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The record-union., 1896-07-01
PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED.
Four Coaches and the Mail, and the
Baggage Car Overturned.

EVANSVILLE Qnd.), June 30.-It is
reported that the Louisville and Nash
vile passenger train from Nashville,
due in this city at 1:20 o'clock this
morning, was wrecked near Slaughters-
vile, Kentucky. Three coaches are
said to have been overturned Several
passengers were injured.
Later.-The wreck occurred immeli-
ately after leaving Slaughtersville.
The record-union., 1896-07-01

The meeting was held behind closed
doors. The committee selected the fol-
lowing delegates to the National Con-
vention: j. B. McCulloch. B. F. Curler
and William Thompson of Washoe, w.
w. Dunn of Storey, j. c. Doughty of
Elko, Chris Danberg of Douglas and J.
]. Lynch of Lander.
J. B. McCulloch, J. NJ. Mccormack
and George Peckham were named as an
Executive Committee for the purpose OF
looking after campaign affairs, and in
their hands the time and place for hold
ing the State Convention was left.
Major Mckinley was denounced as the
common enemy, and the sentiment in
favor of the general unification of the
silver forces was unanimous.
The record-union., 1896-07-01
Sale of the Hirsch Stables.

LONDON, June 3O.-The stud of the
late Baron de Hirsch, the Hebrew mill
ionaire and philanthrophist, was sold
at auction at New Market too day. The
sale realized a total of A $40 guineas.
The bay mare LIE Felicia, by ST. Simon
out of CULVER, the winner of the Oaks
and the 1000 guineas' stakes in 1892,
was sold for 1860 guineas-about
Sc6 O00
The record-union., 1896-07-01
Trial of Forger Becker.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 30-The trial
of Charles Becker, the Prince of For
gers" and James Creegan. the middle
man. who in collusion with A. H Dean
swindled the Nevada Bank of $4,000
by means of a forged check, was opened
in the Superior Court here to-day. A
jury was quickly secured, and the pros
ecution was outlined by the District At
torney, after which adjournment was
taken until tomorrow morning.
The record-union., 1896-07-01
Telephone Companies Consolidated.

NEW YORK, June 3O.-The New
York Telephone Company, which was
incorporated by George j. Gould and
others a few days ago with capital
stock of S16,000,000, to-day took over
the Metropolitan Telephone and Tele-
graph Company. which operates in New
York City and its subsidiary company,
the West Chester Telephone Company
of Yonkers. 1t will accordingly handle
the business of the two companies men
tened, and they will cease to exist in
name.
The record-union., 1896-07-01
Harriet Beecher Stowe Sinking.

HARTFORD (Conn.), June 30.-Har-
riet Beecher Stowe, we'll known as the
author of Uncle Toms Cabin" who
was stricken with congestion of the
brain and paralysis last Friday, has
grown rapidly worse, and to-day
passed into a state of Inconsistencies.
Her physician says that it is doubtful
if she can live over twenty -four hours
The record-union., 1896-07-01

Four day coaches, the mail car and the
baggage car were overturned, the Chi
cago sleeper and the engine remaining
on the track A negro woman and a
Hebrew travelling man, names un-
known, have been taken out of the de-
bris badly injured.
The wreck was caused by the train
striking q drove of cattle
The record-union., 1896-07-01
Cattle Dying From Starvation.

PRESCOTT (Ariz.), June 30.-Cattle
are dying from starvation in all direc
tions on the ranges of Arizona. The
greatest loss is in Verde County, east
ward from Flagstaff and in the Skull
Valley ranges, where the animals are
perishing by thousands In the latter
region the mesa is reported to be en-
tirely bare, and the loss will be unprec-
fGanted
The record-union., 1896-07-01
Horribly Tortured by Thiev es.

LA PORTE Qnd), June 30.-Josepft
Hallenmager of Starke County was
fearfully tortured with red-hot irons
last night by thieves, who forced an en-
trance to his house. Hallenmager was
reputed to have a large sum of money
hidden in the house. but only $5 was
secured. Portions of his body were
burned to d crisp.
The record-union., 1896-07-01
NEVADA POPULISTS.
Delegates Elected to the National
Convention at St. Louis.

