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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
LIE OLD MAN BEATEN.

ST. PAUL, MINI. April 2+--The supreme
court has handed down a decision in the
famous case of Tennis Slingerland. Jr.,
against his father. Tennis Slingerland,
Sr. The case has been in the courts for
five years. The dispute is over tract OF
land in Olmstead county valued at about
$500
Slingerland, Jr., had worked for his
father a long time, and as his compensa-
tion was not forthcoming he commenced
suit against the old man in the district
court. Finally, the father proposed that
il the son would drop the case in conrt,
get married and settle down, he would
present him with this farm. The son
agreed. He took a wife and went on
wedding tour. When he returned he eX
pected to find the farm awaiting his
pleasure. Instead of this. the old man told
him he could go and buy farm il he
wanted one. The son brought suit against
his father TO recover the farm. He was
beaten and obtained a new trial and won.
The father then took the case 10 the
supreme court Here the son again won
his case Then the father took a second
appeal trying to get new trial. Judge
Dickson refused TO grant this, however.
and the son will own the farm, increasing
In value all the time the case has been IN
court. lie Is now worth q comfortable
fortune
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
1853 North Main St. Cor. First
IHE HhNGMAN,S WcrIMc

CoLUMBIA,S. C.,April "a terMartin
(colored) was hanged today in the Jail yard
for the murder, in January last, of Alice
Mcleod, white woman with whom he
was living. Martin made a speech from
the gallows, saying that he did not intend
to kill the woman, and that he felt sure of
going to heaven. The drop fell at HIP,
but the knot slipped and his neck was not
broken, and death ensued from strangula-
tion.
Bill Miles (colored) was executed this
morning at Pickens for the murder of
Jake Griffin. The dispute which led to the
murder began over nickel that Griffin
said Miles owed him.
Edmund Holloway (colored) was hanged
today at Manning for the murder of John
w. Dubose. The hanging was private,
under the laws of the state.
BATON ROUGE, LA. April 24-The exc
cution of Melville johnson (colored), for
the murder of David Jones, and John Will
son (coloredl, for the rape of his sister-in-
law, Mary Wood, took place in the Jail at
Port Allen, in the parish of West Baton
Rouge today. Both men were self-possess-
ed, Wilson TO a degree that almost amount
ed to indifference. Wilson several times
declared his innocence
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
THE KANSAS FAIR CONve eNrloN

TOPEKA. Kan, April 24-The worlds
fair convention, after adopting plan for
the raising of sl00, 600 for the Kansas ex-
hibit, adjourned this morning The plan
is for each county to pay its share of the
total amount in proportion to the taxable
wealth, as shown by the assessors report
A bureau Of information consisting of
three members from each congressional
district is to have charge of the assessment
and collection of the money. The governor
is to appoint an auditing committee. In
addition there is to be a board of managers
of nine members. who will have general
charge of the display, and will hold over
until the state has taken official action
through the legislature. Local boards are
to be established in each county, which
will guarantee the payment of the county's
pro rata. Another convention will be held
here June 49, The bureau of information
met at the Copeland at 2 o'clock this after
noon 10 proceed at once TO organization.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK COMBINE.

SPRINGFIELD, IL. April GA special
committee OF the legislature which has
been investigating the charges against the
Chicago Live Stock Exchange has pre-
pared report in which il finds that or
ganization guilty OF boycorting members
of the American Live Stock Commission
company The report Is voluminous and
details at length the evidence produced
aud the fact that the charges of boyoottinr
were substanIiated, not only by MANY
witnesses. but by the admissions Of mem
ber OF the exchange themselves. The re-
port states thst the present law affords
no adequate remedy. anu a bill i reported
which - designed 70 correct sbuSes Il
provides heavy penalties against boycot-
ting and describes in detail OF what boy
cotting shall be held 70 consist The bill
provides heavy penalties Tor offenses. but
does not attempt 20 TX any maximum
rate OF commission charges.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
FIGHTING OIL COMPANIES

FNDLAT. o, April 24-An interesting
contest is being waged between the Stand
ard aud Manhattan Oh companies for the
control of the Ohio field. The Mauhattau
Is the most powerful Independent company
operating In the field. and what makes the
hight the more bitter IS the fact that the
Manhattan Is composed Of the same men
who q year ago sold to the Standard the
Lima OIL company for :, 900, co and then
AT once relnyested the money IN new oil
territory. The Standard has commenced
selling Ohio oil for use a. fuel at % cents
per barrel delivered IN Titusyilie, Pitts
burg and other Pennsylvania cities, aud n
New York and New England - cents is
the rate made, although il had heretofore
been selling 81 90 20 - cents. The price al
the tanks here : 80 cents The Nanhat-
tan and the ether independent companies
N the field here are beginning 70 fee the
effects OF the loss seriously.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25

