The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-12-03
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
At Huntington, W. Va, the general
store of A z. Cox was burned yesterday
morning; loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
Secretary Gage has decided that tine
countervailing duty provided for by the
Dingley tariff law applies to sugars
imported from the Netherlands.
At Marshall No., yesterday William
Haley was found guilty OF numbering
his brotner-in-lay John Pinkard and was
sentenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary.
It is now known that 81 men were
killed in the fire damp explosion which
took place Wednesday in the Frank
erholz coal mine near Homburg, Ger
many.
The firm of Morton, Rose & Co.. Lon
don, bankers, will be re-organiZed on
January 1, Mr.. Rose retiring. The firm
thereafter will be entitled Morton, Chap
lin & Co.
c. w. Merritt, Of Mansfield, Ohio, has
been arrested for robbing the mails.
Merritt was employed as a postal clerk
on the Fort Wayne road between Crest
line and Pittsourg.
Coils P. Huntington has denied the
report that ne was laying plans to Sc
cure the Toledo, st. Louis and Kansas
City Glover Leaf road as an outlet for
the Southern Pacific line.
Albert Kreuger, a Milwaukee butcher,
shot and killed his wife, Hannah, yes
terday and then took a drink Of car
bolic acid, dying soon afterward. Do
mestic trouble was the cause.
The will Of Mrs NJ. E. Hawley, vino
committed suicide at Oakland, Caiifor-
mia, September T. will be contested by
her brothers and sisters, as against her
husband, they charging foul play.
Fire destroyed the home for aged and
infirm colored women on Indiana ave
nue., Chicago, yesterday. Several of
the almost helpless inmates were nearly
suffocated by smoke before rescued by
the police.
The Celtic union of San Francisco has
taken up the idea Of erecting in that
city a great building to commemorate
1898, the Irish centennial year. The
building is expected to cost nearly
quarter Of a million dollars.
The steamer Egyptian, bound from
Cleveland to Milwaukee with a cargo Of
coal, burned to the waters edge In Lake
Huron Wednesday night off Sturgeon
Point. The Bessemer steamer Fairbairn
took off the crew of the Egyptian.
An attempt was made yesterday to
hold up and rob passenger train on
the Mexican National poad near Mon
terey,, Mexico, by nine masked and we'll
armed Mexicans. The passengers made
resistance and the outlaws were unsuc-
cessful.
Stockholders OF the California Wine
makers corporation, which controls the
bulk of the output of that state, have
decided to enter the markets Of the
world and try to dispose Of the immense
stock on hand, estimated at &c, 900
gallons.
Major Moses P. Handy, United States
commissioner to the Paris exposition, to
be held there in 1900, has prepared his
report to the president. Major Handy's
efforts were cordially seconded by the
French government and the exposition
authorities.
An action has been begun 10y Frank
Shinn in the federal district court at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, to restrain collec-
ton OF the site collateral inheritance
tax. Shinn questions the constitution
atty Of the law under the fourteenth
amendment.
The wash house operatives employed
in the tin plate mills of the United
States dipping terne plates into the watts
have formed a trades union and will ap-
ply for admission to the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. There are about 1000
wash house men in the country.
The chief of engineers has received
the report of Captain H. NJ. Chittenden,
corps of engineers, upon the examina-
ton OF reservoir sites in Wyoming and
Colorado. It includes a monograph by
James A. Sedden upon reservoirs and
their effects on the foods of the Missis-
sippi river.
An anniversary Sunday school union
Of the Methodist Episcopal church, a
meeting national in character. is in ses-
sion at Dubuque. Iowa, and will continue
through the week. Among the speakers
are Revs. Jesse Bowman. st. Louis; E.
S. Lewis, Cleveland; ]. NJ. Freeman and
]. L. HurIout, New York, and c. NJ.
Stuart, Chicago.
BY the explosion Of a 'dinkey" en-
CINE on the new street line of the IT,
tusville Traction company, near East
Titusville, Pa, jacob Miller, the engin-
eer Charles. his son, and Edward Nicely,
a laborer, were badly injured. The pres
ident OF the company, Mr.. NJ. B. Dun
ham, of Warren. Pa, was seriously
hurt.
At Portland, Oregon, JudgeBellinger
has decided that fifty cases OF whisky
seized by the customs officers there and
held for forfeiture for an attempted I'M
lawful importation into the territory OF
Alaska, be turned over to the claimant,
William Sitter, holding that, at most,
there was only an attempt to export,
and that there was no regulation
against such attempts.
Rock Island Changes Time.
Effective November q Rock Island pas
senger trains viii change time. North
bound train now leaving at $50 a. m,
will eparS al 9:57 a. m. South-bound train
now leaving ar $50 p. m. will leave at
leaving at $40 a. m, viii leave at 800 a.
m. For complete time card see this pa
per.