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e T DEB!LiTY, AL WEAKâ€" NATURAL DISEASES. ty of SAi the dif‘s ie sheeting. re wii t IDENTIAL PAY, HLTY ; EERFULLY e Living LBY ST , MICH. i‘ cold, Smiths 0 to a doctor youw something th 2l in oh. 1 Poinci Bc ced that all ECHNIE or it ? m~ ng and welâ€" y nrevai A Y n with serious WLaYY ules nam 0 H n@ of n M t& K & K\ he TE H& 1% or® The steamer Del N:nlso has arrived from Dutch Harbor, the Pribyloff Islands, Alaska, with 30,000 skins for the North American Company. € Engineer Wm. Thornley and Fireâ€" man Louis Brown were killed by the #explosion of a .C..Q. & C. locomotive at l-'re«lerickE(h.lr‘.'Ohiowon Tuesday. TAE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. UInteresting Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and All Parits of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Rasy Reading. 1 NWS l CaNaApa. Judge Jamieson of Guelph is ill with appendicitis. Mr. Isaac E. BRowman, President of go Ontario Mutual Life Insurance pany, died on Friday at Waterioo. Ottawa bakers have raised the price of bread to twelve cents a loaf. M London had 45 deaths, 28 marriages and 45 births during August. A Presbyterian missionary, a student g"ManiwL College, is about to leave Winnipeg for the Klondike. The first carload of Ontarin I'Ji: from Winona reached Winnipesg in prime condition. The coal strike in Ohio is considered settled. The tlan is to resume at 64 cents and work pending arbitration. FEight persons are reported to have been poisoned by eating a stolen melon at Paducah, near Louisville, Ky. The United States battleship Maine is to be placed in dry dock at Halifax next month. She is to be followed by the battleship Towa. * The First State Bank of McPherson, Kan., of which Senator Matthews, is president, has failed, with liabilities amounting to $28,000. At Green wood Sprinss. Col., an exâ€" plosion occurred on Friday in the Sunâ€" shine coal mine. Nine bo(iies have been recovered. About 45 miles of grade on the Crow‘s Nest Pass road is ready for the Ells. Trackâ€"laying west from Macâ€" will commence at once. By_ running C. P. R. cars over the H., G. & B. Electric Railway fruit shipments from the Niagara district are greatly facilitated. Melville H. Valentine was killed and four other occupants of a carriage inâ€" %::redlby being struck by a train near uffalo. i A new steamsbhip line has been formed at Portland, Oregon, to run between Portland, China and Japan, Mr. Paterson has decided that henceâ€" forth petroleum imported in tank cars may be stored in bond in bulk and the duty paid on the oil that is sold. The cornerâ€"stone of the Montreal General Hospital Jubilee Nurses‘ Home was laid by ‘P.ord Lister in the presence of 1,500 friends of the institution. All the delegates to the Congress of Women in behaif of national dress, to be beld at Oxfard nest mounths, are to wear bloomers. _ Lady Haberton will preside. An eastbound passenger train from London on Wednesday, was derailed and thrown down an embankment at Mayflield, ~Sussex. Four passengers were killed and thirty injured. The Duke of Westminster has issued an appeal to the British public for {unds for the. relief of the distress which prevails in Athens among the relugees from Thessaly and Crete. [ie Englishman now . returning to London from the Klondyke are caroaâ€" estly warning the public against an English rush there, and the papers warn the public not to touch the Klonâ€" Negroes in and about Elwood, Ind., have been warned to leave the town and suburbs. Mr. Thomas Hood, lessee of the Royâ€" al Hotel, Hamilton, made an assignâ€" ment to Mr. C. S. Scott. Et is said that about $3,000 is owing for rent. The members of the Jacksonâ€"Harmsâ€" worth expedition, who have spent three winters in the Arctic regions, have leen brought back in safety to Engâ€" .and by thoe British steamer Windâ€" ward. p dyke companies UNITED STATES, Banker David J. Seligman, of New York, is dead. â€" Lord Charles Beresford, who is at present a captain in the Royal Navy, will shortly be raised to the rank of rearâ€"admiral. Ihe Queen arrived at Balmoral on Imesiay. At Fertb, Aterdeen, and Hallater enthusiastic crowds gathered to greet her Majesty. My. James McMulien, M.P., for North welfington. in an interview in Monâ€" treal on Thursday, said he thought