The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-15

misSiOners Yesterday continued the Union
Terminal Missouri Pacific crossing case
until Jan. g.
The Frankton window glass factory at
Elwood, Ind, was yesterday destroyed by
fire. The loss will be heavy The factory
had lately started up with 100 hands
The Austrian unterhaus yesterday: ,::after
reJecting several Young Czech amend
ments. adopted bill 10 sanction the late
exceptional treatment of ths city Of
Prague by vote of lS5 to 73.
Crazed by la grippe, Charles NJ Swart-
wood, at Cleveland. yesterday. fatally shot
himself. He Was captain of the big steel
steamer J. n. Wade, and was one OF the
best known masters on the lakes.
A dispatch from Rio de Jaueiro says
that President Peixoto has declared Ad-
mIral de Cana traitor.
Right Rev. Robert Samuel Gregg,
bishop of Cork, has been elected arch bishop
OF Armagh aud primate Of Ireland.
In Ney York City yesterday, Amy Bou-
cicauit, known oa the stage as Amy
BuSby, was given an absolute divorce
from her husband, the actor, Aubrey
Boucicault.
Miss Dorothy Klumpke of San Francisco
has just passed An examination at Paris
for the degree of doctor Of mathematics.
She is the first woman who has passed
such an examination in France.
The police of Denver yesterday picked
up Jennie Brown, dwarf, who was wan
dering about the streets of the city. Her
mind seems TO be blank. She says that
a few DAYS ago man, whose name she
does not know, put her on a train at KAN
sas City, where she claims she has hus-
band and child, and that since then she
has known nothing.
Information comes from revolutionary
sources that three brothers-weaithy, we'll
connected and infiuential-have organized
a battalion of 400 men at Guerrero, Mex,
to support the rebels.
Several business houses at Bancroft, Ia.
We're destroyed by fire yesterday, causing
a loss of $50. 900. The insurance is one
half.
The clergymen at Providence, r. l., have
called upon the authorities of the city to
provide the locked-out mill operatives with
fuel to keep them from freezing.
Billy Plimmer aud George Dixon will
fight in the near future.
a passenger train on the Pennsylvania
road ran into an engine near Nanticoke,
Pa, on Tuesday. The following We're In
jured: Edith Newton aud MIR. and Mrs.
Sam Collins of the Henshawand Ten nbroeck
l. AubuOby
Baggagemaster Austin. Express Messenger
MrDZichlett atd four others. q. NJ. Loop
will probably die from his injuries. The
switch engine failed to flag the passenger
train.
The Cordova Coal company of Jasper,
Ala, has gone into the hands of u receiver.
The company owns 20. coo acres of valuable
coal and mineral lands.
A break has occurred in the bank of the
canal at Ottawa, Ills. and many cellars OF
business houses and residences are flooded.
Other damage was also done.
A suit has been filed at Toledo, O., to
foreclose mortgage for S9,O000o0 on the
st. Louis and Kansas City road.
Vicar General McCabe of Woonsocket,
r. l., was found dead in bed yesterday
morning.
Charles Thorne, the veteran actor, died
at his home in San Francisco on Tuesday
evening, aged So The deceased was the
father of the late Charles X. Thorne aud
Edwin +. Thorne.
A. G. Stacey, the well known newspaper
correspondent at Topeka, Kan, has ac-
cepted the position of managing editor of
paper at Salt Lake, Utah.
The trial of two supposed French spies
began at LeipSic yesterday. One of them
Ueuleu JIlaL ne naQ acCeu unOcr the OrQcrS
of the French government. He had been
instructed by member of the French
general staff, a professor in the war acad-
emy aud the head of the department of
marine Notifications. to study the German
coast, and he had done so.
Bishop Cleveland Coke of Buffalo, N Y,
has written another open letter to Mon
signor Satolli. The bishop says that the
Society of Jesus is not a church order, but
conspiracy. He charges Satolli with open
utilization with ''the detestable element in
the citizenship of Buffalo which is headed
by Lieutenant Governor Sheehan.
The statement of the Bank of England,
issued yesterday, shows that the proper
tion. Of reserve to liability, which last
week was "a l per cent, is now 52.9S per
cent.
Mr.. Gladstone has summoned meeting
Of the cabinet for today to consider the
necessities of the navy.
The papers in the Mckape case arrived
at the court house in BROOKLYN yesterday
morning The accused, John Y. Mckane,
justice of the peace, Richard V. B. New
ton, Hailan Craudall, James Cropsey and
Nicholas johnson, are found guilty of
contempt of court and fined $3.50 each and
sentenced to thirty days each in the Kings
county Jail.