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Show . Rurird In Her llrldat Hohes. Tho pretty littlo village of Kedwocd City, near S.n Francisco, is disturbed over revelations that have followed the fad suicide of (ieorge Wchrlin's bride oo her wedding night. Wt hrlin had fur-nifhed fur-nifhed a cottage, but when he came to retire from tho wedding party the brido refused to admit him to her room. In tho morning he found hr dead in bed with a strychnine bottle by her side. It was explained that her mind was unhinged by a previous hive affair, but 1 ho village pastor, who knew her we'll, says she was the victim of her match making aunt. This woman induced her to marry Welirlin, and she persuaded Wehrlin to buy from her tho cottngfl ir. which his brido found the fate of Lucy of La:nmeriuoor. The preacher who married them delivered de-livered a funeral sermon over the hapless, bride, laying the blame, of her d'nth to love of money that led to tho violation of tho young girl's affections. It u thought tho aunt will be forced to tako back the cottage. The girl had recently come from Germany, aud was noted fur her docility. She was buried in her pretty wedding dreup, that was found laid over a chair by hei bed..- Cor, fit. Louis Globe Inioerat. .11 total m mber of tons of freictht carried car-ried in the Ut iU'd States in 1SS0 iv K!),. f,:i!i,r,s:i. and t!ie average haul for each toa was UT.uti miles. The Canadian department of railroads and canals reports that there are (Is'10) 13,-HJ'i 13,-HJ'i miles of completed roads in the dominion domin-ion and 41(i under construction. Tha Erie railroad secured an entrance into Chicago by purchasing the C'hienuo rtnd .Atlantic railroad. The price paid was .yw.OOO. Tho Erie now lias n trunk line system between Chicago and New York. Tho Pennsylvania company received the enormous sum of '',500,000 from the 1'nitod States for transporting its mails for the fiscal year ending July 1. The amount of $.V'.0,o; 0 was fur handling the mail west of Pittsburg. The railroad from Tartar Battardjik to Constantinople was contra', led to be paid for at so mucli per mile. The contractor made it as crooked as possible in order to increase the number of miles. Wairon roads between the termini are 100 miles khorter than is the railroad. Only one tree stands within twenty feet of the"roHlld f the Chic ago, St. Louis and St. Paul railroad, 'i bis ia spared at the request of a farmer wlioae eon was fatally injured and was sheltered by it. in his dyinjj moments. It is neatly fenced in and is known to the railroad men r.s "the Loud Tree." |