the provisions of the Dingiey Act aimed at Canadlian trade were an impertinent inâ€" terterence, and that Canada shouid no longer cringe to the American people, but assert herselt by retaliation. GREAT BRITAIN. Mr. E. R. Balfour, the famous Oxford carsman, died last IFWrigay in Scotland {rom pneumonia. During the three months ended Aug. 80th, lé‘? cases were disposed of in the London Police Court, an increase of 50 over the corresponding quarter of last %r. A. F. Me(h.lla’h civil engineer, g,. at one time pro! fior in Toronto miversity, had the misfortune to lose his rh}ht hand by the premature exploâ€" zion of a giant firecracker at Mine Cenâ€" re. Viceâ€"President Shaughnessy, of the enudun Pacific railway, who was in anc«iver, B.C., on Tuesday; said that fils comitany bad now under consideraâ€" tlion the question of a direct service to since the cloe’;n:: of the Indian Famâ€" ime Fund in Canada on the first of July additional sulsâ€"riptions, amounting to three thousand two hundred _ and thirtyâ€"nine doilars, have been received, which makes a total of one hundred and seventyâ€"nine thousand one hunâ€" dred and sixtyâ€"one dollars. Â¥ ‘The Hudson Bay expedition reports from Natchvan, on the coast, near the efitrance to the Hudson straits that all are well. _ Much ice was encountered, but the Diana made her way through it without difficulty. be Yukon organ and piano makers have dreadful it would be is should have & fit. At a recent meeting of the Society for the Prevention. of Cruelty‘ to Aniâ€" mals im London a resolution was adâ€" opted censuring the use of the new ammonia gun for frightening away dogs. This very effective little weapâ€" on is especially adapted for bicyclists. The President of the society, Sir George Mason called aitention to (the fact that the discharge of ammonia into the eyes of a dog was likely to be very :)g:;h:ll and the officers of the society throughout the city were directed to keep a strict watch on their use. ° PLEASURES OF TRAVEL. NOF WORTH LENTLIONING. _ The Queen was once informed by the manager of her Shaw farm that a Scotâ€" tish farmer was a breeder of superior collie dogs, and she thereupon expressed a wish to possess one of them. Accordâ€" ingly, the farmer forwarded two beauâ€" lilul dogs, and her majesty gate ordâ€" ers that the next time he came to the farm he should immediately be taken up to the castle. The farmer was someâ€" what uneasy as to how he shoulid comâ€" port himseif in the presence of royalty, and the manager put him through his facings. _ At last the fateful day arâ€" rived and he was ushered into the presâ€" ence of the Queen." Her Majesty shook hands with him and said: "I have to thank you for the two beautiful collies you sent me!" And to this gracious remark the farmer re‘f)lhd: .. ‘"‘Touts; touts, wumman! haud yer _ tongue! What‘s the maitter o‘ a pair 0‘ dowgs between you and me? Over 200 Americans and two carloads of ammunition leave Chicego toâ€"night for Cuba via Key West, Fia. The men are from the ranks of the unemployed, and have enlisted for & year. Qoorge Stutz, aged sixtyâ€"five, was found dead on Sunday night in the ve#â€" tibule of the Most Holy Trinity church, Brooklyn, N.Y. His head was crushed in, and there were evidences of a terriâ€" ble struggle. y Brooklyn, N.Y. His head was crushed | WO ®astTrains on the‘A., T. & 8. F. Collide in, and there were evidences of a terriâ€"! _ With Bisastrous Results â€"Two Persons ble struggle. ! Killed Outr:ghtâ€"Many Injured. Francis Schiatter, who was recently ‘ A despatch from Emporia, Kansas, Teported dead, is at present at MADl‘ | Rays:â€"Wednesday night‘s head on‘ cafâ€" 4 5 oti the es Col divine bealing camp. He haq teen sumâ€"| lion on the Atchison, Topeka and moned to answer toacharge of pracâ€"‘Ca‘nta Fe proves the most disastrous tising medicine without a license. a} that has occurred on that system in A iletter received from the United | many years. Ten people were kill States Commussioner at Dyea intimates | THap t that the Government. is.]t)g make claim ;e.d outright, or soon died of their inâ€" to & large portion of ths Yukon gold | JWries, and fifteen others were more fields whiogo bave hitherto been 8upâ€" , Or less seriously injured. : One or two posed to be in British territory. i mote "of Ihs â€"wonnded" may sicecumb The St. I w rauce wheoh would shorten |MMinjured, and aided materially in the St. Lawrence which would shorten | % o s the trip from New York to Canada by i reswinq the unfortunates and alleviatâ€" fifty miles. 