Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-19
pRIEF ITEMS by WIRE.

London July ls.-Henry Irving, Walter
Besant and sixteen others went to Windsor
castle to-day, and We're knighted by the
queen.
London July 1S.-Tt is estimated this
evening that the Conservative majority in
the next house of commons Will number
from l50 to 10
Berne, Switzerland, July lS-Charles En-
politician died to-day from injuries sus-
tained in a runaway accident on July $.
Jefferson City Mo. July lS.-(Special)
Governor Stone to-day appointed William
\. Wear TO be recorder of deeds of Barry
county for the uneXpired term, vice William
Talbot, deceased.
SedaIa, Mo-. July 1s-(Special) The
to-day for county convention, to be held
here July %, 10 elect delegates to the state
silver convention.
Colon, Colombia. July 1S-Troops are
guarding the railroad property now and
acting as escort to 100 laborers who are. to
is serious, and apprehensions are felt of an
outbreak
sedalia, Mo, July .lS--(special) a com
raised here TO build modern hotel on the
site Of the burned district on Ohio street
and the site of Hotel Sicher. The proposed
building will be five stories high and fire
proof throughout.
Purdy Mo, July 17.-(special1 Since the
death of Recorder Tolbert, of Barry coun-
for the position. Lawyer Tom Steele, l.. w,
Rodgers and \. II, Harrison are the most
prominent az of whom are in Jefferson
City to lay their claims before Governor
Stone.
Macon, Mo, July 1S.-(special) Until
1880 the weather was Intensely warm here
to-day when a heavy rain and hail storm
fell, which made the air quite cool for a
few minutes, when il turned warm again
and continued very hot the remainder Of
the day.
St, Joseph, Mo, July ls-(special,) Thorn
as Hickman, one of the gang of Burlington
train robbers, Was sentenced 10 the ,peni-
ton q Tn.Ha tAT Inn
larry After this sentence expires he will be
prosecuted for other crimes.
Boston July lS.-John r, Ellis, the news
fractured his skull, died to-day. NIr, Ellis
NeS YORK cheago m st. 6eas and SFeS WASH
ington, as wen as in this city.
New York, July lS.-sentence of death by
Barheri who, on April 26,, cut The throat
Of Of ID, pomhinie2 Tahtaldo, boothack with
for the week beginning August 10,
Hong Kong. July ls,---A large force of
ese troops at Tokoham, Island of Formosa,
and fought with desperate courage. The
the superior discipline OF their troops But
they We're finally compelled to retreat he
these advices left the island the Black
Flags were advancing To- attack Trekham,
Omaha, July ls.-A special to the Bee
from Hay Springs, Neb. says: Two
children of Bert Wright, living south
west of here, We're smothered to-day i'm
a sandbank. The two boys, aged and
0, with a smaller brother went to the
bank TO play and We're digging a hole
inside of the bank, when the sand caved
in and covered the two older boys COM
pletely up. Life was extinct when they
were dug out an half hour later.
San Jose, Cal, July 1s.-The three foot
mirrors and the more delicate optical
and mechanical parts of the large re-
fiecting telescope presented 10 the Lick
observatory by Edward Crossley, NJ r.,
of England, were delivered at Mount
Hamilton to-day So far as now known
the parts are in good order The brick
work of the forty foot dome is com
pleted ready to receive the iron dome,
now, on its way by freight from New
York.