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) Tor HERS BADLY INJURED A SND TWO MAY DIE. ' i 1 CONVERTED INTO DEBRIS. jr Two »lty Freight Cars Jumbleil Into a */( Heap-Station Building Com¬ pletely Wrecked, t head end collision between a freifyght and passenger train at Ameri- can Falls, twenty-five miles west of Poc^atello, Idaho, at 4:30 o'clock Tliurs- dat»' morning, caused the death of nine me ■n and the serious injury of eight oth ers, two of whom will die. r JB-’his is the worst wreck that has oc- cur Ired on the Short line in many yea rs. The westbound passenger trs >n was waiting for the freight at An lierican Falls standing in front of % 5 station building. The freight eo ning east ran away on the hill west of the Falls. It is thought the air bra .kes was tampered with. ['lie freight, running fifty miles an he fur, crashed into the passenger train, wL|i<.'h was already backing up in front of [the station. Two men were on the gtaition platform, one 'was killed and thef other fatally injured. The station building *ere was shattered. Both engines w converted into scrap iron and * twenty freight cars piled up in a heap. I Eight box car passengers, sheep shearers and tramps, were crushed to death. Up to noon five bodies had ween taken out of the wreck. If George Moore, the engineer of The the fi eight, is seriously injured. fj ireman, Dick Cosgrove, had a leg Kiroken and 0. E. Heckman, engineer jkif the passenger, sustained slight in¬ juries. Sue had He reversed stayed it. by his The engine conductor until a ud brakemen were on top of the freight setting the brakes and Fire- julan Cosgrove had climbed back to I ielp when the crash came. The dead f a-e: f' (residence C. W. Shields, about thirty-five, 90* unknown, i I D. H. Thompson, Dayton, Wash. Jolm R. Cooper, AVellsville, Utah. ;iW3tefen. Smi Dillon, Mont. beating unknown men, all sheep shear- ers their way. injured besides trainmen al- l'caBy mentioned are: x. W. Brenan, Pearl, Idaho, leg li iken; John Bergan, Brightam, ih, leg broken; John Peters, resi- dlpice AWmelly, unknown, Great leg Barrington, broken; William Mass., ’hashed and injured internally; will dlej v——-T- - a WAYEMEYER ACQUITTED. ^jg, a j ||g t the Millionaire Sugar Trust President Collapses. „ (interest in the trial of Henry O. £* avemeyer, president of the American y 1 agar Refining Company, at A\ r ashing- xn, for contumacy before the senate s ugar investigating committee, was Ireatly intensified Thursday morning T •y the pending motion of the defense o instruct the jury to bring in a ver- c 'ict of not guilty. t; The court surtained the motion of ,ae defense and the case against Tfavemeyer was dismissed. AA r hen asked by an Associated Press Reporter after the trial, whether the erdict w-as satisfactory to him, Mr. lavemeyer said: “Certainly it is satisfactory to me nd to every descent man in the coun- -X” TUMBLED INTO TALLULAH. A Young Man Loses Life In Turbulent Whirl of Tempesta. AV. Marshall Clower, a young eom- ^nission Ga., fell man headlong and broker into the of turbulent Atlanta, Waters ternoon of Tallulah falls Thursday af¬ and was dashed to death in f.he mad whirlpools and on the rocks, . He was one of a party of excursion¬ ists who went up with the conductors to picnic at the falls. He was fishing fca minute before he met his death. % A stiff breeze was blowing at the «ime. AVhen at one of the highest t Joints of the cliff the hat of Clower lew off toward the edge of the stream and in endeavoring to regain it he lost liis balance and fell in a tumbled heap (into the rapid flowing waters beneath. Vex years for raxk wrecker. s I; late President of Logansport National Sentenced To Pen. JohnF. Johnston, late president and f' 'ting cashier of the State National 'Wk f of Logansport, Ind., has been - mtenced to ten years’ imprisonment . the Ohio state penitentiary. ‘There was no sensation and John- m In received the words of the judge ' vlt thout a tremor, while Mrs. Johnson, Wij ,io was present in the court room,- .. ! jtened to the sentence without emo- ' jin. ‘ihnson By will counting have off to good about time, s serve en years. W I)U LI)-BEASSASSIn¥e N TEN CEI). A, lbrcliist Who Tried to Murder King £ Humbert Goes Up for Life. Wietro Ac.cirito, the anarchist who, ’ ) ,y April 22d last, attempted to stab jfing t Humbert, Rome, while the at witter was on his way to the