The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-01-29
LATE NEWS BY WIRE.
Items OF General Interest From All Owe
the Universe.

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the Universe.
Marshal Cancabert is dead at Paris.
| In Toledo. o., yesterday, Patrick *
DonneIly aged 1n2, died His oldest SOL
is so years old.
The remains of Lord Randolph Churchill
were buried at Wordstock, O1fordshire
yesterday afternoon.
home in Warsaw, Ind, yesterday. HIS
| funeral will take place Wednesday.
Three million dollars in gold have beer
! withdrawn from the United States treas
ury for shipment to Europe today.
L'Echo Du Italie. and Italian paper OF
| New York City, taking the United Press
report, ceased publication yesterday.
A heavy snow storm prevails through
| out England, accompanied by intense
| cold. Many people have frozen to death
The News of PadUcah, KY, has aban.
| doned its former service and commenced
receiving report from the Associated
| Press.
| Near Magnolia, Miss, yesterday, cy-
| clone passed, demolishing the residence o1
John Mannig, and injuring his wife and
| children.
! A dispatch to the London Standard from
| Vienna says that Nine. Patti, who was
suffering from a Chill, has recovered and
| gone to Dresden.
The senate in executive session yester-
| day confirmed the nomination of George
Steel, of Depuyer, Mont, as Indian agent
| at Blackfoot agency in Montana.
The president yesterday sent the names
| of two poStmaSterS to the senate, as fol-
lows: John r. Hopkins: Appleton City,
Mo-; William Lewis, Lees Summit, Mo-
The sixteenth joint ballot in the Wash
ington legislature resulted yesterday
Ankeny, 20; Wilson, %; Turner. IL: Allen,
Is; Rogers, %; Mcmillan, Z; Wallace, d
Manning, !.
There was no change in the Oregon
senatorial fight yesterday. The vote stood
| Dolph, AZ; Hare, 10; Weatherford, 8; Her
man, s; Lord, 4; Lowe, ?; Williams, 81
| scattering, s.
At Chicago yesterday the mercury re-
manned constantly below zero, and 2,OOC
! public school children We're dismissed
because of inability of janitors to keep the
| buildings warm.
a terrific snow storm has been raging
and has blocked highways and railroad
traffic. Snow plows and rotaIies cannot
clear the tracks quickly enough.
The Bennington is at Mare Island under
orders to sail. Stores are being placed
on board and the coal cargo replenished.
( The vessel Will undoubtedly go TO Guate-
male and viii leave today or Wednesday.
At Brookfield, Mo-, the establishment
/ of the Daggett Hardware company, one
of the largest hardware firms in north
Missouri, was yesterday destroyed by fire.
= The loss is partly covered by insurance.
John W. Proctor, cashier of the Boyle
National bank of Danville, KY, and treas
urer of the board of church extension of
/ the Methods church South, died yesterday
/ from the effects of grippe.
A bottle was found at Santi, Greece.
Sunday containing piece of paper dated
January 20, and inscribed: We are sink
ing rapidly. Inform the German admir-
atty. German warship Stein
! The New Orleans firm of Chafee, West
& Co, has asked for a respite of two or
| three years. The petitioners ask that a
Notary W. Morgan Gurley, to consider
! their application. They assign the low
! price of cotton and the difficulty in coliec-
/ tion as the cause of their failure. Assets,
/ S3i7, ,S55.45: liabilities, S291, ,700.lO.
Influenza is spreading in Lyons, France,
1 in an alarming manner. The death rate
| from this disease has increased TO over 100
weekly and hardly a family in the city
has escaped some suffering from 1t.
! Colonel 3. W. Norcott of Linnalus, Mo-,
died yesterday morning in his 18th year.
He was a very prominent Methodist
preacher. He was lieutenant colonel of
the 7th Illinois infantry during the late
war.
1t is said that the Southern Pacific COM
pany will post a notice that on March l
wage scale for firemen of so a month
will supersede the present scale of 81 a
day. Opposition to the cut is expected but
no strike is feared.
The result of the two ballots taken for
United States senator yesterday in Idaho
was: Shoup, 19; Sweet, Is; Claggett Pop)
Is. There are rumorS of a trade having
been made by which the Populists are
to elect Sweet.
The United States steamers Alert and
Ranger arrived outside San Diego, Cal,
yesterday from Mare island and anchored
off Coronado, where they held target,
spar and SailD ractice yesterday. Thurs
day morning is fixed for coming inside.
No progress has been made with the
| Union Pacific in its row with western
"a rls-sa l,saf-1 n
business and other lines are equally de-
termined that it shall not have it Unless
something gives away there is bound TO be
a fight in passenger rates.
/ John W. Norton, manager of the Grand
/ opera house of st. Louis, who met his
I death yesterday in an accident on the
! Nandalia, near Coatsville, Ind. while on
| his way east, was well known throughout
| this country and Europe as theatrical
manager.
Speaker Lorrey and Senator Woodruff.
who Saturday sent in their designations
! as mebers of the Wyoming legislature to
! the governor. have decided to withdraw
them and will serve out their terms. The
! lobby sent from their country has been
withdrawn.
The joint executive reorganization COM
mittee of the Atchison held short session
yesterday in New York and adjourned
| until Wednesday. The subject discussed
was a detailed reply to the representative
! foreign holders of securities as TO the
conclusion was reached.
The steamer Manuel Dublinis expected
I to sail from San Diego, Cal, on the arrival
! of the steamer Carol Carlos Pacheco, for
! San Francisco. TO load acargo for Quay
/ amas. It is generally believed that in
case of war between Mexico and Guate-
mala she will be used as q transport by
/ the Mexican government.
/ The Utah commission passed a reso-
( luton yesterday ordering the issue of
certificates OF election to seventy-eight
! delegates to the constitutional convention.
OF this number forty-one are Republi-
/ cans and thirty-seven Democrats, leaving
| twenty-nine members in dispute.
The Pacific Coast Steamship company
! has announced that it will continue the
rate cutting TO Puget Sound ports as
long as the opposition lines continue 10
run steamers. and a reduction in fares
is expected within few days.
The statement is made by one of the
most prominent labor leaders in the United
States that the position of the presidency
of the universal labor union now in pro-
? cess of organization will be rendered 20
Governor John Z. Altgeld of Illinois, with
in Il few weeks.
I The legislative committee which has
been inspecting the different state edu-
CatioDal eelemosunary and reformatory
institutions of Missouri. reported TO the
s general assembly yesterday afternoon,
[ lndorSlng the present system OF govern
ing the state institutions
At Nashville, Tenn, snow began fall
ing at an early hour yesterday morning
and continued all day. About three inches
/ fell. somewhat demoraliZing street car
I traffic. Reports from middle Tennessee
Z towns show that the snow Is general
over that section of the state. s
The Pacific Electrical Storage company
, is in financial difficulties. with liabilities
aggregating Sl0.an. The principal cred
itorsa re the Westinghouse Electric and