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Show SANTA THE SUN. Telegraphto Brevities. Tbe first snow of the season fell at Gains-VlllTexas, Tuesday. UTAH. Tbe settlers In Oklahoma are suffering Shines every Saturday morning from the from tbe cold weather. basement of Malcolm & Hughes block. Two more cases of genuine Asiatic cholera are reported at Hamburg. SCOTT & HOLT, Proprietors, There are 1,1109 students at Yale college this MILTON L. SCOTT, Editor. year, against 1,784 one year ago. Revenue officers have just broken up the SUBSCRIPTION KATES! Illicit distilleries In North Carolina. One Year.... The thermometer registered fifteen degrees $2 00 Six Months 1 (HI below zero at Dubuque, Iowa, on the 20tb. ISO Three Months Mr. Gladstone haa decided not to appoint 05 Single Copies..,,. any successor to Tennyson as poet laureate. Adlal Stevenson, the next vice president, visited Aluhaina on the 20th and was royally A LAKE WITHIN A GLACIER. received. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone arrived In Paris on The Cause of tha Alpine Disaster the If-- ml. They were the recipients of many attentions. Which Overwhelmed a Part of St, Stan Rowe and another outlaw were killed Gervals. In the Indian territory on the 19th by United The geologists who have investigatStates officers. The sum of 54,524 has been forwarded ed the cause of the great disaster from London to St. Johns, N. F., In aid of which overwhelmed a part of 8t. Ger-vaithe Are sufferers. General Paine, In an Interview at Boston, Switzerland, with ice and W9ter from the lower part of the Bionassy says positively that be will not build a boat to defend Americas cup. glacier have solved the mystery. Up The Pueblo (Mexico), state treasury has the side of the mountain, at the foot boon robtied of 250,000, Persons high fa authority are Implicated, of the steep glacial wall whose lower Stnmbniil, the stallion with a trotting recpart broke away, the explorers found ord of 9: 07i a sold at auction In New York in the ice an oval cavern about. ISO the other duy for $41,000. Mrs. James Price was burned to death at feet in width and 75 feet in height. In Galllopolls, Ohio, by her dress taking fire while at work over a stove. tho interior of the cavern was at Chicago, wilt in corridor covered with blocks of ice. allLake Forest University probability become a part of the Unlvcr It was 45 feet long, 200 feet wide and ally of Chicago before long. Miss Esther Jacobs of New York has ob140 feet high. In this great cavity tained a verdict for $25,000 damages from H there had been an intraglacial lake oi B, Hire for breach of promise. whose existence no one had been At Sidney, N. 8. W., the baby farmers, and his wife, have been committed for aware. The condition of the walls Macon trial. They killed thirteen Infants. the been full that had proved The great cotton lock-ou- t In the mills of cavity of wator recently. North Lancashire. England, will soon he endwill start up next week. The existence of this great reservoir ed. The mills of unfrozen water inclosed on all sides The North American Endowment Associaexplains the nature of the immense tionbusof Boston,InIs In the hands of a receiver. assets and 1,500 members. $25,000 avalanche that the It Mlchncl Davlit has been ousted from his valley below. The excessive heat of the days before the disaster hvl seat In Parliament because of illegal influence brought to bear on the voters by the priests. probably increased the quality Dcroulede and Clcmenceiu, two French water in the natural reservoir and the deputies, fought a dud tbe other day with broke the front greater pressure wall, pistols, but were careful not to hit each other. cracking away the lower part of the Their hounr was satisfied. glacier, and permitting the immense The German press opposes the volumes of water to pour down the projtosed monument ; togenerally Kaiser William. They mountain into tho valley below, say 15,1X10,000 marks la a preposterous amount the broken foot of the to stend on a dead monarch. over the printing of glacier. The water and ice fell a dis- theThe trouble atforChicago the Fair has been ail justed catalogues tance of 2,000 feet down an inclined bis by Conkey, the successful bidder, plane two miles long, and a part of office Into tho Typographical Union,taking d 8t. Gervais had been Three members of the Kansas almost before any one heard the roar House Republican Representatives were postmasters of the approaching deluge. and the Populist will try to unseat them on This is the only accident due to that account, as It Is against the federal laws. Counterfeiters have been at work In Wissuch a remarkable cause ever known in the alps. It has been followed consin and have turned out a lurge number of dollura and halves. Detectives have capliotvever, by a somewhat