The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-12
Told i'm Fewest Words

Mrs. W. w. Dudley, wife of General
| Dudley of Indiana, the former commits
| sioner of pensions, died yesterday in
| Washington city.
AT Hyden, KY, yesterday, in a row
over political talk, John Sebree shot
and killed Henry Davis, and Sebree was
shot and MORALLY wounded by Mollie
Davis, a sister OF Henry.
Joseph N. Shotwell, manager OF the
San Francisco Merchants exchange,
died suddenly Of apoplexy Wednesday
night at his home in Sausalito Cal. He
was a native Of New Jersey and 63
years old.
Miss Bertha English, daughter of the
late John c. English, and Mr.. J. v.
day at II a. m. in st. Joseph's Cathe-
dral Columbus, Ohio, the Rt. Rev.
Bishop Watterson officiating.
Mrs. George Partridge, formerly of St
Louis many years connected with the
Bible Market mission Sunday school of
that city and widely known among Sun
day school workers for her work and
writings, is dead at San Francisco, ag-
ed 60.
At Brownsville, Tex, yesterday a
Mexican tboy named Bernardo Salazar,
aged IS, shot and probably fatally
wounded two we'll known women and
two little girls aged and 4. There is
no cause assigned for the deed. Salazar
was jailed.
Upon the opening Of the trial Of Jo-
eeph z. Kelly at Dover, n. H, yester-
day, for the murder of Cashier Stickney,
Of the Somersworth National bank, Kei-
ley retracted his plea Of not guilty and
pleaded guilty to charge of murder in
the first degree.
Mr.. John c. Cohen, formerly private
secretary to Secretary Hoke Smith Of
the interior department and Washington
correspondent of the Atlanta Journal,
now associate editor of that paper, was
Married yesterday to Miss Julia Clarke,
a well known Atlanta society lady.
Alfred H. Brooks, 5s years old, who
was for thirty-tWo years the head Of
thue United States internal revenue de-
partment in New York City, is dead Of
cancer of the tongue brought on by
poison administered to him in an Illicit
distillery on which he made raid three
years ago.
The anchor line steamer which went
ashore off the Isle Of Arran at the en-
trance of the Firth of Clyde, as cabied
to the Associated Press Wednesday
night, proved TO be the Persia, bound
from Liverpool TO Glasgow, as antici-
pated. Sne was floated at midnight and
proceeded to her destination.
A. G. Gillian, manager Of the Jones'
Nixon Publishing company, ST. Louis,
and candidate for state senator at the
late election, shot and killed himself
yesterday. No reason is known for the
deed except that an injury received re-
Gently by Mr.. Gillian in a bicycle ac.
cident may have affected his mind.
On application of George Seyfang and
G. H. Gibbs, who own three-fifths OF
the stock of the concern, Charles H.
Avery has been appointed receiver for
Seyfang, Prentiss & Co., bicycle manu-
facturers, Buffalo, n. Y. Dissatisfaction
with the conduct of the business is CIV
en- as the cause. The assets, it is said,
are double the amount Of the liabilities
The Southern Surgical and Gynecolo-
gica1 association, in session at st. Louis
for the past three days, has elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
President, Richard Douglas, Nashville,
Tenn; vice presidents, II. H Mudd,
st. Louis; J. a. Goggan, Alabama; sec
retary, w. E. B. Davis, Birmingham,
Ala; treasurer, A. NJ. Cartiedge, Louis
vile; council, L. NJ. Tiffany, Baltimore;
George Ben Johnston, Richmond, Va;
Lewis S. McMurty, Louisville; George J.
Englemann. Boston; Ernest S. Lewis,
New Orleans.