THE NEWS, An explosion, caused by mixing chemloals, sot fire to Leonard & Eillls' paint and ofl works in Birmingham, Ala. The place was destroyed. Loss £10,000, Thomas Swoope, an employe, was fatally injured.——A col- ored woman named Brown, living near Sib- ley, Kan,, left her five ohildren, with two other children, alone at home, A big fire wus bullt in the stove, and in the night the ‘cabin burned and two of the children, aged nive and eleven, were roasted in bed. - Joseph and Henry Manly and George Cronk, while walking across Saranac Lake, broke through the ice. They were rescued, but aled from exposure, ——Near Hodgensville, Ky., Clarence Wade, a lad of i1wenty, shot and killed Alvin Delevers in a schoolhouse during exercises. Young Wade bad been paying attention to a sister of Defevers, and, a short time ago, whileout driving, attempted what was regarded as undue familiarity with ber.—-J. 8B. Madison, ex-speaker of tne apd Means Committees of legislature, died suddenly at his home, near lage of Narrowsburg, N. Y., was destroyed miser, was murdered in her home, in Newark, N. J.——James O'Neill, of Rock Village, five miles from Haverhill, Mass., assauited his wife with a hatchet, inflicting a number of dangerous wounds on the woman's head. She is badly injured, but will probably live, O'Neill has disappeared.——The United States Cordage Company began business the Jersey. Directors were elected. In the United States Court at Jacksonville, Fia., Postmaster W. H. Merrill, of South funds of the government, ——Executions ag- gregating $30.(00 were issued against A. A Myers, a tanner of Lancaster, Pa. * His lia- bilities are placed at $40,000; assets not known. —Fire destroyed about §40,000 worth of property in Manchester Center, Ver- mont. ——The United States grand jury re- turned an indictment in Waco, Texas, charg- ing 8. J. Walling with misapplication and embezzlement of money of the City National Bank of Brownwood, Texas, The various ums aggregated 90,000, Walling was caslifer of the bank, the funds of which he the bank.——James 8. Johnson, a prominent clothing merchant of Perth Amboy, N. J., was mistaken for 4 burglar at his home and wae shot in the neck by Adolph Sofleld. F. M. Byrd and John W. Harris shot other to death in Hanford, California - At MeCary's Ferry, Ala, on the Tombigbee Es "er, 6 party was crossing the ba pn a little child fell overboard, Dur- ing heitement Mrs. Williamson and Mrs. .lexander the latter the child's mother, jumped idto the river to rescues it, but both were drowned, The child caught aa overs bangivg bush and was =: Paulding, one of the leading physic Daretown, N. J., was by a t South Woodstown and probably fat- njured, The doctor was driving & horse, which became unmanageable, and rushed upon the track directly In front of the train, H. D. Parmenter, farmer of Northwest El county, Kansas, his grandson and then himself, The boy is still livipg. The man died lostantiy., Temporary insanity was the City Attorney James Butier shot killed a gambler known a8 “Seven Up” Jim O'Leary, in St Louis ——Ohio miners threaten to strike if their pay Is reduced. ——D. J. Mackey resigned as presidect and director the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad Com- pany. Viee President H. C. Barlow is now acting president of the company.-—The dem body of Lawyer Herbert W, Edmunds was found by a searching party in the woods back of the llount Vernon Hotel Cape May, It is the general belief that suited from an overdose of morphia and ex- posure 4h 8 street duel at Lawrenceburg, Ky., Joe Brown shot and killed Polk Moffett. The trouble arose over the arrest of Moffett's son at church, Brown was severely wo The steamship Seneca, which re Havana with fire in ber hold, was sunk in tbe harbor, ~The Iron Car Company, a new each river ou a saved struck a vie- a ils shot canse, - and of in usded, —— turned Equipment Company, announces that the date, giving employ ment to several hundred men now ou} of work. —— Barbara F. Daab- ner, mother of City Councilman Daubner, of Elizabeth, N, J., fatally burned at her home, She was a very heavy woman, aod in a faint fell on the stove, clothing became igonited, and she was wrapped in flames when assistance arrived, BRC re and ex Congressman Benj. , of Delaware, died ino Middletwon, bat state, o! pneumonia Frederic W, ian, aged fifty-seven years, president of the d of Assessors of Yonkers, is dead, jehiael Grober, of the Army Service Corps, was crushed by a large stone at West Point, andsustained injuries which may prove fatal, —Jnmes Collins, a fourteen-year-old boy, as literally chewed to pleces by a