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MISSOURI OUTLAWRY.
PASSENGER TRAIN HELD UP BY
SIX BANDITS.
Tho Express Car Blown Open and
Over Five Thousand Dollars
Stolen.
Stolen.
Special to the RECoRD-UN1ox.

opeclal 10 Jne RECORD-UNION.
ST. Louis, May pa west-bound Mis-
souri-Pacific passenger train was held up
and robbed thirty miles west of St. Louis
tonight by six men. Over s., 900 was Sc
cured, the express and railway officials
say. The amount is probably in excess
of their estimate.
a short distance the other side of Pa
citic man climbed over the tender, and,
holding a revolver to the engineers head,
said: sit will be id healthy for you
to stop here right now" The engineer
stopped. Five confederates appeared,
and without any preliminary services the
door of the express car was blown open.
The robbers secured about $500 in cash
from the safe, and package valued at
$1,000.
The engineer was then told to ego
ahead like HI, and make up for lost
time"
None of the passenger cars were en-
tered. Governor Stone and State Treas
urer Stephens were aboard the train, and
the former at once offered $500 reward for
the arrest and conviction of each of the
bandits.
A posse is securing the country for
them, and it is thought they will shortly
be captured.
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LAND ENTRIES.
Decision Departing From a Long
Established Custom.

Decision Departing From a Long
Established Custom.
WASHINGTON, May 24.-The Secretary
Of the Interior has delivered decision
which is departure from Iong-estab-
lished customs and usages in the depart
ment. Hitherto, whenever an entryman
upon the public domain died the privi-
leges of the homestead went to his widow,
and in the event Of her death, to his
minor heirs. If he left any Of adult age
they were debarred from enjoying any Of
the privileges Of heirship, 50 far as the
public domain was concerned. This was
because of the strict construction placed
upon the statutes by the Supreme Court
OF the United States, which recently de-
cided that where an entryman and his
wife die all his heirs, whether of adult
age or minors, should share equally in
the estate left, so far as were concerned
the rights acquired in the public domain.
In consequence of this decision Secretary
HOke Smith to-day decided that the for
mer custom should be abrOgated and the
practice conform to the decision of the
court
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SAN DIEGO AND PHOENIX ROAD
Important Changes in the Plans De-
clded Upon.

SAN DIEGO, May 24.-Important
changes in the plans OF the San Diego and
Phoenix road are decided upon, because
of the offer from E. S. Babcock of the
Coronado Beach Company to give the
new company traffic right over the Coro-
nado Belt Line branch for a year with the
option of buying. This branch line runs
to the Otay Pumping Works, and to a
straight connection with the old Tom
Scott survey, which the new company
proposes to adopt, but to get through
National City Surveyor Sanford has been
obliged to run along the north instead of
the south edge of Otay Valley, where the
Tom Scott line is.
To-day he was recalled and began an
other survey from the Otay Pumping
Works along the south side of the valley
for direct connection. Farmers along
the route nave given ten miles free right
ot-way for it and promise to ship pro-
ducts over the new line. Sanford is also
setting the grade stakes and construction
will probably begin next month.
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Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
MONTREAL CAM, May pa shock
ing accident took place here this morn
ing, in which three children were burned
to death, and one was so fatally injured
that the chances are against its recovery.
a French-Canadian family named
Brouillet, consisting Of father, mother
and four children, lived in a tenement
house on Gareau lane. This morning the
parents started to fill several bedticks
with fresh straw. While the room was
Uttered with the infiammable material
one Of the children, in spirit Of mischief,
touched a match to the straw and in
stantly the whole room was in d blaze.
The mother attempted to save her chill
dren, but was dragged from the room by
her husband. Then he dashed into the
! room and succeeded i'll bringing out one
of the children. His next attempt to
enter the room was vain, for it had be-
come like a furnace.
Three of the children were burned to
death, and when the bodies were recov-
cred they were found to be unrecogniz-
able. The father and the fourth child
were taken to the hospital TOR treatment
Brouillet, while terribly burned, will re-
cover, but it is believed that the child
will die.
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COLONIAL DIFFICULTIES
Are Again Menacing the French Gov
ernment.

