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VOL. XXXIII. CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1896. NO. 21 transportation. East and South -VIA- The Shasta Route OF THE Southern Pacific Co- "EXPRESS TRAINS RUN DAILY. 8a0? Leave Poitlaud Ariive I 8:10 a h 12:10 a m j lave Albany Arrive) 4:45am 10:45 am . A nive 8. Francisco Lave 7:00 r H Above treins stop at Eat Portland, Oregon City, Woodbma, tialem. Turner, Marion, Jefter son, Albany. Albany Jiuction,Tau;-nt,Saedds, Hatrey, Ilarifebutg. Jmictiou City, Eugene, Gieswell, Drains, and all station! from Kose burg to Asb'aud, inclusive. KOSEBDKG MAIL DAILY. 8:i A M Leave 12:25 p m Leave 6:20 f M j Auive jroriiana Albany R os-burg Air.ve 4 4i r M Arrive 1 12:5 . r u Leave I 8:00 A M Pallman Buffet sleepers and second-class sleeping cars attached to all through trains. SALEM PASSENGER DAILY. ' 4:00 fm L?ave Portland Arrive 1 1):15 A M :!& r M Arrive Salem Leave I 8:00 A M - WIST SIDE DIVISION. Between Portland and Corvallis Mall train daily (except Sunday). 730 a m Leave 12:15 r M Arrive Portland Corvallis Auive o.m r u Leave 1 1:86 fm At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of the Oregon Central A Eastern Ry. XX PRESS TRAINS DAILY (Except Sunday). 4:45m I.vave Portland Ariive ' 8:25 a m 7:25 f m I Auive McMinnville Ieave 5:60 A H Through tickets to all points In the Eastern states, Canada aud Europe ean be obtained at lowest rate from A. K. Miller, agent, Corvallis R. KOEHLER, Manager. K. P. ROGERS, A. Q. F. A P. A., Portland, Or. ' E. McNEIL, Keceiyer. TO THE IE A S T GIVES THE CHOICE OF TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL - BOUTBS VIA , ! GREAT NORTHERN RY. SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS AND '". ST. PAUL VIA UNION PACIFIC RY, DENVER OMAHA - "and , KANSAS CITT X W BATES TO ALL EASTERN CITIES OCEAN STEAMERS kEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 DAYS ..FOR SAN FRANCISCO For fall details, call on or address W. H. HURLBURT, Gen'l Pass. Agent, Portland, Oregon. OREGON CENTRAL AND EASTERN R.R.CO. - Yaquina Bay route Connecting at Yaquina Bay with the San Francisco & Yaquina Bay STEAMSHIP COMPANY. ; Steamship " Farallon " Sails from Yaquina every 8 days for San Fran cisco, Coos Bay, Port Orford, Trinidad and Humboldt Bay. Passenger aco mmodations unsurpassed. Shortest route between the Wil lamette valley and California. Far From Albany or Points Wast to San Franclsoo: ;: Cabin f Steerage 8 - To Coos Bay and Port Oriord Cabin.. To Humboldt Bay Cabin......-.............- Round trip, good for CO days, special. - - River Division. ' ' Steamers ALBANY and WM. M. HOAG, newly furnished, leave Corvallis duly, except Satur days, at 7 a. m-i arriving at Portland the same day at 5 p m. Returning, boats leave Portland same days as above at a. m., arriving at Cor vallis at 9 p. m. i. C. Mayo, EDWIN STONE, Bupt River Division. Manager. H. B. Lowmah, W. Schmidt, Depot Agt, Corvallis. Agt River Division, Occidental HoteL BENTON COUNTY" . ABSTRACT : COMPANY Complete Set of Abstracts . of Benton County. Conveyancingand Perfecting Titles a Specialty. Money to Loan on Improved City and Country Property. V. E. WAITERS, Prop. Offloe at Courthouse, CorvalUs, Or. lyJoJUoliXlo DR. L. G. ALTMAN H0M0E0PATHIST , Diseases of women and children and general practice. Office over Allen A Woodward's drag store. Office boars 8 to 12 A. M., and 2 to 5 and 7 toS P. M. At residence, corner of 3rd and Harrison after boars and on Sundays. G. R. FARRA, M. D. , Office In Farra A Allen's brick, on the corner of Second and Adams. Residence on Third street in front of court- house. . Office hoars 8 to 9 A. M., and 1 to 3 and 7 to r. u. All calls attended promptly. BOWEN LESTER DENTIST Office upstairs over First National Bank. Strictly First-Class Work Guaranteed Corvallis, Oregon F. M. JOHNSON ATTO R N E Y - AT - LAW Corvallis, Oregon Does a general practice in all the courts. Also agent for all the first-class Insurance com panies. NOTARY PUBLIC. JUSTICE PEACE. E. E. WILSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW Office In Zelroff building, opposite postoffice. Joseph H. WlLSOH. Thomas E. Wilsoh -WILSON & WILSON ATTORNEYS -AT-LAW Office over First National Bank, Corvallis, Or Will practice in all the state and federal courts Abstracting, collections. Notary public ' Con veyancing. B. HOLOATE. H. L. HOLGATE. Notary Public Jasiice of the Peace. HOLGATE & SON ATTOENEYS-AT-LAW Corvallis - - ' - - Oregon W. E. YATES. .