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iVl jjpcdon llnicw. R, O. Dana ,Publibcr. Terms $1.50 per year in Advance. No wonder Prince Nicholas excej as a sprinter. He had a coach along. Efforts are being made to sell VH government for $30,000 the farm of acies near Hodgenville, Ky., on whut Abraham Lincoln was born. The church and the bicycle continv* to get closer together. No modern church establishment that is at all fai remo\ed is complete now without a wheelery. Thousands of cattle south of the Mexican border line are still on then way to the United States markets. The prospective duty on imported cat tle is largely responsible for this con dition of affairs. Mexican cattle own ers have felt it was now or never Observations to determine the dura tion of sunshine in Europe showed thai Spam has most sunshine and Scotland the least. So much for solar light. What of moral sunshine? How bright Is Scotland how Spain lies in tha shadow' Pure and beautiful is the soul-light that shines through thosj Scotch mists! The importance which often attaches to a single word h-as been emphasize} in a curious way in New Jersey. Thg legislature, at its last session, too'} favorable action on a proposed amend ment to the constitution prohibiting all kinds of gambling. In some waj the word "prohibited" was altered tl "prowded" in the amendment as actei on, and the error is so serious that th legislature has been called together il special session to rectify it. The United States government at tempted to make a temporary arrange ment with Great Britain that joirt measures be taken for the better pro tection of the seal herds against in discriminate slaughter, but the attemtt was unsuccessful, partly perhaps be cause the British commission whic1! investigated the subject last year dots not believe the extinction of the herc'i to be so imminent as the America I commission thinks it to be. Both gov ernments have reappointed the com missioners who investigated the sut ject last year to make another investi gation this season, and the Unitei States has assigned three revenue cut ters to patrol duty to prevent depre dations on the herds. Under the ex isting agreement the way will be open to new arrangements next year. Statistics prepared by the New Yor'l state excise commissioner show a considerable reduction in the numbet of saloons in the state as the result o! the operations of the Raines law. That law has now been in operation about thirteen months, and in that time th" number of saloons has been decreased by 7,437. When the law went into force on April 30, 1896, there were 33,- 437 licenses in force in the state. On November 1, 1896, there were 26,593 li aises in force, and it is expected that there will be issued about 26,000 li censes during the present year. Tha total receipts under the law from May 1 to October 31, 1896, were $11,038,322, and after deducting rebates and ex penses of collection the recepitn amounted to $10,556,192. Under thu old law the net revenue for twelve months to all towns and cities in the state was $2,919,593. H. A. Huston, state chemist of In diana, in a report says: The estimated sales of commercial fertilizers in In diana during 1896 amounted to 42,00Q tons. This is an apparent decrease oi 3,000 tons from the estimated sales in 1895. The decrease is, I believe, only apparent, for it now seems probable that the estimate for 1895 was too high, owing to a considerable number of tags being carried over which were really used in 1896, although they ap pear in the 1895 sales. It is probable that an estimate of 42,000 tons in 1895 and 45,000 tons in 1896 would more nearly express the real facts. In the 42,000 tons for which tags were issued were 10,700 tons of bone and non-acidulated packing house products 21,800 tons of "com plete" fertilizer, that is, acidu lated goods containing phosphoric acid nitrogen and potash 3,300 tons of am moniated phosphates, 1,700 tons of acid phosphate and potash, and 4,400 tons of plain acid phosphate. Of the hone and non-acidulated packing house products 400 tons had received an ad dition of potash. Comparing the sales ir. each group with the sales of the previous year, we find that there has been an increase of 1,500 tons in sales of "complete" fertilizer, an increase of 1,000 tons in the sales of plain acid phospnate, a decrease of 500 tons in the fcales of ammoniated phospate, a de crease of 1,100 tons of acid phosphate and potash, and a decrease of 4,300 tons in the sales of bone and acidulated packing house products. The Providence Journal says: Tha fiction that most Bostonians are de scendants of the men and women wha "came over in the Mayflower" has not yet been exploded, as recent comment* indicate. As a matter of