¥ / L — Wa Henry Labouchere, editor of London Truth, declares that there are over a million girls in England unable to secure husbands. — The year 1888 was a critical peried in railway history, not only as affecting the United States, but as regards the rest of the world. : The Cincinnati Enquirer facetiously predicts that if Utah comes into the United States she will probably be called the Matrimonial Sta . ———— «. Northern Maine, which is perhaps the oldest lumbering district in the country, still contains a supply of timber that is said to be practically inexhaustible. The Garfield Moxument at Cleveland, Ohio, will not be dedicated before Decoration Day. It is said that an ad- mission fee wil! be charged, permanently, to all visitors, It is thought by experts that the next census, to be taken June 1st, 1596, will show a population in the United 8 of 64,000,000—an increase of 14,000,00 over that of 1880. The Cape Argus Weelly says that big | game ig getting scarce in the accessible parts of Africa. Trader hunters say that although occasionally they meet a | lion, it is very rarely that an elephant or girafle is seen. During the French Republican celebra- | tion in Paris this year an international labor congress is to be held. A number of American organizations, including the Central Labor Union of New York city, will send delegates, The Pittsburg widow who is suing one Frank E. Buffom for $25,000 for the loss of her husband through a practical joke, deserves, asserts the New York Telegram, both sympathy and encouragement. Buffom exploded a'big fire cracker near his victim last July, causing fatal in- | juries, The assets of the Panama Canal Com- | pany at this time, as scheduled by the Philadelphia Press, consist of $100,500,- 000 worth of machinery, $150,000,000 of unollectable claims, $50,000,000 worth of ditch, a fractured credit and a large stock of gloomy prospects. Any of the above items will be sold cheap for cash, ™ The cultivation of the grape has been greatly developed of recent years in Algeria; so much so that it seems possi ble that France may recover through her colony the profits of the industry | which insects and decay were consum- ing in the home vineyards, Three depart. ments of Algiers together produced about 50,000,000 gallons of wine last year. A Pennsylvania Member of Congress is looking up the question of parcels-post, with the view of introducing a bill to compel the adoption of the system in this country. The opposition of express com- pasies is said to have something ‘to do with the neglect of the American au. thorities to introduce a system that has been fond of great benefit 1n all Euro- | pean countries, ,A summing up of the iron and steel trade of the United Bptes during 1888, as made by the fin, of Philadelphia, of the American Iron and Steel Associa- tion, shows that this was not a particular. Jy prosperous year for the iron trade,and in many respects fell below 1887 and 1886. The total production of pig iron during the year is estimated at 6,000,000 tons, and of Bessemer steel rails at %,- | i $50,000 tons, The people cf Dakota are looking for a new name by which to call one-half of | that Territory. The present name will fit one of the new States which are to ‘be catved out of it, but the other is still to be christened. Among the names suggested are Winona, Sanona and Pembina, but none of these is wholly satisfactory. The people say they want & name which shall remove the idea of blizzards from the minds of strangers. The study of fires in large cities shows that a considerable percentage is due to incendiarism, and the insurance ¢ panies, suggests the San Francisco Chronicle, should devise some method of swift aod thorough investigation in order that incendisrism may be made too dangerous for criminals to take a band in. It is probable also that in TF? TROUBLE IN SAMOA Torn Down and Burned. A Number of Americans Stabbed by German Sailors, The trouble in Samoa between the forces of Matanfa and Tamasese, rival aspirants for power, the latter being indorsed by the Germans, has resulted in a serious affray, A passenger who has just arrived at Ban Francisco from Apia, Samoa, on the steamer Alameda, furnishes particulars of the row. re, United States Con- German Consul, as he Germans had been me night the