The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 26, 1896, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1896. N RAGING TORRENTS, Additional Floods Rush Down the Colorado Canyons. BODIES OF VICTIMS ARE RECOVERED. In Several Instances Whole Families Perish in the Swirling Waters, SICKENING SCENES IN DEBRIS AT MORRISON. Traffic Blocked in Many Localities and Huge Bowlders Cover Rail- road Tracks. DENVER, Coro., July 25.—The heavy downpour of lastnight in a few minutes eaused such washouts on several railroad lines that even with the number of men and the amount of material at hand traffic cannot be resumed until some time next week. On the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, between Sult Creek and San Carlos, below Pueblo, for a distance of fourteen miles the track has been undermined in many places and traffic there will not be moving until Monday. On the Florence and Cripple Creek it will require a week’s time to repair the damages, consisting of washouts and rock plides on the new high line. Dynamite must be used to break some of the bowl- ders which rolled down the mountain sides upon the high line. Cripple Creek people will do their traveling by stage for the ensuing week. The Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf, in the vicinity of Golden, has several days’ work to do before trains can be run, The damage was -confined to the vicinity of Golden, no trouble of importance occur- ring along the route either to Georgetown or to Central City. The cloudburst evi- dently was most severe on the mountains south of Golden and between that city and the resort village of Morrison. Another heavy downpour occurred this afternoon. In ten minutes.70 of an inch of water fell in Denver, and streetcar traf- fic was suspended for a half hour, while the flood, mixed with hail, poured down, quite filling the paved streets from curb to curb. The storm was also heavy at Golden and along the mountain west, but no rain fell elsewhere in the State. The total rain- fall to-day was 1.50 inches, bat the effect of the flood is due to the speed of its downpour.- Where confined in canyons, as at Morrison, the water rushes down in one mighty wave, sweeping everything before it, and subsiding almost as quickly as it feli. MORRISON, Coro., July 25.—A second flood this afternoon resulted in completely paralyzing all efforts to recover the bodies of those lost in the debris of last night’s floods. The people are worn out with the excitement and labor of strugghng amid the rubbish brought down the canyon by the great wall of water which last night just at dark surprised thc eamping fami- lies along the road above town, Atdark to-night ten bBodies had been recovered and identified. The othsrs are either buried from sight in the sand or have been carried further down the stream, and probably into the Platte Rivei, Re- ports from up the canyon bring the cheer- ing news that nonme of the people there camping were lost. The list of the dead from last night's flood is as follows: Mrs. Moses Miller and three children of Morrison. Child of J. C. Longnecker of Morrison. Thomas McGough, aged 21, of Dayton, Ohio. Mrs. A. 8. Proctor, 32 years old, wife of A. 8. Proctor of Denver. Robert James Proctor, 5 years. Grace Proctor, 7 years. Edith Proctor, 2 years Mrs. T. F. Casey, 38 years, Denver. James Casey, 12 years. Eddie Casey, 10 years. Mamie Casey, 7 years. Anna Casey, 5 years, Clara Casey, 3 years. Mrs. Anthony Herres, 31 years, Denver. Eugene Hefres, 7 years. Mabel Herres, 2 years. Josephine Herres, 6 years. Carroll Herres, 4 years. Annie Hansen, 20 years, servant of Mrs, Proctor. Miss Della Horner. Miss Mary Horner. Miss Josephine Holme. Mrs. Horace M. Warren. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Warren Jr., whoare well known in Brooklyn society, where their relatives and friends reside, came up from Denver yesterday on the afternoon train to spend Saturday and Sunday at the Horner ranc, up Mount Vernon canyon. They were met at the station of the Lake- wood Railroad at Golden by the Misses Horner and Miss Josephine Holme, also of Denver, and started for the ranch. The flood overtook them and the four ladies were drowned, their bodies being found this morning buried under brush and sand, about 200 feet from the place where the water struck the carriage. Mr. War- ren was swept away and his body was lodged in the branches of a tree, where he was afterward found terribly bruised but alive. The bodies of the four women were re- covered to-day and sent to Denver with the injured survivor. Miss Holme is a daughter of the manager of the Denver Water Company, and the