The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-20
Told in Fewest Words

Colonel Frederick ". Coffin. brother OF
the historian and novelist, Charles Coffin
is dead Colonel Coffin was born in New
Hampshire in 1916.
The coroner's jury investigating the
murder Of Attorney Lavake at Dubuque
| Iowa, returned a verdict yesterday. charg-
| ing the crime to John McGeary, who is
under arrest
T. H. Puryear of Paducah, KY, q large
| tobacco dealer, shot himself yesterday
| and died an hour afterward- He became
| respondent over recent business reverses
and protracted illness.
| Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the well
known novelist, has instituted a suit for
divorce from her husband, DR.. Swan NJ
| Burnett. The papers in the case are
withheld from publication.
| The Pacific Mail Steamship company
and the Panama railroad have advanced
/ freight rates 80 per cent on an average
! on eastbound shipments from California
| TO New York via the Isthmus.
| Al Omo1a Charles Hendricks has been
| sentenced TO fifteen years Imprisonment
| at hard labor for highway robbery. The
prisoner held up three men, shot two and
! got 10 cents. He was captured by his
| third victim.
Burglars entered the Franklin bank. Of
/ Franklin III, Friday night and blew open
the safe. securing between s.. 600 and S, eco
They stole a handcar and escaped. and SO
far there is no clue. The loss is covered
by burglar insurance
The sultan OF Morocco is disbanding his
army. Many of the governors, cadis and
their contingents have returned. Several
OF them have been disgraced and impris-
oned. The court is going to Marrakesh 70
receive the foreign ENJOYS.
All the day men employ sIf az the 3uhl
Steel Galvauizing department and coke
ovens at Sharon, Pa, will demand an in
crease in wages Monday, and if the ad
vance is refused, strike will be declared.
About 300 men will be affected
Officials Of the Brunswick government
report that they lately discovered trichi-
nae in several packages OF American meat
and the government Of Brunswick mas
asked the bundesrath 70 issue a decree
prohibiting the importation Of American
meat.
Yesterday at DanviIle. KY, while a
number of children were fishing from a
bridge on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad. several were struck by a fast
freight trains Mary Van Arsdall was
killed and Claude Baker was fatally in
iured.
In an explosion which occurred in Slope
. Of the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Rail
way company az Pratt City, Ala. yestsr-
day. six negro convicts were killed. They
were :, 500 feet from the surface repairing
the air machinery. The explosion is a
mystery.
@. Rankin OF whitewater carried OF the
nonors in the inter-normaI oratorical con-
test az PlattsviIle, Wis. Friday night.
This entities Rankin TO represent the
league at the interstate contest at Nor
nal. Illinois Rankfn's subject vas ''Ths
Puritan and PurItanism-'
workman engaged in removing debris
from the site Of the burned Emerson build
ing in Chicago discovered another body
yesterday afternoon. making the eighth.
The remains were those Of William Bos.
IS years old r. Pitts. who was supposed
70 have persisted has been heard from.
TIE street car company AZ Houston.
Texas. whose line has been tied Up on &C
count II strike % employees. eEdesvor=d
70 get a car OUT yesterday morning. II V.
Chase. superintendent, acting as q con
ductor. vas hit II the dead by 2 mob
and seriously wounded No care are uo~
being run
Mr. E 5. Willard closed his present
Arue-Isan season Friday night a; Hoo
ley's thea,ar. Chicago, and wiII retire
from the stage un-i, mex. season. on ire (
advice q MS physician M Willard was
taken sick fsw days ago and xas com
psIed 70 miss q performance, tae first {
one N ,wenty-z,x years
The tournament Ct the Interstate ass1- /
csaa7n. under whose auspices the Grand T.
American handicap live pigeon shoot IS !
contested annually. w.u begin a. tire 4
grounds az Eiwood PARK. y. J. on Tues f
day next- The Grand American E7u BE- ,
gin o. Wednesday. Every shoote- g aors +
n the country Is mentioned II tEe e1-ry /
list
~ Chippewa Fails. Mass. ous mar zas
fatally sLo; ard another nan ard Eo7za /.
injured as the resalt q a attszp. % rob 4
q resort oEnsi By Frank Hunter Two 4
strangers forced a. entrance Ms Hun
Ter pug three she-s into one = men and
signify wounded re othsr- TIE men rs-
Ire FIRE, striking Mrs. HUM Z
TIE head and causing = sevs-s wound
Fresno. Cal, Narch ls-SEs-k -asers
y his county are circulating Z petition
which VII shorty be forxzrs5ed % Pres
seat AcKialsy- ne Unprecedented
srozgE; has been very lard oa seek a-s
\ the petition re president VI D asked
% proclaim TIA: stock nav gaze C cer-
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