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ETHNOLOGICAL WONDERS AT
THE WORLD’S FAIR.
Strange Races of Primitive Men, Living
and Dead, on Exhibition. Habits of
Life of Cliff Dwellers, Aztecs,
Esquimaux and Other Queer
Inhabitants of the Worid.
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All those who wish to study ‘‘Man and His
Works,” as the motto over the building has
it, will find in the Dep~.rtment of Ethnology,
at the World's Fair, wonderful facilities.
It has exhibits of liv@men and dead men of
the most strange varieties of color and cus-
tom, and it presents remarkable collections
showing the works of man from as far back | 3
| 8 quantity of their aborigines. There are
| Flatheads, Blackfeet, Pend d'Oreilles, Nez
as any trace of him can be found down to the
present day.
CLIFF DWELLERS’ MOUNTAIN.
Professor F. W. Putnam, of Harvard Uni-|
versity, has charge of the ethnological ex-
hibit. It takes in ethnology, archaeology
and anthropology, history and natural his-
tory. This, says the New York Herald, is a]
very wide field, but the different branches.are
well represented and the department must bef
a continual source of delight to students of
primeval man and the untamed barbarian.
In a plot of land one thousand feet long
and from one hundred feet to two hundred
feet wide Professor Putnam has pitched his
camp. It adjoins the lake front and looks
upon the lagoon in which floats the New
Bedford whaling ship. The quaint convent
of La Rabida, modeled after the original in
Palos, Spain, in which Columbus rested his
weary feet and soul before and after coming
ing 190 feet back. The State bss erected a
sounecil house of bark 38 feet by 50 suck as
were used for political caucuses by the
Iroquois when the whites arrived upon the
| scene to take charge. In this structure the
Iroquois will carry on their strange and im-
pressive ceremonies, beating the tomtom and
jumping about in their untamed way, free of
all eharge to the spectator.
In a bark house 10 feet by 15 live a group
of New York Oneidas who have been sub-
jected to an expemsive process of being
te==ad. There are round bark houses 16 feet
mn diameter inhahited by Mohawks, Onon-
dagas, Cayugas and Tuscaroras who are all
of the Iroquois race. On the border of the
lagoon is a hunter's lodge and on its bank all
sorts of canoes and a big war canoe. The
exhibit altogether is most picturesque and
retiects great credit upon the Empire State.
Camped near them are a group of live
Chippewas and Sioux owned by the State of
Minnesota and loaned for the Fair. A lot of
Nava)os have been sent on by Colorado and
they are living in their native way. British
Guiana sent a lot of Arrawaks, and the Do-
minion of Canada was good enough tospare
Perces and Kootenais. One of the features
of the redskin display is the Columbian In-
dian Band of sixty pieces.
Engineer Robert E. Peary, of the United
States Navy, has a collection of Esquimau
things that illustrate life in the Arctic re-
gions. During his sojourn in the Whale
Sound region of North Greenland, although
he failed at reaching a high latitude, he was
able to get together skin tents, kayaks or
canoes, and the weapons of the ‘‘Arectic high-
landers.” as the most Northern tribe of peo-
ple in the world are called. An imitation
snow house has been prepared and an ice-
berg not made out of a very cooling sub-
stance. The chase of the white bear is shown
andthe method by which the Esquimau catches
| the walrus and sits on the ice and harpoons
the seal. Trophies of the chase in the way
of narwhal teeth and reindeer skins are on
view which are particularly interesting just
now because of the tever for northern adven-
ture which prevails at present. A family of
Esquimaux is borrowed every day from the
colony on view in another part of the park,
and they sit and go through the indignity of
being looked at for nothing in order to sup-
ply dramatis persona to thisingeniously con-
trived scenery.
To those who think that a dead Indian is a
much more artistic product of civilization
than a tame one there will be plenty of satis-
faction in this department. The Anthropo-
logical Building, the last of all the fair struc-
tures that it was decided to build, is 415 feet
long and 285 feet wide, witha gallery forty-
eight feet wide on every side. Of this space
much is given up to reminisceaces of Indian
tribes that can never be revived, but the ex-
hibit naturally takes in the whole world.
There are 30,000 square feet devoted to
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to Ameriea, is part of the ethnological dis-
play. but it is assigned to the Latin-American
division. Its red roof and white walls look
down upon the works of the American sav-
e.
