The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-03

career. Frank Smith, for that was the
suicides rieht name. came from the
south, was handsome and talented and
had many wealthy friends Five years
ago ne married Miss Kate Catlin. well
know in New York society. George Cat
lin. his fasher-in-iaw; vas United States
consul to Zurich and Stuttgart. Gerrla-
ny. under Grant. an author and proni-
nent in newspaper and literary circles.
Then young Smith. who had a good
voice, went abroad TO cultivate it. After
long and assiduous preparation, the
young singer got an engagement IN Ber-
lin last winter 10 sing in opera 1t was
then he adopted the name of DeWolf- A
bad attack of stage fright on the night
or his first appearance caused him ID
fail Since then he has been despond-
ent and reckless In mis- habits
DEATH In A CHURCH FIRE.
Atlantic City. Il. j.. Dec. Two fire.
men net death while lighting flames in
the ST. Monica Roman Catholic church
at Chelsa today. They are William Doh
erty, assistant foreman. and Thomas z.
LeDnig. The church is the largest of that
denomination in Chelsea, the fashionable
suburb of Atlantic City. The fire was
discovered by Rev. Father Petri, the pas
tor, while ceiebratin mass. At that time
the roof was ablaze. A strong breeze
was blowing. making the work of the fire
men unavailing. Just before the fire be-
came the fiercest Fireman Doherty ran
into the building with line of hose in
finding to work from the inside. He was
followed by Fireman Lenning. Chief
Whippley seeing their danger. ordered
them outside but they would not heed
his command. A moment later the walls
fell IN, burying the two men. After the
fire had burned itself out the bodies Of
the men We're found lying close together
burned to crisp. the church was COM
pleteiy destroyed, but the valuable vest
hents OF the church were saved. The
less will amount to $4,000.
DEAD BODIES TO RECOVER.
st. Louis, Mo-, Dec. 2.-President G. o.
Baxter of the ellison Asphaltum company
has received telegram stating that the
fires which have been raging in the as
phaltum mines of the company near Fort
DeChesne, in the Uintah Indian reserva-
ton in Utah, have been extinguiShed and
preparations for recovering the bodies of
the dead will be begun at once. These
fires have been burning for some time
and threatened the destruction OF the
valuable deposit Of asphaltun at that
point.
>'AiSN, DE<GSSI1I<IN -ASS1OIS&N
Stamford, Conn, Dec. Mrs. Henry
Ward Beecher, who sustained serious in
juries at the residence of her sol-in-law,
Rev. Samuel Scoville, where she was
spending Thanksgiving season, is much
improved and was able to sit up today.
Some time early Sunday morning Mrs.
Beacher, who is 81 years Of age, sustain
ed fall in moving about her room. Her
head struck on some hard point which
made bad cut aud she was found later
by members Of the family lying in a pool
of blood.
THAWED OUT DYNAMITE.
jay, Maine, Dec. six sticks of dyn-
amite were accidentally exploded near
here this morning on the new Phillips
railroad extension. Orlando Rocca, an
Italian laborer, who attempted to thaw
out the dynamite over a fire, was blown
to pieces and Antonio Damore. laborer,
was fatally injured. Every one of fifty
workmen employed on the grade were
thrown down, several Of them being
painfully injured.
LOCKED IN THE KITCHEN.
Chicago. Dec 1.-The four children ot
Paul Bartcovitch. a laborer, living at
1216 North Fifty-third street, were burn
ed to death this afternoon. The dead
children are: Joseph, six years; Rosa,
four years; Julia, two years; Louis. one
year. The children were left alone in the
house by Mrs. Bartcovitch. She left the
three younger children in charge Of Jo
seph, placing all four in the kitchen ana
locking the doors. 1t Is supposed the
children played with matches, or lighted
pieces OF paper in the stove and set fire
to the house. The building was small
one-s1ory frame affair, and in a sparsely
settled district, no other house being
within a block. None of the neighbors
appear to have seen the building on fire,
as the mother, when she returned two
hours after leaving. was the first one
to find that her home had been burned,
and that her children were dead. All
four of the bodies were found, badly
charred, in the ruins.