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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-18
WIFE SEEKS DIVORCE
Mrs. Mccunber Petitions Against Her
Husband. Who Is Under Arrest.

MeCunher. CT The charge 4 heating his
wile. vas continued In the city court
yesterday unsii Monday morning az 5
o'clock
Yesterday rs wife Mrs. ia Irene No
Cunber. fled 3 pettrio1 soE a divore.
in TIE district eourr she charges az
ssult ard battery. Trey were nzvrfsl
October ) t~L Adams 4 Adams are
ts- =r-,-~naxs
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-18
WILL FILE HIS CLAIM
Sherman Campbell Says He Is Lega
Eefr - N-rLaII

Sherman Campbell Says He Is Legal
Heir Of James Campbell.
The last wiz Of the late James Camp
bell has been fled for probate but there
IS evidently going TO be some litigation
over the estate before il is settled
Sherman Campbell. the young motor
man. claims to be the legal heir Of
James Campbell and his only child. It
VIII be remembered that the contents Of
the VIII as published in the Eagle con-
tanned one peculiar clause 10 which at
tention was called at the time Il made
the maker Of the VIII say that 10 Sher-
man Campbell who was in no way re-
lated 10 him, he bequeathed the sum OF
one dollar.
sherman Campbell claims to be the
son OF James Campbell and was recog-
niEed by Mr. Campbell who brought him
to this state several years ago or at
least that is the way Sherman puts it.
He claims thar his father was not in his
right mind al the time he made the viii
That has been fled for probate and he
has engaged council who viii ask the
probate court 10 set the VIII aside and
that VIII &c the beginning Of the fight
70 see who gets the property amounting
TO nearly $1,000.
Il believe that ny father always in
tended TO provide for me in his viii and
he would have done so II he had made
the viii when he was in his right mind.
said sherman Campbell last night II
cannot get the property or any part OF
it I viii have TO get along without ii,
but believe morally and legally 1 am
entitled 10 have IL I have employed an
attorney and the suit viii probably be
fled tomorrow I can produce some
strong evidence to show that my father
was not in his right mind when he made
the will and also some otter evidence TO
show that il was his intention when in
his right mind 10 provide for ne in his
will"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-18
SUE TWO RAILROADS
|. s. and V. {. Critics Want $50 Dam
aces.

L : Critics and Y E. Critics. thrcueh
their attorneys. Natson, Keith & Nat~an.
have FLED suit i1 the city court asking
g damages rom the santa Fe and Rock
Island railroads. They auege sE-f u
March ls1. they shipped 81 an III II
furniture from Enid. o. T. - Arsoaia.
kan. ever The two roads and that lhe
companies eid rot, take proper eers q
the prcQerty. reru,stti1g Il e b IAN
eEed 70 ire extent of S.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-18
MORTGAGES SHOW PROPERTY
Miss Kirwia Owes Small Amount TO
Wichita Parties.

Miss Sue Kirwin has moV;gaged the
property OF the Wiibur-hirNin Opera
company % B. L Eaton and Henry Hutt-
man as security for about s7a. which
she borrowed OF them. The mortgaged
property is worth about $4,000
The company has by "a means failed.
bat the receipts in Wichita at the last
appearance Of The troupe here were light
and she borrowed the money 70 pay
some Incidental expenses. she furnished
the members Of teh company tra7sq0r
ration % their homes and VIII furnish
them transportation back 10 This city
IN September. when the company viii
again 60 on the road. They VIII open
she season with performances IN this
clfN
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-18
CAUTION WAS KEEP COOL
Weather Man Vas on Hand With
Breeze.

The maximum temperature yesterday.
according 70 the government mercury.
vas g 6csrees ard the minimum early
Yesterday morning, was < degrees The
average vas s. degrees. which Is about
3 degrees above The normal The
weRthsr seer provided a south breeze.
- hich continually cautioned rhe people
70 keep cool
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-18
"a HoLo IolNT PIcNIc
Pennsylvania ard onis Associations
VIII ASTHzec

n E-e-nsyivazfa ard ohio asso--sss.rs
ara piaarns 70 ho-d a salat E.-1s- Sc
second = -eS ~ AuEst r. Rrer~il-
para. re orb association hss sxt.s-l. 4
IRE --orzkers7 Al invitation ara fasy
VII probably accept = a. their meet
tzg SATURDAY zsse-=ooa AZ se1ock
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-18
OK USUAL GROUNDS
Mrs. Thompson Seeks Severance of
Marriage Ties

