Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — Page 6

THE RENSSELAER DEMOCRAT. SHIELDS & DILLEY, Publishers. RENSSELAER, INDIAN*.

EDISON HAS A PLAN.

WOULD MAKE TORPEDO BOATS , PRACTICALLY USELESS. The Great Scientist Present# a Scheme of Action that Would Revolutionize Modern Warfare—North Dakota Kdttor Fatally Shoots a Cattle Thief. To Render Torpedo Roata Innocuous Thomas A. Edsop has made a discovery, or, rather, applied a principle that will revolutionize modem naval warfare. At present night and fog are the greatest enemies a war fleet Ht sea ean know. It is under cover of the darkness that the torpedo boats sneak tip to within hailing distance of the great ships and aim deadly blows at them. By day nothing is so feeble as a torpedo boat. It must get within half a mile of its mark ere it 'can •pit its venom, and this if cannot do. It Is as swift in flight and as harmless in offense as a rabbit. Its sides are so frail that tlie smallest rapid-firing gun will riddle it. When it was pointed out to Mr. Edison that many fears were felt on account of Spain's torpedo fleet, lie said it was easy to do away with their possibilities for harm. “I would suggest,” said he, “that in addition to the searchlights now employed canisters of calcium carbide; with a small quantity of calcium phosphite mixed in, hi' placed near the scoutlug boats or tired into the water at a distance from afnortnr. These canisters, being provided with buoyant chambers and water vents, would give off acetylene gas, and also spontaneously inflanimative phosphoretted hydrogen, which would serve to ignite continuously the acetylene gas. The result would he powerful lights, very cheaply produced, in great numbers over an area of several square miles. Any torpedo boat coming nearer than one of these lights would be thrown in silhouette, which, to the-eye, would he at least fifty times more powerful-than the small reflection from the light-absorbing surface of A torpedo boat illuminated by the most powerful electric light.” In a word, the light would be behind it, instead of tut tlie nearer side of it. Not only can the chemical combination be employed to keep torpedo boats away, as already shown, but canisters of it, being very light in weight, can he hurled for several miles from a pneumatic gun. Rich Montreal Mun Murdered. Dennis Clifford, n very wealthy citizen of Montreal, lias been killed, and Joseph O’Meara, for many yeans one of the brightest young athletes in Eastern Canada, and for several seasons the cover point of the Shamrock Lacrosse Club, is charged .with the crime. Clifford owned the store occupied by Mrs. O’Hare, O’Mea ra’s sister, and the stock was.seized for rent. Fearing that the bailiff might allow the goods to be removed, Clifford “ to watch all night. At a lute hour O'Meara was heard talking to him, and ahortly afterward Clifford was found on the balcony of his house dead. Clifford had lived there fifty years, ami his holdings are said to be worth about .$1,000,000, though he lived as would a man working for $1 u day.’

Kills Cattle Thief. O. M. Dean, editor of the Williams County Free Tress at Willisson, N. I>., shot and killed Hunk Schufelt, who attacked him when going from Grlnhell to his homd,, The exposure of cattle stealing t»y a gang of rustlers is supposed to Ik* the Cause of the affray. Dean was assaulted once before at the same plaice and dragged with a lariat rope, but this time he was prepared for trouble and defended himself successfully.

BREVITIES.

At Albany, Ore,,'the Waterloo woolen mills, owned by Thomas Kay, burned. Loss $50,000, A. special from Morton, Miss, reports that the business portion of the town Was destroyed by tire. At Kenton, Ohio, a Toledo and Ohio Central fast train wounded Michael McCann and killed his wife and daughter. A syndicate has purchased for .$175,000 the canneries controlled by the California Canneries companies. It will make an effort to. control the British market for California canned fruits. Mrs. Biekley, 75 years old, aiyl an adopted son, about 50 years of age, Were found dead in their dilapidated home, three miles from Sellersville, Pa, Every evidence points to death by starvation. v. Riotous demonstrations of threatening proportions, in favor of the army and against 7 the Sagastn government, are reported in the streets rtf-Madrid, and troops are held in readiness in case of emergency. The authorities of the Missouri experiment station have determined to continue their experiments with sugar beets at least another year, as their work lias not definitely settled whether the cultivation of the beet will be profitable. A mammoth pocket of natural gas was struck at Baldwinsvillo, N. Y. It is estimated that the well which was reached will yield 50,000,000 cubic feet a day. It la impossible to approach within 0(H) feet of the well, and the engineers are at a loss how to control the monster. Juetiec Hiscock at Herkimer, N Y., has appoint(*d Nicholas Kcrnau of Utica assignee and A. M. Mills of Little Palls receiver for Alfred Dolge Son, manufacturers, of Dolgeville, Herkimer County. The proceedings were brought by Rudolph Dolge of New York, The liabilities are laid to be $1,1150,000. Near McGhee Station, Tenn., John McGhee and his son Joe shot and killed HeniT.and J£rnest Howard and James Murrand and mortally wounded Tom Howard. The Howards were brothers and Sons-in-law of McGhee. The, killing was the result of a family feud. The McGhees are prominent people and highly connected. It i« believed that the last chapter in the famous Dr. Briggs case has now been concluded. At a meeting of the New York presbytery a letter from Dr. Briggs was rand, withdrawing from the Presbyterian Church, The resignation was accepted. raßaSffi/lbfrtf .• '•*'*.■***■* "* ** '