Models of the ancient ruins found in Yueca-
tan stand in the open air outside the an-
thropological building. There are six of
these models. They were made under the’
supervision of Edward H. Thompson, United
States Consul in that country, who had
papier mache casts taken of the originals,
which are reproduced in ‘‘staff,” a sort of
plaster with which almost all the fair build-
ings are faced. By alittle ingenuity ‘‘staff”
can be readily converted into the most sub-
stantial looking marble or granite. These
Yucatan ruins, which have stood the weather
in South America for no one knows how
many years, will amaze people who are not
aware that a high civilization preceded Co-
lumbus on this side of the world. In style
they resemble the architecture used at this
very date in the construction of trust com-
pany buildings and banks in the more mod-
ern city of Philadelphia. There is a portal
from the ruined group of Labra, a straight
arch from Uxmal and the ‘Facade of the
Serpent.” from the same city. Three por-
tions of the ruin, which the early Spaniards
called the “House of the Nuus,” are repro-
duced. © Mr. Thompson, after erecting the
walls, returned to Yucatan for a collection of
plants to place around them.
Near this group i8 a fac-simile of the homes
of the cliff dwellers of Utah, Colorado and
New Mexico, occupied long before those
lands resounded with the monotonous repeti-
tion of the marriage ceremony and arguments
for free silver. The cliff dwellers’ homes are
operated as a ‘‘concession,” the builder put-
ting them up at his own expense and reim-
bursing himself by selling tickets of admis-
sion. This is the only money making section
of the ethnological exhibit, except the Esqui-
maux, who can only be seen after the pro-
duction of twenty-five cents
Of course there aren't any life cliff dwell-
ers, as not even Chicago can resurrect them,
but there are plenty of savages. The wild
man of Borneo has now come to town, but
the wild man of America has—exclusive of
purely lay visitors to the Fair, some of whom
appear less cultured than the Indian, whose
face, daubed over with colors and looking like
a pen wiper, sees that none of the work that
is to be done escapes the notice of his wife.
The savages (those on exhibition be it un-
derstood) are placed in habitations such as
YUCATAN RUINS.
they occupy when in a state of nature. Per-
haps the most elaborate of the ethnological
contributions come from New York, whose
Commissioners contributed delegates from
the six tribes of the Iroquois, and they will
live onthe grounds for a period of six months,
entirely free from all care.
New York has a strip of land fronting 56
feet on the border of the lagoon and extend-
hygiene, sanitation and charities and correc-
tion. There are many small collections of
an archaeological nature and of ancient art
from Assyria, Egypt and Rome—The Greek
Government loaned valuable exhibits of this
character, and some of great interest were
found in the Chicago Art Museum. Thére
ure French relics and a complete Spanish col-
Jection taken from the Madrid Exposition, as
well as groups of objects from the museums
pf Vienna and Berlin and from the Russian
exhibition.
Asia, Ainc2 and New South Wales have
their contributions, and tne Pacific and
Queen Charlotte Islunds all have their story
to tell of the happy days before man beganto
swear allegiance to a janitor and live in a
flat. There is a complete model of the vil-
lage of Skidegat, in British Columbia, show-
dng the houses, totem poles and inhabitants.
In the still life department are also re-
mains of all sorts of Indians, Canadian and
United States. There are the State collec-
tions of Ohio, Missouri, Colorado and Utah,
the results of the Hemenway Southwest ex-
pedition. Mexico and the South American
republics sent singular sculptures and
strange tablets of hieroglyphics. The ex-
olorations of Professor Putnam’s envoys in
Ecuador, Chile, Peru and Bolivia gave valu-
able results, showing the arts and customs of
ancient people. Similar collections come
rom British Guiana, Paraguay, Brazil and
she Argentine Republic.
