The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-21
FIJI World Over.
NEWS IN NUT SHE'LL
FROM EVERY NOOK
0F 1HEFERfH

Early yesterday morning the residents
Of Cambridge weie surprised to sec a
skeleton hanging from the top of the flag
pole on Cambridge common No one
knows how il got there but the Incident
is laid 20 a secret society which Is sup
posed to exist a. Ifar7 ard, under the
name Of Med Fac The skeleton vas 50
securely fastened that L was impossible
TO take it down
Three distinct movements are at the
moment under way having IN view the
establishment Of american banking facil-
ities IN the Orient. says the Journal d
Commerce.
According 10 the London correspondent
German trade is looking up. 1t Is re-
ported from Cologne that in some dis
tricts % Westr haiia. the change for the
better in the iron trade has set in. About
Altoona the factories are running full
time again and some are working over
time and with extra shifts Of hands
The Island Of -uartini1e has been select
Cd as the place Of rendezvous for rev
olUti0narv expedition against President
Castro of Venezuela, cables the Port OF
Spain Trinidad. correspondent OF the
New YORK Herald
! special from Merryville Mo, says:
St Joscphs hospital was almost compile
tcly destroyed by fire last night and the
live sof twenty-five persons were 1eoDar-
dizeG-fatal results being feared in sew
eral cases, owing to the shock and the
zero weather INTO which the sick We're
carried for refuge from the flames
At Des Moines. Iowa. yesterday Judge
W. z Conrad of the Ninth judicial dis
trict. died as the result Of parslyte
stroke lie was distinguished as having
fewer reversals by the supreme court
than any other Iowa judge.
The infant daughter of Rev. Jaiser, OF
Nebraska, was fatally wounded and ms
son snot through the arm while playing
last evening with a supposed unioadeo
revolver.
The Jury has returned 4 verdict of
guilty against both Theodore and Laura
jackson Ann Adelia Diss De Bar. charged
with immoral practice and fraud IN Lon
don The judge sentenced Jackson 10 NJ
teen years ana Mrs Jackson to seven
years penal serVitude-
A specia Iron Friend, Neb-, says; MISS
villa Burger q teacher IL the pipilc
schools. was seriously burned here as the
result of a celUloid side comb in her hair
i,-rffine The Young woman was stand
ing near a rcd hot stove Nearly all the
hair was burned from her head
1t is Secretary Cages intention to re-
Iinouish the treasury portfolio as 5ocn as
President Roosevelt can find suitable sue
cessor ard he has so Informed the Tres
ident. Mr.. Gage would like to De re
lfeved before spring
IL view of the repeated publications OF
late to the general effect that Secretary
Hav is about to retire from the cabinet
a statement is given with full authority
touching this subject. substantially TO
the effect that Secretary Hay does not
now contemplate retiring from the cab
mot.
AT the cabinet meeting yesterday a
number Of departmental matters were us
cussed among them being the appoin
noent of Prof. f. II. King, Of the UniVer-
sitv of Wisconsin, as chief Of the division
OF soils Of the department. Of agriculture
Lillian VicSefs, Of Los Angeles, stu
dent at Bryn Muir college, near Phaadel-
rhia. was burned TO death in her room
at the college today. Her clothing was
accidentally caught fire ard the young
woman was fatally burned before assist
ance ~eched her. This was Fer third year
at the college.
It is officially announced by the Ger
rsn government that III consequence OF
the murder Of a German near Pekin' Aug
ust Is, members Of the band found guilty
of the crime, have been executed