Germans Matafogatele and quite ed and wounded on both | Adler bombapded Ladly, which had been | evacuated the night before, Thirty-four | shells were fived by the Adler and then four boat-loads of sailors landed and burned the village, “The Olga went to Matofogatele December { 21 and began firing shells on shore and de | stroyed'the village by fire. The three houses of E l. amilton, an Ameri can citizen, were burned. A | American flag, formerly used consular purposes, which had been placed on | on one of the houses, had been burned by the {| German men-of-war and then torn down Fragments of the flag were then taken to Apia and delivered to Consul Blac klock, who hax forwarded it to Secretary Bayard, “The German Consul afterward wrote to Consul Blacklock that he had been informed that Americans had led the Mataafa forces on the night of the 1th, and fired the first shot Consul Blacklock replied that he bad investigated the rumor and found it to be untrue.” The Samoan Times, | gives the following | December 18 At two o'clock on the morning of Tuesday | eighty German sailors from the steamer Olga were landed at Mataafa and forty more wore sent in boats along the coast. * At {a German farmer's plantation the shore party were reinforced by all the im- ported laborers thus employed. This | placed King Matasfa ‘with his fores be | tween the 2% men who came down the beach | the previous day and the German sailors and 3k orers. Realizing the danger of interfer jing with the Germans, Mataals retired inisnd a few hundred yards | Germans followed him and fired into his men, Killing a son of the chief. This terribly | excited the chief, but he was prevented by | his own people from returning the firing of the Germans While struggling against this opposition the chief was himself shot and fell dead beside his son Matanfa's men then, by a common impulse and without orders, returned the fire. | heir first volley killed vix Germans and wounded some others. Several of Tamaseso's men then fled, and the laborers from the plantation refused to figh The sailors theren wos beat # hasty retreat to their boats, Mataafn's warriors following them for some distance. Mataafa lost about ten killed and woun led, while the German loss is stated at twenty killed. Among the dead w Lieutenant Seeger, A Washington telegram says: “A copy of the above despatch in regard to the alleged insults to Americans and the American Hag at famoa by German soldiers was | shown to Fecretary Bayard this evening. He said the disturbance referred was undoubtedly tha sare as that briefly de- scribed by Consul Blacklock mm his cable message to the department on the Sth inst The Consul's account, he said, was not nearly $0 sensational as the one just received from | Ban Francisco, but contained later informa- i published at Apia, version of the fight of tion, as it told that the Americans who were | | seized had been released immediately after. | { ward, The Secretary added that the depart. iment 3 [a constant communication with | Bamoa, through its agents, and the latest in. | formation received is that affairs are quiet, | and that no serious trouble bas occurred since | the 5th inst.” The United States steamship Vandalia has sailed from San Francisco for Samoa LYNCHINGS, ! A Number of Desperadoes Executed by Mobs. Henry Thomas, a farmer in the town of | Bo'ar, Mercer County, Mo. , had four dangh- | { ters, Hattie, Margaret, Nancy and Jane, | ages sixteen, eighteen, twenty and twenty-two respectively, Last V odd nies.» | day night Samuel and Charles Has | burn, brothers, procured a ladder and | helped Margaret and Jane out of a second. | story window of their father's house. As they were about to Slope with the girls, the old man appeared on soune, but too late to prevent their escape. He mounted the best horse he bad and with a shotgun started in pursuit. About twelve miles from home be overtook the fleeing pare, He immedi. ately opened fire on them, killing both the boys seriously wounding argaret, After ing nearly home with the girls be was told that other two, Hattie and Nancy, bad alo eloped with Ned” Gleason and Thomas Allison. He at once had with him in cha strung him up toa tree. The old man was strict with girls. He would hardly lot them out of his sight, hence the t. He always