RENO (Nev.), June 30.-The Populist
State Central Committee met here to-
day, every county in the State but Hum
boldt and White Pine being represented.
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Death of a Tuiare Citizen.

TULARE, June 30-S. S. Ingham.
pioneer of Tulare, died suddenly to-day
from heart disease. He was a native
of New York and he lived here since
S-S
The record-union., 1896-07-01
I.ynci1iug i'm Missouri.

HANNIBAL (Mo), June 30.-At al
early hour this morning the dead body
of Cecil Wayland was found dangling
from a tree in the woods near his home
in Rails County. A few days ago he
outraged a respectable woman of the
vicinity, and it is supposed that her
friends lynched him.
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Barham RenOminated.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 30.-Con-
eresslnan Barham was unanimously re-
nominated at noon to-day by the Re-
publicans in the First District Con-
Vention.
The record-union., 1896-07-01

Joel Luman of Burtonville, Ky, is SIX
feet four inches tan and weighs 354
pounds, and he has a son and a daugh-
ter each exactly as tall as himself.
though by no means so heavy.
The record-union., 1896-07-01
A Victim of Foul Play.

BAKERSFIELD, June 30-There is
reason to believe that Felix Anliker,
whose body was found in Dry Ditch on
Sunday last, was a victim of foul play.
Anliker left Bakersfield on the 18th
instant for San Luis Obispo in company
with a stranger. He was known to
have considerable money in his possess
sion when he left town, but not a cent
was found on the remains. Deceased
was a temperate and industrious young
man, and well respected. Diligent
search is being made for his companion.
The record-union., 1896-07-01
Suicide at Suisun.

SUISUN, June 30.-George P. Good
win, the only son of Is. F. Goodwin, a
local blacksmith, committed suicide
this evening by shooting himself
through the temple with a revolver.
Deceased was 26 years of age and APP
parently in good healfh and spirits. No
motive for his action is known.
The record-union., 1896-07-01

Conrad Young, artistic photos,
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-04

mad priest is by no means the only
mining monomaniao the stranger hears
of in these parts
The utter wretchedness of the appear
ance of the miners-closely associated as
these men are with the precious metal
is very striking. They present all the
signs of very low physical health and alb
jeot poverty. Most italian beggars look
better fed, better Glad, less dirty, unheal-
thy and detected than these underground
toilers. Apparently their drudgery only
lowers snd does not kill. An old man
who chatted with me at the gsllsry's
mouth said he was 70 and had been q
miner all his life
4 Miners are paid three times as much as
agricultural laborers in harvest time in
this district; that is. the miner gets half
a GROWN a day. He goes to the Minerva
for ten hours, but is off duty for two
hours of that time. Discipline is severe.
A trifle lateness is often pun ished with
dismissal. These men are Aotsd for
spendthrift and unruly habits, and are
good deal dreaded by their nver-ground
neighbors-often, like English colliers,
feasting riotously from pay day till their
money is all spent They declare that
to squander 100 francs, when they have
that sum. Ia the best way to make their
hard life supportable; and there is a
widespread belief that from time to time
they must have high living, or their
hardships would kill them.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-04
Combating a Fool Notion.

There never was a bigger fool notion
In this world, said young Fullback, pull
ing on his padded trousers, ethan this
idea that football is a dangerous game.
These reports about boys getting hurt, !"
he continued, adjusting his shin guards
and fastening them on securely, ARE half
the time Congregations and half the time
they are made out of whole cloth. A fellow
simply can't get injured in game" he
proceeded, stuffing a quantity of wadding
about his hip bones and around his shout
ders and chest, "unless he just wants to
injure himself and does it on purpose
Now, I've been in dozen games this
year"-here he strapped his ear guards
round his head-"and with the exception
of black eye now and then, and one or
two fingers dislocated, or something like
that, I haven't had the slightest injury
Here the young man put on his nose
guard and mouth protector, and shortly
afterward went forth to engage in a harm
less little game of football. - Chicago
Tribune
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-04
MANY NEW GREYHOUNDs.
The Alta ntic Pack Will Receive VAL
liable Additions.