Misses Horner daughters of Judge J. W. Horner, also of Denver. Seventeen persons in cabins and tents in Bear Creek canyon above town constituted one party. Oneof the Proctor children was rescued by the heroic efforts of two young men, who braved the flood when at its highest point to save the child. She says the water came while they were all in the house and all were swept away. The Herres family has become extinct, the fatber and husband having died a few months ago. The Casey family were alsoin this party. The Hansen girl was a servant. Mrs. Miller lived here, her busband being en- gaged in mining about and was not at home at thetime, The Longnecker family were upstairs in their home when the flood came. Mr, Longnecker saved all but one member of his family, a little boy called Jake. 3 GOLDEN, Covo., July 25.—Three bodies, all that are known to have been lostin last night's flood in this city have been re- covered. The dead are: A. A. Johnson, Mrs, A. A. Johnson, Mrs, J. F. Edwards, all of Golden, Anotherflood came out of the canyon this afternoon, but no lives were lost. Seven- teen people came in from ldaho Springs this afternoon, having left the train at Beaver Brook and walked in from that point. They report that the track and roadbed are about all gone between Golden and Beaver Brook. Abe_, 70'clock last night threatening clouds came over the hill from the airec- tion of Morrison, It had been cloudy and foggy all day and the clouds gathered to- ward evening in ominous-looking masses. Rain fell in torrents from the start, fol- lowed by hail, then a wall of water from twenty-five to thirty feet in height came rushing down Clear Creek, carrying every- thing before it. The flood lasted about half an hour and was followed by a heavy rain, which con- tinued until about 10 o’clock. Av that houra body of water, ereater in volume than the first flood, came down Tucker Gulch, emptying into Clear Creek. ‘It was this second flood that carried away the house of Johnson and his wife, and which drowned Mrs. Edwards. The body of Mrs. J. F. Edwards was found face downward in Tucker Gulch. She leaves a husband and two children. She went out to look for her. cattle Jast night and was not heard from after that, The body of Mrs. Johnson was found 200 feet from the site of her house among some trees, Her husband’'s body was found in a tree near Coos brewery. They had been caught while in their little cot- tage home. The scene around the bed of the creek is terrible. Water came down Ford street from Tucke? Gulch carrying many houses with it. On Washington avenue and other parallel streets the scene is the same. Two bridges have been washed out, and three piers of the Denver, Lake- wood and Golden bridge were knocked out by the iron work of the Ford-street bridge. The loss is estimated to be be- tween $40,000 and $50,000. —_— BUILDINGS SUBMERGED, Much Damage Done by the Storms in the East. PITTSBURG, PA., July 25.—Reports re- ceived to-night from towns on the Mo- nongahela and Youghiogheny rivers are more reassuring, but serious damage is reported in many places, At McKeesport the entire lower part of the city is submerged, and many houses have been deserted. The large iron works of the Dewees Wood Company suffered great damage. A part of the National Rolling Mill is under water. At Braddock the Carnegie Stzel Com- pany’s blast furnaces were overflowed, the men working part of the day in four feet of water. At the Renkin and Carrie furnaces, the Braddock Wire Works and the Duquense Forge were compelled to shut down, throwing 1500 men idle. At Monongahela fifty families were driven from their homes, streetcar and electric light service is suspended and mills and factories are submerged. Trains on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad were unable to reach Monongahela, At Homestead vhe entire plant of the Carnegie Steel Company was compelled to shut down and are unable to run. It is believed the umount of damage will reach $70,000. CINCINNATI, Onio, July 25.—Reports continue 1o come in of damage done by the heavy rains which have fallen in this section during the past three days. All the smaller streams are greatly swollen. At Clarksburg, W. Va., many houses are under water and the property loss will be great. Almost every bridge in Upshur County has been washed away. The Kanawha Valley from Grantsville to Parkersburg, W. Va., is inundated and the losses will be immense. Travel is en- tirely suspended. In the northern portion of Kentucky all railroads suffered by washouts and the wheat crop is ruined. At Glouster, Ohio, the rain was the heaviest ever known. No. 9 mine was flooded and 300 men are outof emplov- ment. No train has reached Caidwell, Onio, since Thursday night. CHAUNCEX DEPEW RETURNS, How the Silver Movement in This Cowun- try Has Staggered Europe. NEW YORK, N. Y, July 25.