The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-08
Told in Fewest Words


| the Auburn, n. Y, prison at 10:40 yes
terday morning for the murder Of Henry
V. Whitlock at Sterling in August, 1895
John G. Garland, Jr., state represen-
| tative-eleet from the Ninth Massa-
chusetts district and treasurer OF a To-
cal theatre, was arrested in Boston yes
terday on charge of embezzling s1,212
There was a conference at the treas
ury department yesterday respecting the
proposed changes in the plans OF the
fist floor Of the new Chicago public
building It is thought that the pro-
posed changes probably will be approx
ed by all officials interested.
Five steamships of over 5000 tons
each are to be placed on the San Fran
cisco-Alaska route and will connect with
small fleet OF Yukon river boats,
reaching al lparts of Alaska. The COM
pany which will operate them is capital
lied at seven million dollars.
At Detroit, Mich, yesterday, Albert
K. Knapp, a German cigar msker, SO
years of age, chased mis- aged mother
with a hammer and tried to kill 7her.
Subsequently he was found dead, hav-
ing cut his throat. Knapp drank heav-
lily and both ne and his mother often
quarreled.
In the federal court at Seattle, Wash,
yesterday Judge Hanford awarded Cas-
ton jacob and Charles Buff, two passen-
gers who started to Alaska last Septem-
Der on the steamer Eugene, $500 dam
ages each against the owners Of the
steamer for their failure to land them
at Dawson.
Sergeant John II. Coghlin, Of company
A, First regiment United States infan-
try, shot himself through the head in
his quarters at the Preside, San Fran
cisco, in the presence of his captain, L..
P. Brant Coghlin died instantly. He
had been drinking 11eaviiys though until
recently ne was model soldier.
The American Torpedo company's
magazine, at Bowling Green, ONO. con-
tanning large quantity Of ntro-glycer-
inc, exploded yesterday with terrible
force. Dan Leesn, a stock hauler from
Findlay, was completely torn to atoms.
Houses near by were demolished and
the shock was felt for miles around.
Postmaster Gordon's plan for an ex-
tension of the free delivery service over
about nineteen additional square miles
of territory in the Chicago annexed dis
trict has practically been agreed to by
the postoffice officials. Next year the
postmaster hopes to extend the delivery
service over an additional thirty square
miles Of C.1icagos area
The Citizens Klondike committee, Of
Tacoma, demands the closing Of Dyea
as SUPPORT of entry. The energetic
methods of the Canadian government to
capture the bulk OF the Klondike travel
is given to show what an immense reve-
nue. may be derived from the tax ON the
outfits OF the prospectors alone. if some
means is not taken to retaliate.
Captains Whitney an. Goodrich Of the
Yale and Harvard university crews re-
port that the new Thames course as sur
veyed by the regetta committee Of the
New London board of trade is eminent
ly satisfactory not only for the Yale
Harvard race but for the Yale-HaTvard-
Cornell contest, provided the Itacirans
can be induced to TO wthere.
The death of Siegfried Gruner was an
nounced on the New York cotton ex-
change yesterday. Mr.. Gruner was sem
ior Of the cotton brokers firm Of Gruner
& Co., and one of the largest operators
in the market. II is reported that he
made about million dollars in the re-
cent decline in cotton. He died at Rich
mond, Va, while on his way north.
Judge Dunno of the circuit court, in
Chicago, has appointed James A. Rus
sell receiver for the Illinois branches of
the supreme council Catholic knights
and Ladies of America. The appoint
ment was ON a bill alleging refusal 10
pay death claims, and that the society
has never been licensed or legally au-
tflorfzed to do business in the state
Tqie Chicago Western and Northwest
EN- States Exhibition company yester-
day perfected its organization and elect
ed officers. Among the objects Of the
company is TO maintain in Chicago a
permanent exhibition OF the products OF
the western and northwestern state and
territories, for the guidance and infor-
nation OF homeseekeIs and business
men.
In the United States supreme court
yesterday the case OF Benjamin /. Hill
was dimissed because ne failed to have
the record printed. Hill i. under SEN
tence of death for murder in California
and ne appealed from the decision of a
local federal cou.t refusing him a writ
of hsbeaus corpus. Today's action will
have the effect of leaving the case in the
hands OF the state authorities.
TIE Atlantic Transport line steamer
Mobile, Captain Layland. had q collision
with an unknown steamer on the banks
of Newfoundland at o'clock Sunday
morning during thick fog. There is
no doubt that the other steamer was
the Allan line Corean, which put into
Halifax yesterday and which reported
having been in collision with an un-
known steamer in about the same local
ity and time
In Chicago yesterday Judge Freeman
OF the superior court decided that the
Illinois Central Railroad company had
no right to occupy the submerged lands
OF the Lake Shore between One Hun
dTed and Twenty-fifth and One Hundred
and Twenty-seventh streets and dismiss
ed the bill asking for an injunction re-
strSining the city from interfering with
the work of filling in the land in aues-
ton. The railroad company took an sp-
peal TO the supreme court
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