The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-01
ELECTRIC BRIEFS.
The insurgents in Peru are reported 10
be still gaining ground.

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Officials at the Russian embassy at Lon
don have received "a telegram that the
| car may die at any moment.
DR.. MIGUEL Prussian minister of finance,
has been appointed imperial wee caancei-
Tor to assist Prince Won Houenlohe.
Spontaneous combustion caused an ex-
plosion and fire at the Standard Oil works
today which entsiled a loss of =, 900.
The Volunteers of New York, were badly
defeated by the Yale football team At New
Haven yesterday by score of AZ TO Z.
A Messenger rate war is Brewing in
| Portland, Ore aud transcontin-ntal rates
are tending toward Generalization rap
| idly.
| General Master Workman Sovereign
has denied the report that the Canadian
| knights OF Labor are TO be Cisfran-
| cIised.
VI. Victorien Sardou's new drama "Gis-
| mond" Was produced at the Rena;-s nc /,
| tLeiter last night and secured an immsns !,
| success.
Captain Alfred Defus, of the Grand
| Army, has Teen arrested on the charge of
treason aud espionage In behalf OF the
triple alliance
tiEugene V. Debs delivered a Populist
speech last night TO large audience III
Saengerfest hall at Cleveland, Ohio. lie
lett later Tor Ierre Haute, luu-
| Tammany hall held a mass nesting last
| night aud the wigwam was packed by an
enthusiastic crowd Only local lights were
included in the list of speakers.
Professor Theodore Mommsenn. the en-
in-nt German jurist aud historian, has
| been appointed vice chancellor of the Or
der of Pour lie Marite for science.
The steamer Tonnes struck on Crow
| Rock Lay
day night, and twenty-One men, Including
| the Captain, were drowned. Seven of the
| crew were saved.
Some of the discretionary pools of Pitts
burg, lately raded by the police and run
upon by their iuves, ors, are still in BUSH
hess. Several of the pools state they will
! pay dividends today as usual
A serious epidemic pronounced 10y the
| physicians To be continual malarial
fever" has broken out among the stu tents
of Wesleyan university. there being at
present thirty-five Cases there.
The Queen City Cracker company of
Cincinnati, yesterday announced reduc-
ton in the price OF bread from TO 3 Cents
per loaf, and il is conceded that all COM
pet;tors will meet the rate today.
The Parthenon OF Athens was seriously
damaged by the earthquakes that occurred
last spring The structure is reported to
to restore it will be taken at once.
The sale of the Minneapolis and St.
Louis road TO the stockholders reorgani
Zation committee Was confirmed yesterday
by the district court at Minneapolis, and
"a, OO0. 900 in cash changed hands.
Services in St. Isaac's cathedral at St.
Petersburg for the restoration of the car 5
health by several members of the imperial
family, diplomatic ana nigh officials IN tue
city and by . throng of other persons.
The discovery is reported from I,hpen-
ing, Mich, of bi-choride of gold spring
of water which is doing the work OF
Kelley institute and not a cent TO pay, so
far, though a hospital is soon TO be erected.
The Northwestern Miller characterizes
the -four trade as still! terribly dull. Sales
last week approached 175. OOO barrels az
unrenumerative prices. Quotations are
about the same. Export trade Is very
meagre.
Herr Heinrich Won Heyden-C aGow, Prus-
sian minister of agriculture, dom aims and
forests, has rendered his resignation to
Emperor William aud it has been ac-
ceDted. Herr Cadow will receive another
state appointment.
An attempt was made yesterday to
wreck train No. ID on the Lake Shore line
near Buffalo, y. y. Obsi ructions on the
track were discovered before the train
struck them. Several similar ate mpIs
have been made recently.
The emperor of Germany has expire ssed
the wish that the churches should kee
open during hours other than the regular
hours fixed for service. This, his slrsuy
asserted, would promote aud revive relIg-
ious feeling among many classes.
a rock drilling contest for the champion
ship of the world and purse OF S32J Is in
progress at Leadville, Col. Driver and
McGilvary OF the Leddvlile team, have
already bea'en the worlds record OF 3O55
inches by drilling 81 inches in . minute,
Last night the government candidates
in the western part of the city OF 81. john,
y F., attempted to hold a public meeting
but a crowd of Whitewayites broke il up
and forced the government supporters TO
flee from the hall. Further trouble is
feared.
David Young, a prominent farmer of
Stockton, Gaia, until recently engaged in
the manufacture of harvesting machinery,
filed petition of Insolvency Yesterday
afternoon His debts aggregate STA 215.
He was unable to collect outstanding &C
counts.
The superior court of Solano county,
Cal. Yesterday decided that sailors now at
the Mare Island uavy yard on ships ia the
harbor, and at Benecia arsenal, have no
right 10 vote unless they had established a
residence N Vallejo before entering the
service.
Snow shed No s. 500 feet long. on the
Union Pacific at Sherman, Wyo., WIS fired
yesterday. il Is supposed by "a spark from
locomotive. All The wires were down for
hours, and the long shed was completely
destroyed, causing loss of several thou
sand dollars.
At the next session OF the reichstsg the
Conservative or.ans say a reform II the
sugar taxation Will be urged. also the
maintenance Of the bouuties on beet root
sugar the payment OF which lei 10 the
United States imposing an extra duty Oh
German beet sugar.
BY decision Of he United States board !
OF app aisrrs OF New York, re-Imporied /
whiskey on which tax has not been paid 1
prior TO the new tariff laws going iuio I
effect, must pay SLlO u gallon, even Il 10 /
had been re-impOr ei prior 20 the time tbs I
tariff went into effect.
The first PASSENGERS from Chicago and I
Omaha over tue Burlington and Northern I
Pacific VIA Billings arrived at IaComs yes !
terdsy Oh the Northern Pacific. The Sun
set Single company Of that city made ia { 4
first shipment OF freight from Pug e.
Sound over the new line
In his preliminary trial yesterday for f.
wrecklng II train on the 500 llas Ia witch I
the engineer was killed aud the fireman .
Injured. LevitS HAz-iton con-
.essed AZ Merrill. WIS, that he aud MS
P had meant 10 wreck tue tram il -uca q .
Vay e. 10 Sl.l every person on b5a-- aud .
hen rob The -al- and express car.
In the D-avton divorce suit p=rcIn- at
reDtou, y =. M. Bssyt8u. q her 80
: yveC yesjerJi4 ~ admitted neT maETia-e -
her husband il New YORK City on De-. -,
ls1e bat d-Lies she lett him Th.i- Thy