—Hon. Chauncey M. Depew arrived from Europe yesterday. He has been called home'by the alarming illness of Mr. Vanderbilt. He has nothing but the pleasantest words for the English people’s hospitality. He said the English were unanimous for arbi- tration instead of possible war, so far as America is concerned, Mr. Depew said the action of the Chicago convention profoundly interested the Eng- lish, and indeed all Europe. It had given international bimetallism a body blow in Europe from which it will require years to recover. It has killed the bimetallist party in Great Britain and paralyzed it in Germany. [ il Amnesty for Irish Political Prisoners. CHICAGO, Itn, July 25.—The move- ment which originated in this country some time back, looking to the securing of an ampesty for the Insh Tlific-l pris- oners mnow in jails in Ireland and England, but which has been dormant of late, is expected to receive a new impetus from the great demonstration of Irish- Americans and native Americans to be held at Battery D to-night. ——— Sale of the Northern Pacific. ‘WEST SUPERIOR, Wis., July 25.—~The entire Northern Pacific Railway property, connimni,ol the main line from Lake Su- perior to Puget Sound, together with the branch lines, contracts, leases and bonds, was sold this morning under order of Judee Jenkins of the United Btates Court of Milwankee. It was bid in by Edwin Winter, representing the new Northern Pacific wa; ISR, International Labor Conmgress. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 25.—A London dispatch says: Eifiht hundred delegates to the International Socialict Workers and Trades Union Congress, which convenes on Monday, have registered up to this morning at the headquarters in Bucking- ham street, Strand. The visitors repre- sent every continental country with the exception of Turkey, the United States and the Australasian colonies. —_— National Christian Church Convention. SPRINGFIELD, Mass.,, July 25.—The call has been issued fora National con- vention of the .Christian church in the United States, to_be held in this city in October next. This denominatign has over 1,000,000 in this country, who will be represented at the convention by 2500 dele- | gates. IR AR, Colorado Springs Flower Carnival. COLORADO SPRINGS, Covo., July 25.— The annual flower carnival at Colorado Springs will this year be a week’s affair, instead of being confined to one day. i Rl Feast of St. Anne Celebration. KANKAKEE, In., July 25.—All over the Catholic world for a week, commefic- ing to-morrow, will be celebrated the annual ieast of St. Anae, LONDONS GREN LABOR COIAESS Monster Preliminary De- meonstration Arranged for To-Day. A WEDDING OF ISSUES. Socialism and Trades Unionism to Be More Closely United. FREE SILVER IS DISCUSSED. Viewed With Alarm and Despair by Leading Workingmen—Miscel- laneous Gossip. LONDON, Exa., July 25.—If to-morrow is 8 fine day London will present a spec- tacle which may easily mislead some bun- dreds of foreigners who witness it, as well as many millions of others who read about it, as preliminary to the sessions of the International Labor Congress which is to be held here during the coming - week. A big demonstra- tion is to be made in Hyde Park, and clear skies will bring out hundreds of thousands of people, ‘8o far as the programme and the terms of the resolutions proposed go, the gathering will reveal socialism and trades unionism much more closely identi- fied than they have ever been before in Hyde Park. Itis true that socialists, so called, have of late controlled most English trades union congresses, but it is a long step from that to bringing Continental agi- tators like Bebbel, Guesde and Adler upon a common platform, under the English sky with moderate collectivists like Pick- ard, M, P., and Sidney Webb. That such an apparent fusion should be misunderstood in Germany and France is inevitable. Tbat does not matter much, but it would be a misfortune if Americans should get a wronz impression of what it means. Lord Salisbury’s famous remark, *“We are all socialists nowadays,” really puts the right label on the whole affair. Up to a certain point most Englishmen feel that individualism has been carried too far, and they listen tolerantly to the projects for pooling publicdssues and let- ting the state help in extracting a general average for those who are too weak to get it for themselves; but there they stop short and the chances of getting them to