The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-15
I'll World Over
NEWS IN NUT SHELL
FROM EVERY NOOK
or THE EARTH


There are 4.3u telephone exchanges
with 27S, III telephones. in use in the Uni
ted States.
Bob Fitzsinmons says he is willing tc
referee the McGovern-Sullivan fight Il he
hasn't any business of his own demanding
his attention on that day.
Johann Beck has applied to United
States Commissioner Shields for his first
citizenship papers at New oYrk city. He
is the Austrian who shipped himself from
Europe in box.
H. baldwin Rice Of Houston. Tex. has
filed q bend Of x.600o 600 and become the
permanent administrator of the estate OF
William Rice. who was murdered. The
estate IN Texas is valued at S6.000O0.
Street thermometers at Kansas City re-
corded a temperature Of s degrees below
zero Saturday morning. Kansas City Is
nOL 50 warm
David p Thompson died yesterday at
Portland Ore He was a capitalisE, and
was once United States minister TO Tur-
key
There has been freight-rate war be-
tween certain railroads carrying ship
1nents from Chicago. st Louis and the
Atlantic seaboard west. and the night is
becoming very bitter. The Burlington has
entered the ring.
lie Prince, Jr., is dead. He was a St.
Bernard dog. owned by Fred Bushnells OF
SaE Francisco. and was a great frize
winner. Mr.. Bushnell recently refused
s. 000 for MIN.
The comptroller Of the currency has is
sued 4 can for the report Of the condition
of the national banks at the close OF busi-
ness TUESDAY. December 10
Lord Kitchener telegraphs home that
Bruce Hamilton surprised Piet Niljoen's
laager at dawn December l3, at Wit
kraens. twenty FIVE miles northwest Of
Trmclo. and killed sixteen Roers, taxing
prisoners seyeEty-six.
Yesterday morning, at Troy. O.. the Big
-Four bridge went down. killing one man
and injurinG several. \ freight train was
piled IL a heap.
The ten-perature in the Southwest at {
o'clock Saturday morning at the various
points were as follows: Kansas lily, 8
degrees below zero; Concordia. Kan, 10
below; Dodge City, 4 below; Wichita
below; Oklahoma City, Q. T., below;
Abilene Tex. 10 above.
Madame Nordica has brought forth an
other Of Kansas claimants 10 share in
thc big things Of this world. j.. W Dowd
of Ottawa kan. says that If Madame
Nordica gets that money she claims IS
due her from 1he United States, ne VIII
have 70 have 81 share Of t. lchaOod Nor
ton he ancestor. that Is supposed 10
father of Mr.. Dowd's grandmother.
The government statisticians report that
the estimates of the New South Wales
wheat crop are I9.0000o0 bushels, an aver
age of l2S bushels per acre.
ora Strine. q laborer, aged ., killed his
bride and cilt mis- own throat at Elknart
Ind. Yesterday. lie was arrested, but
probably win die. The couple have peen
married only three weeks
Ft-r ar NJ Nafl0nHl
licrs' home at I,eavenworth, was frozen
10 death Friday-
Henry Bacl1us of Toledo, O.. yesterday
filed a petition in bankruptcy with LA
bilities amounting TO SS50N-
Twenty seven Westerners iett Nlnnl-
peg Yesterday on their way TO South Al
rican for military service. sixty Of them
were Manitobans.
Mrs. Roosevelt held her reception yes
terday in the green parlor and II was
fairly Wei attended it rained Just Ike II
does other peoples reception days
Senator Clark has purchased Gottfried
Preyer's COLLECTION Of pictures fer S6e,t@.
Corwn Princess Sophia, wife Of Crown
Prince Constantine, had boy baby Sat
urday
More complaints have been fled against
the confirmation of Attorney General
Knox The antitrust people have got it
il for him.
Dr. + A. ADoott. mayor of MeAlester,
and Or. Earl of Eufaula have been eject
ed from Indian territory because they
realistically refused 10 comply with the
law by appearing before the Choctaw
National Medical board for examination
to determine their fitness to practice.
Both are prominent and proficient, but
desire to have the law tested
Last night Mrs. Joseph Duke Of Leav-
enworth was found in her home frozen TO
death.
Jasper Walker. negro. was frozen 10
death on TIE streets OF Marshall, No.
Friday night
The English home Office has announced
that the petition for Miss Josephine
Eastwick's release on the ground Ct in
sarity car not be granted. The American
Girl is in for forging n railroad certificate.
The New Yorker. Lowenthal, VINO lef-
those Sl5.0o0 worth of diamonds laying
around. mas identiied tie Jewels stolen
by the two negroes.
Another Kansas heir and relative Of
Madame Nordica is Mrs. J. y. Bower
sock. of Lawrence. Mrs. Bowersock and
Mr. Dowd's mother were cousins Mr..
Dowd says there are several other heirs
in the south.
Spring City Tenn. is now flooded by
a cloud-burst in the mountain. forcing a
river out of it's banks. which In turn
drove many people out Of their homes.
The first general snow in Kentucky be-
gan falling yesterday.
Fourteen degrees below zero was the
lmpcrature recorded by the Denver
weather bureau at Z a. m. Saturday.
Pueblo. Colorado, reported a tempera-
turc of below zero, and Grand juno
ton. Colorado, above. At Cheyenne.
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