The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-05
Told in FeWest Words

The floods in Fukui, Japan, are said
to nave involved damages to 1900 houses.
The latest native reports from Sc:huan
are that the famine there is still al Its
height and people are dying from s,ar-
Walton by hundreds every day.
The remains of Major Gregory, L. S.
A, who died in Cincinnati on Monday,
were inferred at Arlington cemetery.
Washington, yesterday, with military
honors.
a storm accompanied by striking
electric display awakened many Madi-
son, Wis, people about O'Clock yester-
day morning. Over 500 telephones were
burned ou:.
A party Of 125 Minnesota editors and
their ladies were yesterday entertained
in Detroit The Minnesotans enjoyed a
varied program, including trolley, car
rage and steamer excursions, and fish
ing.
The Northwestern Photographers con-
vention. in session at ST. Paul, devoted
yesterday morning 10 technical reports Oh
the various branches of Photography
The lectures embraced many different
departments.
Walter S. Hobart, the young San
Francisco millionaire who has been crit
ically i'll for several days past, has been
pronounced out Of danger by his physi-
clans, and his recovery is now only
question of few days.
Albert T. Lamb. Of Rockford, H., sales
man for furniture company. and his
four children, are very dangerously Ill
from eating what was supposed 10 be
mushrooms Two have died and the
others are in critical condition.
In the effors that is being made in Ger
many 10 prevent the importation and
sale of American bicycles in that coun-
try. several schemes have been devised
and the probabilities are that increased
tariff rates are 10 be imposed in some
form.
The founding Of a great university at
Shanghai for the education of the Chin
csc is contemplated by that government.
It is intended 10 be an educational center
where the favored youth Of the empire
may go to gain knowledge of the occi-
dental civilization.
The government Of the state Of Para,
Brazil, is inviting tenders for the pur-
chase of the present waterworks Of the
CITY of Para and for extending the sys-
tenn. Para is at the mouth Of the ANA
zon and is the principal shipping port
Cor the India rubber of Brazil.
Senator Tillman yesterday a. Able
vile. S. c., delivered speech in which
he defended the dispensary law and de-
ciared that the troubles involved were
due not TO the law itself but 10 its un-
wise administration. He endorsed the
tariff views of Senator McLaurin.
A railroad 10 the grand sanyon of the
Colorado is to be built soon from FfaS-
staff or Williams, Ariz. a tenth OF the
capital stock Of 81 100000 is already IN
hand and the bonds Of the proposed road
are being placed in the east. The new
line will be known as the Santa Fe and
Grand Canon, and will be seventy-tWo
miles in length.
w. H. Smith of Los Angeles. az receiv-
err of the Atlantic and Pacific road, mas
brought suit against the Wells Fargo Co.
for 1892 alleged to be due for service
rendered. The railroad company claims
to have contracts with the express COM
pany which provides for the payment oy
the express company of S45,oO annually,
the railroad company to divide the sum
among its subsidiary companies.
The National Jobbing Confectioners
met in Detroit yesterday. Trouble en-
sued when President Stein announced
the appointment Of committee on Gre
dentials. The president had ignored the
Chicago delegation in making up the
committee. When the convention re-as-
sembled this afternoon the committee on
credentials reported that It stood three
10 three on the question Of reinstatinS
Chicago members. The committee re-
ferred the matter back to the convention.