The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-11-19
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Morrow Bros. OF Carksville. Tenn,
| have secured the contract for tobacco
for the Italian government. About Is
900, 900 pounds Of dark tobacco is required
for next year.
Signor Verdi, the celebrated composer,
WHO has been suffering greatly since the
death of his wife, whose demise was an
nourced on Sunday, is so Frustrated that
serious results are feared.
By premature discharge of dynamite
IN one Of the city sewers of Des Moines,
Iowa, yesterday two men named Walt
ers and Barton were fatally injred. OH
e. workmen fad narrow escapes.
Francis A. Wade was given a verdict
Of twenty years in the penitentiary by
jury al Liberty, Mo, yesterday for the
killing OF Alex Schammel, near Excelsior
Springs, September s, 1897. The men
quarreled over a inc fence.
The directors of the Rochester On. "
Savings bank have agreed TO place tina,
institution in liquidation. The officials
sa ythat the banks business has been
gradually falling off until the deposits
A man believed to be Bob Love, who
is said to be wanted at Indianapoli. for
murder, has been arrested at Los An
geles. The, letters ''R. L." and star
were found tattooed on the prisoners
right forearm, answering the descrip-
ton.
john Burgess, youth of 19, Wednes-
t =
Meridian, Mich. Hart, VINO was engag-
ed to marry Burgess sister, disguised
himself as cowboy and tried to fright
en- Burgess, who became angry and kill
ed the supposed tramp.
In freight wreck today twenty miles
south of Huntington, w. Va, ON the
Norfolk and Western railroad, Ben B.
Myers, engineer, Of Kenova, was cover
ed by debris which caught fire. He was
50 badly burned that he will die Three
others were injured but not fatally.
The Germans will make an effort to
have a splendid showing at the Paris ex-
position and are completing arrange
bic Germany will have an industrial
palace 700 meters square on the banks
OF the Seine near the Quai d Orsey.
A report from Honolulu that the firm
of Goodell, Perkins & Co., had Inspected
the vessels of the Oceanic Steamship
company with view to their purchase
for use on the Alaskan route, is denied |
by Captain Minor Goodell AMI John D. |
Spreckels. Of the Oceanic company.
At the annual meeting Of the stock |
holders of the Baltimore and Ohio |
Southwestern railroad In Cincinnati yes |
tefday 442, 261 shares were represented in |
the election. The old board of directors |
was reelected and that board reelected |
the present officers of the company. The |
meeting was harmonious throughout
Executions aggregating nearly $40, COO |
have been issued agains. the firm Of |
Bros, the contractors who were |
building the Chanoine dam on the Ohio |
river at Merrill, Pa. 1t is eaid that the
executions were issued on account of the
that the government was
going to take the contracts for the build
ing Of the Merrill dam from the firm.
Sir Henry Dou1ton, head of the firm Of |
Dculton & Co., Lambeth potteries, is
dead. in London. Sir Henry was born
in Vauxtrall, July IS. 1920, and began
for potter at the age Of IS. He
commenced art pottery and the manu-
facture Of Doulton ware in 1870. Sir
Henry was a chevaler Of the Legion of
Honor and received the Albert medal of
the Society of Arts
AT the session of the National Acad-
envy OF Science at Boston yesterday
Miss Alice L. Gould, daughter of the late
Benjamin Apthorp Gould, who was a
member Of the academy, presented to
the organization fund Of $4,000 This
is to be known as the Alice L. Gould
fund and its proceeds are ID be used at
the discretion of the trustees in furth-
ering astronomical and mathematical