M’KINLEY IS FIRM.

Tell* Europe United State* Has • Humane Duty to Fulfill. He representatives of the six powers of Europe seeking to avert war between Spain and the United a States called on President McKinley at noon Thursday. The Governments of Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Itussia and Italy were represented. The call ftf the representatives of the powers on the President was quite brief ajjd at 22:20 p. m. they went over to the State Department and made an official visit. They were headed by Sfr Julian Pauncefote, the .’British ambassador, and dean of the corps. The others included the French and German ambassadors, the Austrian minister and the charge d’affaires of Italy and Russia. They were at once shown into the diplomatic room of the State Department, where they were joined by Secretary Sherman aud Assistant Secretary Day. Sir Julian Panncefote, as representative of the powers, presented the following to the President: The representatives of Germany, Austria-llungary, France, Great Britain, Italy and Russia, duly authorized in that behalf, address, in the name of their respective governments. a pressiug appeal to the feelings of humanity and moderation of the President and of the American people, in their existing differences with Spain. They earnestly hope that further negotiations will lead to an agreement which, while securing the maintenance of peace, will afford all necessary guarantees for the re-establishment of order in • Cuba. The powers do not doubt that the humanitarian and purely disinterested character of this representation will Is* fully* recognized and appreciated by the American nation. President McKinley replied as follows: The Government of the United States recognizes the good will which has prompted the friendly communication of the representatives of 'Germany, Austria-Hun-gary, France, Great Britain, Italy and Russia, as set forth in the address of your excellencies, and shnres the hope therein expressed that the outcome of the situation in Cuba may be the maintenance of ponce between the United States and Spain by affording the necessary guarantees for the re-establish-ment of order in the island, so terminating the chronic condition of disturbance, which so deeply injures the interests and menaces the tranquillity of the American nation by the character and consequences of the struggle thus kept up at our doors, besides shocking its sentiment of humanity. The Government of the United States appreciates the humanitarian, and disinterested character of the communication now made on behalf of .the powers named, and for its part is confident that equal appreciation will be shown for its own earnest and unselfish endeavors to fulfill a duty to humanity by ending a situation, the indefinite prolongation of which has become insufferable.

MANY STATES REPRESENTED.

Rapid Erection of Buildings at TransMississippi Exposition. Plans for State buildings at the transMississippi exposition in Omaha are coming in rapidly. The department of publicity has just received the architect's drawings for the Minnesota building, the Montana building, the Arkansas building, the Denver building and the Missouri building. The plans for the proposed lowa building met the hearty approval of the experts of the exposition. The Illinois building is nearly completed, with the exception of an additional Wing .made necessary for the accommodation of the fine art exhibit which Illinois will bring to tlie exposition. The Wisconsin building is well uncTer way and is one of the most complete State buildings on the grounds. The Nebraska building is practically completed. The-plans for the Denver, or Colorado, building have been accepted and the contract will be let in a day or two. Plans for the Georgia pine palace have been submitted. It will be constructed wholly of pine donated by the people of Georgia. It is a handsome structure. The Minnesota building will be constructed on similar lines of unhewn Minnesota logs. Plans for the Oregon building are now being drawn and will be submitted next week. Members of State commissions of other Stntes send assurances that plans for their State buildings will be forthcoming within a short time. It* is highly probable that the States of New York and New Jersey will construct handsome buildings at the exposition. Tliirty : fivo States have to date decided to participial* in the exposition. In thirty of these commissions have been appointed *and reports from agents in the field are to the effect that at least States will be organized within the next-ten days. The winter weather having been more favorable, construction work is fast advancing and is progressing in undo court, the bluff tract and the Midway with great rapidity. The Government building, 500 feet long, and the pinnacle of whose dome is nearly 200 feet high, is nearly done. The management finds it necessary to build several annexes to accommodate the extraordinary demand for exhibit space.