DISEASES OF WOMEN-Dr. Terrin has made
diseases OF women a specially for the past twenty
years and wishes 70 state that he has al the late
Instruments. Batteries Electrodes etc, for their
successful treatment, including Ffbroid Tunors
Displacements, Enlargements, Prolapsus Ulcera-
tons Luecorr hoea Diseases OF the Ovaries. Painful
Irregular or Profuse Menstruation. Etc Dr. Ter
rill has recently spent several months in the large
hospitals OF the east IN the special study OF electric
ty and is the only ply scian in the southwest thor
oughly familiar with its scientific application
NERVOUS DISEASES-Dr Terriu wishes to call
the attention Of those suffering from Nervous Dis
eases Paralysis. Nervous Prostration ETC.. 10 the
wonderful curative effects to be derived from cleo
tricity when scientifically applied and desires to
state that he makes the application OF electricity
in Nervous Diseases special feature Of his practice
The DR.. has the finest fifty cell diamond carbon bat
terry ever seen in the west and ali the appliances
especially adapted to treatment Of Lost Manhood
or Seminal Weakness which he quickly and perma-
nently cures by the aid Of electricity.
CATARRH-Eyery case Of Catarrh Is durable If
properly treated. Dr. Terrill uses Holleys new
treatment.
SKIN DIsEASES-ot al kinds cured when others
have failed.
PILES. FISTULA, and all rectal diseases cured
No knife no pain. A cure guaranteed,
URETHRAL STRUCTURE quickly and perna-
nently cured by eectrolysis. No cutting, pain
money until cured
CHRONIC DiSEASES-Bronchtis, Asthma, Hay
Fever, all throat and lung troubles Dyspepsia, Dis
eases OF the Bowels, Heart and Liver, Rheumatism,
Dropsy. Brights Disease. Bladder. Kidney snd Uri-
nary Diseases, Blood Poison and Private diseases
SYPHlLIS-That dread disease of mankind
quickly and permanently cured By the new treat
ment without the poisonous drugs Of days gone by.
Medicines sent TO all parts of the country Consul
alton free, Send for question blank.
1b3 North Main St cor Fret
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WICHITA, KAN,
WHITE CAPS,

EVANSVILLE, Ind, April 24.-The White
Caps have been getting ID their work
again in Spencer county, Indiana. Tues
day night they paid Walker Lowe. a
farmer living eight miles from Greyville,
visit, and taking him out to u strip OF
woods they bound him to tree and gave
him sixty lashes with switches. Lowe
came TO Indiana from Logan county, Ken
lucky, several months ago with his wife
and two children. Since his arrival il is
ALLEGED he became too intimate with the
handsome wife of a neighbor named Ken
ton Kleman, and neglected his family.
After the fogging he left for parts un-
known
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
HAMnOND'S FAMILY

SEATTLE, Wash. April 94-The wife
and son of Charles Il. Hammond, of Cleve-
land street, London, notoriety, were yes
terday made county paupers, and are be-
ing fed from public funds SIX months
ago Hammond was convicted of stealing a
seslskin sacque and gold watch and chain
from woman who was drinking with
him at his wine room. He was then pros
perlng IN business as proprietor Of an hotel
and saloon, but misfortune came upon him
He WIS convicted Of grand larceny snd
sentenced TO two years in the penitentiary
strong outside pressure being brought TO
bear against him. In his efforts 70 get
new trial Hammond gave up everything
to his lawyers, leaving his invalid wife
and 13-year-old boy destitute They were
turned out of the hotel, their furniture
sold for rent, and Mrs. Hammond has been
selling her iewelry and fine clothes for the
past three months, but having exhausted
all resources threw herself upon the
county yesterday. Hammond has been
hoping for aid from wealthy Eaglsh gen
tlemen whose guilt he has been shieldiuz.
but found only disappointment. and from
wealth and affiuenced he went to prison
and his family 10 poverty and misery.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
TRLpi ENGAGED.

WELLsvILLE. O. April - - Frank
Thompson. of Chicago, and Miss Cam
eron, of Weilsville. eloped several days
ago Thompson was engaged 20 three
Wellsville girls at the same time. each os
them being unknown 70 The others Ooe
Of the young ladies'. Miss Lille May John
SOD. had set the day .or her Inarrlsze Tor
April TO- and was all ready for the cs7e-
Hlouy. bu; the Eay bridegroom fslled %
sppsar- Thompson reot 10 Rochester and
te.egraphe0 10 Mss Cameron, tnseoded
Nc. :, TO meet him there. which she did.
aud they were nzrrses. bat before TEozap-
son could ge: away ae WAS arrested o.
serious charge preferred By Miss Johnson
since his arrest i has been learEsd tast De
was engaged 70 stiil another young womsn-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
CUSTOMS RECEIPTS DECLINING.

