The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-17
Told in FeWest Words

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At Sioux City, Iowa, heavy rain fell
Friday night. breaking long drouth.
The car has conferred patents OF no.
bility upon Jean nd Edouard de Resseke,
the famous operate singers.
The khedive Of Egypt is said OF be in
precarious financial position, as the
result Of a long course Of private ex-
trayagance.
tween the Russian firms engaged in the
naphitha industry. which expired yes
terday. viii not be renewed.
Professor Hubert Herkoner, r. A., r.
". S, will probably succeed the late Sir
John Gilbert as president Of the Royal
Society Of Painters in Water Colors.
Ii is rumored in German court circles
that the ex-Empress Frederick, mother
Of Emperor Williams, intends TO marry
Count Won Sickendorf. the court marshal.
No credence is given to the report.
William Smith, a ST. Louis boy not yet
out of his teens, who recently shot and
killed mis- drunken and worthless father
in Seif-defense, was released from Gus
tody yesterday. the grand jury refusing
20 indict him.
A recent census Of sixteen churches
within five hundreds radius Of the Man.
zion House. London. showed their total
congregations TO be Is, $3.50, and both serv-
ices cost the churches amounts Of 5000
pounds (s125,000) annually.
Baron Harden Hickey, OF Trinidad Is
land fame, is in the City Of Mexico on
business and wishes to buy from the
government an island in the Pacific He
says he has no; relinquished his claims
on Trinidad, and says ne wall take the
island yet by force.
Among the passengers on the steamer
Paris from Southampton, which arrived
at New York yesterday. was NJ. II. De
Young Of San Francisco. Miss Cleghorn,
formerly Princess Kaiulani, Of Hawaii;
Anthony Hope Hawkins. the English
novelist, and Lottie Collins. the dancer.
The Cleveland express on the Cleve-
land and Pittsburg railroad ran into
shifting engine in West Park, Allegheny
yesterday afternoon and both engines
were demolished. Ross Griffin, fireman,
was fatally hurt and number of pas
sengers were cut and bruised, but not
seriously injured.
Both the Republican and Democratic
city conventions OF Detroit were held
yesterday. Clarence a. Black received
the Republican nomination for mayor.
Inc Democrats unanimously nominated
Mayor Maybury TO succeed himself. The
Democratic resolutions re-affiirm the
Chicago platform.
The Waukesha Stone company, whose
quarries are situated a little northeast
Of Spring City, Wis, made voluntary
assignment yesterday to William Goetz, |
who gave bond. for $4,000. Threatened
foreclosure by the Munnemacher estate,
which held a large mortgage, is said to
be the cause Of the assignment. The la
bilities and assets were nos stated.
Constable William Limb, son OF a
justice OF the peace of Powersville, Ga, |
and Barket Amos, colored, fought a der- |
perate duel Friday at the home Of Amos, |
about two miles from Powersville. As
a result both men are ded. Young Limba |
was only q years of age and was very |
popular in the district IN which ne lived. |
Benjamin NJ. Goldberg, ex-district at
torney Of Waupaca county, Wis, and |
until recently a member Of a prominent
law firm of Milwaukee, was arrested |
yesterday on a charge of perjury. The |
charge is an outgrowth of one of the |
on the disbarment proceedings
upon which Judge Fish found Mr.. Gold
berg guilty.
4 bill asking for receiver for the
premises and property Of the Lexington
Hotel Building company, was filed in the
circuit court, Chicago, yesterday by
Charles NJ. Trerwiler, Jr., one OF the
b ondholiers 1t is alleged that the COM
pany is in default for taxes and ground
rent s50,794. Other debts amounting 20
100000 are shown.
The corporation OF London is going TO
have an art gallery, the nucleus OF
which was presented to the corporation
IN Thursday last by Mr.. David Sellar,
vho informed the lord Mayor, Sir George
Faudel-Phillips. that he proposed 10
land over to the corporation 200 old
Dutch, Italian and English pictures. Mr..
Sellar ia chairman Of the London Tram
way, and is we'll known in New York.
having formerly been an extensive Liv-