The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-11-16
Told in FeWest Words

john Fleming, manager Of the Ma.
tional Sporting club, London, is dead
Judge Broaddus, at Liberty, Mo-, viii
| announce the sentence of FiIicide VIII
liam Carr today. 1t is believed beyond
doubt that the death penalty will be i'm.
posed.
The secretary of the treasury has de,
cided that refined beet sugar produced
wholly in Denmark will be subject t
an additional duty of not less than .13;
OF one cent per pound.
The committee of the Amateur Ath
letic union which investigated the
charge OF professionalism brought
against B. J. Waters, the sprinter, has
rendered a verdict of mot proven"
The scene of horse racing at Sar
Francisco yesterday from Ingleside tt
Oakland, where the California Jockey
club commenced its fortnight of sporl
and opened the track at Emeryville foI
the present season.
The Italian bark Esperia, which has
just arrived at Queenstown, reports
having traversed during her trip across
the Atlantic thousands OF casks Of Pc
troleum, cabin doors. snip beams. etc
Some OF the casks were marked Lis
bon
TIE 81 James Gazette says that ne
gotiations are on foot between Austria
France and Germany in regard to the
opportuneness of holding an interna-
tional conference to secure a general
agreement for the diminution or aboli-
ton of sugar bounties.
Near Fairburg, Ca, yesterday, Henry
Turner. wife and sister, half mile
from their home, were shot down. Al
what hour the murder was committed
no one knows. Captain Marlborough S
blOodhounds were placed upon tee trail
but all pursuit has been futile.
A passenger train and an extra freight
couided at Bordeaux station on the Elk
norm in Nebraska yesterday morning at
l O'Clock. No passengers were seriously
injured, but a great amount Of rolling
stock vas damaged. The trains met on
a sharp curve during a heavy snow
storm.
The Pangor and Pen Argyll slate re-
from English capitalists who have form
ed a company TO develop the American
slate trade in Great Britain and on the
continent of Europe by the importing
of slate from the United States, which
Will have a capital Of 100000.
The largest items Of import from the
United States to Hong Kong are -four
on 4 no frory1 O.
Kong to the United States for the year
ended June 30, 1897, amounted in value
to 81, $50, 7S5, the principal items being
rice, 1927 1886; refined sugar sS21, $50; tea
S1O5,7 Chinese provisions $136,95o;
peanut" oil S1O3,315.
East bound freight shipments from
Chicago amounted to 1910 tons, agains
1861 the previous week and 74,764 last
year, divided as follows: Fort Wayne,
1854; Michigan Central, 3.475; Wabash
3,2O1; Lake Shore, 5,OSS; Pan Handle,
1921; Baltimore and Ohio, 1881; Grand
Trunk {, $40; Nickel Plate 5000; Big -Four
1888. The lake lines carried S4,954 tons.
At Shelbyville, KY, yesterday, VIII
3. Campbell was shot and killed by
Policeman Oscar Duncan. Campbell
was an ex-policeman and very danger
Gus when drinking. He was intoXica.-
ed and boisterous and the officer asked
MIN 60 keep quiet. He pulled his pistol
and snapped it in the officers face,
when the latter shot him drought the
heart
Colonel John Jameson, general super
intendent Of the United States railway
mail service under President Arthur, is
dead at his home in Brooklyn. Colonel
Jameson was born in Albany in 1S41.
His family removed to Wisconsin in
1S47, and during the civil war he served
in the First Wisconsin artillery. Up
on leaving the army he entered the pos
tai service and rose to be chief Of the
railway mail service.