-r-et.' : J. FEED YATES YATES & "YATES LAWYERS ' CORVALLIS OREGON The Tramp's Story. A tramp appeared at the door of a house in Takcma park yesterday. He was not an ordinary looking tramp. Al though ragged,' there was an air about him that betokened good breeding. He touched the rim of his battered hat with the grace of a Chesterfield, and the lady of the house gave him something to eat. "You look as though you had been a gentleman, " she said. "I am afraid you are addicted to drink. ' - ".- "No, madam, ycu are in error," he replied. "Addicted implies a habit I am ; therefore not addicted to either eating or drinking. - I was, however, once a gentleman. My downfall came from learning a trade. " : ,; . "Learning a trade?" ' '"Yes, madam. I worked at the ma chinists' trade for five years, and so in jured my thumb and forefinger that I could, follow my profession no longer, madam." "What was your profession?" "I wrote checks, madam. " - And even then she did not know what he meant not until her husband came home and told her why the writing of checks made him have to learn a trade. Washington Star. j He Was a Little Dutchman. I heard a good old German giving his little grandson a lesson in English the other day, says a writer in the San Francisco Post The old man sat tilted back in a chair against the sunny side of the house smoking his pipe, while little Paul played on his lap and the collie Joe frisked about them. "Come, Yoe! Hero, Yoe!" called the little boy. " .- 1 The old man knew that Yoe was not the English pronunciation of Joe, so he undertook to correct the little fellow. "No, gran'pa's boy don't say him right, laughed the old man. "You mustn't say ' Yoe. ' Say 'Yoe. ' " "Yoe," repeated the child. -- "I'm 'fraid, Paulie, youvas a Dutch man und can't say 'Yoe. Now look at gran 'pa und say him right Say ' Yoe. ' " The child watched the old man's mouth and then repeated Yoe. " "I t'ink, Paulie, your tongue vas too t'ick. You vas gran 'pa's little Dutch man und can't say 'Yoe. ' " Then they both langhed and the little boy called : "Here, Yoe! Here, Yoe!" Nothing; Above the Table. A popular and - well known lady of central Mississippi visited New Orleans at the last Mardi Gras for the first time. She was delighted with the city, but was considerably shocked at the "decolleteness" of some of the costumes at the balls. One day while here she was enter tained at a fashionable dinner, and up on her return to the house of the friend whom she was visiting she was asked to describe some of the costumes worn. "What did Mrs. C. wear?" said her friend. , . "I didn't, look under the table, but she didn't have on anything above it " New Orleans Times-Democrat EY5NTS OF THE DAY Epitome ot the Telegraphic News of the'World. TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES An I uteres ting Collection of Items From . the Two Hemispheres Presented , .1 km a Condensed Form. Storms to West Virginia have cre ated great havoo and railway trafflo has been suspended. : The members of a camping party near Oakland, Cal., were forced to climb trees, while a madened bull de stroyed their camp. E. L. Harrison, who was formerly traveling auditor for the Northern Paoifio railroad, committed suicide in Taooma, by shooting himself in the mouth, tire bullet from his revolver penetrating to the brain and killing him almost instantly. A freight train on the Vandalia rail road ran through a bridge near Craw fordsville, Ind., killing' Gondnotor McKenzie 'and Fireman John Herber and seriously injuring Roadmaster J. 8. Brothers and Engineer Bowman. The wreck was caused by washouts. Rev. Geo.' P. Knapp, who was ar rested in Bitlis, Eastern Turkey, on the charge of conspiring against the Turk ish government, and who was once lib erated, but refused to leave the oountry before his innocence was established, has again been arrested and will be tried on a charge of inoiting riot E. L. Moody, a logger, made a cow ardly attempt to mnrder Mrs. H. J. Bonn in a hotel kept by the woman's husband at Elma, Mash. Moody stabbed his victim in the - wrist and in the right breast with a knife, and then fled, leaving Mrs. Bunn seriously if not fatally wounded. Moody is still at large. . A Havana dispatch says the police have captured a collection of maps of the island, highly colored, showing the supposed insurgent headquarters - in Cubitas, the . rebel flag and picturing various chiefs of the insurrection. The maps bear the imprint of a Barcelona firm. The Havana stationer, Don Fer nandez, in whose possession they were found, was arrested. .. The two daring navigators who left New York June 28, in a sailboat but eighteen feet long, to cross the Atlan tic, are all right' They were sighted on Jnly 19 in. latitude 53, longitude U. BI-thmericanltaeirTOfliimi and asked to be reported. They ap peared to be in the best of spirits and required no assistance whatever from the Indiana,' although provisions and water were offered them. - It is rumored that the Turkish gov ernment contemplates an issue of paper money. 