The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-09
BRIEF NEWS BY WIRE
Very Little Going and That Is Eclipsed
by Election News.

General Maceo is reported wounded
again.
Enicke, the sculptor, died yesterday
near Cologne.
Sir Charles Upper and his colleagues
resigned yesterday.
Over $4,000 Endeavorers are said to
have arrived at Washington.
Bradley johnson has been dissuaded
from fighting that duel in Cuba.
Beaumont of England beat Mcdowell
| of Chicago at Henley yesterday.
There We're 377 fresh cases of cholera
reported in Egypt yesterday and 17S
deaths.
Daisy Price of Bellville, ILL.,, is the
girl who was killed in a saloon at st.
Louis Tuesday night.
In New York yesterday Will Johnson
of Chicago fatally wounded Student
William H. Sutton and then killed him
self.
In the fifth heat for the Wyfold chal-
ienge cup, the London Rowing club
beat the Kingston Rowing club at Hen
ley yesterday.
The town of Kobrin in the province
of Grodnovisk, Russia, has been burned.
Three hundred houses were destroyed
and 1000 people are homeless.
The treasury yesterday lost s263, 900 in
gold and $4,000 in gold bars, leaving the
true amount of the gold reserve 800, 1923
$50. OF the coin withdrawn s250,000 was
exported to Canada
e NJ. Cooper, general manager of the
Wells Fargo Express company, died at
his home at Oakland, Cal, Tuesday
night Cooper was the oldest express
officers in the country.
The Missouri Pacific has given notice
Of withdrawal from the agreement of
the executive association concerning the
maintenance of the passage of rates in
the Trans-Missouri territory
Joe Choynski and Peter Maher have
signed articles to fight ten round before
the National Athletic club at San Fran
cisco on August 4. The contest will be
for $1,000 a side and a side bet.
A dispatch to the London Chronicle
from Constantinople says that it is ru-
mored that $4,000 Kurds in the DiarDe-
kir district have revolted and are pill
Laying the villages indiscriminately.
James Magee, a well known boxer and
door Of his home early yesterday morn
ing by an unknown man and was shot
dead as he appeared al the threshold
A special to the Bee from York. Neb..
says the Kansas City and Omaha rail-
way was sold there yesterday at auc-
ton and was bid in by parties represent
ing the stockholders; consideration $780,
600.
Past Grand Exalted Ruler Apperly ef
Louisville. was reinstalled in the grand
lodge Of Elks at Cincinnati yesterday.
The case OF the restoration OF Past
Grand Secretary Allen ofiMeyers was
dropped.
A Buluwayo dispatch TO the London
Daily Telegraph says that the exoedi-
ton from there into the MatOpepo hills
against the Matabele has been tempo
rarily abandoned. The Afrikander cor
Respondent refuse 10 fight, owing 10 dis
satisfaction.
Fire last night destroyed Gorge Fren-
kel's Empire hotel, No. 1s9 Elm street,
Buffalo. Miss Jennie Mills, aged -;
Mrs. Moriania, 60. and 2-year-old chisi.
Maggie King. who were on the third
floor. were suffocated- George Papps
jumped from the third story window
and viii likely de.
The nominating committee OF the
Teachers Education Associa ton con-
vention today recommended the follow
ing officers for next year. the recon-
mendations being equivalent % cleo
ton: President. Charles r Skinner.
New York; secretary. Irwni Shred. WI
mona Mimi; treasurer, Z. c. Mcneil.
Kansas civ