WASHINGTON, April 24-A statement
prepared at the treasury department shows
that the receipts from customs revenue at
the port of New York for the first twenty
days in April. 1891, were 81, III $50, as
against sS,576.602 for the corresponding
period Of last year, making the falling off
nearly so per cent. The receipts from GUS
toms at New York are about two-thirds of
the total receipts from customs of the
United States. These figures are attract
ing much attention in treasury depart
meat circles. Secretary Foster, especially
is studying them with view Of forming
an idea whether the receipts from customs
are likely to continue to decrease or
whether the decrease is caused by spas
modlc conditions of business. In March
the customs receipts also declined, but not
IN such u Startling ratio.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
THREE WOMEN OUTRAGED

COOKEvILLE, Tenn, April 2i-Last
Wednesday night two masked men visited
the house of a widow woman named Lydia
Hudson living alone with her two
daughters. Azaline, aged 81, ana Emily
aged 20. The brutes beat and bruised the
women horribly, shooting AZaline in the
head, infiicting an ugly wound. The out
laws then outraged ali three of the women,
remaining till morning They are known.
and the sheriff is on the outlook for them.
Mrs. Hudson and her daughters are poor,
hard working, but respectable women.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
KNOCKED OUT.

MISNEAPoLIs. MINI. April - Charles
kemmlc, OF this city, and James Sculiy. Of
NooGsockett, X. l., fought tonight at the
Twin City Athletic club for purse Of
$1,000 and the championship oi America
kemmic weighed al and Scu!iy l42
In the third round hemmlc landed on
Scully's jaw aud the Woonsocket man
was unable 70 rise al the call Of time
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NO REPUBLIC WANTED.

CAPE Town, April PA telegram re-
ceived here from Pretoria, capital of the
Transvaal, or South African Republic, On
April 19, announces that Boer trek" or
expedition, with the consent of Portugal,
was upon the point of leaving the Trans
vaal with the object of establishing re-
public in either Mashonaland or Monica
land territories, in connection with which
the British and Portuguese authorities
are now engaged in several disputes. This
project, the telegram added, if carried out
would affect Manica territory claimed by
England and Portugal.
Since that time the Lisbon government
has received the intimation through the
public press and through official channels
that the Portuguese government WAS ap-
parently courtiDg the VISIT of a British
feet to Lisbon. Lord Salisbury is under
stood to have instructed Sir George Glynn
Petre, the British ambassador at Lisbon,
to call the attention of the Lisbon govern
ment to the reported Boer expedition, to
the detention Of the Sir John Willoughby
expedition and to other and similar mat
ters which have caused the relations be-
tween Great Britain and Portugal to as
sumo dangerously strained aspect.
Lord Salisbury was not contentcd with
entering protest against the reported eX-
pedition of the Beers. The British pre-
mier. through the foreign Office, promptly
COlu Win
Loch, the governor, British high commits
sioner and commander-in-chief of Cape
Colony. with the result that the latter,
with equal promptness, placed himself in
communication with the president Of the
Trapsvaal, Pauld Kruger. The substance
of the British governors communication
to the president of the Beers, was that the
proposed Boer trek" into Mashonaland
with the view of establishing a new re-
public, would be treated as an act of hos
tility TO her majesty, the queeu of Eng
land
To this distinct declaration President
Kruger has just replied He says that be
has dampened the projected trek, and
that in addition he has sent messages to
the prominent Beers who are suspected of
having been the leaders of the movement
with the determination to still more clear
ly impress upon them the necessity of not
taking any action which might lead to
complications between the government of
the Transvaal and the government of
Great Britain.
On the other hand it is understood that
the British government that Portugal has
not In any way countenanced the Beers
projected raid and should the Beers obey
the injunctions of their president this in
cident which threatened to have serious
consequences may be said to have blown
over. The Beers, however, are very
crafty race and their poximity to and med
ding with the territory about which Por-
tugai and Great Britgiu are disputing may
yet lead to dangerous complications.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
THg INTeRcoNTlNENTAL RAILWAY

