Show CASTLES IN I SPAIN Political Events Point to Neal Coup de Brazil THE RESIGNATION UE SAGASTA i i The London ScandalThe Western Passenger Rat WarSenator Blacklmm Reelected Judge Kellys Condition I LONDON Jan 7iGreat solicitude is reported at Madrid touching the exciting rumors in connection con-nection with the illness ol the IQnR and the political complications likely to ensue in the rent of his death The best information obtainable today was that the royal patient had suffered a turn for the worse Something moro than a suspicion exists that the recent cabinet crisis had a hidden significance The movements of the Republican leaders are being narrowly watched In a word the question agitating Madrid is is Spain really preparing for a coup de Brazil J 1 r Londons Great Scandal LONDON Jan 7The trial of Arthur Jfew ton solicitor Frederick Taylorson his clerk and Adolphus Dd Gala interpreteron the charge of conspiring to defeat jiisticin connection connec-tion with the West End scandal was continued before Magistrate Vaughan in the Bow Street police court today A expostal messenger named Perkins testified After he had given his testimony to the police Newton tried to induce in-duce him to co to Australia Newton said he knew somebody who would give 20 down and LI i a week expense for three years t himself Perkins and other boys Wright Swinscow and Barber who had given information to the police i they would emigrate together Sagasta Resigns MADRID Jan 7 Sagasta having found it I impossible to organize a neW cabinet has K resigned The papers here comment strongly upon Senator Calls arguments in Cuba The T declare the regard to They argu ments absurd and assert that thebulk of the Cuban debt is held by Spaniards and Prenchmen The Gondoliers in New York NEW YORK an 7 Gilbert and Sullivans new comic opera The Gondoliers was produced duced for the frt time in America at the Park theatre this evening The score is full of musical gems and has one or two real novelties Gilbert work in the libretto is a shade less meritorious than that of his coworker The general opinion after the performance perform-ance to night was that the opera was t success and good for a long run but that the company with the exception of Miss Esther iPalher the only American in the company TTjtas composed of inferior materiaL The opera twos very handsomely staged Western rights for this opera have been secure by David Hen derson of the Chicago opera house Manager Mellen Seriously I CONCORD N H Jan 7C S Mellen genera traffic manager of the Union Pacific i seriously i ast and his family has been summoned from the Senator Blackburn Reelected LOUISVILLE Ky Jan 7 Senator Blackburn today was elected Senator by the Kentucky legislature in joint session JuJjre Kelly Has a Bad Day WASHINGTON Jan 7Judge Kelly had a very bad day No hope is entertained by those near lum fur anys > ubstintial change for the better Legislature of Quebec QUEBEC Jan 7The legislature of the province of Quebec opened today The lieutenantgovernor announced among < other things that during the session the legislature would be called upon to pass an act granting one hundred acres of land to < the father and mother of every family of twelve or more living children born in lawful law-ful wedlock Passenger Rte War CHICAGO Jan 7The northwestern passenger passen-ger rate war i spreading The westbound reduction re-duction went into effect today making the rate from ChIC t St Paul 59 Urstclass and 57 sec ndclass by all lines Furthermore the catro Northwestern in connection with the z n on Pac flo reduced its rates to Montana and vrthcrn Pacific coast points by wav cf fraaha to meet competition by way of St PauL ihls was done however without disturbing Missouri river rates The fight between the Soo line and Burlington Northern on lne Burln 8 orher passenger pas-senger business from St Paul to eastern points may involve some of the lines leading eastward from Chicago To avoid this a meeting of the Central Traffic association will be held Thursday Thurs-day |