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THREE CURIOUS PLANTS. Tj Cannibal Tree, Ora pale Pfaat, aad Vegetable Python. Throe of the inoet dangerous of veg etative plant In the world are the "oanulbal tree" of Australia, tlie "death" or "grapple plant" of South Africa, and the "vegetable python" of 'New Zealand. The "cannibal tree" grows iu the shape of a huge pineapple and attains a height of eleven feet It has a series of broad, bonrd-like leaves, growing In n fringe at the apex, which forcibly brings to mint a gigantic Central American agave, and these boardlike leaves, from ten to twelve feet In the smaller spec) mens and from lifteeti to twenty feet In the larger, haug to the ground and nre easily strong enough to bear the weight of a man of 140 pounds or more. In the ancient limes this tree was worshiped by the native savages under the name of the "devil tree," a wirt of the interesting ceremony being the sacrifice of one of their number to Its all too-rendy embrace. The victim to be sacrified was driven up the leaves of the tree to the apex and the Instant the so-called "pistils" of the monster were touched the leaves would fly to gether like n trap, crushing the life out of the Intruder. In this way the tree would hold its victim until every parti cle of fle-sh would disappear from his bones. The "grapple plant' is a prostrate herb, growing In South Africa. Its flowers are purple and shaped like the Knglish foxglove. Its fruit has formid able hooks, which by clinging to any passer-by. Is conveyed to situations where Its seed may fit id suitable condi tions for growth. Sir John-Lubbock says it has been known to kill lions. The "vegetable python," which is known to the naturalist as the clusia or tig, is the strangler'of trees. The seeds of the eltisia, being provided with a pulp and very pleiwaut to the tropical birds which few! thereon, are carried from tree to tree and deposited on the branches. Here germiatiou begins. The leafy stem slowly rises upward, while the routs How, as It were, down tlie trunk until the soil is reached. Here and there they branch, changing their course according to the direction of any olstruetion met with. Meanwhile from these rootlets leafy branches have lweu develoied, which, pushing themselves through the canopy above, get Into the light, and enormously accelerate their growth. Now a metamorphosis takes place. For the hitherto soft aerial plants begin to harden and spread wider and wider, throwing out side branches which flow Into and amalga mate with each other until the whole tree Is bound In a series of Irregular liv ing hoops. From this time on It Is a struggle of life and death between the forest glunt and the entwining clusla. -Like an athlete the tree triw to expand and burst Its fetters, causing the bark to bulge Is-tween every Interlacing; but ttinx-ess : .ul freedom are not for the cairflve tree, for the molester clusla has made Its bunds very numerous and wide. Not allowed expansion, tlie tree soon withersanddies, and the st rangier I soon expanded into a great bush, almost as large as the mass of branch es and foliage It has effaced. It is truly a tragedy In Die world of vegeta tion. Los Angeles Herald. Can "Hold Her Tongue." Tenyearsago Miss Luerctbi Hillinan. of Jacobstown, N. J., was an earnest advocate of woman's suffrage, says a dally press correspondent, and In 1KS; refused to pay her lax assessment, and It was not until she Mas threatened with Incarceration in the county jail that she handed over the money. When she had received a receipt for It. she 'raised her right hand and declared that she would work from that hour to bring about woman suffrage, ami until the right of franchise had been granted to women she would not utter a word to humankind. Mie was laughed at, but she kept her vow. Frequent attempts have l-en made to get her to talk, but without avail, and for ten years she has not uttered a word to any human lK'ing. She has contributed a good deal of money to the cause of woman suf frage, and feels sure that some day she will be permitted to go to the polls and -cast a vote. The correspondent says that Miss IJilltuan owns and manages one of the best, farms In her nelghltorhood. She pays special attention to truck garden ing and puts n sung sunt nway In tlie bank at tlie end of each year. She hires men to do most of the work, but It Is not unusual to see her mounted on a mowing machine behind