New- foundiand dog. Chauncey H. Andrews, the millionaire raliroad operator and coai ud” manufacturer, died in Youngstown, was HO KILLED AND CREMATED, Burglars Murder a Virginia Farmer and Burn His House, Pleasant Hendricks, of Campbell county, Va, was about a month ago married to the hter of J. H. White, of Lynchburg, and 3 houskeeping near Bacocks, was mur- Jered by {oor masked men, supposed to be hitgenps, and the house burned, The story to the effect that after Mr. and Mrs. Hen dricks bad retired four masked mon forced their way into the house and knocked the husband down. Mr, Henricks faintel saad | was token. into the yard, while the mea robbed the house and set it nfire, When the rife regained conselousness the house was a mass of flames, The blaze attracted the neighbors, but it was too late to save the house and recover the body, which was found in the ruins. Mr, Hendricks was a prosperous farmer, about forty-five years of age, and it was not known that be had an enemy. It is supposed that the parties knew that be bad a large sum of money iv the douse, / iy BANDITY B (HAL. Five Robbers Overhaul 2 Train on the Prairie. MAIL AND EXPRESS LOOTED Every Passenger, Including Promi- nent Business Men of Coffey~ « ville, Kans., Relieved of His Money and Other, Valuables. train No. division of the which left Coffeyville The south-bound on the Iron Mountain souri Pacific Railroad, at 6.3) o'clock passenger the Iudian Territory, The switch into the at Seminole Station in five miles south of Coffeyville x car was standing, ¢ of the open siding, on which a be The point robbery is a small station oo the The engineer, James Harris, was care. Eg chester, while the rest proceeded to rob passenge ker 10 the sleeper, The leader was a tall man who went through ¢ frightened passen gers of their money and valuables while ey evidently secured A party of young people from Coffeyville, who were driving, set in their wHnLe oq nyeyau © the They were the first to bring the pews of the to i affair, assed robbery town. Several Tertitory victims of were on the train and were Fortunately no one shooting One young man, ured he the wns in) » which was all done by who wus by the in different When walked ahead of them through the of avoiding them. the watch aod $17 made him jump off. He walked Coffeyville but was too badly rattled scribe the affair, They beid the train about an hour and the car ¢« Missouri Pacifi last they and to they got to the rear Car took his back to de- iL half, and the rear lights on auld ba the was seen from being or Brownell, the were relieved olf their po optinued on toward Fort Smith 1 i the train duet and the porter they had, The train « after being mounted their horses and direction, They were outfits and were all youn the bla engineer even Ret-Kni relieved, aon a rembpant of the description given by the Wooten, led the raid on the Mound ui sn MANGLED BY A DOG. leader is Jim While a i On. m iota Ww A L ttis Boy Cowardly Crowd Locke A large Newloundiand dog pounds in resent James Collins in Covington, Ky ing a Kick from 14 Hleraily year old J chewed hin (0 pieces, The dog jumps on the down and tore one of 1,000 pee bot not one courage to interfere, A poll and afterward sho this was & been terri die. iad, knocked him A crowd ected by the em bad the his ears off pie were altra of ti OF 8 screams, wing the the lacerated. dog, tut before coomplished boy's body had biy torn aud ssn. rN ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE ss— Brssance, the ex-Iron Chance grandiather six times, Ava Exuax in silver is or is a doing duly se dry goods store and 10,000 people daily. Sit Epwis ARNOLD poets in England, is inspected by are 30. says there Carr. cer, nuade bis will, baving bad a foreboding biography of her famous mother, the Lucy Stone. Miss Dlackwe | Is greatly Warpo Srory sad his wife have been country, but pay- Waldo Story is a sculptor, like his father, W, W, Story. Wax. D. Howrris is a hard worker and and as neat as his sentences, Presipest CLeverasp has bad fewer callers the first days of this session than a Congress. On the average there bave pot tatives any one day. Mrs, Eowix Boorsm Grosssax, who is writing some reminiscences of her iather, Mr, Edwin Booth, is asking her father's friends who possess letters from him to send ber transcripts of such ns they may wish to add to her publication, Jos, W. Morse, who was one of the origi pators of the system of printing theatrical postors from wooden blocks, and who was a cousin of Professor 8. F. B. Morse, of (ele- graph fame, celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday at his home in