fact, the old Boston families were not of the May flower party. Most of them came fror.1 Suffolk with Winthrop, and settled, first at Salem, then at Boston, eight and ten years after the Plymouth col ony had been founded. Yet the May flower legend is still vigorous, liU some other legends that pass as hi tory. "t &.vt:wiJJ.fe ground belowT Kwereo-v out. All of those wT rv PITH OF THE NEWS EVEKTb OF THE PAST WEEK IS A C0XDEXSED FORE General Resnme of the Most Im portant News of the Week, From All Parts of the Globe, Boiled Down and Arranges In Con venient Form for Rapid Perusal Dy Dnsy People. Washington Talk. The senate has confirmed W. W. Montague as postmaster at San Fran cisco and Philip Gallagher as commis sioner for the district of Alaska. Col. Clement D. Hebb, retired, of the United States marine corps, is dead at Washington, after a short illness ot pneumonia. He was in his sixty-ninth year and leaves a widow ami two chil dren. The president has signed the act amending the act providing for the en trj of lauds in Greer county, Okla., so as to extend until Jan. 1 next, the time allowed settlers to perfect their en tries. Personal Mention. Sir Julian Pauncefote has sailed for England. John Sutliffe, one of the wealthiest men in Meridan. Conn., is dead, aged Do He was born in Walcctt, Conn. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Chronicle. London, says the Francois Edouard Joachim Coppee, the French poet, is dying. Isaac V. W Dut-her, Jr., southwest ern aaent of the Home, Watertown & Ogdensburg and Ontario Despatch lines, died of pneumonia after an 111- ss ot ten days. Brig. (Jen. Anson Mills, formerly colonel of the Third cavalry, and now stationed at El Paso, Tex., has been rethed on his own application under the forty-year service clause. Dr. Angell, the newly appointed minister to Turkey, has notified the state department that he will sail from New York on July 17 for his post, stopping at London en route to conter A\ ith Mr. Terrell, the retiring minis ter. John I. Blair, New Jersey's greatest and most generous millionaire, is dying Rev. Martin Hardin of Harrodsburg, K\., son-in-law of ex-Vice President Stevenson of Bloomington. 111., has ae ctpted a call to the pulpit of Green Hill Presbyterian church, Girard avenue, Philadelphia, Pa., and will assume the pas toiate Oct. 1. Casualties. Mark Teppin's residence and barn at Escanaba, Mich., were damaged to the extent of #4,000 by fire. Mrs. Henry Scot tof Chicago and Mrs. Maria Hay, formerly of Chicago were killed a runaway at Dubuque, la. Albert and Louis Siekmiller. Charles Faile and George Steinholder were run oAer and killed by the Erie Fast Express near Mansfield, Ohio. David Lingren and C. Silene, two young men. were drowned while bath in gin the Big Sioux, north of Akron, Iowa. The latter was a student at the Fimersity of South Dakota. Nathan D. Crane, an old-time miner, was killed in the Way-to-Weath mine, neat Idaho Springs. Col., by a cavc-in. He was seventy ears old and a broth er-in-law of the late Jerome B. Chaffee. He leaves a wife in Adrian Mich., and a son in Kalamazoo. Harry McGee, aged 24, of Chicago, who for some time past has been filling an engagement at the lagoon at Cincin nati, diving from a 60-foot tower into the lake, was killed last night while attempting to leap. His body struck the water flat and his neck was broken. Philip Orth. residing near Rome swamp five miles west of Rome, N. Y., his wife and his sister, Libbie, were drowned in the Erie canal today. The three were riding in a carriage, which with its occupants, in some unexplained way, got into the water. A decayed sidewalk collapsed in Chicago, carrying with it 100 persons, most of whom were children. They were precipitated tena feett to the and into foo of stag nant water under the sidewalk. A wild scramble for safety followed, during which quite a number were seriously injured. Fire gutted the seven-story manu facturing building at Laight and Green which street New. York., which drove over 3'H.) people whoe weren employed, er gotte out. Th principal tenants of the buildirg were U. F. Dietz, lamp manufaturer, and B. Dreyfus & Co. wholesale liquor dealers The total loss probubly will amount to about $2..100 Four persons were slight ly injured. Criminal. One highwayman held up a Louis ville & Nashville train near Nashville and got $4,000. The Bridgeport (Cal.) Chronicle re ports the suicide of three Piutes recent ly. The deed was accomplished by eat ing wild parsnips. Malone I. Wilson shot and danger ously wounded Maggie Hines, a do mestic at Waltham, Mass. Wilson then killed himself. E. J. Ratcliffe, the actor arrested at Chicago on a tele&ram from New York, charged with wife beating, will be taken to New York. The woman