n pair of horses, or to find her following a culti vator through a liotato field. Miss Hillinan Is a stalwart woman, nearly six feet high. She is as brown as a lcrry, has a step as (Inn as that of a greuadler, and when site gets hold of a plow she handles It a if it were a plaything. She knows all ubout horses and cows, and Is not to be fooled od any subject that pertains to funning. Moat Comp'lmentary. "Do you know, Miss Barker, I'm mighty thankful?" i "And what, Mr. Jones, nre you)iank ful for'" "That all my meals are not eaten In your company.." "Dear hip; not very complimentary, re you "Indeed I nm. 1 nhould starve to death Just gnxlng at you." Harper's Bazar. ' An Automatic Hlii -r. An "Automatic Singer" was exhibited to the editorial sfuff of a Paris news paKT. The apparatus is in the form of a tripod, on the top of which is a machine smaller than the phonograph, Into which the cylinders are pnt. The onnd l transmitted by highly perfect ed boards to a metallic trumpet, and It Is stated that the rotes can be heard 890 yarda oft Hebrasha Hotc8 West Point Ik netting weary of an oc cupation tax and proposes to aboiiih it. Martin Kraxberger of Gothenburg is suffering, from the Lite of a vicious stal lion. The Dixon creamery expects a daily receipt of ten tons of milk during this month. Tlie Laurel Butter company is turn ing out 450 pounds of gilt-edged variety svery day. It took five barrels of water lor Mil ton Earnest of Ord to drown out two young badge. Irving Miller, a Holdrege boy of ten ler years, fell from a feed box and broke his wrist. A rnnuway was the means by which lohn Baumann of Deshler got his face cruised and an arm broken. Union Pacific shopmen at Grand (stand have been increased in number iiid are working longer hours. An official announcement shows the indebtedness of the Middle Loup Valley irrigation district to be $51,3.19. A farmer near Koselaud says the rab bits are so plentiful on his place that they chase his (log around at will, Tne court house at Dakota City is be ing enlarged by an addition 20x60 and two stores high. More vault room was needed. A locomotive scared the team of Wil liam Elliot at Byron and in the run away one of the horses broke a leg and had to be killed. Burglars are dynamiting safes in great number. Reports come irom six towns in the state where they got in their deadly work Sunday night. Tlie Burr Star says that about half the children in the county are sick with measels or mumps and the other half are juit getting over tbem. A remarkable circumstance in rfgard to the G. A. R. post oi Scotia is the fact that not a death has occured in the ranks during the past year. As William Johnson, a dweller near Stromsburg, was starting home from church recently, his team ran away anJ completely demolished his buggy. Numerous farmers of Richardson county are complaining that cut-worms und high waters , have destroyed so much corn that it is necessary to re plant While John Perry and family were iltending Decoration day services at Litchfield, his valuable cow wandered Dff up the railroad and got killed by a raia. A. J. Lowry, living in Nine-Mile can yon, lost by fire last week his sheep iheds, corrals end stables, together with I horse, mule, saddle, two sets of har ness and a buggy. J. W. McKeynolds, a Hastings dray man, was standing in his wagon when the team started suddenly and he fell out behind, Ono broken rib was the A waterspout washed out nearly all the dams on ttie creek between Sidney and Potter and as the e was consider able hail with the rain a great deal of damage was done to crops. A young man in Cheyenne county started off on a hunting trip and after going eleven miles his horse broke loose i and started home. He had to walk nearly a day to capture him. Hartington theosophists, says the Wakefield Republican, are pegging away on "Reincarnation." If a man don't make a success in this life as a hog he :an try it in the next as a goat. The Wayne Herald is anxiously in quiring, "What has become of the nerve A Wayne business men?" It wants tome steps taken for the "upbuilding of the city" without any more foolishness. W. E. Winterringer of Hartington is making' a huge ballon by aid of which he will on July 4 rise to the clouds and throw in the customary "thrilling para chute leap," all by strictly home talent. A good fish story cou:es from Tlatte pniintv. A Polish bov is said to have I - . .l.. i ii een a monsier utuinu