New Ste amships Built to Carry Both
People and Freight.
The transatlantic season of 1896 will see
more new ocean liners in service than
any year in the history of the transatlan.
tic steamship business, says the New York
sun. The announcement by the Ham
burg-Amerioan line Of the building of
the mammoth twin screw freight and
passenger steamer Pennsylvania has
caused the managers of competing lines
to give some details regarding the en-
largement of their ocean fleets. 1t mas
just developed that the Ham burg Ameri-
can line has under construction, in adj
dition to the Pennsylvania, five other
twin-screw vessels all of which will be
delivered during the season OF 1896. Three
of them are being built by Harland &
Wolff of Belfast, and the other three at
the Yarrow yards Of the Palmer Ship
building Company. When these steamers
are in commission the company Will dis
pose of its slower and smaller vessels.
The North German-Lloyd Company has
given the contracts for six new twin
screw steamers of the latest type. Two
of these steamers are to be for their New
York and Southampton express service,
and they will be capable of attaining a
speed of twenty knots an hour. The
Vulcan Shipbuilding Company at Stettin
has the contract for one of these vessels,
and the Sohichan Shipbuilding Company
at Dantzig and Eibing has the contract
for the other express steamer. These
vessels will be 600 feet long aud &c feet
beam. The other four vessels will each
be $40 feet long, and will have a beam f
81 feet. They will have speed of four.
teen knots, being built especially for
freight. They will, however, have ao-
commodations for 200 frst-class and about
1900 storage passengers.
The North German-Lloyd people are
also preparing to increase the speed of
their steamers not in commission. The
Trave is being extensively oyerhauled,
aud when she is again placed in service
she will have new boilers and engines
which are expected to increase her speed
to eighteen knots an hour. The prone
made deck will also be provided with a
protective deck, and other improvements
will be made which will make her as COM
Portable as any of the modern twin-screw
steamers.
The Compagnie Generate Transatlan-
tique, or French line, contemplates in
oreasing it's feet. At present they have
only one twin-screw steamer, La Tour
aine The directors are discussing the
wisdom of building two more twin screw
vessels. larger and faster than the
Touraine. Mr.. A. Forget, the general
agent in this country, who returned from
Europe last September, says that the
building of the vessels is still under ad-
visement 1t is thought that the COM
pany will soon give out contracts for. the
two ships.
The conservative NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-04
MINING IN THE ALPS.
In Pliny's Day the Law Fixed the
Number of Gold Diggers.

Mines Which are Operated To-day-Th,
Mad Parish Priest.
| No new country is complete without a
gold mine; but perhaps it is not gener.
ally known that in this respect even the
eternal Alps are up to date, writes q
correspondent of the Westminster Gazette.
Phny says the gold mines of the Monte
Rosa were so largely exploited in his day
that law was made forbid ding the en-.
ploymen5 of mole than 5000 men in them
at any one time. Apparently they have
never laid idle since Roman times. A
few months ago there were 800 miners at
work at Macugnaga, and there maybe
more now. Two other gold mines are
being actively worked, each being with
in two or three hours tramp from AL
CANA. Macugnaga is eight hours away
from one of these; the other is perhaps
eleven hours off. I'm this district of no
roads, alias bride paths and startlingly
rapid inolines, no matter where you find
yourself. you are always at least eight
hours from the nearest place.
The explanation universally offered
here for increasing mining aotivity-so
difficult to reconcile with the present in
flow of African and Australian gold--is
the recent improvement in gold mining
machinery But some Of the mines near
the source of the Sesia are worked on
very primitive principles The gold bear
ing stone is brought out of the galleries,
nh if fns mo do
ground, by water power. between mill
stones, and the resulting dust is made
to give up its auriferous particles in
washing" by mercury. A subsequent
process separates, by fresh chemical nc
ton, the adhering gold from the mercury
which costly agent is then free to be en-
ployed again in similar operations.
Gold pyrites can be seen in thu stones
on any of the mountains bereabouts.
They glitter, generally at oonsidera bio
intervals, in the stone like little brass
pin-points. have picked up such stones
described as not rich, but gold bearing')
in the Valley Vogna, where the mines
have long been abandoned as too poor
Go pay their working expenses.
The Val Matalone shows che adts of
many disused Mines To one of these a
curious history attaches. The parish
priest was firmly persuaded that great
fortunes lay in his mountain, and he
spent every penny of his patrimony in
tunneling and SO forth. When he had
nothing left to give in wages he turned
miner himself, devoting all his spare time
to hard subterranean toll. DOUBTLESS
there were occasional finds" to keep IN
his hopes, but gold in any quantity was
never brought to the surface, and the
poor Paroco as last went mad He died
insane about nine years ago. Mining has
more than the fascination of gambling.
1t recalls strangely enough. the special
delight of fox hunting perhaps because
of the spice of danger and "the glorious
uncertainty" Of both pursuits TIE
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-04
A Lancashire Lad.