is said to be in a critical condition. C. M. Fagen-Bush, who has been ar- ted suicide there by severing an artery in his arm with a razor, at his lodgings. Kenyon was a resident of Albany, N. Y.. where a sister of his resides. T. Jleber Wanamaker, a member of the New York Cotton exchange, shot and Instantly killad ex-Liquor Consta ble Charles C. Jones, at Bamberg, S. C. The trouble which led to the killing grew out of the sensational Copes Murphy murder case at Orangeburg, two years ago. Foreign Notes. During a volunteer parade at pool the crowd, wr rested in New York on a charge of forg ery, is alh-ged to be the principal mem ber of a gang of swindlers whose op orations in Denver, it is estimated, net- not cut just right, "and "because Mrs ted $o0,J00. Foutz did not wear a handkerchief A. B. Kenyon, who recently arrived around her neck while cooking and had in New Orleans from Mexico, commit- lace curtains at her windows and a j^M^MMWlk hic numberedLiver- 100, 000, overcame the handful of police who were keeping order. The mounted po* lice then charged and injured many, two, it is feared, fatally. Later details of the murder of the French Catholic priest, Father Hazel, at Loli, in Kuangsi, show that the crime was committed by a marauding band, and that no anti-Christian senti ment animated the criminals Paris and Marseilles are now connect ed by telegraph lines placed entirely under ground. They are placed in iron pipes and buried four feet beneath the surface, with manholes 3,000 feet apart. It cost $7,000,000 to bury the wires. There is now in process of building for the British navy 89 vessels for the French, S3 for the Russian, 39 for the German. 19 and for Italy 13. Peace seems to be making rathe rmore prog ress as a sentiment than as a hard fact Bavaria's representative at Queen Victoria's celebration will be Prince Ru prccht, eldest son and heir of Arch duchess Maria Theresa of Modena Este, who, according to the Legitimist Kalendar, should by rights, be in Vic toria's place- The Berlin Gazette publishes the ap pointment of Rear Admiral Tirpitz as the substitute for Prince Hobenlohe, the chancellor, so far as naval matters are concerned. This announcement seems to imply that he will be invested with full powers. An extraordinarily severe sentence was imposed recently on a lawyer con victed of forgery, conspiracy and per jury at Liverpool, by Justice Wills. The man, who is thirty-six years of age, was sentenced to penal servitude for life. His frauds were particularly heartless ones on poor people. Editor Otto of the Artist, a weekly paper published at Dusseldorf, has been convicted flibelling Lona Barrison, of the notorious Barrison sisters. The pa per spoke of her as an indecent person. Otto was fined 500 marks and was or dered publicly to retract. The editor is regarded as a martyr. O nleaving the court house he was presented by friends with a large wrreath Gencral. The Pickwick hotel is burned at New Orleans. Western Reserve college of Cteve land has made President McKinley an LL. D. The Masons of Detroit formally dedi cated their new temple with impres sive cereix.onies. The president has nominated Wil fred W. Montague to be postmaster at San Francisco. A treaty for the provisional union of the live Central has be-jnrepublicsyofGuatemalaAmerica signed The directors of the Steel Barge com pany of West Superior have author ized Capt. MeDougall to procure esti mates of cost for a second stationary dry dock. The Georgia State Papulist conven tion met at Atlanta with about 200 delegates. A platform was adopted denouncing fusion and reaffirming Populist principles. The San Francisco & North Pacific railway has established a hatching for trout in Gibson canyon, near TJkiah. These hatcheries have a capacity for several million eggs. An international chess congress for women players has begun in Masonic hall of the Hotel Cecil, London. Some twenty ladies, representing nine differ ent countries, are playing. The Tennessee Central railroad wTas sold to the highest bidder by Master Dunbar. Col. Jere Baxter bought the proi erty for himself and associa*es(St. Louis and Chicago parties) for $Ti5,- 000. The bis South works of the Lacka wanna Iron and Coal company ot Scranton, Pa., has been forced to close down and about 2,500 are aut of employment because of a dispute over a reduction in wages. About fifty cadets at the United Stales Military academy have been ap pointed for the next class year, among them being Philip H. Sheridan, son of the late Gen. Phil Sheridan, who is ap pointed a cadet at large. The Rio Giande Western railway has purchased the Utah Central rail way. The price is near $325,000. The Utah Central is a narrow-gauge road running from Salt Lake to Park City, the