Show RAILROAD MATTERS meeting caine achl eado ana chicago june 4 the thirty seventh annual meeting of the chicago and northwestern railway stockholders was hela hero today the following were chosen directors for tareo years byron L smith cyrus H mccormick F W and john I 1 blair the officers elected were chairman of the board albert keep president marvin vice deat treasurer aad secretary M L sykes new york assistant secretary and treasurers treasur ers S 0 howe J P redfield chicago following are alra new executive committee hubbitt Hug bitt H me K chauncey M FB arger dabid P kimball W K jaicks 0 fargo and albert keep in order to the competition of eastern lines abo chairman ot the western passenger has authorized roads to accept tickets for the republican national convention alter 6 p m june A special tariff of passenger rates between illinois kansas and missouri common points has been agreed on by western roads during the national and republican conventions in order to check demoralization through scalping at a meeting of the advisory commit too of the western immigrant fl learing hause today it was decided to bend representatives to a conference in new york tuesday with tho joint traffic association managers on the question quee tion of the southern pacifica attitude towards the western trunk lines in relation to immigrant business the western association will protest against the eastern trunk lines giving aid to the southern pacific by paying its new york immigrant agent commission on business over their lines on which the california road has no haul while at the same time it is diverting immigrant business via new orieana via the western trunk lines fighting in madagascar paris june 4 an official dispatch die patch received from Anata vario the capital of madagascar under date of may pays that a party of Faha insurgent bandits 1500 strong have made an at 1 tack upon the town of and destroyed it by fire the insurgents for three days have blockaded a house in which was stationed a party of french militia who were protecting norwegian missionaries and their families the blockade was finally raised by the french with a detachment of giova mili tiit who routed the Faha killing of them illinois honest money movement chicago june 4 on the invitation of tho honest money and honest primary organization of cook county democrats apon terence of standard party leaders from all parts of illinois will bo held here saturday to report the status of the silver movement within the party in the counties upon which to base a decision as to the of calling a state convention separate from the one to bo held at peoria which is expected to vote for free silver and Alte elds nomination notes on science and industry tho report is confirmed of platinum findings in paying quantities in the annie 0 mine at swiftwater Swift water col a email camp at the foot of buffalo peak and alie denver republican regards the discovery as one of interest in that it makes the mine in question the first one in colorado to show that metal to any valuable amount and the third in the united seatse but traces of the racial have been discovered in colorado ores prior to this while in oregon and washington it appeared in appreciable quantity in two instances at a depth feet the annie 0 managers claim to have uncovered an eight foot vein the ore taken from it containing platinum gold iron and sulphur but no copper lead or zinc and alio analytical tests made on the two solid feet of sulphides sulp hides in the foot wall are said to have given as three ounces of platinum to every eight ounces oi gold in reply to certain criticisms made on the poor quality of much of the paper now used by publishers of books sir george H putnam gives as a reason tor that fact 2 reabun which he admits must seem to many to be well nigh incredible the decrease of religious fana in the eastern shores of the mediterranean myriads of pilgrims used to cross those dreary deserts on their way to mecca every one of them being clot lied in flowing garments of finest white linen one of their number hundreds and thousands would die by the wayside rendering ren derine it at one time a most profitable business to strip linen garments from the bodies and send them to the large paper factories of europe it was from this source mr putnam says that the best paper was obtained but they no longer in such large numbers undertake those pilgrimages gr therefore not so may die by the wayside and hence the inability to furnish so high a quality 0 paper |