I HE FRONTIER 1'Um.ISIiKD KVKKV TliruSDAV 11V i uk riiox rifii rm.vnw. co. ■ 6'XEfLI~ - ; KEilftTsivA Electricity has boon used In Swotloi as a substitute for dynamite in blast tuff. A strong current Is turned int< the rock and tho intenso heat causes i -o crack. The speaker of the British house o commons rccevics a salary of £5,000 i year and when he rotlros ho is raisec to the peerage with an annual pension of £4,000. During tho exhibition in Edinburgh, Scotland, there were over 100,000 per sons carried in electric launches along the canal from the city to tho exhibi tion. The largest ship ailoat is the Fronoh five-mastod Franco, launched in 1800. The vessel is 301 feet long, 43 broad, and has a depth of 30 feot. Her net tonnage is 3,034. Tho dowry of a Turkish bride is fixed t>y custom at about #1 70 A man needs to have a whole seminary ol wives before he can gather in enough to pay his debts. Tho hair dressing of ladies was an expensive affair in the sixteenth cen tury. Queen Elizabeth at one time was possessed of no fewer than eighty attires of false hair. ■-• -*■ Blonde hair is said to be the fines) and red tho coarest A German in vestlgator figures it out tlint a blonde head has 140,000 hairs; a black 103,000. and a red about 00,000. Miss Ilhoda Broughton has organ Iz.ed a successful movement in Philu dolphin for a “Home of Best foi Horses.” Tho scheme if in practica -operation and insures gronter kindnos* in the treatment of tho class of ani snals for which it is designed. The countoss of Zetland has made herself very popular in Ireland by ap pealing to Queen Victoria not to inter rupt the Dublin season of fostivitieson account of the general mourning. Vic toria inclined a gracious ear, so busi ness is good in Dublin and everybody da happy. The Mormon temple at Salt Lake 'City is built in the form of a true el lipse and, although it is of enormous dimensions, it is so well constructed as regards acoustics that a person standing in the focus at one end can carry on a conversation in a whisper with any ono in the focus at the othor and. A biographer of Phillips Brooks, •writing from personal acquaintance with the distinguished Massachusetts divine, says that he has always been a notably diffident man, distrustful oi Ills ability. It is rather singular thnt Mrs Beecher, in her memoirs, makes practically the same statement about the great Brooklyn preachor. 8»m Radges, of Topeka, paid the western doctors 93,000 to be told that hit eyes would not last long and that he soon would bo stone blind. lie then went to New York and Dr. Agnew in formed him that they would last all his life and to go home and be happy. For the latter information he paid •500. A singular trial is imminent in Frank fort A professional nurse allowod a piece of flesh to be severed from hei arm by a surgeon and transplanted into an open wound on the body of o wealthy patient $ha now claim* that the surgeon cut too much away -and is suing him for damages on the ground of unnecessary Injury ty herself. The wife of a wealthy United States senator gave a luncheon a few days ago. Many ladies attended in ful' dress. As they retired at its close what was their horror to discover that each gown had been decorated witb broad stripes of white paint The ex planation was that the chairs had been freshly painted and gilded for the oe oasion and had not been properly dried. General Butler Is creating a stir in legal and trade circles by his claim that a man who buys a book sold only by subscription is virtually pledged tc keep it, neither selling it or giving it away. He threatens to bring a suit tc have the presentation of his own nen book by a purchaser to the public library in Lowell declared void and to have the library authorities restrained from cir -culating the volume. Pasteur in his youth is said to have -risen at 4 o'clock in the morning to gc to his laboratory, where he was accus tomed to remain, with but few inter ruptions, until 9 at night. The story that tells how he was found in his lab oratory when due at the altar to marry the rector's daughter at Strasburg it well known. Now at 65, he still labors over his experiments with un (emitting eagerness and with all the fine enthusiasm of youth. Professor Fowler, the phrenologist. Is reported to have said once that the great mental and physical vigor ol -Gladstone's old age is due most ol *11 to his ability to fall asleep at any time and on any occasion, in spite ol the anxiety and cares of the day. H was mentioned in this column some time uo that the only occasion whei the ‘Grand Old Man" was ever wor ried into sleeplessness was at the tim< of the excitement in England over Gor don't fate. NEBRASKA. Harvard will have a new hotel at once. A large roller mill will be built at Well fleet. The Dawson flouring mill burned. Loss . 