famo as silver camp. The Free Methodists have begun a camp meeting that is to last until af ter the Fourth of July. They have a large tent capable of holding 500 peo ple, and they will have many able preachers from all parts of the state. The statement that Bishop Fitzger ald will be removed from Little Rock, Ark., to New Orleans on account of the death of Archbishop Janssens is denied by high Catholic authority. Bis-hop Fitzgerald is senior bishop ot the diocese. E C. Burleigh of Augusta, Me., was elected to congress from the Third dis trict to succeed Seth L. Milliken, de ceased. The victory was an easy one over Frederick W. Plaisted, the Dem ocratic candidate. The Populist vote was meager. Another naval relic of the Japan China war in the shape of the ship Pathan has reached Seattle, Wash. She is entitled to the distinction of be ing the only vessel captured by China during the conflict so disastrous to the Flowery Kingdom. In response to a resolution of inquiry in regard to the foreclosure proceed ings against the Union Pacific road the attorney general says he knows of no suit to procure a judicial declara tion of forfeiture of the rights, priv ileges, franchises, etc., of the Pacific Railroad companies based on section 11 of the act of 1878 or otherwise. David Foutz and wife of Saratoga, Wyo., were expelled from the Dunkard church because his coat and rest were framed picture of her brother on the wall. F. B. Maltby, in charge of a govern ment corps of surveyors, has gone ou1 to take a look at the big basin five miles west of Laramie. The basin is pro posed as a site orxa government reser voir, and is probably the greatest natur al basin on the continent, as it is two miles wide and ten miles long, with per ^.(^.OOpjOOO^iJbic feet. of water. END OF THE JUBILEE THE GREATEST PAGEANT OP MOD- ERN TIMES COMPLETED. The Whole Scheme of the Juhllee Has Been a Triumph for the Man agement in Which the Prince of Wales Was an Active FactorThe United States HonoredNaval Re view a Fitting Finale. London, dune 29The Britons' colos sal pageant, one of the greatest the woild has ever seen, has been com pleted without a contretemps to mar its success. It was an anxious week for those in authority, but the whole scheme for the celebration of the jubi lee was largely planned, carefully car ried out and has been a triumph for the management and an object lesson in unity for the hosts of guests. The latter have seen in the gathering rep resentative contingents from all parts of the empire, who gave a meaning and a purpose to the procession, gen erally lacking in similar displays. It is an open secret that the prince of Wales was among the hardest work ers. Not a single step of importance was taken without his approval, and much of the praiseworthy work done is due directley to his initiative. The foreign representatives wTere greatly impresseddby th.e thing wTas of laurel.his way every- carrie out Unqualifie and generous approval of the festivi ties has been bestowed by the press and people of all nations and com munities. The evident disposition of the whole world to share in the jubilee and extend it has caused the liveliest satisfaction and added to the general rejoicing. A pleasant feature of the week was the Americans' complete success. The United States special embassy was easily the most promi nent and the most honoi-ed throughout the celebrations by all. It is almost needless to add that Col. John Hay, the United States ambassador, is equally gratified. Both he and the rest of the regular embassy have done all in their power to insure Mr. Reid's success. The naval review off Splthead was a fitting termination of the week's ceremonial and wras the most magnifi cent display of naval strength ever witnessed. The Naval Review. Ryde, Isle of Wight, June 29.The honorary admiral of the fleet, his royal highness, the prince of Wales, has just concluded on behalf of the sovereign of the realm the review of ships gath ered in her honor. The prince of Wales, accompanied by Admiral H. R. H. the duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Captain H. R. H. the duke of York, the princess of Wales and other roy alties, with their suites, arrived at Portsmouth and immediately proceed ed on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. Then came the Danube with the members of the house of lords, the Campania with the members of the house of commons, and the Fire Queen, the yacht of the commander in-chief at Portsmouth. As the Victoi-ia and Albert was seen approaching, the fleet, led by the Re nown and echoed by the foreign ves sels present, fired a deafening royal sa lute of twenty-one guns. Simultan eously the blue jackets and marines "manned ship," standing on the iron clads in