The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-24
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NEWS IN NUT SHELL
FROM EVERY NOOK
OF The EARTH

! Affairs IN Mancnurla are very CNSeC-
were tortured and then beheaded by Cos
sacks but lately.
Japanese advices state that the Nippe
Yusen Kaisha or Japan Man Steamship
! company. has decided TO build in japanese
| ship yards sixteen steamers between now
] and 1897. These steamers VIII be used
10 Augment its great feet running 70
America, Australia, London and up and
down the Asiatic coast.
General r. a Alger, formerly secre-
/ tary of war, who was operated on Sun
day, passed a very comfortable night and
is reported in good condition.
The First Congreg aGonal church of
! Springfield. Ohio. was demolished by an
/ explosion Sunday and flames soon COM
pleted the work of destruction. It is
{ supposed that leak in the natural gas
/ pipes filed the auditorium with gas which
4 finally reached the furnace.
Luther c. Sanborn. pioneer of Iowa,
/ died at his home at Sioux City yesterday.
Lima. Ohio, has the coal famine, too.
/ Fuel is so scarce that people walk miles
| into the country to meet an incoming
/ load. Wood cost SO a cord.
| Queen Alexandra is very seriously sick.
her
! The United States transport which ar
! rived yesterday at New York brought
/ two dead bodies, Captain Herbert Draper
4 Of the United States marine corps who
died at Hong Kong, and VIM. z. Tabb a
civilian clerk to the United States Naval
( engineer at Guam. who died on board
ship. November q.
The pope is taking every means pos
! sible to get the United States TO send a
/ diplomatic representative 10 the vatican
/ a dispatch from London announces the
/ death Of Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert. a
well known chemist.
/ At the United States naval hospital it
was stated yesterday that Captain Fran
| els A. Cooks condition was little better.
although he IS confined to his bed and
kept very quiet His sons are now with
him.
Admiral schley has left the battlefield.
lie viii spend Christmas with his daugh-
| ter in New York City.
Six robbers. Sunday night blew open the
safe Of the Chicago House Wrecking Co.,
and made way with the contents. Be
fore using the dynamite, they bound and
l
The Inland counties Of England are suf-
fering from severe frosts. Several in
stances are reported Of jewellers IN ex-
posed localities having been frozen TO
death.
It is President Roosevelt's present in
tention to remain IN Washington during
the holiday week, but he desires TO Oh
tain respite from official duties and VIII
see only such visitors as have urgent and
important pubic business to present. OF
course callers never have any other kind
of business.
The Champion Coated Paper works at
Hamilton, Ohio, suffered damage by fire
I Sunday to the amout of about $4,000.
At sofia, Bulgaria, a revolutionary dem
onstration against Turkey took place
Sunday. The police experienced difficulty
in preventing the rioters from wrecking
the residence of the Turkish commits
sioner.
oscar Strauss. president Of the New
York board Of trade and transportation
and a committee from the board consist
ing Of Lewis Nixon, Mr.. Vanderbilt and
Chas. A. Moore, were at Washington yes
terday i'm quest Of speakers for the ban
quet of that organization to be given al
the Waldorf-Astoria. January % JUS
tice White Senator Hanna and Postmas-
ter General Smith accepted invitations
President Roosevelt was invited but re
luctandy declined.
Archibald Gnfllon, Honolulu sugar
planter who was visiting relatives al
Philadelphia, died in a hospital Monday
from fractured skull. He was acct
dentauy thrown from a trolley car Sun
day night
The president has decided to make NJ
change I'm the Office of collector of inter
nal revenue for the district OF New Mex
leo now held by 4. /. Morrison, who's
record in the Office is stated to have beer
satisfactory.
t It was reported Monday in Wall stree
that bids of $775oo were made for seat
+ on the stock exchange Of which five ar
understood to be for sale at the presen
time. No sale was reported, but an Of
-: fer Of one seat was made at $4,000 TIL
= sale Of one seat on Saturday was $500
was the record price.
: The Evening Post says word has bee
received in banking circles that ex-Gover
nor Leslie NJ shaw Of Iowa. has bee
selected 20 succeed Mr.. Gage as secretar
Of the treasury.