similar actured the dies and are on tbe trail of the cident at the Misaun glacier near Pon-- t men. resin a. A considerable Jpart of this Two more convict have died from the efshort, steep glacier fell, and, although fect of poison administered by some peraou there was no loss of life the accident unknown at the prison camp near Helena, draws attention to the fact that Ark. Several others are In a serious condiall over the climbers tion. Alps Forefather Day was edehrated at New have recently noticed a swelling of York cn the 22nd by a banquet nt which the npper snows which feed the glawere delivered by Kev. Edward Everciers. They report that not a few of ett Hale, Seth Low, Kev. Dr. Wayland and the glaciers have 'kbeen impassable Mr. Depew. Charles A. Hardin, an Adams express mes without great risk this season and been arrested for stealing the that the upper edges of the great sen ger, has of $25, (XX) recently taken between crevasses have overhung in a remark- packnge New York and Galveston. There I little able manner. These factepoint to an evidence against him. expansion of the upper snow field by Charles Dickens say In an Interview that, great heat, and before the past season according to the terms of his fuihers will, was more than half over climbers he Interdicted posthumous honors, and the were warned of this fact, which was famllv w 111 have to refuse to accept the statof the great novelist proposed by Ameridoubtless thecause of many avalanch ue cans. ea. An effort was made on the 83rd to overA fall of ice from one of the glaciers throw the French governmenubui the mutton in the Valley of Visp partly destroyed of "no confidence was defeated by a vote of the village of Tasch, near Zermatt. 352 to 91. The government Is determined to the officials connected with the PanaIt carried away nearly a quarter of a punish milt of the highway. Tho waters of ma scandal. legislature of South Carolina ha passthe Viege torrent, swollen by edThe a hill puttlug the absolute control of all snow from the mountains, railroads melting In the state Into the handauf tbe attacked the stone bed of railroad commission, from whose derision t the railroad and dee there shall he no appeal. It was signed by troyed a large section of theline. For Governor Tillman. a number of days tourists going to The British ship Dumloiinld, which sailed Zermatt were .transported on mules from ban Francisco on August 9, reached tjueenslown on the 21st. She had a tempestuaround the break. New York Sun. ous voyage. Captalu Hawthorne, her master, waa washed overboard and drowned. A A CURIOUS MINERAL waa washed away and her cabin was NEWS OF THE WEST. e, SPANISH FORK, - - - s, i over-wheleme- d tt over-wnelme- ;f Colorado. There were 163 death In Denver during November. There are 2,236 hoys and girls of school age lu El Paso County. General Frederic T. Dent, a brother-in-laof General Grant, died In Denver on the 23rd. Six narrow gunge eogtuea have been ordered for the Midland branch road to Cripple Creek. til arge numbers of deer are constantly being killed In Western Colorado and shipped to market. A bloodless war haa again broken cut at Crecde between rival locators on the Amethyst vein. A charity ball was given In Aspen on the 15th which netted $2,000. The funds will go to the hospital. Three Chinamen were arrested In Denver the other day charged with having evaded tbe exclusion law. The Cvlvrtulo (hriilian Is the name of the It new pnpvr of the Christian denomination. is published at Denver. Four prominent business men of Granada have been arrested for stealing coal from the Santa Fe railroad company. The school teacher at Williamsburg has been in the habit ot punishing his pupils by pulling their teeth. He has resigned. The Supreme Court haa sustained the sale of the school lands at Argo, near Denver, over which there has been a Contest on tha ground that a fuir price was not obtained. The Ctdorado uel and Iron company Is making efforts to secure an enlargement of the space granted It for its exhibit of Colorado coat and Iron at the World's Fair, The state trcaaurcr has published a statement of his operations durlug the past two years. Tbo total receipts were $5,151,660.54. The cash In the treasury now Is $350,051.47. The officers of the First Natloual Bauk of Del Norte and the Mlnera' and Merchants Bank of Crecde, which closed their doors on tbe 19tb, stuto tiiat depositors will he paid in full. John Connors, a brakeman on the Rio Grande, was Instantly killed on the 20th. He was on top of a freight train, and when near Carbondule was struck by a bridge under which the train passed. It Is reported that there Is a prospect of a conflict between tho construction forces of the Union Pacific and Klo Grande roads In the Gunnison country. Both roads are rushing toward the DeW coal