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shackled to chair in the smoking
car on Union Pacific train last night
He awoRe during the night and went
through the detectives pockets, Sc
cured the keys, unlocked the shackles.
| locked up the officer and left the
train at some station. When the de-
tectiye awoke this morning he was un-
able to convince the authorities that
he was an officer and not the prisoner.
It was necessary to wire Chicago be-
fore the officer was released.
HONG KONG, Aug. 1S.-The Chi
nese cruiser Huang Tai and Canadian
| Pacific liner. Empress of India, collid-
ed today The cruiser sank. Her cap
| tain refused TO leave the vessel and
was drowned with thirteen sailors.
The Empress of India saved 10 men.
The Empress of India was badly dam
aged amidships
The Empress of India sailed from
Vancouver July 27 for Hong Kong via
Yokohama
HONG KONG. Aug. 1S.-The steam
er Empress of India belonging to the
Canadian Pacific company. this morn
ing collided with the Chinese chuiser
Huang Tsi sinking the warship The
| captain of the warship and thirteen
men were drowned. The merchant
| man managed to save all the rest of
| the crew, amounting to one hundred
and seventy men.
GEORGETOWN. Ky, Oct. 1S.-Ca-
leb Powers. charged with completely
in the assassination of Governor Goe-
bel. took the stand today in his own
behalf and entered into a specific de-
nial of all charges. He denied having
left Frankfort on the day of the kill
ing, denied having asked Frank Cecil
to secure someone to murder Goebel.
and denied having said that men
from the mountains would do It. He
| said he fled to the mountains after
the assassination on the advice of an
attorney
NEW YORK, Aug. lS.-The work of
measuring the cup yachts began this
morning Because of the larger sail
area. the Reliance will probably have
TO allow Shamrock something over
| minute
PTTTSBURG. Pa, Aug 1S-The re-
port of the death of Senator Quay on
a train while enroute to this city, is
proven to be false by the appearance
of the senator. 1t Is unknown how
the story obtained credence.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Aug 1S-The
situation regarding bridges is un-
changed. Steamboats, are reaping
harvest handling lnter-city traffic.
| DENVER, Colo, Aug. 1S.-Half
| dozen architects are today drawing
plans for a $4,000 Colorado building
for the Worlds fair. A dozen plans
have been prepared, but the cost ran
| from forty to fifty thousand dollars
each. The commissioners rejected all
these and have decided to have one of
1.-The least expensive state buildings ut
| st Louis.
| NEW YORK. Aug 1S-Fourteen
men were injured this morning while
employed at the New York navy yard
on the new battle ship Connecticut. by
a shower OF bolts, which fell heavily
on the men from the rigging above.
| No one was seriously injured
| HOPE, Ida, Aug. 1S.-Reports from
| Clark's Forks state that Judge Henry
l.. Bidwell, one of the most prominent
men In central Idaho, has been acct
| dentally killed at that place.
NEW YORK, Aug. ia dynamite
| cartridge exploded from some un-
| known cause in the subway at One
Hundred and Third street today. One
laborer was fatally injured. and two
seriously injured.
TOPEKA. Kan, Aug. 1.-THE Kaw
river has risen nine inches during the
last twenty-four hours. The danger
| Of break through the old channel
| west OF North Topeka is increasing,
| although continued rise is not ex-
pected without more rain.