The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-27
LATE NEWS BY WIRE.

Tien Tsin. April 26.-It is reported upon
good authority that the Japanese fleet
bombarded the town of New Chwang last
night The Russians here deny that there
IS any truth in the report
Rome, April 2s.-It is reported that the
protest of the pope against the presence
of President Loubet at the Quirinal VIII
take the form of q note TO all the Catholic
powers
New Chwang. April 2e-After having
been detained for two weeks and thor
oushly examined by the Russian author
tiles, the two japanese servants who came
into port on the tug Fowan have been
released. They were deported to Che Foo
today.
St. Petersburg, April 26-The reports
that the emperor's health is unsatisfac-
tory are untrue. He transacts business
with his ministers as usual, takes his Gus
tomary walk in the garden of the winter
palace in the afternoon and later, almost
daily takes a drive about the city.
ST. Petersburg, April 26.-The authorities
here have no news to confirm the report
ed bombardment of New Chwang last
night
Lemberg. Austria, April 26-About two
hundred houses of the town of Buezazy
were destroyed b! fire which broke out at
midnight April 25-26. Some 5000 of the in
habitants are homeless.
St Petersburg April "a dispatch
from Port Arthur says Experiments with
submarine boats here have been attended
with brilliant success All is quiet in the
region O fthe fortress -
Berlin, April 26.-Colonel Luiewein, gov
ernor of German Southwest Africa cables
today that typhus fever has broken out
in Major Won Glasenaphus column Seven
deaths from the disease were recorded up
to April % The column has marched to
the mission station at Otjihaena, which
has been converted into ahospital.
Louisville, KY, April ga heavy wind
and rain storm swept central and west
ern Kentucky today. causing a total
property loss of nearly 100000. So far
as known. no lives were lost, although
tornadoes formed near Paris and Car
Isle.
St. Louis. April Ex-Governor John G.
Brady of Alaska arrived in st. Louis to-
day. He went at once to the worlds fair
grounds, where he inspected the Alaskan
exhibit
St Petersburg, April 26.-It is stated in
railway circles that the government has
decided to double track the Trans-Siber-
ian railway, and that Prince Hilkoff, min
lister of railroads, has submitted to the
emperor an estimate according to which
this work can be completed in eighteen
months.
Vienna April 26.-The situation in Hun
gary has improved. The general strike
declared yesterday at Gross Warden has
collapsed. No further disorders have been
reported and government victory is re-
garded as complete.
Elkhart, Ind. April 26.-John R DAILY,
an old time newspaper man. who during
the civil war was night editor of the Chi
cago Tribune, and later was connected
with the Chicago Journal. died here to-
day. He leaves a large estate.
Buenos Ayres. April 26.-John Barrett,
the newly appointed United States minis
ter to Panama, will leave here tomorrow
via Cherbourge for the United States He
will stop a few days at Paris ana London
before proceeding to his destination.
ST. Petersburg. April 26.-On account of
the refusal to deliver the Argentine crus-
ers before the money is paid it is UNDER
stood that committee is being organized
in Paris to arrange for the sale of the
vessels through Charles r. Flint of New
York.