'f'-: In Victor, Colo., fifty pounds of giant powder exploded, causing $5,000 worth of damage. Many people were out by glass, but none killed. In Sedalia, Mo., Mart Crawford, a section foreman on the Missouri Pa oifio, was hanged- by a furious mob for the attempted rape of a 16-year-old girl. The socialist congress, which met in London, proved to be a noisy gather ing. Scenes of violence were enaoted and a free fight was narrowly averted. The coming year it is said wines will come high, owing to the failure of Cal ifornia's grape crop. Little wine will be exported from the golden state this season. ' - A New York dispatch says Senator Hill is now in favor of a third tioket The information, it is said, oomes di rect from a personal friend of the sen ator, who is a prominent Democrat A stockman named John Lawrence was found dead upon the range near Union, Or., with a bullet in his head and a pistol lying a few feet away. It is supposed that he committed suicide. The trial of the South African raid- era baa ended : in Liondon. ana ur. Jameson has been given a sentence of fifteen months imprisonment without labor. The others reoeived light sen tences. " " ' '- In Quinoy, I1L, five fatalities by drowning or otherwise occurred in forty-eight hours. James MoLean was killed by an accidental fall from the roof of the Bicker National bank; Her bert Harrison, a school teacher, Fred erick Groas-and Fred Baumgarten, sons of prominent citizens, were drowned in Bear creek; George Betero, another youth, was drowned In a pool south of the city limits, and his two brothers were saved only with great difficulty. Pennsylvania was visited by a disas trous hurricane, resulting in loss of life and property. ' Steeples were blown from . ohnrohes, adjoining buildings were crashed, houses were . unroofed, and trees broken off or torn np by the roots. Great havoo was caused by the heavy ralnfalL - Two lives were lost, thirty-six injured, gome fatally, and property damaged to the amount of $100,000. A boarding-house near Cecil, Washington county, was washed away and its occupants, fifteen coal miner?, were drowned. . Seven of the bodies have been recovered. Eight are still missing. ' " -;'-;v.' ' : Two cable cars broke loose at the top of the Ninth-street Incline in Kan sas City, and dashed down the declivity into the Union depot sheds. The grip oar and those oq board escaped injury, but the trailer was thrown from the traok just inside the elevated sheds and literally smashed to pieces. Several of the occupants of this, oar were badly hurt Among them are George D. Fearon, of Kansas City, and his two sis ters, Mrs. Gay and Miss Fearon, both of New York. Mrs. Gay suffered an injury of the spine. Victoria to Retire. ' r: The rumor that Queen Victoria in tends to retire in favor of the Prince of Wales is again current in London. - It is added that court circles are greatly troubled regarding the condition of the queen's health. Such reports have fre quently appeared recently, only to be aemi-ofBoially contradicted later, but it seems that there may be some actual foundation for the statements made. It is added that her majesty has de cided to spend her time in future at Balmoral or Osborne, and will give the Prince and Princess of Wales the use of Buckingham palace and Windsor castle. - Is Deaf, Dumb and Blind. An interesting experiment in educa tion will be commenced at the deaf, dumb and blind institution at Berkley, Cal. , on the opening of the school year in August Grace C. Spercw, aged 10 years, who was been stone blind from childhood and is now almost deaf and dumb, is to be made a special student and ' eduoated at " the expense of the state. This child will be given a nine years' oourse and will receive instruc tion from a special teacher employed for that purpose.- This will be the first attempt to educate a ' deaf, dumb and blind person and in consequence great interest oenters about the case. " Schrader In Texas. . August Shrader, the so-oalled divine healer, put in an appearance in Dallas, Tex., where he treated 2,000 persons in four days. Some reported they had been cured. ; He left suddenly; leaving the following note: : "I am - called from here, and obey my Father's will." Sucoessfnl Filibusters. Passengers from Havana, arrived in Key West by the steamer Masoott re port a rumor of the successful landing of a filibustering expedition in the vi cinity of Cienfuegos. The expedition is believed to be under the command of Captain Cabrera. " ' Oregon's School Census. r The state school census, which has just been completed by Superintendent Irwin, at Salem, shows that there are in Oregon at present 129,628 oihldren of school age. - -.