solid lines round their outer edges and filling their tops, while on vessels of the older type the yards were quickly dotted. It was very theatrical and interesting. The Vic toria and Albert, followed by the other yachts, then steamed through the iices. the sailors heartily cheering, the bands playing "God Save the Queen." The Victoria and Albert afterward anchored between the Renown and the foreign, warships. Immediately the steam launches of the foreign com manders left the sides of the big ships and made for the Victoria and Albert, on the quarter deck of which the com manding officers were received by the prince of Wales. This ended the re view-. The royal yachts then returned to Portsmouth. AWFUL MUTILATION. Two Bodies Found in the River at New York Frightfully Hacked Up. New York, June 29.Stab wounds were found between the sixth and seventh and eighth ribs in the region of the heart on the headless, legless trunk of a man found floating in East river. Deputy Coroner O'Hanlon, who performed the autopsy, declared that the man was murdered. The deputy coroner also found a stab wound back of th left collar that extended dowrne into the apebone of the left lung. There wTas no water or serum in the lung. In his opinion the man had been dead about thirty-six hours before the autopsy was performed. On the left forearm he found a bruise and on the inner side of the right forearm there was a contusione showing a heel writh feet natural walls. It will hold ovei' such treaty would be undertaken. OAnnnAnnnm i, .__ thfe shape of- th imprint the hob nails of a heavy boot. In the palm of the right hand was an incised wound caused, Dr. O'Hanlon believed, by the victim seizing hold of weapon with which the crime wrasthe committed. Dr. O'Hanlon, when the autopsy was completed, said he hac' seen many cases of mutilation, but this one was the worst. Just as he had finished the autopsy word came over the telephone to Bellevue hospital that a coroner was needed at the high bridge station. Dr. O'Hanlon went to the telephone and was told of the finding of the body of a second man mutilated in much the same manner and rolled in oilcloth in the woods near 17th street and Undereliffe avenue. Dr. O'Hanlon de scribed the oilcloth in which the float ing body was wrapped and the police sergeant at the other end of the wire declared that the body found in the woods was wrapped in oilcloth of a similar pattern. Japan's Opposition. Washington, Jane 29.The Japanese position on the annexation of Hawaii by the United States has been made known from a very high source. The Japanese base their opposition to an nexation almost entirely upon the ground that it is an interference with the treaty rights of Japan and com plain especially that the treaty was negotiated in the face of the most friendly protestations from Japan and af a time when the Japanese authori ties had been led to believe that ^^^^^^^^^^^^#^5-t# JAPS WERE SCARED. Bold Move in Hawaii Frnstrated by Admiral Beardslee. San Fraiuisco, June 2S.The steam er Gaelic brought the following ad vices from Honolulu, Hawaiian is lands. June 20: Since the Philadelphia has been in port weekly battalion drills have been held. On'the 14th the men from both the Marion and the flagship were landed. While on march to the drill jcro juds an orderly brought an order and the battalion returned on board. This action was taken, it is understood, on account of a rumor to the effect that the Nanaiwai would land a force of men to take charge of the Hawaiian cu?toms Louse. The Japaiese failed to act, and it is be lie fed that Adniral Beardslee's prompt action called the captain to change his mind. The English-speak ing people here believe that there was good foundation for the rumor in spite of the denial made at the Japanese le gation. "There are all ki ids of rumors float ing around," said Counsellor Akiyama. "One ridiculous one was that the Japanese steamers were to land and take charge of the custom house. An other is to the effect that the Nanai wai is to leave on Wednesday next. That rumor, as also the other, is with out any foundation whatever. About two months hence another man-of-war would be here and the Nanaiwai is not -ikely to leave before then." Japanese Minister Shimama denies a story to the effect that Japan has withdrawn has request from the Ha waiian government for an explanation of the reasons for ejecting the Japan ese immigrants. FIGHTING IN CRETE. Mussulmans and InsiirRents Engage in a Combat. Canae, Crete, June 28.An armed force of 1 200 Mussulmans made a sortie from Canae, crossed the mili tary cordon and surprised the insur gents at Kanllkastolli, three hours' distant. A desperate combat ensued, in which thirteen Mussulmans were k'lled and twelve