Sisseton Indians Indignant.

The Sisscton and Wahpcton Indians have been advised that they will receive from Washington 2.1100 cows and some seed wheat, to the value of SIOO,OOO. The report spread like wildfire; and a council has been called at Sisscton agency, in South Dakota, to protest against the Government issuing rations to them. They say they are full American citizens, and their contract with the Government .called for cash when they sold their lands.

New Army Uniform.

One hundred sample canvas uniforms have been ordered' by the War Department, with a view to their general introduction as a light and serviceable field uniform by *'.;e United States army. It is a marked departr.re in uniforming the army, and one in the interest of preserving the health of the men while in active service. The color is a gray brown, Mid to be particularly desirable in time of hostilities, as it is difficult to distinguish it from the earth, grass, corn fields or dead leaves. It is light and cool in summer and la vco’ serviceable In winder.

WORK OF THE WATER

REVIEW OF THE PESgLATIQN AT SHAWNEETOWN. \ Exaggerated aa First Reports Were, the Truth Shows that the Disaster Was Frightful Submerged Homes Are Pillaged. Many Absolutely Destitute. Pillage and plunder have been added to the horrors of the Shawneetown flood. It became necessary to call out armed men to guard the salvage. Hundreds of houses were entered by vauda's and money, jewelry aud other property stolen Monday night. Men armed with loaded Winchester rifles and shotguns have patrolled the levee, on foot anil scoured the town in skiffs. The maytjr had almost decided to call for militia, but was dissuaded from his purpose; A lynching was narrowly averted Tuesday afternoon by the prospective victim's fright. He had been accused of attempting to break open a Hood sufferer's trunk. Constable F. O. Miuter ordered the man, a negro,VTom Hancock, to leave town at once on pain of death. ‘‘l'll string the rope nround your neck myself,” the constable declared, and fifty voices yelled approval. Hancock fled down the levge. Mayor Carney, at the request of the citizens’ committee, detailed special officers along the levee, and to scout in skiffs. The citizens’ executive committee is composed of Charles Carroll, chairman; Karl Ko’edell, treasurer; Itev. Fred Bueckman, secretary, and Mayor Carney. Chairman Carroll's apprehensiveness that armed militia might tend to additionally demur; alize the situation deterred the mayor

RELIEF MAP OF IN UNDATED SHAWNEETOWN. With a ratine of hills to the west, levees on the north, east amt south, the little town was in a veritable “pocket.”

from appealing to the Governor for the declaration of martial law. The revised list shows twenty-five dead beside two unknown negroes, the bodies of whom were recovered Tuesday afternoon. Unofficial estimates place the dead at from thirty-five to sixty. The fatalities are expected to reach this number, as many persons are unaccounted for, as in the case of a wagon and team containing three persons which is reported to have been blown off the rock road into the flood waters. The work of the forces engaged has been almost exclusively of rescue and relief. No effort had been made up to Wednesday to recover bodies, most of which were supposed to be imprisoned in collapsed houses. The entire time and energies of the relief committee have been devoted to the survivors. Twelve hundred persons are absolutely dependent on the charity of the public. Every man, woman and child in Shawneetown. rich or poor, must receive provisions through the relief committee until the property buried in the stores of the city is recovered. A careful estimate of the damage to property places the amount at $150,000, divided equally between business houses and residences. Relief boats from Evans-, ville'and Cairo brought in additional provisions Tuesday. The homelesswere sheltered from the cold, cutting rain Tuesday night for the first time since tlie town was inundated. Tuesday afternoon 500 tepts arrived from Springfield by direction of Governor Tanner, and fifty more were sffiit by the 1 Citizens of Harrisburg. The only dry spot in the city is the. levee, an apparently solid embankment about ten feet above the water’s edge and fifteen feet wide. On either side as far as the eye can reach .is a desolate, watery waste. System of Relief Work. ■/ The work of 'caring for, the survivors has progressed rapidly and good results have been accomplished. The relief eom-

THE OLD DETER MILIS.

mittee inaugurated a systematic plan of extending help. In addition,to food and clothing -received, a large barge of coal came from Cascyville by way of Evansville, lud. The arrival was a Godsend, for the weather is cold and the lack of clothing, next to hunger, has been the Neatest Want of the survivors. An atf--peal was issued to the public asking for money contributions to enable the population to survive. Money is to be sent to

Charles Carroll, chairman of the relief committee. Funds will be required to replace the wrecked houses and to repair the damaged dwellings of the poorer inhabitants, and unless outside help is extended the future of the town is doomed. Two hundred sufferers were sent to Moo.lt Vernon, Ind., Tuesday, in a body, and an equal number went there in a small craft. Hundreds of others have gone to relatives in neighboring towns or sought refuge in the hills to the northwest of the flood. But scores of sdffering householders cling with desperate stubbornness to their wrecked homes.