races, Tlas sentenced Saturday to the galleys ■or life. .1 Hearing his sentence Accrito, who sa '\.d *id been quiet all through the trial, : the ‘Today it is nay turn; tomorrow it is mei ( turn of the bourgeoise govern- live ht; I long live the revolution; long anarchy.” PISTOLS AT CLOSE RANGE. Three Men Out of Five Killed—Mayor One of the Victim*. The little town of Oak man, Walker county, Ala., was the scene of a des¬ perate shooting affray Thursday after¬ noon. Isaac Appling, aged fifty, mayor of Oakman and leading merchant of the place, and Charles Williams, aged thirty, a machinist, are dead. Andrew Richards, clerk in the store of Appling Bros., shot in the head, will die. business Montgomery Appling, brother and partner of Mayor Appling, shot in the body; wound not necessa¬ rily fatal. William Duncan, an Englishman, shot in the head and back, will die. The two Applings, Duncan and Richards were shot by Williams. The ! latter was slain by Montgomery Ap- pling. Williams was a traveling machinist and hailed from Mississippi. Thurs¬ day, while intoxicated, he entered the store of Appling Bros, and became very boisterous. Mayor Appling, af¬ ter ordering him out, was about to call a policeman, when Williams drew a revolver and opened fire on Appling, who fell dead at the first shot. Montgomery Appling snatched a winchester rifle and began firing on the murderer. Williams received two rifle halls in his body, but after he had fallen con-‘ tinned firing until he had emptied his pistol. Andrew Richards, a clerk, was shot in the head by Williams while trying to escape. STATE TREASURY EMPTY. Tennessee Short of Cash and May Have (Extra Legislative Session. A Nashville dispatch says: The Ten¬ nessee state treasury is empty and every day warrants are being turned down for w ant of money with which to pay them. There are now over $50,000 of war- rants outstanding and by July 1st, when the semi-annual interest of $220,000 is due the state will be some- thing over $300,000 behind. The funding board has authority to borrow money to meet the July inter¬ est and the legislature restored the tax rate to 40 cents in an amendment to the revenue bill. The bill amending the revenue bill, however, was signed by Governor Tay¬ lor before the revenue bill itself and the question has been raised as to the validity of the 40-eent rate. Unless it stands the people will be afflicted with an extra session of the legislature. TURNED DOWN BY REED. Cuban Kesolution In the House Declared Out of Order. Th ere was an attempt to bring for- "ward the Cuban question in the house Thursday. As soon as the journal had been read Mr. Lewis, democrat, of Washington, shouted “a question of privilege,” and sent to the clerk’s desk a resolution for the recognition of the belligerency of the Cubans. The resolution having been read, Mr. Reed promptly declared it out of order. From this ruling Mr, Lewis appealed. On a roll call the speaker was sus¬ tained, there being 88 to 51; present and not voting, 17, and he announced “no quorum.” Immediately Mr. Dingley moved to adjourn, and with several democrats shouting for recognition, the motion was carried by a party vote, and, at 12:55 p. in., the house adjourned until Monday. OHIO SILAER REPUBLICANS Hold a Convention at Columbus—McKin¬ ley’s Policy Criticised. The free silver republicans of Ohio held a convention in Columbus Thurs¬ day. Addresses were made by ex-Con- gressman Towne, of St. Paul, ex- Secretary of State J. L. Poorman, of Bellaire,and A. J. AA r arner, of Marietta. Besides these many other prominent men were present. Colonel Poorman severely criticised President McKinley, and ex-Congress- man Towne declared it was folly to suppose a higher tariff could relieve the nation. He predicted that the democrats would sweep Ohio this fall. The large number of delegates pres¬ ent and the prominence of many of them hitherto in the republican party points to a great bolt of republicans this, year on the silver issue. CABINET TROUBLE IN CHILI. (Effort Being: Made 15y the President To Adjust. Matters. A special to The New York Herald from Valparaiso, Chili, via Galveston, says: Rumors are again current to the effect that a cabinet crisis is at hand, owing to a difference between the minister of the interior and several members of the government party. At. effort will he made by the presi¬ dent, according to a generally