in me jaiujj. ho built a big fire on the bonk and smoked It out. It weighed seventy-two pounds. A Fremont man, tecnived his week's wages, went into a saloon to spend it. I He was followed by his ireful w ife, j who was soon leading Monsieur out by ' the ear, amid the laughterof the specta- tors. E. T. Gregg of Crawford county had horses badly cut and one killed by get ting tangled up in a barb wire fence, i into which it is supposed they were ! chased by gray wolves one day last week. Ponca people are negotiating with the projectors of the proposed railroad from .Sioux City to Los Angeles and offer to mortgage everything in s ght if the road will come along and take them iu out of the wet. Ernest Schademan of - Wisner shot a itrange bird, which he has had stuffed and placed on file for future reference. It was pronounced to be a northern diver, colymbus glacalis. The name Las also been stuffed. Judge Norrla, the silver-tongued ora tor of Ponca, has been invited to kil lings the Chautauqua assembly at Devil's Lake, N. D, in July. The' judge's fame travels far. He will give North Dakotans a first class oration. Ed, the son of J. E. G rone a aid ol Gothenburg, ehlle rolling corn let his team ran away. As a result he was thrown off and the roller passed orer him. painfully broiling his lace and woetsiutlng the removal of six teeth. Wakefield entertained the newspaper CT CLONK IN MINNESOTA. Daartfe aad Deatrartlon In m Rat las' Storm. Minneapolis,' Minn., Jane 11, A special to the Tribune from Lyle Mian., ays: The first reports concerning the storm at tbis place last night was exaggerated. The damage Is almost entirely in the country. Instead or six persons oeing killed, as at first stated, only one, Henry Hanson, a prosperous farmer, living about two miles west, near the Iowa line, met death. Hie barn was com pletely demolished and his team and oth'-r stock killed. As nearly as '.an now be ascertained the storm originated four miles west of this villHge and a half mile north of the Iowa line, and pursued a zirzag course toward the northwest, sweeping everything before it fully half a mile wide. Trees, telephone and tele graph poles were broken off and barns, fiouKes, orchards, groves and gardens swept with the mad fury of the storm Several loaded cars on the Chicago, Mil waukee fc St. Paul road were removed bodily from the track and scattered promiscuously about the country. Aq most i the damage is in the coun try it is d ffi'-ult to get accurate infor mation, but as nearly bb can be harned from fifteen to twenty persons are more or less injured. Peter Hanson, a har ness maker, bad his leg broken in twe places and his son, four years old, had a severe head wound, but will recover, Mr. and Mrs. Brooks ol Calrion, la., who were visiting at Hanson's are both slightly injured, Charley Larson, wile and child are injured. The school house known as Minne reka, near the Iowa line, is completely obliterated. Physicians from Osaae, Mitchell and Zanzabar are on the ground assisting tlie local dociois. The damage to propeity is variously estimated at from f 25,000 to $75,000.. Durrant Reprieved. San Francisco, June 11. Theodore Durrant, the murde-er of Blanche La mont, was reprieved yesterday. Gov ernor Budd decided upon this course in order to eettle tlie question of the rights of the federal courts to interfere in the execution of a sentence imposed bv the state court. He has named July 9, as the day upon which the sentence shall be carried out. The object of the re prieve, as the al torney-general explained last night, is to rvoid the necessity of re-sentencing the convicted man. If the position taken by the governor lie sup ported by the state supreme court the sentence will be carried out on July 9, just as it woul 1 have been tomorrow but for the habeas corpus proceedings. Yes terday the neceeea'y telegrams ordering a stav of execution wi re sent to Sacra mento by the governor. Inquest at Ui buiitt. Ukbana, O , Juno 11. The coroner's inquest on the killing of Harry Bell and Upton Baker during the riot last Friday still continues. The members of the Ohio national guard who were inside the jail are being examined. Eleven mem beis of the I'rbana company returned from Springfield yesterday. All' those who had escaped the fury of the c im munity are now back. No new infor mation was developed yesterday. Hn. I II Itvi Utility. Clkvelakd, O., June 11. Charles N. Cunningham was found