There are special exhibits of folk lore ana
ihe games and religions of all countries. In
‘he latter is the collection of idols of William
J. Gunning, which contains four hundred
THE INDIAN ENCAMPMENT,
rare specimens. Irom the Gaboon River
somes Po-Po, the ‘Goddess of gaidenhood.”
and Ipa, the “‘God of Deliverance,” supposed
io be three thousand years old. Ipa was
‘ound by Livingstone. Alaskan Indians of
‘he Thlinkeet tribe have queer gods and
letiches. From British Columbia are shown
z00d spirits and hob-goblins and from
Dakota the medicine bag of the Sioux, which
10 Indian will consent to part with. Mexico
8 represented in the Gunning collection by
+ number of little gods, among them Centoti,
he “Great Producer.” and Vo-tan. the “God
>f Culture. From Thebes is a sacred jackal.
Man lived in the glacial period, as the col-
lections show. There are relics of that
¢hilly time as well as specimens from the
shell heaps of Maine and Florida.
The Peruvian finds include the best assort-
ment of mummies ever unearthed on this
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sontinent. The peculiar MELDOIS OT Hurial
ire shown. In some of the graves were found
work baskets, beads, flags and, most import-
int of all, bags of peanuts, showing what the
Peruvians did with people addicted to the
peanut habit.
" From Guatemala are life size models of
natives in correct costume with original or-
naments and trinkets.
The anthropological laboratories show an
Immense quantity of instruments and appa-
ratus. This end of the department is sub
livided into anthropology. neurology an
psychology. Anthropological tests will bq
applied to the visitors on the payment of a
small fee. They will be measured, weighed
and all the statistics obtainable about them-
selves noted on a card. They will also, if
they are women, be able to see wherein they
differ from the shape of the Venus de Milo
and remedy the defects.
Whenever Professer Putnam’s associates
get hold of an aboriginal person they meas-
are him. A series of results obtained by
measuring skulls and skeletons have been
sollated and placed on charts. Fifty thou-
sand school children have’ been examined
ind described. ‘Seventy-five men worked
Iwo years measuring nearly twenty thousand
Indians. They thus found one use to which
an Indian could be put.
In the archsological division, to which
reference has been made, are arranged geo-
graphically the shell heaps, ancient villages
mounds, earthworks and pueblos, making a
very picturesque sight. In the great earth-
works of Ohio there are combined squares,
octagons and circles, which are shown by
maps. The great mound at Cahokia, Ill, is
pearly 100 feet high, and the Serpent mound,
of Ohio, is 1400 feet long. 'I'nese, as well as
Fort Ancient, the largest ancient fortification
in the country, and the Turner and Hopewell
groups are represented pictorially. One sub-
division of the section contains such special
exhibits as stone implements, pottery, orna-
ments and pipes.
Everv material exemplifymg primitive
modes of life, customs and arts of the native
peoples of the world is in the ethnological
section. and it illustrates the peculiarities of
the different races. As a contrast to the wild
Indians in their primitive state the United
States Government makes a special exhibit
ofits Indian school system.
The tribes of Indians have prepared col-
lections of articles relating to themselves
which are entered for competition. These
are not exclusively of an entomolcgical char-
acter, but will deal with their modes of life.
thought and industry.
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In the department of natural history New
York State again takes the lead. The Ward's
Natural Science Museum, of Rochester. has
an exhibit which Professor Putnam says is
perfect. t shows every form of animal life
‘from sponges to man.” Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Colorado send the birds and mam-
mals found in those States.
In the line of documentary exhibits are
found charts and maps of the world anterior
to the voygge of Columbus and at different
periods since. There are physical anthropo-
logical statistics and criminal statistics. All
the books in the library after the Fair will go
to the Memorial Museum of Science of Chi-
©ago.
A creditable reproduction of Fort Dearborn
is shown. This, as almost every one knows,
was the nucleus around which the city of
Chicago was built. Somewhat in the same
style of architecture is an old log cabin of
the country type of a hundred years ago,
containing some forefathers in fac-simile,
dressed in the costume of the colonial period.
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
GovERNOR FLOWER, of New York, has been
gpending a week at the Fa'r.
With the opening of the German section
in Machinery Hall the display made by the
German Empire has been declared on exhi-
bition in every department of the Fair. The
exhibit consists of mining, wood-working
and printing machinery and the apparatus
used in the manufacture of paper and paper
pressing.
THE home for the little folks at the Fair
has been opened with simple exercises, The
programme was carried out principally by
children. A number of choruses were sung
under the direction of Professor Hartung.