aeredi- ted report, to keep the cabinet in office until the matter which caused the trouble can be settled. MIXED SCHOOLS BAltREI). Florida Legislature Basses a Bill Which Kevives the Sheats Law. The Florida house of representa¬ tives has passed “An act to prohibit the instruction or attendance, as schol¬ ars, at the same school, of white and colored persons.” This is a revival of the Sheats law of the last legislature. Hawley Succeeds Olive. Alfred O. Hawley, of Illinois, has been appointed a special Indian agent at $2,000 per annum, vice Joel T. Olive, of Georgia, resigned. WHERE SOLDIERS FELL. THE GOVERNMENT’S THREE GREAT MILITARY PARKS. How the Itattlcflclri* of C/hlcknmaiiKTi, Oetlysburp and Shiloh Will Look to tlio Coming Generation*—Some of the Characteristic Monument* Erected. The Government has created three elaborate National military parks on the three greatest battlefields of the Civil War—Chiokamauga, Gettysburg and Shiloh. It is intended that they shall serve as permanent object lessons of American courage and valor, and each of them will be constructed on a scale of magnificence not to be seen elsewhere in the whole world. None of these parks will he merely ornamental pleasure grounds. The prime idea is to restore those historic fields to substantially the condition they were in at the times of the battles, and, in harmony with that idea, the parks to be created on their sites will be devoted strictly to the illustration of the supreme struggles which ren¬ dered them famous for the benefit of future generations rather than of sur¬ viving participants. In these parks every incident of the battles will be treated from the impartial standpoint of history, without sectional animosity or bias, and in nil the markings and monuments rigid justice will be shown alike to the vanquished and victors. Chiokamauga and Shiloh were the most memorable contests of the war in the AVest, and Gettysburg was the most ,momentous conflict in the East, and in all three the most distinguished Gen¬ erals, Union and Confederate, com¬ manded, and troops from typical sec¬ tions fought, so that by securing and preserving those fields intact as repre¬ sentative examples of the greatest battles of the Civil AVar the Govern¬ ment will be able to perpetuate their history in a concrete physical form for i all time to come. Each of those three battles, however, was in a measure representative of the 1 n-hole country. Twenty-nine of the j thirty-three States east of the Rocky Mountains, which comprised the Union at the outbreak of the war, had troops in the Chiokamauga and Chat- i Ji- .* * ji*' S 7 - • Q &> -j<=0 C- ‘"j -v car3b •V .1* % JO £ _/~V GENERAL VIEW OF THE GETTYSBURG BATTLE-FIELD FROM SUMMIT OF LITTLE ROUND TOP. SEMINARY RIDGE IN THE DISTANCE. tanooga . campaigns, and five of those States—Kentucky, Tennessee, Mis¬ souri, AVest Virginia and Maryland— had troops on both sides. Nearly every Northern State, and likewise nearly every Southern, was engaged at Gettys¬ burg, and at Shiloh were troops from twenty different States, North and South. The Battle of Chiokamauga (September 19 and 20, 1863), is re¬ garded by military experts as the best demonstration of the pluck,endurance, prowess and strategy of the American soldier ever given. Measured by per¬ centages of losses and the duration of the fighting, it was the deadliest battle of modern times. Its sequel and com¬ panion piece, Chattanooga (November 24 and 25,1863),is considered the grand¬ est spectacular engagement. So Gettys¬ burg (July 1, 2 and 3, 1863), corre¬ sponding with Chiokamauga for East¬ ern operations, and surpassing it in world-wide renown, registered the highwater mark of American courage and achievements in arms, and stands to-day as the pre-eminent battlefield of the AVestern Continent. As to Shiloh, it furnished an admirable example of the peculiar characteristics of the Ameri¬ can soldier and his adaptability in sudden and unexpected emergencies, m 4 7, mm. ' SPECIMEN UNION MONUMENT, GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD. and constitutes a fitting third in the trio of our greatest battlefields. AV'hen completed the park will be the most comprehensive and extended military object lesson in the world. It contains 7600 acres, and the central driveway, passing through and over¬ looking all the heavy fighting ground, is twenty miles long. The old roads