- ; Republican State Convention. The Republican state committee of Washington decided to hold the state convention at Tacoma on : August 2 8. The convention will - be attended by 436 delegates. Judge Carpenter Dead. Word comes from Holland by cable that Judge George M. Carpenter, of the United. States district court for the dis trict of Rhode Island, died of paralysis of the heart - - " . - " " , Cpldemie of Snfcidee. : Driven to despair by different causes, six people attempted to end their own lives by snioide, in Chicago in one day. Devastated by the Storm. The most destructive storm in the history of Sunday Creek valley K oc curred at Gloucester, a mining town twelve miles north of -Athens,' O., re sulting in the almost total destruction of one of the principal thoroughfares of the town. The fury of the wind is almost indescribable. Buildings were toppled over, trees torn from their roots, and the town is a scene of desolation. Nearly every building in - the town is damaged. To add to the horror, Sun day creek Is a sweeping, raging torrent Several houses have been washed away, and word was reoeived that the list of dead will reach fifteen. Aline Burned by Strikers. The mine of the old Pittsburg Coal Company, at Hymeau, Sullivan county, Ind., has been burned. A committee from the miners' organization visited the mine and sought to . induce the miners to quit work. The watchman was oaptured, carried some distanoe and the works burned. The loss is 125.000. Italian. Warship Destroyed. The Italian armored wraship Rola, of about 0,800 tons displacement, was struck by lightning near Rome. The flames spread rapidly threatening to reaoh the magazine. It was found ne cessary to sink the ship by discharg ing torpedoes. - -.-', .Both Are Dead, P-i Robert Stark and Abe Tinkey, the former a merchant, the latter post master at Sequim, Wash., attempted to acquire a cheap jag' on wood alcohol. The effeot was such that within a few hours after drinking the fiery tion both men died. deooo-! I t ; r . Its Glory Has Departed. T The great auditorium ' in which the Republicans and Populists held their j national conventions in St Louis, Willi be turned into a Madison square garden for horse shows, bioyole meets andi other great indoor sporting enterprises the coming fall and winter. - Heavy Dams( in South Dakota. 1- Disnatobes from -Melitte and other points in South Dakota state that a hail storm devastated a stretch of oountry i sixtv miles loner and five or six miles i wide. The damage amounts to hun dreds of thousands of dollars. ' A Terrific Explosion. - A special from Vienna Bays an ex plosion in a powder magazine at Fuen f kirohen resulted in the death of five persons, injuring eighty others and 'recking the' town halL " . Not Paid to Do Campaign Duty. Postmaster-General . Wilson has issued- an order to the railway mail clerks directing them not to take an aotive interest in the. political cam paign such as would be involved in at tending political conventions as dele- gates or, making political speeches. The postmaster-general's circular ex-j pressly states that he does not desire to f control toeir opinions cm-pouoat mif I CAra. Vint t.hv mnnt rnfrain from tak. ing an aotive part is political matters. NEW LINE PROPOSED To Run Between Yokohama ' and Portland. CAPITAL OF TWO MILLION YEH The Company, After Permission Raa Been Granted, May Amalgamate With Oriental Steamship Co. ' . Taooma, Aug. 4. News has been re ceived here of the establishment of an other steamship company at Tokio, to be called the Daito Kisen Kaisha, with a capital of 2,000,000 yen. The Japan ese Weekly Gazette says the new com pany proposes to open np a regular ser vice of steamers between Yokohama and Portland with the objeot of effect ing connection with Oregon railroads. According to ths 'present plan, three steamers of 5,000 tons each are to be employed on the new line. The signa tures of the projectors are being taken preparatory to applying to the authori ties for a charter. . It is said the pro posed steamship' company, after official permission - has been granted, may amalgamate with ? the Toyo Kisen Kaisha (Oriental Steamship Com pany), whose' formation has been re ceived with great popularity by the publio in Japan. - ONLY A FLESH WOUND. But a Marrow Escape, However, for A. T. Ross. . . Astoria, Or., Aug. 4. About 