fields. number of Hollanders who setThe tled on lands near Alamosa have been having a rather hard time. They are having trouble with the men from Whom they obtained the land, and several children have died from scarlet fever and diphtheria. Denver Market Eggs, ranch 28c, state 26c; butter, best creamery 85(36c, dairy 22c; hay, upland, baled $)i(;i $12, second bottom It. 50 (g $9, alfalfa 13.00; wheat 95c; corn, bulk iflc; sacked 83c; oats, $1.15, sacked $1.25; potatoes $1.30; cattle, choice steer $2.85 ($3.35, cows $1.30(i$2.60, native feeder $1.60 (a,$2.60( hogs, choice $5.95; spring chickens dressed, 10;12c; live, $3.00 to $3.50 per doz. t lat-g- , ' ' Virge-Zermat- life-bo- Elexlbla Sandstone Remarkable for the Metals In It. One of the best marked character- istics of most rocks ie their rigidity, but a few species are known which Are more flexidle than wood and readily bend under slight pressure without breaking. Tbeitacoiumite, or flexible sandstone, is the most abundant of these rocks and it is found principally in Brazil, although a similar for mation is met with in numerous other localities in small quantities The flexibility of itscolumite is readily understood when the stone is examined with tha microscoe. All sandstone consists of separata grains of sand tran.doi med into solid rock by some cementing material which has percolated in solution between the grains. This cement varies in its nature, and may consist of carbonate of lime, oxide of iron, silica or many other substances, even including in a few rare instances native (silver and All these ordinary substances are rigid and brittle, but in itaroluinite the grains ere cemented together by a mineral closely resembling mica or sericite. These minerals, being quite flexible in themselves, confer the sun property upon the sandstone as . cop-IX- ;. whole. The way in which the cementing material was introduced into the itscolumite is not easy of expla v tion. Mica and sericite are not soluble and could not have been deposited by water, like calcits or silica. It Is most probs b e t hat they wereoriginn. ly introduced in the form of clay or some eimiliur material, and afterward metamorphosed by heat, pressure end superheated seaminto micaceous mineral. Instances of a simili.tr Thanes of one mineral species into another are very common. Tha Hysterical Hen. What the blszeels the Man City matter with that hen? Farmer Nothin, 8 lie has just laid an egg. freott: one would City suppose she had laid tha foundation of a brick block. Mar-Gr- tat flooded. A white man named Cora recently sued Creek ludlan In Alabama for unpaid wage and secured a Judgment In the I tilted States Court. A party ot Indiana railed at the mans bouse, hound him and carried him Into the woods, where bis hotly was found hanging to a tree the next day. A party of HO convicts were put to wtrk on a railroad grade lu Montana a few day ago, and there w a a good deal of opposition to them by the free lalairera. Stain after eighteen of the convict were taken lek and !x have died. They allow all the symptom of having been poisoned. The American exhibitor at the Madrid Columbian exhibition have been most anecessful, aa shown by a cattle message received bv the secretary of state from the United Slate charge d'affaires at Madrid, saying that they had been awarded eight gold turd, d. fourteen silver and fifteen btoiue medal, beside receiving honorable mention In numerous case. The President has under consideration the appointment of a citizen of the Uulted Mates as chief Justice to Samoa to tuocerd Judge CedsrkrsnU, who has been asked to retire because of the Ulsatlsfnetlon on tbe part of tbe native with hi administration. Great Britain and Germany have left the selection of hi successor to the United Male government. Two year since the Louisiana legislature passed what I known as the Jim ( roW'law, making It compulsory on railroads running through the state to provide separate eoarhea A miinler for white and colon'll psasenger. of (imminent colored men u!crited Rlier-all- y tow anl raising a fund to test the of the act to finally settle tbe mailer. The Supreme Court haa sustained tbe constitutionality of the law. The Iwelfih annual convention of the Federation of Labor ended on tbe 17th. There was no opposition to the of President Uomimra, whose salary was raised from $l,5tiO II.nxi. Christopher Evan was reelected secretary, John D. Lennon was fleeted treasurer. For first vice president P. J. Maguire was selected and for second Vice president William A. Barney sat r lev led by a large majority. lie wo prominent in the Homestead strike. Mr. Jams G. Blaine, Jr., la again to he married. In view of the numerous publication of late regarding the alleged efforts at reconciliation between James 44. RMine, Jr and hi divorced wife, nee Mu Msrla