14,000. Beatrice people have a bad case of base ball fever. A large elevator has just been completed 1 at Coleridge. Several brick blocks will be put up at Pender this year. Music will bo taught in the Grand Is land public schools. The Clay county allianco will establish a papor at Clay Center. Blair merchants are inaugurating an early closing movement. Forty of the pupils of tho Genoa Indian school have tho measles. Weeping Water has a lady insurance agent, Mrs. Lillian Hasse. The state Association of Short Horn breeders met at Beatrice. There are 650 cases before the district court In session ut O’Neill. The Second district congressional com mittee will meet ut Hastings. An English syndicate is said to be after the big Youngers nursery at Genoa. John Honey, sr., one of the earliest set tlers at Sutton, died at the age of 70. A company has been incorporated to manufacture paving brick at Nebraska City. Tho Chndron Journal and Advocate have been consolidated and will establish a daily. The Journal claims that Lincoln is very much In earnest in its demand for a union depot. Albert Bowden, a Cuming county young man, has been crazed by religious excite ment. A threo-foot vein of coal has been found at Tecumsoh thirty-eight feet below the surface. A. H. Brown, a prominent Red Cloud business man, died suddenly of heart disease. An unknown farmer was badly injured by a train on a crossing at Papillion. His horses were killed. A Broken Bow child fell on a stove poker, which entered his mouth and pierced his cheek. The prohibitiouists of tho state are Re letting delegates to the state convention at Lincoln, March 3. A stook company has been formed at Hickman to rebuild in brick the buildings lately destroyed by fire. A census of the Omaha Indiuns will be tuken preparatory to the disbursement of $12,000 of government funds. A Pole named Lisurla attempted suicide B roken Bow by cutting his throat Ho was unknown and without money. Hayei county papers say there are good prospects of a north and south and an east md w-est railroad through that county. A new depot has been completed at South Plattsmouth, several new buildings ire in prospect and stock yards will be ?ut in. A Methodist chureh at Genoa dissolved md the members held a meeting to de cide whether to bo Presbyterians or Bap •ists. The fourth annual convention of secre taries of the atate Y. M. G A. will be held it Crete, commencing tomorrow and dos ing Friday. The Gage county grand jury found two ndlctmeuts for forgery, one for adultery end one for burglary, and some sensations are promised. The oldest son of Louis Clark, near Campbell, dropped bis gun from a road 'art and the wouud made amputation of Due arm necessary, Charles Franks, of Randolph, was badly Injured by the tumbling rod of a corn •heller which broke, one of the pieces striking him In the aide. Indlauola aspires to be a pleasure re sort. An artificial lake, half a mile by two miles, will be constructed, and some tine buildings will go up this season. W. E. Wells, of Burwell, one of the lead ing merchants of central Nebraska, made a voluntary assignment. Liabilities, <'1,000, probably covered by the assets. The Niobrara Pioneer will, on Uarch 1, issue an illustrated edition of 10,000 copies, whioh, It is claimed, will be the biggest and best paper ever printed in the county. C. W. Thomas’ elevator at Phillips was completely destroyed by fire Saturday night. Loss on building <4,000; insur ance, <3,500; loss on grain, about <7,000; no insurance. ' Tho Niobrara Mill and Waterworks company will begin erecting a mill April 1. An election will be held to vote on the question of bonding the city for <1,000 to lay water mains. The body of Frank Nuel was found near Superior, and a shot gun lay near him One barrel had been discharged through his heart, and it is supposed to have been a case of suicide. Editor H. H. Hutchins, of the Coleridge Sentinel, who disappeared last summer under a financial cloud, has returned and will pay all his debts. But he has had all the newspaper experience he wants. I John Seiko, an old resident of Nebraska pity. Is dead. He went to his barn and not returning search was made for him. Jie had been stricken with heart disease |tnd was found lying dead In the barn. Among the proposed Improvements at Rushvllle for this year is an electric light plant, a starch factory, a creamery, s brewery and a district fair association, for