bragged that he would not be with lazy son-in-law, At Ti ville, Tonn., a landi on the Minion and The American Flag Fired Upon, r 20 the German man-of-war | large | for | to | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, —————————— 7 wr stern and Middle States. $0of an oleviito) ow Maohine Janson, the other pussigors th farn and ¥ tol were fatally inju in Ca wave A FIGHT between riotous Hungarian and Italian min near Scraaton, Penn, re sulted in deaths, LigvTeNant Cranes RICHARDS MILes, United States Navy, the Foun naval officer who has been very ill with yellow fever on board Yantie in New York Harbor, since the v return from Hayti, is dead. Tur blican caucus of Massachusetts ft DY: gg Wg RA succeed himself as Unite tates Senstor., The Dem caucus nominated General P, A. Collins, / Miss Apa WALKER, « teacher in a Spring- , (VL) publie school, committed suicide SY drewiing in the Black River, Bhe wus jue dam Neat of hoi OS Ty olker, & Basin armer on ricultu sub jects, ng SExATOR HOAR has been re-clected by the husetts islature, The vote stood: ob Hie Sonu ate, Doar hivty two, General ns, six; in 171, and Col- line fifty-six. Sy J BExaror Frye, of Mai has bee : : ¥, sine, n re. Turse girls lost their lives at a fire In a Spar box factory in Fifth streot, New York ity. Miss CARRIE PLATT, a wealthy young lady, was killed by the cars at Danbury, Conn. | Josers Moorenovse, sged sixty-eight, { boss dyer at the woolen mill at Webster, Mass. , and his niece, Ella Cooper, of Wood- stock, Conn, while crossing the railroad | track were struck by a train and thrown fifty feet. Their skulls were crushed and { both died in a few minutes. | Mus, Manta Geer, a young farmer's | wife, at Hancock Station, N. Y., killed her child and herself, shooting the child twice, Tur Typothetas Bociety celebrated the 183d arniversary of Bepjamin | wick, New York city. TaEne is a small sruallpox scare at Nantd- | coke, Penn. There have been reported nine cases thus far and one death. South and West, Issiax G, Hanns was nominated by the Democratic legislative caucus at Nashville, Tenn. , to succeed himself as United States Senator. The nomination is equivalent to election, Sexaron MaxoEnrson bas received the unanimous vote of the Republican caucus of Nebraska legislators for United States Sen. ator to succeed himself. The caygus also resolved to submit the prohibition question | to the popular vote, Governor Arvis P. Hovey, of Indiana, 8 boy named end of September, Hecretary Bayard has informed the different Governments of the postponement of the conference. PresinenT CLEVELAND gave bis annual reception at the White Houss to the Diplo- matic Corps. A vine marble statue of Benjamin Frank. lin, of herole size, which has lately been h Wash prin in the Brats formed by the intersection of Pennsylvania avenue and D stot, was unveiled on Franklin's 183d birth- day by Mra. M. W. Emory, the great-grand daughter of Franklin. Foreign, AN earthquake has almost tofally de- stroyed the town of Guanare, Venezuela, Russia has increased her army by from 80,000 to 100,000 men. ; Tur yield of gold in Queenstown for 1888 was 3.000 ounces, an increase of 20,000 ounces over the yield of 1887, BROWSTORMS are in Eastern Fue rope. Railways in licia and Roumania are blocked by snowdrifts, has been sunk by Tue steamer Phyope a collision with an unk n vessel off Bingn- persons were re, lIadin. Forty-two rowned. A preL was fought in Paris between two journalists, Henri Rochefort and M. Lissa. gary. The weapons wore swords Both combatants were wounded, M. Lisagary's wounds were dangerous, A nouvse at Marseilles, France, inhabited by Italians, collapsed. Beven of the occu- ts wore killed and nine injured. The uilding bad been undermined by floods, Muze, Tuma nr Munska, the famous singer, | recently disd in Munich, Bavaria, in extreme verty. Her daughter, heartbroken at the oss of her mother, committed suicide by taking poison, OWING to the mild woather a large part of | | the west half of the Montreal (Canada) ioe | | palace has | ago was thirty degrees below, | thermometer | above. Franklin's | birthday by a dinner at the Hotel Bruns | The weather was a year Now the | degrood collapsed springlike The temperature marks forty-five Tone Parnell Commission In London has resuthed its investigation, Ware