The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-05
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He was born in 1915.
Seven houses in North Des Moines, Ia,
caught fire yesterday from blaze in
barn in the vicinity. Winds carried the
flames over several blocks. The water
pressure was low and the progress OF The
flames was almost unchecked. The loss
may reach $4,000.
Fire supposed 10 have been started by
tramps destroyed the stock barn Of Bur-
CESS Bros at Winona, Iii, Sunday night.
Thirty horses, many OF which had taken
premiums al the recent state fair at
Springfield, were destroyed. Loss 900
insurance on barn alone.
Sachs & Morrison, wholesale clothiers.
Pearl street, Cincinnati, assigned yeSter-
day TO Max B. May. Assets are stated
10 be go, 900; liabilities $4,000. Chattel
preferences were given to the amount Of
$500. Unexpected losses on contracts
are said to have been the cause Of the
assignment.
The architects Of the world have been
invited 10 enter a competition for the
new buildings OF the University Of Cali
d.
will be placed at various accessible
points in Europe and America and ample
time Will be allowed for the preparation
OF the designs.
The grand jury, which was summoned
az Milwaukee 10 investigate the charge
mat Assemblyman Charles Polacheck,
stakeholder in the Wisconsin Rendering
g.l win lda,- N
Elkert to vote TO give the garbage con-
tract to his company, was impaneled and
sworn yesterday.
In the federal court a. Chicago yester-
day Judge Woods handed down decls-
ion sustaining the action Of Judge Gross
cup in appointing receiver for the c.
]. Fargo Shoe company and setting aside
the preferences Of the United States Rub
Der company, L. Candee & Co., and the
Metropolitan National bank.
Ralph P. Newton. receiving teller In
the First National bank Of Detroit, is
missing. The circumstances surround
ing his leave are unexplained by his rel
ativas and friends. II was learned today
that ne resigned his position In the bank
for the purpose Of joining his mother in
California.
During the railroad strike Of 1894 large
numbers OF Wabash employees were laid
off and their applications for rsinstate-
ment have not been needed. 1t is now
given out on good official authority that
all the old men VIII be taken back as
rapidly as possible. This will mean the
reinstatement Of several hundred men
ever the entire system.
The Phoenix Brewing company. one Of
t1e oldest brewing companies in Louis
vile. assigned yesterday 20 c. c. Vogt
with liabilities OF s250,000 and assets
slightly in excess of this sum. President
| c. NJ. Weber states that the failure was
| caused by the fling of number Of at
tachments aggregating $4,000 by GoeD-
per & Co., Cincinnati firm.
| During the progress OF a quarrel yes
| terday, William McCaieo. an advertising
| agent living at "a Wells street, Chicago.
murdered his wife by cutting her throat
with a razor He then shot himself in
! the left breast and through the head,
dying in two hours. Jealousy is supDos-
| ed TO have been the motive for the
| crime.
Mayor Harrison OF Chicago has decld-
ed to fill the void caused by Governor
Tanners refusal 10 attend the celebra-
ton of Chicago and Illinois day al the
Nashville exposition. In addition. MEM
bers OF the Illinois commission held a
conference with Secretary Of the Treas
ury Gage and Mr. Gage will represent
| the commission al the celebration Octo-
| Der 9.
Four men in the employ OF Hennessy
! Bros. pond fishermen OF North Long
Branch, y. J., were drowned yesterday
while al their work about 100 yards off
| shore The names of the men were Jo-
seph Herth, Adolph Pierson and A Hen
| Erickson, all of Brooklyn, and George
Robbins of Monmouth Beach, NJ. Three
other men who were with those named
| were rescued.
| Mr. Warner NJ Bateman, one OF the
best known lawyers Of Cincinnati, died
suddenly "a the Riggs house, Washing
ton City, yesterday. He arrived there
/ III SOON 49,
was taken suddenly i'll and died within
a half hour. The cause Of his death is
said to have been pectorls. Mr.. Bateman
was formerly United States district al
torney for the Southern Ohio district.
East6ound shipments from Chicago
Cor -,le week ending September 20
amounted 10 $500 tons. against 51,749 the
| previous week and 63, 1913 las; year. II
was divided as follows: Fort Wayne 1858
tons. Michigan Central 1851 tons; Wa
bash $40; Lake Shore 6,214; Pan Handle
7.4a5: Baltimore and Ohio. S5o5; Grand
Trunk. 5.321: Nickel Plate 5.l54; Erie
400: Big Four 2,So1. The Lake lines car
r;ed 1T, 1872 IONS.
Boulder. Colo, Occ. 2.-Professor Guy
V. Thompson, formerly a member Of the
Yale faculty. and a prominent educator
died here today. of consumption. He va;
born in Michigan in 1854 Professor
Thompson vas a graduate of the Colo
rado State university. and also Of Yale
In 1895 he went 70 Europe and Was mar
r-ed 70 Ambassador THIS daughter a.
Berlin in January, 1895. In June % thi:
year his health failed and he came I