THE NEWS, sudge Candler issued a temporary re- straining order preventing the transfer of stook of Atlanta street railways, ®s the re- sult of a bill filed agaist the combination of the ratlways of that city recently effected in Baltimore, . At the Christian Endeavor Convention, in Detroit, lev, Dr, Francis E. Clark delivered his annuni message, and Secretary Baer read his annual report, showing splendid growth daring the year, Judge Taft, of the United States Court, sustained the appointment of 8M, Felton ns reesiver of the Columbus, Sandusky and Hoeking Raliroad. Great destitution prevails in Texas as a re- salt of the floods, and the Wer Department at Washington bas rations for the starving people, Consolidation of the ice companies, from Maine to Chicago, was practically effected in New York, Emanuel Hockstadler was indioted in Nor- folk, ¥a., for passing a forged check on E. Wertheimer, Robert Bonner, the many years the owner of famous race horses, is dead, Ex-Governor South Carolina, died ease, whert issued and for rublisher, Jobn Peter Richardson, of 11 suddenly of heart dis- Hill, of the glassworkers’ union, was accidentally killed pear Tiffin, O. arrived at New w fever. lier of the Treasury tenr Admiral W. T. to the pay of that grade he was commissioned head The transport lian York, with three os The Acting ( decided that I is not entitied August 10, 1868, when by the President, to Mareh 4 last, To a Peopnsyivanin delegation Presi ie McKinle services of the Penn Philippines, Arrangements ha pleted i Dewey of the sword voted to gress, An order was issued preseribd rules for of the ten new regiments, sanll oil Sampson fo A irom nt y expressed his appreciation of the soudiers syivania in the ve been practically con to Admiral him by Con~ $5 the resi for tation ng the organization Armstead Taylor, of Mrs, Dora gomery county, der in the out but 1 be banged by The report of the shows that the output shipyards has been the largest save oue, fora rter of a century. given to the repor President MeRinley has offered the portl aceused at Blidell, convicted of m a I Mont. ur- jury bad been was sentenced to osenstein, Ye yf Navigation year's No eredence is of Secretary of War to General Porter, who declined Reports receive Wyman indieat the plague sbi The Agricu using the 3 trate the growth Mansca Bel shot hims who News, Igalc intention: 1 rit Newport Iatz agaiost J. Ys. A fire | Shenandcah adjacent pro Mrs. O. A. Traonen, of bas Leen al do ter, who disappeared Irom hotel, Am erulser Panther Porto Rico to Phila Miss Elizateth L. b Atlanta, was marries iter B. of Southampton, L. dostr yed Soy 5 sud damaged and, N. J. of her Yihel 3} {race ga ¥ o a Phila 4 i d stiny utiny is said to have iaring ber voyage from elress Aud Chicago packing house employes deel BOL Lo start a ge: 1 is stronger, Two people jured in a street-car gral strike gat thelr ubic were killed and fifteen in- eciiision in Phtsburg. Genernl Horatio G, Wright, died at Wash- ington. LOVING (UF FOR CAMRBON, by the President. Washiogtoh, D. C., McKinley presented 10 the Freneh sador, M. Cambon, a soperb silver eup in recognition of friendiy services in the restored peace between the United States and Spain, The testimonial was sent by Secretary Hay to {Special ) the which, speaking for the President, he ex- services aud tendered the loving cup as an evidence of the esteem felt for him, The cup is of massive proportions chaste design, aud the international nifleance of the gilt is shown in the blending of the Freoch and American coats of arms, It is about 254 feet high, and the top of the bowl is about 10 inehes across, The outer surface Is silver, richly embossed, while the inside is of hammered gold. Around the outside of the bowl, in ralsed old English text, is the following lnseription: Presented by the President of the United States to his Exerlieney M. Jules Cambon, Ambassador of Frasce, in token friendiy services in the pegotiation of the protocol of pence between the