Hutchinson gazette., 1902-02-20
THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF

The Vandome hotel at Minneapolis,
Mimi, is burned, Loss, $4,000
Eggs and butter have n tendency
toward higher prices In the general
markets,
The Lake Shore and Rock Island are
to build together n terminal in Chicago
TO cost $1,000, 900
The orpheum theater in Chicago Is
burned, Fire was started In four
places by incendiarcs
The governor of the state OF Wash
ington will not permit his appointees TO
accept railroad passes,
Zinc ore producers are rejoicing over
two advances in zinc ore Of $3.50 u ton
each, within two weeks
The operators and miners who have
been in consultation at indianapolis,
agreed to continue the old scale
Santos Dumont's air ship is at tho
bottom Of Monaco bay, sent there by
his guide rope being fouled, during
high wind,
The famine outlook in India Is very
serious No rain has fallen and the
plague of rats in three districts is de-
stroying the crops,
A leading Cuban says that the i'm.
portation Of American ncgros into
Cuba is the worst thing the Cubans
have had to deal with,
Four hundred families are made
homeless by the burning Of the town OF
South Mills, n, G, The loss of prop
erty is placed at 100000
London papers ask why in the world
the British-Japanesc treaty was re-
fcrrcd 10 the United States for sanction
before 1t was promulgated.
The diplomatic and consular appro-
pration bill carries 100000 for o new
United States legation at Pelsin, on
ground already purchased,
Miss Helen Gould has been robbed of
n 81, 900 Russian sable coach robe, $50
opera glasses and 5000 marine glasses
Her second butler was the thief.
Steps have been taken, starting in
|
San Francisco to form company OF
millionaires with capital Of S2O,000,-
600, to colonies the island of Mindnao,
the largest of the Philippines, and pro-
mote all sorts of business there.
The Indian appropriation left out n
provision for the Indian school al
Grand Junction, Colorado, This re.
suited from local controversy, 1t be-
ing claimed that the government was
made to pay for sewers and other pub.
lie works for the benefit Of the city.
The Empire hotel in St. Louis is
burned and eleven of its inmates lost
their lives and eight others were in
jurcd.
Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania,
has announced that he will not seek q
reelection to congress- lie is so years
old, entered congress in 1851, succeed
ing Wilmot, of Wilmot proviso fame.
The German Kaiser having squelched
eddy ysm' in Germany, has commenced
upon the work of stopping seances and
frances for communication with de-
parted spirits.
Postmaster General Payne has issued
an cdict that no one of the 7j, 900 fourth
clas,~postmasters in the United States
shall be disturbed through politics.
The general policy of the department
Is to promote the mail service in rural
districts.
Senator Harris has company; Thos.
L. Glenn, the new senator from Idaho
who served in Morgan's famous cav
airy. lie is the third confederate sol
dier sent to congress from u norJnern
state. John II. Fellows, of New York,
was the first
And now it is said that the Santa Fe
and the Rock Island are wrestling the
for Mexican Central, which extends
from I'll Paso to the City Of Mexico.
This treaty between England and
Japan pleases the state department at
Washington, as it is in direct line with
the position of the United States
toward the Manchurian position.
A French electrician has perfected a
wireless telephone, of which the trans
mitter and the receiver are not con-
nected except by the earth. 1t haa
been tested on distance of so metres.