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r " ~ "nm trnmhes's" my UIIJJ 111U11UJLJJUU U Uili Boston Celebrates the Centenary c the Constitution's Launching. MANY THOUSANDS IN LINE JSraTe Old Ship Receives Her Due? Go? ernor Wolcott, Theodore Roosevel and Senator Lodge Pay Tribute to He Glory?Public Schools and Public Ol flees Closed In Observance of the D?j Boston, Mass. (Special).?The annlver ary of the launching of the staunch ol< frigate Constitution in 1797 wa3 celebratec In this oity on Thursday. Pnblio school! and publlo offioes were closed, and the da; was given up to exercises in honor of th brave "Old Ironsides." The chief features of the day's celebra tlon were the literary exerolses La the 01 I 1 libt'Lii " n"? * ' THE CONSTITUTION South Church aud the naval parade. Long before the hour assigned for the exeroises to begin the ohuroh was filled to Its utmost capacity. Among those present were many womei wearing the badge of the Daughters of th< American Revolution. Members of thi State militia, United States Oovernmenl officials and representatives of foreigr countries were seated in the audience Mayors of New England cities, members o Congress, of the Legislature and of th< Governor's Council occupied reservec seats, a? did also the offioers at the Nortl Atlantic Squadron. Governor Wolcott acted as presiding Pruvftr man offered bv ChaDlall Dowse, of the Massachusetts Senate. Gov ernor Woloott then delivered the opening address. He saldi " 'Old Ironsides' won her vlcjory, no' alone because her armament was heaviei than that of any other frigate of her day nor because the lines of her hull and hei sail plan enabled her to outsail the battle ships of the enemy, but she was handlec with consummate seamanship, was fough with an accuracy of gunnery that was un equaled, and was manned from the quar terdeck to the forecastle with a crew In spired with that nerolc determination an< ardor that reck not of death when glory L the prize," 11 Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, followed. He said that th< Constitution marked the beginning of ou: ? * present navy. While he was speaking Majo William H. Garland of Boston, who was i powder boy on board the Constitution, li |ry, & :~, > t?v ^.the constitution in 1812. her famous battle with the Guerriere, wa presented to the audience and Governo wolcott himself led in three cheers for th r. Teterkn. The historic address of the day was de llvered bv Senator Henry Cabot Lodge fHe told oi the victories of the famous ol< ship, of her history down to the presen day, her defeat of the Guerriere, Javn * ' Cyane and Levant, the bombardment o , Tripoli and of the odds against which th old shlpstruggled with success. His clos ing words were: "801 say all honor to the brava old ship Tou may strip her of her sails and rigging cut a Way her masts and take out ner guns trat yon never can tear from her the memo ries whloh she bears. Let her have, then now and always, the love and honor am ?are whloh are hers by right." ; . The naval parade followed the exercise In the churoh. There were marines am sailors from the North Atlantlo squadro: and veterans and survivors of the navy an army in line. When the parade reache the wharf, where the old snip, lay, asalut was given, accompanied by the cheerin from thousands of throats. Governo . . Woloott, with his staff and Invited guests boarded the famous old frigate, where pnblic reception was held. The war ve< gels and ships in the harbor were bedeske with bunting and at night the Massachi setts and New York were Illuminated, The Constitution was of 1576 tons, an oarried forty-four guns. Her first con mander was Captain Isaao Hull. He wt succeeded by Captain Bainbridge. H( last battle was on February 26, 1814, whe she captured the Cyane and Levant. A New SI Greenback. Secretary Gage, Assistant Secretary Yai derlip, and Treasurer Roberts examine recently a sketoh of the proposed ne plate for $1 notes. It is a radical depar ? ure from all previous designs, showing large space of white paper .front and bac An eagle with extended wings hoverli over the flag and the Capitol is .the on illustration on the face, and in the corne is the figure 1 in scroH work. The back very plain, consisting largely of a bord in geometrical lathe designs. The oiBcis vram nleased with the sketch, an although no formal conclusion w reached, it will doubtless be adopted. T1 |1 bill will be a greenback. Labor "World. There's not an idle factory at Elwoo Ind. The United Typhothetae of America, session at Nashville, Tenn., declared favor of arbitration. The Building Trades Council, of Chicag declined to take part in the Memorial Di exercises held by the Anarchists. The wheelbarrow coolies of China ha joined In the general movement for trad unions and have formed a guild of thi own. Horee^hoers' Union No. 7, of Brooklj has entered into an agreement with t employers by which no horses are to 4^pd before 7 a. m. or after G p. m. life; /.?' v Vu .V-T ;S.