The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-20
ELECTRIC BRIEFS.

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| md misbrandins of fools and drugs. Il
makes the sale of any article OF 100 or
| my drug which is adulterat-d or mis-
| ,randed misdemeanor, subject to hue
aud imprisonment.
Between 500 and 1000 unemployed men
called at the Pirssburg pa city hsll yes
erday and applied for work In the parks
at 10 cents per hour. Chi-f Clerk Be- il
| mine made them speech. saying thai
| here had been no orders given for work
here, but to 90 TO the station house. Tii-
| men were finally convinced that they
/ could get work at he station house, and
! quietly left. All worthy applicant VIII
| De furnished wi b work. The C, OVID was
made up almost entirely OF native Ameri-
| cans.
| The Missouri board of railroad commits.
| -ioners ha. reversed its decision IN the
matter requiring the Alton road to discon-
inue its gate system between passengers
| and Coaches except at tel minai points
| The attorney general decided that the
| commissioners had no authority 20 Inter
| f-re in the matter. The object of the gate
system is to compel passengers TO pur-
chase tickets before entering the cars.
The firm of Kline, Timbermann & Co.
| of Cincinnati, dealers il woolen clotns.
etc.. has assigned The assets are luz, ,OO
aud the liabilities Sl2o,O
The English house of lords yesterday
passed the India loan bill
The Little Annie gold mine at Summit
vile, Col, has been sold Tor 81. OJO, OO0 to
the Consolidated Gold Mining company.
Three Ironwood (MIch) policemen are
under arrest. charged with stealing -four
aud sugar from he public relief stores.
Captain Paul Kerr. pioneer Mississippi
steamboat man, dropped dead on the street
at Galena, His. last evening. De leaves
large fortune.
Another body-that of Joseph Holden
was recovered from the debris of the
wrecked bridge at Louisville yesterday.
A winter racing meeting will open at
Hot Springs, Ark, on Jan. 20, next. It's
protector is Colouel L. S. Hatch, well
known st. Louis turf man.
At Green Hill, Ala, last night, band
OF viii tecaps Went To the house OF three
disreputable women, aud, after giving
them severe whipping, ordered them to
leave the country. One womin faluted,
aud is now in p;ecarious condition.
L. P. Ryan and wife. aged 81 and 79, re-
spectiv-lv. We're found dead at their home
near Winchester. Onio, yesterday moro
ing 1t is supposed that they were MUIR
dered by robbers, though they had little to
tempt burglars.
The court of appeals at Albany. Y,
yesterday reversed the judgment for S9O.
166 given Edward S. Stocks against John
w. Mackay, aud ordered a new trial.
Tue Dr. Meyer poisoning Use WAS post
poned until Thursday on account of the
condition of Juror Lowe, who is suffering
from acute dementia
Fred May. the well-known New York
club m,n. yesterday. in New York, plead
gully to a-saultihg police officer, aud
was fined $500
A west-bound San Antonio AID Aran-
sas Pass train was ,ditched near Winches-
ter, Tex yesterday morning. Clark Dyer,
II newsDoy, was killed. l.. n. Walters. of
St. Louis, L. H. Wild. of Colorado aud two
others were slightly injured.
While slelghing yesterday at Burbank,
s. d., with a mn known AS "Snorty"
b ,bcock, Miss Dollie Hemphill and Miss
Kate Stef,ni were shot by their escort.
Miss Hemphill WAS inst antly killed, while
the Stefaui girl received two wounds in the
breast which may prove fatal. After
shooting the girls. Bibcock shot himself,
dyimg Instantly. The murderer's motive
is not known.
Tue sheriff took charge of the John
Scheinder brewery at Cleveland, O.. yes-
terday on levy to secure y note for $40,-
0J0 The Liabilities of the brewery are il
little more than this. The assets are
about SlS0,0O0.
Four young psop'e of Halifax. N. S, all
un Ter the age of 20, broke through the ice
while skating yesterday aud were
drowned Three We're named Doyle and
the other O'Nrill. Mrs. Doyle nearly lost
her life in trying to rescue her children,
but was saved by her 9-year-old daughter.
Reassr I. Adams. Jr.. exminister TO
Brazil. was yesterday elected member Of
congress in the Scond Pennsylvania dis
trict, to succeed the late Charles ONeill.
The district is so overwhelmingly R-pub-
lean that the Democrats decided to make
no nomination.
Henry Klaving, a carpenter. at Cincin-
natl, O., craZ-d by being out of employ
ment cut his wife's throat with razor
Monday night, and then caused his own
death in the same nanner. The wife may
live. Seven children are left fatherless.
1t has come to light that the train rob-
Der, Marion Helgepeth. who recently at
tempted to break jail Al st. Loui-, had sew
eral accompiices. A condemned murderer
and other prisoners were TO have also
taken advantage of the opportunity. Jail
Guard Rickby has been suspended.
Benjamin Jenkins was fatally shot Mon
day night by Jacob Steinheimer at Calves
ton, Tex, during quarrel over money
matters.
On Sunday evening mob at Monroale,
Spain, maItreated the municipal suthori-
ties and burned several sentry boxes. Re-
Inducements Of police have been sent TO
the scene.
I. Pickert & Co, fish dealers at Boston,
have failed The liabilities are Sl15, 900.
The assets are unknown.
The New York presbytery has accepted
the resi- gnation or Rev. DIR. Paxton, pastor
of the West church.
An eight-round glove contest Monday
night, at Chicago, between young Grlffiu
aud Tommy White was OF the whirlwind
order Griffin forced the fighting and
rushed White all around the ring but
failed 10 knock him out, aud The contest
WAS decided draw. Afterward it Was
found that Whites right wrist was
broken.
One of the powder mills of the Dupont
Powder company, near Wilmington, Drl,
exploded yesterday morning. Edward
Gallagher, aged SO, was Instantly killed
IL i, believed that none Of tae other work
men We're hurt.
A large bomb was exploded yesterday
outside OF the resideuc- OF Lawyer Wolff at
Rakonitz, Bohemia. The bUuse WAS de-
mollshrd aud severA. other buildings
wrecked Wolff and his wife aud two
daughters were more or less seriously IL
jured-
The long strike in the woolen mill dis
trci oil Providence, K l., ended last night,
AMI the hands viii soon return TO work. |
Tie strike WAS inaugurated in October,
when half dozen mill, reiuced wage |
The agreement b. which the strike was
lad