The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-18
I'll World Over
NEWS IN NUT SHELL
FROM EVERY NOOK
OF THE EARTH

The pore says he is not at deaths door
and said yesterday to a reporter: please
say that I am not yet dead"
The Sultan Of Turkey is getting ready
to make his animal visit 10 StamboLl. at
AIia-Parndaa, in order to kiss the
prophets mantle. Many preventive ar
rests are bejng made.
Tom Sharkey has commenced training
for his bout with Peter Maher. which
VIII be decided in Philadelphia on jan
uary j.
Work has just been started on the yacht
Restless, which for the past three months
has been lying in the navy yard; at
Brooklyn 1t is said that the boat when
fitted out viii be used by the president
ana the secretary Of the navy as a yacht
IN place of the AIayfiower. as was pro-
posed some months ago.
In the Cheviot district, New Zealand.
an earthquake is rocking the eartn and
great assures apear from which water
flows. The people are in constant ter
ror.
The death is announced from London
OF Major General (retired) Sir Francis
De Winton. Tic was born in 1875.
American capitalists are going to ST.
IBERIA to open up factories and mining
centres.
woman at Pittsburg named Harriet
P. Murphy was shot and killed yesterday
by burglar, who entered her room
through q window. She had a revolver
and was fine shot
4 southern traction car yesterday
jumped The track on a steep hillside at
Pittsburg. and few into a livery stable,
wreclling it completely. Broken noses
an6 CIT heads were worst results CT the
accident.
Arbucde Bros. and the National Sugar
Refining company have reduced the price
Of refined sugar ten points.
Dr. Rush S. Iuidekoper died at Phila-
delphia Tuesday from a complication OF
diseases said 10 be contracted during the
Spanish-American war.
As a result of the inquest on the re-
mains of 8rs Elizabeth Shannon. who
was found dead in a fed near Waynes-
burg, Penn, Monday. David Hoga has
been placed under arrest.
The cold weather prevailing at Lisbon
is quite unprecedented. Two sentries have
been frozen to death. The river Tagus
is fun Of drift ice. The province of tor-
The London World OF yesterday says
the proposed visit Of King Edward and
Queen Alexandra to ireland, which was
to nave taken place IL the spring or after
his majesty's coronation, has been ahan-
doned or account of the disturbed state
of that country.
Two sisters of the late president, Mrs.
H J. Duncan and Miss Helen Mckinley,
Of Cleveland, are visiting Mrs Mc1kin-
ley.
A Cincinnati Times-Star special from
Springfield. Ohio. says that MISS Eleanor
Ludlow, niece Of Ex-Governor Bushnell
said yesterday: There is positively no
truth in the report Of the engagement
Of Captain Richmond p. Hohson ana my
self You win do RE q favor to deny it
ana YOU cauno. make the statement too
emphatic"
a dispatch from Constantinople says:
The first dragoman Of the United States
legation and the secretary Of the mis-
sionary society vii leave here tonight
with full powers 10 negotiate with the
/ brigands for the release of Miss Ellen NJ.
Stone, or the payment OF 1900 pounds
ransom. The meeting viii occur in Tur-
llish territory.
Announcement was made yesterday
that Postmaster General Smith has ten
dcred his resignation and that it has been
accepted. Henry c. Payne, national com
mitteeman from Wisconsin, has been Of
fered the position and has accepted it.
4 dispatch from Kitchener announces
that CoranJaut Kritzinger, the famous
Bocr commander. who has figured so
prominently in connection with the ,nva-
sion of cape Colony. has been captured,
badly wounded, By General French. krit-
Finger was trying to break the block
house GORDON at Hanover Road.
Judge Darling. Of Vermont formally
assumed the duties OF assistant secretary
of the navy yesterday.
The steamer Ruth. OF the Oregon Navi-
cation line, ran on a snag and sank in
ter feet of water near Corvallis, at 6
o'clock yesterday morning. She has a
cargo Of primes. cats ard hay.