of the battles have been reopened and new roads closed. Over forty miles of the main roads of the field have been rebuilt in a substantial manner. The details of the six battles—Chicka- mauga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Orchard Knob, Wauhatohie and Brown’s Ferry—are set forth upon historical tablets -within the park. These tablets, numbering about 2000 in all, are cast iron plates, four feet by three feet, with embossed letters. & ~T< ’’.u: (:- T ? In¬ OXF. OF THF. EIGHT KHF.I.T, MONU WESTS MASK¬ ING SPOTS WHEIIE BBIOADE COMMANDERS WERE KILLED, CHIOKAMAUGA. After casting, the plates were glazed black and the embossed letters whitened, making the inscriptions dis¬ tinct at a distance. Each plate con¬ tains from 200 to 400 words of his¬ torical text, and is fastened to an iron post, set in concrete. They mark the positions of army headquarters, corps, divisions and brigades, both Union and Confederate, and the parts taken by each organization are concisely stated. ~ It is left to the States having troops in the battles to erect monuments to regiments and batteries, and to the military societies and the larger or¬ ganizations, such as corps, divisions and brigades, to erect their own mon¬ uments. Nine handsome granite mon¬ uments, all different, to the United States regulars, have been set up by the Government, at a cost of $1500 each. Eight pyramidal monuments, each ten feet high, constructed of eight-inch shells, have been erected to mark the spots where brigade com¬ manders on each side were killed. Each battery engaged is to be marked in its most important fighting position by guns and carriages of the patterns used in the battle. There are thirty- five of these positions for each army on the Chiokamauga field alone. Five observation towers of iron and steel, seventy feet high, have been built, two on Missionary Ridge and three on Chiokamauga field, from which the whole landscape below' appears clear and recognizable with its markings. All designs and inscriptions for mon¬ uments and tablets have to be submit¬ ted first to the Chiokamauga National Park Commission and receive approv¬ al by the Secretary of War in order to insure reasonable uniformity and har¬ mony, as well as artistic propriety and historical accuracy. All monuments must he either of durable stone or bronze, and all inscriptions must con¬ form to the official reports aiul be pure¬ ly historical. * / Under the law establishing a Na¬ tional park at Gettysburg, introduced by General Daniel E. Sickles, the Government at once proceeded to ac¬ quire the 800 acres and rights of w r ay over avenues owned by the Gettysburg Battle Field Memorial Association, and also to acquire other lands on the bat¬ tle field by purchase or condemnation. Additional roads will be opened and tablets will be set up definitely mark¬ ing the lines of the troops on both sides. The rights, however, of States and military organizations to plats of ground on which markers and monu¬ ments have already been placed, will in no wise be prejudiced. The Gettys¬ burg National Park Commission, like that of the Chiokamauga Park, will co¬ operate with State commissions in fix¬ ing positions that are not yet determ¬ ined. A special and noteworthy feature of tlie Gettysburg Park, authorized in the Sickles law, is a huge bronze tablet on a pedestal hearing a medallion likeness of President Lincoln and the whole of his immortal address on the occasion of the National Cemetery dedication at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863. There are now nearly $2,000,000 worth of monuments on the Gettysburg field erected by States and regimental organizations and military societies. But until a few years ago there were no lines of battle marked, and a visitor to the field, noticing the absence of monuments on the Confederate side, would he prompted to ask: “Against whom were the Union troops fighting?” This lack has been supplied, and the lines of all troops carefully indicated by tablets, as at Chiokamauga, without censure and without praise, and, above all, with historical accuracy. The Shiloh Military Park for which Congress passed an authorizing act un¬ der the lead of Representative David B. Henderson, of Iowa, comprises about 3000 acres, woods and farming lands. Over 4000 Confederates lie buried on that hard-fought field (April 6 and 7, 1862), and in the National ; cemetery are 3000 Union dead. A | commission like those of Chiokamauga | lines and Gettysburg and sites for has tablets located and the monu- battle j j ments for tbe 258 organizations en- I gaged in the battle. The arrangement of roads and brigade sections lias been placed under the supervision of the best landscape architects procurable by the War Department. The regula¬ tions as to tablets and monuments will be uniform for all three parks—Chicka- mauga, Gettysburg and Shiloh. A PNEUMATIC BOAT.' Constructed of Rubber and Inflated by Mean* of Air Tube*. Boats and pneumatic tires principle. are now J manufactured on the same The latest craft of this sort -construct- j ed can lie deflated and packed in one corner of a trunk, together with the I jointed oars used to propel it. It is | capable of carrying comfortably is from three to six persons. It durable and absolutely safe, being non-capsizable. If filled with water it would still float j several hundred pounds. ! These rubber boats are totally un- j like anything ever before constructed, j except that rubber has in the past been j used for pontoons. There are two kinds. One is of rubber cloth, with a & •• 'j / | ST” . _ L—"■ THE PNEUMATIC BOAT. —-—— continuous air chamber around the top, wKich is made in two separate compartments. On each side the oar- loeks are buckled. The oars slip in and out of these little rowlocks, but are not fastened by thole pins. There is also an air tube running lengthwise under the centre of the boat. This serves as a keel and also as a bumper. The other style is, perhaps, the most and notable. It is given full form rigidity in inflated tubes running lengthwise. The oarlocks are buckled on to the sides of the top roll. When being transported these boats are placed in a small case, something like a valise, and can be either carried in that form, or, as stated, in a trunk. Both boats are made in four separate compartments, and are fitted with either pneumatic seats or seats of plank, as may be desired. It is not only in calm waters that the boat has been tested, but it has been given an ample trial in New York harbor, well down toward Sandy Hook, on several occasions when a rather heavy sea was running. The result has been to show that the craft pos¬ sesses any amount of buoyancy, and rides either a heavy swell or a consid¬ erable sea and ships very little water. One boat of this description, with six persons aboard, made the journey to Perth Amboy on a day when it was al¬ most hazardous for small sailboats in the open without meeting disaster of any sort and hardly wetting the clothes of its passengers. The method of inflating or deflating the craft differs with the size. The arran gement for holding the air is such that it is hard to conceive an accident that would disable it so that the air would escape. While it is not an un¬ common matter for the tire of a bicycle to be punctured, the material of the rubber boat is so much heavier and so carefully prepared to resist the impact of even a sharp pointed instrument hardly that the danger of a puncture is among; the possibilities. withstand In much any event, it would a heavier shock than the ordinary boat, and for that reason alone promises to be of value.—New York Herald. A Clock Garden. A clock garden, whose flowers will tell the time of day, is being planned by Instructor H. A. Ouisterhout of the Botanical Division of the Univer¬ sity at Berkeley, Cal. He proposes to cultivate such a garden on the Uni¬ versity grounds, arranging the plants in dial form. The hours and half hours are to be indicated by the suc¬ cessive opening and closing of buds. “The flowers will be arranged like a clock, ” said Mr. Ouisterhout, “and in ! the early morning they w-ould begin to bloom—the different varieties at dif- j ferent periods, according to the light and heat. Gradually the opening of flowers cle, until would at night extend the around circle would the cir- be j all in bloom. The first garden of the kind was at Upsala, Sweden, by the Botanist Linneas. There is also one in Paris, and efforts have been made to cultivate them in the Eastern States, but, owing to the elements, they have not been very successful. I tlimk the California climate is suitable for such an experiment.”