The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-02-24

| 4 fire in the Spring field junction Coal
company's shaft south or Springfield, HIS,
has been burning since midnight, Thurs
| day night. Several mules have been suffo-
| Gated, but 70 human lives Were eudan-
gered. The plant is worth 100000.
DR.. Eugene +. West of San Francisco.
who was convicted OF the murder OF Ad-
die Gilmore. daughter OF a Colusa million
! aire, upon whom he performed IA Grim nal
| operation, was yesterday sentenced to
twenty-five years in the state prison. \
motion for n new trial was denied.
| At ST. Louis, yesterday. the populist
| Organization known the Reform Press
| association elected the following officers:
| j. II. Mcdowell! of Nashville, Tenn, presi-
dent; \. A. Dunning of Washington, ID.
c., vice president; W. 5. Morgan oi Hardy,
| Ark, secretary aud treasurer. The ex-
| ecutiva committee consists of Lyman
Naugie of Wellington, kan., Henry VIM
cent of Chicago, A. R1selIe OF Missouri.
f. ). Peters of Texas, aud Marion Batler
OF North Carolina.
The mass meeting of Union Pacific en-
ployes, called To be held at Cheyenne,
Wy, yesterday, has been aband oned. iu
view of Judge CalJ decision regard
ing the nsw wage schedule.
Ia freight wreck on Thursday night on
the Louisville and Nashville road. nine
cars loaded with especially valuable fret : hit
We're demolished, causing loss Of about
800 000
General Merceier, the French minister
OF war, before the army commission yes
terday, declared that III October last the
French first line of defense Oh the south
ern frontier was inferior TO the Italian,
but that measures had since been taken by
France, aud there Was no Cause Tor auxiety
In the German reichslag yesterday oo-
JectioDs We're moved In regard 10 the elec-
ZION of several members, including Count
Herbert Won Bismarck. Ia each case an
inquiry was ordered.
At Xenia, OHIO, yesterday afternoon
W iiliam Wnaley, charged with murder
lug Allen Wilson aJ Yellow Springs last
June. and who is thought to bs the man
who killed Lou keyes and her phrdmour,
George kOeg lcr, few moaths before III
the same village, and who was caught IN
attempting to murder Il milkman named
Popping. was found guilty Of murder in
the first degree.
Jacob Smith of Girard county, Ky, the
oldest Mason in the L Clited States died
OH Thursday night. He was 90 years old
last month, and was never sick until
short time before his death. He will be
buried at Danville, KY, today.
btttCtIFt ultl Vi o. LOUIS, VINO Was
accidentally shot last Sunday at Denver.
when arrestiug O. Z. Powell, alias James
Raphael Ford, who IS charged with train
robbery aud murder at Oliphant, Ark.
viii lose neither his life nor his leg, The
doctors having successfully removed the
bullet. which Was lodged under tho knee
cap.
A magnificent display OF the aurora
WAS seen III New York last night. Al-
though 1t lasted but few minutes, IL
attracted general attention. Inc lights
Il !ckered like the fl ,mes from IA coal IRE,
aud then gradually died out on the west
eTu horizon.
The state of siege in Chilli will be sus-
pended during the election except ut Sau-
tIago.
Information has reached Victoria, b C.,
here that the Iudan mission school at
Neah Bay burned Thursday night, aud
that several Indian children lost their
lives. No particulars have been received. |
At Cologne. Germany, yesterday glass |
tub containing liquid aud half burnt wool, |
surrounded by pieces of iron and tin. bu! |
lets aud gunpowder. ali being wrapp;d ia |
a piece of paper, was found ia Ia court of /
Justice. The contents are being anaiyzed. |
Up 10 mi might Erastus Wiman had not 1
secured bail. IL. l.. Horton of II. l. Hor
toI q Co., Danhtrr, VIII ptooauiy quaitIy I
today.
II began sleeting at Canton, Miss, yes
terday morning and continued through
out the dag. The fruit crop is ruined, al
many peach trees are IN full bloom.
Only one member of the Kruger family
)f Michigan City, Ind, who were stricken
with tricnIne. Is now living. Three mem
Ders, two girls aud one boy, dsed THURS
lay night. The number OF deaths from
he terrible disease ia this family numbers
.eyen