The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-10
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Abraham +. Kline, pioneer lnTeSnlile
machine manufacturer, is dead in Chicago
aged 70.
The Earl of Bradford Orlando George
Charles Bridgeman), is dead. He was
born in 1919.
The suspension of Maplestone & Bank
man, brokers, was announced on the New
York stock exchange yesterday.
Robert Manteu has arrived in Port HUI
ron, Mich, and will take the remains OF
his wife to Philadelphia for burial.
The body of Hugh J. Jewett, the ex-
president of the Eerie railroad, was in
TERED in Woodlawn cemetery, GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, yesterday.
Jim Thomas of Chicago and Sam Ben
nett of Montreal, Canada, fought ten
rounds to draw near Leavenworth, Ks,
Tuesday night
Bank President Charles W. Spalding of
Chicago under sentence for embezzlement
has filed a bin for divorce against his
wife, Lizzie Spaiding, charging Geser-
ton.
Three children of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Conner were burned to death yesterday in
st. Louis. They had been left alone by
the parents, who were attending a fu-
neral.
On Monday next the Delaware Iron
works at Newcastle, Del, will resume op-
erations, after a suspension of four
months, and will give employment to
nearly 500 hands.
Baron Castlemaine has been elected a
representative peer inlthe place of Baron
| Clarina, deceased. He is a justice of the
peace and a deputy lieutenant for West
meath county, Ireland.
The spring overhauling of the American
| line steamer st. Louis has been completed
and she left Newport News, Va, for New
| York, yesterday, to resume her place on
the Southampton line.
DR.. A. NJ. Curtis, surgeon inchief of
| the Colored Provident hospital of Chi
cago has been appointed surgeon in
charge of the government colored hos
pital, the Freedmans, at Washington.
E. W. McKenna, president of the Nc
Kenna Steel Works company of Joliet,
H., has bought seven acres of land in
Armourdale, a suburb of Kansas City,
Mo, as a site for a big steel rolling mill.
1t is believed that one of two burglars
who attempted Tuesday night to break
into the cabin of the whaleback John B.
Trevin, lying in the river at Cleveland,
O., was drowned while trying to avoid ar
rest.
At Washington, Mo, two counterfeiters,
who came to that town rec ontly and pass.
ed considerable counterfeit coin, have
been arrested. Two others of the gang
escaped, but posse is after them with
bloodhounds.
Henry Leverson of Chicago has lifted
two ten-pound dumb-bells from his side
to arms length above his head 4,5OO times
in two hours and forty-nine minutes,
breaking the record, which was previous
ly three hours.
J. c. Cox, one of the most successful
Of the younger board of trade operators
of Chicago, and known among his asso-
ciates as the little plunger," has been
taken to the detention hospital and will
be tried for his sanity.
William Harris, one of the two negroes
who attempted to rob the store of Mrs.
Caroline Middleton. in McDonoughville,
opposite New Orleans, Tuesday night has
probably been lynched, though no trace
of his body can be found.
T. II. Davies, guardian of Princess
Kiulani, proposes to abandon further hope
of monarchy of the Hawaiian islands If
the American residents will cease agitat-
ing for annexation. This proposition is
not approved by either natives or Amer
lea rs.
In order to stop newspaper controver-
sizes among officers and men of the Nation
al Guard of Missouri, Adjutant General
Bell has issued general orders that here
after those who indulge in such contro-
versies will be death with as for breach
of military discipline.
When the court convened yesterday for
the continuation of the trial of T. b
1outzey, late cashier of the First Ma
donal bank Of Newport. Kentucky, Judge
Taft was notified that the defendant was
Frustrated by an attack of epilepsy. Ad-
journment was taken.
The celebrated Spanish toreador, Fras-
cuelo. died yesterday in Madrid The in
terest taken in his illness was so great
that bulletins were displayed at the house
where he expired and the queen regent
and high officials mad repeated inquiries
regarding his condition.
The stockholders of the Midland Terrni-
nal railway, at their annual meeting in
Denver, authorized the sale of 100000 Of
per cent bonds, to mature IL 1926 This
Indebtedness covers the entire obligations
of the company and reduces the yearl
fixed charges to $50. 900
Prince Potietowskf is at the head of a
company which proposes. within a year.
TO bring 10000 horsepower from the wa
ters now running to waste on the western
slope Of the Sierra Nevada mountains in
Alpine, Amador. and CaIaveras. counties.
by means of an electrical line 100 miles
in length to San Francisco.
1t is announced at Omaha that the In
ion Pacific is now in control of the Or
egon Short Line, which carries with it
control of the Oregon Railway and Navi-
cation company. It IS also announced
that the Union Pacific viii secure con-
troll Of the Union Pacific, Denver and
Gulf from Julesburg to Denver.
The Chicago board Of trade has resolv- /
ed that all packages containing mixed |
cereal products should be plainly marked F!
and branded as such mixed products. in
order to protect the integrity Of the Amer
lean manufactured cereal products al
home and abroad; and favoring any ma
tional legislation that Will accomplish (
these results.
Philadelphia, March s-The Baldwin
locomotive works today booked an order /
for fifteen locomotives Tor the Egvpgian /
State railway. They are TO be heavy /
mogul freight engines ant viii be shipped /
early in May.
Ayers
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