The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-16
ELECTRIC BRIEFS.

| LLEClhlO D1e11IG Rs
Professor Henry Warren Terry, one OF
the Oldest professors OF Harvard uni'
versity. is dead. at Cambridge. Mass.
aged 50.
Father Richard Brennan, pastor OF the
| church of the Holy Innoc-nts of New
| York City, is dead. He was the oldes,
priest in the diocese of New York.
General Joseph B. Doe of Wisconsin. the
new assistant secretary OF war, was sworn
In yesterday.
The French chamber of deputies yester-
day adopt ed the explosives bill and the
associations bill. both anti-auarchist
! measures, by a sweeping maj prity.
| William Krelipg. we'll known in theatri-
Cal circles as proprietor OF the Trivllio
opera house in San Francisco, dropped
dead in that city yesterday. He was AT
one time assessor of San Francisco.
| A Partisan stock broker named Bor-
| rigucs, who had lost heavily at MOute
| Carlo, threw himself from n train near tue
aud Was killed.
| The Banca Populara at Genoa, Italy,
has applied for moratorium.
| The Ohio state grange, at Sandusky,
! and The Indiana grange. at Seymour.
| tary of Agriculture Morton for his attack
upon the grange.
A bomb. charged with powder and shot,
yesterday found in q church at Cebon,
Hanover.
Martin Costello. tho prize-fghter, who
was found guilty of violating the Iudiana
| state laws by eng aging in fight, aud who
appealed the case to the supreme court,
will have to remain in Jail till the higher
court passes on the case, the Indiana laws
not permitting him to give bondx
A fire which yesterday destroyed a
Chinese wash house at San Francisco
burned to death four Mongolian laundry
men.
Fuller, the Indiana bank swindler,
pleaded guilty at Richmond yesterday,
and was sent 10 prison.
One man was fatally scalded and two
others seriously burned by the bursting of
molasses tank at New Orleans yesterday.
Notwithstanding the new Wilson tariff
bill, the Northern Ohio blanket mills will
resume, il is said, on Jan. l.
Brother Adjusor of La Sale instit ute,
Chicago, testified in ths Prendergast trial
yesterday that he had received commua-
ication from the prisoner which led him
to believe the assassin to be demented.
The striking railroad coal miners at
Findlay, Gastcnvlle and Snowden, Pa,
returned to work yesterday at 60 cents
The mining troubles on the Wheeling di-
vision Of the Baltimore and Ohio railway
are over.
Six Thousand coal miners employed on
the Mouongahela river will be locked out
next week il they enforce the mining rate
OF ga cents adopted at Thursdays conven-
tion.
Judgments were filed in New York city
yesterday against the failed firm of NJ. j.
Schloss & Co.
1t has been showing furiously for twen-
ty-four hours at jamestown, N. D. Du-
luth, Num-, reports snow SO heavy that
business is badly lmpeded.
Orders for the arrest of John Y. McKane
and four other Gravesend election officers,
who on Thursday were sentencei for cleo
tlOn frauds, were secured at POug hkeepsie
yesterday. The counsel for Mckane has
taken an appeal. which acts as ID stay of
execution on the orders of arrest.
During the trial at Edinburgh, Scotland,
yesterday OF MonsOn, the tutor charged
with the murder of Lieutenant Ham.
brough In August last, the managers of a
couple OF Insurance companies testified
that MonsOn endeavOred To obtain q large
insurance policy on the life Of Hambrough,
but that tpe insurance companies eiu,ed
because MOnSon was unable to prove an
fnsurable interest in the young lieutenant.
Sigmund Mssakowski, u Russian re-
fugee. committed suicide in Lincoln Park.
Chicago, on Thursday night. An agent
for the society that exteuds aid TO suffer
ing Russians told the coroner yesCe rday
chat the suicide had been an officer in the
cars army, but, being implicated in a
political plot, had beeu forced to flee to
this country iu disguise. Fearing detec-
himself to escape the terrible fate which
the agent said awaited him should he be
captured.
Antoine Hoensch, an Autrian living
northwest of Great Bend, Kan, was found
dead near that town ON Thursday night,
with bis neck broken and his skull frac-
tured. His brother lay near by in
drunken stupor. Both had been on n spres
and had evidently fallen out of the wagon
while returnlng home. The deceased
leaves a wife aud five children.
At Barry, Ills, yesterday Jesse Funk.
agend II, killed his father with shotgun
because Funk slapped the boy for retus-
ing to do some work.
Hon. Alpheus f. Raymond, exjudge of
the supreme court of appeals, died at Fair
mount w. Va, last night. He was born
in 1923, and was one of the ablest jurists
Of the south.
1t is stated that the rebel warships now
completely blockade Rio de Janeiro and
Santos.
A cablegram from Valparaiso says that
serious violent and destructive storms
have swept over the Cordilieras.
The native Indians, according to
Quito (EcuadoD dispatch, are raiding
BOLIVIAN territory aud massacreing she
settlers.
The state grange of Pennsylvania has
adopted resolution. calling upon Secre-
tsry OF Agriculture Morton to retract his
u, terances relative to the grange and kin.
dred organizations. made in his speech be-
fore the worlds fair congress in Septem-