A company of children, under the leadershi
of Miss Huntington, gave an interesting drill
in the gymnasium on the first floor: after
which luncheon was served. The children’s
building is a typical kindergarten, and every
contrivance imaginable to interest and in-
ptruct young folks has been secured. The
larger children will have the benefit of a
gymnasium cn the first floor, and adjacent
rooms have been fitted with cradles and cribs
‘which it is expected will be used extensively.
Visitors at the Fair who have children can
leave them here. No child under two years
of age will beadmitted. The Japanese Com-
missioners have given a large number of dolls,
and juvenile literature has been furnished by
the German Commissioners, Illinois giving
the book-cases. The building was erected at
a cost of $45,000. The playground is on the
roof, which is furnished with swings and
hammocks. A trained corps of nurses will
be in constant attendance on the children.
TaE formal opening of the Electricity
Building has at last taken place. The feature
of the display was the unveiling and lighting
of the big Edison tower erected by the Gen-
eral Electric Company. This shaft is sit-
uated in the exact centre of the building.and
represents the highest achievement of the in-
r;andescent lamp. It extends into the groined
arch formed by the intersection of the nave
ind the transept, reaching a height of about
1100 feet. The methods used in construction
have resulted in showing a perfect column,
|18 though the entire shaft were hewn from
| ne massive block of stone. It springs from
‘she roof of a pavilion surrounding the base,
land the entire interior is strewn with thou-
[sands of incandescent lamps, as many hued
as the western sunset. The colors are ar-
[Fanged by mechanical methods, capable of
being flashed in harmony with the strains of
music. The column is erowned with a well-
proportioned replica of an Edison incan-
descent lamp formed from a multitude of
[pieces of prismatic crystals. Upward of 30,
000 of these beautiful jewels are strung on a
rame, and are all lighted from the interior
oy a large number of incandescent lamps.
{The effect produced is marvelous, and can be
appreciated onlv when seen.
Twenty Six Men Burned to Death.
Near Eagle Pass, Tex., twenty-six nen
employed in the Fuents coal mines were
burned to death by an explosion.
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Base Ball Record.
The following table shows the standing of
the different base ball clubs up to date:
Ww. I. Pct. w.. L. Pct.
Pittsburg. 21 9 .700/New York 15 17 .469
Boston .... 20 12 .625 Wash’'n... 14 16 .467
Brooklyn. 17 13 .567/St. Louis.. 13 16 .448
Philadel’a 17 13 .567|Cincin’ti.. 14 18 ,433
Clevel’'nd. 13 11 .542/Chicago... 12 17 .414
Baltiroore 16 15 .516/Louisv’le. 3 18 .143
LATE TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGS |
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80TH FROM HOME AND ABROAD.
What is Going On the World Over.
Important Events Briefly Chronicled.
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Financial and Commercial.
At Sioux Falls, 8, D., the Bank of Beres-
ford, a ptivate institution, with capital of
£25,000 has failed.
Wells & Garretson, private bankers at
Fairfield, Iowa, have suspended payment to
await the result of collections. Their total
liabilities are estimated at 50.000 and their
assets at over $80.000.
—ALEXANDER DEUTOCH, one of the hig dry
goods men of New York, makes his wife's
gowns. It is said that he could give Worth
pointers on dressmaking if it were worth
his while.
Comptroller Eckels was informed of the
failure of the Gulf National Bank, of Tam-
pa, Fla. The capital of the bank was $50,-
000, and the individual deposits $123,346.
The total liabilities of the failed Yates
Bank of Rochester, N. Y., are $4,118,863 93,
with only £500,000 of unhypothecated assets
to meet unsecured and contingent liabili-
ties of £2 868,539 99.
The creditors of Ex-Secretary Foster met
in Fostoria, O., and agreed to accept 50 per
cent. in payment of their clai ms, the pay-
ment of the balance to rest with Mr. Foster's
future ability and judgment. Mr. Foster
says he soon will be ableto pay 50 per
cent.
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Capital. Labor and Industrial,
Four hundred union coal miners have
struck at Leavenworth, Kas., because non-
union men are employed.
The demands of the men employed at the
gas producers in the Carnegie milis at Beav-
er ralls, Pa., for a full day's pay for seven
hours’ work on Sunday has been acceded
to.
The street car men in Ft. Wayne struck
for 15 cents per hour.