Serins, this ststeinenl will he irsd with considerable n Interest. The gentleman I said to he a who atirndrd .Mrs. Blaine through her , last Illness, "Jack the Hugger. who la trrtiile.l the women of Brllaiie, Ohio, forever. months, lias arrested and Identified as John Mouicfclt, a leading politician and business and society mn. Ilswasrstighl stier trying to kiss a mulatto gltl. He resented srrrt, and fought desperately, seriously wounding a io!!cr mn. fbanrfelt offered a large sum of money m fiub up the ease, but was fined In court, lie la a too of a member of the Dhto legislature, sur-cro- Is-e- Wyoming. three feet deep In the Young The snow I basin. Gas has been struck on Ora Haley's ranch near Laramie. Complaints are frequent of Indians wantonly killing game near Yellowstone park. Henry Williams, a man nt fifty, living on Pass creek, twenty miles from ltaw tins, during a lit of temporary Insanity, attempted to cut his throat with a dirk knife. He made a gash extending from ear to ear, hut not a fatal wound, lie Is in Jail. It Is laid that a contract ha been let for the delivery of 8tX),(XX) feet of lumber at Johnstown to be used In the construction of tbe soda plant at that place. The lumber Is now Itelng cut and sawed In Fremont county aud will be delivered as early lit the spring as the deep snow dlsnp)ear. Several Important questions Were determined In the opinion of the Supreme Court handed down a few days ago. Tbe power of the trial Judge to sign a hill of exceptions after the close of his term was affirmed. It was held that the Judge ot a district bad power to adjourn court In one comity, go to another county In his district and bold court aud then reopen court In the first county. . The Hillsdale Land A Cattle Company has sold It land, cattle aud Improvements, fifteen miles from Cheyenne, to L. Franklin of Chlcngo, for $400,XX). The ranch consist of 80, (XX) acres of railroad land, 1,360 of patented land, a herd of Hereford cattle, and 400 horses. There are seventy-twmiles of fence, mile of ditches, and s two on the place. Mr. Franklin Intends to raise blooded horae and cuttle and will make the ranch one of the finest In the high-grad- e o fifty-tw- o wind-mill- date. The tote of Wyoming was follows; Harrison, 8.376; Weaver 7.64s Ridsell .V26. For governor, Brown, Pro. 416; Edward lvin-oKrp. 7.416; John K. (Mairue, D. and Peo. 9,137. For Justice of the supreme court, Gllamn Clark. Item. P.llHl C. II. lsrmalee, Kep. 7.5m. Congressmen, Clarence 1). Clark, Rep. 8,3171 Henry A. CofTeon, Fu. 8.442. The legislature, If organized a the Republi-ra- n claim It, will he a follows; Bemtte. Re5; House, Republipublicans tl, Democrat 17 or five Republican cans III, Democrat on If organized as tho ballot. majority joint iHunorrat elslin. It will he a follows: Senate, Republicans 10, Democrat 8; House, Republican 13. Democrat 20; or three Democratic majority on joint ballot. A contest on two members of the House will he settled by the supreme court. Contests on one member of the House and one of tha Senate will he settled by these bodies. n, New Mstleo. Silas Alexandre has been appointed and confirmed a secretary of the territory. The ore reduction company shipped lJ.txx) P mi ml of copper matte In on week from King-to- n, The new morning la more from Mr. Blaine ;tbla at any time tb been cheerful than It has to hold his week. He haa not only continued heretofavorable symptom show own, but condition his moment the fore absent. For shows to a has changed for the good. He to the sanguine tempera return extent slight has been one of his character- ament which istics.' there lie Is, perhaps, a little stronger, hut renewed a of fear a must he always present his attack. This morning his pulse Is better, and is he and brighter Is lower temperature found more cheerful than the doctors have nourhim any day this week. He also takes ishment better. The doctors will not discuss seems the medical feature of the case, but It bad fever along probable that Mr. Blaine ha Illwith the other very serloua features of his In been allayed, bad fever this that and ness, part, at least. Wliat Congress Is Doln g. Monday, December 19th. Senate. Mr. Gorman 'announced to the senate the death of Senator Gibson of Louisiana. Appropriate resolutions were adopted and a funeral committee appointed. Adjourned. House. Mr. Wilson of Missouri, called up seunto bill increasing the pensions of the to $12 pensioners of the Mexican war from $3 a month. The bill was passed. Mr. Culberson of Texas, moved to suspend the rules and pass a bill limiting the Jurisdiction of the Circuit and District court of the United Slates. The bill prohibit suits in the United States courts by or sgalnst corporations, except to the court of tbe legal domicile of the decorporation In case where jurisdiction pends