Are Again Menacing the French Gov
ernment.
PARIS, May 24.-ColoniaI difficulties are
again menacing the French Government.
Official dispatches from Siam regarding
the situation are exceedingly vague, and
evidently intended to hide French re-
verses until an adequate naval force can
be concentrated.
The AdmiraPs flagship Triumphante is
coaling at Hongkong and preparing to
sail for Siam.
The cruiser Forfair is lying at Saigon.
awaiting orders.
The question is further complicated by
a demand of French subjects for in
demnity for damages. One Of them
claims l00,000f
In an interview Admiral Vallon. au-
thority upon colonial affairs, inveighed
against the subpineness Of the Govern
ment in the face Of English intrigues
both in Siam and Madagascar, and de-
clared more energetic policy must be
pursued at both places
Dcs DebatS declares the hasty occupa-
ton Of khong, before the rise Of the Me-
kong River, was a tactical mistake. and
atfirms on private information that
French officials throughout the south of
Indo-China, Cochin China and Cambodia
complain OF being left without instruc-
tions in the midst of their trouble.
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DROUGHT AND FLOODS.
Great Damage to Crops From All Part
of the Continent.

Great Damage to Crops From All Parts
of the Continent.
PARIS, May 24.-Reports of great dam
age caused by drought and floods come
from all parts of the continent. Two
months Of drought in France, it is esti-
mated, destroyed over 30,OOO,000 francs
worth of crops. A dispatch from Rome
says that rain in Northern Italy saved
the people from much of the enormous
loss threatened by drought The crops on
the Roman Campagna are ruined.
BERLIN, May 24.-The drought remains
unbroken. Official statistics concerning
the Prussian crops show that the king
dom has suffered heavy losses. The hav
crop is complete failure.
BUCHAREST, May 24.-The recent floods
devastated large districts of Roumania.
Whole villages are submerged and many
railway bridges destroyed. Traffic on
the railroads and highways in some
places is suspended.
Moscow, May 24-Locusts are ravag-
ing nearly the whole province of Saratoff.
ROME, May 24.-Rain has been falling
in torrents in Piedmont. The rivers are
overflowing the lowlands. Several viii
lagos are under water and the bridges
have been swept away. The railroads
are flooded and traffic is suspended in
some places.
VIENNA, May 24.-Czernowitz, on the
River Pruth, has been visited by a disas-
trOus flood. Five persons were drowned
and many rendered homeless.
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Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.

GRASS VALLEY, May A.-Jas. Carlyon
was killed at the North Star mine last
night at o'clock. He had quit work for
the night, and bidding his friends on the
landing good-by, started down the gang
way toward the cellar of the shaft. AT the
mouth of the shaft is large tly-wheel
revolving with great rapidity. Carlyon
must have stumbled and fallen against
the wheel. The wheel caught him and
threw him thirty feet down the incline
shaft. No one saw the wheel strike him,
but the men on the landing felt the jar,
and saw an object going down the shaft
with such lightning rapidity that they
could not tell whether it was human
being or not. When found by some of
the miners coming up the shaft at the
time Carlyon was dead, and must have
been killed instantly, as his body was
torn, broken and bruised in a frightful
manner. The neck was broken, also the
right collar bone and the left arm. The
skull was crushed on the left side, and
the back of the head torn open. No one
is responsible for the accident. The un-
fortunate man was a native of California.
aged a and unmarried. lie leaves a
father, mother, grown sisters and brothers
here.
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AN INNOCENT IMPRISONED.
A Chinaman Sent to Prison for a Muir
der He Did Not Commit.

