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

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The directors of The New Jersey Gen.
trai railroad yesterday declared a quar-
terry dividend Of per cent.
By defeating Sam Hardy at San Ra-
fael. Cal. George A. Whitney has be-
come the lawn tennis champion of the
Pacific coast. he score was 4-6; 1-6; Ga;
Sc.
General Poirota has devised plan TO
establish the gold standard for the cur
-ency OF Peru. His project will be SUBJ
nnitted to congress at its next meet
ing
Advices throughout France show that
the destruction by the floods was great
er than an earlier report indicated The
losses are estimated at 200. 900 francs
il tne aggregate.
Yesterday afternoon several negro
prisoners at the county stone pile a.
Lockport, n. Y, overpowered their
guards and escaped. The sheriff and
ten nlen are af1er them.
Sixty tons Of bur1er have arrived at
Vancouver, B. c., and will be forward
ed 10 Sydney by the Warimoo. This is
the first shipment of American butter
ever shipped 70 Australia.
Roberts Bros, Of Chicago. manufactur
ers of mackintoshes and rubber goods
have made an assignment. Assets. $780,
900; liabilities, $4,000. Business depres-
sion is given as the cause.
James Butler, a farmer Of Lisbon.
Wis, came home Monday Intoxicated
and in a quarrel with his wife, seized
an ak and almost hacked her to pieces.
Butler escaped and is still at large.
M. Henry Baker, colored, was electro
cuted at Sing Sing for wife murder yes
terday The crime was committed in
August, 1895. Just outside OF White
Plains. Barker was jealous Of his
wife.
There is a great deal Of comment in
Madrid On the position OF the Bank OF
Spain. rs note circulation is larger
than ever before and 1t is said TO have
increased TO 1900, 900 pezetas.
The steal rails have arrived at Vera
Cruz, Mexico, from Pittsburg, Pa, for
use on the electric railway which IS
being constructed from Jalapa to Vera
Cruz, a distance Of fifty miles. This
will be the first electric railway in Mex
leo.
Senator Harris Of Tennessee was rest
ing mrre easily yesterday, but was still
considered in a serious condition. The
senator some months ago was Frustrated
by an attack Of the grip. The present
attack is regarded with grave apprehen-
sion.
A freight train on the White Mount
ain division Of the Boston & Maine rail-
roaI was wrecked by wasiaout near
woodville, n. H., yesterday. Patrick
Lennon, engineer: Bert Pebbles, fire
man, and O. E. LANCE, brakeman, were
killed.
The proprietors of the twenty-six
bIeweries in Detroit are each planning
to sell out to a syndicate composed
chiefly of English capitalists A result
Of the consolidation will be raise in
the price of beer from 81 to S. per bar
rel, TO Sc.
Mrs Edith NJ Staples, the companion
Of Bicyclist Charles B. Nelson, at the
time of his mysterious shooting in
Park, Chicago. last Tues
day night, has been released on bail,
but charge of being accessory to as
sault with in;en: 10 commit murder"
has been entered against her.
By 446 to 90, the French deputies yes
terday adopted the credit asked to de-
fray the expense Of President Faure's
visit 10 st. Petersburg. The opposition
Socialists who wanted the
money used in relieving distress in
stead Of clarifying an emperor.
The south-bound Louisville and Nash
vile passenger train which Left Cincin-
natl al o'clock Monday night was
wrecked at Harris station, near Rich
mond. KY, at midnight. The passen-
gers escaped injury, but Engineer John
Clark and Fireman Frank Hunter were
injured.
E. K Smoot. the American capital
ist who has the contract for construct
Ing a deep water harbor at Mazatlan,
on the Pacific coast of Mexico. for the
Mexican government, Is on his way to
the United States, 70 contract for mate
rial for the extensive work. The actual
Of the jetties will soon be-
gin.
London, July 6.-Prince Victor Dhu-
leep Singh, who has long been promi-
nen: in London society, son Of the great
indian potentiate Dhuleep Singh, who
started ten years ago TO stir up a re-
volt in India under Russian auspices.
and who was stopped a.. Alden and
brought back to England. is engaged 10
Lady Vincent, sister Of Viscount Er-
hurst
The body Of the late John Evans, ex-
governor of Colorado. lay in state at the
capitol. in Denver, from 10 a. m. to
80 p. m. yesterday and was viewed
by thousands Of people. Funeral serv-
ices were conducted in the afternoon by
Chancellor William F. Mcdowell of
the University Of Denver, which was
founded by him. Then the Masons took
,narge of the body.
AMERICAN WHIST CONGRESS