stir further in that direction are as hope- less as are those of opening up communi- cation with Mars, " They will go to Hyde Park, perhaps, even in a rain, to hear what the collectiv- ist plans and ideals are, but they have no earthly intention of voting for them now or hereafter. What is said from the plat- forms may slightly color future legisla- tion by one or the other of the old parties, | between which the English voter alter- nates, but it will create no impulse what- ever toward the formation of a third party. There are not so many actnal so- cialists in London to-day as there were in 1848, Three Americans are announced among the speakers—the Messrs. Geard and Ma- guire and a Mrs, Stetson, described as “*Of the California socialists:” They may tell their hearers that Chicago and St. Louis represent triumphs for the cause, butit will fall on aeaf ears. Without exception the labor leaders here regard the reported capture of the American trades unions by Bryan with despair and disgust. They say that the wage-earning class is t he one of allothers which would be smashed first by such an upheaval as free silver would provoke, and that it would be the last class to recover from the catastrophe. The English so- cialist leader, Fyndman, takes the same view. He denounces the silver delusion as childish, and he declares that the im- pulse behind it is one of naked repudiation of debts. From no classof either working people or social reformers here does the silver Populist movement, as it has de- fined itself, get respect or sympathy. Lord Farrer to-day in a review of the whole currency question says: “There may be some excuse for the ignorant Western farmer, who has been told wild lies about hoarded gold some- where, but there is none whatever for English bimetallists who per- sisted in their assinine folly in the face of their knowledge that the banks of Europe are overflowing with a plethora of gold, which no currency demands can absorb.” He asserts that “npeither they nor Gen- eral Walker dared on July 13 to repeat any of their discredited assertions about the scarcity of gold, which used to be the burden of their talk, and they feared to mention the vital question of a fixed ratio at all.” This veteran economist, who was nervous at first, is now full of faith that in a square fight between honest and dishonest money in America right will surely win. Macedonia has not been kept quiet after all. Two invasions have taken place—one by & band of 1000 fighters, marching south- ward from the Bulgarian frontier, who are said to have been surrounded and cut to piecesina pass of the Perim Mountains, and the other by 230 Greeks who went nortbward in Coado, landed near Katar- ina and have entirely destroyed the first Turkish force of eighty men which they met. Whether or not these movements, separated by a hundred miles or 50, belong to one plan is not known, but they strong- ly suggest that the pressure from outside, which heretofore forbade violence in Macedonia, has peen withdrawn. Berlin hears that Prince Lobanoff’s posi- tion Bas been shaken, which would be very important if true. His pro-Turkish policy is known to have been stoutiy opposed by the Czar’s mother, who has developed into a8 vehement politician since her husband died, and whose passion is to see Germany humbled. This open- ing of the ball in Macedonia looks as if she has had her way agsinst the Lobanoff- William plan of maintaining the Sultan at ali hazards. Another fortnight will show if this is the case, and 1f it is there will be an extraordinary scurrying about among the Chanceilors for new alliances and guarantees against the dangers of Turkey's collapse. Mr. Balfour, after a prolonged run of evil fortune, has been extremely lucky this week over Irisn land-bill business. For a varisty of reasous, some of which the Dnnraven experience will help Ameri- cans to comprehend, the frish landlords are personally very unpopular among TO-DAY. LAST WEEK WE TRIED 7O SELL OUR STOCK AT ABOUT 650N THEAZ THIS, (WEINYENTORY) WILL GIVE THEN AWAY. BEFORE THAT OUR WARES COSTS US NOTHING. YOU CAN HAVE THEN FOE THE ASKING. WE ARE HONGRY FOR TRAVE. WE WANT 70 BE RUSHED. COME TOUS AND WEL GIVE YOU A BARGAIN FEAST SUCH AS YOU WEVER SAY BEFORE. 5 JACKETS—Reckless Selling. $10 Worth for $3.95. Handsome and stylish; this sum- mer's make; cost us $6. We are bungry for trade, Any garment in our stock for half what'it cost us. SHIRT WAISTS—LADIES’. 