—New York Commer¬ cial Advertiser. N’ailed the Bike Thief. AVe note the pretty story of thebiter bit which comes from Pasis: A few days ago a bicycle was stolen from the front of a cafe on the boulevards. Prompted by a happy inspiration, the owner put an advertisement in the Gaulois, stating that he desired to purchase a machine, and describing pretty accurately the one he had just lost. The plan was perfectly success¬ ful, for next day the thief appeared wanting to sell the advertiser’s bicycle, and was promptly handed over to the police.—London Globe. There are thirty-seven newspapers and periodicals published in Guate¬ mala, according to a recent consular report. Of this number seven are dailies, fourteen weeklies and twelve are issued once a month. THE MODERN STABLE. Extreme Simplicity Should Mark This At* tacluuent to a Country Keniiience. Tho t TOgue of tbe b ic y 0 i ej the extension of trolley railvoads, and the introductions of the Auto Mobile oab»j have called out many dismal predic¬ tions. The public has been told times i s L '"SmCoOp BUILDIH6 PLAN Asa'S) j AKmTtCMA/. TOifW» kfBMUWK**"** without number that the reign of the horse is forever over. In illustration of this statement the unprecedentedly lately low prices at which horses have been sold are quoted, and there come grewsome stories from the West of the shooting of entire herds of horses on the ranges, in order to save the pas- ture for the more valuable beef crea- tures. As a supplement to these tales, it is even said that canning factories have been established where horse- flesh is put up in potted form for our use or unsuspecting foreigners. The paragraphers and cartoonists have had their fling at the subject, and if one should take the signs of the times, everything would seem to point to the virtual extinction of the equine species in the not remote future. But those who love man’s best friend and servant among the dumb beasts, and who do not care to surrender him for studs of steel or naphtha fed cabs, need not be unduly alarmed. In fi.ct, horseflesh would seem to be an excellent invest- ment at this very moment. With the fall in prices, that was due to a variety of reasons, horse-breeding has been giving adequate returns for the past f ew yearSj ant [ more brood mares have com e upon the market than ever before in an equa i S p ace 0 f time. Compara- tively few foals have been born, and p rices are boun q to rise before long, from all questions of value, fflw . p eG pi e ff ), 0 ii ve i n suburban places cart , to be without horses, and the ques tion of housing them suitably has t{) J)0 met by a i ar g e proportion of bu ilders. Tbe cavr j a g e bouse and stable must be j n fl ue]1C ed more or less by the na- ture 0 f the grounds and the relative p 0sb ioh of the house to which it be- f ongs . Tbe general rule, of course, is tbat it mnst be inconspicuous, or if it is where it must be seen, it should not suffer in comparison with the finished villa. At the same time its subordin¬ ate character must be borne in mind, so that it may not detract from the dignity of the dwelling. Even if the general style of the house is followed in the matter of architecture, the orna¬ mentation must be far less profuse and ornate. Extreme simplicity, com- A;** ■L.”r c ; lift WiA*y:; . N 31 \ I- •. I jj ■ p— n^ti*** PlA/i j g i'-ti : u—g bined with strong and artistic lines, alw ays gives the best results. The accompanying plan shows a stable that would grace any suburban place, and yet it is not very expensive or pretentious. The general plan is capable of many modifications, As originally drawn, it provides for all of the newest improvements, single and! box stalls, carriage room, washing stand and harness room, all on the first floor; on the second floor provision i3 made for the hay loft and the quarters for the coachman. The foundation is of stone, the exterior rough clapboards and shingles, upon w-hich if we use red and green stain’ the effect is ad¬ mirable.—Copyright, 1897. Decorating: a Bald Head. -A Artistic AVife (to bald husband)— “Let me paint a spider on your head, darling, so that the flies won't come to trouble you while you are having your little nap.”—Tit-Bits. How to Get Served Quickly and Well. : i 1 ■?*- \mm& \r*' I\V i V* <3 A*. XV i ill! m u v m m' b a - Diplomatic Stranger—“Tell else worth me, miss, is there anything seeing in this town beside your pretty self?”—Pliegende Blaetter. — A forty-pound turkey was served at an Allentown (Penn.) feast. _________