The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-19
Told in Fewest Words


| Samuel r. Galloway was yesterday
| elected president Of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern railway. to succeed
! the late D. W. Caldwell.
The Governor Dix, recently turned
over to the Louisiana naval reserve,
sank yesterday morning at the foot OF
| Jackson street, New Orleans.
The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers OF the Calumet and Hecla Mining
| company was held a. Boston yesterday.
| Colonel Livermore acted as chairman.
| Assistant Secretary Howell, in a re-
cent decision, holds that silk ribbons
are dutiable at the rate of 30 per cent
al valorem, under the new tariff act.
Maxwell Wiley, a clerk for Bernheim
Bros. whisky merchants, was shot and
fatally wounded yesterday morning at
Louisville KY, by Joe c. Kouwen-
bergh. The shooting was the result Of
an old grudge.
P. J. Conner, national president Of the
Ancient Order OF Hibernian, has re-
turned TO Savannah, Ga, from Balti-
more. where he attended a conference
looking 70 the consolidation OF the two
factions of the order.
W. B. L. Davis, a wealthy farmer l.v-
ing near Rockmart, Ga, was killed yes
terday morning and mis- house wrecked
by the explosion of seventeen dynamite
cartridges he had placed under the
kitchen stove for drying. He was so
years old.
Judge Lathrop of the Massachusetts
supreme court has appointed as tenn
porary receivers OF the Massachusetts
Benefit Life association, Alfred Wood
worth, president of the Eagle National
bank, Of Boston. and Arthur Lord, of
Salem. Bonds in the sum of $4,000 each
Will BE required.
The national Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America convention began
yesterday morning in the st. Thomas
college hall at Scranton, Pa. Rev. James
Ciery Of Saltwater. MINI, the president,
preside After the appointment Of
committee on credentials, adjournment
was taken TO attend mass.
Yesterday was the opening day Of the
British Association for the Advance
ment Of Science. Counting the Canadian
delegates, 500 Of whom registered, the
total attendance will foot UP 1900.
Among the arrivals are Sir john Evans,
president, and Hon. James Brice, NJ. P.
and Professor Staelard Of Stanford uni
versity.
Mutiny has again broken out at the
Whittier school, Los Angeles. Tuesday
night fifty-six cadets, comprising COM
pany A, under command Of Captain
O'Brien. broke for liberty and scattered
in every direction. Several guards and
attaches OF the school succeeded in cap
turing a few but mos OF them are still
in hiding.
The attorney general has rendered an
opinion in which ne holds that under
section of the administrative act of
1890 the personal attendance of export
ers or Their agents is not required at
the consulate in order to validate the
consurs certificate. The opinion, which
has been ecquieSced in. reverses the
former rulings of the department
Mrs. Marcal-na Valdez and girl
named Francisco Mondragon, We're
shot in Guadalupe, suburb OF Conjose,
Cal, by Paige Gallegos. Mrs. Valdez
was hOuAiuCi III tI-C 4lcdu liz Slil
in the arm and thigh. Both viii prob
ably recover. Gellegos was a discharg-
ed lover of the girl. He escaped but is
being pursued by a posse with blood
hounds.
Preparations are beng made in San
Francisco TO insure the success of the
convention of the National Letter Car
riers' association TO be held in that civ
September 6 10 10. One feature of the
convention will De the grand parade on
the opening day. The letter carriers ara
drilling three times week for this
event. The pos,mssters and letter car
riers from the interior towns and cities
will