The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-25
I'll World Over
NEWS IN NUT SHE'LL
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Yale has received $4,000 from the
Smiths. the descendants of late Isaac z.
Smith for a memorial to that man as a
former member of the corporation Of the
university.
Yesterday at san Francisco. a car
which was being pulled up very steep
hill by special machinery broke loose and
tore down the hill, smashing into an emp
t. car at the bottom of the hill, then
jumping the track, striking telephone
pole and scattering the fifteen occupants
1 in every direction. Only one was killed.
Lieutenant Colenbranders force sur
! prised a Boer Ieager in the Petersburg
| district, December . and captured sixty
| prisoners.
Assassination and pinage of villages
and pillage Of villages and outraging OF
/ inhabitants have so increased recently in
! Macedonia that the consuls have appealed
/ to the embassies 10 put stop to such
! crimes. The foreign ministers have made
urgent representations to the porte Of the
/ dangers Of permitting the continuance Of
such acts
a special from Kenton. Ohio, says: A
/ terrible gas explosion occurred here this
morning. One man was fatally hurt and
six store fronts were blown out The
damage win amount TO several thous-
and dollars.
At the annual meeting Of the Debeers
Mining company ct Kimberly, Africa,
the chairman announced that the gross
profits for the year were 2,750,O00 pounds,
the production being 400 coo pounds. The
estimated life Of the mines is IA years.
The leading business blocks of Dunlow,
". Va, the Dostonce. several residences
and a number Of other smaller hGi3dings
were destroyed by Ere Monday night.
The board Of aldermen of BuGaio have
accepted the resignation Of CITY Treas
urer Philip Gerst. whose accounts ere
now undergoing an investigation Gerst
has publicly admitted that there was re-
Gently a shortage in his accounts of over
$4,000 but claims it has been hade good.
Captain Francis \. Cook who is i'll
at the United States naval hospital. is
improving slowly. His physician states
that il win be two weeks before he will
be able TO be out.
Kansas millers in a meeting at Topeka
Monday evening made a vigorous protest
against railroads raising the minimum of
car load shipments Of -four out of the
state from 300 to 10000 pounds They
claim other state millers viii not be com
PEELED to take similar action in the same
territory hence the injustice.
Queen Alexandra is progressing salts
factorily toward recovery.
Lord Kitchener in a dispatch dated
Johannesburg. Monday, December %. re-
ports the weeks results as being IS Beers
killed. % wounded, 80 made prisoners and
30 surrenderd.
Sir Thomas Upton, yesterday, received
a silver punch bowl and stand from
American gentlemen. who were guests on
board his boat during the yacht races.
The king gave him a cigarette case like
the one he uses.
It is stated that the machinist strike in
Chicago which involved 4290 UNION work
men since it started seven months ago
is about settled.
Judge Tuley has announced that rs de-
cision in the suit for the appointment of
a receiver for the Zion Lace industries
would not be handed down until after his
return from his holiday vacation.
General Rollin V. Ankeney, for twelve
years coroner of Polk county, Iowa.
Tuesday or pneumonia after a weeks
illness.
by an explosion at the plate glass fac
tory at Kokomo Ind Zachariah Chap
man was killed and several other work
men were injured.
Palmer college at lie Grand, Iowa. has
received $4,000 from the Hon. F. \. Pal
mer Of New York. making S50CoO raised
in the last SIS. months.
Down ct Birmingham. Ala, yesterday
q LAWYER named ". NJ. Little. shot and
wounded his client W L. Dodd Little
was Dodds lawyer in a case where Mr.
Dodd was charged with using the mails
fraudulenuy lie had become derangod
mentally.
Eighty-seven big turkeys were distrib-
uted to the white house policemen. mes
scngers. ushers. servants. gardeners and
stablemen Yesterday with the compli-
ments of the president.
" .,-- ~, Nouda7 'gs. Ars
Icobarg shot his wife and stepso1 and
than killed himself The stepson was
the trouble.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the city IL
Akron Ohio. $4,000 for free library
the city T. guarantee $3.50 annually 70
keep it uo. The oG7~ Wnl probably Dc
accepted.
a special from Toledo. Ohio. says.
While fire truck 10. : was responding to 4
an alarm carly this morning il collided
with q street car resultfrg in the death Of
Captain J. T. ward Of the Ere company /
ana the injury OF several other fremen, (
one of whom may die.