3 ing their sufferings. 1 The. reports _ from the lvgmx;x:trgggl THE WRECKED TRAINS agencies essrs. Dun and Brad . oo s represent the trade situation in the , were ti{e fastest in the servmâ€"th.o United States as practically unchaDngâ€" | fast mail, eastbouind, and the Caliâ€" ed. m'“m %“tingd in orders are 13351?5' fornia and Mexico express, westbound, erabie, and trade in groceries, 1+ | ho + wool, hardware, men‘s and women‘s M was rumnning at the rate of tortyI furnishings, eto., show a considerable miles a‘n hou. i ¢ advance. _ The comzlx;ercial o:lhtlookh ;:. The wreck occuirred at7.30 o‘clock in reported as more cheering than : the evening, three miles east of Emâ€" been the case for some years. _ The | f » . o comnme?:ial faifi:res i.}; ’the United | poria, on a small culvert that crossed States for the wee'uuat ended amount | & dry stream. ,WThe culvert was not to 191, ag compa. with 344 in th8 | more thain ten feet wide, and the foreâ€" oormppndlm week of last year. l Lhb of the t d train had GENERAL. ‘ spanned it when the collision occurred. It is announced that the Czat W»! | The embankment approaches to this Ti in rnascay s( metinee odrert were atout tan fese tigh. Th is repo a + Spanish soldiers in Cuban hospitals. |Adtied to the danger. Td::‘ wre:k wss __News has just reached Hong Kong of Cauked by a mikscarriage of orders by States. A hearing was given by the State Railway Commission in Albany, N.« Yâ€", on Wednesday, to the application of the New York and Ottawa Railway Company, for permission to construct a railway from Moira to adpomt on the St. Lawrence which would shorten the trip from New York to Canada bYy flfty miles. It is said that the Czar has decided to partly abolish the Siberian exile system and to erect large _ central prisons in Russia proper within a year. It is said that Germany will demand an explanation of the hope expressed by M. Meline, the French _ Premier, All the Madrid newspapers publish stmvng protests against the mission of Gen. Woodford, the new United States Minister to Spain, thus causing wideâ€" spread irritation against the United Twenty of 26 German cities appealâ€" ed to have approved of the proposal to collectively participate in the _ Paris Exposition of 1900. . Eight Armenians, who have been conâ€" victed of taking part in the recent bomb exlglosions in Constantinople, were on Friday sentenced to death. Reports from New Caledonian re port that rain is much needed, and if the harvest fails predictions _ are made that serious disturbances will occur Next year‘s Japanese budget will show a deficiency of 25,000,000 yen, even though the fullest economy is obâ€" served. + Four travellers of an Al;l)ino tourist party are reported at Arolla, Switzerâ€" that Alsaceâ€"Lorraine will Bbe reunited to the republic. News has just reached Hong Kong of the prevalence of pirates on tfie%enton River. Work has been commenced in the construction of the Chinese eastern railroad. Merchants of. Managua, Nicaragua®, are asking the Government for a gold standard. The stea.msl&s Meana has sailed from Sydney with 600,000 sovereigns for San Bubonic plague in Foo Chow and subâ€" wrbs is most serious. Danger threatens the sugar plsqtâ€" ers in Japan from a widespread disâ€" ease, which attacks the roots of the cane. Iaf\d, to bhave been killed near Mount Pleurer. A special commission will meet shortâ€" ly in St. Petersburg to discuss . the introduction of universal and compul}â€" sory education in Kussia. The Corean Government has sent out an official notice that the ports of Cheâ€" nanpo and Mokpo are open to foreign trade on October 1. Arbitrators of the Venezuelan disâ€" pute, cannot, it is thon&:n, in London, sit before September, 1898. The Spanish Government is formuâ€" lating a plan to bring about the lsx;)n.isnment of all Anarchists from Aln. Spain will call out 50,000 m reserves, 27,000 to be sent to C and 13,000 to the Philippine Islands It is reported from Berlin that Prince Hoheniohe, â€" the Imperial Chnacellor, will retire in Ootober. The Shanghai Shepoo reports that the 0; she talked all the way about how AMMONIA GUN CENSURED. wife