Ms Mary ~ n Thonpsoz has fles
petition Tor divorce againsS Wuliaz-
Thompson on the alleged grounds of crs-
city and non-tRtr support she asks The
restoration % her maiden name. A h
Hutchinson. Thy were married Nay =.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-18

wasn't frightened. / said to nv,-,-
Now, I'll strike the river before lon.
and if l keep going this way I'm IS.
the water head first. which win no a..
as good as diving, and, being q CO.,
swimmer, I can easily get ashore,
wondered, too, il I'd beat nv n.,..
brush down. Funny what little tb,nas
fellow will think about at these t,mos
instead of worrying about his our
neck.
But about sixty feet down. d,dn,.
measure the distance them struck one
of the cross rods slanting blow with
my head. But my legs, sort o. huddled
up as 1 fell, probably came down full
force against the rod. l could bear
the bones crack. They made quite y
loud noise like percussion cap. Still
1t was the blow on the head that hurt
the most. Then, and not before
thought to myself, We'll, it's your last
cruise for sure and things got black
before me. l guess l tainted.
But the cold water brought me to
bobbed up as natural as a harbor
buoy. I soon opened my eyes and
suppose l smiled. I thought Just as If
was somebody else, Say, mate, Won
didn't die this watch, did you? know
felt awful good about 1t. But soon
as 1 made my first kick, or, rather.
tried to make it, found that both nv
legs were hanging as heavy and dead
as shot in a canvas bag. They didn't
pain me, though. And when found I
couldn't swim I felt my gun was spiked
for sure. But just then / heard the
crew up aloft on the bridge hollering
Good boy, Sailor! You're all right!
Keep it up. Boats coming! Keep
a-paddling, Jackie 1t did sound fine
and hearty, let me tell you. And so
kept a-pjaddlin' until man reached
me in a boat fifteen minutes after I
dropped down.
81 was pretty nearly done up. knew
how my legs would hurt IL he tried to
pull me over the gunwale Of the boat,
and tried to make him tow me alGng-
side. But he couldn't manage that, and
he did haul me in, though II was
mighty tough experience. didn't faint
again, and after was once in the hos
pital began to feel quite comfortable"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-18
IN MANDAlAY.
The Thousand Pa&oda Bells Ring at
the Setting of the Sun.

the setting OF the sum-
Mandalay has its own sky, soft and
gray and incurving like tent, with
white cloud-lines that seem meant for
scrolls if one could read. 1t Is the
Very Sacred City, the city of contem-
plation, the city of all the monks. A
thousand pagoda bells give tongue to
the wind there when the sun goes
down; a crumbling thousand more give
up to time the testimony of outworn
things.
1t lies in curved arm Of blue hills,
and something brOOds over 1t with SOL
icitude. This you suspect from the air
of the place and the way the shrill
talk of the parrots and the complaint
of the goats and the laughter of the
people come to you wherever you are
sitting. Afterward you go out, as
did that morning with the comMis-
siOner, and see under the very zenith
where the low gray sky Is caught up,
the square of the dark-red crenellated
walls Of the old royal city, three miles
each way, and outside the walls the
parallel clear mOat thinking back at
the sky; and then you are sure that
over and above the government of In
dia some spirit Is in possession here
some spirit that bends In affection
over finished and forgotten things.
Seven-roOfed kiOsks stand at inter
walls over the gates In the wall-they
are called pyathat, but they strike the
eye like peaceful cOnclusions-and low
white stone bridges raised in the mid
die span the moat. The buttresses OF
the gates are painted deep gray and
white, and the bank that slants steep
ly from the wall to the water has here
and there a low. twisted, spreading
tree on it, purely for decoration. You
may stop at a corner and look two
ways along the rejecting water win
bridge after bridge receding across
and pyathat after pyathat diminishing
above, and each red and gray ana
white vista. so picked out and mn
ished under the quiet light, slipping
adorably into the near blue OF the
hills.
Mandalay seemed aware with punt
ing that day. flags and arches OF wei-
come everywhere and crowds Hooking
aware and almost awake; but you
look again and saw that she only
turned In her sleep and smiled, as a.
dream.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-18
DROPPED A HUNDRED FEET.
What a Falling Man Thought During
His Terrific Descent.

