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Show XrWS XOTDS. : Mi iand, Mich , Mai-;-, 12. -Fr. l I.oisii'-e and 1 i m iter-in-: ,-.v, Mrs. 11 ', :ls P-ii'ivsn, '..-'re lr wRet: today. Th- y ititHnip'.od to cross a r.--i w'iich was covered with water and the carriage upset up-set with the result that both perished, r? marl? 2.2'0,s0 pound of Htf! will be used in the roof of the MacKaye Opectntorinm which is no;v bein? btiiit at Jackson Park, on the Lr.ke shore iu CMcajro. It was a matter of coni-itU-r- able study with the eornraetors how to place this mass of steel in position tner.'-being tner.'-being no derrick i rt,.:- enough or strong enough to do the wuik at the altitude recjuired. At length however an enor nous traveling derrick has been secured i'his derrick is of suilk-Uut altitude to work to tdvaat..o at a Iseight of liO feet, which is tho highest point on tho roof and strong enough for the purpose required. It is the largest ever bnilt and wsighs with its cable and tackle blocks a little over 154,000 pounds, Schenectady, X. Y. March 13 Last night tho ice in the Mohawk gorgea against the Gitchburg railroad bridge and. flooded that pare of the city oc cupied by the Westlnghouse & General Eleciric Company, and the first floors of the Ed son Company aggregating sixteen six-teen acres und.jr threa feet of water. Four thousand men are made idie by the shutting down of these plants. A mile south of the city at a point waere the .tracks of the Delaware fc Hudson Canal Company pass under those of the Xew York Central & Hudson Railway, the foundation of the latter road is washed away, stopping all trafli3 between be-tween this city and Albany on the maiu line. Passenger trains are sent around by way of Troy. Xo trains are paisiug over the Delaware & Hudson road. All the exhibits which the Edison Compauy were preparing fur the World's Fair are practically destroyed by water, as is also most of the machinery and stock ou the first floor. The loss h estimated at over half a million, Here is a floating paragraph that says a :grcat deal in a small space and it is general e"ough to apply to any and all communities. It is pleasant to contemplate con-template the results which w'll follow concert of action amojg the citizens of Ogiirn. "Xo community ever prospered no town ever grew without some kind of a combined effort for the gener.,1 good without scmo expenditure of money. The towns that have happened to possets men who havo worked together for the general good have forged ahead, while Ihoso that have men of great conserva tism who have been content to sit down and let fortune come have gone to decay or have not progressed. People who wonid progre-s must do something-must something-must take some chsnces. At this age It is hard to call to mind a town that has grown to airy importance without baiug put forth some sore it exertion; without having done something other than sit'slown and lei' prosperity coir and go according to its whim. Towns and communities, as well as individual ninf-tsirz? oppertuuitie"." linden Stan dard. 0:nah8, M ;rch 11 Reports from the North aud South Platte country received at railroe.d headquarters tuday show tint heavy rains are plaiS2- havoc wi h railroad property along ihc North Platte Soulh Piatte.aud Loup rivers. Bridges are being torn from their moorings by drifting ice and gorges ara damming the water so the tracks are inundated, and some arts of the Bnrlingtcu and Missouri and Union PaciQc are. already asand.im d until the wafer recede. Thirty bridges along branches if the Union P-tcidc, Buriing'on ami Fremont Eikitom and Missouri V.t'jy roads aro either washed a.vay or umlennicdfd s .is to make the crossing dangerous. On the Union Pacific, bridges and ap-proichesaro ap-proichesaro slightly damaged, but the traffic of tho road is not interrupted. Through train service is conducted by way of Lincoln and Grand Inland with comparatively little delay. The damage done by tho water and ice will b -n paired by Monday and traffic renamed on the m tin line. Provo, March I t.-Fred Seegmiller, a brakeraan employed on the Rio Gra'.nh VYes'.ern R-iilway was run over and killed by a freight train at Springville today, about 12 o'clock, A local frrigat train No, 21. was switching in tits yard, finl the brakeman gave a signal for the enli e.r to back up; as the train back i Seegrn'l'er also walked backward and caujht his heel ih a guard rail which vras net blacked falling to the ground. Bi.'ore he cou'd fcjrccly make a strugg'e .:li3 'train passed ovtrhis 1 0 !;-, citt-inc him dias'-naliy across and l.il lii'g him j almost iut-iantly. . Railrosd im 11 p cvti! i him bt-, ph'.otd h:m 0:1 a i-tn.t :Um at.d sent tf 0 h. tiy to Salt I a rv. A c-iKt-i'i'.-t qi-t was !:t Id ;iiil h veniict given to titJ 1ffe.1t tlmt the i t 'o.aiti! Cdtti-i to iisii.i-.tli l.y lit-ifif nv 0 e hii making u ivittpii. fr ti: tbt , ! Utti G r'iri'li" 3 |