Liggett & Myers. St. Louis tobacco manu-
facturers, have settled their differences with
the Knights of Labor, and the latter's boy-
cott of fcur years standing on their goods
will be lifted.
The furnaces of the Rock Hill Coal and
Iron company, at Rock Hill, Huntingdon
county, Pa, are closed down indefinitely
owing to a strike of the employees, who de-
manded the reinstatement of several dis:
charged leaders of the local labor union.
The basis of wages for miners in the
Pottsville, Pa., coal fields for June is 1 per
cent below the last scale. The miners are
dissatisfied at this because tbe price of coal
was raised Wednesday.
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Dicasiers, Accidents and Fatalities
A head-end collision between two trains
on a suburban railroad at Austin, Texas,
resulted in the death of two persons and
serious injury to several others. The dead
are Charles Link, fireman, and Francisco
Salin. Gus Piper, the engineer, was terri-
bly cut about the face and body, The
collision was the result of non-obedience of
orders.
Four persons perished in a farm house
fire near Dunkirk, N. Y.
Ralph Drake of Columbus, O.,
Mrs. Ida Werd and himself. ?
Four men were killed by a fall of dirt in
the Ivanhoe tunnel, near Denver, Col. ?
killed
A cyclone swept over Tennessez and Ar-
kansas Wednesday night. Train service in
many places had to be abandoned. The
damage is estimated at several hundred
thousand dollars.
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Fires '
At Scranton, Pa., the Lackawanna Steel
Company's bloom-mill, engine-room and
boiler-house in the north mill. Loss $125,-
000. Twelve hundred men are thrown out
of work.
Fire destroyed the entire business portion
of the town of Newton, Miss., except four
houses. Loss estimated at $5,000; insurance
light.
At Murfreesboro, N. C., the Wesleyan fe-
male college, library and students’ property.
Loss not estimated, insurance $10,000.
At Columbus, O., the Case Manufacturing
Company and the J. B. Neil Manufacturing
Company. Loss $10,000; partially insured.
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Personal.
Mrs. Marie Nevins Blaine and Dr. W. T.
Bull were married in New York City. The
ceremony is the consummation of a court:
ship begun when Mrs. Blaine was so serious-
ly ill.
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President Cleveland, after his arrival at
Cape Charles, Va., donned his sporting
clothes, partook of a hearty breakfast, and
repaired to the fishing grounds in company
witn L. Clarke Davis and a guide. The day
was spent in fishing, and the catch showed
a total of 150, of which over 50 were large
blue fish. -
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Railroad News.
The Exposition Flyer, the handsomely
appointed new World's Fair passenger train
on the Central Railroad, arrived at Chicago
three minutes ahead of the fast time sched-
uled. This made the time for the entire 980
miles from New York to Chicago 19 hours
and 57 minutes, which includes stops.
There were 11 stops of nearly 5 minutes
each and three stops for signals. The last
stretch from Elkhart, Ind., to Chicago, over
101 miles, was made at more than a mile a
minute.
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Washington News,
The President appointed Colonel M.Stern-
berg to be.surgeon general of the army to
succeed General Sutherland, retired, on ac-
count of age.
The Star says: The president has indicated
that he will probably call congress together
about the first of October, instead of the
middle of September, as at first contemplat-
ed.
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Crime and Penaltiea,
At Fall River, Mass., Miss Bertha Man-
chester aged 22 years, was murdered in the
kitchen of her father's house by robbers.
Her body was horribly butchered.
At Philadelpeia David E. Coldron com-
mitted suicide after shooting his wife. Mrs,
Coldron will probably die.
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Cholera Advices,
The death from Asiatic cholera last week
causes no anxiety in Hamburg, as no other
cases have occurred,
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Miscellaneous.
Six Chinese laborers were arrested in
Philadelphia for failing to register under
the law of 1882 (not the Geary act) which
compels registration and thé Lolding of cer-
tificates.
—A car 10AD of gunpowder was exploded
Sunday afternoon on a street of Kirm, Rhe-
nish Prussia, by a spark from a pipe. Two
men on the cart were killed and 30 houses
damaged.
DR. BRIGGS FOUND GUILTY.
Heresy
lhe Assembly Sustains the
Charge Against Him.
