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Show Chicago, Aug. 28.-The Times refers this morning to the scheme reported from the Burlington & Quincy R. R. with the Central Pacific and thus to stop the Colorado pool traffic. This would leave the Union Pacific out so far as San Francisco business is concerned. Villard and the Northern Pacific alone would stand in for the old Pacific syndicate. The Times does not consider such a consolidation unlikely of impracticable. It would virtually control all traffic between San Francisco and Chicago. WATKIN, N. Y. Aug. 25.-Seven hundred delegates were in attendance at the Free Thinkers Convention to day. The following committee on the establishment of a free thought university was perfected. Col. Ingersoll and Courtland Palmer of New York; Hon. A. B. Bradford, of Pennsylvania; Geo. Chancy, of Boston; J. H. Burnham, of Michigan, G. H. Watson, of Missouri, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, of New Jersey, Col. M. L. Billings, of Iowa; ex-Governor Charles Robinson of Kansas, Hon. C. B. Walte of Illinois; John F. Eagle of North Carolina. Addresses were made by George Chancy, Matilda Joselyn Gage, George C. Milne, and Thaddeus B. Wakeman. To-morrow afternoon the delegates take a boat excursion to the house where Robert G. Ingersoll was born, twenty-five miles down the lake. MISSOURI VALLEY, Iowa, Aug. 25.-Despite the Governor's proclamation, saloons openly carry on business. The prohibitionists know best whether they can prosecute successfully since the legislature failed to enact a penalty. A test case yesterday resulted in a complete victory for the saloon interests. The case was tried before Judge Donaldson. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 26.-A mob met the colored prisoners Savage and James, this morning at Madison, and 12 or 13 ?? in and riddled the prisoners with bullets. They had cut the wires and prevented communication. The prisoners killed Frank Patterson, Case, ?? and Finley during an election row. They were on their way to have a ?? trial. |