WASHINGTON, April 24-Three parties
will soon be in the field engaged in the
work OF preliminary surrey for the pro
posed Intercontinental American railway.
The party sent to Ecuador Will begin work
in about a month, and the Central Ameri-
can expedition must now I've very near its
destination, while the third party VIII
also be at work before great while The
Intercontineutal Railway commission has
adjourned until next February, when il IS
hoped the surveying parties may be able
10 give valuable data
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
ARRESTED FOB LI9=

HoLToN, Kan. Apri, GA. p. Shaw
and {. y. Hamn. editors spd publishers
Of tue Independents Tribune, of this city.
and Capt. {. ID. Rose, were arrested this
morning for criminal libel aud bound ovsr
n the sum OF 500 each, 70 appear AZ the
d une term Of the district court. The
charge was preferred by n. NJ Beck, editor
ot the Record
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
.IIlSILCE RRAlI EX SICK

WASHINGTON, April 24.-The condition
of Justice Bradley, who has been confined to
his bed for about two weeks with a cold
and attack Of the grip, is not so favorable
today as it has been, and his associates are
apprehensive that he will not be able to be
present in court nexs Monday, when the
Bering sea and lottery cases should come
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
TRFASiIRFR NERECKFP

WASHINGTON, April 24-Hon. Enos II.
Nebecker, of Indiana, recently appointed
United States treasurer, reached Washing
ton this morning. Later in the day he
called on Secretary Foster, with whom he
had brief interview. Mr. Nebecker also
filed his bond for the faithful performance
of his duties
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
WEATHER BULLETIN.
UNITED STATES SIGNAL OFFICE,
ANICII1IA K Az raril "a 1901

ON1lED O1A1Eo hSiu-N<1b
WICHITA, KAN, April "a, 1891. !
The highest temperature was 50, the
lowest 55, and the mean IS, with cloudless
Slightly warmer weather.
Local forecast for Wichita and vicinity
Fair, slightly warmer.
Last year on April "a the maximum tenn
perature was 65, minimum 81, and the
mean S.
Two years ago the corresponding tenn
peratures were 73, 80, and g.
FRED L. JOHNSON, Observer
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. c.,
April "a, 9p. m,-Forecast until p. m,
Saturday:
For Missouri and Kansas-Warmer, fair
weather, southerly winds.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
TIE NETPnrT CTpIDc

DETROIT. Mich, April 24-Tbe Street
company has accepted the may
or's offer to arbitrate the differences with
the striking employees. The end of the
strike is believed to be near at hand
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
Laugh on the Lion.

He must have been bright boy, very
bright little boy, who said to his mother,
Il wish lion would eat me up" "Why9"
the mother asked. Because it Npuld be
such joke on the lion; he wo1ld think /
was inside of him, and should be up iu
heaven. n."-Congregationalis
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25
ThPIr Meatinc

Miss Downes-My brother, Epson. said
he met you on the other side-just as you
ran out of Berlin.
Mr.. Rounds (sadly(-Yes: / remember
very we'll. met your brother Just as he
rau out Of cash-Puck
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MURDERED HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN.


KANSAS CITY, Mo. April 24.-The police
the details of horrible crime-the mur-
der by E. 2. Soper of his wife and two
children Last Tuesday night E. B.
Soper bought a ticket for Kansas City and
left for this city on Missouri Pacific
train His absence Wednesday and
Thursday caused suspicion, and the
city marshal broke into his
house to make an investigation.
When the marshal burst open the door
he witnessed terrible sight. In the mid
die of the sitting room floor lay the body
of a you child, a boy, with its head
crushed into shapeless mass, and
through the open bedroom door was seen
the dead bodies of Mrs. Soper and another
child Mrs. Soper's head and face were
chopped nearly to pieces, and the head of
the child was split in twain. An axe
standing in the corner of the room, its
blade covered with blood and matted hair,
told the method of the murder.
A letter on a table in the sitting room
was addressed ''to the authorities, or who
ever may find these bodies, present" In
the letter occurred this passage: at was
best for me thus to act. Rather than de-
sert them, / have slain them. What could
they have done for living? They would
have lived miserablyn The letter was
signed by the husband of the murdered
woman and the father of the children.
Soper was butcher. He went to Archie
from Clay county. and, although poor was
regarded well by the community. No mo-
tive for the crime beyond that hinted in
the letter referred to above, has been dis
covered
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-25

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THE TEXAS EittnNCE

WACO Tex, April 24-After a four
days session, the State Farmers Alliance
conference adjourned this evening sine die.
No important business marked the closing
of the session
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THE COKE STRIKE

SCoTTDADE, Pa, April 24-The evic-
tions of striking cokers were continued
today by Sheriff Crawford and Sheriff Nc
Cormick. A few collisions occurred, but
no one was hurt. and the eyictions were
generally not opposed.