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,
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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 )<The
remarkable Fourth of Joly eslebrations in
which Cripple Creek and ita rival eity, Vie
tor, were competing for the most extraves
gant features and the Ligeest crowd, culmis
nated in the explosion of 1,706 pounds of
red and blue fre on the summit of Pike's
Peak, at 14,147 foot altitude, LL oo
Denver, Colorado Springs, Manitou snd
other cities Joined In the amination
made it & State affair. Excursion |