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

George Mcmillan. prominent citize,
OF Wilmington, Ohio. was shot dead OF
the streets thereyesterday by ]. c. Mar
lin, leading attorney.
A dispatch to the New York Worlt
from Colon says: The Panama Cana
company has paid off and shipped bach
| home every African laborer
Funeral services over the remains o.
Charles E. Johnson, the well known ini
manufacturer, who died in Philadelphia
Thursday. were held yesterday after.
noon.
The National (gold Democrats Of the
Third New York district have nominal.
ed Horatio C. King of Brooklyn for con.
gress, 10 succeed Francis H. Wilson. re-
signed 10 become postmaster Of Brook
lyn.
All the salt furnaces on both sides o!
the MO river ara closed owing 10 the rise
in the price OF coal. They are compeli-
ei 20 pay 800 per 100 bushels, and say
they cannot afford this Nine hundred
men are thrown out of employment
James Chapman, vino lived about six
miles north OF Jackson, Miss, has been
assassinated. The killing occurred while
Mr.. Chapman was in the barn caring for
his stock. He was found dead with a
horrible wound in the back OF his head
The Iowa supreme court has decided
that the city library board cannot force
the city council to levy a three-mill tax
for the construction OF the library
building and for the maintenance Of the
public library. The case has been
watched with great interest all over
Iowa.
The steamer E 3. Hale foundered in
Lake Huron Friday afternoon. Her
crew were all picked up by the steamer
Nebraska. The Hale was bound from
Lorain, hio, TO Milwaukee, with steel
billets. She was owned by NJ. A. Brad
ley Of Cleveland and was valued at $780,
900 and was uninjured.
The exact decision in the South Caro-
lima dispensary case. involving the
charge made by Bluthenthal and Bick-
art of Atlanta. that there was collision
between the South Carolina authorities
ana the Southern railway, 10 prevent
the transportation of whisky into the
state, has been postponed to permit the
drawing of order of acceptance on both
sides.
The extensive chair manufacturing
plant OF the Artemus Merriam company
at Westminster, Mass, was destroyed
by fire yesterday causing loss OF up
wards of $4,000. Mr.. Merriam, the pro-
prietor and half owner, who is III at his
home, saw his factory burn to the
ground from the window OF his room.
He Is not expected 10 live more than a
few hours.
It is practically determined that the
present site Of the Illinois state asy-
lum for incurabIe insane will be aban-
doned. and the building torn down. The
cite, however, it is expected. will remain
near Peoria. The building stands on
high hill. and there is an old coal mine
underneath il, on account Of which IL is
not considered safe to erect any more
buildings there.
Fire in First avenue, New York, yes
terday caused destruction of and dam
aged property TO the aggregate sum of
$50, 900. The heaviest loss, $4,000, was
sustained by John Lense, manufacturer
of ice boxes and bar fixturers. The fire
threatened a group Of tenement houses,
and occupants were compelled TO leave
their beds for the streets.
The navy department has been in
formed OF the death at st. Elizabeth
asylum OF Rear Admiral John Mellen
B. Clitz, who was placed on the retired
tary stock, his father being a promi-
nent figure In the war of 1872. He en-
tered the navy in 1887 and saw service
in the Mexican war. During the last
war he was in the blockade of Fort
Fisher and was especially commended
by Admiral Porter. He was born in Sac
Harbor, n. Y, in 1922.
According to the New York Herald's
in Rio De Janeiro, Bra
iii, from the department of the ANA
ION, there was a serious conflict on
September in Calcoene, Dutch Guiana.
between British Nederland troops and
the inhabitants OF the city. Reports are
the town. Details OF the affairs have
that Q party OF British invaded Cal
coene and set fire 10 forty-five houses IN
not been received.
Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman, the
eldest son OF the late General ". T
Sherman. VINO has been in Omaha for
the past two weeks. left there yester-
day for Milwaukee. He goes to the lat
ter city 10 attend the annual reunion of
rhe Army OF the Tennessee on Wednes-
day and Thursday. October % AMI IS.
He has accepted an invitation TO be the
orator OF the occasion ana his address
will be- on the subject, Wisconsin in
Our Army"