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Show I II TH AMI CONDENaEII The Delaware, Lackawanna A Western West-ern railway company will furnish its employes III the neighborhood of He ran -ton with free coal and remit their rents this month. The Dillon Pacllle railroad, It Is rumored, ru-mored, will cut Its day for. c liopmcn to nine and a half hours on May I, w ithout reducing wages. Senator Plumb Is trying to establish the liiiaiicial value of a scalp, He wants the senate to appropriate "HMKl to relieve re-lieve a man Iu Leavenworth county, Kan,, who was scalped by the Indians iu lWit, During last year F.mperor William conferred IS. UW decorations and medals, and S.iitil were given awav In is, as compared with 4.30N in H?. il.77r In 1HHI .iitxl :t,4 A ill IWS, The red eagle was given last year to no fewer than J'.'.Os'l udividiials, the crown order to l.lmi, li tnl the Hoheii.olleru order to 2V4, but only fourteen new knight of the black eagle were created, fifteen of the female order f Louise, and one of the famous order Pour b; Merite. The last official statistics of Home show thai the city must have lost a large percentage of Its Miiuluiion since the last census. Allliongh only twenty houses have been built there ill the last three years, 4000 houses with living room for 20,(KCl persons are now vacant. The transient population U thought to have fallen off also. Hardly six thou-sand thou-sand slruligers went there to see tltu big carnival this year, while in former years the iiiimlicr was little short of one bun-died bun-died thousand. Somebody grubbing anion if the Canadian Cana-dian slate papers in the bulMinif of the dominion parliament has eoine upon letters whieh amount to an important historical discovery. Il seems that at that eventful period In r colonial his-Uirv his-Uirv when Coi iittalli was beleaguered at Yorktown by French and American armies and a French licet. jut In ore the capitulation which struck the death blow of the F.nglish cause in the l'nite. Stales, Vermont, the union state which bordered the Canadian frontier, was on the very point of joining Canada. M. Llieieu Dewaves, th author of the I look ".Hou Off." in which scandalous scanda-lous exposure were made as to the condition and customs of the privates and pcttv officer of the French army, ha been acquitted of the charges brought against him by the government haed upon these atories. He waa In the army for four years, quitting it with the rank of sergeant-major, and pro-fewrf-d to have giten in hi book what he had himself seen. It out Zolaed Zola. The government ha been driven to begin a formal investigation on the subject. |