guilty in crim inal conrt yesterday of forging the name of Judge E. T. Hamillion to a check for $75,000. Strei ous efforts were made to prove that he was insane at the time he committed the crime. His attorneys j sent him to a hospital and had part of i the skull removed during the pendency ; of the preseni case, but it availed noth ing with the jury. Shot Ivtle Si-rrn tiling. Little Rock, Ark., June 11. Miis Leona Goodman, one of the most popu lar society belles of Dardenelle, was killed at Rover, Ark., Wednesday night. A party of young ladies and gentlemen were out serenading and went to a house where a young teacher named Lipp was stopping. When awakened by the eerenaders Lipp deliberately fired a pistol shot into the serenading party, The bullet struck Miss Good man in the neck, causing instant death. The murderer was ariested and spirited away to Dayville by the fficers, who feared an attempt would be made by the excited people to lynch him. Fight Against Tramp. Wiiitino, Ind., June 11. A desperate battle took place early yesterday be tween eigiit tramps who had taken pos session of a Lake Shore & Michigan Southern freight house and two police officers, during which two of the tramps were wounded. The tramps had re fused to vacate the building when re quested to do so by the yard watchman, and when tlie two olfieers arrived a fight ensued. The officers were finally forced to used their revolvers and suc ceeded in capturing all of the tramps. The presence of a Lake Shore train save rise to rumors that a holdup had been attempted. l'romlnent Man Hulrides. Sr. Paul, June 11. Phillip Reilly, proprietor of the John Martin Lumber company and vice president of the St. Paul National bank, committed suicide yesterday by shooting. No reason is known except continued ill-heaith. Sullivan atlt Again Bt'FrAi-o, N. Y., June 11. Last night John L. Sullivan Issued a formal chal lenge to Fitnimmnns for a finish fight for (lie world't championship and a aide bet of 15,000. Frank Dunn, Sullivan's backer, produced $1,000 to bind the match. FlUssimmona a( first declared that Le did not intend to fight again for at least a year, but on Sollivan urging him strongly to arrange a match the abamplon premised to tVe the matter Into consideration. ' -' TURK IS ON" TOP fls Holds the Upper Hand in the let-1 tlemeut of the War Question. PEACE COMES WHEN SULTAN SAYS SO Cretan UIkuii Proposrd Form of Govern- uieut Prince Ira nils .Joirph Wanted as Governor of the Island. Constastivopl, 10. It is expected that s' rong pressure will be needed to overcome the resistance of the Turkish government to the retrocession of The.- ealy. Reports that Great Britain is opposing on religious grounds Turkey's retention of Thessaly are being circulated here with the view of influencing exist ing Mussulman fanaticism. The powers counted that, as they guarantee the in- lo.rrittr rt T'urlsot. Iha li'tar innot ro. AUIAVT, m 5 .t.iwi i,.uou .v- - J ' snect t he lntei'ritv of others. In a mem- I n-'-j - ' oramtuin sunmitled to tlie lurkmi gov ernment the powers propose that the crests of the mountains on ".he Greek frontier be occupied by Turkish instead of G reek troops, and ivlo that the in demnity be in proprntion to the re rfourres cf (ireecn. It is further pro posed to modify the capi'nlations, or -p cial i r vi!e:es enioved by Greek fuh jects in Turkey, ith the view of abol ishing certain abu-es whicu have been the subject of comp aint upon the part of the Turks. Tn two latter questions will be entrusted to a coiuiiii sioo of ex :erts and the delimiting of the frontier will be executed by an international military commission. It now rests with he Turkish govern ment as to whether peace will be con cluded speedily or not, and it is believe I the sultan will resiBt so long as pofsiblfc. j The difpatcli of attaches of the British Russian and Italian embassies to Thee-, ealy ith instructions to report upon the Situation there is due to the reports ir circulation that Turkish irregulars have . committed excesses in Thea.jaly, where many villages are said to have been de stroved by them. Canea, June 10. The Cretan dele gates met at Almyro yesterday in order to discuss the proposed autonomous form of government for the island. The delegates from the western districts of Crete are willing to accept autonomy if the Turkish troops depart. The election of Prince Francis Joseph of Battenburg, who was recently married to