The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-01
Told in Fewest Words


| DR.. Won Narouardson, the eminent j1-
r:st and professor, o; Erlangen univer-
| sity, is dead.
Reports are current at Kassala thai
riie Khalifa recently murdered several
Christians at Khartornr.
A large portion of tile business center
of the town of Carberry, Manitoba. was
destroyed by fire yesterday morning.
The loss will exceed s50,0eo.
Lady Millais. widow Of the late presi-
dent Of the Royal Academy, IS seriously
III. Sne is suffering from cancer of the
throat, the same disease which caused
the death of her husband.
No trace has been found OF A. r. Rob
ertson, of Joliet, Illinois, VINO jumped
from a Santa Fe train last Tuesday On
the Mojave desert, while suffering from
mania His father aas given up the
search.
The Missouri supreme court en- banc
yesterday overruled the motion for re-
hearing in the case Of George Thomp-
son, a ST. Louis negro, to be hanged
on January 7, 1883, for the murder Of a
church sexton.
sensation has been created in Flor
ida Pythian circles by Red Cross Lodge,
Knights of Pytflias, Of Tampa, defying
the authority OF the grand chancellor
and refusing to obey his orders or Ge-
linquish their charter.
john Mccormack, editor and publisher
Of the Meridian Daily News, of Merid-
ian, Miss, is in search Of his son john,
who has been mysteriously missing
since last July. When last heard from
he mad been selling law books in Wheel
ing, W. Va, for a firm in Atlanta.
William Murphy, q pears old, was ar
raigned in a New York police court yes
terday on a charge of robbing gro
Gerry store. He was recognized by the
sergeant of the station as being the
original of picture in the rogue@s gal
lery. He said he had served a term in
Joliet prison for train robbing.
The Capital City Gas Light company
Of Des Moines, Iowa, will announce to-
day a reduction in the price of gas from
s1.30 thousand feet to SIPS. The re-
duction is the result of a compromise
ordinance passed in 1896 which intro
duced a sliding scale which will make
the price s1.00 in 1906.
General Roeliff Brinkeraoff Of Mans
field, Ohio, president Of the National
Prison association, is enroute TO the
annual congress of the association,
which will convene in Austin, Texas,
Thursday. He and party Of delegates
topped over in st. Louis to visit the Jail
and the city institutions.
J. B. Ford, alias Fisher, who was
committed for extradition to the United
States on November 9, on a charge Of
forgery brought by the Cincinnati Coffin
company of Cincinnati, and United
States Detective Witte of Cincinnati,
who has charge of Ford, will sail from
Liverpool for New York today on board
the Teutonic.
The condition OF Colonel w. D. Chip
ley OF Florida, who is dangerously fll
at the Garfield hospital, Washington
City, had not improved yesterday and
his physicians entertained no hope Of
his recovery. He is suffering from a
chronic disorder and a carbuncle. Col
onel Chipley was prominent in the Flor
ida senatorial contest a year ago.
The dry goods firm of Hilton, Hughes
& Co., of New York, which failed In 1896,
has notified its smaller creditors that
their claims will be paid in full on pre-
sentation. The large claims, it is stated,
have almost all been bought up by
Judge Henry Hilton father of Albert
Hilton, member OF the defunct firm, on
a basis Of 80 per cent cash. The na;bil-
ities-were 81, ,200,o 900.