What a Falling Man Thought During
His Terrific Descent.
John Anderson, the former naval
jackie. who, while painting ironwork
beneath high bridge a month ago, was
severely injured by a fall, is rapidly re-
covering at the city hospital, says the
st. Paul Pioneer Press. Both his thigh
bones were broken, his left leg was
fractured near the ankle, a portion of
bone was torn from his right hip and he
was wounded about the crown of his
head. But he will not be permanently
manned or disfigured.
On the afternoon of May 20 he was
swinging happily, like bird on twig.
within a ''sling" six feet below the road
way Of the high bridge and about 100
feet above the Mississippi river. The
seat of the swing Is short piece of
plank. 1t Is attached at each end TO
ropes. which, passing through block,
return to the sling as a single rope.
BY lengthening or shortening this rope
the man in the sling can lower or ele-
vate himself.
Il was hanging close to one of the
steel rods" said he, the other day, "a
rod that l was painting. My rope was
good and fast. had no warning of
any danger, when the sky and the
clouds and the bottom of the big bridge
In the middle of it all dashed past nv
eyes and the air whistled in my ears
like typhoon on the China seas.
knew l was going down head first. No,
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-18
Things That May
Interest You.

The work of demolishing Newgate
prison in London has commenced.
Bishop Thomas O'Gorman brought a
gift to President Roosevelt from Pope
Leo.
A Prussian army edict against
American lard and imported hams has
been issued.
The Cleveland, o., board of health
has started war on the use of dirty
money in that city.
Thomas A. Edison tells Copenhag-
en- paper that electricity will replace
steam in less than three decades.
President j. ]. Hill said he expected
that next year earnings of the North
ern Securities Company would be $751;
100000.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-18
A Worthy Monument.

There are several homes for spinsterS
In Sweden and Norway. One OF tnese
Is as attractive as 1t Is unique. IL
the monument to the memory OF an
exceedingly wealthy old man. who dy-
ing more than two hundred years ago
left the major part of his fortune 10 Tue
old maids among his descendants a
superb home was built. furnished anu
managed by salaried trustees. IL noul'
ished and has continued. Any unmar
ried woman who can prove blood
lationship to the founder OF the ins..
tuition is entitled to admission In tne
home. She is given a suite Oh roons'
servant. private meals, and is supye es
to no rules save such as ordinary s0O'
behaviour demands.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-18
CHAPTER VIII.

On Monday evening the postman
brought me letter from Edith, writ
ten at her aunt's house:
Dearest. darling Allan" II began.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-18

A visiting summer girl In town can,
the removing OF the husk OF tne
taking its corset or
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-18

ITO be Continued.)
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-10-16
NEW coMMANDER.lN.cHiEF.
Gen. T. j. Stewart Of Pennsylvania Is
Now Head of G.. A. r.

Now Head of G. A. r.
Washington, Oct. II. - The grand
Army got down to business yester-
day and the encampment of the or
der, besides hearing an address from
Commander-in-C Chief Torrance and re-
ports from a number of officers and
committees, elected new h>A for
the ensuing year. The new COM
mander-in-chief is Gen. T. ]. Stewart
OF Pennsylvania, who was a leading
candidate for the honor a year ago.
His competitors yesterday were Gen.
John c. Black of Illinois, a former
commissioner of pensions, and Col.
John McElroy of this city. The name
of Gen. Daniel Sickles of New York
city was presented to the convention
but he withdrew from the rave. Will
lam NJ. DIN of Massachusetts was
elected vice commander-in-chief, and
James NJ. Averill of Georgia, Junior
vice commander-in-chief. Aside from
the election Of these officers the most
interesting feature of the encampment
was the report Of the pension commit
tee of tho G. A. R. This committee
severely scored the medical division
of the pension bureau, declaring that
it was dead line where were execut-
ed the claims of veterans seeking pen
sions 1t accused the personnel of
this division of approaching the re.
ports of the examining surgeons
throughout the country with suspicion
and DISTRICT, and as made in bad faith.
1t denounced the reports that exyn.
sive frauds were practiced in pension
claims as absolutely baseless.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-10-16
From Other Shores

Lower Manchuria has been restored
by the Russians to the Chinese gov
eminent
The metallurgical works at Kertsch
have failed for s9,00O,00O, and 5000
men are idle.
The condition of Prince Constantin,
injured by the overturning of a motor
car, is not at all alarming.
Cholera figures show that the cpl
demic is rapidly disappearing. Cairo,
Luxor and Ramleh are now almost
free.
The British parliament, which will
reassemble Oct. 16, has critical stu
alton to face in the education bill and
the Irish question.
Three hundred tenants of Lord de
Freyne, and all those on the Ellis es-
tate, at Abbeyfeyle, County Limerick,
Ireland, have been eyicted.
Ofticial returns of the French min.
lister of agriculture, NJ. Mouget, placed
the wheat crop of France for the
year 1902 at 353,O02,34G bushels
The infant son of the duke of Man.
chester has been christened George.
and Grandpa Zimmerman has settled
s2o0,oOO on the young viscount.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-10-16
FEAR OF IMPENDING TROUBLE
GOVERNOR URGED TO SETTLE
TROUBLE WITHOUT RE.
SORT TO TROOPS.
MIlIIIAMfN ARE IN HIDING
90 NOT WANT TO GO INTO SEP.
VICE UNDER SUCH CIR.
CUMSTANcES.