-i \ CROP-REPORTING REFORM. 1 Secretary "Wilson to try to Improve the System and Consolidate Two Bureaus. :li The Secretary of Agriculture propose! r, IT to consolidate the Weather Bureau with ai the Crop Bureau, and operate them next P' year in conjunction. He also proposes to ?? reorganize the Crop-Reporting Bureau and . to increase it efficiency. He finds that the ^ ,, bureau is encumbered with a list of crop te reporters throughout the country who are almost useless. This has been the opinion of every Secretary of Agriculture, but each 111 has failed in the attempt to improve the ai lt services. Only a very few of the thousands of correspondents receive any pay for their fc r services except a few packages of seeds m r. and copies of the reports of the depart- m ments. Secretary Morton, after three T' years' effort to improve the crop-reporting se system, gave it up with the despairing ti statement that he could only get gardeni seed service for garden-seed pay, and that > aa th<n<va warn than ninnlnc ha did not S66 how he could do, hotter than had been t done. However, Mr. Wilson is convinced !; y that he can succeed, and is to try, and if he " e flnda that he cannot form correct estimates of orops from such data as is Obtainable under the existing system, he will ask t* " Congress for cash and authority to estab- ^ d lish a new one. f M 18 SHE LOOKS TO-DAY. J] 01 f FOUND AN OLD MINE. i 31 It Was Probably Worked by Spaniards m Man? Tear* Ago. m Three prospeotors, Goble, McClelland ? j and Quarles, have Just reaohed Globe, w 3 Arizona, with ore assaying $42 in gold and ? copper from a lost mine In the Pinal Moun1 tains whioh had evidently not been worked si (or many years. Their attention was first b; 3 attracted to the mine by the rained breast- di j works thrown np to protect the miners In j from Apaohe attacks. Almost in the centre w of the fortifications was a ruined shaft. T. , This they dug out, and found a well-de- bi [ fined ledge. 8inking the shaft a little deeper H . they found ore running from fifteen to flf- fli , ty-three per cent, copper, and a good per' centage of gold. Near the old shaft they found a skeleton with a 8panish dagger by its side, and a c r rich piece of quartz. The men believe they cl have a valuable property. The ruins of hi ^ Arastas show that much ore was handled e\ many years ago. bi I t DEVASTATED BY A CYCLONE. U 9C . Several Thousand Natives Perlsb on One of tbe Philippine Islands. n ) r J A dispatch from Leyte, one of the Philip- to pine Islands, says that plaoe has been al- lc y most devastated Dy a oycione, that many 3 persons have been killed, and, that the damJ age done to nroperty Is Incalculable. The sc j oycione destroyed the towns of Taeloban ^ and Hernanl, on the Island of Loyte, as ^ well as several villages. Cl 1 Later advices from Manila add that Carl- ? gara and Burugo, on the eastern coast of 0] Leyte, have been wiped out, ai^d that an ^ immense wave swept inland, engolflng vll- |a lages. Several thousand natives perished ^ at Tagloban. The cyclone also swept the island of Samar. The damage Is estimated at 7,500,000 pesetas. SENORITA CISNEROS. pi Information Received Thnt She Will So- g( Journ In Georgetown. It is stated that Senorita Gisneros, who ?a was recently freed from the Spanish prison 'a in Cuba, will go to Washington and will enterthe Georgetown convent. It Is under- j stood she will retire from publio life, and w it is thought she will remain at the George- &< town convent for a long period, as she ia c? very young and her education has not been tt completed. The sisters of the convent have ir been most wArm in their expressions of s sympathy lor her. c | The Cuban Belief Association asked Consui-Qeneral Lee to spare no expense in , . making her comfortable upon her arrival . r in this country, J * ' ? Strike Caused by a Kiss. j At Newcastle, Penn., 200 men and boys are out on a strike which was caused by a y, kiss. Bichard Kissinger, one of the men - employed in the factory, stole a kiss from a| a girl also employed there, andVas prompt- p 9 ly discharged by the managers. The union g( r to which he was a member claimed that 0 stealing a kiss was not sufficient cause for discharging a workman, and demanded his .. reinstatement. This was refused and a ? li strike was ordered, and there the matter J stands at present. Killed at Football. 0 Benjamin Rich, the nineteen-year- v< - old half-back of the Tyrone football team, li was killed in a game at Bellwood, Penn. w [ Rich was given the ball to run through the '? opposing line, but was tackled and thrown h '? on the dry turf, about a dozen players fall- S " inguponhim. When the teams broke away n l? Rich was found unconscious on the ground, h 1 He was removed from the field, but died shortly afterward. f, 8 5 q Marder In Pennsylvania. 0 ^ Aflhllles Felker, twenty-four years of age ^ and married, shot and killed Cora Gress^ j g aged twenty, at Bouldsborough, Penn. p r The girl frequently had repulsed his ad- ? 