The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-02-03
TELEGRAPHIc BREVITIES.

/ course. He Will be unable TO attend the
reassembling of parliament. A bulletin
/ issued by his physician says Mr.. Balfour
! passed a fair night; that his temperature
! is lower, and that there are no compli-
cations
! St Petersburg. Feb. Prince Khilkoff.
/ the minister of communications, started
/ today on a tour of inspection of the ST.
merriam and -Bailkay railways.
/ Constantinople, Feb. 2-The United
/ States European squadron left Beirut to-
/ day for the West Indies.
/ San Antonio. Tex, Feb. Paul Stern,
/ a young officer of the Prussian army,
4 has committed suicide here by shooting.
He wrote letters to his brother in Ger
many saying he was very weary OF bat
Ting against i'll health.
Albuquerque, y. NJ, Feb. 2-Albert
/ Otero. probably the wealthiest man in
New Mexico. delegate TO congress from
4 1879 to 1888 and one of the leading business
men of the territory. is dead at his home
/ here of apoplexy. He was a cousin of
NJ. Otero, at present governor of New
! Mexico.
Singapore Straist Settlement. Feb. p
/ The japanese cruiser Kisshin arrived
/ here today from Colombo and is now
coaling. She probably will sail tomorrow.
! Her consort. the Kasakuga. is due here
/ this evening. Both vessels in a gale off
/ the island of Ceylon showed themselves
| to be excellent sea boats.
I Clarksburg, ". Va, Feb. 2.-The Trad
4 ers' National bank, the largest bank in
| this city, has been closed by order of
/ the comptroller of the currency and a
/ national bank examiner has been ap-
pointed temporary receiver. Assets, a
/ million and a quarter. 1t is thought the
I bank viii resume business. No staement
/ of its condition has been made.
Victor. Colo. Feb. "A human heart,
/ torn from the body of one of the fourteen
/ miners who fell with the cage 1,5G0 feet
down the shaft of the Stratton Independ-
! ence mine week ago today, has been
/ found in the mine.
/ St Petersburg. Feb. "A dispatch from
! Comet, government of Moghilev, says;
Emigration to America is steadily in
/ creasng; artisans as well as wealthy
/ househoders are leaving Three hundred
families have just departed
Abilene. Kan. Feb. Bishop Samuel
! Zook of the River Brethren church, and
| in charge of the western division, died
here today, aged 20 years.
Washington. Feb. 1.-The seate commit
/ tee on appropriations today authorized a
| favorable report on the urgent deficiency
/ bill ~ amendment was adopted appro-
/ priating S4600O00 as a loan to the Louis
! lana Purchase exposition.
Battle Creek. Mich, Feb. 2.-Walter w.
Woolnough. probably the oldest newspa-
I per editor in the state, died today. aged
S2 years Mr.. Woolnough started the
/ first paper published in Battle Creek and
was one of the men presented at the or
/ ganization Of the Republican party at
! Jackson.
Chicago. Feb William NJ. Shaw. pio-
neer of the cracker baking industry in
( the west. is dead of pneumonia. aged -
+ years.
New York, Feb. THE directors of
the United States Steel corporation to-
day accepted the resignation of John d.
Rockefeller and elected Henry Phipps of
1 Pittsburg to fill the vacancy.
Pellin. Feb 2.-An imperial edict issued
! today refuses to grant the request made
Z by Yuan Sh I[ai for permission to re-
/ sign his position on the army board and
i orders him to continue his efforts TO in
/ crease the efficiency of the army, with
I the cooperation Of Prince Ching.
Washington Feb. 2.-Senator Hanna,
who is seriously i'll with the grip. was re-
/ ported somewhat better today.
New Haven. Conn. Feb. 1.-The gift of
+ $4,000 by John Hays Hammond Of New
York the mining engineer. for a metal
lurgical laboratory at Yale. has been in
creased by Mr.. Hammond TO $l0oeo0.
Columbus O., Feb. Since January
]. 713 eases Of typhoid fever have been
reported in Columbus. and there have
; been p deaths. Eighty-one new cases
were reported today. the highest daily
record for the month.
Tuscon. Ariz FEB. "A Star special
from Nogales SAYS that John Dysart.
president and L. r. Swain cashier Of ths
International bank. have been arrested
10y Sheriff Turner Of Santa Clara county
! on warrants charging them with embez-
zling Si,ooo belonging to 2. Sandeval &
+ Co. bankers. which was on deposit in
the bank at the time Of their recent fail
ure
I.aunces,on. Tasmania, Feb. Right
I Hon. Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry
Braddock. former premier and leader OF
the house assembly in Tasmania. IS dead,
ased - years.
Washington. Feb THE glnboat New
port and the supply ship Culgoa have ar
rived at Colon.
Omaha. N,b. Feb. 2.-The referendum
vote taken by the nstioaal committee Of
IN socialist party for rational secretary
resulted in the election OF William Mail
" OF Boston
Montreal Feb. THE Canadian Pa
cific railway officials announce that the
company has been condemned by a Brit
iSh judge I'm Hong Kong to pay TO The
I Chinese eover- -rent $iSooN0 for the sink
ing q a Chinese gunhoat BY one Of their
steamers. the Empress Of japan
Berlin Feb e-The statement Is made
THAI over ioo settlers have been killed in
Southwest Africa during the present
troubles
St Petersburg Feb. Seventy pupils
attending the Catholic schools in this
city have been arrested on charges ot
starting secret revolutionary associa-
ton.
Berlin. Feb. The war department
has begun a series Of winter naaneuvers
in the Hsrtz mountains 10 test automO-
miles and motor bicycles over the icy