8 o'clock this morning Jaok Kenney, pro prietor of a danoehall, shot A. Y. Ross, one of the owners of the Astoria laun dry. . : Ross and his wife left the restaurant after breakfast and started for the laundry nearby, and in passing a crowd ot men, among whom was Ken ny, they were subjected to vile lan guage, and were followed by Kenny into the laundry. Ross requested him to leave the place, but this only pro voked the man to viler language in the hearing of the women employes. : Ross then came from behind the counter and pushed him into the street, whereupon Kenny pulled a "gun" and Ross pick ed up a brick and threw it, striking Kenny on the arm. Kenny then fired, the ball ontting into Ross,' shoulder near the jugular vien, inflicting only a flesh wound, however Kenney was arrested and placed under f 1,000 bonds, and this evening was committed to jail to await a pre liminary trial, being unable to furnish STRUCK WITH AN AX. A Nebraska Farmer's Method of Fore- ins; a Retraction. Elkhorn, Neb., Aug. 4. As a result of the recent sohool election here, Wil liam Clark was probably fatally in jured by being struok with an ax in the bands of George Frost : Both are wealthy farmers. Clark was en route from Elkhorn, and as he was passing Frost's place, he was bailed by the lat ter and oommanded to retract a state ment he made at the sohool meeting, or abide the consequences. Clark re fused and was struok on the right side of the head with the ax. The blow knocked Clark out of the buggy and one of the wheels ran over his body. He says Frost struck him while he was lying on the ground, but finally desisted upon the tearful solici tation of one of. his sons. Besides a bad wound near his right eye, Clark is injured- internally. Frost is a school director and Clark accused him of falsifying the school records. A war rant was placed in an officer's hands, bnt Frost eluded him. SCARED THE BRITON8. England's Naval Bulwark Is Not Im pregnable. London, Aug. 4. The result of the naval maneuvers just concluded have given a shook to Englishmen, who im agined that Great Britain's naval bul wark was impregnable. The idea of the maneuvers was that the foreign fleet was trying to reach Loughswilly, and that a British fleet, whioh was much stronger and faster, had ' to pre vent it The foreign fleet met off Tor bay and the British fleet was spread from Land's End to Lap oape, close by, but the foreigbn fleet did not try to pass up the Irish sea. ' It went around the west ooast of Ireland and succeeded in reaching Loughswilly unmolested. I This was a complete reversal of what. was generally expected, and is held to prove that the landing of an invading force in Great Britain is quite possible, even though a greatly superior naval force will be trying to bar the way. A Ten Per Cent Red notion. Bellefonte, Pa , Aug. 4. Anbrder has been issued at the Valentine Cckn- pany's works that, commencing August li a ten per cent reduction of jwages would be effective. Over 500 men are effected by the reduction. A Fight and a Drowning. New York, Aug. 4. James Murphy, 85 years old, and Stephen Garvey.aged 60, fought tonight at pier 25, North river. : During the struggle, both men tumbled into the river and were drowned. . ; San Francisco's New Postofdoo. San Francisco, Aug. 8. Work on San Franoisoo's new postoffice is soon to commence. The tenants now oc cupying buildings on the site, at Mis sion and Seventh streets,' have been notified by the government to vacate within twentv davs. The site cost over i,oo0,000, and the postoffice building win about $2,000,000 more wnen completed. , ' - f ' The annual oattle crop" of New South Wales is about 400,000. Guarded by BI ml It la. , Cleveland, O., Aug 4. The labor sit uation in this city is again critical. One hundred and fifty nonunion men went to work at the Brown hoisting works this morning, guarded by four companies of militia and a large force of police. A big crowd of union men were present, but no outbreak occur red. The police and soldiers kept the strikers moving. A sympathetic strike, threatened ever since the strike at the Brown company's works began, eleven weeks ago, was inaugurated this morn ing. Eighty-seven- men employed by the Van Wagner & Williams Com pany, hardware: manufacturers, laid down their tools and walked out Bold at Auction. H Seattle, Aug. 6. All of the lands of the Northern Pacific railroad in the state of Washington, comprising 11, 902 sections Of patented and an indefi nite quantity of unpatented land, were sold today at public auotion by Speoial Master Alfred L. Carey. The sale was under decree of the United States cir cuit court of