5) vances, He asked her to marry him if he y a secured a divorce from his wife. She re- ii j. fused, and he shot her twice while her y d mother was present. She died Instantly. g. i- J 7 Alaska's Gold Belt. c ^ Isaao Dietrich, a mine owner an& expert 3 l3 of San Francisco, reports as the result of a | ?r personal inspection that there is a gold- ( >n bearing region in Alaska 900 miles long by z 200 wide, which can be worked with profit. ? Running era a Matrimonial Platform. t a" Eort Gaines Is an important little town 5 of 2500 inhabitants in the State of Georgia. ? There had not been a wedding in the town > a for seven years, it is said, and Joseph Cul- i i. pepper was the first to break the record. ' The town is hilarious over this wedding, . iy and it has been determined to run Mr. Culpepper on the matrimonial platform as can* ig didate for Mayor at the coming election. 1 er i lis Luetcert Jury Disagree. , The jury in the trial of Adolph L. Luet- 1 tie gert for wife murder in Chicago disagreed j and were discharged by Judge Tuthill. Prominent People. id, Jean Ingelow's personal estate amounteb I to only $30,000 at her death. i in The failure of an Asheville (N. C.) bank in left the widow and children of "Bill" Nyo, 1 the humorist, but $10 a week. i o, The medical department of Queen Vic- I ay toria's household costs $13,000 yearly, and comprises twenty-four persons. . . ve A bullfight was arranged in Madrid,8pain, ,es for the entertainment of King ChulalongBir korn I., of Slam, at*he King's special request. rn, Dispatches from Cairo, Egypt, say the he Khedive is in a precarious financial condibe tion, as the result of a long course of private extravagance. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. "Waslilnirton Item*. Attorney-General McKenna confirmed ie statement as to the recent offer of the Borgunization Committee and Its acceptice by the Government, by which the lyraent of the full amount of the Governent's claim againts the main line of tho nlon Pacific Railroad Is guaranteed. mL- on/I thn mm. 1 111' UrulSOL .!1UUISuiu>JIJ ? jat Annapolis have been ordered to inrcept the Cuban filibuster Sliver Heels. It is thought in Washington that Japan is decided to abandon opposition to the inexation of Hawaii. Secretary of the Treasury Gage's plan ir reform of the currency system wassubitted to President McKlnleyandthe Cablst. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Jo>ph L. Bristow has made his report for ie fiscal year. He gives the data of the apartment for that period, and makes iveral pertinent recommendations. Orders were sent to enlistment officers to op enlisting men for general service in ie Navy except those who are known as >ntinuous service men. A report from Captain Ray on affairs in ie Klondike region was received by the rar Department. A well-defined but mild case of yellow iver arrived in Cincinnati, Ohio, from obile, Ala. It was that of August rilkie, who was found in the house of ,rs. Jane M. Moreland, in Champlaln reet, Lyck Run, in the extreme western art of the city. Health Officer Withrow amoved the patient to the pest-house, and lused Mrs. Moreland's premises to be imigated and disinfected. Domentic. A report from 8an Francisco says the haling fleet in the northern seas is In reat danger. Fourteen vessels are known ) be caught in the ice, and provisions are sarce. Striking coincidences In the murder of oliceman Smith, at the Church of the [ost Holy Redeemer, New York City, by ritz Meyer, and that of Assistant Sexton telz, at the Church of the Most Holy rinity, in Brooklyn, last August-, suggest lat both were committed by the same and. The California Insurance Commissioner as informed all New York companies doing aslness in that State that they must take it licenses annually. This is a retaliation a account of a similar New York law. AtNew York City the jury in the breach [ promise suit of Annie Berliner, a deaf lute, against Jacob Scharltn, another deaf iute, for $50,000 damages, awarded the laintiff a verdict 'of 81750. Mrs. Forrest Wynne, of Hillsdale, N. J., a? taken to court charged with trying to switch a neighbor. At Providence, R. I., Thomas Hull was lot and killed by Patrolman Frank M. Luj. Hull was an abattoir employe. He rank heavily, and Luby met him wanderig and told him the way home. Without arning, Hull drew a revolver and flred. he bullet made a slight wound in Luby'e ick, and Hull took refuge behind a tree, e flred two more shots, and then Luby red at Hull, the bullet penetrating the ab* i men. John T. Williams, who is charged with If? murder, was arraigned in New York ity, and his oounsel asked for his dialarge on the ground that Mrs. Williams id committed suicide. The Judge, howrer, recommitted him to prison without ill for a further examination. ' Fire at Hudson, N. Y., destroyed the nion Knitting Mill, causing a loss of $200,K). Many employes had narrow escapes. Andrew Hasthe died in the Astoria HosItal.Long Island, from injuries received t a football game. He had his neck disicated and his collarbone broken. George Scholder, of Otter Creek, Iowa, ade threats against President McKinley i Chicago. He disappeared before he >uld be arrested. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Thomas Gold Ivord died of old age at his home in Syraise, N. Y. He is survived by two sons, lisha Alvord and Thomas G. Aivord, and le daughter, Mrs. James A. Cheney. Mr. Ivord, whose career of public service sted from John Tyler's administration to tat of Chester A. Arthur, was born in the >wn and county of Onondaga, on Decemsr 20,1810. Testimony was begun in New York City , a suit for $50,000 damages for breach of romlse brought by Annie Berliner, a deaf ute, against her former fiance, Jacob ;harlin, another deaf mute. Comptroller Fitch, of New York City, ,ys his experts have found many irregurlties in the finance departments of towns i be annexed to New York. Professor O. W, 8hields of Princeton (N. ) University has signified hia intention of ithdrawing from the Presbyterian Church, jcause of the criticism that he has re uvea in regara to ms aigum# mo (rounuu i at liquor might be sold at the Princeton in. Half a dozen prominent citizens of Lyme, r>nn., belonging to a so-called "Holiness and," have been cited to appear for trial >r having beaten an agea and invalid oman in an effort to drive the devil out ! her. "Aunt Nancy" Daniels, a colored worna, died in Sacramento, Cal. She was a itive of Virginia, and was said to be 119 aars old. John Sartain, artist and engraver, died i the home of his daughter, Philadelphia, enn. He was eisrhty-nine years old. John irtain was bora in London, England, in 108. With a rush and roar, spreading destrucon in its patb, a hurricane from the West idles swept up the Atlantic coast and mated havoc among coasting vessels. The lores of New Jersey and Long Island were rewn with wreckage. The wind out at sa was terrific, occasionally reaching a elocity of a hundred miles an hour. Even 1 the vicinity of New York the storm raged 1th unusual ferocity. Dr. Nansen attended a reception in his onor in Brooklyn, was serenaded by the wedlsh singing societies and escorted to a leeting held by his countrymen to welcome im. On October 25 there were eleven deaths :om yellow fever and flfty-two new cases f the disease in New Orleans, the worst ay of the plague. The 414,000 package sent by registered lail to the State Savings Bank of Butte, [ontana, by tlie National uanK 01 tne ?eublic has been given up for lost. The inion Marine Insurance Company, of New ork, with which the package was insured, aformed the bank by telegraph that It rould pay the loss. A meeting in memory of Charles A. Dana fas held in Chlckering Hall, New York !ity, under the auspices of the Cuban Revolutionary party. Horatio 8. Rubens preided, and speeches were made by W. Jourke Cockran, Elihu Root, Senor Fidel J. Plerra, Colonel Ethan Allen, Benor Qonoln ftiiaaanrin nnH Tip Hunrv T.ino.nlr^ ie Zayas. Heavy snow storms prevailed In Coloado, Nebraska and South Dakota. Foreign. Advices from Spitzhergen say the crewo* i wrecked vessel has arrived there with tldngs from Andree, the Arctic aeronaut. The striking engineers In Great Britain lave withdrawn their demand for eight lours a day, and a conference with the employers is probable. The Duchess of Teck, cousin of Queen Victoria, sister of the Duke of Cambridge ind mother-in-law of the Duke of York, ilied at the White Lodge, Richmond, England. The Duchess's death caused a sensation throughout the country, as it was not known that she was ill. The deadlock in the Austrian Reichsrath has created a critical situation, and It Is believed in some quarters mat ine AusmaD Constitution may be suspended. There have been forty-two deaths from the plague at Hardwar and the spread of the plague is increasing at Poonah and Surat. . A cyclone swept the town of Chittagong, in the Bengal Presidency, India. Half the houses of that place were demolished, all the roads in its vicinity were blocked bj trees, and several vessels were sunk. There were only three persons killed ashore, sc far as known. The Sultan of Turkey has granted many concessions to conciliate Bulgaria, but the issuing of berats to Bulgarian Bishops in Macedonia is still withheld. TRAIN FALLS INTO RIVER A Terrible Accident on the New York Central Railroad. BANK CAVED AT GARRISON'S, N.Y, in Engine and Six Car* Plunged Into the HndsoD?Host of the Dead Were Drowned?Some Passengers Kescued as a Day Coach Floated Down the Stream?Horrors Attended the Disaster W V fQnnnlnl^ Thn worst icoldent on the New York Central Railroad Jlnoe the New Hamburg disaster of 1871 happened Sunday morning, just before iaylight, between Garrison's and Highlands. The official statement of the company shows that at least nineteen persons lost their lives, and probably as many more prere injured. The wrecked train, the Buffalo and New York special, was running along a level and straight stretch of track when, without an Instant's