The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-07
ELECTRIC BRIEFS.

he is out of danger
ELECTRIC BRIEFS.
Colonel Edward Hinchen. president of
| the New York city produce exchange for
three terms. died yesterday.
The trial board has passed Judgment
on the new cruiser Olympia, which re-
Gently made trial trip near Santa Bar
bara Cal. They gave her credit for max
| Ing Il 6S6 knots per hour, which will give
| premium OF $4OO, 600 to the the builders
Lyman d. Norris, formerly law partner
OF Assistant Secretary Uhl. and one of the
| most prominent attorneys and Demo
cratic politicians of Michigan, died at
Grand Rapids yesterday, aged 20.
| George w. Wanamaker, an uncle of ex-
Postmaster General Wanamak-r, is dead,
| aged 40. Before the war, when the
''Schuylkill rangers were terror in the
western part of the country. he joined the
police force and assisted III breaking up
this gang of desperadoes.
| The bakery of Paul Vessel & Sons was
destroyed by fire yesterday in New York
city. Charles Curry and Henry Pezron,
employees, were burned to death.
The application of Isaac L. Rice for a
| postponemeut of the annual meeting OF
CuC L uil6tclpuid huO lGoAuIuK HALFWAY
company Was yesterday denied by Judge
Thayer. in the conrt Of common pleas in
Philadelphia.
At o'clock yesterday morning the Their
mometer at Telluride, Colo, registered 81
degrees below zero.
The meeting of the federation of railway
employees at Chicago has adjourned.
Changes in the rules governing the fedora
ton and discussion of laws affecting
railway men were he only things before
the meeting yesterday.
James Buchanan, lawyer, politician and
inventor, died at Indianapolis yesterday,
aged 81. He was known rs ''Plan" Blu
chanan. because of his peculiar monetary
theories. He was the most conS picuous
eastern member of the Greenback party.
| eral l.: +. Butler, and was famous for his
remarkable memory.
John G. Glerdenning has brought suit
for $4,000 damages each against the Paln-
tine Insurance company of Manchester,
Eng, and the Builders Fire InsuraLcs
company, on the ground of malicious pros
ecution. Glendenning. while an agent Of
he companies, was arrested on their COM
plant, charged with embezzlement, but
at the trial was acquitted.
Peter Hart (colored), a wealthy farmer,
died few days since near Moberly, No.,
aged 1O4 years. He had records to show
that he was the father of seventy-six child
rem. and that while slave he had thirteen
masters.
A number of students of Northwestern
university Evanston, Ill. have adopted
rs the latest form of social entertainment
the vaccination bee." At the first euter-
tainmenC none of the sterner sex, except
the physicians with bundles of vaccine
points, was permitted to he present. Az
ter the doctors had inoculated 100 young
ladies, they were allowed to remain TO
listen to the music and discuss the refresh
ments which succeeded the operations.
At Mercy hospital, Chicago, the physi.
clans are grating skin upon the
burned arms of Mrs. Blake. Seventy-two
square inches OF cuticle have been taken
from the thighs of her husband, ex State
Attorney w. w. Blake. The operation 50
TAR is successful, and it is the only case in
the country in which any person has sac
other.
Colonel j. H. Reed, who commanded the
Third Missouri volunteers during the war;
died at Fulton. No, yesterday, aged Il.
He will be buried with Masonic honors,
on Monday, at Macon.
Sam Lusby. owner of Catoosa and other
well known horses, died yesterday ut
O'Fallon, Mo.
Captain Louis f. Pagan, United States
marine corps (retired), is dead, from soft.
ening of the brain.
Advices from Montevideo say that the
officers OF eX-President Balmaceda of Chilli
who took refuge in Uruguay. aud who are
now at Montevideo, have decided to assist
President Peixoto in his struggle against
the ins urgents in Brazil.
Last Monday, while returning to a
ranch near chihuahua, Mexico, five ranch
ers were captured by baud OF twenty-five
revolutiCnists, under command of General
Ochon. They were carried into the coun-
try and relieved of their horses, firearms
ammunition and everything else of use,
and then kept prisoners three days. The
relater OF the story says that the revolu-
tionists are gaining recruits. and as they
pass through the country are perpetratlng
depredations upon different ranches,
stealing cattle, etc.
A Cape Town dispatch says that a spec
ial runner brings Trustworthy news, to the
effect that King Lobengula has arrived
on the banks of the Zambeis river with
2,00G young and well-armed warriors 1t
is added that small bodies of Matabeles
are concentrating around Inyats.
The cold weather in England continues
At London yesterday snow fell to depth
Vi SSNStdi ANolulu& ilke Tue pres
ent period o; snow and cold weather has
been known there ssnce 1881.
1t is rumored in New York that re-
ownership for the Peoria, Decatur and
Evansville railroad is likely. The mis-
fortunes of the Louisville, Evansville and
st. LOUIS, il is said. will affect the Peoria
road, because of money advanced By the
former to the latter.
The Fostoria Ohio shade and lamp
works will resume operations on Monday
with $50 hands.
The cold weather throughout Germany
is causing much suffering, the greatest
misery prevailing in many quarters in
Berlin. Additional shelter has been open-
ed up in that city for the accommodation
of $500 people. who receive Coffee and
dread free of charge.
At St Louis yesterday ali application
WAS made for a receiver for the Pastime
Gymnasium association. The petitioners
alege that the club is una ble TO meet the