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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28
THE z RAY OUTCOME.

II is often asserted that there is limit
to all possible human knowledge; that
there are depths and heights to the
physical universe which may not be
searched by the finite; elements of earth
and air which can never be solved, or
their potency revealed or utilized. We
doubt it. The mind of man is not finite,
otherwise there is no Immortality Why
the same soil will produce a thousand
different things, why one tree will bear
only one kind of fruit, why man cannot
extract from the soil direct the nutri-
ment which comes to him directly from
II, through so many diverse channels;
why the forces which hold and move
worlds, and others which modify and
control our days and nights, may not he
understood and utilized. are questions
unanswered. But who can say that
they will not be? We believe that the
knowledge and experience which time
not only, but reveal elements yet I'M
dreamed Of. Take. for instance. the evo-
luton of the agency known as electric
ity from the time of Franklin'S key and
kite down TO the y ray. And vet of this
single, all pervaSive element the world
has vet TO learn the A, h, c. OF its pos
sibilities. In it there is light and heat.
and wings that fly faster than time.
These we have learned.
A Hindoo and an Italian have startled
the scientific world by their discovery
of methods by which electric waves may
be made TO subserve the practicalneeds
of humanity. The Hindoo is DR.. Jaca-
dis Chunder Bose, and the Italian is
Gulielmo Marconi. Briefly told the new
discovery is simply method of wire
less biography by which Marconi some
time ago sent a message apparently
through mountain. So startling in its
effectiveness is the simple method en-
ployed 10 accomplish this seeming mir
ralcle that the British government has
taken 1t up. and III. II. Preece. head of
the electrical section of the postal serv-
ice OF Great Britain is associated with
Marconi in the work
There have already been over hun
dred messages sent from the mainland to
the island Of Null. four miles from the
coast, without the interposition of wire
or mechanical connection OF any kind.
and simply by means OF the utilization
of electric waves 1t seems that the
Marconi discovery was the result of ex-
periments with what is known as the
induction process used by Edison 10 tel
egraph 10 and from a moving train. and
some surprising discoveries By Or. Bose
relative TO the penetrative qualities OF
these so-cailed electric waves. With the
Use OF a two-volt storage battery the
Hindoo scientist projected an electric
wave through three brick walls, a dis.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28
As it Appears to Him.

(Frorn Atchison Globe)
Every busy man wastes more time than
ne uses.
1, Is question which q boy hates worse:
a wasp or a spider.
II rest is good Cor a man. how does it
come that he feels so tough Monday?
Godno;hers never Go anything for their
godch!idreI except in storyhooks.
Summer underwear always looks good
deal cooler in the stores than It really e.
Women wash OF Monday. we suppose. be-
cause cleanliness comes next 10 goodness
Women can wear their las; summer hats
hind before ta.s wear. and be absolutely
vp-to-date.
A woman's idea o. lucky woman e ore
who can fni someone 20 pay her a good
price for her old clothes.
Il IL 10, considered good e;iquetts a;
wedding 10 call brides attention 70 the
trooule that Is IL store for he--
We nave E0Stee. iEzl ilr lssS-~ ftS~s 20
PIE are not resigned 70 the Lcrts will
until there Is nothing left for them TO do
III; become resigned
II you have 10 bear IL. 60 Il without grin
ming II there = anything ir-.tatt1s. L is
the man who persists n smiling when tAe
house turables o. him.
An Atchisoa MAJ who has been trying
70 become an Abe Liaeola has ti-et 81 i.
and noz acts n \ natural way. Ias charge
i decided Improvement
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dislike another woman sf;e- ee las ex-
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

Edhem Pasha said to a trembling Greek
prisoner: 81 will not kill you" Then Ed
hem gave the Greek a cigarette,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

STnolenski and Constantine are better
names than L Isl Koo ana whang 50 Poo.
and We have hopes that some day there
VIII De war where the Smiths AMI Jones
Will get a; each other and the battles VIII
feel hone-Ike ard familiar.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

fatal wars in all the worlds history on the
meel. and lowly and resigned proof-reader.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

We arise to say that the dream of GER
tain jaundiced Turk who stretched himself
In his tent and slept on his back came true
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

The world still faithfully believes that II
old Ulysses was on hand with a mud scow
and jack-knife, things would be different,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

Greece now feels something as the Ree,i
boom did after il had walked into the Nc
kinley aggregation at 81. Louis a year
ago
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28
An Extraordinary SwindIer.

