The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-28
ELECTRIC BRIEFS.


ELECTRIC BRIEFS.
| C. F. Davidson, late cashier Of the Cum
berland Valley Bank, and secretary of the
Barboursv;Ie, (ky.) Land and Improve
| ment company, is charged with having
made fraudulent use of Si7, 600 in note
discounted by him as cashier of the bank,
but not credited to the improvement COM
pany, OF which he was treasurer.
The grand encampment of the Wiscon-
sin Odd Fellows convened at Racine yes
| terday morning, with 125 delegates in at
tendance The report of the grand scribe
shows a total mem bership of 2,43S The
number of eucampmeuts show gain of
"a for the year.
Tne bill for the consolidation OF New
| York and Brooklyn has passed the New
| York state legislature. and Will De ap-
proved by Governor Flower.
Secretary G. w. Barnard of the grand
Masonic lodge of Illinois said yesterday:
! "Mrs. Lease is deliberate liar when siie
said she was a member OF the Masonic
order. The trouble with Mrs. Lease Is
| that she is afflicted with u strong Jaw.
Her story Is absurd"
Chief of Police Seavey has ordered all
| the bling houses in Omaha closed. the
order to take effect March 5. For year
and half gambling has been carried on
| openly under what has been known as the
disorderly house ordinance, which pro-
yided for monthly fine OF SlOO for each
keeper Of gambling loom.
There was small attendance at the
| Queen Victoria'5 drawing room at Buck
! ingham palace yesterday. Among those
present were 200 debutantes.
The Chicago Leather company assigned
yesterday to Jasper ID. Nielsen. Inc
assets and liabilities are $40, 600 each.
z. Il. White of New Braska City. Neb.,
was yesterday found guilty of criminally
cons slsted of hanging Morton in ettigy III
the city park.
| The Colorado senate yesterday passed
concurrent resolution providing for sine
| die adjournment of the legislature. The
! legislature has not yet accomplished any
| of the purposes for which Governor Waite
called the extra session. Tue resolution
was laid upon the table by the house.
| Ex-President Harrison and party passed
through Kansas City yesterday Oh their
way to California. They left on the Cali
| fornia express of the Santa Fe railway at
| Los o'clock p. N.
| Gocernor Lewelling has accepted the
resign tion of Adjutant General Artz, to
1
an inventory OF the property under his
charge "Uutil that be doHe," he said, II
shall make no appointment to fill the
vacancy. 1 have on file eighteen or twenty
applications for the place"
The Missouri Pacific entered the Cali
| fornia rate war yesterday. The same rate
as the other roads was made, and it Will
route its passengers via Pueblo and
| Ogden.
Sue Wah, Chinese laundryman of ST.
| Joseph, is the first Chnanlan in that dis
trict who has complied with the Geary
law, His registration papers, accompanied
by two photographs, have been received by
Deputy Collector Hawkins.
A party of patriotic Kentuckians are
taking steps to purchase the birthn place of
Abraham Lincoln. in La Rue. KY, and
convert it into park. Negotiations are
about completed, and work will begin
early in the spring.
DR.. w. H. Carter OF San Francisco is in
Jail on an Indictment charging him with
counterfeiting the trade mark Of a medi-
cine company. C. D. Broad and E. H.
Hebersham, indicted on the same charge
| as DR.. Carter, were released on bail. 1t is
claimed in the Indictment that the three
! men have done an extensive business with
bogus labels.
The lighthouse tender Violet, with
President Cleveland and Secretary Gresh-
am on board, passed Norfork, Va, yester-
rerday morning. She went through the
canal on her way to North Carolina.
At Los Angeles, CAL, yesterday. in the
| United States circuit court the Bear VAL
ley Irrigation company OF Redlands con-
fessed judgment in the sum OF s40O, ,sO5 in
favor of the creditors, who brought suit
last week.
The Moorewood and Alice plants of the
Connellsville Coke company at Mount
Pleasant, Va, are to start up today, after
an idleness of seven months. Twelve
hundred ovens will be fired. giving en-
ployment to 800 men.
Isaac P. Berg and wife. living five miles
south Of Marion Junction, S. d., were
found dead In bed yesterday morning by
stock buyer, who had gone there To buy
stock. The cause of death was escaping
gas from the stove. Tney were young
married people, twenty five years old.
The Chicago police have in custody
Samuel OF Posen,' well known pick
pocket, who hns been indentited as one OF
the thieves who robbed r. Clark Forsythe
OF $500 In cash aud s25, 900 in certificates OF
deposit on a Wabash avenue cable car last
| Wednesday night The certificates OF de-
posit were returned TO Mr.. Forsyths by
mail last Saturday,
At O'Ne!ll, Neb., yesterday Judge Bars
tow called the case of Dell Akin, indicted
for conspiracy to aid Barrett Scott, the
embezz!ing Holt county treasurer to es-
cape from the officers. Scott was given a
change of venue aud Will Dc tried next
month In Cumming county,
In the Lincoln county (Arkansas) circnl'
cour. yesterday four negroes pleaded
guilty TO lynching Nelson, an inmste Of
ihe Jail nt Warner. last November. Ike
Taylor and Ynncy Howkins were given
sentences OF five years each, and Tom
riasey and Abe Washington one year
each.
!, The report teieCraphed from George
town, Colo, that the citizens OF that piace
are signing = petition in favor OF the silver
states seeding AMI joining Mexico, pro-
YES to have beeo canard. lbe ieadin ns
; men OF Georgetown, which 10 Ia The heart
OF the silver belt of Colorado, say tEey
; have not heard OF any such movement.
, The county attorney OF Wyandotts
, county, kan, yesterday applied TO Jn7tic-
Belts. requesting that no subpoe ass lssu'
fer witnesses living outside OF tae county
in the j. X. Polk Barker perjury case
which was brought mp on con- pi alnt ~
Porulist Attorney Smith. This virtual
ends the case as ali ths witnesses i've out
side Of Wyandotte county.
General Juan n. Cortina, the celebrated
{ | Mexican revolut;oBisi. whose sscapiue.
, along the Texas border twenty years ago
are part of history, IL dying se MS none