The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-09
Told in Fewest Words


Of British troops had been ordered TO
| proceed to Massowah, the Italian head
| quarters, is denied al the foreign office
| in London
Captain George T. Walker, until a
| year ago inspector of steamboats, and
barges for the port of Philadelphia, died
| in Colorado Springs, Col, yesterday of
heart failure.
At Bridgeport, Conn, yesterday Da-
vid A Weeks jointly accused with
Charles A. Bonai of the murder Of
George VI. Nichols Of Daniels Farm,
made full confession.
Chief Justice Conway, OF the Wyo-
ming supreme court died yesterday
morning in Cheyenne. He had been sick
some three weeks. He was elected in
| 1890 at the first state election
The complete list Of Sherry claims
| filed with the sheriff at Oshkosh, Wis,
show over 900 creIt5tors with liabilities
Of s1,132,952 A large number of the
creditors hold only the personal notes
OF Mr.. Snerry.
It has been learned that W. w. Tread
| day last of consumption, was connected
with a millionaire family in New York
state. The remains will be sent to his
father, Alonzo Treadwell, Jersey City.
New jersey.
Thurber, McWilliams, Gilmore & Co.,
wholesale hardware dalers, Chicago,
have assigned to the Illinois Trust and
Savings bank. Tie liabilities are $780,
900 and the assets s21O,o00 It is said
the firm had been doing a losing busi-
ness for three years.
Michael Spangler, who was terribly
crushed Tuesday when being noisted in
the shaft of the Crown Point Virginia
mine, near Idaho Springs, Col, Of which
he is receiver, is not dead, but cannot
recover. His back is broken and the
lower part OF his Body paralyzed.
Fire which broke out in the o wosso,
Mich, Casket works yesterday morning
destroyed one life and $4,000 worth Of
property. Frank Wilcox, night watch
man. was suffocated while trying to
queH the fire with a hand extingusher.
The property destroyed was insured for
$4,000.
An antiLburglar device recenta yinwent-
ed in Germany consists Of flexible safety
curtains made Of hardened steel tubes
properly connected, which are tnvulnera-
BILE to the ordinary burglar tools for the
reason that the tubes revolve freely and
the centrebit or other tool can find no
purchase, or hold.
The execution OF Philip Hill, coiored,
which was set for yesterday, at Pitts
burg, Pa, has been postponed indefinite
ly, upon legal advice that his appeal
acted as a supercedeas and stopped the
execution, pending the supreme court
decision. Hill was convicted Of the mur-
der of G. o. Lawrence, a railroad la
boring boss.
Mystt Leach was hanged at Clinton,
Tenn, yesterday at 1905 p. m, for the
murder of G. D. Heck, superintendent
Of the Royal Coal and Coke company,
OF Coal Creek. in February last. Leach
and A. Hease Johnson, miners, were ar
rested. Leach was sentenced to be
hanged and Johnson to serve one year
in the penitentiary.
Berlin, Dec. Herr Otto FInsch. the
explorer, has been appointed a professor
OF ornithology at Leyden university.
The Hague, Dec. -Wilhelmina, the
queen of the Netherlands, will take the
oath of accession to she trone on Sep
tember 6, 1898, in the new church at
Amsterdam.
Pittsburg, Pa, Dec. THE five hum
dred miners employed in the Noting
nam and Germania coal mines OF Henry
FIoresheim, on the Wheeling division of |
the Baltimore and O1io road struck to-
day because of the refusal of Floresheim |
to weigh coal before it is screened, in !
accordance with the act passed 10y the |
state legislature last winter.
Denver, Col, Dec. Michael Spang- |
Ter, prominent mining man and capi-
talist Of this city, was fatally hurt today |
in an accident in the Crown Point and |
Virginia mine at Central City, of which |
ne was receiver. He was ascending the |
shaft, when the bucket swung to one |
side, crushing Mr.. Spangler against the !
after.
Chicago, Dec. THE winter sale Of |
track and race horses by Splan and New
gass opened today. with good attend |
ance. The star OF the sale was the
black stallion Alfonso, 2:23 IA, % years
old, by Baron WikesAl:na Mater, by
Mambrino Patchen, price $3.50, bought
by C. X. Lsrsbee. Deer Lodge, Mont
of the get Of Alfonso av-
eraged $247.
Denver, Dec. IA special to the Re
publican from Santa Fe, n. NJ. says: 1t
IS announced here today that F. W. Sew
ard Of Eddy, \. NJ, has purchased the
famous Home ranch Of ex-senator S. W.
Dorsey al Chicos Springs, Colfax county,
the palstial residence he built
for Colonel Robert G.. Ingersoll. and will
convert it into a sanitarium for con-
Denver. Colo, Dec. 7-On January 6.
the Denver and Rio Grande road will
ln4ugurate, in cooperation with It's eas:-
ern and western connections, a through
tourist car service from Boston 10 Port
land, for the accommodation Of travel
ens 10 the r0rthwest. TIE cars will pass
through CHicaSo and Omaha and will
make trip each Nay once & week. on
its westerly trip the car viii leave Chi
cago January 5. and, returning, leave
Portland January H.