THE FAMOUS SHAWNEE HOUSE.

Hundreds of persons who have not already removed their remaining ail to other places announce they will live in Shawneetown no longer. In fact, it is conservatively predicted that when the flood subsides the town will have lost more than three-fifths of its population, chiefly by removal to.other points. Of the 500 houses in the town at least 100, mostly small frame structures, in the .jioorer portion of town, south of the break, were destroyed. Every other building in the city was damaged from $5 to $5,000. Following is a list of some of tlie heaviest sufferers among the business men; Frank Armstrong, hardware, $800;

Lowe Brothers, general store, $1,500; Krebs & Shaw, grocery, $1,500; Goetzinan Brothers, grocery and wheat, $3,,500; Koopindoffer & FroClieh, hardware, $3,000; Ed Ehrenweine, drugs, $2,500; Robinson Brothers, drugs and hardware, $5,000; Charles Smith, restaurant, $300; Charles Carroll, block of dwellings destroyed. $2,000; Charles Carroll, general store, $2,000; J. FI Nolan, grocery and dry goods, $000; Riverside flour mills, $500; Upper mills, $200; H. ~ Drucker, clothing, $1,000; A. Mever, clothing, $750; Ambrose Eswein, groceries, $1,500; Allen & Loomis, clothing, $1,200; A. Richardson, general store, $1,200; Kareher &

BASK Of SKA SHAWNEETOWN.

Scanlan, lumber, $500; Ross & Allen, general store, $1,500; Alts. Ellis Eddy, miUinopy, $500; Shawnee News office, newspaper, $200; the Immaculate Conception, Alethodist and Presbyterian I churches and parsonage, abdtit ssooeach. The colored Baptist church was swept away. It was a small frame building. The electric light plant was almost destroyed. The pumping plant, completed a few weeks ago by Fairbank, Morse & C 0.,, of St. 1 xuiis, at a cost of $4,000, was also destroyed! It was used to pump the sewage and rain water from the lowlands aiHoiuing the city on the south. Immediate relief from the flood victims’ hunger and exposure is being furnished -by, sympathizing sister gities with a readiness that augurs well for the unfortunates. 1 ' ’• ’ r''

KLONDIKERS FREEZE TO DEATH.

Disaster Follows Stampede from Dawson to Swedish Creek. Death and suffering have follpwed the njost remarkable stampede yet made from Dawson. It was' to Swedish creek, reports of the richhess of which reached Dawson on Feb. 18, when thermometers registered 00 below zero. In their haste the stampeders left their blankets behind, depending on camp fires to keep them warm. Alany were frozen and helped back to Dawsou by friends and the Canadian police. Three died shortly after returning. Two others had legs amputated and died from the shock. The schooner Julia A. Ware, lumber laden, which was wrecked in midocean the early-pnrt of January, drifted ashore on Long Island, N. Y. Nothing has ever .been heard of the crew, and all on board were probably lost.

THOUSANDS IN LINE.

NATIONAL CAPITAL BESIEGED WITH EXCITED HUMANITY. President McKinley's Message to Congress on the Cuban-Spanish Situation was Awaited with Strained Anxiety. Was an Anxious Crowd. Wasnlngton correspondence: Undaunted by the disappointment of Wednesday, the multitude again besieged the capitol Monday morning before the doors were opened. Many camped out on the marble terraces ail night and others began streaming in through the dawn. But the thousands did not begin to arrive until about 0 o’clock. The day was dark miid gloomy. The smoke hung heavy over tlie capitol and city and the Stars and Stripes above the dome and terrace clung limp and damp to their flagpoles. The experience of Wednesday, when tliousands who held tickets to the reserved galleries could not even get to the corridors leading to the galleries, had resulted in better arrangements, so far as the reserved galleries were concerned, and all holding tickets were accommodated. The multitude suffered, however. The space for the public was restricted aud only comparatively few of the thousands who stood in the dense line stretching down stair aud corridor to tlie basement for hours were admitted. As an Wednesday, many women fainted in the crush and were carried out and others dropped out of the lines at last from fatigue and exhaustion. Prominent personages from all over the Union were pointed out here and there. The diplomatic gallery was filled with members of the diplomatic corps, with their ladies, eager To see how Congress would receive the situation as left by diplomacy. The executive gallery, save for the first row of seats, was also filled by ladies and gentlemen holding tickets from the White House. The scene was memorable aa the eye swept the banked galleries and the animated group of members oil the floor below, but there was less hubbub and evidence of excitement than there was Wednesday. In subdued tones everybody was discussing the latest phase of the situation. The general public, as manifested by the spirit of the galleries; seemed in favor of brushing aside the latest offer of Spain, and this feeling was* reflected by some members on the floor, but the conservatives circulating here and there were counseling calmness and patience.