Now York recently, Tuer say Mr. Freddie Gebhard in these days is a sedate and rather melancholy figure, whose attire is not particularly showing, and whose manner is subdued sod listiess, Like most Keeley graduates, he drinks great quantities of Lithia water and seldom smiles, Miss Herex Gouro bas just offered a great farm at Irvington-on-the-Hudson to the “Kindergarten and Potted Plant Associa. tion.” The land will be dotted with a num- ber of frame buildings, in which 250 or more children are to be lodged ag fed a the Bummer months, ; | | | CABLE SPARKS, Sn ——— net lo the abandonment of bimetalilsm, The lodian loan bill passed the House of commons with out a discussion, EernessIve measures have netivity of nonrebiste. It is proposed to hold Berlin, Threats bave been made to blow up the Paris Bourse, Queex Reoext CHRISTINA, Spain, neeling in of hos INDIAN TERRITORY | long letter, in which Be again 1 full reparation for the hostile promises Tue Belgain ministers will resign the members of the right refuse in cnse fo tion as incorporated iu the franchise bill Tux Politische Correspondenz, of says that Monsignor Satolli, papal to the chureh in the United States, appointed Archbishop of Bologna. Vienna, delegate bas Gi Ler Ing British steamer Langham, from veston and Norfolk, for Liverpool, lost wbulid. output for Tue apnual refurns o ustry show that the total i was 208 000 tons, {the Clyde shi ing ind 8.00 Jagainst 306,000 tons iast year, Tur papal nupeio in Lima bas been in gtructea to offer his mediation in the present Ecuador. to frontier dispute between Peru and who bel thrown by Pallas to arrested in Barce Ture anarchist Iv ieved have made the bomb General hus been cna, Ban with milian when be attempted t died in Ban ¥ Kavovirscu, who was Maxi- found a Mex! ean empire, Reino, It is alleged that there on yeligious grov re in Ireland GrEaT Enirain's in the H« stone contended that the £5 5 r i 1 Giserimination pe inde in the selection of juro aval strength was de bated use of Commons, Mr. Giad- fighting quality of 0 the Freuch the navy was far superior Bud Russian navies, an « fort to suppress the Malla in Sielly. 8 Ine Italian government will make iguor Zanardelll, in consequence of the failure of cabipet, will resign the ! the Chamber of Deputies Wopenovse Lis efforts to form a presidency « Sin Pasay under se state of the CURRIE, retary of appoin Turkey. foreign office, has been ted sritish ambassad to Jose Cop that the bomb which did such frightful exe in the Lyceum Theatre, Barcelona Carrarx WiLLiAMs, son of Gen 1%4 has confessed be threw alicn Owen Wil. Hams, bas been shot by the Matabeles Pwnas iL's parliamentary elections have been wed until May. UNIVERSAL PENNY POSTAGE Advecated by Heniker Foreign L AWS vessel are | claps ther respeots He e3xg government TesnalE tra where, British tal cont rensed surprises had gives ther ract between ( B ana eylon speed under paid veroment twelve Buon ihe nut subsidy E is £3654 interest on more the F rth, Japanese Consul Shims calle the the British represents money than the whole feet * onging to enipsuiar acd Company is w Acting advices fromm his povernmers einting that the house of Representatives bas been adjourncd for two weeks on account istroduat.on two anti-foreign bills in the House asked for of the excitement raised by the V+ hen ht eXpingation concerning the evoipess which bad arisen against foreigners Ee said that the people were caly endeavor get their rights, eign powers made thirty years ago, ata Ui when bad only just been opened to Then the government that foreigners sbould be governed by the laws of stheir country, and that should possess authority such These treaties expired some yoars ago, Ireation with for ing te "re Japan foreigners, agreed consuls i Chang, Japan bas Leen endeavoring to secure re vised treaties, ciniming that the present laws which are and Ameries, are suitable for the govera- went of foreigners as well as Japanese, ‘The natives think the cousdls have two much pears to be sn catburst of & popuinr feeling that has ong been growing. A ——— TO CHOOT THE MAYOR. Louisville's Chief Magistrate Promp:ly With a Crack, Mayor Henry B. i and sald that be wanted it proved that his father bad not committed suicide, The mayor saw the man was a erank and The visitor said ; *'I came here to demand ! my rights, 1 own property near the oity limits and I do not want them extended,” The crank pulled a revolver and told the Mayor he was golug to kill him. The Mayor, although small of statue, guickly seized the weapon and called assistance, The crank resisted arrest, but was over. powered, He gave