Show ten persons killed and twenty injured witham england sept 1 As the express from london to cromer on the great eastern railway was entering witham station this morning several passenger cars left the track and crashed into the station building causing the death of ten persons six ot whom were women and seriously to jurling 20 others among those killed was the porter of the station who was sitting in his room he was crushed to death two ticket sellers were burled in the wreckage but they escaped serious injury the gaso meters beneath the cars caught fire and consumed the wreckage all the bodies were saved before the flames gained headway it was the rear cars that left the track the engine and front cars remaining on the rails the rear cars mounted the platform of the station demolished the buildings and then turned over AGAINST corruption new york state law Is opposed to petty bribery albany Y sept 1 an act of the last legislature takes effect today which Is decidedly against the practice of corrupting agents whether they be the maid servant to whom the grocer gives a bonus in return for her mistress trade or the agent of a great commercial house whose patronage may mean thousands of dollars a year t the manufacturer who gets it this law makes it a misdemeanor punishable by a flue of 10 to or bya fine and a years imprisonment to give offer or to promise an agent employed or servant any gift or gratuity whatever without the knowledge and consent of the principal employer or master of such agent employed or servant with intent to influence his action in relation to his employers business the penalty also applies to agenda who request or accept gatt or commissions given lor this purpose CHAFFEE IN PARIS paris sept 1 lieutenant general adna R chaldee Ch altee accompanied by his aides de camp and family arrived here from waterloo today and was met at the railroad station by officials of the american ame rican embassy and major vignal and captain fournter Fourn ler of the french army brigadier james F crosler Croz ler distant chief 0 staff is already here and brigadier general bell chief of ordnance Is shortly the american mission starts for the army maneuvers september ath WARSAW WELCOMES PEACE warsaw ept 1 the commercial world greets peace joyfully as the economic conditions will improve in consequence the bourse here was animated all values rising the editorials in tha newspapers welcome find express the hope that russia will now devote herself to internal improve ments GUARDING AGAINST CHOLERA hamburg apt 1 the agent of the imperial german health office today ordered ail steerage passengers 0 o the steamer which sailed for new york yesterday to bo landed at cux haven i r later they were put on board of a steamer lying 0 Br unshaven and run in the quarantine dock it does not appear that h is Y cholera among the steerage passengers but the health officer thought it wisest to order all to be landed for a fresh inspection and observation until saturday when if in health and none of them bs been shown to have como in con tac cholera they may be allowed to proceed T diphtheria sote throat croup instant permanent cure dr thomas oil at any drug store w ORIGINAL MAN DEAD new sept 1 thomas fetchie ex commissioner of immigration pt this port and the original mckenley man of kings county Is dead at his home in brooklyn he was 72 years of ago and retired some time BRO from active politics owing to health |