The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-02-08
ELECTRIC BRIEFS.

". A Ryan, the Van Horne Qa.) post
| master, who committed suicide on Mon.
| day. was a defaulter to the amount OF
$500. He leaves wife and eight children,
penniless.
DR. J. c. Armentrout. professor OF
physiology in the keokuk Qa.) medical
college, died yesterday from an overdose
of chloral.
Yesterdays session of city evangelical
with the reading of papers and discus
sions thereon.
At Rich Hill, Mo-, the house of man
named Carson was burned at an early
hour yesterday morning, and his son
Charley Carson. aged years, was Gre
mated.
A free eating house, maintained by pri-
vate citizens, was opened at Atchison yes
terday to relieve the destitution that
exists.
The house committee on elections yes
terday decided, by strict party vote,
against the title Of Mr. Hillborn (Republi-
CAM of California to the seat contested BY
Mr.. English Oemocrat).
Revenue officers arrived at Fort Smith.
Ark. yesterday with fifteen moonshiners.
captured in the mountains of Polk county.
Ten Illicit stills were destroyed, but the
gang Is UY 10 means DEOkcu up, Mduy
more members still being at large.
The coal miners at Bevier, Mo-, have
finally agreed to accept the operators new
ruling in regard to extracting coal by cut
ting instead of shooting solid. The cut
ting method requires expert miners. and
the shooters will have to 60. This will
insure better quality of coal from Bevier
and regular employment to skilled men.
The board of county commissioners Of
Reno county, Kan, have compromised
with the Santa Fe Railway company on
its taxes, accepting $2l ,6S2.97 in full pay
nlent for the taxes of 1893, thereby rebat-
ing the Santa Fe $500. A protest was
filed by the county attorney, who claims
that the board is unauthorized to make
such rebate.
There was inaugurated in Chicago on
Tuesday an underground pneumatic tube
kilograms to newspapers from the tele-
graph Offices and news agencies. The sys-
tenn will also be used for the transmission
of kilograms from hotels and local city
office to the main offices. The district
messenger companies will also use the
system.
In accordance with the program out
lined at meeting of the Harrison Tele-
phone company in Chicago on Tuesday, it
has organized a local company in st.
Joseph. Mo-. and will put in a complete
has been granted franchise by the city
council. Connection will be established
with similar systems which will be or
ganized in neighborhood towns.
In connection with the famous Hillman
insurance case, to come up agsin in the
United States court at Topeka, Kan, in
April. the attorneys for the Life Insurance
companies now claim that, while Hillman
was alive up to the last trial, they have
secured evidence that he has since died in
a foreign country.
Burglars entered the Despler (O.) bank
Oh Tuesday night, broke open the vault.
away with 81, 200 in gold and $500 in sill
yer. The explosion tore $500 in paper
money into fragments. Besides this they
obtained 81. 600 in stamps and cash belong.
ing to the Despler post Office.
The Dublin Texas) cotton compress was
burned on Tuesday. The property was
valued at sl50,O00.
At ST. Joseph, Me-, proposition to vote
$500, 600 in bonds for new school buildings
carried by more than two-thirds majority
The bonds will be issued as soon as
possible.
The statement of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroad for the six months
ending December 81 shows gross earnings
of S19. .522 504, decrease of 81, sos, 800; net,
S6, 47. 147, a decrease of $756 667; surplus,
81, 295 147, decrease of 1894 ,667.
A fire yesterday morning destroyed the
greater portion of the business houses of
Montgomery. Mo. Seventeen stores and
office buildings were burned. The loss is
$130, 900, with an insurance of $500
Several cases of black smallpox have
been discovered at Vera Cruz, Mex, and
are causing considerable alarm. 1t has
been but a few years since many of the
Mexican towns along the Pacific coast were
almost depopulated by the disease, SO. 600
persons becoming its victims. Prompt
measures are being taken for its suppress
sion at Vera Cruz.
The st. Louis and San Francisco railway
report for the six months ending Decem Der
81 shows gross earnings of a. 240. .O61, a de-
crease of 1851 ,202; net earnings of 81. .457,
$50, decrease of $552. S47: deficit. S252, l47,
against a surplus of $3.50, 500 in 1892,
Mrs Elizabeth Bryan and Mrs. Mary
Jane Fowler, with the formers 16-year-old
son, ohm. were arrested last night at Santa
Rosa. Cal, charged with the murder, on
Jan. 22, of the women's blind sister, Mrs
Nancy Meagher.