upon the citizenship of parties. The motion was agreed to. The house then adjourned. Tuesday, Decembeh 20th. Senate. After the routine morning busithe ness was disposed of in the Senate army appropriation hill from the House waa presented and referred to the committee on appropriations. The hill Introduced by Mr. Bate (Democrat), Tennessee, On December 6, to repeal all statutes relating to supervisors of elections and special deputies," was tuken up, and Mr, Bate proceeded to make an argument In Its fuvor. After a brief executive session Mr. Blackburn (Democrat), Ken-tu- c ky, moved to proceed to tbe consideration of the Hudson rirer bridge bill. As this would set aside the hill, It was opposed by Senator Washburn and a majority n bill was then supported him. The taken up and Mr. lalmer (Deynoerat), Illinois, addressed the Senate Disposition to It. House. Under the special order tbe floor was then accorded to the committee on public lands, which, through its chairman, Mr. McKue, called up the hill adjusting the claims ot Arkansas anil other states under tl.e swamp land act. No action was taken on the bill, no quorum being secured to vote upon It, and the House adjourned. Wednesday, December 21st. Senate. The McGnrrahan bill and the bill occupied the attention of tbe n y n anti-optio- Senate. Mr. lalmer concluded hi speech against the latter measure and Mr. Feller began a speech In favor of It, House. On motion of Mr. Smith of Arizona, a bill Was passed restoring to the public domain a certain portion of tbe White Mountain Apache Indian reservation In Arizona. The floor was then accorded to the committee on commerce, In committee of tbe whole, the House pro ceeiled to the Consideration ot the first bill called up, being one providing for sundry light houses and other aids to navigation, hut no quorum was present no action was taken. Thursday, Decembeh 22nd. Senate. Mr. (.handler of New Hampshire, from the committee on Immigration, reported the hill with amendment to suspend and prohibit immigration for one year front the first of March, H.3, and that It be read in full, lie said that he would ask to have It taken u after Hie holiday recess. Benate hill to amend existing laws relating to mineral lands and mineral resources was, on motion of Mr. Slewarl of Nevada, taken from the calendar aud passed, with a general explanation that the hill simply applied to details In patenting of mining elnlms and would not enlarge anybody's rights. Tbe MeGarra-ba- n hill was tlu-- taken up, aud Mr. llunton of Virginia continued his argument lu favor of Its passage over the Fresldeuls veto. Tbe hill was then taken up, and Mr. Feller of Kansas continued bis speech begun yesterday in favor of R. lie described dealing In futures as now carried utt at tile stuck exchanges a gambling for high stakes, having protection of Hie law thrown about It, while other species of gambling were denounced and attended with ciialtles. The gambling spirit, he continued, was rife In the ben columns of metropolitan country. prrlisllrala were taken up with sporting men were sent a thousand miles to prlae fight and Christiana read the sickening reeltais In tbe morning before attending divine services; games of ball were telegraphed to a thousand newspapers) respectable gentlemen gambled on horse raees; pat. rlolle citizens staked wager Upon election, ami even the church was tainted with that debauching vice, what waa most needed was to gel rid of those evil agencies and to quicken the public conscience, to get more honor In politic and more Justice In law. The Bcitaic then adjourned for the holiday recess. House. No business whatever was done. a n rl Washington Note. Judge Holman has announced his Inteullon to light the Nicaragua cairal hill soon to come before the llou-F resident Angrll of the Michigan University and Bcnator Gray of Delaware have been selected a regculs of the Xmlthsonlan e. Iuml-tutlo- n. Reprasontatlve Butler of Iowa ha d In tlie House a bill to make the the natloual and offidul emblem ofpansy the I nlled Male Secretary of the Treasury Foster haa sent to the llou-- e a deficiency estimate aggregating M.txxi for the quarantine service for the fiscal year 1M)3. It I stated at the executive mansion the president win probably take a few that day trip down the I utomao river during the Christmas holiday. Xonalnr MeCullom ha lutnslueed In the Senate two hill that are Intended to strength-cweak Points in the Interstate com- l,ie testimony the Interstate commerce commission. 