How An Electric Car Is Moved

The dynamo which generates the current does so by the revolution oí a coil of wire near the poles of a magnet the force which. revolves the coil being derived from the engine. The current then passes over the wires, down tho trolly which surmounts each car, to a small motor. This motor has an armature consisting of coils of wire, traversed by an electrical current, which is attracted in succession to the poles of the stationary coils called the field magnets, througb which the current also flows. flies around and transmit3 its motion, by means of oogwheels, to the axle of the car. - Philadelphia Record. David Lilly, charged with cansing the wreek of the Union Paciflc train at Holmesville, Neb, in December last, bas beun acquitted. An attempt was made to cremate alive 100 persons by settiug fire to a tenement house in New York. LIeut. Hampton M. Roach of the First infantry will Le court-martialed for duplicating iiis pay rolls. A man giving his name as Robert Walters, and who said he was a fugitivo from justice fiom Germany, committed suicide yesterday at Milwaukee. One of the jurors (jngajeed in tryinjj Calvin Brown fur murder at Birmingham, Ala , liecame insana as the case was about cornpleted and auother trial will be necessary. A freigiit train on the Chesapeake & Ohio road struck a cow at St. Elmo, Tenn., and was thrown from the track. Two tramps were killed and brakeman James Sinith injured. The train was completely wrecked.