on a shooting excursion at Buckow, the Emperor of Germany, having by acci- dent wounded a citizen of Berlin, who was locking on at the sport, expressed his deep regret for the occurrence and begged the | victim of his misdirected aim to pay hima | visit as | ecvived at Brossels; soon as he recovered from his wounds, A werrer from Henry M. Stanley, the explorer of Africa, dated August 17, has boon it confirmed the news of his sale arrival on the Aruwhiml DAMAGE estimated at £5.000000 was done by an earthquake in Costa Hica, West | Indies Tux French Senate has passed the Bank | ruptey bill, as desired by the Panama Canal was inaugurated at Indianapolis; Joseph W, | F “ifer took the oath as Governor of [linods at Springfield, and DD. RK augurated as Governor of Missouri Uxrrep Braves Sexaron Cuantss F, Maxpensox, of vlected by the Legislature vote of 104 to 20, Tax Michigan Legislature has slocted James McMillan, of Detroit, as United States Benator to succeed T WW, Palmer, E. O. Warcorr bas been elected United Blates Senator from Colorado to succeed Thomas M. Bowen, receiving the solid Ie publican vota C complimentary vote of the Democrats Wesizy Banxerr, the notorious half breed Creek Ind an desperado, who bas been the terror of Indian Territory for years, has been killed. He was the jender of a desperate band of thieves and outlaws in the Creek Nation, Oxg Gia Bonita, 8 cowboy, dressed and painted as an Apache Indian, made a descent upon Mexican herders in the employ of Dov Pedro, of Montana, recently, killing five and wounding one, Two small boys, Bidney Watson and Joseph Harper, playing on the joe in the harbor at Chicago, broke through and were drowned He received a have been closed on account of a diphtheris epidemic, Tux Exchange bank of Dunlap, lowa, has | : Rr a nial 10%n, wl | be bold until June, 1876 failed with 850,000 liabilities Tux Michigan Benate and House, in joint assembly, have formally declared James McMillan elocted United States Senator to sucowed Mr. Palmer, Asnurny Evaxe, a farmer, whose fortun Francis was in | Anthony Nebraska, has been re | | the forty-third ballot, 0. Thomas received the | | Allorney-General of the Company. DELAWARE'S SENATOR. Higgins Elected to the | United States Senate. : The Republican caucus of the Delaware Loghlature nominated Anthony Higgine of Wilmington, to the United States Senate on In the Legislature Mr. Higgins was elected, receiving on joint ballot sixteen voles, to nine for Walcot and five for Hobinson, both Democrats Anthony Higgins is a son of the late An. thoay M. Higgins of Red Lion Hundred, Ho was born in Hed Lion Hundred, New Castle County, Del, October 1, 158, Hs was graduated from Yale College in 15:1, with the degree of A. B.. and was admitted to the bar of New Castle County in May, 194. He at once opened an office In Wilmington, in con junction with the ate Edward J. Brad. ford, afterward United States District Judge and the founder of the Republican party in Delaware, Mr. Higging was one of the orig inal 3% persons in Delaware who voted the tapublican ticket. The same year ho was admitted to the bar bo was appointed Deputy State under Atlor } ney General Jacob Moore, serving two years Tux public schools at Albert Les, Minn, | is estimated at £00,000, hanged himself af | his home near Elkhart, Ind., because of the | | death of his favorite dog. Wenn axp Hannes, two desperados, had | | & duel in the streets of Poteau, Indian Terri | tory. Both men were killed and a bystandes | seriously wounded, Daxizer G. Fowre has been inaugurated | Governor of North Carolina Governor Fremixa, of Florida, has fssoed a proclamation convening the Legislature in special session on February 5, ; fone of passing a bill providing for a State ! of Health, and also for county boards of beaith in all counties where it Necessary, Foun 1HOUSAND coal miners have gone on | strike in the Elkhorn region of West Vir gina James P. Eacre has been inaugurated | Governor of Arkansas, at Little Rock, Tue last annual report of Governor Swine | fort, of Alaska, has been received at the In | | terior Department. It is very voluminous, | and estimates the annual resources at about $9,000,000, — Washington. | entertained by | the Misses Bayard at a Cabinet dinner. to be Commissioner of the District of Colum