The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-12
ELECTRIC BRIEFS.

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ELECTRIC BRIEFS.
NJ Dupuy was yesterday elected presi-
dent OF the French chamber of deputies by
a vote of 290 to 81.
Professor Oswald Seidensticker Of the
| University of Pennsylvania, one OF the
highest authorities on the history OF the
Germans in America, is dead.
Herman Gutmann, surgeon, COM
mitted suicide in Berlin, yesterday, by
opening the twelve main arteries in his
| head arms and feet. He Was addicted to
morphine.
Augustus Thomas the playwright,
author of "Alabama." ''In Mizzoura" and
other dramas. is dangerously i'll at New
Rochelle, n. Y.
Intensely cold weather, accompanied by
wind which travelled at the rate of
seventy miles an hour, prevailed in Man-
itoba yesterday. Two people were frozen
to death. Snowdrifts packed 80 hard that
horses could walk on them without break
ing through the crust.
| Charles Roberts, who was to be hung
today at Paragould, Ark, for wife
murder, has had his sentence commuted
to life imprisonment.
The city authorities of Cleveland (Ohio)
have sold $500, ,000 worth of 4 per cent
municipal bonds to get funds to use in i'm
proving the parks, thus furnishing en-
ployment to a large number of men.
| Owing to embolism it has been found
necessary to amputate one of General
Gourko's toes, says the Cologne Gazette.
| The operation was successful, and the
czar has offered the general palace in the
| Crimea for his cOnvalsscenCe.
The Central Traffic association has de-
cided that all commodity rates in the
association territory shall be abrogated on
April 80
The United Mine company, incorpor-
ated under the laws of Iowa, with a capi-
tai stock of S., 600, 0O0 has filed articles of
Incorporation to do business in Mineral
county, Colorado.
James p. Hadley, the alleged Denver
boodler, indicted and convicted of the
embeZZlemenG of nearly 100000 while
deputy city treasurer, has been discharged,
the case having lapsed.
Mrs. Caroline Talbot, a Quakeress. who
had preached all over the United States
and England during the last twenty-five
years, died yesterday at Mount Pleasant,
Pa.
The members Of the "Ensign" company,
en- route to San Francisco in special Car
on UU6 CduJ6 Z e TOiU, udu Il cA.
perience about 200 miles west of Kansas
City yesterday. The rear end of their Car,
the last in the train, caught fire. The
actors fought the flames while the train
sped on to Usage, thirty miles away,
where water was procured ana the flames
extinguished.
At a meeting of Atchison bondholders
in London yesterday 1t was decided to APP
point committee of ten to confer with
r~A r1o,, -. -
tees. in the hope of arriving at an AMIGA
BILE arrangement.
At the Amsterdam skating contest, 5, 100
meters, the championship was won by
Hagan, an American, in 9:37 Is. He also
won The 10000 meter competition 10
1857 1-5, beatlng the worlds record. With
the race won on Wednesday, Hagan is now
champion of the world.
The Colorado Catholic. of which Father
Malone of Denver is editor, makes an
expose of the American Protective assoca-
tiou, in which it charges that the organiza-
tion of Denver is run solely in the interest
of the Republican party, and that it is
using the names of Senators Teller and
WOlcott to further it's schemes. The pa
per intimates that both these senators are
afraid to repudiate the American Protect
i've association. lest the chances of Mr.
Wocott's reelection be lessened. Prom-
DeuU men, luCluuluS Slhte, CITY ana county
officers, are charged with approving an
attempt to lnclte TO bloodshed.
A novel crusade against the social evil
has been begun at Cleveland, O., where
four keepers of disreputable houses have
been arrested on indictments returned by
tie grand jury. 1t is proposed to test the
statute which designates such places as
nuisancss.
DR.. j. w. Massie of Frankfort, XIV,
twice found guilty and given life sem
tence for the murder of Jesse Honaker has
been granted third trial.
Premier Bernaert, at Brussels, had an
audience with King Leopold yesterday, |
and reported to his ma jesty the determina- |
party of the right made the requisite con-
cessions.
1t has been learned that Lionel Stapge. !
receiver for the Oregon National bank of |
Portland, is an ex-convict, having served |
year in the penitentiary at Salem for pass
ing fraudulent check for S35.
Edwin N. Field, son of the late Cyrus |
W. Field, has been released from the in
sane asylum at Buffalo, y. Y, to which
he was sent two Years ago, and taken TO |
New York to stand trial for forgery. He |
Is under many indictments, and his bail |
aggregates $780, 600. His crookedness ruin
u.
An express train on the Pennsylvania
railway yesterday ran down and killed
three unknown Hungarians in Carnegie's
tunnel, near Greensburg, Pa.
Elijah d. Fulford, champion wing shot
of the world, is in Jail at indianapolis,
charged with attempting to bribe a MEM
Der OF the grand jury. The jury has been
investigating charges of embezZlement and
forgery made by the American Telegraph
and Telephone company against Fulford. |
and the latter is said TO have offered a
juror s25 and a promise of more
The Colorado grange yesterday after.
noon adopted resolutions recommending
the enactment OF effective antitrust and
pure food laws; declaring that producers
should be placed on AN equal footing with
as regards protection, and
Indorsiug free silver.
A boiler in a saw mill owned by Wilson
Bros, just east of Adelphi. O., exploded
yesterday morning. Noah Hoffman,. Sil.s
Wilson and Amos Stevenson Were killed
while john Wilson WAS probably fatally
injured.
Prime Minister Crispi Of Italy has re
Quested the European governments TO
order the telegraph Offices To refuse the
acceptance o! CIPHER telegrams Tor Sicily |
The Wool and Cotton Report. published
&c Boston. says: II lie limited demand for
wool continues. There has been an ia
creased amount of territory wool taken.
out ii has been parceled out among auuun-
Der Of mills. Considsring the small
amount Of wooien niacoinery IN operation,
lie very narrow market ana c;tler de-
pressing features prevailing. 1t i, gate re-
uarkable that the market show, .se pre-
lat strength, TIE sales since .Janusr, /
s9i, smonut To 3 aa4 2sl0 pouuc>, ac.iu>x
',Vc@. OVo pounds yrar ago"
Theodore F. Baker, for twentv-eicbs +
Years paving teller a the Cansofi,i.ra3 T. T