The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12
ABOUT * AESAS.

The state board Of railroad commission
ers has received an invitation to attend
the railroad congress which meets in Chi
cago September l6.
The prohibition cranks are pushing their
cause () with just as much vigor as
though we We're not il the midst of a
| drouth and there was "water, water every
| where"
Beginning next Sunday the Atchison
Champion will add IL society column to its
| already very comprehensive make up. The
| added department will be under the
editorship of Miss Ethel Iugalls.
Up to present writing the Democrats
Populists have held conventions in thirty
eight counties. In sixteen counties a
fusion arrangement has been entered into
and in the others full county ticket is
put out 10y both parties.
Il. j. Norton, the Kansas City Journals
Topeka correspondent for two years past
and a most accomplished one he has
been-has resigned that position and will
devote himself to acquiring a knowledge Of
the law and then its practice.
1t is thought that some new develop
ments have been made in the famous Hill
mon case, IS sealed dispositions we're re-
ceived yesterday by United States Circuit
Clerk Sheriff from the City of Mexico for
the case Of Hillmon against the insurance
companies. The dispositions We're made
by Hon. Tom Crittenden.
La Sumner and Cowley counties the dis
tr;ct ccurt had to be adjourned on account
of the lack of witnesses and jurors, all
available timber having gone to the
Cherokee strip. As between the strip and
the worlds fair Kansas is very much from
home for the moment. The absence will
be but brief. tho.
The new teachers at the Emporia college
this year are: Professor Mohr. who oc-
cUpies the chair of German and natural
science, with Miss Ella Richter as as
sistant; Professor Parrington, who has
charge of the French and English depart
ment. and Miss Theodora Marshall, who
will conduct the department. of elocution.
The Kansas City Star says Newton
man has "A horse for which he has been
offered a whole block of town lots, and
asks: Does this mean that horses have
gone up at Newton or that real estate has
gone down?" The Republican,, which
ought to know, simply says it is valua-
BILE horse, which implies value to the town
lots as we'll.
Adjntant General Artz has abandoned
the idea of taking the militia to the
worlds fair this week. L: was expected to
take 800 soldiers with Governor Lewelllug,
but the railroads declined to make
special reduction in rates, and General
Artz will have to leave his men at home.
They had already secured ground on the
Midway Plaisance for camp, but the
whole plan has been abandoned. A few
may 60 rs private citizens, but only Gov.
ernor dwellings staff will go in uniform.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal an
nounces that special examinations have
been made of2SO Kansas banks, leaving
about $50 yet to be looked after. Thirty
five have closed their doors, voluntarily or
otherwise, in which the deposits were less
than million and half. Five of these
have already resumed business. while over
half will more than pay out. and the ag-
gregate loss on others will be compare
lively small. The aggregate amount in
VOWED in all these failures was exceeded
by one single failure in some of the other
states.
The Milwaukee Journal has learned of a
Kansas woman who has been elected police
Judge Of her city, and who has adopted
novel solution of the tramp problem The
first tramp who was brought before her
for Judgment was sentenced to two baths
day for ten days ard TO hard labor on
the stone pile, with the order that he
should be fed ii he worked and starved If
he shirked. The statement no doubt had
its origin in the mind Of the imaginative
journalist, but its effect upon the genius
tramp IS just as wholesome, as the first
question a tramp asks now on approach
ing a Kansas town is whether the police
judge is a man or a woman.