bia, Thomas C. A Amociate Justice of the Supr( we Court of Utah, and Henry J. Munn to be Collector of Customs for the Pamlico District of North Carolina, Tur Secretary of the Navy has fsmed in structions to Hear Admiral Kimberly, com. the Pacific station, to Secnerany Vivas has 1 to Con. ter conference { 3 for the pur | nay bx | i Tur President and Mra Cleveland were | the Secretary of State and | siculations in Tux President has nominated W. B. Webb | 3.004 in the “lobraska Legislature. He was made Chairman of the Republican State Committee of 1965 and in 1990 was ap intel by President Grant United States Yistriel- Attorney for Delaware, which office He was an unsuo- cessful candidate for Congress in 1854 He took a front rank as a lawyer from the first, Ho has been a leater of that faction of the Repiblicans of Delaware who have been fa- vorable to Blaine . EE — NEWSY GLEANINGS, Ixnta has 14,191 miles of railway. MoxTReaL is building a fine foe palace Tax Nile is lower than ever before re | corded. ; Tuxnm is a boom in silk cuiture in Cali- fornia, FRANCE has become a large buyer of wheat, LAST year pneumonia killed 450 people in Cincinnati Tur Cincinnati police arrested 15,997 per | sons iam TSK | Ruope Ista xp business failures last year numbered 132 Burin tram-cars carry annually nearly 10,000, (xx) passengers i CANADA dairymen are giving increased attention to cheese making. Tux Tripoli,of the Italian navy, is the next Tastost vessal 10 our Vesuvius Tne fishery dispute between France and | Newfoundiand is growing bitter. ! Tux yield of wine for the season of 1588 in | California was 17,000,000 gallons, ! Tue unusual) butter market, A STRINGENT anti-trust bill has been intro. New Onieass is going to have an exhibi- tion building constructed of cotton, AUSTRIA, Germany and Italy are all adopt. Ing the Lee pattern of magazine rifles, Tune are now sixty-four “wet” and poventy four “dry” counties in Georgia, Six Hlinois railroads during 188 failed to earn enough tO pay operating expenses, Tur tobacco crop of the United States averages about 500,000,008 pounds a year, Tue consumption of tea in Great Britain fnerensed over 8,000,000 pounds during 1887, Tue o of apples from American hy for sonson have been 1,000,746 bar. Cricaao Boand or Traps for Jee were $105,7°8, 106 against $75,179,500 in THR receipts of live at New York BY freight Juring 1335. mowed no TIF ob i Ten with Now York bankers at £630 por cent. | Finally i kota {| the Senate bill for the admission | Dakota, by a vote of yeas mild weather has upset all Tt SUMMARY OF CONGRESS, The Senate. Jrocesded to the iY bill,and Mr, Alli- which he Urn DAY, ~The He consideration of the of the 2 ton bounty on sy and that until April, 1900, thers shall wo paid tc the pro- ducer of sugsy from ! umn, or suger cane grown vs ihin the United Btates a bouns ty of one cent 'per pound... Mr. Hour Intros uced a concurrent resolution, which was referred, viding for the counting of the votes for ident and Vice-President iu the Jlouse of yToproumintives, on Ys 25rn Day, ~The Senate discussed for five hours and a half an amendment to the Tariff bill, Whtieh propomd to strike from the free list atter of roses and substitute salt, No action was taken, and the Senate adjourned with the amendment still pending. The id Jrineipal kers were Messrs, Vest, Voor- ch, Hiscock and Plumb, 20m DAY, ~The debate on the Tariff bill was continued... . The correspondence in the Samoan affair and about the seizure of the steamer Haytien Hepublic was laid before the Benate, 2Ttn DAY. ~The Benate considered the Tariff bill, the pending question being on the amendments to the tin plate paragraph, Mr. Allison said that the present duty was about thirty-three per cent, ad valoresy, and that the proposed duty would be about sev. enty per cent, The debate was further con- tinued by Messrs. Platt, Baulsbury, Plumb, Gorman, Aldrich, Mitchell and Call, amendment was adopted —yeas, 25--nays, 15, The amendment proposing a bounty on sugar | | erushed to death, made from beets, sorghum or sugar cane own im the United States was taken up, ut no vote was reached. 