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TOLD IN A LINE Denver-The resignation of Charles Dyer, general superintendent of the Colorado & Southern road, has been tendered. Burlington, Vt.-The crews of two engines were killed and a brakeman badly hurt in a collision at Sherburne last night. Aledo-The fate of Tona Dunlap is in the jury's hands. It is rumored that one juror has said he would "hang the girl or the jury." Zanesville, Ohio-The Ohio Fuel Supply company has just drilled a gas wel in the Homer field. with a daily capacity of 14,000,00 cubic feet. Port Townsend, Wash.-The British ship Comliebank, from Panama, reports the death from yellow fever of six of the crew during the voyage. New York-The Pressed Steel Car company will sell shares of its 7 per cent stock to employes at a discount of 8 per cent, on instalments. Frankfort, Mich.-The Ann Arbor car ferry, No. 1, was brought safely into harbor here last night, after having been ashore on the rocks at Manitou island. Santa Fe, N. M.-A proposition is on foot in favor of admitting Arizona and New Mexico as one state, with three representatives and the capital at Santa Fe. New York-Police Commissioner Greene has made 262 "plain clothes" men patrolmen and changed their precincts to break up the alleged system of blackmail. New York-General Ferdinand P. Earle died yesterday. He was at different times the proprietor of several hotels in New York, including the Normandie and the Netherlands. Wilmington, Del.-A counterfeiters' den was raided here and Biagani Malearoso, better known as Mike Ross": Sathia Malearoso, his wife, and Nicola D1 Paco, his brother-if were arrested. San Francisco-The Examiner says that E. J. Baldwin, the capitalist, admits that he is being treated for cancer under the name of E. Jackson. His physician states that the case is not serious. Silverton, Col.-Owing to the disappearance of the president, James H. Robin, the Bank of Silverton was closed. The sheriff has sent out men to search for Robin, who, it is feared, is demented. Portland, Oregon-Three hundred engineers, bollermakers, switchmen and yardmasters on the Oregon lines of the Southern Pacific have received an increase in wages ranging from 6 to 10 per cent. Louisville-Dragged from the pulpit and placed under arrest for selling whisky without a license was the fate of Rev. W. R. Cassada, the mountain evangelist of Mount Zion Baptist church, near Somerset. El Paso, Texas-Local officials of the El Paso division of the Southern Pacific were informed yestérday afternoon that an attempt would be made to hold up the pay car, and at once took measures to prevent it. North Attleboro, Mass.-The Holy Ghosters, or Holiness Advocates, have been holding a revival here and have caused intense excitement. Maud Read, 21 years old. was so overcome during the exercises that she dropped dead. New York-Mrs. Trella Evelyn White, a magazine writer. is dead. She was the wife of George Emmons White, a son of Rear Admiral Edwin White, U. S. N. Mrs. White was a Miss Foltz before her marriage two years ago. She was a California girl. Sanford University, Cal.-The appointment is announced of Dr. E. C. Franklin to the chair of organic chemistry in the Leland Stanford university, made vacant last summer by the death of Dr. G. W. Richardson. He is now professor of physical chemistry at the University of Kansas. Boston-Over 1,100 square miles of the finest timber lands in Newfoundland, running along both banks of the Exloits river, has just passed into the hands of a Boston syndicate at a purchase price of $250,000. On the property are several valuable water powers. Chicago-Judge Kohlsaat imposed a fine of $500 each on the National Telegraph News company and its officers, for violation of a temporary injunction which he issued against them last May 0 restraining them from appropriating the "ticker' news of the Western Union Telegraph company. Chicago-Frank Hadley, superintendent of the Northwestern Elevated railroad, has resigned to accept the office of general superintendent of the Interborough Rapid Transit company, which has in charge of the New York subways. He will be succeeded here by E. C. Nohe, superintendent of the engineering department of the Chicago office of the General Electric company.
