The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-11-07
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The London board Of trade report fol
the month of October shows a decrease
of f63.137 in imports and f4,455 in ex
ports.
Near Vienna, H., the house of BUD
Dooley, farmer, fell down, killing him.
self. a man named Parks and all Of his
children.
! The attorney general Of Massachusetts
has perftioned the supreme court for the
appointment OF receiver for the Bay
State Beneficiary association, Of West
| field.
| Great anxiety is felt at San Francisco
for the French bark Cambronne, bound
for that port from Newcastle, n. S. w,
laden with COAL She is out 100 days and
has never been heard from since she SAIL
| ed.
| In the cricket match at Melbourne.
Australia, Captain Stoddart's eleven and
an eleven representing the colony of
Victoria, the latter at the close Of the
play yesterday had scored 273 runs for
six wickets.
| and handler Of horses, committed suicide
at Upton, Mo-, Friday night 10y shoot
ing himself in the head with a revolver.
Jolly was brother of Float Jolly, the
we'll known horse owner.
Judge Thayer at st. Louis yesterday
on the petition Of the Denver Water
works company, asking for an Injunction
restraining the municipality of Denver
from enforcing certain ordinances re-
Gently enacted, heard the arguments.
The famous racing horse Archduke,
which is 20 be run in the English Derby
next season, was shipped for London
from New York yesterday on the Ameri-
can transport liner Mobile, as was also
the American-bred racing horse Indian
Chief.
Five vessels bound for San Francisco
from the British Isles are now overdue
and It Is feared that some Of them may
have met with disaster. They are the
British barks Natuma, Taymount, Iver-
may, the ship Cawdor and the Italian
bark Orienta.
Hon. James c.. Wood, a we'll known at
torney and politician Of Jackson, Miss,
died Tuesday night, aged 81 Mr. Wood
was Jackson's first mayor and after
wards was a member of the legislature
for several terms. He was active as a
war Democrat during the rebellion.
Mrs. Georgia Fickler Galloway, wife
Of D. Morgan Galloway, vice president
of Emory college, died yesterday az Ok
ford, Ga, after months illness. Mrs.
Caltaway was one of the best known
women in the state. A soE of hers is DR..
Morgan Galloway, Jr., OF the University
of Texas.
The American echooner-yacht Social
was wrecked on the rocks of the island
Of st. Croix, West Indies, on the morn
ing of October q. Sever-l members of
the crew and some of the passengers
were drowned. II is supposed that the
vessel was caught in the great storm of
the night of October %.
Considerable considerable was caused
at the Office of Senator Hanna in Cleve-
land, yesterday by the sudden illness of
Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, commits
sioner of patents. He took sudden chill
and had to be taken to his hotel in a
The illness is not regarded as
serious by his physician.
The ship Gloucester, from Boston, ar
rived yesterday at Norfolk, Va, with
part of her cargo on fire. The fire was
discovered about IL O'clock in the morn
ing and was extinguished, after the YES
sells arrival in port by the city fire de-
partment. There were thirty-one passen-
gers aboard but they knew nothing OF
the fire till the Gloucester reached Nor
folk
The Grand Trunk elevator at Goodrich |
Ont, containing a large quantity of |
grain, was destroyed by. fire Friday |
night. The fire spread to two lumber |
yards adjoining and from there along the |
water front. The wind changed at the |
critical moment or else the whole ship |
ping in the harbor would have been de- |
stroyed
Major Moses P. Handy. special COM
missioner from the United States to the |
Paris exposition OF 1900, has returned. |
A. c. Baker. who was detail \
ID by the secretary Of state to accom-
pany Major Handy to represent the |
state department, was a passenger on |
The same vessel. Major Handy and Lieu
tenant Baker reported that they had a
very successful mission.
The libel action brought by DR..
the former German court chap
ain and Christian Socialist leader,
against Baron Halberg-Stumm, the Ger
nan Conservative leader, which charged
rim with gross Misrepresentation, has
esuted in the defendants acquittal on
he ground that his attack vas justified |
lnder the paragraph of the penal code
elating TO the protection of legitimate
interests against the attacks OF Christian |
Socialists.