Pi incess Anna of Montenegro, to be governor ol Crete, would be well re ceived by the inhabitants of the island. The prince is a great favorite of Queen Victoria and the princess is a protege of toe czar and czirina. Kille.l for lleNming Illm. Kansas, City, June 10. Mrs. Millie Smith, colored, whose husband was murdered by a street car conductor two years ago, was shot and instantly killed last n'ght by Thomas Hayes, a negro, whom she had refused to marry. Hayes then killed himself. The tragedy oc curred at the woman's home. No Dt'cUive Acilou Taken. New Youk, June 10. Contrary to ex p 'ctations the governors of the stock ex change at their bi-monthly meet'inu yes terday afternoon failed to take decisive action on the question of renewing or discontinuing their ticker contract with the Western Union Telegraph company. Sheriff Ti k. , Uhbana, O., June 10. In an inter view yesterday Sheriff McLean made an acknowledgement which should set tle all the talk about Mayor G an son im personating him on the morning of the lynching and ordering the SpringGeld company of militia o return home. The sheriff said that Captain Bradbury re ported to him on hi' arrival here with his company and tl. v both came to the conclusion that the combined force of the companies could not hold the jail against the mob and they would not un dertake it. Then Sheriff McLaiu or dered the Spfinjjfield company to move away from the jail. Some of the leaders oi tne mob lind got into the jail and 'were threatening to hang him if he aV lowi d 'he militia to return. MK-lii'al Wan Murdiired St. Loimh, Mo., June 10. A thorough investigation of the circumstances sur rounding the finding of the body of an unknown man on the tracks of the St Louis. Kansas City & Colorado railroad, near Clayton, a suburb, reveals the fact that the dead man was Isaac Micheal, a Frenchman, who has been over but a short time. August Genar, a felh w countryman, who came from New Or leans with Michad and disappeared the day of the murder, is held by the coro ner's jury to be guilty of the crime. Michael was known to have over $L'00 and a gold watch worth $40 in ins io session at the time he was killed 1 ir Ht Cairo. Cairo, 111., June .0. Fire yesterday destroyed TS0,00() worth of property, in cluding the new Baptist church and an nix, the Halliday warehouse and con tents, titynn's transfer stable with twenty-six horses and several dwel'ings. The loss was only partly insured. Killed In Court. Junction City, Kas., June 10. A bloody tragedy was enacted hero Tues day in a justice court room, in which one man was murdered and which may result in the lynching of the murderer soon. W. H. Coffee of El Dorado, was , shot and killed by J. J. Shepherd of the same place. Both men ware lawyers and were opposing counsel in a trial. ! They became involved in a dispute, end-! ing in the killinif of Coffee. Shepherd is in the city jail under a heavy guard to prsvsnt lynching. 1 riniwoiKi cave kxplosiob. t aw Injured by (he foraa of tit CoBcaairta. Chicago. June 9. A firecracker iropped by one of the workmen in the ireworks factory of M. Schnre at the xjriier of Van Bu en an 1 Halstead treets caused a terr ' explosion a few ninutes after 6 o'cloen last night. It as shortly after the closing time of the !actory, and many of the workmen bad jone home, otherwise the loss of life must have been very heavy. , As it was i nnmbsr of the employes were badly burt and the flying rockets and candles itruck several people who were passing u street cars and on the sidewalks. The force of the explosioi was so jreat thac nearly all of the windowsin the block were demolished and the Schure building, which is a fcur story structure, was badh damaged. Imme diately following the explosion the buildine was ablaze from cellar to roof ..... ,,11 . .1. IX A ....... .4 . t V.n a Ataritimta r 1 fctruirirle before it succeeded in extin guishing the flames. The building was almost entirely destroyed by the fire, however, and such other portions of the large stock of fireworks as had not been scattered throughout the neighborhood by the explosion as destroyed, causing a heavy loss to Schure, The explosion caused a wild panic in that portion of the town for a time and the wildest stories were current regard it g the number of killed and wounded. It happened at ft time when rh er.ft was rowded with people on their way to l eir homes and the street cars which at-B the front of the