engineer summer more Killedâ€"Joseph Branham, engineer : Nate Holliston, engineer ; Ben Walters, fireman; James Hurly, fireman; Edâ€" ward Yonseivi, fireman ; unknown boy. Missingâ€"Joe Sauers, baggageman. Injuregâ€"Wm. Frisbie, engineer ; F.B. Jones, postal clerk; W. C. McGleed, postalâ€" clerk; U. J. BHolliday, postal tlerk ; S. 0. McGee, postal clerk ; R. A. Doran, postal clerk; John Patrick, brakeman; £€‘. A. Vancleever, brakeâ€" man ; T. J. Button.wu&!enger; Cottonâ€" wood Falls; F. B. Wallack, passenger, my leEg daingling and then ask me to be brave. I suppose they will have to be amputated, but I will bear the operation and live through it. I do not propose to.fie for lack of nerve and courage. My God, what has become of my comrades?" _ ; SILVER: KING IN A CRASE W. ~J. BRYAN‘S NARROW ESCAPE FROM AN AWFUL DEATH or less seriously injured. :One or two more of the wouinded may succumb. That the wreck did not result more seriously seems miraculous. William J Bryan, who was a pasâ€" and nerve were ~displayed. â€" Claude Hollister, of Topekia, had both his legs broken and shattered in half a dozen wlaces. _ When his rescuers laid bim on the grass beside the track he turnâ€" ed to one of the group and asked if he would pull through. When assured that he would live if be was brave, he said:â€"‘*"Aim I not brave? Look at a dry stream. The culvert was not more] than ten feet wide, and the foreâ€" most engine of the westbound train had spanned it when the cviollision occurred. The embankment approaches to this culvert were about ten| feet high. This added to the danger. The wreck was caused by a mikscarriage of orders by the train despatcher. The, conductor of the eastbound ‘train was ordered at Fimporia to méet and pass the Caliâ€" fornia flyer at Lang, seven miles east. An order sent to Lang to the conductor of the westbound to wait there was not delivered, and he suipposed he was to pass at Emporia. escaped practicaily without a ecratch. Mr. Bryan reached Emporia about midâ€" night, and remained at the hoteltill morning, when he resumed his journey. KILLED, MISSING, INJURED. Following is the list of killed and injured as announced by the railroad officials : L The conductor and brakeman were getting their lanterns ready for Emâ€" poria, only three miles away. There was no warning signal _ ‘The westâ€" bound train was going around a sliight curve and met the fast mail, proâ€" bably within two hundred feet. ‘There was a shock as if the trains had bumpâ€" ed up against a stone wall. Then there was an explosion, a crashing sound, an uncertain movement of the coaches and all the lights went out. _ Those who were in the first coach in the west bound train were lefi in total darkness, and they very soon realized THE PERIL OF THEIR POSITION,. for the coaches were filled with steam and smoke. The west bound train was drawn by two locomotives, and when they struck the fast mail, all three of the engines expioded and tore a bole in the track so dee;[; that the smoking car of the west bound train went ‘on top of the wreâ€"k of the three engines and two mail cars and balanced there without turning over. Those in this car who escaped through the winâ€" dows, came very near turning the car over, in which event the mortality would have been much greater, as this car soon caught fire from the explodâ€" ed engines underneath it and burned to ashes in a short time. ¢ h Atchison EACH TRAIN WAB HURRYING one to Emporia, the other to Lang, and, met at full gpeed on the main line. The California train was almost an bhour late and, owing to Mr. Bryan‘s lecture engagement at Burlingame, was crowdâ€" ed with excursionists returning home. William J. Bryan was interviewed by a reporter as to his experience in the collision. "1 bave travelied thousands up n thousands of miles on railroads and I never was in a wreeck before. I did not feel the shock very severely where I was, but from the way things looked I cannot for the life of mesee why we were not all killed. ‘The scene bere presented is the most terrible I bave ever seen. It has made an imâ€" preâ€"sion on me that cannot leave me during "my lifetime." wWwERE IN DHE SMOKING CAR. Mr. Bryan &@acompanied by David Leahy, a Topeka newspaper man, were in the ‘smoking coach of tha westâ€" bound train. They were dischnssing the day‘s events at