which <10,030 is already subscribed. , A Custer county farmer wrote a letter to a Norwegian paper at Decorah, la., telling of the advantagea of Custer county, and in two days received alxteen letters of inquiry from several different states. Henry Pfiueger, of Wed Point, shot his wife in the head and she died instantly. Pfiueger had been adjuuged insane last fall, and was sent to jail He escaped, and had not keen heard of until he ap peared at home aud shot his wife. He was captured. A young man named Probat, living south of Taylor, In Loup oounty, has re refused food, drink and medical aid for twenty-five days On recovering from de ilrum tremens he became convinced that he was going to die and took the above course to make sure of it. Large numbers of Nebraska horses are being shipped to the eastern markets. Boston and Philadelphia take many of them. One dealer at Seward who buys for the Connectieut market used to get his horses In Canada till the McKinley bill eomoelled him to patronise American breeders. A BREAD RIOT IH BERLIN Famished Germans Make a Raid on the Shops. Th. Troop* on Duty With Fixed Bayonets —The Authorities Claim That the Uprising Is the Work of Schem ing Anarchists. Bermm, Feb. 27.—The authorities of tlie city claim to be in possession of in formation to the effect that the dem onstration of Thurday before the em peror's castle was not, as at first sup posed, a spontaneous and unpremedi tated movement They claim that it was a carefully planned outbreak and that it would have assumed very much more important proportions had it not been for the fact that the people did not rise to any degree in support of the anarchists and socialists who engin eered the riota This of course is the official version of the affair, but it is doubtful if it is correct. However, there is no doubt that the authorities had secret information of some kind and that there is more truth ia the story that the anarchists had planned to use dynamite upon the castle than at first supposed. The entire force of troops composing tlie garrison of Berlin was kept under arms until 1:30 this morning, and even then they were not allowed to rest. A Midnight Bread Riot. Shortly after 11 o'clock last night there was another small riot, making the third of such disturbances of the peace since Thursday afternoon. At about that hour a number of isolated groups of excited men, some of them pretty well loaded down with beer, focussed in the northern districts until a gathering of about 1,500 was formed, and began listening to an address from a socialist leader. The latter had hardly uttered a few burning re marks condemning the brutal conduct of the authorities, eta, when he was Interrupted by the singing of the “Marseillaise,” and cries of “Bread!” “Give bread or the chance to earn it!” “Down with the capitalists!” “Burn down their houses!” Then one of the mob was hoisted above the heads of his comrades, and, sitting upon their shoulders, loudly cried: ‘•Thera Is Bread. Take It.” “Let us take bread if the emperor will not give it to us there," pointing to a neighboring baker's store, “There is bread, take it. ” With a roar like that of a pack of hungry tigers the mob made a rush for the bakery, broke in the entire front of the store and cleared it of its contents in about the time it takes to write it, but the supply of bread was only suf ficient to relieve the hunger of a small portion of the crowd so a number of other bakeries, grocery stores and wine shops were broken into and emptied of their contenta Two butcher shops were also looted before a force of police strong enough to quell the riot was summoned to the scene. Scattered by the Police. When the police did appear, the mob evidently more full of hunger than of fight, scattered in all directions and left the police in possession of the dis mantled storea The emperor remained watching from the windows of the castle Schloss, surrounded by several generals and half a dozen aide-de-camps until halt an hour after midnight, when he dis missed his staff after receiving reports by orderlies from all the military and polico districta Previous to retiring for the night, the emperor dismissed the Alexander regiment of guards, which had been on duty throughout the day with fixed bayoneta Troops, however, are being kept within easy call. , The Dispatches Dootered. The fact was made clear today that the press censor of Berlin has been busy at work since Thursday altering and changing the tenor of riot dis patches sent out of Germany. So much so that a number of newspaper corre spondents, the representatives of the London Times for instance, have been informed from their home offices that their dispatches were in some cases al most illegible as they had left whole sentences out and that their messages had breaks in them which made their stories disconnected. In view of this fact it may be explained' )hat the cor respondent of the United Press antici pating some such an action upon the part of the press censor caused his first dispatch announcing the riots, which was twelve hours ahead of any other dispatch sent to the United States to be filed at a certain plaoe outside of Berlin, thus completely outwitting the presscensor. International Trouble! Feared. Berlin, Feb. 37.