The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-11
Told in FeWest Words

| The Peruvian government in few
days will decree the payment Of Gus
tom duties in god.
For political motives the assembling o.
the Peruvian congress has been post
poned until Thursday.
The first bale of the New York state
1897 mop crop was shipped yesterday to
Boston. The price paid was % cents pei
.ound.
Telegraphic advices received at Lima
| Peru, announce the death by drowning
Of the celebrated Amazonian explorer
Fiscarrad.
The third OF the series Of three races
| between fitzpatrick, the American, and
been abandoned.
William E. Quinby of Detroit, lately
! United States minister 10 the Neither
lands. arrived yesterday at New York
on the steamship Westernlands, from
| Antwerp.
The C. H Quincy company Of Chicago,
| heavy hardware, has failed under a
judgment by confession obtained by a
creditor. The liabilities are $4,000; as
sets slightly more.
Mike Farragher and Joe Martin. OF
Youngstown, Ohio, fought a forty-five
round draw near Cleveland Monday night
The fight wss for s1OG, the gate receipts
and 10 settle an old grudge.
The appointment OF Baron Won Thiel-
mann me retiring German ambassador
10 the Cr1i;ed States, as secretary Of the
imperis treasury, in succession 10 Count
Posadowsky, is gazetted at Berlin.
The Cripple Creek Morning Times has
been sold by ]. P Riley TO Frank j.
Arkens, a we'll known newspaper man,
VINO has for years been connected with
the Rocky Mountain News Of Denver.
Arguments al New York in the ha-
beas corpus proceedings in behalf Of the
alleged New Orleans diamond thieves,
Jean Antonio Mangan and Rogeio Gu
nense, have been postponed until today.
Boo R~ackett, the negro who assaulted
Miss kit1ie Henderson near Asheville,
y. c., Monday, was caught yesterday
morning erd fully identified. He has
been lodged in the county jail at Ashe-
vile.
Loan and Building association Of Chica-
60, which July 81 reported surplus OF
S236, 900, is shown by the report of z. I.
G.ennon, custodian for the state auditor,
to have a deficit of slS5.623.
The National Hay association, in ses-
sion al Pittsburg, Pa. reports that the
present prospect is for the largest hay
crop ever grown in this country. The
legislative committee expressed them
selves as satisfied with the tariff rate OF
81 per ton
A warrant is out at Detroit, for Cliff
ford r. England, bookkeeper for the
Warren-Scharf Asphalt Paving COM
pany, who is charged with emoeZZling
$4,000 in cash Of the concerns money.
england, with his wife, lefe the city last
Saturday.
The approaching marriage is an
nounced in London OF Captain Arthur
Hay, brother of the Earl of Enrol and
captain of The Queens Own Cameron
Highlanders. 10 Hermminie, daughter OF
Ms. Schenley, VINO has large property
interests at Pittsburg, Pa.
James X. Andrews, former treasurer
for c. ?. Kimoall & Co., carriage manu- |
facturers OF Chicago. is under indict- !
ment on three charges of forgery. The |
accusers are the Union Trust company. |
Mr.. Andrews has left town and is sup !
passed to be in Easton, Pa.
A terrific storm struck Paterson, y. j., |
yesterday afternoon. The rainfall was !
the heaviest in twenty-five years and I,
much damage was done by the clyconic |
wind which accompanied it. One crowd
ed car was struck by lightning, but for
tunately no one was injured.
Dixie Hines. manager Of ]. f. Star
buck. and T. w. Eek. manager of A.
Me-tens, who won the one mile national
a Philadelphia last week,
have arranged for a five-mile match race
between S;arbuck and Mertens early in
The race will be paced.
William A. Mclean OF Detroit, a collec-
tor for the Grand Trunk railway, has be-
gun suit against Attorney Joseph NJ.
Bresler for S5o,000 for alleged alienation
Of Mrs. McLean's affections. The law
yer was arrested yesterday on civil, pro-
cess and gave $4,000 bail for appear
ance.
Robert W. Smith, treasurer OF the
railroad, fatty denies the
rgmGr that a plan is MISREPRESENTATION
by the Pennsylvania for refunding in adj
vance a large mortgage debt due in 1905,
and says that. as far as his company is
no such step had been con-
,emplsted.
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-he requsition Of the governor OF South
Dakota for the return OF Henry E. Bail
~. wanted in Pennington county. s. D,
charged with embezzlement as assignee
or the Rabbit Valley Horse Ranch COM
oany. Bailey is now carrying on an in
;urance business in Chicago.
The movement 70 provide baths and
yash-houSe facilities. which originated
4 England in 1912. has spread widely in
Great Britain and on the continent. The
movement in Germany in establishing
Norkmen'S baths has demonstrated that
he Ven simpler forms can be mos:
probably introduced by American cities
n their attempt 10 provide the working
classes With adequate baths for CLEANSING
and refreshmen;.
New York. Aug. e-Chsrles Trautmann.
l famous rife shot, died today al his home
II Elizabeth. y. J., OF dropsy. aged 81 years.
Bridgeport. Conn, Aug. s.-The schooner
Blanche Morgan. which was held by order
II the government authorities Sunday morn
ng on suspicion that she might be engaged
Z a fiEbustertng expedition 10 Cuba, is
still tied UP here.
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