The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-11
NEWS ycTrlgGS.

London dispatch says that May
Yohes claim against the estate Of Lord
Hope, her former husband, who obtained
divorce from her after her elopement
with Major Putnam Bradley Strong, has
been settled by the payment Of ss,eo 70
her.
The largest woman in southern Illinois.
Miss Mollie Atchinson, died at Ina. 3
small town thirteen miles from Benton,
last week She was % years old and
weighed 525 pounds. The undertaken had
10 make a special casket OF solid oak for
the body
The principal industry Of Amesbury.
Mass, was crippled yesterday. by the
striking OF about go carriage workers.
The manufactures say that emily about
CO per cent of their employees went out.
but the men who are out maintain that
very few mechanics remained at work.
Assistant Postmaster General Madden
has ruled the Columbia Spectator. the
undergraduate newspaper, cannot go
through the mails as second-class matter.
II this ruin gis adhered TO, il vii laffect
a large number Of school and college
Papess. TO which postage is an important
item.
The proposed trip of Colonial Secretary
and Mrs. Chamberlain ID the battlefield
OF Colenso. South Africa. where General
Butler was defeated. has been aban-
doned. The reason for the abandonment
OF the trip is that the severe thunder
storms and torrential rains are now pre-
vailins.
Lewis NJ. Iddings, Secretary OF the
American Embassy at Rome. was out
driving last Wednesday night. when his
carriage collided with an electric car. His
shoulder was dislocatad and he suffered
several other severe Commissions. The
coachrlan and footman were also injured.
Forty-eight men were killed in fire in
the Anna shaft of the Uspensik colliery.
in BakhInub in the government
OF Gaberinosloff, Russia Eleven others
were rescued after they had been in the
mine for sixty hours, and tTenty-one
v ere taken out alive after they had been
five days
Mrs. W. T. Richardson. OF Detroit. |
Mich. adopted a unique method OF Sc
curing a ton OF coal She went 10 the |
office of the firm of Stanley B. Smith &
Co, and going 20 the cashiers window |
put down $3.50 and demanded an order
for a ton of coal The clerk looked up |
and saw the barrel of a revolver pointed !
at, his face Mrs. Richardson secured the /
order for the coal Outside she had /
wagon. and as soon as she received the !
orr er she drove into the yard and secured /
the coal.
samuel McKenney. OF Wilhamantic. I
Mo. started on Sunday to move his house /
from Wiluamantic 70 Milo. a distance of I
twenty-seven miles. The route lay for I
twelve miles on Lake Setback After GO /
ing across the ice for about mile it gave .
s2y and the house dropped into the water /
floating at the level OF the second story /
windows. II is probable that Mr.. Kenney
will wait until next Sumner and then ,
tow the house back TO the starting point. !
and then make another try next winter 4
after the ice is safe beyond doubt
\ poem by Ernest Won Wildenbruck. !
-eplying to Kipiing-s recent poem. The 2
Rowers." was published in all German
papers last week The papers express
establishment at Kipling's words. and say !
that the Germans must henceforth sep
arate Kipling from all their notions Of
land. IN his concluding
erses Herr Won Wndenbruck says that
everything that KipIing had previously
written is wiped out for the Germans by
MS latest poem. and that his name shall
never again be heard in Germany.
While a British reconnoitreing party
was bivoucking at night near Berbera
recently q man eating leopard which had
ziIed 100 persons in the last eight years
invaded the closure and seized SomaH
Who was Sleeping by the large fire