are in sharp contrast with those for F'j.V
\Vhil - promising w-li. the depress* I trade
and pobti'-.il ex -;t<ni nt had an ttnf ivom
bb* influence. Hut it is encouraging to noto
that d.ereases from corresponding totals
in I'!'”> are small, both gro- ■ and m t.
"Total ero- - earnings of 112 railroad com
pan:* “. w-h . h in-hid per -e»t of our
railroad earning eapa"lty. aggregate.!
V '."t 211 I ist yc.ir. n <'»• on* -‘itth o
t pere.-nt from th- total In W-‘. while total
net . .ruing- ?2'x.’.2*t.'»‘l “bow-d ■ *'milar
f illing off of 1.2 per eent. Th.- southwest
ern “outh. rn .md Baeifie groups id roads i
report in.T" ise: . both gross and net. as
pn.j.p'. red Wl’h 1*95.
"Tot il biisin. ““ failures throughout -h
--coimtrv hav" iner.* i“. d mind nc A'-, th s
W-. k compar. 1 with .I'l last week and 2.1.
In the third w. • k of February. ISDC.
TRAINMEN FIGHT ON ENGINE
Crazy Firefan Insisted on Cremating
Himself in the Firebox.
Columbia. S. February I’. tSpeeial )-
The wild fr -ik of a crazy fireman on the
fast mail from Augusta yesterday after
noon was the cause of a sensation to those
who witnessed tin* occurr. nee
W. B. Hutchinson is a resident of this
city, but has only liv d her., a short time,
ami little is kn .wn of Ms antecedants ex
e. pt that he is a married man. and has a
wife at. I children. 11- is about twenty-five
or two nty-six years of age, and gave no
c-vldcnn of Insanity previous to yesterday.
