The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-13
ELECTRIC BRIEFS

The shaft of the Kohinoor colliery at
Shenandoah, Pa. one OF the Reading com
psny's largest mines. is burning. The
miners all escaped. Eight hundred men
and BOYS will be out OF employment
Tie employees of the Wyoming division
of the Lebigh Valley road were yesterday
notified that the wages OF yard engineers
and firemen would be cut.
Circuit court. at Dexter. Nc, yesterday
sustained the Niagara Insurance company
| in its refusal to pay fire loss, on the
ground that the loser had not complied
with clause of the policy reQairing the
assured to take an annual Invoice aud
keep "A cash account, depositipg both IN an
iron safe.
Albert Brnmap, receiving cashier of the
Rochester On. Y.) Savings bank, commit
ed suicide yesterday morning by shooting
| himself at his home. He had been Ill for
three weeks suffering from severe a
TACK of la grippe, aud it is supposed that
despoudency prompted his act.
H. c. Root, the poputist candidate for
| county attorney of Shawnee county, Kan,
| has filed an answer in a suit on note
| that the repeal of the Sherman act is
! responsitle lie for his inability 10 pay the
note He asks that President Cleveland
| and other public men be made parties to
| the suit.
Chief Harris of the Cherokee nation has
| withdrawn all opposition to the sale or the
Cherokee bonds, and will further their
sale. The authorized agents will start
east Immediately to sell the bonds.
| Some time since John Weitgarih. sup
| posed TO be crank, issued call for TO- 600
armed men to meet him on the lake front
| in Chicago yesterday, and move against
the city with a d-mand for work and
| bread. The army did not materialize, and
4 Hann 4. III
an outbreak We're allowed to break Ranks.
A dog show will open today at Chicago
| Five hundred cracks have been entered by
Out-of-town owners.
The banking house of Marqnay. Hooker
| & Co. of Rome, which suspended payment
on Monday, has lodged its balance sheet
viii b the tribunal OF commerce. showing
that its assets exceed its liabilities by
1.320, 600 lire. 1t is stated that its creditors
| will not lose anything.
Dynamite was found in bag of coffee
hat had been shipped from Mexico to New
York. The New York authorities and tue
Mexican authorities will investigate the
matter.
Mitchell will train in Florida for his
fight with Corbett. He will go there the
latter part of this month.
The French chamber of deputies will
adopt regulations placing certain restric-
tions upon all visitors admitfe to the gall
lery. Such persons will nave to present
letter of admission from deputy, and will
have to give their names aud addresses.
Newspaper men will be kept under strict
surveillance. The senate will adopt like
meaSuIes.
The trial of John Monson. tutor. charged
with the murder Of Lieutenant Ham,
brough, has begun at Eilnburg, Scotland.
The trial is of special Interest to Insurance.
companies, one company having insured
Ham brough's life for 100000 The trial
involves he solution of what is known as
The "AdlamonL murder mystery"
Three counties il the southwestern part
of Kansas-Grant, Seward and Stevens
each loses its one representative in the
legislature to be elected next fall. This
Was developed yesterday by the official
canvass of he votes cast for judge in those
counties. the Number being less than the
constitutional requirement.. The Republi-
CANS lose Two and the poDulists one.
+. H. Williams a member of the Iowa
City board oi trade. who has been missing
over a week, is said to be short S2O, 900 in
his accounts
The annual meeting of the South Dakota
alliance, which has heretofore been held at
Huron in Decembe has been changed to
June.
A meeting of railroad coal operators at
Pittsburg, Pa, yesterday, to agree on the
price OF mining, came to an eud without
reaching AN agreement
A meeting of the transmissouri lines
has bsen called for Dec. Is, AT Denver, to
endeavor to convince the R.o Grande
Western that it had no right to withdraw
from the local association.
Mr.. Allen, a member of parliament. at
meeting of the London chamber of COM
merce yesterday, in discussing the British
navy. said that England had not single
cruiser equal in speed to the Columbia of
the United States navy, which recently
showed a speed of % knots per hour.
A meeting of the horse breeders of Mis-
souri, held at St. Louis yesterday. presd
Ell over by eX-Secretary of Agriculture
Norman J. Coleman, appointed commit
tee to prepare plan of organic ttion fer
the promotion of the horse-breeding iu-
dustry aud the upbnllding of the market.
The committee reports on Jan. s, to which
time the meeting adjourned.
The steamer Lain took out yesterday
morning. III addition to Sl,70O, 900 in GOLD
which came from the Fourth National
bank of New York, 5l0 900 ounces of silver.
Early yesterday morning fire was dis
covered in the four aud feed store of Dale
q Son of Emporia, Kan. II WAS the
largest store or its kind in Emporia, aud
the loss was almost total. TramDs are
supposed to have set the store on fire.
AT Daleville, Ala, last night F. Beck
hams house WAS burned to the ground
aud his two daughtrrs-Laura, aged 19,
and Lizzie, aged l0-were cremaIed.
Laura had escaped, but returned TO rescue
Lizzie, who was overcome by the smoke.
In the vicinity of Georgetown, Col, It |
has been showing constantly most of the
time for three weeks. The drifts are very
deep, and there is much suffering among !
the poor.
The night watchmau was last night |
buruei to death in fire which destroyed |
the factory of the Auburn Dad Church |
Furniture company, and which is sup
posed To have been set by iucendjaries.
CAMPAIGN EXPENSES.
TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. l2.-Pursuaut TO !
the provisions of chapter a.. laws OF Kan I