The message asks Congress to authorize the President to take measures to secure termination of hostilities in Cuba and to secure the establishment of a stable government there and to use the military and naval forces of the United States as may be necessary fur those jnirtKises. The President says the only hope of relief from a condition which can no longer be endured is the enforced pacification of the island. The issue is now with Congress and he awaits its action, standing prepared to carry out every obligation imposed on him by the constitution, Spain's decree for a suspension of hostilities is submitted to Congress for just and careful attention, with the observation that if the measure attaius a successful result "’then our aspirations as a peace-loving people will be realized. If it fails, it will be only another justification for our contemplated action.” Tlie Maine incident figures prominently in the message. The President argues that the wreck of the Maine in Havana harbor shows that Spain is not able to guarantee security to foreign vessels. Spain has disavowed any connection with that disaster and has offered to subffiit to arbitration all tlie differences which may arise from that affair. After the reading of the message the leaders of the various elements hurried into conference; Very few were prepared offhand to express opinions as to whether the message was satisfactory in all particulars. or not. The applause at the conclusion of the rending was not general on the floor of the House, nor in the galleries. It was, in. fact, confined to very temperate handclapping on the Republican side, the galleries hardly making any demonstration. The Democrats maintained dead silence, although they had given approval of the sentence declaring that hostilities must come to a conclusion.

WANTS TO GO TO CONGRESS.

A Remarkable Woman Is Mrs. Alarill Al. Ricker, of Dover, N. H. ■ Airs. Alnrilla AI. Ricker, lawyer, suffragist and philanthropist of Dover, N. H., has created no little excitement in political circles by her announcement that slie intends to run, for Congress from her district. Although a woman without the ballot and with no political pull except ability and service in behalf of her party, she nevertheless causes her political opponents no little worry. She is a strong adversary and hard to beat in a fair eontest. She is a statesman in every sense of the word except that of sex, but she fully expects that the day is not far distant when sex will be no barrier to women entering any field of activity for which she is fitted and has inclination. Twenty-six years ago her husband died and left his wife with mouns sufficient to allow her to follow the legal bent of her mind. She went to Washington, entered a lawyer’s office, and after close application to the law for three years was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. She was the only woman of a class of nineteen who applied for admission to the bar. She has since been admitted to the United States Supreme Court, and is also a member of the bar of Utah, and since 1885 has been United States commissioner and an examiner in the chancery in the District of Columbia. , V, v A. W. Tilton, a young fanner, living near Belle Plaine, Kan., was killed in an unusual manner. His windmill being out of order, he had gone up to fix it, when a strong gust of wind set the Wheel to revolving, catching his coat and choking him to death. NeaT Frankfort, Del., W. S. Long killed a black snake that had a gold finger ring around its body. Hie ring had undoubtedly been around the make’s body a long time, as It was deeply imbedded, and could not be removed until the snake had been cut In two.

