Tombstone epitaph., 1893-04-30
BY WIRE,

httie over %, ana they VIII reach Chicago in thirteen days. The car Is fitted up with sn eye tO comfort, ca:- pets and rugs being on the floor, and a kitchen fully equipped occupying one portion. They expect to remain dur ing the fair.
 WAsHISGToN-President Cleveland will be absent from Washington six day in connection with the ceremon- ies attending the naval review at New York and the opening of the Colum- bian exposition at Chicago.
 CHIcAGo-The magnificent new srmory of the First Regiment Illinois National Guard. was destroyed by ire early this morning. Two men are known to have perished in the flames. l. is supposed six others shared the same fate.
 DENvER- Commencing tomorrow the Rio Grande vii; make the round trip Tate to Chicago $45. On April 2S the Rio Grsnde will make a sweeping reduction. San Francisco will be cut from $o5 to $iS.45; Santa Fe, N. M., rom Sl7.SO to $5; Deming, N. M., from S2o 3j to $l7. 70: Fl Paso, Texas, from $29.7O to $Is.i5. Tie santa Fe will undoubtedly meet ;he Rio Grande's reduced rates tomorrow. CHICAGo-rwo hundred Zulus for the Wor d's Fair arrived this morning l and created a sensation. The first in tIniatipn of their approach was a cali for police. A squad uf blue coats sent out 10 meet the train at 6lst street found the tram crew tesieged in the baggage car and the Zuius in pusses- sion oi the train. It seems that one of their number lost something and they held the conductor responsible They were only pacified after a long palaver and taken to their destination within the rruuad..
 WASHINGTON - Ali applicants for office will be obl ged 10 wait | week longer, until the return of the pre-. l. ienI and members of nis Cab net, who
 'ave gone to New Yv,k. thence to , Chicago, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico anI Arizona are included ia the waiting applicants.
 DESvER-The Missouri Pacific and Rock Island are assisting the Denver and Rio Grande in its inaugural rate war. The cut has not been met by other roads yet, but 1t is believed that It will be done, and that by July Ist, the fare 10 Chicago on all the princi- pal lines throughout the United States will be merely nominal.
 WAsHINGToN-Thep president today announced the following appoint 1 ments: To be government directors "f lhe Union Pacific Railway-H, nry F. Dinner of New York, Don M. Dick inson Of Michigan. J. W. Doane oi Illinois, Fitzh Igh Lee of Virginia, James W. Murd dock of Nebraska; Otto .'-in 'f i,linui- 10 be consul of the i.'' Si't ar L~Ip>ic, David G. s,t'' lee coli.c,ur ol customs fu
 'ar ,iI- rIri o, Montana and Idaho. rh- president Ioiay designated A fttt Secretary HamIin To act as --cr-iary ui the treasury in the ab- .ence oi Secretary Carlisle, who leaver rhis afternoon with the presiden: and other members of the cabinet to be I;.s-nt two weeks.
 WasHINGTON-The railroad ticket brokers habeas corpus case has been decided m the supreme court. The law agsiust "-calpiny" has been de- clared unconstitutional.
 CENTER POINT, Oregon-It is report. ed that the richest gold strike since 1852 has just been made in southern Oregon. The people are wild with ex- citemeLt and hundreds are preparing to 70 10 the new 6elds.