United States and Bpain, August 12, 189%, and ABOUT NOTED FEOPLE, Dr. Samuel R. Wioars, the new dean of Princeton, is not & mrindsier, President McKinley bas received the LL. D. degree from seven colleges, Barah Berobasrdi’s extravagance fis well known, and her Louse in Paris shows it in every direction. Cougressir an Ketcham, of New York, has serv d in 1) Congresses and Las never made 6 spaced. Ex-Congressman Simpson says he enjoys his editorial duties more than be did his work as Congressman, The Iste Dr. Norman Kerr, of London, who was recogtized a+ the greatest author. ity on the physiological aspect of Inebriety, began Jife as » reporter, Mrs. Biand, widow of Hon, Richard P. Bland, who died at Lebanon, Mo, a few days ago, has long worn o veckiet from which is pendant the first sliver dollar coined under the Bland act, Johu Walter, of the Loudon Times, left as u legney to his daughter one of the adver. tising columns of the paper. It is reported that'so far the column bas brought her a steady income of $150 a day, B. 1. Farjeon, the Eaglish novelist, is a so-in-law of Joserh Jefferson, Gen, Leonard Wood is partial to eg npetten, rarely smoking elgnrs, a feot which commends him to the Cubans In bis provices, Gregor Bamarow, nuthor of the sensas tional political romance, “Um Scepter und Krone,” has just been co , at Viennn under bis real name, ALGER'S NEW ORDER. Ten Volunteer Regiments to be Recruited, AN INFANTRY BRANCH. Applionnts For Except OfMicers of the Regular Army, Will Be Required Pass a katisfactory Ex aminntion as to Age, Mental and Physicial Fitness. Commissions, to Moral, order of of ~The pew regiments Becretary Washington, D. C.. (Special. for the enlistment of 10 infantry was issued by the War, It is as follows: “By direction of the President tha follow. ing general rales arg prescribed for recruit- ing, from the country at United ‘States volunteers, as provided for bv the net of Congress approved Merch 3 lished in general orders No. 36, headquarters of the Army, | nin erni’s Office, and lor organ the into regiments: The strength of regiments sniisted men, will ba provided for tions 4 and 12 of the Act of proved Mareh 2, 1800 “The invge, 1RGO rub. at 1849 nt-Gene. same officers and by See DETess. Ap- regiments to be United States ba designated sixth, tv-eavanth Twenty-ninth, organ will Twen Twenty-aicht bhirty-firnt, Thir. and nited Thirtieth, irty-third legiments of irtv«-lourth nfantiry Of the com Tv Tt I Thirty-fifth states Volunteers, i miesioned flirara to be anointed fe field and stall oMeers, and assembled officers rantaing ha as herosalfior desler wiil of theorst! adminis. tration LArilireguint » hygiene, camp sanitation, &o, ally instruct! the nomenciat parts of the ri and target practice will featu nstruction of both officers and men. “Appi! wants for soramissions, ire exeent flicers of the uired to ape, pan tog wi PA will Is oh guisr Arm Fist De to pass a satisfactory examination moral, mental and physical command troops, and must had service during the Sg T he fitness anish-Amer. sa of the with nen recruiting servi harged racruit. iarg» for ser. in theses aniistments wi volunteers regiments, whose be made for the period FER EDNT réesiristions as gquniilieations re as regular servies, are prescribed Exrept lo speeinl ences only unmarried nen will he enlisted fortheasn regimes i= “The lieutenants and two of the medical cffioers of each regiment wi as as far be assigned to duty as assistants if the regular Army. Upon arrival of reeruis rendezvous, f regiments will a ha ol nt the regi. the eonvmanding oft sare assign them to companies and and battalion nol and the appointment imental redustion of reg. jusiopead «pommission and BOLE stall and ox nther by the law and Army reguiati regiment sreanized wiil and supply the commanding eral of the department in which th mpany fleets and governe 1 enlisted grades will bE, **Each for : #0 rurposes of dissipline ha tnt. ject to the order sf & rendes. R.A. ALGER The