Show TELEGRAPH TIDINGS another lively day in the scandalous star eoute route trial milwaukee is Visit visited eally by a heavy flood mod of water the texas pacific land grant to be forfeited by VV NY U telegraph Tele raph to the tile HERALD a railroad racket BOSTON bosto aug auga 3 A dispatch from abla chicago I 1 today to day foreshadowing shadowing fore a railroad freight frei lit war between the atlantic and pacific coasts stirred up the people here the business husi nesa obtained by taking california trade at cheap rates is regarded as sufficient to induce certain roads to break the pool agreement Allare all are agreed that the threat of the southern lines linvs to bill on to st louis and adopt similar improper tactics in regard to billing could hardly be considered of any importance at the same time it was evidently 1 I thought that the request of the commissioner Cem missioner that these practices be discontinued was insufficient to stop the evil but what steps ho be would take to compel comiel tho the enforcement of tine this request it was impossible to tell scalded to death BELOIT kansas au auga 3 this morning the tile cast eastbound bound passenger train on oil the central branch of the union pacific ic met with a serious y accident at at granite creek 16 miles west of here bore the engine and mail and cx express r s cars car went through a burned bri bridge so a distance stanco di olover of over twenty feet ali the engineer n bulton craft and fireman U C mcgee were ivere badly bruised and scalded edby by steam both died before reaching this city grace for ga gambler alers ST 6 louis aug 3 robt C pate henry Le lehndorf lindorf and john GI Gl orden who have been in jail for two or three weeks past under a six months aan tence for run running ninga a letter lottery here were pardoned by governor crittenden this afternoon tile they were pardoned oile b before fore for gambling mati A dani Axi tox ohio obio auga there I 1 is is a dam rew row in in progress here the ay hydraulic iy dra constructed a dam which was torn away on tho the claim that it polluted the waters the matter went to the courts where the company got an injunction restraining interference with its work the company today to day brought up a lot of italians to reconstruct the dam the citizens turned out to oppose it then tho the mayor and police up next there was a general scrimmage scrim mace but nobody was seriously hurt the citizens say the dam shall not be rebuilt the courts to the contrary notwithstanding temperance R formers Wor mers ST PAUL aug 3 this is the third nud last days session of the national total abstinence union roman Vat catholic holic several papers and letters from absent brethren were read I 1 in in the morning in the afternoon resolutions were cr adopted thanking the hierarchy and priests who forwarded the tempe temperance ranco movement deprecating the spread of bad literature and commending public action of society and church urging the roman catholics to organize for the sake of promoting doting temperance reform by prayer moral instructions instruct lons and other legitimate leg ti means officers were elected for the ensuing year as follows jolin john ireland of st paul vice pres ident rev J P cotten cot ten of winona treasurer rev J D FoN fowles vIes of ohio secretary philip A nolan of philadelphia delphia A reception was avas giyen glyen by the cli citizens 1 in the evening star Starl route toute trial trials washington TOX aug 3 in the star route trial today to day after recess wilsen wilson began the reading of a number number of petitions which had bad been ruled out at an early stage of the trial this was followed by a along long discussion on tho the admissibility of the bids made at the letting of the court finally ruled them out hugh T taggert crt assistant Di district U S attorney waa called to the stand he lie identified the letter as bein being the handwriting of col totten objections were made to its reception by the prosecution and wil son explained that he lie proposed to allow show that when walsh placed his claim against brady in col bottens Tot tens lands for collection his account was entirely different from the statement he be had sworn to in thia this court the court said this was not professional it was proposed binding walsh to the admissions of col totten he ile would not allow the counsel to suri ruri render the correspondence between himself and his client for tile purpose of afterwards damaging his client in another case totten indignantly denied that lie had been guilty of unprofessional conduct the letter in question he lie said long ago passed ont out of his hands having baving been sent to gen brady at t now york rk it had been addressed to to gen brady and waa was as much his property as a letter from walsh would have been after some further explanations judge wylie eaid said he lie had mistaken the circumstances of the prosecution letter and would entirely exonerate the counsel from tho the charge of unprofessional cond conduct act th the c prosecution objected to the letter being used the matter had not been touched upon in III direct examination and a long discussion ensued in the discussion turner turned to the defense and asked why the they did not put Ite redell on the stand to rebut testimony immediately prang sprang to his lis feet fee t and said we note an exception to the tile language lan guase e of the government counsel merrick Well note your exception I 1 but why do you not put Ite redell on oil the stand ncy 1 I note another exception the court said he lie had not yet passed upon the first exception again an exception could only be asked to a ruling of the court the use language was wrong however forthe for the law said that no inference should be placed upon the ab sence of the defendant an 1 I angry discussion followed between the counsel which was only brought to loan an ena end by the court insisting i upon oil the tile maintenance of order and directing directing the counsel to drop the subject the tile argument then pro proceeded acceded on the admissibility of mcgrete Mc Grewe Grews tat