An extraordinary chapter may be added
70 the astounding career Of that arch swim
cler. Charles Hoffman, who has been i'm
posing upon people right and left in this
country under the alias of Baron de Cour-
tier" and some of the incidents of whose
life were exposed a day or two ago in the
New York World. In 1892 he managed to
ingratiate himself TO such an extent with
the United States legation at Berne that,
under false pretense of having served in
the Union army during the civil war he
was actually able TO induce the envoy to
give him sort of, sem-official connection
with the mission as military attache.
1t was in that capacity. and arrayed In
an American uniform, that he attended the
annual maneuvers ot the Swiss army. The
chief Of the federal war department treat
ing the pseudo baron with exceptional dis
tinct:on. having himself commanded regi-
ment on the Union side during the great
conflict between the North and South Not
only this, but he actually went so far as
to furnish the swindler with facilities for
obtaining information with regard to the
Swiss armament.
Courtier's association with the United
States legation, as well as the extraordinary
consideration with which he was treated
by the Swiss military authorities, led him
TO De received with open arms at the Aus
TRAN and Russian embassies at Berne, and
ii was only when his attempt 70 get hold
of some confidential plans of the Swiss
mountain defenses (Which he wished to OBJ
tain for the purpose Of ingratiat:ng him
self at Romeo had led to mis- arrest under
the suspicion of being a military spy, that
the official and diplomatic world at Berne
discovered too late they had been lavish
ing hospitality upon one OF the most cele-
brated swindlers and ex-convicts Of the old
world.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

The calm demeanor of the American peo-
rle over the result in Greece is prirna facie
evidence that Americans do not bet on the
result OF wars.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

II is now in order for Constantine TO re-
turn to Athens and be decorated with the
badge of the Ancient and Royal oorder o.
the Horse-Laugh
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

Suddenly. when at the full zenith Of his
career in Berlin, his mansion was invaded
at midnight by detachment Of police, all
his papers and correspondence were con-
hscated. and on the following morning he
vas conducted 10 the Austrian frontier IN
Ger escort of three detectives in plain
clothes. No explanation was vouchsafed.
but from the peculiar Bismarckian method
OF dealing with his case It was manifest
that the old chancellor had become aware
OF the antecedents and identity OF his sons
frier9
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

1t is incomprehens;ble how he should be
able TO go on swindling people on both sides
of the Atlantic as he does, for there is no
celebrated criminal who has been more fire.
quently portrayed in print as we'll as by
means of the camera, and his record and
portrait figure in the ''rogues gallery of
every police department of Europe as we'll
as America. Yet his successes have been
as great in the old world as In the new
Among the many clever people whom he
has taken in is no less a parsonage than
that most astute of all now re:gning mon
archs, King Leopold, who went so far as
to introduce him to the late Crown Prince
Rudolf at the moment when the latter was
about to marry Princess Stephanie of Bel
GUM.
Courter struck up great friendship
with the crown princes chamberlain, Ad-
miral Count Bombellos, and announced his
intention Of presenting Rudolf with mag
nificent yacht as NEEDING present. The
plans Of the boat were duly submitted TO
the prince, and the date upon which the
crown princess was to christen the vessel
had actually been fixed when the prospec-
tive donor was arrested on a charge OF
forgery.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

At recent Kansas seance the spirit OF
Preston Plumb appeared accompanied By
a whang.ng guitar, That's him." sad
an old settler. He was the poo-es; must
clan ever listened to-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