Burlington, where the Nebraskan ‘nad been the attra tion . of thousands ofi peopie, when they heard a crash, then an explosion. in a moment the lights went out and steam and gas from the coal filled the car. Before they could make a move, the car was pushed forward with tremendous force and it reemed to toss in the debris like a crippled ship at sea. Evefy moâ€" ment they expected it to turn over. The car finally stopped, and, as it did so, began to catch fire from below. The two men jumped out of the same window without their hats or baggage, which were aiterwards burned, and The west boulnd train carried eight passenger coaches, and a@ll were crowdâ€" MiANY ACTS OF BRAVERY mail, Aged Groomiâ€"My dear, 1 have bought the palace you most admired, the horses you most liked, and all the jewelry you took a fanci to.‘ Is there nothing else I can buy for you ? > * Young Brideâ€"No, indeed, my.lâ€"love, . don’t'get anything more for me. . Buy something for yourself, my dear.‘"‘ Buy a cemetery lot. NBCKS BROKBN, STJLLLIVE. Fighteemâ€"yearâ€"old. Morris Grogan is in the Long Island College .Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y., with a broken neck, and the indications are thit he has a good chance of recovery;notwithstandâ€" ing the fact that twoâ€"thirds of his body is paralyzed. Pra: * and arose to gay. At that moment a belt at the electric company‘s powerâ€" house broke,> extinguishing all â€"city lights, those of the church included. Mr. Hathaway fell,to the flopr. "Yhen the gas was lighted a moment later:! he was discovered to be dead. . [The soveral hunâ€" dred fiersons present were horror stickâ€" en any fled from the‘®edifice. Phyâ€" sicians who were summoned claim that the death was due to. apoplexy. â€"â€" EXTRAORDINARY EREATMENT TO SAVE THEIR LIVES. Usually a Fatal Injuryâ€"Morrris Grogan, in the Loag lIsland College Mospital, Imâ€" proving Slowiyâ€"A Peculiar Case in the Two weeks ago, Grogan was in bathâ€" ing. From a beight of twelve feet he dived into four feet of water, striking on his head. He was taken out unconâ€" scious. When the ambulance arrived he‘ had regained his senses, but lost them again on the way to the hospital. An examinaton shgwed that the thigd» cervical vertebra was broken This is an injury which nearly always proves fatal. ; P The Lights Went Out and When,. Relit Lawyer Mathaway Was Dead. ___ A despatch from Oswego, N..Y.';;Sayi: â€"Jesse A. MHathaway, a proiinedit lawyer, in company with his wife," ab tended the prayer meeting n Wednesâ€" day night at Grace Presbyterian church and arose to pray. At that moment a Young Men in a Yacht Rocked the Craft Until She Capsized, A despatch from Detroit, Mich., says : â€"Six young men were drowned in â€" a yacht near Windmiil point, in Lake St. Clair, late on Wednesday ~ afternoon. The dead are:â€"Thomas F. Ritz, H.Gerâ€" teis, Grant Murray, Thomas Newsome, Charles Rice, Jay Tansey.s A party of ten chartered the yacht Blanche B., and went up the lake on a sail. . When near the mowth of. Fox Creek and nearly off Windmil1 point, . three of the party climbed out en the boom‘and, commeneâ€" ed to rock the craft, which being heayâ€" ily ballasted, lurched over and capsizâ€" es: going to the bottom. When Grogan arrived, at the hospiâ€" tal he hnd.sfight control over his arms, but could not move his lower limbs. He could raise his arms, but was unâ€" able to move his forearms or fingers. His condition has improved so that now he has a sli‘ht sense of feeling in his bands. (Dr. Willis &akes this as an inâ€" A New Case That the Authorities Know Not Hlow to Dispose of. A despatch from Vancouver says:â€" A leper, in an advanced stage has been located among the Chinamen, herding in rags and filth at the fishing town of Stevenson on Wednesday morning. The Doxpjnion Government ha.y,refiused to provide for the British Columbia leâ€" pers at Darcy Island, where these unâ€" fortunates are kept, and the authoriâ€" ties are at a loss to know what to do with the leper now on their hands. hands. ‘Dr. Willis «akes this as an inâ€" dication that the patient is slowly but dgication that the patient is slowly but surely getting around under the treatâ€" ment be is undergoing.. His temperaâ€" ture has beeu considerably reduced, and during the last few days he has been able to digest food. _‘ h5 n 404 c