der He Did Not Commit.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 24.-The Chroa-
icIe says: After more than twelve years
in servitude in San Quentin Prison, it
transpires that Quan All Chez, a China
man, is innocent Of the murder of Chin
Guam Lin, another Chinaman, for which
he was convicted, and his pardon has
been decided upon by Governor Mark
ham.
Chin Quan Linn was shot during a game
of dominoes in Chinese shop off Du-
pont street. Other Cinnamon swore that
Quau All Chez was the murderer, and
upon their evidence he was convicted
and sentenced to prison for life.
One Chow All Yee. highbinder. who
was mixed up in the affair, was hunted
diligently by the police at the time. but
he fled to Australia. Several local de-
tectives have recently become interested
in the affair, having long suspected that
Quan All Chez was innocent, and an in
vestigation was finally begun. Facts
were brought to light which fastens the
crime on Chow All Yee, and vindicates
the inmate of San Quentin. He will be
released in a few days.
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Special to the RECoRD-UN1ox.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
CHICAGO, May 24.-People outside of
Chicago are apparently beginning to re-
ailze that the Worlds Fair is really open,
ana business at the ticket Office is begin
ming to fairly boom. The hotel proprie-
tors, too, are realizing the fact, as their
rooms are rapidly filling up. Since
opening day almost three-ouarters Of a
million people have paid for admission to
the white City" and the attendance
seems on steady increase.
The nrst of the European excursionists
to the fair arrived to-day, one French
and one German party, and the managers
say more will come each week.
An effort was made at a meeting Of tIra
National Commission to have the Sunday
opening question brought UP again.
Commissioner Hundley claimed that
when the commission substituted the
minority report of the Judiciary Com
mlttee for the majority report, and then
declined to adopt the recommendation of
the minority report for certain amend
ments to the directory's Sunday opening
rule, the majority report must come up
Tor action. A heated discussion followed.
and the matter was made a special order
for tomorrow,
Aside from the British and Canadian
celebration of Queen Victoria's birthday.
the center Of attraction to-day seemed to
De the German Government building and
the German exhibit in the Manufacturers'
| building.
WILL BE OPEN NEXT SUNDAY.
CHICAGO, May 24.-The Chicago Times
tomorrow will print a story claiming
that the Worlds FAIR cannot be closed on
Sunday by injunction. According to the
Times, the United States, as complainant.
would have no grounds on which to ask
an injunction, nor would Sabbatarian.
for that matter. Commissioner St. Clair
satisfied himself on that point by holding
a conference with a number Of ATTORNEYS.
The Times will also print dispatch from
Washington agreeing with this opinion.
Director-General Davis said to-day that
from his understanding the gates would
be open next Sunday, and he should 50
direct unless restrained by a more inn
perative injunction than an order from
the President of the National Commits
sion.
THE LAW NOT YET VIOLATED.
| WASHINGTON, May 24.-United States
District Attorney NIilchrist of Chicago
had an interview with the Attorney-Ge
eral to-day about tie action of the United
States Commission in deciding to permit
| the Worlds Fair to open on Sunday. In
| advance of any violation of the law, the
AttOrney-General declined to give Mil
al riG IA
formed him that until such violation was
| officially presented to him he must use
his own discretion. Milchrist left here
for Chicago this evening, and if the fair
| is opened on Sunday it is believed he will
go into the United States Circuit Court
and ask for an injunction restraining tho
| Commissioners from further Sunday
| opening.
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REGISTRATION OF CHINESE.
No One Able to Predict What Course
the Government VIII Take.

No One Able to Predict What Course
the Government VIII Take.
WASHINGTON, May 24.-It was stated
that Secretary Carlisle had gone so far as
to have instructions ready looking to the
enforcement of the Chinese registration
law, when it was announced that he had
rescinded his order shortly after he re-
turned from the White House, where he
had attended the regular Tuesday Cabi-
net session. 1t cannot be learned what
caused this quick change Of policy. When
seen later, Secretary Carlisle denied hav-
ing issued any instructions. He claimed
that no new move had been contemplated
during the day. The supposition, how
ever, Is that President Cleveland dis
agreed with the Secretary of the Treas
ury and instructed him to delay matters
for the present. At any rate, enough is
known about the contents of the sup
posed suppressed circular TO state authen-
tically that the instructions provided for
proceeding against the Celestials who are
in the country unlawfully under the Act
of 1884, and also to begin operations un-
der the Geary law just so far as its provi-
sions could be put into effect with the
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THE FREIGHT WAR.
Transportation Matters Getting Warm
at the Bay.

Transportation Matters Getting Warm
at the Bay.
SAN Francisco. May 24.-The contest
over transportation rates is waxing
warm. The North American Navigation
Company are pursuing extraordinary
methods TO support that enterprise. Re-
Gently John T. Doyle approached the real
estate firm ofSchainwald, Buck bee & Co.
and informed them that the Executive
Committee of the Traffic Association had
assessed them s., 600 for the support oftbe
North American Navigation Company.
Mr.. Schainwald protested against such an
assessment being levied on their firm.
because they were real estate dealers. not
interested in the sale of freight. Mr..
DOYLE left, but later returned TO inform
Mr.. Schainwald that he had secured a
reduction of the assessment to s., 500. He
protested that in his former statement he
had asked to be released altogether on the
ground that he was not merchant. or
engaged in the importation or exporta-
ton of goods. A day or two later the
firm were informed that they were dis
charged from further attention to the
business of Mrs. Donahue. The house
had some of the Donahue property in its
charge, and Mr.. Doyle, being the attor-
ney for the owner, informed them that
no more business could be expected from
Mrs. Donahue. The incident is accepted
by those who have commented upon it as
an evidence that the North American
Navigation Company is not earning ex-
penses, and that these extraordinary boy
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THE CLEVELAND SUICIDE.
TOwner and Mrs. Allen Well Known
in san Diego County.

