The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-08
Told in Fewest Words

Henry J. Reed. a money lender. and
mis- sitter Blanche ~. Reed. Of North
Adams. Mass. were found dead in their
home yesterday. They had apparently
been murdered by burglars
The value Of Domestic goods shipped
from New York 10 San Francisco by way
OF the Is;hmus during me last fiscal year
was s3,l04,sSs, and Of goods from San
| Francisco 10 New York 81 ,26s S37.
Eight members OF the Association for
the Advancement OF Science wet in De-
troit yesterday 10 arrange The final de-
tails for the forty-eighth convention O.
| the association, which opens there on
Monday.
| Oscar F. Price, genera. solicitor OF the
| Illinois lines OF the Burlington road, died
| Friday night at Kenosha. Wis. He was
man OF wide influence in the state.
His bcdy VII De brought to ais home a:
Galesburg Tor burial.
Captain F. ". Thi5art, Sixth infantry,
| stationed al Fort Thomas, KY, died
yesterday. He served in the New York
volunteers during the war Of the rebe.-
lion and followed the Sixth infantry as
second lieutenant in 1867.
The attorney general of Texas has
fled eight suits against the Houston and
Texas Central road. charging discrin,ina-
ton in freight rates. The cases are the
first Of several hundred tina, are 10 BE-
filed against different roads.
Major Otis w Pollock, Twenty-four..h
infantry, was placed on the retired list
yesterday, having reached the age limit.
He entered the service as Lieutenant OF
the Thirty-fourtn Ohio infantry in 1861,
and the regular army in 1866.
The treasury department is considering
the advisability OF Withdrawing the trea-
pervise the transshipment of goods over
the Isthmus. 1t is thought that this
service may be satisfactory performed by
a story is afloat in New York that Viii
liam c. Whitney, head Of the Metropoii-
tan Street railway, has made a cash Of
fer for the Gould nd Sage interests in
the IL" railroads. The deal, IL carried
out, will give the great monopoly almost
absolute contro. Of the local passenger
traffic.
The Plunger. submarine torpedo boat
Of the Holland type, designed for the
United States navy. was successfully
launched at the yards OF the Columbian
Iron works, Baltimore. yesterday. The
ceremonies We're simple, consisting mere
ly Of the customary christening and a
few brief speeches.
What is known in Missouri as the
breeders law. under which pool selling
and bookmaking are prohibited except on
race tracks. was pronounced unconsu-
tutional yesterday by Judge David Muir
ply OF the court Of criminal correction.
This will probably have the effect OF re-
opening pool rooms.
Frank y. Bristol. D. D., pastor of the
First Methodist Episcopal church OF
Evanston ILL.,, has accepted a call from
President Mckinley's church. the Met
ropolitan Methodist Episcopal, at Wash
ington. DR.. Bristol IS one of the best
ministers in the west. Ell will remain
for some time yet at Evanston.
The Cunard steamer Etrutria. arrived
yesterday at New York from Liverpool
and Queenstown, beating her best pre-
vious record across the Atlantic. The
EIrutria has been in service for nearly |
fifteen years, but she made the run in |
five days, twenty-one hours and ten min
u,es, actual time. Her average per |
hour was about twenty knots.
A disastrous explosion occurred yester- |
day al cartridge factory a. Rusthuk. on !
the Danube. Forty-six persons were /
killed outright and very many others |
were injured. Prince Ferdinand OF Bui- |
garia, on receipt OF the news OF the |
disaster, visited the sufferers from the |
explosion, who had been taken to the |
hospital.
A scientific summary OF the benefits |
and evils Of bicycle riding sen; 10 the
state department by United States Con-
q Bremen, is an article pre-
pared for Professor Mendelsohn. He re-
cites the temperaments and diseases TIA:
are affected injuriously and his general
conclusion is that in moderation bicycle
riding il OF inestima bic value 20 the av-
erage person.
General Passenger Agent Goodman, OF
the Sou;he Pacific company. has sen;
out 10 the heads Of the passenger de-
partmen;s o. all the t-anscontinental
lines a circular letter In which he urges
than 20 az once consider the proposition
o. making .ow rates 10 California for both
the National Education association con-
and the Grand Army encamp-
-Dant Oey- YEAR