The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-30
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The president viii return to Washing
ton today al lo0'clock.
The Vossische Zeitung says the Ger
man government is taking steps to in
troduce a bill to increase the beer ia,
three-fold.
A plague search party has bee.
mo5bed at Igatpuri, India. -Four mem
bers Of the party, including a surfeon
were severely wounded.
Fire yesterday in Magnolia warehouse
Mobile, Ala, destroyed one shed ant
| damaged 450 bales OF cotton. Thel os
on the building was $1,000; cotton $1,000
The directors Of the American Toroac
CO company have declared a regular
! quarterly dividend of per cent on rne
| common and per cent on the preferrec
| stock.
! Ex-State Senator Dorsey yesterday a
| Moundsville, W. Va, shot h1msel1
through the head. The act was due to
verses.
Governor Adams Of Colorado mas ap-
| pointed Major S. K. Hooper, general
| passenger agent of the Denver and Rio
Grand railroad, member of the Omaha
exposition committee.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalina and her party
| arrived in Chicago yesterday from San
| Francisco. They left for Washington
| last night. She refused TO discuss the
| object Of her return to Washington.
The farm house OF A L. Gordon, near
| Alma, Neo., burned Tuesday night, de-
stroying the entire contents and con-
! suming three children. Gordon was
| dangerously burned in his efforts to
save his children and may die.
A number OF residents and property
| owners Of Chattanooga, Tenn, have
made application for a receiver for the
| town of Lookout Mountain. The appli-
| cants charge insolvency and nnisman-
agement and fraud on the part Of the
| officials.
Samuel Moss, Liberal, was elected to
parliament in the East division of Den
bighshire, succeeding the Right Hon.
Sir George Osborn Morgan, Liberal. de-
ceased. Mr.. Moss's majority was 1927,
as against a majority Of LISA for his pre-
decessor.
Among the passengers Of the steamer
Vigilancia. which arrived from Cuban
ports, were several Of the crew Of the
Prince line steamer Turkish Prince,
which went ashore September II ON
Campeohe reef. She viii probably be
total loss.
the bicycle census recently taken in
France shows that during the last
calendar year 329,S1S wheels were reg
istered, as compared with 25S,0s4 in the
preceding year. Paris paid one-fffth (or
s121,575) OF the whole amount realized
from the bicycle tax
W. H. Irwin, owner OF the Be,cher sill
yer mine, Boulder, Colo, shot and dan
gerously wounded his wife Tuesday
night and then shot himself in the
heart, dying instantly. The couple had
been living apart and Irwin was intoX
icated at the time OF the shooting.
A disastrous explosion yesterday at
San Cruz, Cal, wrecked several build
ings, but fortunately was unattended by
loss OF life, occurred at the works Of
the California Powder company, pre-
Eight mills were destroyed. thel oss ag-
gregating about s250,000.
The twenty-eighth annual convention
OF the Fire Underwriters Association Of
the Northwest, opened IN Chicago yes
terday. Tie membership report Of Sec
rotary Mum showed an admission Of
sixty new members, eighteen suspen-
sions and five deaths for the past year,
leaving the membership at SO.
Owing to a disagreement as to the
differential between the rates for min
ing thick and thin vein COAL ABOUT 5000
river miners OF the Pittsburg district re-
fused to go to work yesterday. A con-
ference between operators and miners
viii be held today at which efforts Will
be made to reach an understanding.
Announcement is made at Denver
that the date Of the close Of the Colo
rado Midland receivership has been
postponed from eptember 80 to midnight
of October 81. The delay is made nee
essary, it is claimed, on account Of mat
ters OF detail which cannot be conclud-
ed in time for the program as originally
designed.
Judge Gest OF Rock Island, H., has
forbidden the clerk of the circuit court
TO Issue any more ipjunctions granted
10y Master in Chancery McPherran. This
IS 10 prevent Fulton from obtaining an
other injunction against the removal Of
the Modem Woodmen offices and so pre-
vent them from taking the matter into
the court. The fight is ont yet ended.
The currency of China is copper much
more than silver, and the relative value
OF gold and copper is an important fac
tor in the consideration of trade prob
lens. The ordinary business OF China
is done in copper cash and the price
OF copper cash has been enhanced over
20 per cent at the same time that prices
for ordinary articles of consumption are
materially increased.
Receivers Seymour and Lightner of
the Bank Of Minnesota, at ST. Paul,
whose failure last December precipitat-
their first report and asked orders to
pay 10 per cent dividend. There has
been already paid $65S. S344,. After this
payment theu npaid Indebtedness will
Still De 81 500 ,000. for the payment of
which there are book and stock liability
assets Of s.. 376.39S7e
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