in san Diego County.
San DIEGO, May 24.-This mornings
dispatch from Cleveland, o., about the
suicide at a hotel there of L. L. Towner
OF Denver, who had arrived from the
West with Mrs. +. NJ. Allen Tor Brown
of San Francisco, but who sought law
yer for protection from Towner, who
threatened suicide if she would not marry
him, creates no particular surprise here,
where the pair had been living up to early
in March. The woman went by the name
OF Brown, was reputed to be divorcee
from Texas, had $1,000 worth of dia-
monds, was dressy and seemed to have
plenty of money. Towner had been man
aging ranch in the Linda Vista Irriga-
ton District, and was accordingly elected
Collector for that district. There was a
rumor that he was short in his accounts
at about the time of his leaving, but the
directors say that the district owes him
about as much as he was in debt to them.
When the pair left here Towner had
81 200 cash, and after a night at San Ber-
nardino they went to the Palace Hotel at
San Francisco, en- route to the Worlds
Fair. Both are about 50 years of age, and
tho woman always seemed to be the one
who was doing the courting.
The supposition is that worry about his
accounts here may have caused the sui
eide, as it is said he left numerous unpaid
debts about town.
The acquaintance of Towner say his
home was at Minneapolis, kas., where his
father and two sisters lived. He came
here in 1887, and was generally employed
as a manager of ranches. He got ac-
quainted with Mrs. Brown at riding
school, and became intimate. He had
rooms in the same lodging-house, and
they sat together at the hotel where they
boarded. The woman drove good deal,
and has vehicles IN storage here now.
CHARGED WITH E9IBEZzLEMENT.
CLEVELAND, May 24.-Fanny Allen,
alias Mrs. Brown, the woman connected
with last nights tragedy at the Hollen-
den, in which L. +. Towner committed
suicide, is at the City Hospital in a seri-
Gus condition. She seems completely
prostrated.
The following telegram was received
from Cincinnati concerning the case: :
"l5. E. Towner is wanted at San Diego.
Cal, on a charge Of embezzlement He
held the office of Tax Collector of the
Linda Vista Irrigation District He was
high-roller and spent money freely.
During his term he lived with a hand
some young woman about % years old,
and they lived royalty. When he was
succeeded by new Collector, Towner
LEFT with the woman. An examination of
the books showed that ne was short
several thousand dollars. Officers
searched for him, but he and the woman
had fled. 1t is supposed that the woman
who was with him is the same one, and
that his money being gone, she tried to
leave him, causing him to commit sLi-
cide.n
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WANT THEM DEPORrED.
sixteen Complaints Sworn Out Before
Commissioner Van Dyke.

sixteen Complaints Sworn Out Before
Commissioner Van Dyke.
Los ANGELES, May 24.-F II. Crowell,
Herbert Sinister, John G. Hottinger and
Thomas Moran are four cooks, members
of the Federated Trades, who appeared
before United States Commissioner Van
Dyke at o'clock to-day and presented to
him sixteen complaints made out against
various Chinese.
The complaints being drawn under the
recent Chinese Deportation Act, Commits
sioner Van Dyke administered oaths OF
several persons TO the complaints, but de-
clined to issue warrants until Judge Ross
had indorsed an order to that effect.
The men have no hesitation in saying
that they want the jobs the Chinese are
now holding down. Judge Ross is away
and did not return this afternoon.
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TWO MEN SHOT.
a Sleeping-Car Porter Kills Man and
Wounds an Officer.

CHICAGO, May 24.-Hugh Etter, a col
ored sleeping-car porter, this afternoon
took offense at David Sheriff. because the
latter talked to the sister ofa woman with
whom Etter is infatuated. Drawing a re-
volver, he shot Sheriff. through the
body.
He then ran, but was arrested by Off
Ger Harris. on the way to the station he
drew a knife and cut the officer in sew
eral places. The latter became very weak
from the loss of blood and was falling to
the ground. Etter seized the officers re-
volver and was about to shoot him, when
Officer Owen O'Connor came up.
The crazed negro fired two shots at
OConnor, and was then shot down by
the latter. Sheriff. died on his way to
the hospital aud Etter cannot live. Or
er Harris is badly hurt.
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GRAND LARCENY CHARGED.
y Stockton Real Estate Dealer Indicted
by the Grand Jury.

