The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-08-23
ELECTRIC BRIEFS.

President Cleveland reached Washing
ton at o:45 last evening.
The strike at the New Bedford mills has
developed nothing new.
The czar of Russia was seized yesterday
with an attack OF influenza.
Mayor Callahan of New Orleans was
yesterday found guilty of boodling.
Yesterday was Recognition Day. at
ChatauQua DIR. Edward Everett Hale
spoke.
Robert Welch defeated Robert Finletter
at Philadelphia yesterday in the shoot for
the Rlverton challenge plate.
The strike commission expected 20 have
Chief OF Police Brennan on the stand yes
terday but he failed to appear.
The Society OF American Florists in
session At Atlantic City Yesterday selected
PittsbuTg for the convention in 1895.
Numa Dufour. founder of the New
Orleans Bee, one of the oldest eyspapers
IN the south, died yesterday, aged -.
The International Religions Liberty as
sociation OF Kansas City. has issued IA pam
phlet, announcing the end or the world.
The South Dakota Republican conven-
ton has reached only an organization.
Nominations W II be made this morning.
trouble has broken out afresn. A COM
mittee has been sent to confer with Satolli.
In public letter, japanese Minister
kurino denies that japanese officials open
letters to suppress news derogatory to that
country.
The California state Democratic convep-
ton did nothing yesterday. James Budd
of Stockton seems 10 be in the lead for
governor.
At Chicago the stagna;ion in the passen-
ger business continues To be great as
before and many of the lines report 1t the
dullest season they have ever known.
An expert has gone through the books
OF Justice of The Peace Ross Latshaw of
Kansas CITY. and fonnd he is short s9.066
lie withheld fines from dissolute women.
Rev. A. C. Hirst OF San Francisco, has
been cleared Of the charges of immortality
brought against him. ; Rogers, the in
stigator. will be prosecuted for blackmail
John T. Tiffany was yesterday elected
president of the American Philatelic as
sociation at Niagara Falls. The stamp
collectors will meet at the Thousand Is
lands next year.
At Springfield. Mass. J. p. Bliss made
new worlds bicycle record-half mile
flying start of 54s{ seconds. also worlds
record for standing start OF 5S 1-5 seconds
yesterday afternoon.
The Congressional Record Yesterday
morning contained eighty-five pages of
Senator Quay's speech, which has been
inserted under the leave to print, privi-
lege granted several weeks ago.
The Wagner Palace Car company filed
in the railroad commissioners
Office In Albany, y. Y, their annual re-
port which shows gross earnings of s., 263,-
259; expenses 81 S23. 702
Three fresh cases of cholera are reported
in Amsterdam. At Maestrict two new
cases and two deaths are announced One
fresh case is reported from Harlem and at
kinderdick a death from cholera has
occurred.
At the bar association meeting at Sara
toga yesterday Hatton Larson of Penn
sylvania read paper on Great Dissent
ing Opinions" and Charles Chaplin Allen
OF Missouri. paper on Injunction and
Organized Labor"
An anti-lynching organization was
formed in indianapolis Yesterday by the
prominent coiored citizens. The organiZa-
tion Is the result of agitation by Ida
Wells, the young colored woman who has
recently been lecturiDg in England.
General George Oates OF Rochester, n.
Y, was yesterday elected commander-in-
chief of the union veterans union. A reso-
luton was passed to petition congress to
set aside the 18th of June as a national
holiday to be called ''Veterans Day" in
commemoration of Bunker Hill
a change in one of the few postOffices in |
Alaska, was made yesterday when Fourth |
Assistant Post master General MAXWELL
appointed William King Lear postmaster ,
at Fort Orange. vice Lydia Thomes re-
signed. The compensation of the office is
s252 year As there are only nineteen
offices in Alaska, appointments in that |
territory average one in six months.