the name of Phil J. Schwarz, soliwarts is about thirty-two years of agh and has been trying to get on the police foree for some time. At the time of his are rest he hed a huge petition to the Mayor in lis pocket, He asked his mother to go with him to the Mayor's office but she refused to do so, Khe says that her son, who js a wood. worker, has been out of work for some time and has been acting very queerly of late, Louis Schwartz, a brother of Phil, runs a barber shop. The father killed himsell i | 2 Resort of Criminals. LETTER T0 THE PRESIDENT. Many of the Recent Bank and Train Robberies Are Sald to Have Origi- nated There~-Time the Gov~ ernment Asserted Its Right of Eminent Domain. has md to of Arkansas, fvilowing open leller Governor Fishback, dressed the Presi- dent Clevelund To the ments sir Deve! train Dear recent Gp incident 10 the robbery slate, ren it seoins to me, that the dapgerous Territory, cuples to the States of the and murder at Oliph this oper, your attent ant, in ders it pr I call fon to relation which the Iodian west of us, oe- Union, and es. pecially to the ad jacent States of Arkansas, Oxlaboma Territory. n of one of Kansas, Texas and Upon the pers the captured robbers was feund the map of the route they bad taken from the lodiau Territory, 175 the ¢ map of the country ur showing that ’ miles, to wne of the robbery and aso a Chattasooga, wie upd thier ro contemplated al or pear that city, nppecrs are noted characiers int Tenn, , bhery t also captured leaders bis busioess and in- citizens bbery., | t thant veigied some very respectable BRIOLE 3 ’ is re have good CR8Ons 10 #1 AB Yery ia ent ped age of the bank snd TRE per which Alleghenies and train robberies take place west of the ernst of the Roeky mountains are organized or or- igzinnted in the Indian Territory. Let me add t sO that the refuge this sparsely settled ren- i 2 f vavous of outlaws nf als i5 6 iG ras 10 crimiy ronstant template erime in all the cot 14 } b ry around, $ Eat twelve Mot ing the past tNe.Ye uo athe there b Aransas, Duar ave issued from States of Texas, the nansus and Oklaboma Territory sixty-one requisitions upon the Indian Territory au- thorities for fugitives, while we have reason hiding this y believe thal as many more are srades io crime It Those pong their cou sm of vriminals, criminals who fi fuge in this Territory » rapidly converi- diaz school of ing the Indian into a rime, They are de lians and are linns to especially stirriog f biocd lor exan deeds © Henry id « ith ¢ remiiad in the ter of this Ter. iniry every ake periodic ling openly ia kpown 1 ° Brae ius « Loney with then, yet esled rave! was saler t Ne Lhe newspapers ’ ’ one OF tw sine iv Muskege the number o! murders WwW, acoordin pat itn aten or £ 1 i year . cached the appaiil figure of SW 8 Cone sizable in The federal jail at Fort Smith is at ne peariy full of prisoners from this irt holds sessions month of and the this ace to of the yous ar thal were iol « the federal Curia | gen 3 ere and the federal o« ory continuing through Dearly every the year. This state of semi-chaos which a constant men farees of government exist Io Territory, tendering it + of the peace und order of all the States Valley, 8: ests the very ser not neseri Missimippi RE whether the time arrived da right domain over this part of the na- jarstion has federal ior the government i of eminent tiopsl domain and 10 chance its politioal re. I can think f no 10 base the opinion that a Indian's rights either of per are sacred than those of the white man, which it is conceded must give way to the public good. In this ease not only the public good, but public sa'ely, ne will as the highest interests of the Indinn himself demands the suggested change, Very respectinlly, W. M. Fispacs, Governor of Arkansas Intions with the United Sigtes, valid reason upon which SOD OF property, ALY more proper) 3 Ohio and Southwestern Railroad was wreek- Louisv.lle, Ky., the embankment, and 500 bead of cattle and bogs perished, are sald to be still unaccounted for, Galesburg, il, By a sudden rise in the walters of the Bul- { falo river, a territory five miles square was and 2,50 people driven from tholt homes, Rail. | road tracks were submerged and other dam- sge done, The total losses were estimated at upwani to §100,000, Tur dwelling bouse of John C. Roraback, in Shefliell, Mass, was burned and Mr. Roraback, who was seventy-five years of , perished in the flames, His daughter, 1da, was probably fatally Injured by jump- ing from a second-story window, A large portion of the Ogdensburg, New York, gas works was wrecked by an explo. sion. Two workmen