—In London and Paris grave International complica tions are dreaded. It is feared that if the disorders last much longer the emperor will attempt a diversion by declaring war against—whom is not stated. Riots similar in character to those in Berlin have taken place in Dantzic and Brunswick. Others are feared in Vienna, where the misery of the poor grows greater daily. The situation altogether is alarming. Ger many seems to have come to the end of her fortunate period. Events may at any moment take a turn perilous for the peace of Europe. With a monarch like William all things are possible. Doubts the Success or Loubet. London, Feb. 37.—The Paris corre spondent of the Standard doubts the success of Senator Loubet in forming or conducting a ministry—“a man sixteen years in public life without making his mark. No doubt the president knows Loubet and his character well, but his confidence in him cannot be shared by the public.” RIOTING IN INDIANAPOLIS. The Police Ordered to Assist In Running Street Cars. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 37.—Not leas than a dozen riots have occurred here this morning. At an early hour, and by prearrangement with the street car company, Mayor Sullivan ordered out the police to assist in the running of cars. The strikers and sympathizer: fought every inch of ground and at 7 o'clock three cars were over turned in the gutters. By S o'clock the mobs on the different streets numbered fully 10,000 and busi ness generally is interrupted by the violent proceedings Nearly fifty ar rests have been made and a dozen can injured by rocks The police force it composed of only 110 men and is al most overcome and would be utterly defeated in case of a battle. So far clubs have been the only weapons used, but the fervor of the mob is in creasing and a bloody encounter is probable. Later—All attempts to run cars have been abandoned until Monday morn ing and in the meantime a compromise of some kind is hoped for. TALMAGE TALKS POLITIDS. He Thinks the Tariff Fight Will Go on Forever, Chicago, Feb- 37.—Dr. T. De Witt Talmage, the Brooklyn divine, was at the Grand Pacific on his way home from a lecturing tour in the west. Dr. Talmage said he was much interested in politics but he thought the tarifl question would never be settled, be cause both parties were afraid of it. “The politicians are after the offices and nothing else,” he said. “Why, 1 remember when 1 was a boy 8 years old the tariff was discussed just as it is now. My father was a Henry Clay, or high tariff man, and he used the same arguments then as are used by the re publicans today, only the Henry Clay men then were really for high tarifl. The republicans nowadays say they are for high tarifl, but when the campaign gets hot they go back on their former declarations and say they want to revise the tarifl. The democrats talk free trade awhile, but when it comes down to giving the people free trade they go back on all they said before. So the fight will go on and on and the grand children of the present generation will be discussing the tariff just as it is being discussed today. No, I haven’t anything to say against Tammany. I believe in partisanship It promotes honesty, because the fellows who hold the offices know they are being watched by their opponents and must bo honest, I don't know whetherthey have any rings among the politicians in New York, but I am quite positive that Brooklyn is one of the best gov erned cities in the country. The fight between Cleveland and Hill in New York has so complicated affairs that the Lord only knows what the result will be. It doesn’t matter who wins, because the politicians are not sin cere. ” SAID HE WAS AN ACTOR. A Rustle Malden Who Followed to the City a Man Wearing Tan-Colored Shoes. St. Louis, Feb. 37.