Hoffman, or Baron Court;er" is married
his wife having been at the time when he
led her TO the altar the wealthy and beauti-
full widow of a Russian prince. He lived
for several years on her estate in Russian
Poland in great splendor Cards and every
other kind of extravaganza, however, soon
made enormous inroads into her fortune,
and, finally, after selling every portion OF
her property for which he could find
purchaser and mortgaging the rest, he de-
serted her and removed 10 Berlin. where
he established himself in grand style in the
palace of Count Won Henkel Donnersmarck
on the Pauser platz, which he had taken
on long lease.
Posing as a negotiator for foreign rail-
road contracts, he was brought into fire.
quent contact with the great railroad king
Strousberg, who made him acquainted with
the late Prince Anthony of Hohenzollern
Gather of the king of Roumania). with the
late duke OF Ratibor. and many of the great
mobiles of Prussia. He likewise found means
OF ingratiatirg himself with Count Herbert
Bismarck. who became sufficiently ac-
quanted with him to introduce him to his
father. the great chancellor, and on several
occasions he figured among the guests OF
the dinner parties in the palace Of the VIII
helm-strasse.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

What the Kansas farmers want 10 do Is
70 each contribute four bushels OF corn TO
be used in their interes, on their own leg
islaiare as corruption fund.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

II We had been managing that Greek
army We would have had old vaseline out
OF Crete long ago and at the head OF the
army in Thessaly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

In the light Of Grecian events. the Gu
hans appeared TO have known what thcy
were doing when they avoided en- open
fight with the Spanish
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

We will now grant small grain OF sense
to the Armenians. Had the Armenians re-
voi1ed. The Sultan would not be preparing
&c Go a thing 10 them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28


On the whole it has been one of the most
fatal wars in all the worlds history on the
meek and lowly and resigned proof-reader.
We arise TO say that the dream of GER
tain jaundiced Turk who stretched himself
In his tent and slept on his back came true
The world still faithfully believes that Il
old Ulysses was on hand with a mud scow
and a jack-knife, things would be differen,
Greece now feels something as the Rec;
boom did after it had walked into the Nc
kinley aggregation at ST. Louis a year
age.
The calm demesnor Of the American peo-
rle over the result in Greece is prina facis
evidence that Americans do not bet on the
result OF wars.
Il IS now in order for Constantine TO re-
turn TO Athens and be decorated with the
badge of the Ancient and ROYAL Oorder o.
the Horse-Laugh.
army We would have had old Vaseline out
Of Crete long ago and at the head OF the
army in ThesSaly.
We will now grant q small grain OF sense
to the Armenians- Had the Armenians re-
voiIed. ;he Sultan would not be preparing
&c Go thing 10 them.
In the light Of Grecian events. the Gu
hans appeared 10 have known what thcy
were doing when they avoided en- open
fight with the Spanish.
What the Kansas farmers want 10 do Is
70 each contribute four bushels OF corn 10
be used IN their interes, on their own leg
isla;are as a corruption fund.
At recent Kansas seance the spirit OF
Preston Plumb appeared accompanied bv
a whsngsng guitar. That's him" sa5s
sn old settler. He was the poo-es; must
clan ! ever listened to-"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28

Al Atchisoa man who has been trying
70 become an Abe Lsaeoia. has ti-et % Il.
and nox acts n nsturx; way. Ias change
! q s--E5ad frr.r-oxe-.=--
The evening times., 1897-03-03
JOHN sCANLOA' 'SFATAL FALL
Terrible Drop From the Third
Story of a House.
LADDER SLIPS ON A WET ROOF
Fatality Occurs While Mr.. Scan-
Ion Is Cleaning Out the CUTTER
ing Around the Eaves OF One of
His Houses-FaIls on His Head
and Dies an Hour Later.

