The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-23
CITY HELD LIABLE
IMPORTANT DECISION AGAINST
The CITY OF CHICAGO.


Million and q Half in Damages Claimed
Depends Upon the Judgment for Five
Hundred Dollars for Damages Sustained
by a Cement Company During the Strike
Riots OF 1s94-Nebraska Freight Rate
Decision will be in Favor Of the Roads,
But More in Favor of Consress-Rail-
way News
Chicago. May 22.-Circuit Judge Ad-
SINS today upnc.-. the constitutionaHiy
If the act of 1857 which makes the city
liable for loss caused by riot, ana
awarded the Manhattan Cement COM
pdny $50 damages fer two cars OF &C.
ment which were Destroyed on the Pan
HaGle tracks at Forty-seventh street
during the strike Of 1884. The city
fought the suit on the grounds that the
law was unconstitutional.
suits against the city for million and
naif dollars Drought by railroad COM
psnias &c; damages during the labor
troubles of 1874 last on this decision OF
Judge Adams. The company sued for
$500.
NEBRASKA RATE CASE.
Chicago, May 22-The Posts Wash
lnglon's special says: Monday the su-
preqe court will probably hand down
decision in the famous Nebraska maxi
mum freight rate case, involving the
right Of states 10 fix arbitrary transport
tation rates for railroads. AS in other
important cases in the supreme court
advance OF the case to the time of the
decision and OF its tenor has reached in
terested parties. In this instance the
decision is topped off, as being favor
able TO the railroads and holds that the
static in the enactment Of this kind Of
legislation is encroaching upon the prov
ince of congress, in which is vested the
sole right OF control of interstate COM
merce. The decision, as foreshadowed,
while hailed as a victory for the roads,
Is thought 10 go farther than the trans
portation Interests like, and more
sweepingly than in any previous pro-
nouncement of the supreme court estab-
fishes the power of congress to regulate
railroads.
POWER FROM LEAVENWORTH.
Kansas City. May PA scheme is
said to be on foot to run Kansas City's
steam plants-manufactorie street rail-
ways, etc, by electricity. to be general
ed at Leavenworth, Kansas, where fuel
can be obtained cheaply at the promo
ter's mines. In addition, it is proposed
to ultimately construct an electric rail-
road between the two cities. Already
arrangements to construct a 81 500, 900
power plant at Leavenworth have been
made. The scheme is headed by Colonel
D. A. McKfbben, Major John NJ. Long,
Harvey D. Rush, George w. Kirstead,
and ex-senator Caldwell of Leavenworsh
all wealthy men, and it is believed east
ern capitalists are also interested
VAN AIKEN AS A BOOMER.
Kansas City, May 22-William Van
AIKEN, who Is now in the Tombs at New
York charged with an attempt on the
life Of ex-senator Mcpherson, is remem-
bered here as the promoter of a gigantic
scheme that collapsed with the boom of
several years ago. II was TO build a
huge system of dykes in the Missouri
river and reclaim much valuable land
on which 10 erect huge depot and ter
minals to cost millions. At the time the
plan was seriously considered by prom
fnent men here
FOR LOCKS AND DAMS.
Pittsburg, Pa, May 22.-The contracts
for locks and dams No. 10 to Is. inclu-
sive, on the MonongaheIa river, was let
today TO James McCaron of Philadel-
phia, on condition that he furnishes
satisfactory sample of sand and COM
mence the work within twenty days after
the government acquires the land for
the site. McCarrons bid was the low
est Of seventeen. The prices he quoted
were: No. 10. s95, o95.35; No. IL, Sis, 61S-
81; No. u. slid. $50. 10; No. 10. S.. 1855;
No. IA s97O, sos. 10; No. 10, ss7.SS22l. The
total bid was s622. 1S314
RECEIVER HOPKINS REPORT.
indianapolis, Ind. May 22-Receiver E
o. Hopkins of the Peoria, Decatur and
Evansville railroad has filed his annual
report for 1896. The report shows total
receipts for this year Of 81 .365, 3372S, d.
vided as follows: Receivers accounts ST.
s5e,522 Peoria, Decatur and Evansville
accounts s14,Sl4. This denotes a falling
off in receipts of 1895, which were ST.
SS5.5s5.2s. The total receipts from Janu-
AIRY Is. 1894. when the road went INFO the
receivership. are s3,7s6. 39i96. The dis
oursements for 1896. as shown by the re-
port, are shown as follows: Receivers
accounts s1.30S. $3.50: Peoria. Decatur
and Evansville accounts $17,5S47e; total
81 S26. 094 40, leaving a balance in the