the eastern distrust of Wisconsin. - The property was bought in by Edwin W. Winter for the North ern Pacific Railway Company, of whioh he is president, for f 1, 705,200. Oakland Building; Collapsed. ' Oakland, Cal., Aug. 6. A two-story building on Seventh and Clay streets collapsed last night, and nine people occupying the house had narrow es capes from death. The underpinning of the house gave way shortly before midnight, and the building fell two feet with a crash. The building is still standimr. but the first wind Tirnrmrilv j will topple it over. It wasgbuilt forty ' years ago, and is one of the landmarks of the oity. . . - . m - Three Were Drowned. La Crosse,1 Wis., Aug. 6. While boating last evening Henry Hendriok son, Anna Amsrud and Lizzie Oldj stadt, three La Crosse young people, were drowned in the Mississippi river just below the city. - . Murdered Three People. Providence, N. Y., Aug. 5. Near Clay, eight miles west of here, Tom Brown, a farmer, 80 years old, butch ered his wife, 'mother-in-law and baby last night Brown oomes of a feeble minded family. Buildlnc His Own Church. - San Franoisco, Aug. 4. Rev. Henry Victor Morgan, pastor of the First Christian ohuroh society of Alameda, is building a meeting house with the as sistance of several members of his con gregation. In laborer's garb, with his coat off, his sleeves ' rolled up and a. straw bat on .the back of his head - the 'vi Revs' Morgan may be 'seen daily plying r the saw and hammer in the oonstruo- i 1. 1 . I. have always been handy with tools and I am not afraid to work," said the Rev. Mr. Morgan. "I took it upon myself t? superintend the con struction of our little meeting house. I am being assisted' by some members of my oongegation. This structure will be used for a ohuroh only temporarily. Inside of a year we expect to build a ohuroh edifioe and then this structure will be moved baok and attached to the rear and used as a" Sunday-school room. -1 think I am doing good work for the Lord in this way. I am anx ious we should have a home. " Andree Delayed. Stockholm, Aug. 4. News has been received from Spitsbergen that Pro fessor S. A. Andree's balloon has been filled and that he was ready to start July 25. The Virgo, with Professor Andree, his two companions and his apparatus on board, sailed from Strom soe June 15. Since June 20, the expe dition had been established in Pike's house, in the northern half of West Spitzbergen, opposite Dane's island. The stores and equipments had already been disembarked and the position con sidered very favorable. As the explorer had planned that his preparations would all be completed and his balloon filled by the first week in July, it seems probable that some unexpected obstacle was met in completing the preparations. Spain May Buy Warships In Glasgow. . Madrid, Aug. 4. The shipbuilders at Genoa, with whom the Spanish gov ernment has been negotiating for the purchase of two ironolads, have finally declined to sell to Spain the cruiser Garibaldi, on the ground that Argen tina has a prior right Admiral . Ber anger, the minister of marine, will in consequence send a commission of na val officers to Glasgow to negotiate for the purchase of two ironolads. Carried Off a Wife Clinton, Ma, Aug. 4. Several months ago Jim Carey came from, Iowa and made his home with his uncle, W. S. Carey, hear Clinton. During the letter's absence yesterday Mrs. Carey eloped with her husband's nephew, taking her baby along A warrant has been issued, but it is thought they have fled to Iowa. - los Angeles Chinese Shot. Los Angeles, Aug. 4. Wong Chee, one of the most prominent and influ ential Chinese in the oity, was shot and seriously wounded by one of bis coun trymen this evening. Three Chinamen have been arrested and 'Wong Chew Gow, one of the number, is believed to be the man who did the shooting. ' ' A Reward for Informers. Havana, Aug. 4. The offloial ga zette publishes a decree offering a re ward of $24,000 to any one enabling the Spanish cruisers to effeot the seiz ure of filibustering steamers and offer ing a further reward of $9,000 to any person enabling the Spanish cruisers to capture filibustering sailing vessels of over 205 tons. At least $750,000,000 worth of Brit ish property is always on the sea. THE TRAINS COLLIDED Came Together at a Diagonal Railroad Crossing. THE RESULTS WERE SICKENINQ An Bxpraai Catenas an Exonnlosi Train Broadside, Literally Cleaving It In Twain. Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 8 A railroad accident, horrible in its details and sickening in its results, ooourred this evening, just outside of this oity, and as a result about 100 persons are either killed or injured. The Reading railroad express, which left Philadelphia at 5:40 o'olook this evening for Atlantic City, crashed into a Pennsylvania railroad excursion train at the seoond signal tower, about four miles out from here. The Pennsylvania train was return ing to Bridgeton with a party of excur sionists from that place, Millville and neighboring towns. It was loaded with passengers, and a rough estimate of the killed and injured at a late hour places the number at 100. It is hoped that this is an exaggeration, but the number is undoubtedly more than fifty. At the second signal tower, the traoks of the two roads diagonally cross. The Readirg train was given the signal to stop, but the brakes either failed to work or the speed of the ex press was too great to be checked in time. It caught the excursion train broadside and ploughed through, liter ally cleaving it in twain. -The engine of the Reading train was shattered to pieces. Every ear on the excursion tram was jammed to its fullest ca pacity. As soon as the hews reached Atlantic City, - the utmost consternation pre vailed, but the authorities weie equal to the emergency. Relief trains were dispatched to the scene, loaded with cots and bearing staffs of surgeons. As quiok as the bodies were recovered, they were oarried into the looal hos pitals and undertaker's shops. ' A general fire alarm was sounded, and the department promptly respond ed, and aided in the heartrending work of digging for the victims. Fear grew into despair and horror as the vigorous work of the relief gangs revealed the awful extent of the disaster. . The first Reading relief train bore into 'this oity twenty-seven mangled oorpses, men, women and children. The -next- train, not an hour later, car ried fifteen of the maimed and wound ed, and two of these died soon after reaching the oity. . : As train after train' plied to the soene of the wreck, and came baok with its ghastly burdens, the Sani tarium, whioh does duty as the oity hos pital, quiokly found its capaoity over taxed. Meanwhile others of the dead and injured were being oarried to the private hospital at Ocean and Faciflo avenues. . Eward Farr, engineer on the Read ing train, was killed outright, as was another railroad man who rode on the engine with him. This man, whose name has not yet been learned, saw the collision coming and leaped from the oab an instant before the crash came. Almost at the same instant the engine out its : way through and caught him . directly in its path. . His body and that of Farr were found under a heap of debris, but .the engineer lay in what remained of the oab, and his right hand still clasped the throttle. He bad been faithful unto death, and met it at his post - The fireman on that train leaped a few seconds before and escaped with trifling injuries. Samuel Thornton, baggage-master on the Reading train, is among the dead. Jame M. Bateman, a Bridgeton un dertaker, is known to be killed. He was in the third oar, and his hat was found lying among the mass of broken timbers. Richard Trenohard, a Bridgeton ma chinist, and his wife are both dead. Conduotor Kelly, of the Fennsylva lia train, had both arms and legs broken, and was internally injured. Albert J. Mosebaoh, of No. 18 North Eighth street, Philadelphia, was on the Reading train. He escaped unhurt The excursion train was made up of fifteen oars, the foremost of whioh was a baggage oar. This and the next two ooaohea caught the full force of the crash, and were utterly demolished. What remained of the third oar was tumbled into a ditch at the roadside. The responsibility for the aooident can not now be fixed. William Thurlow, telegraph operator in the tower-house, was arrested to night and held, pending an inquiry. f Knropeana Massacred. Paris. Ausf. 3. Advices from Ma- junga, Madagascar, report that a cara van of two Frenchmen and three Eng lishmen have been massacred by the Fabavaloa, near Ambolipiana. Crop Failure In South Russia. London, Aug. 3. An Odessa dis patch to the Times announces that offl oial reports are to the effeot that the harvest has been a failure throughout the most fertile grain-producing dis tricts in the south of Russia. Oil Tank Exploded. New York, Aug. 8. Two men were fatally injured and three others se verely burned by the explosion of a tank at the Standard Oil Company's works, at Cravens Point, Jersey City, today. The fatally injured are: Rioh- " ard Cunningham, and .lhu Goldsmith. The works r were et on fire by the ex plosion, but the 'flames were extin guished before muoh damage was done. The world's navies are estimated as anploying 6,000,098 men.