The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-10
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| Edmund Davis, well known Boston
Lawyer. committed suicide yesterday
He had been arrested for embezzlement
| The Pail Mall Gazette says that ow-
| ing 20 drouth in New South Wales and
South Australia it will be necessary to
import thousands Of tons of California
! wheat
The Socialists are continuing their ag-
itating among the striking miners al
Bilboa. Spain, and the situation is
grave. Reinforcements of troops and
police have arrived.
Willis A. Baker, United States consul
at Rosario, Argentina, died here yester-
day. Mr.. Baker was appointed consul
in 1880. He came from Illinois. 1t is un-
derstood that he was injured in wreck
in the Argentine Republic.
The joint scale conference Of iron and
steel sheet manufacturers and the Anal
gamated association which has been in
session al Pittsburg, Pa, was unable 10
agree and adjourned without settlement.
The disagreement will affec: 1000 men.
TIE commissioner Of pensions has be-
fore him the case of about 100 veterans
dismissed irc;p the pension Office during
the last administration and who seek
reinstatement. They are being care
fully considered and where possible and
circumstances warrant it reinsiateme1 Ii,
Will he made.
The commission on archaeologists senl
10y the Mexican government TO invest
gate The ancient Chinese characters re-
Gently discovered on a monument at
1erma='llo have announced TIA, there
can & no C. g lion Of their gen Iineness
az. that ,nay It's, have bser. there
many centuries.
A warrant was issued yesterday charg-
ing DR.. Richard Cornwall, who killed
his brother. Herbert Cornwall, at st.
Louis Wednesday morning in such
sensational manner, with murder in the
first degree and he was transferred from
the police hold-over to a cell in Jail.
Santa Monica, Cal, is great ly excited
by a mysterious murder. The body OF
Joseph DURHAM vas found in vacant
LOT near the Southern Pacific depot, with
his face ard cody terribly bruised. Du-
plain was a French-Swiss, "a years OF
age, and had been a member of the
Soldiers Home for several years.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Spree, Captain Meir. which sailed from
New York on June Is for Bremen. via
CDerbourg, and which should have ar
r;1 ell at Queenstown on July 4, reached
there yesterday in tow of the British
io1oxy
caused by the cracking Of her crank
shaft
Captain Francis Yorke Mcmahon,
brother and heir presumptive of Sir Ho-
race Westropp Mcmahon. Bart, has
committed suicide by shooting himself.
He was financially embarrassed and left
a letter saying: 81 cannot stay in the
army and 1 cannot live on nothing out
side, SO 1 am sure this is the best. God
knows where I'm off to-"
The battleship Oregon has sailed for
Seattle for Port Angeles for coal and,
this fact having been construed in some
quarters into a movement toward Ha-
wall, it is stated at the navy department
that there is not the slightest intention
Of sending the ship there. She is bound
for San Francisco. The Boston has ar
rived at Kobe, Japan. The Maine has
arrived at Lewes, Del.
Efforts on the part Of physicians in
charge of the insane hospital for wo-
men in the City Of Mexico, to discover
some safe narcotic to produce sleep have
resulted in bringing into daily use in
that institution simple remedy prepar-
ID from the seed OF white zepote 1t |
produces tranquil sleep and since it
las been used no deaths from cerebral !
have been known at the in |