John Scanlon, an aged and wealthy res
ident of West Washington, who lived at
No. 2429 street, met death in terrible
manner about 8 O'Clock this morning. He
fell three stories from a ladder, striking
on his head and crushing his skull as IL
it were an egg-shell.
Mr.. Scanlon was the owner OF number
OF dwelling houses in the western section
OF the city. This morning he procured a
long ladder, and placed the lower portion
on the roof of one-story kitchen in rear
of house No. $500 street. which he
owned. He ascended tile ladder, which
extended to the roof of the house. and was
engaged in cleaning the guttering, which
extends around the caves.
The kitchen roof on which the ladder
rested was slippery as result of the
rain, and when Mr.. Scanlon reached out
ward too far in removing the accumulated
debris from the gutter, the ladder slipped
from under him and he went whrling down
ward to the ground, three stories below.
The unfortunate man turned over and
over in the air and landed on his head.
When picked up his skull was found to be
terribly crushed.
Unconscious and bleeding, he was taken
into the house of his son, Dennis Scanlon,
No. 25O2 1 street, where he died in less
than an hour.
Deceased was about sixty years OF age,
and had resided here about thirty years
He leaves d wife, married son, a married
daughter and single daughter. Mr..
Scanlon was born in Ireland
The evening times., 1897-03-03
PROSPECT OF A RIOT.
seriOus Condition of Affairs In .
Polish Catholic Parish.

Bay City, March 3.-The leaders of the
dissenting faction in st. StanislaUs parish,
Alderman W. G. Kabat, Ignasz Buzalski and
Bruno Chudzinski, were placed in jail yes
terday for alleged conspiracy.
The sheriff virtually surrendered posses
sion of st. StanlsIaus' Church premises in a
binding snowst0rm late last night to the
rebelhous faction. He says he left over
HUNDRED Poles, many being women, on
watch, determined TO prevent the return OF
the priest to the parsonage.
he says that inasmuch as he has been
ro5ified that the county win not bear
the expense OF deputies, he win make no
attempt o clear the premises Of trespassers,
as ordered by the court, and he sees no way
of settling the trouble unless by firing
into the crowd with intent to kill. The
situation is very grave.
The Poles say they VIII destroy the build
ings by fire before they win surrender
the property to the bishop. 1t was an
nounced that Judge Maxwell had decided
to caH on the governor for troops unless
the rebeIious faction surrenders, but the
belligerents declare they viii hold the
church against all cOmers, unless the
bish oo would return TO them all the money
they had paid into the church
The evening times., 1897-03-03

was friendly TO it, His statements from
his cottage porch indicated that he had
gone over to the gold standard in earnest
and would there remain.
I'VE are about to inaugurate a Presi-
dent with the pomp and splendor OF mon
archy," Mr.. Teller continued I'VE are
told that there has been nothing In me
history of the country TO compare with IL.
There win doubtless be grand and
magnificent display. I do not complain OF
that. I think that when the Executive
OF 70,000,0O0 people is inducted into
power and office, there should be some
thing more than the ordinary conditions
and observ vauces. But it Will be painful
TO those who witness it, and who will
realize that on that day there will be
more idle Americans, hunting food and
hunting work. than at any other time IN
the history of this Republic that there are
more men, women. and children supported
by charity today than at any other time
in the history of the country"
Mr. Morgan Of Alabama, said that, as he
would be perhaps the only Senator voting
against the bill, it was proper that he
should state his reasons for doing so. The
United States, he said, might as well sur
render its power to make war and peace
into the hands Of Great Britain as TO sur
render its power to coin money and de
clare its value Nothing could come of the
bill; and even If an International agree
ment came out Of it, be would oppose its
ratification.
Mr.. Mantle Of Montana declared himself
heartily in favor OF every effort to bring
about an international agreement for bf-
mctaliism, although his honest conviction
told him that the effort will be futile.
The vote was then taken, and the House
amendments were concurred in without
division. The hill now goes 70 the Presi-
dent for his action.
The evening times., 1897-03-03
City Brevities