warning, and SCENE FROM THE (This picture shows just ho1 for Borne reason so utterly unexplalnable as to almost warrant a suspicion that the railroad embankment was blown up, the solid bank gave way, carrying with it a wall of stone more than a yard thick, and the engine and six of the cars of the heavy train plunged into the Htfdson River. At midnight seventeen bodies had been taken out of the wreck. Ten were identified. Fifteen persons were seriously injured. Thirty-six survivors have been accounted for. The officials say there were 109 persons on the train. Three bodies were under the mass of wreokage in the river. The cau9e of the accident i9 a mystery tn the eyes of the offloials of the road, who gave out the following offloial statement wim regaru 10 it: iuo cuuhuhiudui supporting the track slumped off into the river." The only two men who could have told how the accident ocourred were John Foyle and John Thompson, the engineer and fireman, but they are both at the bottom of the Hudson with their engine. The train was made up of engine No. 872 and tender, one express car, one day coach, one combination baggage, and smoking car and six Wagner sleeping cars, In the order named. The train left Buffalo at 4 o'olook on Saturday afternoon, and pulled out of East Albany a few minutes after 8 o'clock Sunday morning. It was then a few minutes, late, and after leaying Pougbkeepsie, twenty-Ave miles above the scene of the accident, was running at a high rate of speed, in order to make up lost time. The accident oame without the slightest warning. There was a heavy luroh, and then the track seemed to give way beneath the train. The engine passed over safely, but the ears immediately behind dragged it from the track and into the river. With a feari fnl pfftah th? hncrn wfllcht of iron rolled from the embankment and disappeared Into the river, carrying with it the engineer and th9 fireman to the bottom of the river, where it now lies. The express car, the day coach, the combination smoking and baggage oar and three sleepers followed in a wild tangle into the river. The first two broke their fastenings and floated down the river, one two hundred yards and the other about a mile, when they ran against the shore. The three rear sleepers remained on the track. Their occupants were severely shaken up, as the cars were slightly crushed at the ends by the shock. The only witnesses of the disaster were the crew of a passing tugboat, who say fhnf nrnah namn thft ftHea ftnd groans of those who were imprisoned in the floating oars or who had been thrown from the cars by the shock. The passengers of the three cars that did not leave the tracks rushed out in their night-clothes, calling for help as their eyes fell on the appalling' scene before them.. The express car and the day coaoh were already floating away from the 9hore. Minor Mention. Illinois winter wheat is generally killed by drought. Most of the netting for veils Is imported. Little is made in ths oountry. Drought has caused an advance in laundry rates at Madisonville, Ky. Carlisle Indian school celebrated, recentlv Its eighteenth anniversary. \ Two agencies have been establish^! In the United States for the promotion of immigration and colonization in Venezuela. Convicts in the penitentiary as Boise, Idaho, have organized two baseball teams, and are permitted to play on Saturday afternoons. Tho Klondike will undoubtedly send out all told this year Dot less than $10,000,000. To advertise his bussness, a justice of the peace at Kansas City, Mo., gives theatre tickets to all oouples* who come to him to be married. The laundry bill of the Atlantic Squadron during their stay In Portland amounted to over $500, so another local industry hnnafltad. There have recently been one or two unpleasant accidents In Venice through gondolas being cut down by the "penny" steam launches. The Englewood and Chicago electric road, worth $2,000,000, is to be sold at auction. The road is said to be the only successfully operated storage battery system in ibe country. _ ? The day coach had turned on its side TTJ and some of the passengers who happened |? to be on the upper side had struggled part " way through the broken windows. Some 01 mem were snouting ior ueip mm wttviug their arms toward the shore. Others, and eye-witnesses say that these were in the |h majority, were trying to drag the less fortunate out of the fast falling car to the side that was dear of water. It was in the day coach that the greatest loss of life occurred. Most of those who met death there were drowned while the M car floated that short two hundred yards. The crew of the passing tugboat cast loose from their tow and went to the rescue. They cut open the roof with axes Th and in this way rescued a number of passengers. From the day coach were taken the bodies .of four men and two women. The bodies of eight Chinamen were taken from the smoking and baggage car. In this car there were fifteen Chinamen. Two of the seven who got out