251 DAY. ~The Senate resumed considera- | tion of the Tariff bill, the pending question being on the amendment reported from the Finance Commities, allowing a bounty of one cent per pound on sugar produced from beets, sorghum, and sugar cane grown in the United States Mr. Heagan opposed the amendment. Moesers Mitchell, Teller, and Dawes spoke in support of the bounty, the discussion was closed, and the vole taken on the sugar bounty amendment. It was agreed to Ly a vote of 27 to 22, party lines being maintained on it, except in the case of Mr. Payne, who voted with the Re- publicans, and Mr. Quay, who voted with the Democrats against it Sn Day.~The Tariff bill was farther discussed, The Finance Committee's amend. ment reducing the duty on table | other knives valued at not over from 20 cents a dozsn WO 5 oo and 50 pwr cent ad valoram was adopted without debate The annunl re port of Governor Swineford on the opera tions of the Alaska Commercial Company was presented... Mr. Blair introduced a bill for the construction of four semi-submerging torpedo boats, with armored, protected, de floctive decks In accordance with a Sen- ate resciution Necretary Fairchild trans mitted to that body a copy of the manuscript report of frauds in sugar in New York and Philadelphia. nnd 3 a Qosen nis ——————— The House, | mainder of the freight train to | a siding. PASSENGERS ROASTED ALIVE A Green Brakeman's Error Causes ® Fatal Collision. The worst wreck in the history of the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio road occurred at three o'clock in the morning one and & half miles enst of Tallmadge, Ohllo, The east bound fast express, No. », consisting of baggage and express car, smoker, coach and two sleepers, crashed into a west bound extra freight, No, 81, Tigi persons were killed and a dozen injured The long freight train, In ascending heavy grade just east of Tallmadge, broke intwo, The first part was taken to a siding near Tallmadge snd Engineer Wobinson, be- fore starting back for the other part of the train, put out as flagman his fireman, named Brady, an old railroader, fearing to trust to the brakeman, who was a green hand, A flagman had also been sent back as a warn- ing to trains from the east. The engineer then went back and coupled on to the re Pol it nlso to He then gave a signal of four long | whistles and one short whistle to call in the rear flagman, The flagman near Tallmadge | thought he beard four long whistles without | the short one--Lhe signal for both flagren to | return, Putting out his lantern, be started | back, thus leaving no guard toward the west, Just as he got to the freight engine, the | walk taking him about fifteen minutes, the i fast ex # dashed round the sharp curve { into the cut from which the freight was juss | starting and then came the awful cradh. The | Engineer Huntington reversed his engine and ut on the air brakes, and then had no we to jump. He and his fireman wers The baggage car, smoker and ladies’ conch were telescoped, The smok- | ing car and the passenger car next wo it took | ing of wedged-in passengers, followed the slow roast. Most pitiful of all was the fate of a little girl traveling fire, and then | alone, ticketed from the far West to Cherry i Creek, 1 2011 DAY. —~Immediately after the reading | of the journal, Mr. Handall from the Come mittee du Rules reported a resolution rescind. ing the rules requiring a daily adjournment at five o'clock fier debate this was adopted by a vote of 155 10 85 Under the call of States, Mr. Cowles introduced a bill em. | bodying the internal revenue features of the Mile bil 27m Dav. The bill for the admission of South Dakota into the Union was taken up and disc ! gsitil the hour of ad iournment Chairman *pringer opened the delate, and "ma ihe Territoral bill was dis cused by Messrs, Macdonald, Adams, Gros por, Head and Warner. A parlizmentary oe aver this measure consunsd the rest and po ive action was taken of the amendments to the Senate Gay, ido over any bil Srl Day. The consideration of the Ter. ritorial bills was resumed, the pending ques tion being on the MacDonald substitutes for the Npringer Omnibus bill, The substitute was rejoctod—yeas, 117; says 122 Mr, Springer then offered an amendment to the { Omnibus bill, providing for a division of Da- consumed a large | Delmte over this tof the day, The 8 ill was finally adopt inger “Omnibas”™ as a substitute for of South 153, bill admits South Dakota and Montana, ler Day. ~The