25¢, 29¢, ble, 7he. These were the prices Saturday at the time this was written. If any re- main they will be the same . Monday. Our big front window is full of them. The 25c kind cost 50c wholesale ‘White collars and cuffs, black and white striped bosoms. Look at these Waists; if you've already bought they’ll make you feel sick of your bargsin. Tailor-made Ladies’ Suits $3.50, Were $10 to $15. We are determined to lose big money this week. These suits are our own méanufacture, and we wouldn’t make you one for $10, but our buyer starts East Thursday and we’ll seil anything we have at a price that will turn it into money. BLACK DRESS G00DS, 50¢ on the $1. The only thing that’s selling in Dress Goods are blacks, and we are sacrificing them. Give the people what they want, and all they want while they want it. See what 20c, 25c, 40c and 50c buys here in Black Dress Goods. $1 Grade Black Broeaded Silk, 50c. We furnish you the silks—you must bave the sense of appreciation. EMBROIDERIES—3i¢, 5e, 83¢, 10¢, 123¢, 15¢, 19e, Oriental Laces—10¢, 15¢. Unheard-of widths, quality and designs for the price. If each class isn’t worth more than double the sale price don’t vou buy them—double, mind you—all fine Irish point work. 1 = MEN'S. SECKWEAR, 15¢. All things must have a limit. If 15¢ isn’t awfuily cheap for this line then they are not a bargain at any price. Why, the auction-room ° woula ~ return us more money in & lump for our stuff than it's offered you by the article. SALE OF CORSETY, €. B.—$1.00. WRAPPERS—T75¢ and $1.00. Percale and lawn. The regular price $175 and $2. WASH PABRICS—5e, The American laborer would starve to death if he had to make the lines of Crepes, Dimities, Lawns, Flannelettes, Gaufres that will be sold Monday at 5¢. Al Qur Wash Goods Half Price. 20¢ Duck Suitin 1234c Snowflake 20c German Flannels, 20¢ Organdies....... 20c Damask Fringed Towels i¢, 736, CHENILLE PORTIERES SALE, $1.85. Nottingham Lace Curtain Sale, $1.35. $5 Bargain California Blanket. .$3.65 $2 Figured Comforts. L15 50c Floss Cushion Ci Jdbe A HOSIERY SALE. 25¢ Children’s Black Hose. 80c Ladies’ Black or Tan Hose. .15¢ Best stockings ever sold for price. Manufacturer loses a pile of money on them and we Jose more, Den’t buy 'em if you can’t appreciate them. A KID GLOVE SALE. $1 50 Suedes for.. $1 50 Kids for.... 1234c »LiTse The city is filled with all sorts of glove rubbish. These are genuine honest French Gloves, sold at a big loss. If they are not worth $1 50 we don’t care to sell them. DUCK SUITS—$1.50, They were $4 and $5." We made every one of them and paid more than that for the labor, all tailor-made, in different styles. We knock the Duck Suit trade silly, if you consider make, style and price. SELLING OUT MILLINERY. Sailor Hats, trimmed Untrimmed Hats. ... .10c and 15¢ Trimmed Hats at any price you'll pay for them. We'll take 25¢ on the $1 forour millinery stock. KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE MAZE THIS WEEK 5%25’?11@5@1:9@? © & o IHe Mewxes MARKET AND TAYLOR STS. 250 | Tho Cheapest Place in Town for Bargains in Reafiy-—mado Sheets and LADIES’ UNDERWEAR—25¢ and 50¢ & Better than you can buy anywhere for 50 per cent more. Natural or sil- ver. ok the garments over. We are closing out Jots of broken lines in this department. Boys’ Blouse Waists, Children’s Lace Caps, Girls Gingham Dresses, that we don’t want to take in stock at all. 0dd Things at Funny Prices. 25¢ Sheep’s-wool Sponges. Box 250 White Envelopes Box Paper and Enyelopes. 50c Filigree Belts........ $1 Sterling Silver Shirt Se 25¢ bottle Florida Water.. 25¢ package Babeskin Soa 25¢ bottle Tooth Wash., 50¢ Valenciennes Edge V 65¢ bottle Eau de Quinine ‘Williams’ Shavin: Soap, ¢ 25c bottie Hunyadi Water 10c Embroidered Handke; Heavy Crash Toweling. 25c White Stock Collars, 15¢ Linen Huck Towels $1 German Sarsaparilla 25¢ Dolls’ Flowing Ha: Notions anmmll Wares, 10c Black Corset Steels 15¢ Stockinet Shield: b¢ Hairpins. . 1234c Dress Lining: 1234c Dress Canvas 10c Bone Casing. . Pillow-Cases. 5c Hooks and Eyes, card, 20c pbunch Kid Curlers 5¢ Silvered Thimbl-s. 15¢ a dozen Shell Hairpins. 4c paper English Needles. .. even their p arty friends in London. The English Tories blame them, justly, for baving ruined Ireland by their greed and stupidity, and have long resented in pri- vate their disposition to ruin the Tory party, too, unless it bumbly did their bid- ding; hence, when Mr. Balfour, his pa- tience exhausted in efforts to placate them, finally turned on them in the person of Mr. Curzon, and in the name of the Gov- ernment denounced their unpatriotic meanness, their venom and their disloy- alty, it sent a magnetic thrill through his whole party. He is quite restoréd to au- thority again by that one happy outburst of manly wrath, . Until yesterday it was taken for granted that, even if the Commons passed