civil liberty or
or any kind of liberty"
The semi-annual report OF the Whis.
Ky trust says that the net earnings for
the last six months Of 1900 were $685..
i37; an increase Of Sj00,0S0 over the
same period Of 1901.
The federal land office at Santa Fc,
n, NJ, has orders to withdraw from
market l@5, 200 acres Of land at the foot |
of the Sarda mountains, to be occupied |
Ns new military post.
The United Mine Workers conven.
tion at Peoria, Ills, met with n storm
OF Kisses at a resolution to appropriate
$50 from the trades union fund for
memorial to President Mckinley
About 10000 pensioners die each
year, and from this time on the rate of
deaths will be much higher, as many
of the veterans and their widows have
long since passed the average length Of
human life.
The Chicago Great Western railway
is buying up the stock of the st, Jo-
scph q Grand Island, and when con-
troll of the line is sccvred there will he
a track laid for 1t from st, Joseph to
Kansas City, The st. Joe & G. |. now
enters Kansas City on leased tracks.
Congressman Long of Kansas, as
member of the ways and means com.
mittec, proposes, as reciprocity
measure, to reduce tariffs 10 per cent
on all trade between the United States
and Cuba.
w. A. Lewis, n Spokane, Washing
ton, lawyer has been sentenced TO
seven years in prison for stealing 81 900
from woman client.
II. G. Clark has assumed charge as
general manager Of the Choctaw, Ok
lahoma & Gulf railroad with headquar.
ters at Little Rock, Ark.
Earthquakes continue in Shamaka
district and volcano has commenced
a vigorous eruption, The number Of
killed is estimated at 500.
The Marconi system Of wireless tel
egraphy is in permanent use already
on board 70 ships and at % land sta
tions, The system transmits 92 words
a minute.
George Gould has bought five city
blocks in st. Louis for Ss25 900. 1t is
supposed this purchase is for site for
an immense depot and extending
freight yard facilities.
The war department asks congress to
create as new division, to be known as
the general staff corps, to consider and
prepare plans for the national defense,
and for mobilization of forces in time
of war;
Frederick D. Underwood, who is
slated for the presidency of the North
crn Pacific, began rairoading as a
brakeman on the St. Paul road.
A fight between troops occurred in q
suburb of Barcelona, Spain, in which
500 persons were killed and wounded,
most by artillery used by the troops.