FIRE-SWEPT PRAIRIE

HEAVY LOSSES OF SOUTH DAKOTA^FARMERS. Two Counties Badly Scorched Many Buildings and Hnch Stock and Grain' Destroyed-Rumors of War and Unseasonable Weather Check Business* Licked Up by Flames. Destructive prairie fires swept over the southwestern portion of Beadle and eastern part of Hand couutiea, S. D. Losses will aggregate SIO,OOO to $15,000. Several farmers lost their homes, buildings, machinery and stock. The town of Wessington had a usirow escape. Charles Peek, M. Mosher and oAers loet their barns. The large dwelling, barns and cattle sheds on the Barden farm, near Wesaiugton, were burned. The place was occupied by H. M. DeMott and family, .who barely escaped with their lives. The burned district covers many miles and the distress would have been much greater.except for the rain, which began falling at sundown. Much live stock was burned and many people had narrow escapes. During a terrific windstorm prairie fires destroyed the property and homes of twenty fanners in Spink County, entailing a loss of more than $15,000. Reports reach Valentine, Neb., of a terrible prairie fire that raged in the range country twenty miles northeast of that place. It is feared much damage was done, but nothing definite has been received. There \uis much dry' grass in the district, and tffere had been no recent rains. War Rumors Check Trade. Bradstreet's says: “A sensible quieting of demand for staple goods is perceptible in the various detailed trade reports coming to hand this week. At the East the drift of matters affecting out foreign relations has been such as to discourage new business, but this tendency has been considerably accentuated by untimely cold weather, which has checked the usual Easter demand to a considerable extent. Reports from the West are that the heavy rush of spring business is about Over. Rather less activity is noted in most of the country’s great staples. Gotten goods have moved fairly well. Wool is dull. The iron trade continues to report large volume of business. A feature of trade at leading cities this week is the active business in bicycles in Chicago and New York, where sales an* the largos! on record. Wheat shipments,. including flour, this week-are slightly larger than those of last week, and considerably in excess of last year, aggregating 3,773,726 bushels for that period, against 3,550,6114 bushels Inst week. Corn exports have fallen off sharply, aggregating 3,557,000 bushels, against 4,507,000 bushels last week.” Spain Requests Peace. In an official note presented to the State Department at Washington, Seuor Polo y Bernabe, the Spanish minister, preferred requests for peace hi behalf of his government. The note stated that the armistice offered Cuba was without conditions and contained assurances that the island would be granted home rule similar to tliat enjoyed by Canada. It also urged that a neutral inquiry be had into the Maine disaster, with the condition that both Spain and the United States agree to abide by the verdict.

NEWS NUGGETS.

United States Judge John B. Rector is dead at Austin, Texas. At Seneca Falls, N. V., Airs. Rebecca Van Zandt died, aged 100 years. At St. Louis, Mo„ John Celia shot and killed Airs. Henry Carter and then killed tiimself with the same weapon. Notices have been posted at New Haven, Conn., on the big Can dee rubber shop, that work would be resumed at once. The boot and shoe makers, who number over 1,300, are called back to work. A new union passenger station, to cost $500,000, will be built by the Union Pacific, at Omalia, Neb. The ground has been broken. It will be used by every road entering the city except the Burlington. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has succeeded in effecting a settlement of the differences’between the Armour Packing Company and tlie Kansas City, Mo., labor unions, and it is agreed that the boycott against Armour's products shall be raised. The most serious fire in the history of Mnunington, the capital of the. Marion County, W. Va„ oil field, broke out in the new Commercial hotel. The flames were beyond control when discovered. The building, valued at $(>,000, burned like tinder, ami the fire soon spread in all directions. The total loss was about $50,000. At the meeting of the stockholders of the Alissouri, Kansas and Texas and the Kansas City and Pacific Railway Company for the purpose of consolidating the two lines under the name of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, an injunction was served to prevent the consolidation. The injunction was sent out by the estate of H. S. which holds 111,000 shares es the Kansas City and Pacific stocks In a wreck on the Chicago a.nd Erie Road near Lima, Ohio, one man was killed and four were injured. As the WellsFargo fast express was pulling into Lima the train became unmanageable and dashed past the depot at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The air brakes would not work, The local freight bad jnst pulled info a siding around a curve west of the depot and the switch was . open. A flagman heard the express whistling and ran ahead to flag, but the train dashed into'the siding and into the local engine. A dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph from Gibraltar says the Spanish cruisers Cristobal Colon and Infanta 'Maria Teresa- have left Cadiz for a destination undivulgCd, with six battalions, each 1,000 strong. Additional troops, the dispatch asserts, will leave Cadiz by the mail steamers during the nCxt few days for Cuba. _ . - ; i The remains of Alias Frances Willard were reduced to ashes in the cremator/ at Rose Hill- cemetery, Chicago. They were interred in the Willard family lot in the same burying ground, beside those of her parents and a brother and sister. The Provident Trust Company at St f Paul, Minn., filed a deed of voluntary assignment, naming as assignee Edward Yanish. The deed sets forth that the occasion for the assignment is a judgment for $10,292.50, obtained in an Bction brought by E. De F. Barnet, as assignee pf the estate of It. C. Monger, *