were propably fatally wounded, Taree men, Including J. Homer Houston, a Baltimore contractor, were killed at Hen. dricke, W. Va., by the explosion of some dy- namite which was being thawed, Foun children of the industrial school at Halilax, Nova Scotia, were drowned while skating. Ax accommodation train on the B. & O, railroad ran into & shifting eogine near Braddock, Pa. One of the passenger conches was thrown over the side of a bridge, and 17 i a AA ol PENNSYLVANIA EMS, | Epitome of News Gloaned rom Various | Part: of the Stas Exenvare No. | was tha sgje of a bloody fight, in which guns aod #lleitoes wore | used, Four participants wes fatally snd | several others seriously woutisd, Mus, Minnie Lainxsxi, 15 yours oid, of | Catasauqua, and her twin belies died » few { hours apart and will be burl in one con, Tuomas T a MM, Washingtor eidentally sot binsel! und l McCoy, | manufacturer, ac died soon after | By the will of Mrs. Thoma: (, | Norristown, the hospital of the | Episcopal Chareb of Pbllidelpbia is queatbed 85000, Fleishman & Co., of Pituburg { for the benefit of creditors, A member of the fumily o/¢ Bimpson, of taut be. Protest uesigned . Perry Steir south Auny ight i When Ar. wetz, a prominent farmer of Townshiy the reached the structure 3, noticed a bright tion of barn, hie I ad and the lncendinry was ses in the Honk sn Episcopal Church, : who was forgeriy ) Simpson, Axe, paid to died and the will directs ths 8500 the hospital within ord year Ox a petition presets] Io Valentine Geng, ( YiBOrs of Darby wuship, James Hall snd apa Isane Je appointed master 10 ada. between Darby Towns £4 and iwyn boroughs, 1 ighs were created from portions A #AD accident tivities of William Najp, James N+ { Darby Township mars] the Christm Tremont 1 4s i ship miner, PP. went out gunning Chi, LIGE 4 and a searchilag part finns returning t y “ever ot of the mouniatis Wa without success The search was of i next day pnd tae y was | with his hands hanging shred sin bis bead, Appar i fon 8 ait of his chine charge was oxj Three min Colliery Workings { + Fhiree t nn ibs I WAS ish himnseil- Barns, whi ryat Shenandoah © 0 oiliery made noticed, as he gling from a farther inves the body ol a to be that of aged 16 years, who, 1 Is | into the rm nd was ground machin a ghastly discovery thought, old stay Tope on his roule was horrified boy, afterward pr Enoch Rune laick, thought, fe te} wip. tigation which WORK OF THE POSTOFFICES Over Five Billion Pieces of Mil Mat- Handled Lest Year A statement prepared at the Postoflice Department shows that diring the last fiscal | year the total number ofpieces of letter mall | sent in the domestic nails of the United | Stutes was 2.407,810,175, of which 2,5323,314,- | 564 were paid at letter sites and 6,495,612 | were sent free on official business. There were also 5335 97.898 postal cards | handled, The number 6! newspapers and i periodicals mailed by publishers and news The number of newspapers and periodicals mailed by publishers in the several countries of publication free, was 782 861,271. Newspapers and periodicals mailed by others than publishers and news agents, 71,078,777 1 total second-class matter, 1,404, 245,632 pisces ; third-class mater handled, books, pamphlets, &e., 585, 134,179 pleces, Fourth-class matter matled, 48.933.171 pieces, Grand total number of pleces of domestic wail matter handled, 5,021 841,056, isn DYNAMITE AT A WEDDING Austrians and Magyars Rioticg at Der ringer, Pa. During a wedding eslobration st Derringer, Pa, a party of Austrinns attempted 10 blow up the house with dynamite The unsuspecting oceupants were notified in time to escapes, Subsequently a pitched battle took piace between the Austrians and Magyars, Guns and kaoiver wore used with terrible effect, and at least a dozen persons sastained injuries, some offibem Intal. Bat four of the injured be found, the friends of the others hu irited them away. These are “Mike i, shot in hands Hannibal etna 4 the groin; Foo Deake, cut in the i MOND STU JDDED TEETH, More Money Than Brains, “Where the fad originated, for I sup- pose it must have had a starting point, 1 ams unable to ay, nor have 1 any idea how far it is likely to run; but it is an undeniable fact that well-to-do women sre now having valuable diamonds set in their teeth muck as they would have the same gems set in a brooch or any other irticle of persons! adornment. 