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Show Wafted on the Wires. Rome, Dec. 27. -- On Tuesday last, King Humbert was going on hunting expedition, when the gens d'armes who proceeded him encountered a crowd, who refused to disperse and fired on the gens d'armes. The latter returned the fire. An active search for the culprits is in progress. St. Louis, Dec. 27. -- While a train of 23 coal cars was ascending the easter approach of the bridge, at half-past 9? o'clock last night, 17 cars broke loose and dashed down the grade at a great speed. When opposite the relay depot they encountered a freight train on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy track, and a number of the cars of both trains were smashed to splinters. Four men were badly injured and one slightly hurt. New York, Dec. 27. -- Edison's electric light process is causing more or less excitement among the gas companies. President Place, of the Mutual Gaslight Company, said yesterday that probably the principal reason why the gas stocks had fallen was because of the strong competition between the two companies. The lowering of the price of gas had prevented the payment of dividends. Newspaper articles on Edison's invention had frightened some timid stockholders. The heaviest stockholders in the company were not frightened, however, they had yet to see Edison's invention put to practical test; nor did they believe that his electric light could successfully compete with gas. The presidents of other companies, on being interviewed, expressed similar sentiments. The following is extracted from the London Dispatches of Dec. 29, in relation to the bridge accident in Scotland. Last night a train from Edinburgh on the North British Railroad in crossing the Tay River, was with a half mile section of the long bridge precipitated into the water. According to the most authentic accounts there were ninety persons aboard all of whose lives were lost. The river at the break averages from 40 to 45 feet in depth, and the train fell at least 88 feet before reaching the water. Thirteen brick work stumps which supported the fallen portion are all that can now be seen in the midst of the waves. Witnesses say they saw the lights of the train enter on the bridge and cross the lower spans into the higher girders. Then they saw a sudden shower of fire, which with the lights of the train, seemed to descend with great velocity into the river; then perfect darkness followed. Though a heavy gale was blowing at the time, this can hardly be assigned as the cause for the breakage. |