alive were taken< to Peekakill, badly hurt, and one of them after-, nit ward died. ... Ch Most of the bodies of the dead' were taken from the car toward night, and so ldentifl- ?P .cation was not made until a late hour. Ga There was one exception, In the person of ni, Samuel Williams, of Buffalo, who was . thrown from the smoker as it made the P plunge, and who had his arm torn off. to When the rescuers reached him he was still bu breathing, but he died a moment later. .. ? The list of killed was at last aocounts as follows: W. 8. Beoker, Newark, N. Y. John an Foyle, engineer, fifty years old, Albany; an ROADBED, SHOWING HOW THE TRACK W1 w the traok was undermined and the train throw married. . E. A. Green, Chicago. William Aj H. G. Meyer, Passaic, N. J. Glbert G. Mo- ^ Kay, twenty-three years old, New York; married; private secretary to Edgar Van j( Etten, General Superintendent of the New ti York Central Railroad. Thomas Reilly, 8t. Louis. John Thompson, fireman, twenty- \y five years old, East Albany; single. Giu- ti seppe Taguna, Albion, N. Y. Samuel Will, 4, lams, Buffalo. Two women unidentified. j0 one living in Buffalo and one In Hudson, N. ci Y, Eight Chinamen. , oi Genoral ^fanager Toucey telegraphed for wrecking tugs and before noon two q, were on the river opposite the wreck and _ at work. Men in rowboats assisted them in their work of searching for the dead, andtne Bodies weregraauauy recovereu. j CORBETT AS A RESCUER. Former Champion Helps Remove the Injured From the Wreck. James J. Corbett and the members of "The Naval Cadet" company were on the first South Dound train to arrive at the scene after the accident. Corbett and his sparring partner, John McVey, did good service in rescuing the Injured passengers from the wrecked cars, and assisted in removing the dead. Corbett and McYey climbed to the top of one of the coaches, anfl, with axes' obtained from their train, cut an opening in the roof. They removed a Chinaman, who I was badly injured. They also took two J dead bodies from the car. Joseph Eagan n and several members of Corbett's company I aided in the work. 1 Came of the Accident. i Andrew Bryson, a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, examined I the scone of the wreck to ascertain its ^ cause, if possible. As a result of his lnves- | Hoatinn h#t hnltavna that the retain wall. laid without oement, allowed the tides to wash through and carry out some of the earth forming part of the embankment. A cavity was thus formed and the jar of a ? passing train finally loosened the keystope th of its arch, composed of loose stones. The co track then gave way under the engine of P' the fated train. ac Cured of Consumption. Sixteen consumptive patients, who had ^ been heaied by Dr. Joseph 0. Hirsch- af felder's lymph, called oxytuberculine, of were examined at Cooper Medioal College, W San Francisco, Cal., and a council Ih of the best physiclnns in tho te city decided that in every case marked improvement had occurred, and th that In some a cure was substantially ef- Ni fected. Dr. Hfrschfelder prepares his lymph from veal, In which tuberculine is m injeoted, and he appearsfo have solved the w< problem which Koch attempted to solve. M He has spent $30,000 In three years on his Vi experiments. 8c ' I Fraudulent warrants. Over $90,000 of alleged fraudulent warrants on the United States Treasury have jn been discovered on the account of the 9i Creek Indian Nation. Federal officials w have been sent to Indian Territory to in- bi vestlgate the matter. An old chief and a ftI Government official are said to be involved, oo Enlon Pacific Reorganization. The Union Pacific Reorganization Committee has decided to oppose any adjournment of the sale of the main line, and to ic bid it in if need be, The Government claim pi will be paid off. the committee being will- ei ing to pay 38,000,000 additional. te Two Found Dead In a Well. Frank Moon, age fifty years, and Mrs. D. Wells were found deud at the bot- a torn of a thirty-foot well on Moon's farm- r near Derby, Kansas, having been asphyx- a* lated. Moon had been overcome while J"' workiDg, and he woman, fearful at his not b< returning, went to the well late at night,to v' investigate, and fell In. a! al Cuban General Killed. tt Private advices received in Havana confirm the report that General Castillo, the Insurgent leader, has been killed in an enI gagement with the Spanish troops, and st that bis body bas Deen Dunea atijauaur- > m | rera, tour mU?3 ffpm EteYtuift. _ I to T'^vV:J 1 OBLtrg W. C. T. 0. MEETS e Biennial Convention in Horticultural Gardens, Toronto. OMEN OF MANY LANDS THERE. e Officers Re-Elected?A Proposition to Abolish the Color Line Applauded ?Work Done by the Union Over the World?Xeal Dow's Birthday to Be Celebrated as a Temperance Dar* Cobonto, Canada (Special).?The bienil convention of the World's Woman's ristlan Temperffnoe Union was formally eueu in me paviiiuir tit wuo auiuuuuutai .rdeas. Long before the hoar of beginig the building