He has in his veins strong dash OF dns
Morse blood, which has saved him from
the dour taciturnity, the brutal coarseness,
the baDality, which marks the pure blood
ed Angle He is good listener a fair talk
er and marvelously quick at grasping any
point which touches his personal interests.
In politics, except where in q few special
cases he and his friends have been goaded
into Liberalism by crushing rents or an
overbearing agent, he carries his attach
ment to Tory doctrines to the verge Of
bigotry, though neither he nor any one
else can give any logical reason why he
should be Tory at all.
His ideas of public duties and their per-
formanoe are those Of two generations ago,
that the ono aim of every member of any
public body should be to keep down the
rates. He is quite content with the distinc-
tion Of possessing some of the worst roads
in the county, will oppose tooth and nail
proposal to supply handkerchiefs to the
workhouse children and regards allot-
ments so soon as he has been brought to
understand what the term means, as ridio-
ulous. But if he has his faults, he Is not
without some solid virtues of the old fash
toned kind. In their tastes and habits he
and his wife are simple, industrious, pains
taking, to an extraordinary degree.
They dress as their grandparents dressed,
the one in the knitted jacket and cordu-
roys, the other in the quaint sunbonnes
and clean, print bodice, with short blue
gown, of half a century ago. They are
gifted with an astonishing power of bat
thing against adverse circumstances, and
there is masculine strain in the wife
which enables her to carry on the farm aft
er her husbands DEATH often more suo-
cessfully than he did himself. -Macmil-
lan's Magazine
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-04

Among the bear stories with which the
New York Sun entertains It's readers IL
one of an unusual sort from San Bernar-
dino county, California. In a wild part
of the county lives VIM. Hamilton, who
keeps honey bee ranch, and ekes out a
living by working in canyon mine a
few miles away. One forenoon Mrs.
Hamilton had been hoeing in the potato
field, and returned to the house to get
dinner.
On entering she was startled by the
sight of bear walking about the
kitchen. She ran out to the woodpile, got
the axe, and hurrying back to the house,
met the bear coming out At sight of
her he retreated to the kitchen. and then,
finding himself cornered, turned upon
the woman, and with one blow of his
paw knocked the axe from her hand.
Now it was the woman's turn to re-
treat, and. shutting the door behind her,
she started after her husband.
Meanwhile Mrs. David, a neighbor, liy-
Ing in an opposite direction, had set out
for the Hamilton farm with quart bowl
to borrow vinegar. AS she reached the
house, and was passing the sitting room.
she was frightened almost out of her
senses by seeing bears head protruding
from the half open window. She threw
the bowl at his head, and started back
homeward rs fast as she could run.
There she found her sixteen-year-old
son, to whom she communicated tba
startling news that there was huge bear
in the hamilton house, and that he had
undoubtedly killed and eaten Mrs. Ham
iltop. Otherwise why had nothing
been seen or heard of that good woman?
John ridiculed the story of course. but
seized his gun, and, followed by his
mother, FASTENED to the Hamilton place
Once there he looked in at the window
No bear was to be seen. He entered the
kitchen. There was no bear there. The
cellar door stood open, and the how
started down the steps. In another nom.
emit he heard snort, and out of the
darkness came the bear.
The startled boy dropped h is gun. ran
up the steps, and out of the house slam
ming the kitchen door between himself
and this bear.
The woman ran horneward, and her
son in the opposite direction. He soon
met Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton and a work
ingmen who had q rifle. The party an
preached the house cautiously, but on
peeping in at the windows could find
no sign of the intruder Then they went
inside. and with a lamp the two men
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-04

