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cept the diner, sleeper and engine. No
n was killed. Several passengers
We're seriously injured.
Leaning back too far while at work
on top of a thirty-foot pole at Missoula,
Mont, A. C. Clark, a lineman, came in
contact with a live arc light wire car
rying about 5000 volts and received
the full voltage through his body.
Death was instantaneous.
Foreign.
Richard James Meade, fourth earl Of
Clan William, is dead in London.
Thomas S%ymington, a member of
the firm of Beauside & Co, is dead at
Lima, Peru.
Emperor William conducted divine
services on board the royal yacht Ho-
henzollern Gunday morning. Emperor
Nicholas was present.
The government of Peru has estab-
lished bonded warehouses at Callao
and installed the warrant system of
putting merchandise in bond.
Baron Edouard de Rothschild of the
firm of De Rothschild Freres, bankers
of Paris, has been decorated with the
cross Of the Legion of Honor.
For the first time since the Franco.
Prussian war a French musical society
participated Sunday, with the approval
of the German government. in musical
fetes in Alsace.
Leon Maille. the naval r%eservist
who fired two revolver shots at Presi
dent Fallieres on the streets of Paris
July ID last, has been declared insane
and sent to an asylum.
The king of Siam has a generous
taste for jewelry. He is credited with
having spent 50, 500, 900 for gems and
baubles in the curse of his European
tour, which is now drawing to an end.
1t has beer officially announced at
ST. Petersburg that the provinces of
Astrakhan, Saratov, Simbirsk, Ufa.
Kazan and Nizhni-Novogorod are
threatened with an outbreak of chol
era.
Stories regarding the extravagances
vi N hlllS vi oldlll, do ldI DIS lllS DuI-
chase of jewelry is concerned, con-
tinue to crop out. Among his recent
purchases, it is said, is a gold thimble,
covered with diamonds and other
gems. which is valued at $75,0
1t is asserted that an American syn.
dictate is about to establish a bank at
Montevideo. Several American mer-
chants and manufacturers have resolv-
ed to open branches also to increase
the number of steamships plying be-
tween New York and Montevideo.
Domestic.
Thomas Morrison, at one time a part
ner with Gen. u. S. Grant in peddling
firewood in St. Louis, is dead, aged SO
years.
The Union Pacific railroad has or
dered the construction of 100 gasoline
motor cars for use on the branch lines
of the company.
The great potato crop of Aroostock
county, Maine, estimated this season
at 5000. 900 bushels, is seriously men
aced by continued wet weather.
Workmen excavating in Marysville,
N. B., uncovered 1O2 Spanish gold
coins of the eighteenth century. The
money is worth about $4,000.
Jefferson Scott. undoubtedly the old
est man in Ohio. Is dead at the Seneca
county infrmary, where he has been
for three years. He was over 113
years of age.
Judge Smith Mcpherson, in the Uni
ted States district court at Kansas
restraining order to prevent the ell
forcement of the Kansas stock food in
spection law.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is
Ill at his hotel in Portland, Or, and
declines to see any one. Jasper viii
son, the secretary's son. said that his
father contracted a severe cold on his
trip from Puget sound to Portland.
Postoftice Inspector James T. Cor
telyou, brother Of Secretary George b.
Cortelyou. will be called upon to ex-
plain why he borrowed 5000 from
OohAOo HlCSIltu, LAC Ne
publican boss of Kearney, N. j. Cor.
telyou was in charge of the Jersey City
district when he borrowed the money
from Freeman.
The excavations along the line of
the Panama canal during the month
of July We're as follows: At Culebra
cut, 770,570 cubic yards; at Gatum,
1885 cubic yards, and at Mindi, 731
cubic yards. The dredging of the ca
nal rs estimated at PIT, 210 cubic yards,
making in all a total of 1,O5S,776 cubic
yards.
Five generals will attend the eighth
annual reunion Of the National Socie.
ty OF the Army of the Philippines at
kansas City, Aug. Is, IA, .15 and 16.
Iney are Gen. Macarthur. Gen. Hale,
Smith. Gen. King and Gen. Met.
cali.