The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-16
LATEMEws BY WIRE.

ambassador, Mr.. Eustis. and his daughter,
have arrived at Nice.
Port Huron, Mich, Jan. 15.-Asman &
Beard. re.an dealers in dry goods. have
failed, with liabilities of $1,000.
Paris, France, Jan. 16-M. Alfred Mary,
| who rescued the Comte de Paris from a
ro3D IL: the chamber of deputies in lSis, is
\ aead.
| Lima, Peru. via. Galveston. Tex, Jan. Is.
l-Cenerai Medarto Alfaro has been elected
constitutional president of Ecuador by Is
/ votes.
| New York, Jan. 15.-Deviin & Co., COR
porat;on dealing in clothing, assigned TO
Edward Wsntz. The company was incor-
i,orated in 1881, with capital stock OF $780,
CO.
London, Eng, Jan. 15.-John Singer Sar-
and Messrs. j. ]. Shannon and Alfred Par
, sons have been made associate academi-
clans.
den Rod Manufacturing company, of Pat
terson, N J.. manufacturers of silk to the
number of 100 went on a strike today over
question of wages.
Philadelphia, Pa, Jan. 15-Colonel c. H.
afternoon. Colonel Banes was stricken with
apoplexy last summer and had been very
III ever since. He was Go years old.
Philadelphia. Pa. Jan. 15-Benjamin H.
Candy, aged 81 and Seabrigbt Berry, aged
As years. both of Gloucester. n. j., were in>
startly killed today by walking IN front
of an express train on the Philadelphia and
Reading crossing.
Tnl; I'll n
of Chicago dropped dead in front of the
Union station in this city at 10 o'clock to-
day. His son, T. S. Thompson. is con-
nected with Chicago betting company and
the dead man was salesman for the COM
pany.
London, Eng, Jan. 1S.-A constantinople
dispatch to the Times says that as result
of Russo-French protests. the sultan has
offered to Marshal Fuad Pasna an accept
able post instead of ordering him into prac-
teal exile at Bagdad for his efforts to pre-
vent massacres.
Albany. n. Y, Jan. 15.-Charles W. Hack
EFT of Utica, chairman of the Republican
state committee, lies at the Kenmare hotel
in this city critically i'll. At IL O'Clock it
was believed he was dying, but toward
noon he fell into quiet sleep and his ply
sicians have hope of his recovery.
Jefferson City. No., JAM 1.-THE Stand
ara Snoe company, one of the largest COM
panies employing convict labor and doing
bunisess in the penitentiary, made an as
signment today The total liabilities will
probably reach $4,000 Poor collections
is assigned as the cause of the failure. It is
thought the creditors will be paid in full.
New York, Jan. 15.-Ethel Assnes today
roI ber hnc nd ~
Cleveland. for divorce, alleging that ne led
her into marriage by false representations
that he was wealthy. The husband sets
up similar complaint. They were mar
ried two months ago as a result of the ne
gotiations Of a Hebrew. Schatchem. who
made each believe the other was rich.
Boston. Mass, Jan. 1.-THE Congrega-
tional Educational society of Boston,
through its secretary, Rev. John A. Hamil-
ton, DID,. and its field secretary, Rev. +.
L. Ferguson, which has been making an
effort during the last year to raise slOo 600
for Uomona college. Claremont, Cal. has
been successful One year ago Harlan F.
Page and wife. of Philadelphia. subscribed
$4,000 on condition that the whole amount
should be raised by January 10. 1897.
Washington, D. c.. Jan. 1.-THE Mont
gomery which was injured by striking the
bottom Off Governors Island, New York
harbor, Wednesday evening, will not be
ready for sea again for some time yet, ac-
co.d.ng to a report to the navy department
from Commodore Sicard, the commandant
of the New York navy yard. She is in
dry dock repairing the damage to her pro-
peller and bottom and will be unable TO go
to Tampa while the seaboard defense board
is in session.
Washington, D. c., Jan. 15.-The first re-
appearance of the opera of Lille Lehman
was made with the Damrosch Opera COM
pany as Brundhilde in die Walkure' here
this evening at the Lafayette Square opera
house. The occasion was notable in that
the audience was one of the most repre-
sentative cf the season. Among those
present were President and Mrs. Cleveland.
Secretary and Mrs. Olney, and other almost
equally well-known, besides many members
of the diplomatic corps. Nine Lehmann's
rendition of Brunhilde was enthusiastically
received.
Rheumatism attacks the back and