—A pathetic story was told to Mrs. Louisa Harris, the police matron, yesterday, by an un fortunate girl from Ste. Genevieve, Mo., named Martha Whiteside. Two months ago, the girl stated, she had met and loved a young man named Hilton, a handsome, dashing fellow, who wore fur on his collar, a diamond stud as big as a walnut on his shirt, and tan-colored shoos. He easily con vinced the unsophisticated country maiden that he was a theatrical man. She had been to a theater but once, poor thing. It was “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” with two Topsies, three Marks the lawyer, and four bloodhounds, but she had often dreamed of theaters and theatri cal men, and Hilton was a perfect pic ture of the vison she had seen in her dreams. So she had come to St. Louis with the young man with the tan-colored shoes, intending to become an actress, for Hilton had told her that she had beauty and talent, by the side of which Mary Anderson was a mere stick, Sarah Bernhardt a scarecrow and Lotta a ninny. After a few days of blissful anticipa tion, however, Hilton, fur collar, tan colored boots and all, disappeared. Mrs. Harris made the poor girl as comfortable as possible and then sent her back home. The police have not been able to find any trace of Hilton. A MONETARY CONFERENCE. England Hu Signified Her Willingness to Confer. Washington, Feb. 27.—Satisfactory progress is being made by countries in terested toward the holding of an in ternational monetary conference by representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany, correspondence looking to such a con ference has been in progress for some time, the only country holding aloof having been Great Britain. At the treasury department it was ascer tained that England had now signified her consent to take part in a confer ence, and what is more important, had indicated in a measure the extent to which she would go in the matter. The intimation is made that England, who since 1816 has had but one monetary standard, that of gold, would adopt silver to the extent of permitting the Bank of England to hold one-fifth of her reserve in silver; would issue small silver notes, and would open the India mints to silver. In pursuing the inquiry today re garding the rumored conference, it was learnedthat Mr. Seligman, the prom inent New York banker, had for sev eral months been in Europe as a kind of confidential representative of the treasury department, holding the same relation to the department as Manton Marble had done under the administra tion of Secretary Manning. RUSSIAN DESTITUTION. Feasants look Like Living Skeletons--A Dearth of Doctors. London, Feb. 27.—A correspondent who has been visiting, in company with Count Tolstoi, the famine-stricken districts of Samara, says that free ta bles of food are crowded with starving applicants who look like living skele tons A peasant who appealed to Tolstoi for aid said that his father and mother had just died of starvation. In every second house people can bo found dead or dying and the sick go without attention, as there is not more than one doctor to every 8,000 persona AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE Pennsylvanians Called on to Assert Their Rights. The Recent Comblnntton of the Beading, Lehigh Tetley, and Jereejr Central Road* Denounced ae a Viola tion of the Constitution. Philadelphia,Feb. 29.—A proclama tion to the people of Pennsylvania, over the signature of General Master Workman T. V. Powderly, of the Knights of Labor, is being distributed throughout the state. It is dire< ted against the recent combination of the Heading, Lehigh Valley and Jersey Central railroads. The proclamation states that the Reading company it taking another step against the wel fare of the commonwealth, that the. constitution has been violated, and that those who, last November, voted against the calling of a constitutional convention in Pennsylvania will have cause to repent in sack cloth and ashes for their lack of patriotism. According to the old Roman proverb when vice is useful it is a crime to be virtuous, and the ethics of legalised spoliation as practiced by the corpora tions of Pennsylvania would seem to indicate that neither in word nor mean ing shall that statement be changed. The proclamation, which is a lengthy one, is as follows: One hundred and seventy thousand citi zens who voted for a people’s parliament, you are appealed to again to take up the agitation for a constitutional convention. Npw is the very best time imaginable to take up the work, and those who profited bv the defeat of the measure have furn- 1 isned the best of arguments in favor of that for which we struggled last year. Emboldened by our defeat the Reading railroad has taken another step against ' the welfare of Pennsylvania. It