The case of Grogan is similar to that of C. Hoffman, a young German farmâ€" er, who was s:xwesaiulfy operated upon in San Francisco last week. In the latter part of July, Hof{fman received a compound fracture of the third cerâ€" vical vertebra. On August 11 he was removed to the French Hospital, where the arch of the third vertebra and a portion of the second vertebra were reâ€" moved. HMe rests om‘ an ‘inclined plan@ . The weight of his body acts as a counter extension to the weight applied to an extension apparatus, whi:c{n is attachâ€" ed to the head, and bhe is virtually susâ€" pended by the neck until he shall be restored to health. Grogan was first fed on peptonized milk and then liquid beef peptonoids. Now he is being fed on soups, tea, &c. The only pain he feels is in his neck, and that is very slight. He is nowlser- fectly conscions ‘and fully confident that he will recover. that hevv_vifi recover. Dr. Willks expressed himself as very much satisfied with the progress so far made, which, he says shows that the treatment is gradually bringing the nerves back to their normal condition. $ MAY AND DECEMBER., â€" HE AROSE TO PRAY. IT COST SIX LIVES. ONTARIO ARCHIV f TORONTO LEPROSY IN B. Serious Fighting Imminent â€" rulu,l-d" the Troops â€" The Sultan Has No Infiu ence in ladia. * A despatch from Bombay says:â€"Col~ Abbott, with two guns and a squadron of the 18th Bengal Lancers and +the Firkt Regiment of Sikhs, attaâ€"ked 1,500 of the enemy at Doahaon on the romd from Hangu to Thuil. A despatch from Simla says_the Orakzals fled, but the cavalry failed to cut off their retreat. Other centres of interest are Hangu and Shabkadr, where serious fighting is imminent. COL. ABBOTT‘S FORCES ATTACK AND DEFEAT THE ENEMY. ON TBE INDIAN FRONTER amnd, he continued, his whole future would be directed towards the unity of the South African States in a cf’ur apd open policy. He Will Work for a Â¥nion in .Ahe South 6 A‘rican States. Mr. Cecil Rhodes im a speech just deâ€" livered at Fort Salisiniry, South Africa, is quoted as sayinmz,that the conduct of the Parliamentary inquiry into the, Transvaal raid will be judged half a century bence. Mis personal‘ troubles, ‘ Mr. Rhodes is paid to have added, were trivial whem compared with those: of the people of Fort Salisbury district, _23 "4o. anmtinnmad : hie whala â€" futura and his staff, has arrived :; flmxu. Thére the camp, which was open and scattered has Leen transformed intoa defensible position, surrounded by shelâ€" tered trenches, and breastworks of ‘"She was beheaded,‘"" e added. This circumstance _ seemed to impress him, for in a moment he‘said: "Where is ‘the other (" : Foon it was enderstood that decapitation was the connecting link and that he wishedto see the tomb of Charles: the First; . HMe+â€"was ‘disapâ€" pointed to leartn that Charles.was buriâ€" ed at Windsor. In the Poet‘s Corner Tennyson and Scott received most of his Pttent'wn. At St. Paul‘s he was shown the ‘ memorial â€"of Gen, Gordon, but ‘shocked his guides" by inquiring with great sincerity: *"Whoâ€"iwas Gen. Gorâ€" '§fln * "Oh, he was a man very well ‘known in the East," was the only answer thougbht necessary. Altogether Chulalongkorn showed. himselft: to ‘be a pretty fair historian, but better posted in ancient than modern‘eténts. .. _ earth bags. The camp has also been well supplied with stores and ammuniâ€" tion. According to reliable reports there are ten thousand hostile Orakâ€" zais on the hills surrounding Hangu. Gen. Yeatmanâ€"Biggs bas with him a mountain battery, the Royal Irish Regiment, and five native regiments at Hangu. ‘The It8h Bengal Lancers and the 9th Field Battery are at Shipwar to cut off the rétreat of the enemy. Advices from Shabkadr say that the Haddah Mullah is threatening the front of that place, where the enemy has collected in great numbersa. Col. Mills, who is in command at Shabkadr, bas POSITIONS Olj‘ THE TROOPS. The Second Regiment of Gourkh&s, with Brigadierâ€"Generai 1estpp'n!