The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-07
Told in FeWest Words

| The American schooner Henry G.
Winship, in ballast for Pascagoula, was
blown ashore east Of the Eads jetties
yesterday morning and sunk. The crew
was saved
Thomas p. Morgan, ST., head Of the
Morgan Engineering company, Alliance,
Ohio, an intimate friend of President
Mckinley, died suddenly yesterday after
noon of apoplexy.
The Dominion customs department at
Ottawa, has been advised that firm in
aJckson, Mich, has been shipping hoes,
| forks, rakes, ETC., made by prison labor.
into Canda. These classes of goods are
prohibited under the new law.
Dominion collectors of customs have
been advised TO permit all goods from
countries entitled to preferential treat
ment to get the benefits of the reciprocal
clause, whether shipped direct or other
wise. The order does not apply to the
United States.
The officers Of the Pacific Express COM
pany estimate the amount OF money
stolen from their safe by the train rob-
bers near Folsom, y. NJ, Friday night,
at not more than $500. This was all
the safe contained and it is supposed
the robbers took it all.
w K. McAllister, representing the
Morgan steamship line and the Southern
Pacific Railway company in Denver, has
announced a reduction Of through
freight rates from the Atlantic seaboard,
effective yesterday. The first-class rate
will be s207, and other rates to CORES
pond.
Four boys whose ages range from
to Il years, were severely injured yes
terday in Chicago by the explosion of
dynamite cartridge, which they found
while playing w Martin had an eye
torn out, John Martin had leg broken,
and Frank and John Olsinskfs faces
were mangled.
The mammoth plant at Mendelssohn
Park, near McKeesport, Pa, containing
the Mendelssohn Piano works, the
Barkhof Organ works and the Dickson
and Woodbrick works. was destroyed by
of $4,000 The supposition is that the
building was set afire.
The general managers Of the non
union Western Fire Insurance COM
panies yesterday held an executive ses-
sion at Saratoga, n. 7. The regular
Western Union Associationiof Managers
of Fire Insurance companies, Of which
r. ]. Smith OF Chicago is president, will
hold an executive session there today.
About one hundred delegates to the
convention Of the Associatiomof Station
airy Engineers to be held at Columbus.
Ohio, left Chicago yesterday for that
place. Half the number were from
points all over the west. Among the
questions to be considered will be the
advisa bility Of emitting clause in the
constitution which provides for the ab-
soiute non-interference of the union in
strikes.
Robert Bleakiey. president Of the adj
visory board of the International Com
mercial Congress, which met in Phila-
delphia in June, president Of the local
dock commission and ex-president Of the
Commercial club, died last night in Den
yer, after brief illness Bleakley was
one of the best known men in the city.
Ex-Congressman T. T. Flagler OF
Lockport, n. Y, is dead, aged S6. He
was president Of the Holly Manufacture
ing company.
At the trades union congress which
met yesterday at Birmingham, England,
there were 800 delegates present, repre-
senting 1850, 900 unionists. The parlia-
mentary committee reported that the
legislation in many decisions of the
courts during the year 1897 was not
based on the principles of equity and
Justice and was calculated seriously to
iniure the cause of labor and give CAPT.
talism and improper advantage.