The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-11
Told in Fewest Words


The Bradley Martins have taken Bar
ney Barnato's magnifcenu Unfinished
| palace on Park Lane
There is said to be no truth in the
report that Governor Taylor of Tennes-
see has decided 70 appoint McMillin SEN
ator.
The Orphan Bell Mines on Bull Hill.
Cripple Creek. have been sold for $780,
600. The ivndicator mine. also on Bull
Hill, has been sold for 100000.
Charles II. Porter, who represented
the Richmond, Va, district In the Forty
first and Forty-second congress. died at
Cairo, n. Y. Thursday Of apoplexy.
Samuel Brown, a Pittsburg. Pa. min
er, and his wife Mary, were burned to
death in bed yesterday morning. The
fire was caused by lang explosion.
The Amalg amated association scale
was signed yesterday by the Kimberly
Mil. Greenville. Pa. and work will be
resumed in all departments on Monday.
The Duke Of Manchester has tele-
graphed 10 the Associated Press asking
| il to kindly contradict the announce
nIent Of his engagement TO Miss Mary
Goelet.
DR.. Roswell D. Valentine. one Of the
best known physicians of southwestern
Missouri, committed suicide at his home
in Springfield yesterday morning by
shooting on account OF i'll health.
George Green and Joe Wolcott, weller
| weights have signed articles for TWEEN
ty-round contest before the National
Athletic clu, San Francisco. on August
% The men Will weigh in at 1i5
pounds.
II now seems certain that railroad
will be buift to the Deep country. west
Of Salt Lake. The line will probably
start from Tntic, ON the Oregon Short
Line, and run 120 miles west, opening
up a rich mining section in Utah and
Nevada
The officers OF the Merchants associa-
ton of New York City. have been noti-
fed by representatives of the railroads
| west of Chicago that they cannot grant
a reduced rate 10 merchants who desire
10 come to New York to make their fall
purchase Of stocks.
The supreme council! Of the Patriarch
a! Circle, formerly the chief sub-organi-
zation of the Odd Fellows, will hold its
annual convention July IA to II. at James
vile. WIS. The meeting Ia Of special in
.erest, as It may terminate the existence
Of the order as a separate organization.
Senator Quay has authorized the an
nouncement that he will be candidate
for the United States senate to succeed
himself This sets at rest all rumors
chat have been going the rounds to the
effect that Senator Quay would retire
from politics at the expiration OF his
present senatorial term.
c. F. Croker, vice president Of the
Southern Pacific Railroad company. has
been prostra Ted by an apopletio stroke at
his home in San Mateo. The stroke was
SO serious that DR.. George Chrismore
Of San Francisco was ummoned by tele-
phone to the bedside Of Mr.. Croker.
Colonel Croker Is very sick man. ."
Carl Hanson, Arkansas lightweight,
ard Fred McManus of Pittsburg, met
last night for a purse in fifteen round
go before the Arena club, at Hot Springs,
Ark. Both men put up good fight for
three rounds. Hanson getting much the
best Of it. At the end of the third round
the city authorities stopped the fight.
Actor Edward ]. Radcliffe must go
back to New York from Chicago 20 an.
swer the indictment pending against
him there for an alleged assault upon
his wife. Judge Coggin decided the ac-
tors habeas corpus suit yesterday and
remanded him to the custody Of Detec-
tive McConville, of the New York force.
Andrew E. Smith, the promoter Of the
Universal Gas company, Of Chicago. and
who also figured in securing the famous
Bacon compressed air ordinance. is dead.
Deceased was better known in New
York and Philadelphia, as ''Bony Back"
Smythe, and was instrumental in build
ing some of the largest gas plants OF the
world.
The Bimetallic smelter at Leadville,
has been blown in after nine months
.dieness rhe smelter employee about $50
men. ~Ae arrival Of four large pumps.
TO be used IN unwatering the mines OF
the downtown district, is another i'm
portant event that means that by Oco-
Der 500 more miners Will find employ
men. there.
Trial has begun in the federal court
at Tacoma, Wash. in the suit brought
last year by the Northern Pacific rail-
way against several hundred families
occupying lands which the railroad COM
all ha Cnli
in Cowiitz and Clarke counties. The
suit involves title to the Northern Pa
cific land gran; for forty miles cas-; OF
Tacoma.
Owing to the fact that there are two
United States consuis in the Argentine
Republic named Baker. some confusion
arose as to the identity of the American
consul there whose death was reported
to the state department yesterday. II
was the consul at Buenos Ayres. Ed
ward L. Baker. and not his SON. VINO Is
consul 10 Rosario, Of whose death notice
vas received.
Mrs. T. R. R. Coob died yesterday at
her home in Athens, Ga. aged 70 She
was the widow of the youngest brother
OF Howell COBB, The statesman. who was
brigadier general in the Confederate
army and was killed while fighting be,
hind the famous stone wall OF Freie.-
icksburg, December IS. 1852 One Of Mrs.
Cobb's daughters is the wife OF ex-Sec-
rotary OF The Interior Hoke Smith.
SOMETHING TO DEFEND ON
Mr.. James Jones. OF the drug firm Of
Ionss a Son. Cowden. H.. in speaking
Of DR.. Kings New Discovery. says that