The Presbyterian General (Assembly in
tession at Washington, D. C,, sustained the
ippeal of the Prosecuting Committee from
he verdict of the New York Presbytery,
which acquitted Dr. Briggs of the charge of
seresy. This is equivalent to a verdict of
Jeresy against Prof. Briggs. Of the total of
99 votes cast, 298 were to sustain the ap-
peal, 85 to sustain it in part, making a total
of 383 to sustain, and 116 not to sust in.
A committee will now be appointed to
orepare a minute for submission to the
Seneral Assembly prescribing the punish-
ment to be meted out. There are five things
the General Assembly can do: Admonish,
rebuke, suspend, depose from the ministry
or expel Prof. Briggs from the church. One
of the last three courses is likely to be fol-
lowed.
THE GROUNDS OF APPEAL.
There were five grounds of appeal and 34
specifications. Iach of these specifications
was voted upon sing'y. At the end of the
voting on these the roll was to be called
upon thegeneral question: ‘'Shall the appeal
be sustained?’’ and it was.
The whole day was spent in three-minute
speeches on Dr. Brigg's case. Neatly all
the leading commis-ioners took part in the
debate. The first voice raised in favor of
Dr. Brizgs was that of the Rev. Charles
Fuller, of the Presbytery of Gunnison. Col.
With vigorous language he asserted that in
his opinion Dr, Briggs’s language was mis-
understood.
Then he added that the words of Jesus
were also misunderstood, and that the
Christian church to day is divided on tbe
interpretation of the words of Christ, ‘This
is my body.” It was just as reasonable, he
added, to complain that Christ did not speak
more clearly, as to bring such a charge
against Dr. Briggs,
The venerable Dr. Smith, of Baltimore,
expressed the belief that the appeal should
be sustained, while the com missioners from
this city, the Rev. Joseph T. Kelly and
John Randolph, ranged themselves on the
same side.
As the call of the roll by Synods went on,
ministers and elders arose and gave their
opinion of Dr. Briggs, and tue character
and influence of his teachings.
Four members of the Synod of Illinois
spoke against sustaining the appeal. Dr.
Herrick Johnson’s speech was forcible and
clear, The Rev. Thomas C. Hall took oc-
casion to explain that his father's name had
been maintained among those who favored
the prosecution, while he had expressed no
opposition to the proceeding in writing.
A change of views was announced by the
Rev. John W. Pugh, D. D.. of the Bloem-
ington, Ill., Presbytery. He said he had
voted against entertaining the appeal, but
after hearing Dr. Briggs’ defence he had
concluded that it was merely special plead-
ing and avoided the issues. A rather blunt
alternative was presented by the Rev. John
S. Hays, D. D., the blind preacher of Ken-
tucky. which was that Dr, Briggs's doctrines
would have to be made a part of the stand-
ards of the church, or else Dr. Briggs
would have to leave the church.
At noon Dr. Briggs asked to be relieved
asa party from further attendance at the
session. He looked tired and sad, The
request was granted amid considerable ex-
citement.
The debate closed at 10 p. m., when the
vote was taken. After its announcement
a committee was appointed to bring in
explanatory minutes, and the session ad-
journed. :
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THE LAST ACT.
At the Thursday afternoon session Dr.
Craig convened the assembly as a court to
hear the report of the committee appointed
to prepare the explanatory minute in the
Briggs case. :
Rev. Mr. Hoyt, chairman of the commit-
tee, before mr aking the report, called upon
Dr. Baker, chairman of a sub-committee
sent to interview Prof. Briggs in a spirit of
conciliation, to report the result of that in-
terview. Dr. Baker said the committee had
hoped that Prof. Briggs would say some-
thing which might relieve the tension of the
present distressing situation. But this hope
had not been realized. Prof. Briggs stated
his irrevocable determination to abide by
the declaration made in his address before
the assembly in kis defense and to continue
to teach the doctrines there avowed.
BRIGGS FORMAL DECISION.