was thronged with peoj, and when the convention was called order by Miss Franoes E. Willard the Udlng was packed to overflowing, rhe platform was filled with executive d other official workers, 'prominent long whom were Miss Willard, MLsj k.8 UNDERMINED. rn Into the Hudson River.) ijnes Slaok, of England; Mrs. Kirk, ol ustralia; Mrs. Barker, of Chicago; Mrsranois J. Barnes, of New York, and Miss >hnannsdottlr, the Icelandlo representa* ve. The meeting was called to order by Miss lllard, the President, at 10.15 o'clock, and le first fifteen minutes were given over tc jvotional exercises, led by Mrs. Rutherrd, President of the Dominion Woman's tirlstian Temperance Union. The report ! the Executive Committee was read by iss Agnes Slack. A notice to amend the lallflcations for membership by adding MISS OLAOTA JOHNANN8DOTTIB. (A temperance woman from Iceland.) o words, "without distinction of race and ilor," was received with tumultuous apause. Miss Wlilard then presented her biennial Idress, in which she announced that Miss issie Ackermann, Miss Ruth Shaffner and iss Pratt went to Iceland to organize the Oman's Christian Temperance Union soon ter the last convention, and the presence Miss Johnannsdottir, President of the Oman's Christian Temperance Union of at island, and its leading woman worker, stifles to the success of their visit. The Executive Committee has authorized ,e celebration of Neal Dow's birthday as itional Temperance Day. At the meeting of the Executive Comittee in the afternoon the officers are all re-elected, including President, iss Frances E. Willard.Evanston, 111., and ce-Presldent-at-Large, Lady Henry >merset, England. Bank Deposits in Kansas. Reports from 374 state and?private banks Kansas to Commissioner BriedenenthaJ tow deposits amounting to $22,000,000, hich, added to the deposits in national inks, will run up to $40,000,000. This is l increase in one year of more than $6,>0,000. Spain's Reply is Long. The Spanish note in answer to the Amer an Government's communication, ex* rising a wish that the war in Cuba maj id soon, covers thirty-eight ciosely-writn pages. Horrible Revenge of Dervlshea. The dervishes in the Soudan have taken terrible revenge upon the Jaalin tribe for (fusing to join the forces of the Khalifa jainst the British. The left bank of the ver between Berber and Metmmeh has sen practically depopulated. The dershes butchered every male of the tribe id took the pretty women to their harem9 !ter sending 150 young girls to the Kha(a. Many women and children were irown int'o the river. Great Damage by Ruins in California. Reports from the interior of California iow that heavy rains have caused imense loss to farmers and vineyards. The tal damajre exceeds $100,000. . ? WABASH OFFICES BURNED OUT. 1 Blaze 1b St. Lonli Causes ft Loss Estimated at 9800,000. Fire started on one of the upper -,fs floors of the four-story build tag at Seventh ' ? ?nd Chestnut streets, 8t. Louis, Mo., ocon pied by the Wabash Railway general Dfflces, lawyers, real estate firms and stores. Hundreds of people were in the building when the fire started. The flames ; ' spread so rapidly that they had barely \ -V time to get out. Those whi> could not make use of the stairways and elevator* slimbed down the fire escapes, and all got, t; General Manager Ramsey, of the WabaAh :\- '3 system, when asked for an estimate of the ? ? loss suffered by his company, said: "I cannot make any estimate of the loss suffered Dy our company. It will be heavy, howaver, and very hard to compote, lor * vast amount of drawings in the engineering d?partment went up in flames as well as papers of great value in the passenger and other departments. The Wabash Company ,'vj carries (6,000,000 of Insurance on its proparty all over the system, and until the papers can be got at it will be Impossible to lay what our loss will be." 1 ' 9 ##5 One of-the employes in the engineers' doAa?4mAnf an 1/1 <3*AH Afifl WAllM MAVAP tllA 'i jii'l ^QllilUOUb oaivi VWV|VW nvutu wvw, yv ' wM __ ^ loss sustained by bis department. The loss on the building Is estimated at flOO.OQO , ':ir The Post-Dispatch, In Its afternoon edition,places the total estimated loss at 800,000. A lighted cigarette dropped by a thought- , less clerk Is supposed to hiave caused the .i,rf 9re" FRANK A. MAGOWAN EJECTED. M Trenton's ex-Mayor Pat Oat of Horn* la Hit Night Clothioff. Ex-Mayor Frank A." Magowan was ejected from the palatial home at Trenton, N. J., he built In the days of his prosperity. He had not arisen when lour constables from the Sheriff's office arrived. They made their way to his bedroom and commanded him to get up and leave the house. : Mr. Magowan refused to obey, and was J lifted from the bed and led down stairs. , vv He refused to dress himself, and was I placed outside of the door olad in his night /.lrttMnrr Wh?n mitsfriA Ma fllnthtntf was handed to him, and he went to the tarn : and donned It. Mrs. Barnes-Magowon left the house as soon as she saw her husband 1 was outside. . . Magowan remained In the barn aboutah , $ hour, and then went down town to consult his lawyer about bringing a salt tot damages against the Sheriff. Meantime the personal effects of the former Mayor and of his second wife were placed upon the lawn, > where they lay all day. The Sheriffs officers remained In charge of. the house.