regiments wif] Secratary be organized ing to the provisions of the ast of iIStS and of War,' wronrds Hareh a 2 will consist of 50 officers snd 1.200 CALLS UPON WHEELER, ‘Fighting Jo='' Ordered to the pines-Old Warrior Pleased. Washington, D. C, fier-Genoral Wheeler, ordered to ippines; Record the Fourth Philip. {Special} --"'B the Phil. Artillery, 1o ba Voluntear Army, assigned i pines” The foregoing jrepartment brought the Wheeler family prominently before military a maior to the in map, veteran warrior has been satisfied, General Wheeler had chafed under his tank Point discontinued, was He was ne. Major-General Otis for duty, ROBERT BONNER DEAD, Demise of the Publisher of the New York Ledger. New York, N. Y.. (Seecial)—Eabert owner of famous horses, disd at his homie in this eity, Mr. Bonner had been ill for some months, but was alia to be atiout until about ten days ago. Death was due to sa general breaking down of the system, Mr. Bonner enjoyed remarkable health until a year age, when his life long friend, Rev, Dr. John Hall, died. A second shoek to hin wae the death of Bisson, Androw Allen Bonner, on December 27 Inst, After this Mr. Bonners temperature changed completely, He made fewer trips to his magnificent farm near Tarrytown, snd contented bimsel! with a short drive dally, a ima Roosevelt and the Dewey Fund, Now York, N. Y.. (Special )—-The Brook. iyn Eagle received a letter from Governor Roosevelt, accompanied by a chesk for $25, for the Dewey Fund. Io his letter the Gov. srnor says: “I enclose you a check as a slight token of my appreciation of your effort to get some memorial, and to give recognition In whatever shape the Admiral timself dooms best, to services to the coun. try, whieh bave justly rendered him the man of ail sinoe the Civil War, who stands high est In the popular regard.” Relief Sent the Sufferers, Washington, D, C., (Special )=The War Department bas granted the request of the Govarnor of Texas for ald for food sufler ore, Huoh government boats ns are availa. bie will be placed at the disposition of the governor, and the rations asked for will be fssuad at once, ih Leader of Glass Workers Killed, Toledo, O., (Special) ~Robert Hill, bend of the Glassworkers’ Union, and superinten. of Ball Brothers’ factory, near DREYFUS SEES HIS BROTHER, The Prisoner fs Closely Watched at All Family Interviews, Rennes, France, (By Cable, )--1t is impos. sible to imagine a town eaimer than Rennes, The inhabitants continue absoiutely indif- ferent to the presence of Dreyfus, Barely haifa dozen persons witness the vislix of eounsel and Madame Dreyfus to the prison, The town, however, is full of detectives, who serutinize strangers, aud a few gendarmes nre patrolling before the resis dence of Madame Dreyius, They approach everyone stopplug the courtyard of nil belore Lhe the wan- an hour. into Matthew brother aged and broken in the physical wreek he feared, said ho In spite of are ns bright, bis inteiligence with his sl trons ring the voyage, but and bis mind as clear, and as keep, ns when be was occupied Y. He nas bled with ingomonia do from dys. every § 2 is stil suflerirg The prisoner fg #ilght, and thers is reason to believe he will rapidly recuperale rally, be ls under medienl treatment, Matthew found his and buoyed up by the brother in good spirits f 1ter. necessity of m coming sat he will # is extremely reserved vils Isiand, which bas mare, Drey. f thet tinged with & lesilng man wi o has He declares face of th # MM, are Lrioging out igh % existences ¢ asi four years with reli of the horror of aped from a madb brain is almost re mass of doens Aan Ar Demange and Labori gardiog stdinary machinatior bis ene Ew hils Kline re. the rxtrad & of fed and the persevering devotd uoded and fell vir seil-sacrifios Dreylus is ast ol This tecling Is particularly strong as regards heartfelt gratitude at § THE FOURTH'S CASUALTIES, Kittegd and Over Injured in 62 Cities, 1000 Chicago, (Bpeelal) fervoron Julr 4 The number of killed