The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-24
Told in FeWest Words

| The president has appointed Jacob P.
Leighly TO be pension agent at Indian
apoiis. vice Martin V. B. Spencer. re-
| moved.
The Figaro republishes a report that
| the Bey OF Tunis, Sadi Ali. will shortly
| abdicate in favor of his son and take
up his residence at Nice.
A dispatch from Madrid says there is
no doubt that the Spanish government
| will be willing to extend the commercial
treaty with the United States.
Henry H Campbell, aged 43 years, for
twelve years a passenger conductor on
the Santa Fe system, is dead at Kansas
City, of cancer of the liver. He was one
oe the best known railroad men in the
west
Attorneys for the Southern Pacific at
Frankfort, KY, have filed a brief to
their demurrer to the state suit FOR sew
eral thousand dollars due for franchise
tax and penalties for failure to make an
nual collections.
VIII Tut, colored man at Mayield,
Ky. SHOT and instantly killed his wife
and wounded his sister-in-law as re-
suit OF a quarrel about visit. \ posse
Of a hundred soon captured Tut and ne
was carried 10 jail.
Hon. John c. Bills, ex-state senator
and ex-mayor Of Davenport. Iowa. aged
20 years, one OF the most prominent
lawyers in Iowa, committed suicide by
shooting yesterday. He was respondent
over failing health.
John T. Long, a workman IN the Cln-
natl shops, while lacking up car yes
terday morning was instantly killed.
Master Mechanic Shredder, who witness
cd the accident. was so shocked that 1t
is feared he will not survive. He has
been troubled with heart disease for
several years.
The National Supreme Court OF For
esters of America will convene IN Den
yer today and daily sessions will be held
until Friday The delegations from
New England and California are the
first On the ground. The Californians
have a button which they will ask the
supreme court to adopt as the emblem
of the order.
Three men were instantly killed and
eight injured by the explosion Of boil
er at the brick yard of w. R. Halliday,
Cairo. IL, yesterday The dead are:
Ruley Brady, engineer: Gideon Kicks
and Henry Schiller All those killed and
injured were negroes, except Schiller.
None OF the injured will die. The cause
of the explosion is unknown.
The plant Of the Union Stock Yards |
al Roieo Cal, which original |
" cost $1,000, 0G0 but which has been |
idle for five years, is 10 be con-
verted into a beet sugar factory by the |
same company which is preparing to |
erect a factory at Crockett, in Contra |
Costa county. Senator Perkins is among |
the promoters of this enterprise.
Sunday a shooting affray occurred at
Keystone, w. Va, between Policeman
Carter Withers and John Stewart and /
Sam Gosset. who attempted to secure a
prisoner from the officer. Wfthers was
shot through the arm while attempting |
to arrest Gosset, who was shot by Cobb.
All are colored. Excitement is high.
1t is reported that H. ]. Steel. ex-
sheriff, and Sam Young, deputy sheriff,
Of Leslie county, Kentucky, were both
killed in a combat at Hydenia. Both
men fought to desperation with pistols
and both fell dead in the fifth round.
Both were prominent, Steel as Demo-
cratic leader and Young as Republi-
can, and they quarrellei over politics.
A huge derrick span weighing 1900
pounds and contained half ton of salt
tell to the deck OF the steamer Fitzger-
aid, which was loading yesterday at
Chicago. Kruper, a laborer, was stoop-
ng over the hatchway. His head was
taught on the edge of the hatchway ard
mashed to pulp. John Cool. also a Ia
oorer. had his left leg nearly severed
rom his body.
State Oleomargarine Inspector David
4. Blandon, who has been in Kansas
City for some time trying to effect a
conviction under the anti-butterine law,
suffered defeat for the third time yes
erday when his case against John
Hartighoni. proprietor Of a cheap res
aurant. was lost. Although it was shown
i the defendant had served an article
a percentage of analine color
ng, jury in Justice Spitzs court de-
ided after being out four minutes that
dartishcni was not guilty. and dis
harged him.
fONJFs nOwS WITH THE COvN