At the request of Dr. Baker Prof. Briggs
gave him the following autograph letter:
“The Rev. George D. Baker, chairman of
the sub-committee or the committee of
the assembly appointed to formulate a
judgment in the case of the Presbyterian
church, United States of America, against
Prof. C. A. Briggs:
“My Dear Sir—In accordance with your
request I hereby state th«t your committee
called upon me and asked me if I had any-
thing to say to them respecting the disposi-
tion of the case. 1 therefore said that I
adhered to all the positions taken before the
General assembly and had nothing further
to say, save that the, appellee reserves all
rights and that the General assembly should
take the exclusive responsibility of any fur-
ther action. C. A. Briggs.”
Whereupon, Dr. Baker said, the commit
tee took the action which Mr. Hoyt would
now report to the assembly.
THE SENTENCE.
The report after reciting the proceedings
in the case proceeds:
This judicatory finds that said final judg-
ment of the presbytery of New York is
erroneous and should be and is hereby re-
versed; and this General assembly, sitting
as a judicatory in said cause, coring now to
enter judgment on said amended charges,
finds the appellee, Charles A. Brigg, bas
uttered, taught and propagated views, doc-
trines and teachings asset forth in said
charges contrary to the essential doctrine of
Holy Scripture and the standards of said
Presbyterian church in the United States of
America, and in violation of the ordinance
vow of said apaellee, which said erroneous
views and doctrines strike at the vitals of
religion and have been industriously spread;
wherefore, this General assembly of the
Presbyterian church in the Unitea States
of America, sitting as a judicatory in this
cause on appeal, do and hereby suspend
Charles A. Briggs, the said appellee, from
the office of a minister in the Presbyterian
church in the United States of America un-
til such time as he shall give satisfactory
evidence of repentance to the General
assembly of the Presbyterian church in the
United States of America of the violation
by him of the said ordination vow as herein
and heretofore found.”
THE SENTENCE ADAPTED.
The report of the committee was adopted
whereupon Dr. Sprague gave notice that at
the proper time a protest would be offered
against the finding of the assembly. as be-
ing too severe a sentence for the offenses of
the honored scholar named, and as tending
to restrict the liberty heretofore enjoyed by
office-bearers 1n the Presbyterian church,
An explanatory note was adopted and
made a part of the record of the case. It
takes strong ground against the views ex-
pressed by Dr. Briggs and for which he has
een suspended.
The protest against the action of the as:
sembly in the the case of Prof. Briggs re-
ceived the signature of 63 commissioners.
Saratoga was chosen as the place of the
meeting of the assembly of 1894.
After the usual closing routine business the
Assembly adjourned.
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PROF, BRIGGS’ FUTURE.
UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND HE WILL
NOT PART COMPANY.
A dispatch from New York says: The Rev.
Charles Briggs, D. D., returned fron Wash-
ington. When he was seen Prof. Briggs
looked unusuaily well and cheerful, as if
he did not have a care in the world.
*‘Has the decision of the General Assem-
bly in suspending you from the ministry
made any change with your relations with
Union se ninary.”
‘None whatever,” replied the doctor.
‘‘The General assembly never contributei a
dollar to Union seminarv.’”” said . Prof.
Briggs, in conclusion. “The seminar is
supported almost wholly by New ork
merchants and others.
It was learned from others connected with
Union seminary this‘evening that Prof.
Briggs would go right on Jy as if nothing
had happened and he will be sustained in
his action bv the board of directors and
members of the faculty of the institution.
HOMESTEAD CASES WITHDRAWN
The Murder. Riot and Conspiracy
Charges Nolle Prossed. How
it Came About,
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says: The
charges against H. C. Frick and others of
the Carnegie Steel Company and the Pin-
kerton detectives have all been nollie pross-
ed, and this action is the beginning of the
end of the famous Homestead cases, which
threatened to drag along in the courts for
a couple of years and cost Allegheny county
much money. Tne attorneys for-the ex-
strikers, with the consent of the leaders of
the men, made this move.
HOW IT CAME ABOUT.
‘The strikers’ attorneys have been ratis-
fied for time that they could not sustain
the charges against Irick and others, and
on Friday Thomas M. Marshall called on
District Attorney Clarence Burleigh and
state! to him that the prosecution, after a
full examination, bad decided to request
that no further proceedings be had in the
case, as they were satisfied that no just
cause for finding the indictment existed.
This was a surprise to the District Attorney,
and he asked Mr. Marshall to prepare a let
ter signed by himself and colleagues to that
effect.