re. ported is 3; injured H74 Fire losses dus to fireworks $150,105, Of the injured 827 ware firecrackers, 113 Ly sannone, €0 by powder explosions, 59 by skyrockets, 143 by guns aod revolvers and oy Barestonas Hiots Barcelona, (By Cable, «The distur aness were resumed here. Mar pelied to close and the horse-carservice was suspended, As the liues are worked by an Eaglish company it {8 reported diplomatic ment on the sulject of the damage sus Destroyed by Fire, Now York, (Special, }—The large plant of the Beacon Light Lamp Company, at New Brunswick, N. J., was totally destroyed by fire, The loss is about £100,000 and is pars tinily covered by Insurance, Forty Tour Killed, Beriln, (By Cable. )j-A dispatch from Odesen anuounces that a dysamite eari~ ridge exploded near there while the exoava- tion of a coal mine was In progress and that 44 persons were killed and 20 wounded, FIELD OF LABOR, Boston has a co-operative laundry, maker, 12 cents a ton, Members of the Federal Labor Union, of Biddeford asd Saco, Me, bave secured 20 cents per day increase in wages, The Typographieal Union of Germany has fn Ua treasury mors than ball a million dole lars and a membership of 20,877, Texas Sunday law has been declared cone stitutional, for selling on Sunday, Only druggists are exempted, , of the recent strike of the men agninst the enforeement of the ten-hour custom, bas lost two of its ahiel patrons, resolution snanimousiy thst all pristing done for the city must have the ypographs Jeni Union labwl thereon, : Rapid taliors won an nnconditionnl (VICTIMS OF THE FLOOD. Country. — | FEW BODIES RECOVERED - ! Crops and Stock Valued at Over 815,000, 000 Damages to Hallraads and Bridges 84,000,000 Waters Caver ton Depth of 16 to 30 Veet Logs Make the Work of Rescue Hazardous, Houston, Tex,, (Special, '—\ coOrrespon- dent, just returned from a voyage through the flood districts, says the hall has been told of the bavoe wrought. The dis possible, After this flood will come sick. ness undoubtedly, and what a week ago was the fairest part of Texas Is God-forsaken wilderness, the Prazos have {or villey to a depth of where A week RRO were band fields of eorton and corn and thou. sands of aeres of watermelons and canta loupes, there is slimy mud over all the vege of its inches: on every The #ix days from 6 there walers covered to 3) DEVIL'S 18 and ac the res LAXD +18 & le in forever, it of ils io of ihe free use of speech.) ¥ There are carcasses of Cows, WG pigs, do asd oats, maybap bumans, [or many of the latter are missing. The party | Zs the Navasoto bottoms snd 10 a polnt about { three miles from Miliican, Here they en- | rountered everywhere an overflow from the | Navasoto, which spread out fully two miles { on elther side of the Houston aud Texas rack, Everything Central # under water from 210 17 font, and the water was so high that form vast ! area It completely submerged the telegraph and jes along the ia { truth, portions of the Navasoto Lotioms are | sven Dow a perfect pen, four or five miles wide at several poists, Hundreds of houses totally submerged and as masy mors | wore swept from thelr foundations and de. siroyed, The planters of moving their heip asd whatever is left their stock 10 places where these can be | sared for, They are ali pobiy helpiog sach | other and taking reluge wherever they oan, | some of then seening safety oun houselops, All the planters stated that the oulside telephone po line, were i Ly the destruction of erop, i stoek and bulidiugs. Nearly every planter has built boats and sent them through the flooded districis to render assistance Lo the {| losses Incurred 0 { drowning stock. The food districihas a { length of over B00 miles, a breadih of proba. | bly 50 miles, and in all this vast space dam- age inoaleulable bas been done, The loss to life will never be fully known perhaps, The bottoms were thiekiy settled, { mostly with negro tenant farmers; among | these has been the greatest joss of lif-. To | show the damage done