* Magowan's divorced wife saw the entire - ^ jcene. A COLORADOBUZZARD. Snow Storm* Do Much Damage Throughout the State. : / A blizzard at Denver, Col., caused universal discomfort and Inflicted- heavy pe-. ..V-V j; sunlary loss as well. In one Item of broken ^AlantiAnn an OlO^lOpUy botoyuvuv WMW wWMXi*. r- -9-1' --wires and poles the damage Is $40,000.' To this mast be added the heavy expense entailed upon the street railways In attempts to keep their lines open and the loss, to merchants in the way of business. Many families dined on tea and crackers, orirent to bed without any dinner at all. Grceerytnen could not deliver goods. . *.The streets, piled high with snow, present a curious spectacle. There is .hardly a street in the city over which Is not at some -\4'* point a tangle of fallen telephone and electric-light wires. On all sides broken poles bang In midair, or peer from big snowdrifts. It is estimated that throughout the State no less than three thousand miles of wire are strewn on the ground. v The mountain roads escaped the fall fary 3f the storm. The Barllngton and other Eastern roads were kept open by means of \ ' A UOW ploughs. . ? A The Diiutcr at Garrison's. > f t - The death list of the disaster on the New fork Central Railroad At Garrison's, N. I., reached twenty. When the wreckers raised the day ooaoh, already searched and ' ^ ieolared empty by the dfvers, they found : he'body cI Isaac Bettinger, of Buffalo; rf. lammed between two ojt the seats. When' , the upper part of the heavy engine was lifted from the river, the body of John Tompkins, the fireman, was found wedged In front of the boiler. . A New Hampshire Desperado. At Gorham, N. H., Thomas Mopshan^ * . dissolute railroad man, while erased with drink, shot and killed Joseph Guithler, a eoal man employed by the Grand Trunk Railroad, and Inflicted fatal injuries upon 3eleotman Woodbury Gates, who attempted to arrest him. The murderer, after being ' taken into custody, boasted that he had "three bloods" on his hands. It is sapposed that he killed William Thoits, of Shalburne. V Mc Kin ley Will Walt. Minister Woodford's message, transmitting Spain's reply to his representations in the Interest of peace in Cuba, has been received in Washington, and laid before the President, who will probably rest in the matter until Congress meets and give the new Spanish Government a reasonable time to carry out its plans. Sale of the Union Pacific. v?" v The Government withdrew Its motion for ^ " postponement of the sale of the main line ,i v of the Union Paciflo Railroad, theReorganization Committee having increased its bid :j f?,wvw,v... . W Wholesale Discharge of Policemen. Chief of Police Kipley, of Chicago, removed 431 policemen to make room for the reinstatement of that number of Democrats, removed by the last administration. Alleged Came of Disaster. President Chaunoey M. Depew said the > wreck on the New York Central Railroad near Garrison's was caused by an explosion of dynamite, placed on the road with > ( criminal intent. Spain's Plan of Autonomy. Senor Dupuy de Lome, Spanish Mlnistei , at Washington, says the autonomy scheme proposed tor Cuba will give the island a ,,Ua ranrflQfln, system muuu uu uauuuu a, ...... - ? tation in the Spanish Cortes as well as the local Legislature. Epidemic of Leprosy. An Odessa despatch says that there Is a terrible epidemic of malarial fever and leprosy at Tiflis, oapital of Russian Transcaucasia, on the Koor, and at Batoum, a seaport town of Asiatic Russia, on the east ? shore of the Black Sea. ' < George M. Pullman's Will. The will of George M. Pullman, which eras filed in Chicago, leaves the larger portion of the $25,000,000 estate to his two daughters. His widow is tjoII provided for, but the two sons are cut off with Innnmaa nf swnnfl flftflh. A free school will be founded at Pullman, with $1,200,000. Sealing Conference In Seaslon. The Sealing Conference, with delegate? rom the United States, Russia and Japan present, met and organized in Washington. Cycling Notes. There are 133 league hotels in Missouri. * Italy is the latest country to fall a victim to the cycle tax. 4 - - ' - -j ?i. i sueepsmn paas xur uaru kjviv ocaio u< now being largely used in Austria. Thin manila paper, also, is dot being used for making tubes for bicycles. Bicycle riding as a remedy for asthma it strongly recommended by Dr. Marcet of London. The Archbishop of Canterbury, It is said, has been advised to learn to ride a bioyclf for the benefit of his health. The latest sensation Is to make a parachute descent seated <Jn a bioyole. This feat was recently performed at the Crysta' Palace, London, England.