-'Big¢u at his disposal the 20th Punjab lnfanâ€" try, the 83th Goukhas, and 19th Bengal Lancers, a battery of field artillery, and a wing of the Somerseishire Light Infantry. _ ‘The balance of the Somâ€" ersetshire Regiment and the 26th Punâ€" jJab Infantry are on their way to reinâ€" force Col. Mills at Shabkadr. NEWS Is SATISFACTORY. The rumor that the Indian Governâ€" ment is about to send a fresh letter to the Ameer of Afghanistan regarding the alleged complicity of. Afghans in the frontier uprisings proves to be without l«indatxou. ihe X.meer’s first reply to the Government is regarded as satisfactory. _ News has been reâ€" ceived t,)}a't‘ the flying column, undg_r command of Col. Richardson, has reachâ€" ed Sadda, thus rendering the Pariâ€" chinrd fheadquarters in the Kurran valley safe, as Sadda commands the only route from the Orakzai country. The news from the Kohat side is satâ€" isfactory also, the Orakzais having withdrawn from â€" British territox:{. though a large force of them is still facing Saman@ The authoritie have sanctioned the immediate concentration of two brigades under Col. Elles at Shabkadr to advance &s, a punitive force direct into the Mohmand counâ€" try, and check an expected second raid of Haddah Mullah, with 4,000 tribesâ€" men. _ This decision has given great satisfaction, and the knowledge that the British forces have at last taken the offensive will probably have a deâ€" terent effect on the tribes all along the frontier. General Blood will operate with Col. Elies in this expedition. _ CGuides Who Led the King of Stam About London Mad Trouble. The King of Biam has proved himself to be familiar with English history. He has not passed a regular examinatitn, but has shown himself acquainted with the occupants of the tombs in Westâ€" minster Abbey, which is about the same. The King was shown about Engâ€" land‘s Valhalla by Canon Wilberforce. He coldly passed by the statues of Pitt, Livingstone and Herschei in the nave, but paused before that of Darwin: ‘"Darâ€" win, great man,â€"I know bim," be reâ€" marked. ‘The helmet worn bg Henty V. at Agincourt was shown‘ ‘tim. lie looked at it c:tretulel(f and inquired its weighi, He seemed surprised when told thai it weished nine pounds, tweive ounces,. When shown the fhgs of the Knights oi the Bath, he asked for the Duke of Wellington‘s. ~ Queen Elizaâ€" Beih‘g.tomb impressed uim greatly. All of gsmaiden heâ€"said, "Where is Mary t" No one knew exactly, what he meant. Then he weat on, "Maryâ€"Mary Queen of Scots." It is reported that a punitive expediâ€" tion, consisiing of 20,000 men, will shortly be sent‘into the Afridis‘ counâ€" try, with orders to push on to Tirah. THE SULTAN‘S INFLUENCE NIL. The Constantinople correspondent of The Daily Telegraph says that after careful inquiries he is convincéd that the Sultan‘s personal influence among the Mussulmans in northwest India is nonâ€"existent. There is no doubt. the correspondent eags. that the suggesâ€" tion that the Sultan instigated the trouble is flattering to his vanity, but it is quite clear that nothing can reâ€" store to the Sultan his preponderance in the Mussulman w0rlJ. erriite en Loh . S MR RHODEs‘ POLICY IGNORANCK, HERMAN NACK SAYSs His WIFER WAS A FIEND. der of William Guldensuppe. Nack states that his wife made a living through the murder of children. . She was a soâ€"called midwife, but never had a diploma. Nack says that she tried for one in Germany, but failed in beR examinations. Atrone time, Nack deâ€" clares there were as many as six dead children presefved in spirits in botâ€" tles in fiu rooim. He adds that she murdered from one to three childred® each year for a period of from eight to ten years. Nack also alleges that »A despatch from New York, says:â€" District Attorney Olcott made public on Thursday a statement made by Herâ€" man Nack, husband of Mrs. Augusts Nack, who ‘is now in the Tombs, with Martin Thorne, charged with the murâ€" SHE MURDERED CHILDREN his wife was assisted by certain physiâ€" cilans, and he mentions undertakers‘ names, charging both physicians and undertakers with complicity with his wife. He says that they aided her in making away with the bodies of dead children. The statement wAas gotten from Nack by Assistant District ,Attorney Michael, who has been workâ€" ng hard to get evidence from him as to his wife‘s history. He managed afâ€" ter a time to get Nack to tell a little about his and his wife‘s life. Then the man one evening, in a burst of confidâ€" ence, told him fully of the life that his wife had been living. He swore that he was telling the tr?x{h. ard said that his wife was oneâ€"o{ the most abominable women in the world. District