building every ninute were densely crowded with pas engers. The flying missies from the actory struck a number of people in he cars and one man, who wan gazing nto a store window fully 400 feet dis ' iint, had his attention suddenly at ;racted to other matters by a rocket, vbich hit him squarely in the ba3k. He ell to the sidewalk unconscious and was iarried to the hospital before he wa tble to give his name. The majority of liose injured have received but trifling lurts and will be around within a day Mr two. The loss to the building and iontents is estimated at $60,000. CHO'idburei in Kraitce. Pakis, June 9. Tlie latest details from irenoble show that the desolation wrought by the cloudburst which caused ihe river More to overflow its banks is lar more extended than was at first sup posed. The deluge of water caused inormous landslides from the mountains nto the valley, overwhelming houses, ourying cattle and destroying other pro perty. In many viliageti the fleeing in jabitants left ever) ling behind them, almost all the riverside factories were leslroyed and no fewer than 500 work ,hopa were wrecked. The town of Voiron presents a lamentable appearance. All the bridges are gone and the streets are 611ed with masses of debris washed out rom the factories and shops, while the I'oads of the town and the district round ibout are simply impassible and choked with rock and fallen trees. Many of tlie principal merchants are ibsolutely ruined and thousands of workmen are not only without employ ment, but without shelter. So sudden was the onrush of the wa ters that hundreds barely escaped with their lives. In many of the cafes and ihops the occupants were up to their shoulders in water before they , knew what had happened. It is reported that a family of six perished, but thus far only two bodies have been found Many stories are told of heroic reecues. Along the whole valley the crops are completely destroyed und the farms themselves are all more or less damaged. The municipal iuthorities have decided to blow up the dam at Caetellon to facil itate the escape of the water, which if etill three feet deep in many houses, es pecially at Moirans, where buildings ar constantly collapsing. Claims he is Schlntter. Cleveland, 0., June 9 A man whe declares that he is Francis Schlatter, the alleged healer, wno was reported to nave Qtl ankie, etat ved to death in Mexico, arrived in! Joseph Lulller, sixty years old, eleva Cleveland yesterda". W'th him is a ' tor COno. uetor, left arm broken ; propa man named Hollan tberger of New York D fatally injured. wno says nicy mieiiu 10 open mi iiisu - tute in this city. It is difficult to prove or disprove the claim of the alleged healer, because if he is Schlatter he has shaved his beard entirely off. He laughed when his attention was directed to the starvation story and declared that tic bad been visiting his mother at Bor deaux, a few miles from Nashville, Tenn. Admit Ki v Hrown. CnicAGo, June 9. At a meeting ol tlie Chicago congressional association yesterday a vote was taken on the ad mission of the Rev. C. O. Brown, late ol San Francisco, and it was decided to admit him to fellowship by The result was greeted with 87 to 25, applause. Dr. Brown has been preaching at the Green church for some time and will remain there. Klrvator Hums, Pontiac, 111., June 9. At Saunemin last Monday night a grain elevator con taining 30,000 but-hels of oats, belonging to Bartlett, Fraer & Co., of Chicago, was burned to the ground. Tour In it the World, San Fsanoihco, June 9. Among tin passengers on the steamer Coptic fron the orient was Dr. Lduarao Wil nt was ir. f.duarao Wilde, ex ji'iamonu unm-o ui mo uiuwu vwi wi r of justice and ex-minister o! WWi tw0 miIe" ,outh 01 her, T,J mi: the interior oi tne Argentine govern' ment. As one of the faculty of tb Buenos Ayres university, he Is no, making a tour of the world studying,' the systems of education in rogue in all ! civilized countries. From hart be will i iciv C eaat and will spend soma time it 1 merlca before returning boms. I APPEAL FOR AID Starving Prison en in Onba Make ft Fitifnl Appeal to United.Ste.es. PETITION SIGNED BY 100 CUBANS Tell of the Horror Inflicted Coon Theaa i d Yet Spain Don Nothing; FrUoaera Left toktarva, Naw York, June 8. A special to the Herald from Havana says: A strange appeal on behalf of the starving and dying reconcentrados in Matanzas, who excited pitv in the hearts of General