this bill, the Lords would throw it out or losd it with impossible amendments, but now it is said that Lord Salisbury will back his nephew stoutly, and threaten the Lords, if necessary, with a Cabinet crisis unless they abandon their Irish colleagues and vote straizht. At this rate the Tory party will be talking of home rule as not so bad a thing, after all, in another year or two. All through the spring and early sum- mer everybody looked forward to the Jameson trial as the crowning sensation of the season, but as a matter of factit turned out to be a stupid bore, and during the latter part of the week people did not care enough about it even to fill the tiny courtroom in which it was held. Why the original idea of the defense to raise the single technical point of jurisdi¢tion, and if that failed, to plead guilty, was not pur- sued has not been disclosed, but the alter- ation can have benefited nobody except the lawyers. The jury is absolutely cer- tain to convict, and the only remaining interest in the affair is a languid curiosity about the sentence. Incidentally the trial has had a striking effect on Lord Russell’s popular reputation. He cut sharply through the whole fabric of objections to the wording of the indictment by the re- mark that the precedents on which they wete based dated from the time when it was the habit of the courts to sacrifice jus- tice to the science of artificial statement, and when Sir Edward Clarke piled upa frésh mass of verbiage at another point in the road Lord Russell kicked it aside with the query, “Do you contend, then, that common-sense has nothing to do with your case.” His whole management of the trial, which was alert, powerful and vigorously Lostile to nonsense, has been a revelation to the bar and has created a profound im- pression on the public. It is foreseen that he is going to rank among the very great- est Judges of Englisn history, and it is hoped that he will soon acquire personal weight enough to establish a riew stand- ard of courage and independence on the English bench at large, where, heaven knows, it is badly enough needed. Dra- matically it is a great pity that Americans can not see him in wig and gown duning his coming visit to the United States. Not only is he vastly more effective tolook at when thus arrayed, but oddly enough, it is only then that he speaks at his bes:. Premier Reid of New South Wales, itis felt, has driven the last needed nail into the coffin of Chamberiain's scheme for an “Imperial Zollverein,” Not only does he declare it impossible from an internal point of view, but he says that it would destroy Englana by uniting the rest of the world in a hostile, combination, armed with a new and substantial motive for re- only puts bluntly what seems to be felt in all parts of the empire. Altkough Cham- berlain seems to be holding his own in Parliament, it is evident that this collapse of his pet project has heavily discredited his reputation outside. Largely through the efforts of Mr. Lath- rope, our Consal at Bristol, the citizens of that city are making fine progress with their scheme for celebrating next June the four hundredth anniversary of the sailing of the Cabots. It is understood thatthe Prince of Wales will consent to lay the cornerstone of a grand memorial there the same day and hour the Duke of York lays one of like nature in Canada, and there is certainly no other European town where visiting Americans would get a heartier or more intelligent welcome than in Bristol. A Liverpool correspondent comments to-day on the fact that the English papers have not given their readers a single hint of the fact that there has been what he calls a grave collapse of the cycle boom in America. He asserts that during the past month $15000 worth of American ma- chines have been entered at Liverpool as the result of the forced sales in America. The prices for which they have been sell- ing, he adds, have already badly broken the Liverpool market and will probably effect England at large. This statement may precipitate a crash next week here, where the bringing out of new cycle com- panies has grown to be a universal mania. