The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
ELECTRIC BRIEFS.


Iowa Legislature was the introduction in
| the house by Mr. Youmans of bill to
prohibit the publication, by the newspa-
| pers of the state. of accounts or descrip-
tions OF prize fights.
The patent on the famous electric tele-
phone invention of Professor Alexander
Graham Bell expired yesterday.
B. f. Fifield of Vermont yesterday be-
gan a foreclosure suit in the United States
court at Topeka on mortgage held by
him against the Giacomini hotel property
in Leavenworth. He asks that receiver
be appointed.
The Republican membe of the Ohio
house decided in caucus yesterday IN
favor OF biennial sessions, as advocated IN
the party platform and recommended by
Governor Mckinley in his message.
The Latrobe Steel Works company of
Latrobe, Pa, for the second time within
the past eight months, has made reduc-
tlon of % per cent in the wages Of its
workmen, which makes altogether cut
OF % per cent. The various coal COM
panies in that vicinity have also ordered a
cut of from 10 to % per cent in wages.
Representative Hall of Missouri has a
bill prepared to introduce, providing that
no pension shall be paid to any person
who is not q citizen of the United States.
He says chat many foreigners who par
tlcipated in the late war, and who. under
the present pension laws, are drawing
pensions, should be compelled to become
citizens or give up the pensions.
The shoe factory of Wellman g. Osborne,
the West Linn (Mass.) hotel aud other
adjoining buildings were destroyed by fire
early yesterday morning. The guests of
the hotel were gotten out safely. The
loss is $4,000.
Frank Ives, the Diliardist, left Chicago
for Cincinnati yesterday morning, where
the triangular tournament with Schaetfer
aud Slosson opens tomorrow night.
An experiment to show that hypnotic
influence, can be- transmitted for any
distance over the telephone was apparently
successfully carried out ut Milwaukee on
Monday night, when Professor Gregori-
witch hypDotized four subjects through
telephone from Chicago. The subjects
stated that the influence of the professor
came through the receiver of the telephone
into the hand. The influence is described
as similar to that of a puff Of wind.
Certain Chicago citizens. whose names
are withheld, have flied an information
with Attorney General Moloney, with the
view of opening up bitter war on the
gas trust.
Shelbyville, Ills, is the seat of new
movement, looking to the organization Of
poor maus party. Quite large num-
Der of Republicans and Democrats have
pledged themselves to work for and vote
with the new party. Some prominent
men are identified with the movement.
A boy and girl, belonging to a party of
immigrants on the way to Texas, were
found frozen to death near Claren
don, Ark, Monday evening. The father
and mother are so badly frost-bitten that
they cannot live.
One-fourth of the entire population of
Grand Forks, n. d., is sick with typhoid
fever. The death rate averages ten daily
Fire Quilted fve-story building at eS
and % Canal street, Chicago early, yester-
day morning. The loss is $4,000.
Mrs Myra Broadwell, editor of the Chi
cago Legal News, the first woman ever
admitted to the bar in the United States,
is seriously i'll with complication of dis
eases, at her home in Chicago.
A ST. Louis priest has received letter
from Rome confirmatory of the report
that Satolli is to be relieved of his duties
here, and is to return to Rome, where he
will be made archbishop of Bologna The
letter says that Archbishop Ireland of
ST. Paul is to succeed Satolli as apostolic
delegate.
John L. Sullivan is at a hotel in Bridge
port. Conn, suffering from badly swol
len right hand. Ii is rumored that blood
poisoning has attacked him, and that his
condition is such as may preclude further
fistc efforts on his part.
Information comes from Alpine, a small
village in the northwestern portion OF
Clark county, Arkansas, that Lew Jones,
Charles Ross and Sam Powell were killed
and Walter Jones ard Bill Jones SER
iously, if not fatally, wounded during
melee at country dance held at the house
OF James Forbes on Saturday night last.
Knives aud revolvers were the weapons
used. Bad whisky started the fight.