Caused By Negligence

The inquest into the cause of the late railroad di-aster which reulted in the deaths of niue of the citizens of St. Thomas, Ont., ha3 concluded. 1. It b quite plain from the evidence ad diice that tlie ëngineer was, on that day, at all events, quite unfit for his duty. :;. The conductor was negligent in not eximlning the air brakes before leaviiu ort Stanley, which had it been done. might have prevented the disaster. 3. Had there been an inspector as there ought to have been at Port Stanley Midi lenOUi cousequences might have been KVoideJ. 4. The drowning of the 3'oun. lady, Miss Thomas of London. at Fort Stanley, is tinother direct result of the disaster. If Mr. Larmour had accepte i ihe offer of the Michigan Central ruilway oriieials to end an engine to Port Stanley to relieve the anxiety of bundreds at the port and tnking them to the doftmatiou tlie sad ending of a young life would nut have occurrei. f ADOther point to which we cali attention is the practice of the of ueiiils of the company in not providing -ufiicient seating accomuiodaiioii for the people oa the excursión train-. 'Ihe evi ■ lence of one of the brakemen went t show that there were so maar chiklren ou the platform-i of the cars making a nose that he could not teil whether the v. hist.tfor brake-i blew or not, an 1 upon hui ü aske i if there was not room for them inside he replied in the negative. 6. Tis said oltlrialH of thocomjaiiy a low th r trains to run too fast in the city lor tiio saíety of the publK Six Men Killed. A serious accident occurred the otbe morning at the ruina of the St. Anthony elevator in Minneapolis, which burned July 19. A large force of men has been einployed remo ving the damaged wheat Twelve men were shoveling away rain from the southwall of the elevator, behind wbicb, in the bottom of the bins, was st.l a great mass of wheat, and without wam ing the wall yie.ded to outward pressure, and ihe structure feil over upon the men crushing them terribly and mangling them almost oej und recognition. It was soveral houra before any bodios were recovered. Then those of Gus Brown, 1'. 1'. Anderson, Thomas Dempsey, Ed Markey aua oohn Johnson were extricated from th" debris. Later another was takjn out, bui is uuidentiherl. An addii:'inal viciim, A. EricUsou, vet alivo, was removed to bichóme in Smitii Miuneupolis, imt lus injuries are of such a nature tbat nis rucorery is impossible. About Blaine. James G. Blaiue, his wife and daughter are now iu Dublin. Mr. Biaine intends to spend some time in Ireland, as he desires to tako a quiet look around and examine into the comlit.on of the country. He says his expenence thus far of European society has not reconcilod him to the or der of things on that sida of the ocean. Among the institutioni of Givat Bcitain he missos the spring aud nerve charactur istic of Amencu Six Men Scnldcd. A beer kettle in Rahr's brewery in Green Bay.Wis., exploded theother night fcaldiug seven men, six of whomdiod durjng the night. The cause of the explosión is unknowit. The kettle had seventy barrels of boiling water, which poured over the unfortunata men, literally cooking their ilesh. Stanley's All Right. A dispatch from Ht. Thomas, West Afri ca, says: ''Letters received at Stanley Pool from Honry M. Stanley aunounre tliat the cxpedition arrived at Arowbima Kaïls on June 18; that all the inenibers uf the expedition were well, and that prnparations were beiuK made ior the overland ni&rcb. ' '