The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-07
I'll World Over
NEWS IN NUT SHELL
FROM EVERY NOOK
OF The EAR tn

UF HE Fan N
Three more Holland torpedo boats are
being built for the foreign powers.
Rev DR.. Rouse, the superintendent of
the American mission at Salonica, tele-
graphs his opinion on-the Stone case. He
says that she may be dead, but she did
not Gle of grief
The new Bible authorized by the recent
Episcopal conv ention is to be printed
very likely, by an English company, as
they have promised to do it for nothing.
The new book is to consist of King
James version, the English revision and
the late American revision.
The vilayets of ErzorouR. Darbekier
and Bitlis are being ravaged by the
Kurds and the authorities are power
less
The English don't believe that the
American cotton crop IS as big as re-
ported. If the bureau statistics turn out
correct, there is a hard time ahead for
Lancashire.
Down at Nogales, Arizona, the custom
officials seized a pay car Of the Southern
Pacific ard placed the officers under ar
rest on the charge of having several
co in their possession.
A convict at the Pentonville prison in
London got away from his wardens and
managed to reach the roof Of the prison
Here ne sits with a thousand spectators
encouraging him ard defies the officers
When they attempt to scale the walls
with ladders, he shoves the ladders over
or them. The rest of the time he throws
pieces of slate at them, TO pass the time
away.
AT Frankfort. yesterday, the Orient ex-
press came dashing into the beautiful
station, the airbreaks failing to work the
train jumped tie platform and shot into
the middle of the waiting room. No one
was hurt
The season Of grand opera at San
Francisco is closed. The Grau company
is on :ts way to Kansas City. They took
in over $4,000 while on the coast. They
gave thirty performances.
Two persons were burned to death,
and seven injured IN fire at Carnegie,
Penn. yesterday morning. The dead are
Mrs Sarah Ilee and her daughter. Mary.
The Iaborers on the Rapid Transit tun-
mel in New York city, struck. They were
getting S165 a day. when the company
came down to $50 a day. The strike
lasted two hours.
Men, named Albert Phillips and Lewis
Brooks have been found guilty of muir
der and sentenced TO death at Storm
Iowa They killed two men while max
ing their escape from the officers. The
prisoners took the verdict of the jury
unconcernedly.
&c .f fHa RI
ment that the court martial, in the case
of Colonel Robert L. Meade, of the ma
rine corps, who was tried on charge of
drunkenness, has resulted in his acquittal
and he has been restored to duty at the
Brooklyn navy yard.
Peru has adopted the gold standard
law
ATochs 5ockstin, of New York city, has
been sentenced to Imprisonment at Sing
Sing for a term of not less than one year
and not more than three. He was indict-
ed for aiding a prisoner TO escape from a
state election officer on election day.
The senate committee on foreign rela-
lions yesterday voted to report favorably
the new Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
A dispatch to the Neue Freie Presse.
of Vienna, from Constantinople says the
Austro-Hungary vice-counseI at Smyrna,
Herr Halter, was fired ct and wounded
November % by a customs guard at
ttached to the Tobacco excise admins
tration.
Night Marshal J. B. Smith. at Chelsea,
Iowa. was killed Thursday night by rob
bcrs, whom he was attempting to arrest
Forty Turkish soldiers have been killed
near Loheia, IN Yemen, Arabia, in a con
fiot with trihesmen wEo had Tebelled
on account Of he excessive taxation.
The scrate committee on judiciary has
authorized a favorable report upon the
nomination of Hon. P. c. Knox to be att
torney gsnraL
torney general. The antitrust league
are against him.
A woman's body has been found near
Elizabeth City. on the river. The citi-
zens committee have gene down to look
ate rthe matter.
Secretary Long has ordered Captain
Perry. of the batleship Iowa. now at
Panama, TO proceed down the Chilean
coast to Talcahuona, where the ship is
to be locked and overhauled.
Sixty-hve persons were poisoned at a
wedding feast OF John MILKY. Thurs
'Att1 AA-tAN az fhNrt unit " 10 -NtAAN
died
A man named A. II. Miller. last Satur-
day at Philadelphia, made remark to
the effect that President Roosevelt
should be shot He was arrested, hut has
been released. the judge saying the re-
mark was q foolish one, but not neces-
sarily crime.
james Arsul Smith. marshal of the gu
prone court Of Mississippi former state
superintendent OF public education and
a big general in the Confederate army,
died yesterday of pneumonia at Jackson.
The state department has received a
draft Tor 6.c90 of the claims from the
government of Great Britain in fun pay
meat Of the claims u certain American
citizens who claimed TO have been inn
properly expelled from South Africa dur
ing the Boer war.
A dispatch from Posen. Prussia, Poland
s@ys: Herr Ravowsky. editor Of the
Praca, was sentenced today TO two years
imprisonment for Insulting the former
imperial postmaster ge,JNal. Won Pod
hielski. and thereby E<zhsing state In
situations into contempt
Tariff Remains IS Il Is.
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