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce has committed itself to the new idea of ulilizing streetcars, or what are called here, “tramway lines,” during the dead hours of night for the conveyance of mer- chandise, and it will associate itself with similar progressive bodies in the north to press upon Parliament the adoption of some scheme to make general this night use of such tracks and plants. There is no doubt that the motor-car. bill will be- come a law this session and the engineers of various municipalities are hard at work over plans to utilize this new machinery also for ‘‘general civic purposes.’” The new volume of the ‘historical” se~ ries proves to be of unexpected interest from an American point of view. Eleven years ago, when the “Calendar of Dart- mouth” manuscripts were published, it ‘was supposed that nothing more was ob- tainable from that source, but in 1891, when the new Earl of Dartmouth came into the title, he had things cleaned up, and among some discarded rubbish were found several packets of old love ietters largely relating to the period of the Amer- ican Revolution and containing informa- tion most of which was hitherto unknown. These letters begin with the enforcement of the stamp act and continne through 1775 nearly to the close of the war. Lord Dartmouth was the nobleman whose coat of arms is reproduced in our Stars and Stripes through marriage with the Wash- ingtons of Leicester—a fact which has given rice to endless heraldic and genea-! logieal controversies. Hazrorp FrEDERIC. [Copyright 1896 by the New York Times. ] Dr. Jameson’s Trial. LO NDON, Exe., July 25.—The trial of Dr. Jameson snd his fellow-officers in the Transvaal raid was resumed in the Queen's Bench division of the High Court of Justice this morning, when the case for the prosecution was closed with the reading of treaties bearing upon the venge. This is frapker talk than most| case and an or?lnnudon of maps, etc., colonial politicians have ventured, but it | showing the te! tory invaded. GERMAN AFFAIRS SLIGHTLY MIXED. Cabinet Dissensions Require the Presence of the Emperor. TALK OF RETIREMENTS. Prince Hohenlohe’s Attitude Is Anxiously Watched by High Officials. EUROPEAN CRISIS CERTAIN. Soldiers Forbidden to Attend Socialist Meetings—Severely Wounded in a Duel. BERLIN, Gerxaxy, July 25.—It is an- nounced that the Emperor, after passing the first week of August with the Empress and their children at the Schlossd at Wil- heimshoe, will come to Berlin to meet and confer with Prince Hohenlohe, the Imperial Chancellor, and General Bronsart von Schellendorf, Minister of War. It is now known positively tbhat his Majesty will not go to Cowes, as was expected he would do. The programme 1is fixed for his appearance at various public func- tions during the time intervening betweeu now and the middle of September, when, it is stated privately, he will pay a visit to Queen Victoria at Balmoral, going direct from Kiel to Aberdeen on board the im- perial yacht Hohenzoilern. The relations of the Emperor with Prince Hohenlohe and General Bronsart von Schellendorf occupy the first position in the attention of the high officials of the Government. The retirement of Prince Hiohenlohe | from office in the face of a grave European crisis is rezarded by every one as being extremely improbable, apart from the fact that the Emperor has intru sted the Chan- cellor with the task of conducting negotia- tions of a most.serious character with Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria and Count Goluchowski, the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the additional fact that Prince Lobanoff - Rostovsky, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, is still aiming at the maintenance of the integrity of the Turkish empire. Still it is up- doubtedly true that General Bronsart von Sechellendorf has offered his resignation to tbe Emperor, and 1t is equally certain that Prince’ Hobenlohe has informed the Kaiser of his desire to retire from office it General Schellendorf’s demands for reform in the procedure of military tribunals are not granted. It is understood that the Emperor will request General Schellendor? to retain office until the close of the autumn military maneunvers, when a defi- nite decision in'regard to the reforms pro- posed by the Minister of War will be reached. In high military circles it is the general belief that this means the eventual defeat of the eabal in the Military Cabinet of the Emperor headed by General von Hahneke, head of that body, and the Emperor's re- tention of the present ministry without change. The newest feature of internal politics is the attempt of the former court chaplain, Dr. Stoecker, and his followers to found a s_a rty to be called Religious Social istinct from the Christian Soci Orthodox Christians with anti-Sem views ‘and free from revolutionary bias will, according to a manifesto published in the Kreuz Zeitung, be the nucleus of the party, the first principle of which will be conservation of religious faith, through which alone the renovation of society is ossible. 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