New Orleans, Oct. 1.-THE street
car strike situation In this city is be.
coming more grave with every hour,
There was no violence of any note yes.
terday, but there was feeling of i'm.
pending trouble all day. Gov. Heard
arrived last night and Immediately
consulted a number of gentlement on
the situation. He met the mayor
Adjt. Gen. Hummel, Maj. Glynn. At.
tcrney General Guion, Speaker Of the
House Sanders, Secretary Hester of
the cotton exchange and several mem
bers of his staff. After reviewing the
situation he went at 9 o'clock to
meeting of the public safety commit.
tee in the cotton exchange, where he
was closeted for several hours. The
governor is being urged by the bust.
ness men to endeavor to settle the
trouble without a resort to the armed
force of the state. He will decide on
the committee of safety.
Out of 1000 militiamen in the city
at o'clock last night 700 had
Reported at the Armories
or been brought in by corporals. Aside
from the difficulty of getting the men
together, many of them do not want TO
so on this service and are hiding.
They claim they have friends and reIa.
tives among the strikers and they do
not want to be called upon to shoot
them down.
The street car company made no at
tempt to run cars yesterday. Tie
strikers and their sympathizers
massed at Canal and Galvez streets to
the number of $500 and waited pa
tiently all day for the first car to
come out. Toward evening they set
upon two strangers who were sight
seeing. William Corners and John
Lynch, walking out Canal street, asked
some one to direct them to the car
barn. The strikers took them for
non-union men and beat them badly.
A patrol wagon came along and the
men were rescued after the police
used their clubs. There are now fifty
non-union men, most of them from
Chicago at the Canal street barn, and
more are coming by every train.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-10-16
Otherwise.

American anthracite coal imported
at Hamburg last winter is being re.
bought for the United States.
]. F. Johnson of Minnesota has been
elected vice president of the advisory
board OF the commercial museum.
With over 5000 students and a
teaching staff of nearly 500, Columbia
university opened its 149th academic
year.
Rumor has it that ex-Gov. Crane will
succeed Secretary Shaw as head of
the treasury department as soon as
the financial stress is over.
Bob Fitzsimmons' age, at last, is
known. "Parson" Davies, while in
London recently, secured a COPY of the
famous fighters birth certificate. Il
shows he was born at Helston, May
rs, 1863.
The Cape Town correspondent of
the London Daily Express says that
Commandant Erasmus has returned
from Madagascar and reports that
country to De totally unsuited to Boer
coi1oists.
whether the new carvings in the
White House in Washington shall be
made by hand or machinery has led to
strike in New York. A delegate has
been sent to Washington to lay the
matter before the president.
The strike of the custom cutters
and trimmers in Chicago, in refusing
to cut clothing for shops employing
clothingmakers not belonging to the
United Garment Workers, will throw
1900 workers out of employment.
Andrew Carnegie's gift of $4,000 to
Belfast and $4,000 to Limerick for
the establishment of Libraries have
been accepted. In writing his accept
ance of the proffered freedom of Lin.
erick Mr.. Carnegie said this was an
honor too great to be declined and
that his heart was always warm to-
ward Erin.
DR.. Emma Nickerson Warne is dead
of pneumonia, at her farm in Flushing
township, tennessee county, Mich. DR..
Warne achieved some publicity
through contest in the Cook county
probate court between herself and the
heirs of F. T. Wheeler, a wealthy pa
er manufacturer of Chicago, for $50
600
Believing he had swallowed his false
teeth during the night, and his belief
having been verified by an X-ray ex-
animation, Frank Buettner of Cleye.
land, had his cscophagus opened it's
full length. Later, the missing teeth
were found between the mattresses.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-10-16
Personal Mention,