the following esti. { mates have Lean made by men who are la a | position to know: | Lives lost from 100 to 500. i Loss to farmers, incloding erops as well ns live stoek, from §5,000,000 to £15,000,000, { Damage to railroads aud country Lridges, | $2,000,000 10 §4,000,000, | Tuose estithates are taken in the whole | area, It is known that more thao 60 people | have met thelr death, and that many bodies | have been recovered. It is not believed that all of them wiil ever be recovered, Boy Train. Wrecker Sent Up, Pottsville, Pa, (Special }—Oliver OW, the | youth who caused a collision between a freight and passenger train on the Little Sehuylkill braneh of ihe Readiog Railway, which resuited in the loss of two lives, was sentenced to three years and three months and to pay » fine of #700. Ohl piseed a spike on the passenger track, derailiog the | engine, which crashed into a freight train on an adjoining track. The engineer and fireman died as a result of injarics, —————— Flag Display at Kingston, Kingston, Jamaics, (By Cable.)—There was a general display of American and British age on the public and private build. ings here, Visits to the United States Con- suiate were popular, AN EXPOSITION OF THEIR OWN, California Wine Growers to Exhibit Out side Paris Falr Grounds. New York, (Special )—Major Brasket, secs retary of ri States Commission to the Paris Exposition, suid that so great had boon the demand for sprees in the Agricul tural Department's exhibit of beverages that the California wine-growsrs, while they be repracented in the t » FOREIGN AFFAIRS, The Japanesa battleship Hatsuse was launched at Newecastie, England, of Deputies, moved that steps be taken 10 “substitute a popular for the parliamentary republie,’” but his motion was voted dows, test vote in the Chamber of Deputies, A review of 18.006 of the finest troops in the British army was held at Aldershot in the presence of Queen Vietoria, Joseph Chamberlain, in a speech at Hire mingham, denounced the course of Presi- The Interunationnl Counell of Women be. gan in Loudon with a large atlendaser, Col, Gross von Schwarzhoff, a German delegate to the International Peace Confer soece, announced tbat Germany would not her paval and mill Premier Van den Peereboom made a con- Deputies which is belleved to bave checked The new plan of government proposed for Samoa by the Joint Commission provides be a subject of any of the treaty powers, It is reported that President Kruger has sgroed to grant concessions which are ace soptabile to Great Britain, The Duke of ( renounced thelr ¢ moaught and his son have ic ri the Duke of Albany. the the Baze-Cobu succession in | The treaty « § and Pelew Islands in Madrid, A deputation fr which Caroline, Ladroue Germuny was signed 3 ¥ . lpr nt Eastern Telegray waited on Cabinet Minis. urged an instead of the proposed Pasifie siternalive pian culrie, ALL QUIET IN SAMOA, testoring Order fn Island. means of jocreased oil tax will be abe s Chambers wishes (0 resign to the United States, reir § ¢ g 5 {ener uf the commissioners Liss ged for damages 10 pr few months, any act ers agreed at the ype While $ifY rent o Biss net ow 5 powered 10 t Leg “ hie me, the commission ip the ¢ that the and ik recomend each pay the ut s ubiects *08g SE bards bad been suffered, is rea § understood Ex tn wi mission that the hres powers Boome of the rebels, inmation providisg for a provisional sed to give up thelr Mutnala discinime any responsibility TWO KILLED IN PITTSBURG. With Fatal Effect, Pittsburg, Po., (Speciai.)