The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-22
Coast News.

San Francisco, Cal, Sept. 2l.-The
| steam vessels from infected ports lie
sterilized and fumigsted with steam.
| Dr.. Godfrey. of the government quar-
! antine station, stated that three deaths
| on the steamer Belgic from the Orient,
! had resulted from cholera and not from
| pneumonia as first stated. The bodies
wereburied on shore at Honolulu. The
tides carried the remains out to sea
where they We're devoured by crabs.
a woman ate a crab caught near by
and died from cholera in twenty-four
hours.
The Belgic landed 100 Chinese here
who had been in the Storage with The
men who died. They are now at va
rious points in the interior of the STAT e.
William Z. Curtis, who is a CORES
pendent of the Chicago Record, was a
passenger On tie steamer, Gaelic, ar
irving here yesterday from the Orient
Cholera has attained fearful proper
tons in China" said Mr. Curtis 1.-The
Chinese are dying by thousands in the
streets Of Pekin, Shanghai and Ten
Tsn. The victims lay dead and dying
on every head. The cholera is all at
tributed 10 the habits of the Chinese
and the weather.
DURRANT TRIAL.
The main case against Theodore Dur
rant is in. After the damaging testi-
mony produced against him his attor-
neys are as gay as larks and as conf
dent as asservative men can be. Next
week you will be just as much with US
as YOU are now against u.s." said At
torney Deuprey today. General Die
kinson and Detective Morse are equal
ly confident
When the trial of Durrant is resumed
on Monday Pawnbroker Oppenheim,
whose ton was not COM
pleted yesterday. will be the first wit
ness. He will be followed by Phillips.
a cigarmaker. who says he saw Durrant
coming on: OF Oppenheim' store after
the pawnbroker said he had declined
to buy Blanche Lamont's ring. That
will be practically all Of the case of the
persecution. although some of Dur
rant fellow-students a Cooper Medi-
cal college may be placed on the stand
to show that the body of the dead girl
was laid out in the belfry of Emanuel
church IN the manner customary in
disSecting rooms.
Nothing has been learned from au-
thentic sources regarding the defense
which will be offered. The prisoners
attorneys assert their confidence in the
acquittal of their client and express sur
prise that the case against him is not
SO strong as they had been lead to be-
lieve by the prosecution. They say
the defense will be put in within ten
days, as none of the witnesses have
long stories to tell. 1t is intimated
that the defense will try to prove that
two men other than Durrant lured Miss
Blanche Lamont to Emanuel church
and there took her life IS
FELL BY GAMBLING.
San Bernardino, Cal, Sept N-Elmer
r. Rowell, prominent attorney, has
disappeared. He is alleged to be guilty
of forgery and embezzlement amount
ing to $4,000. All his victims are his
clients. The principal loser has been
partially reimbursed by Rowell's moth
er. RoweHs wife and mother are Of
high social standing. His fall is as
cribed 70 gambling.
1t has been learned that Rowell is in
Ell Paso. His law partner, Judge Bun
son. who has just returned from va
cation, says it is not likely that Rowell
will ever return here as his defalcation
run up into the thousands.