Stockton Real Estate Dealer Indicted
by the Grand Jury.
STOCKTON, May 4.-L. q. Brattin, a
real estate dealer, who has been here three
months, was to-day indicted by the
Grand Jury and arrested on a charge Of
grand larceny. Failing 10 furnish s., 800
bail, he went to Jail this evening. He is
charged with having appropriated $3.50,
which he induced County Clerk Yolland
to advance him to be used in making a
land trade.
He led Yolland to believe that he had a
purchaser for tract of land owned by
the County Clerk, and had promised tho
purchaser to bring him buyer for part
OF the land. He said he needed $3.50 10
deposit with the purchaser as evidence of
good faith, and would return the money
in day or two, when the purchaser
would pay 81, 200 on the ranch trade. That
was month ago. To-day the alleged
purchaser says he received no coin from
Brattin, and on his testimony and that of
Yolland the indictment was found.
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TYPE MEASUREMENT.
No Action Yet Taken by the America
Publishers Association.

No 1ACIlOn let 1akeu Dy the American
Publishers Association.
CHICAGO, May 24.-It was expected
that the American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association, at their meeting to-day,
would take action for or against the pro-
posed new system of measuring type, by
which, whether type were lean or fat,
the compensation paid compositors would
be uniform. The subject was given care
ful attention in executive session. The
result was decision to refer the matter
to the Committee on Type Measurement
and the Executive Committee, with
power to act. In the regular session
members discussed folding and mailing
machines, and took action looking to the
appointment Of committee Of experts to
continue to seek an ideal apparatus.
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PoTTER's BODY FOUND.
Supposed to Have Been Murdered 70
His Money.


His Money.
RIVERSIDE, May 24.-Continued in
vestigation into the case OF the disappear
ance of c. a. Potter of San Jacinto shows
plainly that the body found near this city
a month ago is that of Potter.
1t will be remembered that Potter left
home for Oregon with $500 to close a
land deal, since which time nothing has
been heard of him until the body was
found near here eight days after Potter's
disappearance.
The body has been exhuned twice for
investigation and was again exhumed to-
day, when the startling discovery was
made that the body was that of Potter.
The officers have some suspicion OF a
man who is supposed to have murdered
Potter for his money.
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KINGS COUNTY.
Result of the Election to Divide Tulare
County.

HANFoRD, May 24.-The election to di-
eide upon division of Tulare County was
held yesterday and resulted: 1,150 to $50
in favor of division. The antis were
backed by the capital OF the large land
holders and pleaded high taxation. Han
ford is the county seat of the new
Kings County. Preparations are being
made for great ratification. The follow
ing officers were elected: Superior Judge,
Justin Jacobs; District Attorney, NJ. L.
Short; Clerk, Francis Cunningham; Tax
Collector, Frank Peacock; Assessor, John
Rourke; Treasurer, w. H. Slavin; School
superintendent. c. A. McCourt; Auditor,
G. G. Farnsworth; Coroner, B. r. Glow
Supervisors-S. L. Biddle, ]. G. Mackay,
Frank Mcclellan, w. G. Long. Sur
veyor, Z. P. Irwin. The Sheriff and Re-
corder are in doubt.
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ROUND TRIP RATES.

The Atchison Rond Fixes Them Prom
Various Points.
CHICAGO, May 24.-The Atchison road
this afternoon sent word to Chairman
Caldwell of the Western Passenger Asso-
citation that next Monday the Atchison
would put into effect round trip rates az
follows: Missouri River and Chicago,
Sl7 50; Denver and Chicago, S37 50. The
present rate of $40 from Colorado COM
mon points to Missouri River points will
be sustained. The Atchison will make
the rate from Colorado common points to
st. Louis and return So. The rate from
other points will be figured out as rap
idly as possible.
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Severe Earthquakes in Greece.

ATHENS, May 24.-The town of Thebes
was shaken by an earthquake again to-
day. Many houses collapsed, and many
others were made uninhabitable by par
tial displacement of the foundations.
One person was killed and several in
jured. The Inhabitants are afraid to re-
main in their houses and are camping
out. The Government has forwarded a
large number Of tents for shelter.
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Dartmouth Won.

WORCESTER (Mass.), May 24.-Dart-
mouth won the athletic sports of the New
England Intercollegiate Association to-
day, Amherst second, Brown third, Wes-
leyan fourth. Jarvis, the Wesleyan dis
tance runner, broke the one and two
mile records, after magnificent running
and close finishes, the time being 1927
and lO:8 So.