wounded. The Chris tian inhabitants of the district are pre paring to make reprisals by land and sea. Later advicer show that many Christions were killed as well as many Turks in engagements that preceded the principal fighting. The whole dis trict is greatly excited. The trouble arose from the encroachments of Mus sulman refugees, who attempted to pasture their cattle within the limits of the neutial zone. IRISHMEN MAKE THREATS. Hay Call Upon the Arms of Country men in America. Dublin, June 28. A meeting con vened to bring further pressure to bear upon the British government to grant amnesty to the Irish political prison ers now in Maryborough jail, was held in Phoenix Park. Considerable sur prise wras expressed that jubilee week had passed without the release had been expected. WT A Female Forsrer. Lansing, Mich., June 28.Gertrude Allen, who figured conspicuously here a few years ago in a sensational for gery case, was arrested here on a fugitive warrant as the result of an indictment at Denver, Colo., for forg ing election returnseaofficiating the nicipal election wr Aprils 4 which, illia Field Parnellite member for the St. Patrick division of Dublin, in the course of a fiery speech said: "It is useless to look further to the English govern ment. We will call upon the voices, and perhaps the arms of our country men in America." i mu- hil a one of the judges. She declares her inno cence, gave bail to appear when wanted and telegraphed the authori ties that she would return at her own expense. She holds the position of ordinance clerk in the city clerk's office in Denver, and is at her home in Mich igan on leave of absence until Sept. 1. Theosophists Will Patch Up. Chicago, June 28.Mrs. Annie Be sant was cheered when she expressed hope of a reunion with the faction of Theosophists in the country led by William O. Judge in her address at the annual convention of the American section of the society held at the rooms of the Chicago branches in the Athen aeum building. An additional inter est was imparted to the occasion by the presence of the Countess Wacht meister and Miss Wilson, lights of the society. Twenty-three of the thirty five branches of the American section were represented a.id there was much satisfaction expressed over the flour ishing condition reported. Two Ripples Subside. Washington, June 28.The president has received a message from Gov. Bloxham of Florida stating that the sheriff of Key West wires that contem plated troubie did not materialize and that everything there is quiet and or derly.The disturbance at the scene of the payment of the Cherokee freed men (negroes) at Fort Gibson, Ind. T.. is believed to be at an end. Secretary Bliss received the following telegram from Indian Inspector McLaughlin: "Agent Wisdom disbursed $23,600 of the Cherokee Freedmen fund to-day. All excitement has subsided and the freedmen are behaving orderly." Tennessee Wheat. Knoxville, Tenn.. June 28. The most remarkable wheat crop ever known is now being harvested throughout East Tennessee. The sea son has been a perfect 'one, and the farmers have planted an unusually large crop. The output will be enormous. Already the sale of new wheat has begun, and 6,000 bushels of the first and earliest crop were de livered here to-day at 90c. This is not the prtee to be paid for all wheat, as the opening quotations are 68@70c. Shipments to the East will begin im mediately. The price paid last year at the opening was 60@65c. Pacer Breaks His Neck. Napoleon, Ohio, June 28.Johnnie, the world's famous and only lone ija-'er, broke his neck. He was turned ocse to graze, and while running caught In a wire fence and was thrown on his head, breaking his neck. He was valued at $15,000, and was owned by W. H. Barnes of Sioux City, Iowa. Mrs. Ollphant Dead. London, June 28. Mrs. Margaret Oliphant, the author, died of cancer. flbe was seventy years of age. Fk5 fl 1 T^ A TERRIBLE WRECK A TRAIN GOES THR0iTuK Kansas City, June 2! St. Louis express on the Wabash railway plunged through a trestle at Missouri City, Mo., carrying down the entire train with the exception of the rear car, a Pullman. The number of dead is estimated at from nine to twenty-five. The train? was composed of a mail, baggage and express car, smoker, chair, sleeper and two coaches for Excelsior Springs. It made the run without incident until the bridge about two miles this side of Missouri City was reached. There is a wooden trestle on a curve which was built several years ago to avoid usipg a tunnel that'was formerly used. As the train struck the trestle it swerved, owing to undermining caused by the volume of water under it. The engine passed over, but the bridge went down after it and the tender broke loose from the engine and fell