The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-28
Told in FeWest Words

The Metropolitan Electric company, OF
Chicago, mas failed, with liabilities Of
SIS. 0G0 and assets OF 100000. Poor coi.ec-
tons are said 10 have caused the as
signment.
Tneo. II. Schintz, Chicago lawyer and
real estate dealer, who recently CALLED.
has bean arrested on a charge Of alleged
fraud in selling a trust deed for $1,000.
Scaintz was released on bail.
Pasquelie Daddario was hanged in the
county prison az Philadelphia yesterday
for the murder of Modes:ino MOTTO. s.
year-0ld child. The crime was one Of the
most brutal in the police records Of Phil
adelphia.
a ru-nor TO the effect that Claus Spreck
els was considering a proposition 20 buy
out the Stanford and Croker interests
in the Southern Pacific company, is de-
MED by Spreckels and similar denial
is made by ". H. Croker.
Receiver John y. Bryant has sold the
Seattle Coal ond Iron company to Muir
ply, Grant & Co.. Of New York, and
four others, for $4,000. The purchas-
ers are the five creditors whose Gains
the supreme court decided were prior.
Authentic information of the lynching
of one horse thief and the probable shoot
ing of another Saturday by MOB near
the Scotland Yell county line, Arkansas,
has reached Little Rock. Both the vic
tins were white men, named Crownove-
and Beach.
At Kane Ridge meeting house, near
Morgantown, KY, Sunday night, thirty
shots were exchanged between EstelI
Casey and John aCscy and three Bailey
brothers. Estell aCsey is dying, and John
and two Of the Baileys were painfully
wounded. No arrests. All claim self
defense.
President Mckinley is expected 70 spend
three or four daysl at Windemere as the
guest Of Senator Hanna, after the Grand
Army reunion at Buffalo. August "a.
From there ne and Mrs. Mckinley will
go 70 Fremont to attend the wedding Of
Miss Fannie Hayes, daughter of ex-
President Hays.
DEGREES Of sale in the foreclosure Of the
mortgage on the Union Pacific railroad
were received at Omaha yesterday by
General John C. Gown, specia. United
States attorney in the case. The DEGREES
are signed by ali parties TO the suit |
Judge Sanborn will be in Omaha this |
week to make the final order OF sale.
United States Minister aBker has ca
bled the state department that United |
States Consul Otto Munchmeir al San |
Salvador committed suicide there Mon |
~ Dol mill int VII
consul to take charge of the office. a |
few days ego Mr., Jenkin Of Nebraska |
was nominated for the place held by |
The last of the summer conferences at !
East Mortified, Mass, the general con-
ference for Christian workers will open /
tomorrow, to continue until September
Is. Evangelist D. L. Woody will have |
charge OF Al the meetings and il was
owing to his dislike for programs that
no arrangements for daily proceedings
can be given.
Holders OF preferred stock in the Mich
gan Peninsular Car company Of Detroit,
are anxious on account of threatened
reduction Of the capital stock. The cor
poration which was formed in 1892 by the
of five car building and iron
working concerns. have done little bust
ness the past three years in proportion
10 its capita stock.
A. the first days racing OF the Good
wood meeting yesterday, Captain Flies
|-year-oid FLY Hazel Breath won the
craven stakes Of $50 sovereigns. In The
ace for the Stewards cup. valued a.
70 sovereigns, the Loriilard-Beresford
stables four-year-old bay colt Diakka fin
shed second. Mr.. McCalmont's fliy,
Amphora, was fourth.
Colonel ]. Fenten Seymour died yes
erday, at Denver. OF Bright's disease.
1e was bors in New oYrk in 1882 and
anne 10 Colorado in 1860 with his broth
the late ex-governor Chat
&c. In the early days Colonel Seymour
perated stage lines. Later he engaged
n mining. He owned rich mines a Boul-
Ter and other valuable property.