The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-07
Told in FeWest Words

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Italian Steamship company, with cap
ital of 100000 pounds.
Major Taylor Scott, attorney general
Of Virginia, died Thursday night at
Warrenton, Va He had been IL OF ty-
pnoid fever for some weeks.
H. A. Bailey, well-to-do Jenison man.
shot his wife Thursday night. Yesterday
morning he took poison and died while
in charge of the officers. The woman
may recover.
The glass workers and the manuiac-
turers Of American flint glass have SET
tied the wage scale for the coming sea-
son. The only change in the scale IS an
advance OF six per cent on grinding
ware.
Jack McKane yesterday morning sho.
and killed William E. Albin as result
Of dispute over a game Of cards. Bo'n
men are gamblers and played poker
nearly the whole OF Thursday night. Nc
Kane was arrested.
Secretary of State John Sherman, ac-
COMMANDED by his private secretary, leet
Amazansett yesterday morning Io-
Washington He appeared in mucn pet
Ter health than when he went mere a
littleo yer week ago.
.Joan II. Keen Of Sioux City, Ia, mas
been chosen manager Of the Sioux Cllg
stock yards, to succeed H. T. Cnesiey'
resigned Keen has hitherto acted as
agent for the Milwaukee road al the
Union stock yards in Chicago.
G. B. Pray Of Des Moines. Iowa. VINO
has been given his CHOICE or appointment
of surveyor general Of Alaska or lndlah
commissioner, has not decided winch po-
s:tion he will accept, as he has not seen
+be law creating the Office Of surveyor
general yet.
Word has been received by john
psrke of Pewaukee, Wis, that his son
rob, parke. who has been in Idaho for
several years, was murdered py lhuidii9
and that his house and all other properly
was destroyed A quarrel over we!
spring is given as the cause OF the oeeo'
Melville c. Brown, an attorney OF La
ramie. Wyo., has fled an affidavit IN
which ne swears that Mrs. arah Ann an
pau who is seeking 10 prove a mar
rage with the late Jay Gou-d. admitted
I, him that she never was married 70
Gould and that he was not the lather OF
her daughter.
The civ council Of Newton, Kan, has
voted 10 collect fines from the JOINTS or
the CITY hereafter. The idea or some OF
tne members seems 10 be one OF exter-
mination. The term Joint" is dehned
m mean "a drug store or other places
where LIQUORS are sold under the guise Oh
other business"
An unknown Italian who has been AMI
I:ating with negroes and teaching them
music for several weeks. was shot anu
killed near Aspen Hill, Tenn, yesterday
morning early. He had threatened L
prosecute the writer's of letter ordering
him to leave the country. His body was
found in mis- cabin riddled with bullets.
The jury in the Wamsley case. on trial
at Vermillion, S. D., % rought In YER
dict of acquittal as to Anna Wamsley.
and manslaughter in the second degree
as TO Marion Wamsley. The court pro-
nounced judgment of three years in the
state penitentiary al hard labor. The
wamsleys killed Albert Darran in figh.
in their house last April.
Danville, Ill, Aug. 6.-The drought in
Danville has been broken. This after
noon four liquod dealers applied for and
received licenses. There was then a
scramble for them, and by tomorrow
morning over forty saloons viii be open
ed and the saloon strike viii be over.
Last night the council again refused to
lower the license and the association i'm
mediately began 10 weaken.
Representatives of twenty Of the lars-
est non-union insurance companies In the
northwest were in session in Chicago yes
terday. The conference was called in or
der 10 secure uniform action on the par.
Of the non-union companies and to dis
cuss the utilizing Of an organization 10
hold the outside companies together. One
matter which was discussed was that Of
a compact with the union companies re-
specting rates.
Hattieshurg. Mss, Aug. 5.-JoseQh