mony and it wai was finally lle rejected ct ed ti C 11 I 1 berry representative in congress from california identified led his indorsement endorsement indor upon the petition and letter written by him himself elf both referring to the It edding alturas alburas route iio ile said he lie called very often at the department part ment with the object of bavin having I 1 the service upon this route restored to six trips per week and prid was very eis earnest earliest in his efforts after an unsuccessful effort to introduce intro duco the letter the hearing was adjourned storm MILWAUKEE aug 3 the moat most de tivo tive storm which has lias visited this section for yeara years swept over the city today to day tho the damage of p property ro erty la is variously estimated at from fifty tifty fifty to a hundred undred li thousand dollars but two lives are reported lost william kopf heimer being killed by tho the eighth district school and seven di dwelling velling houses and tho the schooner A angus amith were struck by lightning most moet of the damage to property was s as done bywater by water which filled all basements in in the flat part of the city many business houses near the river suffered heavy loss of the goods stored in the basements it is reported 0 arted that the lie water came in suddenly ry on a family living in a basement on oil the west side and in their haste laste to remove the furniture forgot the bab baby which lay in was drowned the sewers of the city proved inadequate for such a fall of water and much damage was dono done to the streets and many sewer pipes were broken by the pressure of water the storm was purely local government grant NEW YORK aug 4 the 2 times amm say says editorially the texas pacific railway wa co were granted acres of fand land on condition that the railroad should bo be built along a certain line indicated after one failure and one extension ef timo time the company have absolutely and formally relinquished the work the westward end of the line has been taken by the southern pacific it it co now engaged in building the tile road on ne nearly arly the same route as that 0 originally rig ily projected by the texas pacific co shall the lands promised to tho the texas pacific co be returned to the united states shall tho the lands so forfeited and returned be granted to the southern pacific coa co these questions are answered in the reports of edthe the comm committee t e anani unanimously ous y agreeing that the lands s are forfeited although the minority disagree only as to tho the line of reiso reasoning reasoning ning by which the con conclusion is carried aried out th there ere is no intimation that the southern pacific R R co have any shadow of right in the forfeited land grants the southern pacific road was not built under a stimulus of any reward from the united states nor for the benefit of the tile united states royal regatta lomox aug 3 the cowes royal town regatta took place to today asty there was a bailin sailing match for all vessels not exe exceeding coding twenty six feet 1 in n the water line te to be steered by their owners the brizes were silver cups presented by bv 1 gower valued at 20 and 10 gower entered hia his own american catboat gleam several english yachts mostly cutter ridged ed competed tho the gleam won finely it was a splendid race tariff talk LOKO lono bica BRANCH acir aug 3 before athe the tariff commission tolay botay gaston I 1 L Feu ardent made an ent I 1 n fhe favor r Df on the free anti antiquities quit es objects of collection plaster casts and photographs thereof whether for salo sale or not niti of philadelphia wanted an equality of duty on statues an ali argument was made in favor of putting hatters batters plush on the freo free list ilso also in amor of putting on an the free list sulphur ore for tho tile manufacture of sulp sulphuric hurie acid for fertilizers the deflect oft his proposition would be to cheapen fertilizers they were twenty five per cent cheaper in england than antho in the united slates states instead odthe of alie united states importing thousand tona tons of super el phate 1 ate the ought ough t to export it as th they licad e ld the key to the situation in containing the only mineral phosphate de deposit I 1 in a th the a world there kere was an executive session today before the public discussion for the purpose of settling some items of the tariff bill no chinese chant ee wanted washington aug 3 on application of a chinaman for naturalization papers judge wylie informed him the chinese bill recently enacted absolutely sol forbade the naturalization of chinese from the date of its passage cowboy cowboys Cap captured aug 3 AStar A star special from Illi enix august 2nd and buys says A fight took place in this town this afternoon between th three ree presumable co cowboys w and of ficeri assisted by citizens all three cowboys were captured one killed kille dand and one badly wounded no one else was hurt As the prisoners nero ere being taken to jail an at attempt e pt was made to lynch them they 1 hj were re pushed under a tree and loua u calia 1 wore were made for rope T alie lie officers with a posse came to the rescue and removed them to the tile jail jall radical resolution COLUMBUS 0 aug 3 at the prohibition hibi tion convention the following resolutions were nd adopted opted that the manufacture and salo sale of liquor ia is a crime demanding tot total al prohibition and denouncing the tile wrong of any license er or taxation prohibition of gambling in every mill lorm prohibition of all speculation prohibition of class le legislation prohibition of contract labor b prohibition of tho the star route seii swindle 1 dle demanding a reduction of salaries iw asking for tho tile frequent investigation vesti gation of government affairs fo for woman suffrage fragge suf congratulating the p people eo le oi of iowa on the adoption of F prohibition 1 approving the smith aw w the following ticket wai nominated secretary of state ferdinand F akron supreme judge john M fulton co member of the board of public works carml alderman lawrence county |