The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-12
Told in FeWest Words


Eddie Bald and Fred Loughead have
been matched for a race a. Memphis,
Tenn, next Monday night for puze OF
| $500.
The Bank of Montreal has invited ten
ders for 100000 pounds G110,0o0, o00)
1-2 per cent inscribed stick az not less
than 81. OF this amount 100000 pounds
deot Of the Dominion.
Miss Florence Helm, who was for two
terms postmaStresS al EliZaDethtoWn,
Ky, and who is said 10 have been the
daughter Of Ex-Governor Helm, Of Ken
lucky, died yesterday in New York from
the effects Of morphine taken last week
with suicidal intent.
By Decision of the Iowa supreme court
Peter Olinser, mayor Of Dubuque in 1895.
is adjudged liable for prosecution be-
cause ne engaged in raising mis- salary
10 the action against the aldermen SIM
iiarly decided Friday.
The state department has received
word that Ali Ferouck Bey has been
appointed Turkish minister 20 the Unit
ed States. 20 succeed Mustapha Bey.
The new minister studied in Paris for
five years and for two years was secre-
taTy Of legation at London.
According TO DR.. Williamson, of the
San Francisco board OF health, the first
case of real ttpus recorded on the Pa
ciGc coast, has been discovered at ST.
Luke'5 hospital in that city. The pa
tent, r. II. Miller, aged % years, has
been taken 10 the pesthouse.
Rev. DR.. Newell s. Albright, professor
of biblical and historical theology in the
Tiff school Of theology. died Sunday
night after a brief illness. He was a
graduate of Ohio Wesleyan university,
Drew Theological seminary and The Uni
versity Of Halle in Germany. He was
40 years Of age
Bob Carter, a negro, killed James
Burch in a saloon at Brennan, Texas,
Sunday night and then went 10 the jail
10 surrender. Yesterday mis- body was
found riGdied With bullets and buckshot.
lying about 100 yards back Of the jail.
A mob Of unknown persons had pur-
sued and killed him.
The steamship Hesperides is ashore on
Outer Diamond shoals, off Cape Hstters
and the vessel will be total loss. with
her cargo of pig iron. She was bound
from Cuba to Baltimore and struck the
shoals during a dense fog which hung
about the coast SO thick that the crew
was not taken off until Sunday after
noon.
One hundred and forty-one cities east
of the Mississippi river and twenty-five
west were represented at the sixth an
nual convention Of the National Horse
Saoers' Protective Association OF Amer
lea, which met yesterday In ST. Louis.
All the national officers were present.
The convention will be in session sew
ersl days.
Yesterday the finest business block
erected in Omaha since 1890 was occu-
pied. It is at the corner of Fifteenth and
Farnum streets, which for four years has
been an unsghtly pile of ruins left 10y
the burning Of the Fifteenth street thea
tire. The building Is five stories, 132x66.
built in Gothic style Of light brick. The
structure is owned by Boston capitalists.
One hundred carpenters employed at
the Trans-Mississippi exposition grounds
at Omaha struck yesterday. The men
ask that the carpenters union be recog-
nized and that skilled labor alone be
employed in the carpenter work. The
have been paying the union
scale but have not recognized the union,
and have hired many Jack leg5' at low
er rates.
The department store Of the Simmons
202 and 2O4 State street. Chi
cago, has been closed by creditors under
chat.ei mortgages. The amount Of in
debtedness represented in the failure is
estimated in the neighborhood Of $780,
600 and the asset. It is believed, will ag-
sregate about the same figure. Inability
10 meet payments promptly was assign
ed as the cause.
Eastbound freight shipments for last
week Give days. from Cchicago amount
ed 20 46.167 tons, aginst $1,000 the pre-
vious week and 81 500 last year. II was
divided among the different roads as fol-
lows: Pan Handle 6.672 tons; Michigan
Central 1868; Wabash 1884; Lake Shore |
5.537; Fort Wayne 5,26s; Baltimore and
Ohio 2.749; Grand Trunk 4,373: Nickel |
Plate 4,O97; Erie 1921; Big Four 4,30l. |
The lake lines carried S7,737 tons.