1 he other MU define the word line, aauM-in the Interstate coimnerre law, ml t'ort'inif It to mruit g pbvUA Whether one railroad or two or more comic,' tl Ing rallrtHids, or of railroads imrt water which for parthoi h are umMr common control. The word. carrier. are construed to mean one clnln, or more Intro-duer- Sierra county collected on short not hie three non of ore for the World Fair mineral cabin. Bishop J. Mill Kendrick and family will remote from Alliuquertpie shortlv and lake up their residence at I'tornlx, A. f. On the various pond about Sant Fe the lee I now lire Inches thick. The total crop for Santa Fe will be between M.iKX) and 12,- - txxl D, C., Dec. 23. Washington, ton. Two miscreant at Albuquerque committed an act of vandalism a few night since. They broke Into the Csthollc church and defaced Kune of the Images. The Maxwell company's telephone system I extended to Bal.ly mountain. The western portion of Colfax county Is now well covered by telephone. It loiutics the d at Springer, Maxwell t ty and lUton, line Its run to l.lttrcll's ranch where and Mr. I.lttrrl attends the central hello." From there II branches Into town, ranches smlcsmp all over the Maxwell company domain. It I now a ruMle as well as a convenience, having lately leen opened to tha public at a small "hello" fee, -In the United Slate Court of Private Land Clslui on in 17th, the Antonio Sedillo grant The commissioner of the near AUmqtiertiua was confirmed. Un.l It cover hs sent to the seeretaiyof general more than eleven leagues. The the oMtlener to general Instruction nmrlor ln tie arga giant, railing for 40.UXI acre ju- -i m, the m, e,' . the form of a smith of 8nia Fe. waa taken under to w'iii 'il! The Algondooe grant In Arizona by the president what known at the Wet Mountain"?,,, waa argued by A. M. Slrvenstm and B, I,. hern t Olorado. The fur plaintiff. The full Car)wnier of rrrvall.m text of the court' opinion rendered on the elnde portions of FuM. Huerfano andtuster 1 counties, I usrf he ws puMi-he17th In tha Alameda and ( baric rlvrra and Gra, It I of the hlghe-- l Import lu giant chtimanta, ,UrJ Beranble creek Irlbulsrlr, to ik I', hold tha. all Spant-- h grant of date prior apl their sourer M this ih, re Inn Thf nnlurloi.s and adverse rust, have to 1754. win re ' I said to b ru.-.-- i m, ha leen had for forty years, are country Mtssrs-t- n ' n c.,1, the at feel and tlmsof lM;r'h,, Gallon of giants, pel Imp, .line. FlNpeellng an, New Metien and Arisons to t,a United ln the least Interfered with. V,, ' Slate were print property, umipirtely segTownsend prnie.trd PIfl, regated fmnt tha public donut n. The court J UuJvd llhta ad tmtrned to meet February 21 at fucaoa, ration! ArDona territory. n rrrsr g rail-Ma- Vi u-- e, pel-va- le fis 8cbttn advl-o-mr- tm I ce d, VJ ' o-- e ces-io- !' Mr I ,t FjMVBEjJ many persons A Number of Former Ministers and Deputies to bo Prosecuted for Re- ceiving Bribes. A The Chamber of Deputies was the scene of tbe greatest excitement on the 20th owing to the request of the government that permission be granted for the prosecution of a number of members including M. Rouvler, of of finance, and M. Jules Roche, afwas granted The commerce. permission ter a scene of the wildest confusion, In which M.CTemenceau and others hurled Insults back and forth. Tbe immediate result will be several duels. The people are profoundly stirred by the la hard to development so far made and It tell where the matter will end. The Paris correspondent of the London Tima says t Tuesdays sensation eclipses all previous developments In the Panama canal Sffalh U. Rouvler, In spite Of the eloquence of hi opening words, gave away his case in a trange fashion. M. Clemenceaus defense of M. Herz was one of the finest speeches heard ocduring the present crisis. What Is now curring Is, however, merely a prelude. All French history proves that such periods of trouble are precursors of revolution. $o far the streets are quiet, but the silence warrants distrust. The semblnnce of force redisplayed by the government Is simply the sult of weakness. A strong government never would have submitted to the dictates of it worst enemies. Those trying to seize power know how to handle the masses, and, when once found, the watchword will soon draw the populace Into the streets and the demonstrations will begin. I see nothing to stop them. Another rumor Is that the officials and deputies, as well as civilians, connected with the Panama scandal have had It intimated to them that their salvation lie In an espousal ot royalist schemes and that nil of their offenses will be condoned If they will consent to betray the republio. Some confidence is placed by well informed people In both these fumofs and It Is apparefit that royal agents have assumed an activity they bad not displayed for years, and there is also evidence that royalist money Is again afloat. Should affairs take a turn favorable to a coup detat lu behalf of royalty, It Is probable, according to current report, that the young Duke of Orleans would be selected to lead the attack. The young duke is more popular than any other