Fortifications Ap ne tion bill was med In Committee of the Whole... The Ford Investigating Committee reported an Immigration bill, which was placed on the calendar, OFFICERS AGAINST MOB. Fatal Battle Between Citizens and a Sheriff's Posse. Between 10 and 11 o'clock at night Deputy | remove six prisoners from the jail in Grabam, Texas, to the jail at Weatherford The | prisoners were the four Marlow brothers, | aeld for murder, and two men named Hart and Pierce, beld for offences against the Gov. ernment. For several lynching the four brothers have been made. charge Marlow at his brother's house eati The deputy sheriff ordered him to w up his hands, and he replied with a Winchester rifle shooting Wallace, who died in two days Boone Marlow escaped, but his brothers wore arrested nays 120; this | to gain ground slowly. N.Y. Bbe was not injured by the crash, but a seat caught ber fast and held her es in a vice, and then the ames crept up and slowly burned ber to death, Thera were seven Chinamen in the smoker, and three were pinned in the wreck and con- sumed by the fire, which reduced to embers the smoker and the passenger car next to it. The little girl and Chinamen were pinned down by seats, and their shricks rent the alr until the smoke stifled them The pessengers who es. caped, and the farmers, who were quick- ly on the scene, worked heroically, but were beaten back by the Serce beat, All that remained of the six persons in the threes conchoes was a heap of bones and burnt flesh gathered up in a common receptacle, The GeXpress engine was smashed 10 tits, Three freight cars and an oll car took fire and burned up The loss the railroad company is £35,000. A quantity of gold the fo i and silver bricks in the express car were partly fused with the wreckage. A strong guard was put. about them. A lawyer who was going East to try an important case saw his trunk full of valuable papers burn up, and remarked: “There goes #25 » w——— i ——— PROMINENT PEOPLE. Hexny M. Braxirey's real name is John Rowlands, Tre Marquis of Lorne is the latest recruit to the bicyclists Ex-Coxaonussmax C, Mississippi, is dead CoscressMax Lamp, of Nebraska, has softening of the brain Lonp Worserey, Commander in-Chisf of the British army, is seriously ili Mang Twain bast made a funny speech Ror written out a joke for two or thre years, Tar Em almost biscuits L€ () R. Bimxcrerox, of press of Austria is said to live entirely on milk, boiled eggs ani Rurnenronn B. Haves is now said to be one of the moet sssiduous book readers in the country. ; GENERAL SenorizLd has bees re-elected President of the Military Service Institution of Washington Thx young Emperor of China has dislike to missionaries, and will make pleasant for them. Prosipext CLEVELAND does about the details of State dinners them all to his wife Mus, Zenripa WALLACE, the venerable mother of Geners] Lew Wallace, is speaking for woman suffrage in Arkansas Max O'Ruii. suthor of “John Ball and His Idand.” was among those who ost heavily by the Panama Canal fiasco, Carraiy Jaxes Lex the wealthiest steam- boat owner inthe United States died re cently at Memphis, aged eighty- three Tax people of Portugal call their Queen, Maria Pia, “Angel of Pity,” on account of the prominent part she takes in the charitios of her realm. Tux Duke of Portland, Master of Horse for the Queen, is the youngest of English Dukes, being but thirty-two years of age and unmarried, Tur friends of the Prince of Wales are becoming considerably exercised over the condition of his health, He is said to be very irritable. it use not bother but leaves oh ————— Tur use of petroleum as fuel seems It has been | tried in Detroit with « saving of about | 41 per cent. of the cost of coal-burning United States Marshal Johnson started to | | to be defective, however, and so far ne adequate test has been made. s threats of | 1 Lye-State, .... Channsanncm furnaces. Methods for burning it seem THE MARKETS, ad voodoo ghosess BEGSBIEY Pooves, ... cos : Mitch Cows, com. to good. .. Calves. common 10 prime... 3 on - naraded Mixed... Onts=No t White... cee Mixed Westeru....uue Boraw-—Long RY®. +. ss eu cers Jard Clty DUMRID oii iovm Butter = SEBESES seme Dairy fair to good Nat. in. Oreasraey a ER... Rggs—State and Poon... 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