The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-11
ELECTRIC BRIEFS,

ELECTRIC BRIEFS.
The national Republican executive COM
mittee will convene at Washington today.
A number of important questions Will be
discussed, and there promises to be large
attendance.
Mrs. Catherine Blackerby. aged 20. died
near Danville. KY, yesterday, alter ex-
listing twenty-eight days without nourish-
ment OF any kind, the only thing passing
her lips during that time having been a
few sups Of water. She refused all offers
of food.
At Dexter, Mo, yesterday, Tom Lacey
was trading revolverS with his father,
when bis weapon WAS accidentally dis
charged. The ball struck his step-mother.
instantly killing her.
A bill has been introduced in the Ken
lucky house prohibiting the organization
or continuance of societies whose object is
to discriminate between Christians on ac-
count of their creed. The penalty is fine
of $500 TO 81 .000 or imprisonment from SIX
10 twelve months, or both fine and seu-
Lence.
The committee on coinage, weights and
measures has temporarily shelved Mr..
Bland's free coinage bill and will take up
seigniorage.
The Southwestern Traffic association. at
the meeting at St, Louis, decided not to
extend the Texas-St. Louis rates north to
Dubuque, Ia, or Peoria, Ills.
A receiver for the So. .OOC, 600 estate of the
late William w. Derby, Sr., has been
asked. at Chicago, by Gertrude S. Walker
and Frances ID. Cleare, his daughters.
William NJ. Derby, Jr.. is made defendant,
aud the court is asked to issue an lnJunc-
tion restraining him from dlsposing OF
any of the estate before an accounting is
made.
Arbuckle Sons & Co. IS large warehouse
at Memphis was partially destroyed by
Dire yesterday, and 1000 bales of cotton
were consumed. The Arbuckles lose S40.-
300, while various other firms in the build
ing suffer severe losses.
Charles Oscar Kellar a fraud and ad-
Fenturer, whose work is known from one
md of the country to the other, has been
ientenced to seven years penal servitude In
she Tennessee penitentiary for defraudlng
she Chattanooga Brewing company out of
E, ZOO, given him to establish agencies.
The railway conductors executive COM
mittee, in session at St. Louis yesterday
afternoon. elected the following Officsrs:
President, w. j. Bronson of Atchison,
poto, Mo-; secretary-treasurer, d. p.
Moran of FL Dorado, Kan.
A bloody battle near Saltillo, Mexico,
The result OF an old 1eud between the Val
ssco and Papjora families, occurred re-
Gently. The heads of the two families
were killed in the beginning of the feud.
Since then three of Valescos and two of
Panjora's sons have been killed, leaving
.hree on each side. Yesterday these six
,af nd 6r,aI
sulting in the killing of two on each side
and the serious wounding of the others.
At the Victoria house in Detroit, Mich,
yesterday. an attorney named Peter Gal
lagher was gagged and robbed Of 81 ,274 in
his room. There is no clue.
The secrets of the new order of Loyal
Americans, organized in Michigan the
other day, are ont. The basic principles
are as follows: Equal political rights tor
all loyal Americans; the prosecution as
traitors OF all armed forces not recognized
by the constitutions; the absolute non-in-
reference of any foreign power in Ameri-
can industries or American finances; ex-
clusion Of European criminals and pauper
labor; making of bribery capital crime,
TO be dealt with as treason against the
national government; establishment of
pos al savings banks; government owner
ship or control Of ali natural monopolies.
The Ouray (Col.) Athletic club has de-
cided 10 offer 1000 for the Corbett-
Mitchell fight, and will build pavilion
to hold 10000 people if tho offer is ac-
.epted.
The mail stage between Corralitos and
Callego, Mex, was robbed on Tuesday of
all property belonging to the government.
So far as known no private property was
laken.
Tha nj
association convention, at Carrollton, Mo-,
spent the morning session in the discussion
of a resolution favOriDg the enactment Of
state law authorizing counties TO vote
bonds for public road Improvement The
resolution was finally defeated by a vote of
ts to 49,
The Chicago meeting OF the transcont-
Mental lines adjourned without accom-
plishipg any definite results, and the de-
moralizatlon Of Pacific coast business will
continue
The Democratic territorial central CON-
mlttee of Oklahoma yesterday passed
resolutions asking for siugle statehood, or
lone,
The argument in the motion for a per-
mauent receiver for the New York and
New England railroad was heard yester-
iay afternoon by Justice Wallace in the
Uuited States circuit court OF New York
The justice reserved his decision.
While the proprietor of grocery store
NJ 220i Randolph street, St. Louis WAS
watching a sidewalk fight last night, some
one distracted 81, $50 from the safe, leay-
ing no clue.
Rev. Henry f. Cheesman, pastor OF the
Methodist Episcopal church at Camden,
y. j., was drowned Tuesday night by two
men in the Delaware river, who are under
arrest. The motive for the crime is uu-
known.
A fire at Richmond, Ind, yesterday
morning destroyed the Starr piano works.
The loss is $4,000 and the insurance
$40 600.
W. L. Beck & Co. commission mer-
chants, of san Francisco, have assigned.
The liabilities are probably S750.000 The
firm has branches III New York and Chi
cago and sgencies iu every large city in
the United States, as we'll as in several
European cities. The stock on hand con-
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