has com- I mitted another theft, and it lays with us j to bring the rogue to justice. In order I that our position may not be misunder- j stood, and that we may be strengthened in the stand which we shall take, let each of the 137,00 > personally write the gov ernor to take official notice of the treason of the Reading company, and call upon him to take the offenders before the high est tribunal of tlis state for a hearing and investigation. Demand of the executive that the fullest light be thrown upon this most outrageous encroachment on the rights of the people of Pennsylvania and of all the eastern states. Act at once. Get up petitions, interest others who are not members, send delegationsr.to the gov ernor and strengthen his hands in ridding Pennsylvania of this Jesse Janies of cor porations. If he will not act, secure his reasons, and leave nothing undone to find out beyond a doubt whether article xvii is binding on the railroads and canals of the state. Let us ascertain whether we can legally redress our wrongs before resort ing to— THE TELEPHONE MONOPOLY Mexicans Get Better Service at One-Fifth the Cost. New York, Feh. 29.—While the Tel ephone Subscribers’ association la con gratulating itself over the encourage ment it received from Chief Croker in its fight for reasonable rates, and while it is waiting for an equally satis factory interview with Edward Murphy, jr., of Troy, Secretary Gard ner has been getting some inside facts on the profits of the telephone busi ness. At the offices of the Tropical Amer ican Telephone company, at No. 59 liroad street, a few figures were gath ered that will interest subscribers all through the country. This company is the authorized agent for the sale in South and Central America of the Hell telephones with Blake transmitters, which were used in this city up to a short time ago. They are the box-like affairs which were hung on the wall in an office and for which an annual rental of from $150 to $180 is charged. They cost the parent company $3.43 apiece to manufacture, as the company admitted before an investigating com mittee of the Massachusetts legisla ture. In Mexico, now, two of these instruments, with a mile of No. 12 galvanized iron wire and the insulat ors, office wire, screws and the like may be bought outright for $40 cash. New Yorkers are expected to pay five times this sum for one year's use of one instrument WANTED—A WOMAN. Ueorglanna Hlnkion Sought to Take Charge or an Estate. A telegram from Philadelphia says: There is a woman in the country, west,' northwest or southwest, who now, os at any time in the past has gone hy the name of Georgiannna Hinkson, she will, if she has any love in hey heart, or if she has any desire for ma terial riches, come to this city as fast as steam can bring her. A mother’s heart is yearning for her, and a com fortable estate is awaiting her appea r ance. It is fifteen years since a young girl, who was known by that name, disappeared one fine afternoon, whether of her own volition or not has never been known. Although inquiries have been made at intervals during that long period of the police authori ties of pretty nearly every city of the country, not a clue to her whereabouts has ever been discovered. Her grand mother, who died quite recently, left considerable real estate, which goes to Georgianna if she is ever found, and likewise left a dying injunction that no money or pains should be spared to locate her. At different times alleged clues have led to investigations in Chi cago, Mil waukee, Cincinnati. St Louis, Kansas City and San Francisco, but they have all ended in failure. Possi bly she is dead, but as long as the mother lives she will not give up the hope that her girl will return to her. A woman by this name lived in Sioux City until recently, but no one seems to know where she has gone. AGAINST THE ANARCHISTS. The Supreme Court Refuses to Interfere in Their BehalL Washington, Feb 39.—The supreme court today decided against the Chi cago anarchists. Field and Schwab, who sought release from Joliet prison on writs of habeas corpus. Three times as much spirits are con- , turned in Scotland, according to the ' population, as in England. 1 A SOMNAMBULISTSfEat Picked HU Way Along the W „ Salisbury, Md., Feb 27 . count of the remarkable advent * * a somnambulist comes from SeUn village about seven miles from sl# bury, in this county. One night week William, the 13-year-oW L ' Granville Banks, dreamed thatV father and mother and entire f, mu were being murdered in the house order to escape death himself he » and, hoisting the window of his r^8® on the second floor, and clad nnw? his night clothes, he descended tooths ground by means of a ladder, whhS had been left by some painters who were painting the house. Iw headed and barefooted u walHf,d *°Zer to the home of Mr. Bland Harcum, on the next «. 