Steam Navigation Company also proposes
to put new and modern steamers in it
feet. 1t has already contracted for ar
8, 00O-ton twin-sorew steamer, WIFI Oh will,
accommodate 200 first class, $50 secont
class, and large number of steerage pas
sengers.
So far only the companies running tc
Continental ports have announced thu
building of new steamers. The Cunard
White Star, and American lines say tina,
they have no intention of giving out any
contracts for next season. Another sig
nlf1cant feature is that most of the new
ocean greyhounds are being built in Eng
lish shipyards. 1t is said that the Ger.
man shipyards are so crowded with work
that most of them have enough to keep
them occupied until the end of the season
of 1897. This made it necessary for them
to forego bidd ing on some of the German
vessels that are being built in English
yards. Then again the British lines are
not adding to their fleets, and as result
the ship builders in England are not
ovcrorowded with orders.
Ihe policy OF all the transatlantic lines,
as outlined i'll their building operations,
Is to construct vessels with view of car.
rying large quantities of freight instead
Of building exclusively passenger ships.
One of the agents, in speaking Of this,
said:
MISREPRESENTATION causes this. The big
twenty-one knot passenger flyer 9, such as
the Lucania and Campania, have demon.
strated that they are not profit earners.
All their space is utilized in accommoda.
tlon for passengers. 1t requires small
fortune to run these vessels, and unless
on each trip. they are filed with passen-
gers they are run at great sacrifice. They
can carry little or no cargo, and depend
for their profits on The passenger business
exclusiely. AS result good portion OF
the year these vessels are laid up simply
because it does not pay to run them.
Future transatlantic vessels will be bull
with view Of geUting the freight bust
ness as well as the passenger trade. The
experience of the Cunard line with their
Luoanla and Campania has demonstrated
the truth of this. For financial reasons
solely 1t will be some time before two
such steamers are again built"
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-04
PLANT INHABITANTS.
Curious Ideas About Possible People on
Other Planets.

1t is common to hear people speak of
the possibility of the planets being in
habited, and the discussion of the ques-
| ton often brings out some curious ideas
concerning the supposed planetary beir gs,
says the ST. Louis Republic. The major
ity of people never imagine that 1t is pos
siblesthat thegreat worlds which we know
only as shining points of light can be
peopled by other than creatures resemb-
ling the highest type of animal life on
this globe.
Such persons, although they may be
able to tell you the exact weight of the
earth in tons, pounds and ounces; the
minimum and maximum temperature f
the surface of the sun at different seasons,
becomes an arid waste, never stop to
think what would he the effect on stature
of persons living on such gigantic worlds
as some of the stars are known to be.
The dark planet which accompanies the
giant star A1gal is known to ba moro
than 100000 times larger than this
earth, but its density is so slight that it
is only about $4,000 times heavier than
our globe. You are now thinking that
the inhabitants of this monster planet
must be at least 5000, 600 feet in height
(if they are constructed upon such plan
as the world upon which they reside)
but such is probably not the case. The
density of the planet would have great
deal to do when it came to a question of
size and weight. Figuring with density
and size both as basis, Vogel came to
the conclusion that the averge man on
AlgaPs companion world would be S4A
feet in height and weigh between 700
and 800 pounds. Arnold and Mettern1ch
both figured from the same data, adding
that of the intensity of gravity and gave
a string of corrected calculations" in
proof of the assertion that man on that
planet would never grow to exceed fifteen
inches in height, but would spread out over
quarter of an acre OF ground !!