The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-23
ELECTRIC BRIEFS.

terdny AFTERNOON. Inability to realize
upon securities and the general financial
stripyency were the causes. The deposi-
Iors will be paid IN full.
The supreme conrt of Iowa yesterday
affirmed its former decision, holding that
the prohipiiory amendment is not part
of the constitution of the state, not hav-
ing been legally adopted The decision
puts final on the question of constitu-
Iional prohibition in Iowa, and leaves
nothing of prohibition but the statute,
which will probably be repealed by the
present legislature.
The state central committee of the Peo-
pies party Of Arkansas yesterday adopted
resolutions condemning the action OF Sec
retary Carlisle in selling bonds, declaring
that the secretary had exceeded his au-
thority."
The Democrats of Landers. Wy, are
formulating charges against Captain Ray,
acting Indian agent of the Shoshone and
Arapahoe tribes. They will place before
the authorities at Washington proofs that
Captain Rays radical reforms VIII cause
the Indian company (Which Will 60 out In
ApriD to take the werpath. Captain lay
intends to compel every Indian TO give up
all but one of his wives.
Amos Wallace Coates, inventor and
manufacturer of the Coates hay and grain
rake, died suddenly at Alliance, o., yes
terday, aged SO. He leaves a big fortune.
At Charleston, S. c., yesterday. Mrs.
Alexander Clifton gave birth to four
daughters. All died in a few hours.
Masked burglars broke into the house of
Seth Pease near Cleveland, O., yesterday,
and, after binding ard gaggIng the old
man, who is 81 years of age. they ram
sacked. the place. They then compelled
Pease to sign a check for large amount
and fed. The old man Is in precarious
condition.
At Chippewa Falls, Wis, yesterday.
party of bows, while coasting collided with
"A horse, which rrampled upon the coast
ers. Barney Seisrist was fatally injured,
Harry Webb and Dan Herring seriously,
and the other boys more or less hurt.
Finley g. Hill of St. Louis, dealers in
yesterday filed chattel deed
of trust To Anthony kohn, to secure Sl4,-
as. due various creditors for money bor-
rowsd. Kohn has taken charge of the
store. The assets and liabilities are not
known.
In the German reichstag yesterday, Sec
retary of the Interior Boetticher, replying
10 question, delared that wages generally
had an upward tendency aud that the
condition Of the working people is i'm
proving.
The St Joseph Daily News has received
another letter from the supposed "Eli"
train robbers, in which they say that they
are going TO enjoy the mountain air for d
while, and that they are too sharp for the
St. Joseph officers, who can only shoot
boy robbers.
Corager Brothers, dry goods merchants
of Pori land, Or, assigned yesterday, with
liabilities of $3.50, 900 and assets exceeding
that amount.
At mass meeting of the miners Of the
Des Moines Ua.) district, at which 1900
miners were represented, 1t was decided
not to accept a % per cent reduction. 1t
was agreed, however, to accept a 10 per
cent reduction. Late last night the opera
tors refused to compromise, and the men
will 20 out this morning.
The conference committee of the Colo
RADIO legislature last evening reported
unanimously in favor of adjournment
after the passage of bills that will give
employment to the unemployed and the
appropriation OF money to pay the ex-
peDses of the assembly. The reported was
adopted by The senate, but rejected by the
house.
The president has signed the bills to
authorize the construction and mainten-
ance of dam across the Kansas river,
within Shawnee county, Kansas. and eX-
tending the time for the construction of
the Choctaw railway
The Missouri board of the German
Evangelical church of the western district
of Missouri met IN annual meeting at
Sedalia yesterday The reports show
twepty-seven clutches in western Mis-
souri,, all having flourishing Sabbath
schools. Considerable routine business
was transacted.
General ID. b. Henderson, representative
from Iowa, is very i'll at w Washington from
the effects Of a wound received during the
war. 1t is feared that blood poisoning has
set IN.
j. C. Hibbarj, the well-known ksBsan,
formerly private secretary TO Congressman
Jerry Simpson, died suddenly yesterday
of Bright's disease. He WAS one of the
best statisticians in the country, and was
the principal compiler of The History
of Kansas" said To lie the largest single
book ever printed.
During drunken row Sunday night
Thomas Holmes Todd fatally shot An
tonia Nindett. Todd was Que of the Blue
Cut (MlssourD train robbers. and by
jumping his bond escaped 10 Ogden. Vim
uett is his second victim. he having killed
the notorious Patrick Desmond in Utah
In 1880
Three cases of dynamite, labeled with
the name of foreign Anarchist commit
iee, h@Ne uSSu ioOuu III tue pupliS ShTuSHS
At Catania, Sicily.
Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage announced from
his pulpit on Sunday that he would re
sign the pastorate of his church in the
spring. The trustees desired TO charge 10
cents admission fee, 10 which Mr.. Tai
mage objected.
The New York World yesterday pub
lished an interview with c. L. Hunting
ton, in which he strenuously denied any
Indebtedness to the estate Of the late
Senator Stanford.
THE SERVlAN CRISIS.
BELGRADE, Jan. 22.-King Alexandris of
6ervia today summoned Deputies Cruics