Amelia Davis, cOlOred, of Willow Tree
alley, was held for the grand jury n $500
this morning, on the charge OF robbing
Bird Henson of S27.
A visitor from Cincinnati. named Ernest
Martz, was Knocked down and painfully
injured by reckless bicyclist at secund
street and Pennsylvania avenue, last
right.
Inspector Knox, of the Boston detective
corps, who is here during the inaugural
period, picking up crooks, is known as
the most successful thief-taker in the
East.
An old colored woman has fitted up
street kitchen and dining g-room near
the Garfield statue, and is doing a land
office business, cooking meals and serving
them, while her patrons ait.
The experience meeting at the Central
Union Mission last night was crowded with
strangers. A large number Of strangers
are also bel ng acc omm Cd ated with
lodgings in the big mission building.
The Washington guides are reaping a
harvest OF shekels from the inaugural
visitors, who want to be shown about the
prettiest city in the world. Several
citizens have become amateur guides and
are also making money.
Policeman Michael Flynn, the police
court doorman, found Antonio Geyer, an
Italian, trying to break into police patrol
box on Seventh street last night This
morning Geyer went down for fifteen DAYS,
In default of So fine.
The big elevator in the Washington
1t sF..
capacity carrying visitors to the top of
she shaft. Many hundreds OF persons
make the ascent and descent daily II
is expected that the rush will be greatest
tomorrow.
Thomas Keller, who was found holding
up strangers for 1.-THE price of a drink, /"
was charged. with vagrancy in Judge
kim balls police court today. olice-
man J. s. Johnston told about Keller's
misconduct and he went to the chain
gang for thirty days.
Milton Scott forfeited So in the police
court today for cruelty to a horse. John
Hancock, an official OF the Herdic Com
pany, was fined So for allowing a weak
and attenuated horse TO be worked on one
OF the conpany's vehicles Agent Rabbit
OF the Humane Society was complainant.
The local Federation OF Labor met last
eveningat Plasterers' Hall, President James
+. McHugh in the chair. Delegates creden-
tials from local Union Plumbers, No. 3,
were received and the representatives
obligated. Announcement of a sociable
to he given at the rooms of the Working
mans Library, on Friday evening, was
made for the benefit of that organization
The evening times., 1897-03-03
FOR FOUNDRY'S PASTORATE
DIR. Lucien Clark to Be Assigned
From Baltimore.
Annual II. Il. Conference CoDvenes
in Eutaw Street Church-The Ad-
mission of Women.

Baltimore, March 3.-The 18th session
OF the Baltimore annual conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church was openedthis
morning with the sacrament OF the Lords
supper in historic Eutaw Street Church.
The conference will be in session for a week
or ten days, and will be presided over by
Bishop Willard F. MalIalieu, of Buffalo,
N. Y.
Among the important matters TO come be-
fore the conference viii be the changes to
be made in the pulpits of Baltimore, Wash
ington and Frederick districts, owing to
the five-year rule. The largest plum in
the basket appears to be the pastorate of
Foundry Church, Washington, where it is
said President Mckinley will worship.
The officials OF the Foundry Church have
paved the way for the appointment OF Rev.
Dr. Luoien Clark, of the baltimore Madison
Avenue Church, and it is expected that
Bishop Mallalieu will comply with their
wishes. The Madison Avenue Church pulpit
may be filled by the Rev. c. c. Albert
sen, OF Buffalo, N. Y.
The presiding eldership of West Baltimore
district also becomes vacant under a rule
limiting presiding elders to six years in
office. The most prominently mentioned
of the list of applicants for that position
is Rev. George E. Maydwen, who will leave
the pastorate of the Eutaw Street Church.
The question of admitting women as
delegates to the general conference VIII
be voted on again. The matter comes
down from the general conference, where
it received a favorable vote a year ago.
The motion must be adopted by a three
fourths vote of the annual conferences in
order to go into effect The proposition
has lost groundin the western conferences,
which were held last fall, and where pre-
yiously the ladies had most supporters.
The evening times., 1897-03-03
Parker Is stil1 in CUSTODY.

1t is the opinion of Inspector Hollinberger
that Charles Parker, the negro, who has
confessed TO the murder of Wesley Hall,
the crippled cobbler, should be released
and allowed to return to Virginia with his
brother The man has been pronounced in
sane by Police Surgeon j. Ramsey hewitt,
and was iln inmate OF luRatic asylum
in Virginia for more than four years
The officials say no jury would believe
Parker's confession, and IL he rernainsh here
he is liable to become charge on the
District.