The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-11
Told in Fewest Words


United States Ambassador Colonel
John Hay and Mrs Hay dined with
Queen Victoria at Windsor last evening
and stopped last night at the castle.
| A severe gale is again raging along
| the British coast and especially over
| those parts bordering on the Irish sea.
| Ships are running for shelter into all
| ports.
Charles MeHam, the architect and
civil engineer, whose death at Bayonne.
y. J., is announced, was the first to
suggest elevated railroads in city
| streets.
George Julian Harley, the Ohartist
leader, died at Richmond, England, yes
terday. He formerly conducted a news
paper in New York and his second wife
taught school in Boston, Mass.
The Peruvian chamber of deputies,
finding that the governments project to
simply register the marriage Of foreign
ers is unacceptable, win substitute an
other on broader principles for it.
The Ohio State Federation of Labor
has passed resolution endorsing the
proposed postal savings plan. A reso-
iation opposing the extension OF time
to put safety brakes on cars was passed
besides other minor resolutions.
Edward H Phelps, So years Of age.
died yesterday at Springfield, Mass. IN
Ill few eyars ago Mr.. Phelps was the
principal stockholder in the Phelps Pub
fishing company, publishers Of the
American Agriculturalist and other pc
riodicals.
Mrs. Fred Schrieder Of CVhicago, who
was shot in the right shoulder by her
husband Thursday night after a quar-
rel, died Of her injuries yesterday.
Schrieder put bullet into mis- temple
when the police forced the door OF mis-
room. He died instantly.
Negotiations are said to be under way
looking coward the affiiiation Of the Uni
versity of Chicago and the Rush Med
ical college President Harper, OF the
uni yersity, has gone to New York to
visit John d. Rockefeller and it is be-
ing on the question.
Judge Tuley of Chicago has appoint
ed E. V. McKey receiver for the Galena
Trust and Safety Vault company, the
corporation owning the Fort Dearborn
building en- Clark and Monroe streets.
The building, it is said, has not been
fully rented since it was built several
years ago. It Is valued at $780, 900.
J. Lee Porter, the Kansas City wing
shot, defeated r. w. Wright OF Chicago
IN the opening match Of the bi-ctty
championship contest at Waitsons Burn
side park, Chicago, yesterday, by
score of AZ to 40. NJ. J. Eich of Chicago
also fell down before the superior marks
manship OF Ed. Hickman, another Kan
sas City expert, the score being 43 to SO.
United STAKES District Judge Asa W.
Tenney died yesterday at mis- home in
Brooklyn. In 1873 President Grant ap-
pointed him Unuited States district
attorney for the eastern division of New
York. Presidents Hayes and Garfield
each re-appoinsed him to that position.
In September last he was appointed by
President Mckinley United States dis
triot judge.
A carload OF tautog and egg-bearing
holsters from Massachusetts, has been
deposited near the Farallone islands.
The fish commission car, which brought
these out to San Francisco will go to
Anderson, Shasta county, where it will
take on about 5000, 900 Qlinnat salmon
spawn from the Battle Creek hatchery.
These are to be distributed in the up
per Hudson river and in all Of the
Streams in the northeastern states.