Show ACROSS THE CHANNEL an enormous steel bridge proposed from grimse TO connecting england anil france in an iron embrace IBE lull COST oat tons if sled ia its construction engineta ea drs tte special S F 11 imms 1 big saml bridge from franci to ii proposed sed bj eibrt LONDON oct 12 A moat remarkable engineering project was at a recent meeting of the iron and steel institute in paris this 13 nothing lees than the erection of a great bridge between france and england from capa Gris nese to folke stone an dilca of a hat is involved in this may be gathered from borne estimates prepared by pro josera of the project the length of the bridge would be thirty two miles the number of piers the headway for ships ISO feet the height from tha foundation to the top of the structure jeet jt is proposed to build the bridge entirely of steel to do this tons of steel would be required and the coat of the bridge it is estimated would amount to about the project w have attracted less attention than it has but for the fact that it was suggested by M schneider of Oreus ot the leading french iron master and tery eminent engineer of that country and waa endorsed by sir john fouler and air baker chief engineers atthe fourth bridge the examination of the project by these authorities has commenced to them it involves no difficulties which cannot ba overcome by engineering skill the schema is regarded in rather a critical light by professional and trade jou roas itie tact that bach ft prop position should be made at thia time bears w to the very considerable development ol 01 the modern tendency to increase ani communication between two nations which were BO long a period rivals and enemies would bd a thing indeed lost boy kith a cortoni For toni S V YORK oct 12 Jacob heigler who died in alie early part of this year in southern Californi ct leaving an estate of one million dollars was not known to have any immediate family it wai learned by a chronicle correspondent basl evening however that a claim is now made to the entire fortune by relatives residing in lancaster county pennsylvania and that they will at bean action to have the estate divined among them tho claimants abbit fifteen in number are all poor people and are old german set lera in that old settled portion of the stae this is another else of a long lost boy who wan deed to california and made an immense fortune of which kind of ca ca the law chuita of the detate haie had BO many ovit yi ars ago a young lancaster farm named jacob beigler left his home near bird in hand to seek his fortune with his departure vanished every trice of tha man for over forty years and his parents die his brothers and married and reared families and in torn died until the most his gave up all hopa of know ing the fata of the wanderer it was some time in that a grizzled old fellow put in an appearance at the home of minajane near bird in fiand and introduced himself as her uncle jacob II eigler the youth aho vho hu disappeared forty years previously heftka tin married and departure from lancaster county along abigt 1829 he bad been living in california he as apparently in the most pros circumstances lie ebent bial months in the vicinity of bia former home aej aliea left for alie iti cefic elope another period of yeara elapsed in which nothing was heard of jacob heigler in the meantime the family name by same process of tiana mutation had bacomo ll eidler instead of ll eiler possibly for th sake ot euphony knowledge 0 death came through a stray california the matter ia now in the hands of the at sia oct 12 tho state lina steamer bato of nebraska Nebra eka captain braes bound for mew york came in collision today to day vili abo allan line etaamer n captain carru aliers from the nebraska ta on the ort bow and bev platts ere pm ashod she was driven and her stern lies high up in a terry slip at greenock Gro enock alia nebraska B as fille 1 with passengers action fur libil LONDON ost 12 lira moamoa ft aa for thial today to day on a charge of having criminally li belled mr Ch ondera in letters ad to mrs hallette the in g magistrate retted to enter tain the plea that the letters were |