The pioneer express., 1907-08-16

/ A collision between local and inte.
urban street cars on the Waterloo Ce.
dar Rapids & Northern railway be.
tween Waterloo and Cedar Falls.
wrecked both cars and injured two
persons.
Fire starting in restaurant at Az
tell, Neb., nearly wiped out the busi-
ness buildings in the main street of
the town. Eleven buildings, with their
contents, were .destroyed, involving a
loss roughly estimated at 100000.
The nineteen-months-ol daughter Of
Frank Cooper Of Boone. Iowa, who
pulled a plug from washing machine,
allowing gallons of scalding water to
pour over her body, died at the hospi.
tai from the effects of the burns.
Five men were killed and two 9th.
ers mortally wounded near Bordeaux,
France, by the collision Of two cato.
mobiles. One of the cars was compel
ing in the Criterion cup race, 1t
collided while running at full speed
with a touring car.
Tie Cannon Bali train en- the Tex
as & Pacific railroad. east-bound, went
into the ditch four miles east of Dallas,
Tex. All the cars left the track ex-
cept the diner, sleeper and engine. No
one was killed. Several passengers
were seriously injured.
Leaning back too far while at work
Cn top of a thirty-foot pole at Missoula:
Mont. A. c. Clark, lineman. came in
contact with live arc light wire car.
ryins 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 Symington. a member of
the firm of Beauside & Co., is dead at
Lima, Peru.
Emperor William conducted divine
services on board the royal yacht Ho-
henzo!lern Sunday 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 French musical society
participated Sunday, with the approval
Of the German government, in musical
fetes in Alsace.
Leon Maille, the naval reservist.
who fired two revolver shots at Presi.
dent Fallieres on the streets of Paris
July IA 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 $2,500,o00 for gems and
baubles in the course of his European
tour, which is now drawing to an end.
It has been 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
of the king of Siam, as far as the pur-
chase Of jewelry is concerned, con-
tinue to crop out. Among his recent
purchases, it is said, is gold thimble,
covered with diamonds and other
gems, which is valued at $4,000.
1t is asserted that an American syn.
dicate is about to establish 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 part
ner with Gen. U. S. Grant in peddling
firewood in st. Louis, is dead, aged SO
years.