The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-12

Chief OF Police Badenoch and Secretary
ShortaIl, of the Illinois Humane society,
have both declared that the exhibition
should not be allowed, and Commissioner
of Public Works Downey and City Col
Hector Mas, state that permit Tor the
exhibition will be refused. There Is 10
objection TO the, killing of the animal, II
being considered that she has earned
her death. but the publicity and admis-
sion fee plan finds disfavor and it is i'm
probable that a public exhibition of the
killing will be permitted.
HELPED THE TAYLORS OUT.
Denver, Colo, Dec. lid. F. Stone,
the convict who sawed a hole through
he wall Of the jail at Carrollton, Mo, in
The fall of 1885 and allowed the escape
o. himself and the Taylor brothers, then
under sentence to be hanged for the muir
Eer and cremation of the Meeks family.
Is in the Canon City penitentiary. He
has been identified by Detective Hayes
Df Kansas City, no. Stone is serving
sentence for robbing passenger on
railroad train of his watch and money
His term will expire Oct. %, 1897, and he
Viii then be taken back to Missouri.
CRIME NEWS IN BRIEF.
ST. Joseph, No, Dec. 11.-Charles and
George May were sentenced today 10 be
hanged January 10 for the murder of
William l. Burdette. The Mays Drained
Burdette with a club when he interfered
In a fight between the Mays and his ne
phew.
Metropolis, Ill, Dec. 1.-THE jury re-
burned a verdict today in the case of
John Lemley, Bart lynn and Ed Lynn,
pn trial for the murder Of Benjamin Ladd
last May, finding them guilty and fixing
their terms in the penitentiary at 80. 20
and II years respectively.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 11-At
Randolph, Utah, today Judge Hart SEN
fenced Patrick Coughlin TO be shot OF
December 10 for the killing of Officers
Dawes and Stagg last year. The execu-
ton will take place in Rich county, near
where the officers were killed.
Columbia, Mo, Dec. 11.-An unknown
man jumped from the. eastbound train
On the Missouri, Kansas and Texas while
going at the rate of forty miles an hour,
and was instantly killed. He had $4,000
ir his possession, but nothing tending to
Ills identification except a ticket reading
from Denison, Tex, to St. Louis
San Quentin, Cal, Dec. 11.-Marsal ].
Miller was hanged at the state prison
here today for the murder Of Jseph Pier
re OF Marysville last May. Miller and
Stuart Greene attempted to rob Pierre's
house and during the burglary shot Mr..
Pierre so severely that he died. Greene
received life Imprisonment for his share
of the crime.
Denver, Colo, Dec 1.-THE grand jury
has unanimously voted not to present a
bill of indictment against Andrew J.
Spute, who has been accused of murder
ing his wife and four children, who were
drowned several weeks ago in Smiths
lake, where they were boating. Spute
will now take the necessary steps to col
iect the $4,000 insurance on his Wife's
life
Paris, Dec. 11-Ex-Minister Baihut,
who was released a few months ago
from prison, where he was undergoing
sentence for connection with the Pana-
ma canal frauds, was re-arrested today
in order that he may serve two years in
prison for not paying the fine 1891 900
francs which was imposed upon him in
addition to his sentence Of imprison-
ment.
MINE cAvE-IN.
Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. ia special
dispatch from Yuma, says that news has
reached there from Hedges, fifteen miles
distant in San Diego county, of a terrible
disaster in the Queen mine Of that place,
owned by the Gold Cross Mining and
slillling company. Some time last night
d tCCQIItQ All lllc l1dlH Shalt, anu
es result several miners have lost their
lives and more are injured. Reports are
meagre and conflicting but the generally
accepted one is that four miners are en-
tombed at the bottom of the shaft, with
no chance 20 escape, and four or five
have been rescued badly injured.
ATE POISONED MEAT.
Sisterville, w. Va, Dec. u-Word
reached here today Of the poisoning of
three women at Bum Run, this county,
All the victims were dissolute women,
who have made their headquarters about
the oil fields. Stella Brown died soon af-
terW3rds. The two others are lying at
the point of death. The women were
poisoned by eating corned beef, which
contained some foreign substance.
NINETEEN DROWNED.
Swansea, Wales, Dec 1.-THE British
ship Springville, Captain Kinnan, from
Liverpool on December for Galveston,
has arrived here with two survivors of
The German ship Rajah, of Bremen,
which left Cardiff on Wednesday for
Hong Kong. She capsized in a gale near
Lundy Island at the entrance of the Bris-
to, channel. Nineteen of the Rajah's
crew drowned.
BUILDING COLLAPSES.
Madrid, Spain, Dec. ia dispatch
from Jeres announces that large build
Ing has collapsed there, burying over 100
persons. Eleven bodies have already
been recovered. The Jere where the dis
aster occurred is Jeres de la Frontera,
sixteen miles northeast Of Cadiz.