1 for one cannot but deprecate the practice. for 1 believe that many young women who are ¢illy enough to have the looks of their mouths spoiled in this way will regret it Inter on.” This was said to 8 reporter for the New York World by one of the most prominent dental surgeons living in the Murray Hill district. “What sort of people are adopting this fad!” Well, that is a pretty hard question to answer, but | should say they nie mostly of that sort one would be apt to meet at a summer resort, appearing in full evening toilet at the breakfast table, Women who are fond of display cod have more cash than intellect. Young, foolish girls living in boarding schools are another class that seem to have taken up the new freak with avidity, snd are spending their pis money for dia monds instead of ghocolates and car mes They insist op ruining the teeth way or ‘but | always try to he diamond luna ¥ fatherly advice be appreciated. But l sm verry sorry to say that it seldom 18, Her case in point A few zo three young girls called on me ave dinmonds set in their teeth. 1} Was slight ¥ acquainted with one of them. I talked to hier quietly and seri uly. They sll listened very attemtively, and Odd IL was they would never have athing. They thanked ed of the wisdom of I, that sfternocon | met ladies coming up began to lsugh the others iced that each one her teeth. They ther dentist who oni HnoLRer, dissuunde them from by giving them a i when I toink it will le is A ak a 1 i] : . ACTER wh ! all the fashion or t t thesioh i such ma oO 4 : od left, convinp Wel same three the young One of them kaw me and Then l n fastened in gone Lo and pies in Lhe matier, when she joined her stone ®#OOL sad had ii jis bad no wm i he diam between the pd is set incisor teeth and exactly ip the inh. Tx Gr: i HO once sho the twe centre of ti S Becessary eeth y this it between the t stone DESTRUCTIVE OCCUPATIONS Pol hat Lurk for Flax ficial SOS and Arti Flower Workers, tie is Kn of the IALY O00 MMroelv en gue Liss been th» facts f + i Lins made wn ith t t e% ith thst ex danger (o alien; d Mrs. 1 ol Je vestigations nen trade, ti lax has to sonk in the bronchitis € wou be rheuma- nia seize with it water, ana nen who Lave In the flax carding de fine dust produces lung its victims at thir! the odor and the extremely Injurivus, to artificial- those em flowers by gas ana poeam i 10 desi 3 this stage. arument, he Gisensd and i oth J injury is caused fl makers, especially ployed in making white light The dry dust causes inflamed eyelids, and the work is so trying that women are worn out jong before middle sage. In the china trade, the clay dust seitles year bs vear in the luugs until consumption results, In the white-lead trade, horrors are found quite equal to those of the phos phorus match trade lead is in itself highly poisonous, and the most danger ous parts of the process of making the ordinary blue pigs of lead into the deadly white carbonate is carried on by women, because it requires less muscular strength Unxes of lead are put to than the rest, acetic acid fcr three nouiar we ferment in tan and months, and then the cakes have to be grubbed out of the mixture by hand, the poison getting under the finger nails After being ground to powder under be placed ina stove to dry for a fort- night. The worst part is when these poor women have to take away the dry, bot, white carbonate of lead from the stoves, Even the muflled heads, the woolen respirators, the sack overalls They rarely live many years; sometimes a few weeks or months bring on the symptoms of acute lead poisoning. to which they rapidly succumb. This white carbonafe of lead is used for glazing china and enamel advertisements. Toe only safe- gusrd would be in prohibiting the manu. facture, snd it would be possible to do so, for various substitutes sre aiready in the market, —{ New York Sun, i — Marine Engines for Land Use. An interesting departure in engineer ing is the introduction of marine engines for land service. One of the t elec tric illuminating companies, it appears, has adopted them in its work, and con- cerning their economy in respect to space and power it is reported, says the Age of Steel, that the land engine takes up some ten times as much room as a marine en gine, and the marine quadruple ex pansion engine has ten times the heating surface of She land. Farther, the new quadraplox two. crank expansion engine is twice as pow. erful as the triple expansion three-crank engine, occupies alae 30 per cent. less Rao and earries regularly 210 pounds uf : "The land engine carries only 80. of 9 unds of steam, gets power out of from four to ten of anthracite conl, while the Jamsion marine ie the uadvaple ong power out By, one a. of Welsh eonl-~that is, to these data, the land quires from two to four coal as the ony
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