Attorney Olcott got the man to make a sworm statement in writing. The statement was prepared on Wednesday, and was signed by Nack on Thursday night. He was at the office of the District Atâ€" torney on Wednesday giving assistâ€" ance in the preparation of the stateâ€" ment. In the beginning of the stateâ€" ment Herman Nack states that hbe came to New York from Germany in 1886. His wife arrived here a few months before he did. He declares that ber maiden name is Augusta Pusâ€" sat, and that she was born in Lonwayâ€" onâ€"Elbe, in Germany., Then follows the ‘en_tlre career of both himself and his wife for the next ten years. The makâ€" ing public of the statement by District Attormey Olcott was followed by a great deal of excitement in the District Attorney‘s office. It was not kaown to anyone before the making public of Nack‘s sworn charges that the woâ€" \m{m was thought to be capable of such fellow Nihilists. The Body of a Woman Found. at Paris ag Morribly Mutilated. >A despatch from Paris says that the ‘body of a woman, pnaked, and frightful= ly mutilated, the nose and ears missâ€" ing and the skull smashed in, has been found in the River Seine. On the middle of tha deceased‘s back was tatâ€" tooed the words: "Long Live Poland" and "Death to Traitors." â€" The ret#gins are m to be those of a Nibilist who urred the suspicion of her Another attempt is to be made to recover the millions in specie, bullion and precious stones which have been lost along the coast of this and other countries in foundered ships. The means to be used is a submarine boat built for the purpose and fitted with wheels for running on the bottom, as well as with a propeller for navigatâ€" ing the surface. ‘The inventor of this vessel, which was launched the other day at Baitimore and christened Argâ€" onaut is Mr. Simon Lake, of Baitiâ€" more. ‘The plan is to run the boat along the bottom until the wreck is reached, and then send out men in div« ers‘ armor, who will be supplied with air from the reservoirs on the Argonâ€" aut. The advantage over the old meâ€" thod is that the depth of water will be no factor, and work cannot be inâ€" terrupted by storms. ‘The vessel is thirtyâ€"six feet lonlf by nine feet in diaâ€" meter. She is built of steel and ribbed very strongly to wilthstand the press ure of the water at great depths. Eleoâ€" tricity is ber prfl;ulsive, operating and guiding force. . Laker says he bas the heari.ngs of several vessels sunk on the New Jersey coast which are said Argon'.-t BRuillt to Recover Money and Jewels Lost in Ships. in a population of 5,675,270. The area supplied is 845 square miles, and there are 5.147 miles of water pipe, and 33,â€" 965 fire bydrants. Of this water 107,â€" 000,000 gaiions comes fromâ€"the Thames river 51,000,000.from the Lea river and the rest from springs > and nrlesian wells. in formerâ€" yeurs there was a great, deai ol criticsm directied against he. London water gupply because of its infsuffictent* quautity and its impure quality, but. since 1898, when a parâ€" liamentary ‘commission was appointed Lo MAvestizate tie question, there bas beei no cause of _ complhint. The greater part of the supply taken from the Thames comes from above Richâ€" mond, wheére the water is comparativeâ€" ly pure, and is conducted by a series of aqueducls. info, ityâ€"Lfour different reâ€" servoirs, covering 380 acres, with am apggregate capacity of 1,985,100,000 gale lows. From these the water is passed through 120 filtering beds, some of which absorb 1,000,000 gallons a minâ€" ute. The water passes through six or seven in. of sand before it reaches the }n?u. and this sand is cleaned careâ€" ully:evary monthb. in about -f_(;rt.}:-'fi,ve feet of water. The Argonaut will be given a trial trip in Chesapeake Bay in a few days. Three Sources of Supply and an Enormous Consumption, The watér supply of London is enâ€" ormous. *It reaches 841,461 houses, and the average daily consumption is 187,â€" 580,233 gallons or a daily mverage of about thirtyâ€"three gallons per capita to have hau on comaia 912 vu0,000 in speâ€" cle and buliion. Probably the first vessel that will be examined, says the inventor, will be the New Era, which sunk off Asbury Park in 1852. She lieg Murdered Eyery Year. NIHILISTS‘ VENGEANCE. â€" LONDON‘S WATER. and Doctors Named as Ner TREASURE. @