01 below, a distance of one mile. On hS way he had to walk along the bank of a creek running between the two farms until he came to its head, whew he crossed at low tide, crushing thet™ with his bare feet He reached Mr Marcum s house about 4 o’clock in thi Mr. Harcum was up and asked the boy what was the matter re. celvmg the reply that his family being murdered. Mr. Harcum sus pected that the young man was not B^2ke’,A8 he »howed no signs of being cold, although the night was an in tensely cold one. After sitting by the fire a short time, young Banks awoke and, after affrightedly looking about him, was seized with a violent chill He was placed in bed and made as comfortable as possible. Mr. Harcum hurried over to the young man’s home and told the parents of the strange ad venture of their son. The boy is all right now, but a little sore about the feet PLAYED WITH DYNAMITE. Seven Men Try an Experiment and One Is Fatally Injured. Detroit, Feb. 27.—While seven men were standing around a stove in a store at Goose Island last night one of them saw a keg on the ice near shore and brought it into the store. When the head was pried off several pieces of gaspipe were found Inside and about two inches of _ what appeared to be lard. Some of it was put on the stove and it burned like grease. • ‘Let’s have a bonfire,” suggested one of the men, and they placed the keg on the fire. Then Oliver Reaume kicked the keg and a terrific explosion followed. Six of the men were thrown to the floor, Reaume s right hand was blown oft and his right arm and leg so badly shattered that they had to be ampu~ tated. His injuries are pronounced fatal The other men were not hurt The keg contained nitro-glycerino. RAPID TRANSIT WRECK. Seven Passengers Injured by the Overturn ing of a Dummy Train. Bonham, Te^, Feb. 27.—Seven pas sengers were seriously injured by the overturning of a dummy car on a rapid transit railway last night. A. J. McClendon, the engineer, re ceived injuries about the spine and head which will prove fatal W. C. Dan, Malcolm, Biggerstaff, and W. A. Holt were seriously and five other pas sengers slightly injured. The car was totally wrecked. It was running st the usual rate of speed on a smooth track. The cause of the overturning is a mystery. STUFFED BIRDS IN THE TREES Students Distribute Museum Specimens Over the Campus. Meadvuxe, Pa., Feb 27.—A lot of Allegheny county students last night broke into the museum and removed the large collection of birds into the college campus, where they were perched in the trees and scattered around on the ground. “The birds of spring, tra la, ’’ formed the burden of many a college refrain this morning. The identity of the offenders is not yet made public. THE MARKETS. Lin Stock. Sioux Cm, Feb. 29. Hoga—Light, *4.4004.55; mixed,*L 47X0 160; heavy, *4.5001 60l Cattle—Steers, 1,100 to 1,300 pounds, 13.0003.60; feeders, *2.500115; stockers, (2.0002.50; cows, common to good, $1.00 9 175; yearlings, *3.0002.6(1; bulls, *1.50(9 3.75; veal calves, *2.5905.00. Chicago. Chicago, Feb. £9. Bogs—Light, *1330190; mixed, *135(9 180; heavy, *4.2504.00. Cattle—Extra and native beeves, *3.600 120; stockers and feeders, *2.2503.80; mixed cows and bulls, *1200*175; Texans, 13.8004.10. Sheep—Natives, *8.7505-80; westerns, (3.2006.60; Texans, *8,0005.40. South Omaha. South Omaha, Feb. 29. Cattle—Choice beeves, *8.450160* cow®' (1.8502.50; feeders, *1.150375; bulls, (1.800120. _ Hogs—Light, *1590155; mixed, (1450 160; heavy, *14504.60. Kansas City, Kaxsas Cm, Feb. 2ft Cattle—Extra fancy steers, $8.30@4.00; sows, *1.5)0325; stockers, *32504 90; Feeders, *3-2504.00. > Hogs—Extreme ranges, *3. S3@(.67;-.. Produce and Provisions. Chicago, Feb. 29. Flour—Spring patents, *4.40@4.75; win ;er patents, *1300153. Wheat—Cash, May, 91X@MJft. Corn—Cash, 41c; May, 42j^c; neiV, .\a ), 38c. Oats—Cash, 29J^c; May, 31@31X° Rye—84>4c. Barley—56@ 58c. Timothy—$L 7@1.28. Flax—98^@98Hc. Whisky—$L 14. Pork—Cash, *1L80; May, (1155. Lard—Cash, *6.45; May, *6.55 Shoulders—*5.7505 50; short clear, *6.-° short ribs, *5.77*^05.83. ,0/3l Butter—Creamery. *0@28KC» da*ry» ® Cheese—Full cream cbeddars, lats, 11X019° i Young Americas, 12@ia& Eggs—Fresh, 16017c. Hides—Heavy and light green sa*te take, 4Xe. _ . «o . Mihmapolis, Feb. 2ft Wheat—Closing: Na 1 northern, *« wary, 86*0; May, 85*6; °» ft tard, 86c; No. 1 northern, 85e, korthern, 79083°.