Lee and Mr. Calnoun, has been made to the people of the United States. Since the United States govern ment has begun measures for the relief of its citizens in Matanzas the desperate pligtli of the Cuban reconcentrados there has resulted in a petition signtd. by 100, of tbem, in which they beg that they; may be included in the charity. j The petition is now on its way to Washington. The principal part fol- lows : "For 6ome time pat we have been contemplating the idea of applealing to your charitable feelings for relief, for1 those of our people who are bitterly; differing the consequences of a most in-, human way of waging war. The fear,, however, that our representations might; he rece;ved as passionate and exagge-; rated haB restrained us from under-, taking the task, but since General Lee, Commissioner Calhoun, his secretary, Mr. Fishback and Mr. Alexander Bryan ;he American cont-ul at this place, have seen with their own eyes the misery ex isting here, we do not hesitate any longer to speak to you. "First and fcremost let it r,e said that in unhappy Cuba we car. do nothing to help our suffering countrymen. Tbel paciflcos that have huddled in our "My would be looked upon as traitors for so doing, and as such v.e would be sum marily dealt with. We must do nothing that can in any way interfere with Gen eral Weyler's policy of extermination. ; "Vre have to witness, day after daj, scenes of horrcr which no language can iescri e, and yet no voice can be lifted to protest against them. To Spain we cannot apply for succor. She is well acquainted with the present condition of affairs in Cuba, and so far not a farthing has come to us from her, and yet we have sent her our money freely whenever the Spanish people have been in want and distress. Chicago, 111., June 8. The Tribune special correspondence dated Havana, June 2, says: Spain holds the rueal population of Cuba as prisoners war in prison camps. Unlike any other nation which claims 4.0 be civilized she does not feed her prisoners of war. There is no means of learning the ex act number of reconebntrados. An American consul says it is more than 250,000. A Spanish officer told me there were more than 150,000 of "those starv ing country people." The best opinion i places the number between 190,000 and .200,000. In not all the places are they hemmed . in by ditches and barb wire fences as at the Campo Florida, but they are every where under military guard. Elevator Falls. Nitw York, June 8. By the failing of a freight elevator on the Main street Bide of the postoffice yesterday six men were more or leas seriously hurt. Four were employes and the other two men were engaged by the contractor who had ciiarge of the alteration now going on in the federal building. The injured are : James Cox, seventy years old, exam iner in the postal service; will probably die. George W. Daly, clerk, leg broken. Frank Birdsall, clerk, broken ankle. Thomas McGovern, plasterer's helper, broken back. John Murphy, plasterer's helper, brr 1 jt is the judgment Ol parties Who made an examination of the elevatoi after the accident that it had been over loaded. Kail Kroke Ills Hack. ; Providknck, R. I., June 8 Arthui W. Lahifl, while racing against an elec tric car, met a tragic death. Just out side the Roger Williams park the road is quite Bteep. Trolley cars are in th habit of bowling down the incline at I high rate of speed, and a good man; cyclists have tried to beat tbem in racOst S n lay evening when a car head d. w i the hill Lahiff was alongside. H was measured up by the motorman fOi a race, and the contest beiran in eariieft Suddenly Lahifl wai seen to tumble aift n.ke a complete somersault over hit handle bars. He struck: wnn great force while going at his fastest clip, and tiis neck was broken. II siltal for 1'rtnter. Colorado Springs, Colo., June 8. The plans submitted by architects o this city for a new $ 10,000 hospital loi the union printers' home in this citj tiave been accepted and its constructioi will be begun immediately. A Bemrfcal)le Ko ipe. MoicoMOAiiKLA, Pa., June 8. By ai (exposition of gas yesterday in theBlacl .men were injureu, imi uuua latanj. iui explosion occurred about 7 o'clock andi rescuing party went immediately IdU the mine and all of the men were takes oat before they were overcome by tlx deadly afterdamp. The gas is said U hare been Ignited by an open lamp aa4 the escape of 800 miners reaukaMe. in royai siyie.