This was done and the letter was signed
by Mr. Marsha!l. W. J, Brennen and John
I, Cox. Major E. A. Montooth was out of
the city, and William Reardon isin tee hos-
pital suffering from a bad attack of pleuris
and their signatures could not be obtained,
but they both approve the action of the
others,
District Attorney Burleigh read the letter
in open court on Saturday, and then made
a motion to nolle pros the case. Judge
White made the order, and that was the end
of thegmatter. Following this on motion of
the District Attorney also,all the Homes ed
men under bail on charges of murder, trea-
son, conspiracy and riot were released on
their own recognizance. While the charges
against them have not been dropped, they
will not be called for trial at this term of
courr, and when they are called a plea of
nolo contendre will likely be entered and a
suspension of sentences follow.
District Attorney Burleigh says they must
be judicially dete mined, and this mears
that they must put in a plea of some kinu
unless the attorneys employed by the Car-
negie Steel Company follow the example of
the others and request a nolle pros. This is
not unlikely, for it is well known that they
have no hope of convicting any of the men
of murder, treason or conspiracy, and time
and the action of the men, it is thought,
will reraove any desire they may have to
convict them of riot.
A BUSINESS DEPRESSION,
A Cautious Feeling Pervades All
Branches of Business.
R. G. Dun & Cos Weekly Review of
Trade says: More disheartening conditions
have prevailed during the past week, and
those who saw the beginning of permanent
recovery in the better tone a week ago are
disappointed. The money markets have
been closer, especially in the interior, and
manufacturing and trade are more affected
than before. Some important failures have
occurred. Gold has gone out again in large
amounts, exports for the week being about
£5,000,000, and the Treasury gold reserve
has been drawn down to about $90,000,000.
In nearly all departments of trade uncer-
tainty about the future has a depressing
influence, which is now clearly perceived
in the decrease of new business, and while
most manufacturing works are yet employ-
ed on full orders, as these run out the num-
ber of works closed incre se.
Speculative markets have been sinking,
Stocks are nearly $2 a share lower than a
week ago, the failures, the ill success of the
World's Fair and the slump in wheat af-
fecting price«, as well as the outgo of gold.
Wheat has declined 1%, corn 2} and oats 13%,
with moderate transactions, few caring to
buy wheat with the enormous stock in sight,
Lard and nogs are lower and cotton has de-
clined a sixteenth, with moderate sales,
although receipts are small.
The failures during the past week have
been: 238 in the United States, against 175
last year, and 21 in Canada, against 32 last
vear, Last week the total number of
‘ailures was 273.
THE BUSINESS BAROMETER.
Bank clearings totals for the week ending
June 1, as telegraphed to Bradstreets, are
as follows:
New York:............. $489,210,562 D 16.0
sea-ev 80.373.001 D 64
74,580,306 D 11.5
60,488,354 I 6.8
St. Louis...... 19,185,555 D 2.0
San Francisco 13,648,715 D 5.6
Baltimore.... .. 13,606,089 I 2.3
Pittshurg...... . 11,635,821 D 18.4
Cincinnati ........... .. 11,429050 D 9.0
Cleveland... ... 5,701,863 I 19.0
(I indicates increase, D decrease.)
The aggregate of clearings of 80 of the
principal cities of the country is $899,124,-
352, a decrease of 12.0 per cent. The totals
exclusive of New York City amount to
$409,913,790, and shows a decrease of 5.9
per cent.
Tee,
A CYCLONES PATH.
A Village Wiped Out and Two Perso ns
Killed.
The little town of Endora, Ark., was des-
troyed by a cyclone on Friday. Friedlander,
the leading merchant of the village
was killed outright, his store having blown
down on him, and about twenty dwellings
were destroyed, one negro child being killed
and several negroes injured. Nothing was
left standing in the track of the cyclone.
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Over 5.000 People Homeless,
Great distress and suffering exist among
the people of Hope, Ark. and
vicinity. The terrible cyclone of May 39)
has left cver 5,000 people homeless and in
destitute circumstances. Major Black has
started a relief fund.
The storm extended over a territory 75 to
90 miles in length and 15 to 20 miles in
breadth.
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—AN aged preacher and his wife were
killed by a fast train on the Georgia Cen-
tral road a few moments after services had
been conclie-d.
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