member of bis family, and his offer to serve In the army as a conscript until he became of age made a good Impression. The difficulty In the way of a royalist coup is that there are no signs of disloyalty ln the army. M. Do Freyelnet, the minister of war. Is untouched by tbe scandals that have touched bis colleague, Rouvler, and be has the devoted and loyal attachment of the generals In higher command. At present the monarchists seem to be directing tbelr efforts chiefly to fanning the excitement among the deputies and sowing the seeds of jealousy, fear and suspicion. They are apparently confident that the breakdown ot the Kibot ministry would he followed by a revolution with all Us opportunities for a returning of tbe bouse of Orleans to power. Contest la Kansas. Judge 5V. C. tVcbb, attorney for the Kansas Populists, has commenced proceedings in the Supreme Court to contest the election of five Republicans to the legislature. The proceedings are In the nature of a mandamus, asking the court to pass upon the technical and constPutlonal questions raised by the lopullst and demand that a restraining order he issued prohibiting the five Republican members from taking their seat upon the certificates of election already issued by the returning board. Thrn they will ask to delay the bearing, It Is said, until after the legislature Is organized and, once having obtained tbe organization of tbe House, tt will ot course make no difference bow the eases are decided. Nebraska Election Contest, The Nebraska Supreme Court has refused to Issue the writ asked for In the Clay county contest cases, thus throwing the matter out Of the courts. The cares were brought by the Republicans, who tried to secure a writ to compel the clerk of flay county to Issue certificates to the three Republican candidates of the legislature Instead of the Independents, who were elected ou the face of the fetnrns. The basis for the apiwal to the court was the fact that the names of the Independent candidate were printed tw ice on the ticket. The Republican hopes of rapturing the legls lature have been shattered by this decision. Tha Sultan's ( ortral)tnes Folsnnetl. A injure Passenger Train Goes Dow, a mJ bankmant Near Coloradc nd the Car. Catch "Print, There was a frightful wreck The train going south, loaded cars, Jumped (he track )fUh when ' '0111,1 The train was late and was time. It waa running at tu tnakij miles an hour. Iu some uiuccou'nw! ner the rail spread, ties every coupling on the train bri engine and express car remained t track. One day coach was throw across the track and the Pullman " day coaches rolled down on the embankment a distance ofopmi fib..! The passengers fiiAJtri iin1 (appKIa1 To some of Ik. , were half-awatt seemed aslf thT'l would never atop Its grinding; 1 tlon. Td add to the horrer of the M f 1 two day coaches caught fire f frorij ttl, In theui, and filled the air with ,T' I stifling Tbe trainmen were unusually cool got axes and proceeded to cut holes and let out the Imprisoned pasiengm! ft In tbo Pullman were the first to be uw One of the passengers climbed to the bis berth and groped for a window found and opened. In this way the women were token out. Mr. W. E. Barnes, teller in the Ellb hank In Colorado 8prngs, was riding k of the day coaches. He said: "We Ing along at the usual rate of speed tho day coach I was In made a lurch to ok , and then the other, and then rolleddo,,. embankment and landed upside don, . car Immediately caught fire from the The roll down dazed mo somewhit, h made for the doors and with E. D, McDa who was also a passenger, broke the i, from It hinges, aud set about to krk women and Children, Who were mu. and crying lit It 5j, succeeded In jretttrtg them all out, hit!,; Mr. Van Loon and family, and Shoe p We did w, man who was unconscious. time to spare as the car wit and was soon consumed. The sengers were unable to save anything had In the car with them, and all a troyed." Mr. Van Loon waa on bis way lo Oil. California, with bis family consisting of wife, his aged mother and three chiii They were la the passenger coach atari stove when the crash came. Mrs. Vial wn planed fact to the floor by the teifci J , g OKI -- u front of her lay her two yms, bc. been knocked unconscious. The third el a little girl, waa nowhere to be seem M; Loon wag pinned fast and was unable tt trlcate himself. Tbe Imprisoned fatcllj given up all hope of rescue when tk : was burst open and they were saved fr frightful death. The two boys, Will if and Bertie aged 12, were rarrlrd out lor. Mrs. Van Loon was dragged out from v. tbe debris and her dress was fairly tor In It waa a gold watch and a large sidoc money, which went tip ln smoke. The lady fainted when she got out. The tt, were tbe most seriously Injured of z passengers. At midnight Will Vaa