—As the result of ine of ihe Mone Both ears were heavily Motorman Griffith stopped his car near current was shut off, iand, with bis car, foliowed shortly after cheek the speed, 13-YEAR-OLD MURDERER, ———— Shooting His Father, Athens, Ala, (Special )~ A 13year-oid boy named Toomae, living on a farm several miles in the interior, stabied and kilied bis vider sister, who bad quarreled with im for Bot helping to support the family. The boy then turned on his aged mother, who had come to her daughter's assistanes, and slashed Lier #0 terribly she died in a short time, A few months ago the boy and his father were out hunting, when the father wus shot in the back and killed, The boy was sus pected of killing his father, but no con. clusive evidence could be secured, Young Thomas fled, and so lar has eluded capture. SENT POISON IN CAKE, English Murderess Sentenced to Death for Killing Insane Sister, London, (By Cable, Jo< Al the Hertford Ase sizes Mary Aon Ansell was lound gulity of murdering her sister, an Inmate of an asylum for the insane, by sending ber polson cake by post, She was sentenced to death, The covdemned woman bad previously insured ber sister's ile, giving a false dee seripiion, Automobiles Shai Out st Var Harbor, Bar Harbor, Me, (Bpecial,)~The munich pal authorities of this place passed reguls. ‘tions virtually prohibiting the use of auto. mobiles in the city, The resolution bas eres ated a stir among somes of the eitipens, SPANISILAMERICAN ISLANDS, THE EAGLE SCREA) of the Natal in Several Cities. Observance s on soi QUIET IN WASHINGTON. MeKisiey Hemained in Philadeiphin- Beil in Independence Hall Rings 123 Times, 8B Mtroke for Exch Yesr of the Country's Age Exercises Held hy Many Societies President and Mrs. nt Home Nolsy 3, D, C., (Special. )~Presidest Linley celebrated tue Fourth of # in the private apartments as And takiog The ) his office until Jate then did not remain La® newspis He found ; meditate th rest. BUInY vals Cigars RuQ v o papers, £14 Bell in the Tower Birikes 123 Times Features of the Exercises. The he O80 bis city in years : by the « discharge of fireworks, jon of fire. 5 EOC. the cele. As usual, the mecca for the tion, and ibuses, decorated with ug savored in AL Park was ortion of the city’s § iaybreak « ti 3 tis voRr LANY Years, Ory Wave 3 extensive than From nearly every home sud Chests streol was red, white sed bige, The celebration Monday mid { Od hx for each year of of Ole i mass of day Jormally began in the 4 oo 0h ans on $2 nll ut ole $00 lependen Hail strock 123 ¥ sider at night, inwer « tithes, Ohi ns life, in Ohes Thousands persons front of the historie buliding, the bell were accompanied | the rrowd and the firlag © firecrackers, of of The Day in Boston, : Mass, ~The Fourth of celebrated ch a8 usual wih band concerts, games a fire. al ¥ gs on PORVCT July wus parade, worse, The city’s formal exercises were held at Tremort Temple at 10 o'clock A. MM. Ex. Mayor Nathan Matthews, Jr. delivered the annual Fourth of July oration, taking for his sulject “Expagsion.” Mayor Josiah Qulney presided, Ex-Mayor Matthews spoke upon to be adopted in the far Fast, The reunion of the Clap-ns-Gae', which was held at South Boston, stirected large pumbers, The morsing was taken up with sports, and the afternoon was given to ad- dresses by George Feed Williams, of Boston; Senator Wililam Mason, of Iliigois, and others, Sneotal Bpecls ald the poiley PIKE'S PEAK ALL AGLOW, Foufth of Jaly Illumination st 14.14% Feet Above the Sea Summit Pike's Peak, Col., {Bpecial. ~The people of Denver, Colorado Springe, Crip. | ple Creek, Viestor and Pueblo united ina grand Fourth of Jaly illamination on the | summit of the peak, 14,347 fest above the sem level. As the eloek struck midaight in the towns of the Pike's Peak region, usher ing In the fourth of July, L700 pounds of red, white and blue powder were set on fire on the peak. The flames shot upward han dreds of feet, making the bald crest of the famous Red Mountain resemble an active volcano, For an hour previous to the illomination a vicieat snowstorm raged, fully two inches of snow covering the grousd., A strang wind then swept the storm clouds away and far out on the plaivs to the port biased the lights of Colorado's capital, Denver, To the east glowed the lights of Colorads Springs, Manitou and Colorado City, while Pueblos lights twiniied in the south, At Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs, Col, (Special )