John Hall Gladstone the scientist is
dead in London. He was born in 1927.
Lucie Wolf, Norway's foremost act
ress. died at Christiania. She was
sixty-nine years old.
]. B. Neill, governor of Idaho under
President Hayes, is dead at Columbus,
Ohio, aged sixty years.
Congressman William S. Greene was
renominated by the Republicans of the
First district of Massachusetts.
Congressman George P. Lawrence
was renominated by the Republicans
of the Fifth district of Massachusetts.
Capt W. H. Nelson of Washington,
D. c., newspaper writer, died sud
denly of heart disease at Oxford, Ohio
where he had been visiting.
David C. Anderson, a pioneer of
Iowa and a thirty-second degree Ma
son, died at Keokuk, aged SEVENTY
nine. He was born in Ireland.
Prof. S. E. Jacobson the violinist
died in Chicago after short illness.
Prof. Jacobson was sixty-eight years
old and prominent in musical circles.
Judge Isaac H. Caldwell, aged eigh-
ty-hye years, one of the best known
citizens of Southern Illinois and one
of its pioneers, died at Carbonate, III.
Prof. Barrett Wendell, professor Of
English at Harvard since 1898, has
been appointed Clark lecturer in Eng
fish literature at Trinity college,
Cambridge, England. for a year.
Miss Anna Damn of Rochester, n. Y.
for any years private secretary to Su-
san B. Anthony, is to be bride. Rev.
Anna Shaw, a coworker of Miss An
thony, will conduct the ceremony.
Mrs. Josie Carson Squires, better
known as Josie Carson, daughter Of
Kit Carson, the noted scout and Indi-
an fighter, is dead at the territorial in
sane asylum at Las Vegas, N. NJ. She
was admitted from Ration in 1898.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-10-16
THE NEWS RESUME
DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
From the Capital.

From The Capital.
Army expenses decreased $91S919
during the last fiscal year.
The net deficit in the postal service
for the year ended June 80 last, was
S24,916.47O.
War department officials think three
years will be required to settle the
friars' land question in the Philip
pines.
Controller Ridsely denies that he has
oyerruled Secretary Shaw's action rel
alive to reserve funds of national
banks.
According to the annual report OF
the paymaster general army eNpend-
itures decreased during the past fiscal
year s9lS.919 as compared with the
preceding year, partly owing to de-
crease in the pay OF the army and in
part owing TO reduction of claims for
extra pay by volunteers. The total eX-
penditures made by Paymaster Gen.
eral Bates were s522.52oS,4.a.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-10-16
MONSTER GROCERY COMBINE.
Entire Grocery Trade Will Be United
Under One Head.

st. Louis, Oct. 1.-THE Interstate
Grocer of ST. Louis says combine, to
include every wholesaler of groceries
in the United States is in the course of
formation. The paper will say:
The details of the plan are not yet
public property. They will not be
until after Nov. 5 next, when the
initial steps toward forming the COM
bination will be taken in Detroit
George D. Hartford of New York city
is engineering the deal. In few days
the entire wholesale grocers trade of
the United States will receive invita-
lions to this meeting. Already a
large number of the leading whole
sale grocers in the East have been
personally seen by Mr.. Hanford or his
representatives, and nearly all of them
have expressed willingness to be
present.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-10-16
Accidental Happenings.

! The minister of marine, Rear Ad-
miral Joehnke. fell on the steps OF the
rigsdag at Copenhagen and fractured
his thigh.
! Two PENNSYLVANIA express trains
collided on curve near Menlo Park,
n. j., killing one passenger and injur-
ing twelve more.
A Pennsylvania express crashed in
to freight at Milton. Pa, killing the
engineer and fireman and injuring
several others.
Fire has wiped out the entire bust
ness portion Of Gervaise, Or, TWO
blocks of frame buildings being de-
stroyed. Loss, $4,000.
By an explosion in the Producers
Explosive company's factory. south Of
Lima, Ohio, Earl Bush. nitroglycer-
inc maker, and John Anspaugh were
blown to atoms and the factory
wrecked.
a. A. Proctor, son OF the chairman
of the St. Petersburg bourse, and nine
sailors have been shipwrecked and
drowned off the kamschatka PENN
sula. Mr.. Proctor was known as
political economic.
The entire family of S. A. Loring of
Bloomfield, Iowa, narrowly escaped
death by eating poisoned cheese. The
mother and two children were thrown
into commissions. This is the second
case in Bloomfield, and much excite
ment has been caused.
Henry NJ. Thomas. wealthy stock
man OF Thomasville. Iowa. which town
was named for him, died at hospi-
tai in Kansas City, aged forty-nine
years. He came to Kansas City to
buy stock, and while at the stock
yards was taken suddenly i'll, and fell
and fractured his skull
At the fair grounds at Vincennes.
Ind, A. ]. Bridgman and his grand
son, Russell Mccormick. were riding
in buggy around the track when the
vehicle was run into by race horses,
breaking the buggy to pieces and
throwing the men high in the air,
causing fatal injuries. The accident
was witnessed by $4,000 people.