The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-12
LATE NEWS BY WIRE.

| patch from Saioaica. the insurgents blew
! up with dynamite the custom house at
Zibevehs, on the Servian frontier. There
were no fatalities.
| Gibraltar Aug. 1.-THE American
| squadron. under Rear Admiral Cotton,
has arrived here from Lisbon on its way
to Villefranc.e. southern France.
Rome, Aug. u.-Today being st. Law
| renee day, the name day of Able Lorenzo
Perosi. the director of the sistine choir,
and close friend and protege of Plus X.
the pope sent him his personal greetings,
accompanied by an autograph note. con-
graduating him on the music given by
the sistine choir during yesterdays coro-
nation ceremony, most of which was COM
posed by the able.
st. Paul. Aug. ia letter was read
at the Peoples church Sunday from its
pastor, DR.. Samuel c. Smith, who is now
abroad stating that he had declined the
call extended TO him some months ago
by Westminster chapel, London.
St Paul. Aug 1.-THE dismembered
and headless trunk of human body
was floating in the Mississippi river near
the dam of the St. Paul Broom company.
it was impossible TO determine the sex
of the victim. The coroner is investi-
eating.
Budapest. Ang 11.-Count Hedderavy
today informed the lower house of the
resignation of the ministry and an
nounced that Emperor Francis Joseph
was coming to Hungary to form a new
cabinet Pending the formation of a new
ministry the house adjourned.
Vienna, Aug. lin consequence of the
assassination of King Alexander and
Queen Draga and the subsequent atti-
tude of the Servian military officers. both
Russia and Austria have decided to send
home all the Servian officers studying
in their military schools. Russia has
forbidden her officers to have either Of
fetal or social intercourse with Servian
officers
Washington, Aug. n.-General Miles
has accepted the office of president of
the Thomas Jefferson Memorial associa-
ton and the association announces that
his election is for the remainder OF its
existence.
Chicago, Aug. ia receiver was APP
pointed today for the firm of Charles w.
Dempster G. Co. manufacturers of hats
and caps. Liabilities of $4,000; assets.
$4,000.
st. Paul, Aug. 11.-W. L. Darling, chief
engineer of the Northern Pacific. has re-
signed TO accept a similar position with
the Rock Island. President c. S. Mel
len has appointed L. J. Pearson, acting
chief engineer. Mr.. Pearson is now as
sistant general superintendent, with head
quarters at Livingstone. Mont
Chicago, Aug. lie. T. Fetch and NJ.
c. Krarup completed a 3o00-mile trip
from San Francisco to this city in an
today. They were entertained
by a number of automobile enthusiasts
and will stay in Chicago until tomor-
row, when they will continue their jour
ney to New York city.
Saionica, Aug. lit is officially re-
ported that fourteen Turkish villages in
the vilayet of Okheida have been burned
by the Bulgarian revolutionists. There
were many victims. The Turkish troops
arrived too late to save the villagers.
London, Aug. 1.-THE repeal of the
prohibiting the expectation
Of arms and ammunition to China was
published in the London Gazette this |
evening.
Vienna, Aug. u.-Boris Sarafoff the ac-
tive leader of the Macedonian insurgents.
has warned the directors of the Oriental |
railway not to sell passenger tickets, for |
all the railways, he says, will be de- |
stroyed.
La Crosse, Wis, Aug. u.-W. c. jerks. |
who for thirty years has been prominent |
IN the lumber business of the northwest, |
died today of paralysis, aged SO years.
Butte, Mont, Aug. u.-James Martin, |
one Of the six prisoners who broke from |
the county Jail last night. was captured |
three miles back in the mountains today. |
Martin is under sentence OF death
Salt Lake. Aug. u.-Mrs. aurora Hodge |
was today taken into court and formally |
Arraigned on the charge of numbering |
VIM. Harm. an aged peddler near Murray |
last month. Mrs. Hodge pleaded not |
guilty. The preliminary hearing of the !
case will be held next Monday, August IL |
London, Aug. 1.-THE viceroy of India |
has telegraphed to the India Office that |
the crop prospects are good except in a |
few districts where the rainfall was
scanty and the monsoon late and weak. /
Philadelphia, Aug lit was announced /
today that all OF the 10000 broad and |
narrow loom fixers will obey the order /
Of their executive board and will return /
to work IN detachments during the week.
Vienna, Aug. 1.-THE strike riots ar
oracow. Austrian Poland. have resulted,
according 10 a Cracow paper. in sixty |
ieaths since August 3. through conflicts
between the strikers and the troops.
Washington, Aug. 11-Sir Chen Tung IL
was at his desk in the treasury depart
nent after n brief visit TO Chicago. He
appointed James l. Gerry chief OF the
customs division OF the treasury depart
nent to succeed John r. Garrison. re-
Gently appointed auditor for the District
IF Columbia.