Lou; resting under the Influence of ether, brain la Injured and tbe physicians f hope of his recovery. The others art i well. Nina Banzlgrr, a Swedish girt scr fscaied with her life. She was on her ' to California. When the accldeat one she was thrown from her seat to the ' The stove waa upset and she fell o the with the aoat over her. fibe was cEf-crawover the conln on her hand s4 -to save herself. She I badly burned bands and limb and her face Is fire, he disfigured. Her clothing eaught tbe put out by other passengers with k" snow and blanket. Congressman-elec- t In one Pence was of Pullmans with hi wife. Mr. Pence "J1 "It seemed an eternity while we weiv ' there u Ing over. We w ere pinned up In Iraik u some time to make our.1 tH1 when we did so finally we found " conch w as on fire. We were ill fa feet aud didn't occm to mind the w. set out to help tbe other. Before tt' ' done, though, another danger staid face. The forward end of the PuU1 lleroUm and aelf-on fire. T'4 shown aa scarcely ever before. Bill fa wa who owner mine millionaire that wo gathered up a lot of blanket la jumped fret bare In hi and sleeper blanket a Ho snow. of spread bank 11 ? snow, filled It, and then pawd V Wo then put the wet blanket Th and succeeded In squelching It half pented several times In a people m acveral saved certainly and death. $ Twenty-fou- r people were Injured, 0 mentioned above were the hurt Tho other Injuries eonltcdand cut. E. L. fitory, but lor, had his arm broken, to a telegraph station. The Injured passengers Colorado Bprliig where they The pasrengerahiT train men for their ellk'iency j dispatch from Constantinople glees particulars of the murder of four slaves In the barein of the Hullan of Turkey. They were recently presented to the Fulton bv the Khedive of Egypt, They apinvired 10 have captivating influence on the Bultan.who, his marked by attention, excited the Jealousy of the other women of tho harem. The four slave were found In tbelr beds a few days ago, all the victims of poison. The Sultan was deeply enraged when he heard of their fate, and ordered a rigid examination and severe punishment of the guilty, Beveral arrest have been made on suspicion. Broke tha Com meres law. A ;eclal from fit. Joseph. Missouri, says: In the federal Court Judge Parker sentenced George . Howell and Edward Tlbbetta to 3i eighteen month In the penitentiary and each to pay a fine of $2.(XX). Both men are mem-tor- s of the big lumber firm of Howell, Tile In t. Louis, Chicago and Atchison, Kansas. Both were convicted at the last term of tbe court on the charge of violating the Interstate commerce law and they were accused of undcrwetghlng lumber shipped over the Rock Island Haul, thus securing lower freight rate. gency, An appeal was also taken to the United Mate Bunreme Court, and both were T1 on bond. Docked ID llor W. AE?V Millionaire J. U')en and Prior Berlin. given the experience of kn n . hu s f $ In reply to request from General lurd Rnoth, Inn) warrant had lren , t rha'P commander of the Balvatlon Army, General Wednesday. The offeror M'docking of Kreuref.rnkl "onhy. the yueent private gating tho Illinois statute. keeiwr of the privy purse, has trary to lh that her majesty re-- case under the law. 1 ,,f.m i! greta hi r Inability u, subscribe to the fund prl unient for one year :.i out Ml") iH II' lng ra sed by General Booth for the purpose lha warrant wa sworn poclrkv Vq of providing a dinner for tbe Humane tho of Bhortell y but poor on Decent- on person I friend of Mr. H"" A private secretary lo the Prim e of Wales, that will not prevent himhns Pr.-V- rt ' expresses with vigor. Mr. Duane rr,"r be Ph ,l,,cfr sympathy with General as a possible member of I reld Itooth project, but say that (he Instructed him to Inform General I'rtnra Ins -st- o.-riS" Sri- Booth that h Intends u, distribute ly the dis king ws his Christmas the through usual channel, employed him! authority. by ll ''u Ik-a- ? ft I 5 IS Vta of I ha Nation. The New York print Uvdsv a table of the total vote this year for President 5l7 thetaE? th1",,k'ur'' !hl ""'nh.tr from w caver, l.oa.iaxi; Rl.lwrU land plurality. :t, Mr1'1'' "e Repul, "lMI,ln1d is q ' 1 r l J 'V. I,wngsr the steamer atrlvnl et"k ,mB at lln KwJsai''.,saAs;;K ...I .l. Hens and Pern lea fusion ticket on J .poK;c,a!r.re;:., orasTnf rt.l,hf railed to In the United land. Oregon, Judge llll"rt()lJrny ,ri slon In the damsge j" j iaH Co., against the Iaeffi? tilslnilff awarding Company, amount claimed. 19 In June, rr,..hunrnr; filed a dispatch to si Instructing him to prr,h41. nt. $.1.71X1 against a firm Ifailed. 1 hr ....rwasnia " t" ll.r linn being .low"; '"1 mhre "T th elapsnl, during of ahead filed elnlms h"";,.,pt m to , m that the defendant wre"1 '" 01" fv.ng plaintiff of message. The court asked for with interest, nd - ", 'j t |