The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-21
Told in FeWest Words

| Mrs. A. NJ. Bloomoff, mother Of Sam
! uel Morse, died in Indianapolis yesterday
Mrs. B,oomoff lived al Fort Wayne.
The commission of Ethan Allen Hitch
| cock OF Missouri, as minister to Russia
was made out at the White House yes.
| terday.
The Virginia Prohibitionists yesterday
at Lynchburg nominated Rev. L. A. Cut
Ter for governor; Smith Deal for lieu
tenant governor and j. B. Kennedy FOL
attorney general.
James Jeffriesof Tennessee and Ross
Griffin of Kansas City, Mo-, have been
appointed commissioners 10 aiot lands
in severalty 10 the Indians Of the In
compahgre reservation in Utah.
The works Of the Staten Island Terra
Gotta company at Woodbridge, n. j.,
were damaged TO The extent OF $50 by fire
yesterday. It is thought that the fire
was caused by an overheated kiln.
Attorney General McKenna, il is said.
has prepared his decision as 70 the char
acter of the harbor 70 be constructed at
San Pedro, Cal. The decision has not
passed through the usual official chan
nels and no Information regarding the
nature Of the decision can be had.
The Peoples Savings bank az Mount
Pleasant, Mich, closed lis doors yester-
day morning. No statementhas been
given out. According TO the January
statement. the capital stock Of the bank
was 500, 900, with $4,000 in deposits.
The government Of Peru has ordered
its postage stamps made in the United
States. The first order, for 100000 five
cent stamps, has been given TO the
Bank Note company. and an
other. for 1000, 900 stamps Of other de-
viii follow.
Arthur B. Connolly, for sixteen years
chief OF police at Atlanta, died al his
home in that city yesterday, after long
illness. He began as a patrolman and
rose TO be captain and was finally elected
chief, which position he held through
eight successive terms, until his death.
The schooner Ninlbus, which arrived
in New York from Pernam-
buco, brought one passenger, Douglas
Perkins, Jr, who was oneof the party OF
gold seekers who sailed from New York
last winter in the old New York pilot
boat, J. p. Lout, for Terra del Fuego.
The California Southern railroad, a
new line in construction from Bugs Sta
ion, on the Ogden Railway and Naviga-
ton line, south through Sherman, Wasco
and Crook counties TO iPneville, dis
lance of 125 miles, will be put in opera
ion about September 1, as far as Wasco.
John F. Soldering, Formerly promi-
1ent manufacturer of Akron, Ohio, as
signed to Francis Seiberling, his neph-
wv. The assets and liabilities are about
1850, 900 each. His affairs nave been in
IN unsettled condition since the failure |
# the j. F. Seiberlin Mower and Reaper |
Granville Stewart, United States min |
ster 10 Uruguay, has made a personal |
all on the president of that country TO |
convey 10 him the congratulations Of
President Mckinley on the failure of an
Lttempt on the Urugueyan presidents |
ife by Reveco. a crazy student, some |
wo months ago.
United States Marshal McDermott has
'ttA duN iCth ny lit dlSOI nCy gent etl VI
Wyoming to double the amount Of the |
eward before offered by the department |
# justice for the capture of the stage |
obbers in the National Park. Five hum
red dollars will now be paid for the ar
est and conviction of the hold-ups.
The Rev. Perry Hopkins. a bishop in
ne American African Union Methodist
lie was 10 years old and for many years
ras a preacher in that city Before the |
var he was slave, belonging 10 a plan
er on the eastern shore of Maryland
'hirsday evening he preached on The
1ysteries Of Death"
Charles Krey, who has been in the en-
10y of the Pacific and United States Ex-
ress companies in St. Louis. has been
rreSted for EN- bezzlement of about s.. 900
'om the companies and robbing pack
Ses in transit of about 1880 Krey was
'anSfer money clerk and had been trust
/ implicitly. He began his pecula tons
bout fourteen years ago.
Articles of Incorporation of the Los
ngeles ard Pasadena Railway company
ave been filed a. Phoenix. Ariz. The !
lcoropratJrs are Andrew McNally and
. B. Dewey of Chicago. ]. ". Hugers
Pasadena, Cal. and G. VI. Sherman |
Phoenix. 1t is proposed 70 build the
'ad from Los Angeles 70 Pasadena, al |
/ estimated cost OF 81, 600. 900.
Judge Clark, OF the federal court. in |
e case Of the Louisville and Nashville
abroad and other lines entering Nash
lie, against the tickle; scalpers of that
ty, has issued decision against the
tier which will prevent them from
en- from manipulating the cheap round
ip tickets on sale 10 the Nashville ex-
'7ition and will close every brokers' Of
e in the City of Nashville.