on its side. The mail car went down into the water, the express car fol low ed, each falling on its side the chair car tipped down into the chasm and as the lear end raised up the front end of the sleeper went up and it stood on end, the lower end grinding and crushing the mail and baggage cars beneath it. The front end of the sleeper was out over the chasm, but it was held in place by the coupling of the two Excelsior Springs cars behind it. One of the most important things, and one which secured the safety of the remaining passengers on the train was the flagging of a freight train which followed the passenger train about ten minutes. The freight train was flagged by passengers 300 feet from the wreck. The accident happened during one of the heaviest rainstorms ever seen in. that country. It was accompanied by a tremendous roll of thunder and the most vivid lightning. The elements and the horrible nature of the accident combined to make it one of the most terxifying sights imaginable. Before any one could realize what had hap pened the cries of the injured filled the air. Shrieks and shouts for help came from all sides. Some one shouted the wreck was on fire and another shout ed that another train was following tlosely. One of the young men in the rear coach sprang off and ran back down the track, and with an umbrella flagged the train that was close in the rear and the crew of that train hurried down to render all aid possible. The work of rescuing the passengers who were injured began with promptness, but was accomplished with the great est difficulty. Not a trainman was to be found. The crew were all in the wreck, and only the conductor of the Pullman and his porter were there to help the passengers. They took charge promptly and rendered valuable as sistance. The occupants of the smoker who were in the rear end managed to* scramble out of the car and escaped, although it is pretty certain a number were unable to get out. The worst damage was done in the chair car. Conductor Copeland had just entered the front door of that coach when it went dow-i. The prnch of the sleeper behind and under it sent the occu pants of the car in a pile down at the front. Chairs went tumbling down along with the people and beneath the mass Copeland met his death. A heavy chair struck him and crushed his head out of all semblance of hu manity, while a score of other people were piled over him. The brakematt and news agent were in the smoker and went down with it. FIRE ON BOARD SHIP. Thrilling Experience on Board the Steamer City of Rome. New York, June 29. The Anchor line steamer City of Rome arrived from Glasgow and Moville after a thrilling experience with fire on board. Capt. Hugh Young reports that the steamer sailed on June 19 with 56 sa l-ou, 90 second cabin and 150 steerage passengers and a cargo of general merchandise. On Saturday at 2:30 p. n-., in latitude 41.28. longitude 63.29, the bridge officer detected smoke is suing from No. 4 hold, immediately forward of the tiidge. Tence volumes of smoke soon began to ascend. The fire alarm was quickly sounded and the crew beat to quarters. Steam and water were turned into the burning compartment and by 5 p. m. the *ire was under control. Further precau tions were then taken to prevent a possible outbreak and spread of the fire to the adjoining compartments. The cargo of the burning hold consist ed chiefly of jute goods and will prob ably be a total loss. The cause of the fire is supposed to have been spon taneous combustion. Alliance Denied. zl A TRESTLE- IN MISSOURI. The Number of the Dead Is Estim a ted at Abont Twenty-FiveOne of the Heaviest Rain Storms in the History ot the Country Was in Progress at the Time of the Accident. Madrid, Junje 29. A report which has been circulated here that an al liance has been formed between the governments of Spain and Japan for the purpose of resisting interference by the United States in Cuba and the annexation by that of the Hawaiian, islands is denied in official circles. The Madrid press generally publish, articles expressing severe censure of the United States authorities in ac quitting the persons charged with be ing connected with the alleged filibus tering expeditions of the steamers Dauntless and Laurada. Died From a Kick. Rapid City, S. D., June 29.Phy- sicians held a post mortem examina tion over the body of the Jurich boy who died at Lead Wednesday. An abcess was found on the left thigh which caused blood poisoning, from which the boy died. The deceased was in a fight four weeks ago with two other boys in which he was severely kicked, is the opinion of the ex amining physicians that the abcess was caused by the kick. The parents of the boy will bring action against ihe other two boys. $ A