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THE JAPANESE EXHIBIT.
ORIENTAL FARMING PROD-
UCTS AT THE FAIR.
Japan’s Section of the Agricultural
Bailding is an Interesting Place to
Visit—Various Tea Exhibits—The
Japarese Honey Industry--Do-
mestic Fowls of the Country.
Agriculture is the oceupation of the greater
part of the people of Japan. The mountain-
Jus and volcanic nature ef the country ren-
ers large portions untillable. For probably
the same reason the soil is not naturally very
‘ertile, but it can be, and is, made so by the
wbundant uss of compost. Moreover, not
sven half of what is fairly fertile is under
«ultivation ; but the amount of cuitivated
and is gradually increasing, and the harvests
we becoming richer. But it can be readily
anderstood that if. for any reason, the crops
mil, severe suffering will be widespread. The
swrosperity of the country depends upon the
srosperity of the farmers.
JAPANESE VEGETADLE PEDDLERS.
The front entrance to Japan's pavilion in
he Agricultural Building, says the Chicago
Record, is at the south end of the Japanese
jection. The dooTvay is constructed ol na-
ive woods in the style of a native gateway,
vith a gable roof. Just inside the entrance
8 a booth devoted to the exhibit of tea from
shizuoka Kem (prefecture).
The Shizuoka tea is of the first quality. Its
ine flavor has been developed through the
sulture of many years. The annual product
$ 25,000,000 pounds, of which 20,600,000
pounds are exported to the United States. A
small sample package of this tea is given
away, of which a tiny cup may be had in the
Japanese tea housa,
Mr. M. Hoshita i§ the overseer of the Shiz-
moka exhibits ; Mr. T. Watanabe is in charge
of the different exhibits of tea, and Mr. K.
Tawara is chief of both the fisheries and the
agricultural bureaus. These gentlemen are
always pleased to make explanations to the
visitors. The sample package is put up in
paper dipped in the tannie acid of an unripe
persimmon to preserve it from moisture. Mr.
Watanabe is ‘‘purveyor of tea to hisImperial
Majesty's Court of Japan.”
Passsixteenth generationstome from the
first manufacturer of my house. Continuing
about during 270 years.” 7
The Japanese honey industry is also rep-
resented at the World's Fair by specimens of
A JAPANESE TEA HOUSE.
bees, honey. beeswax and hives. The Jap-
anese agriculture bureau has published a
little pamphlet explaining the way of using
the hive, the method of collecting honey and
giving the names of the plants from which
the bees get honey. It is there stated also
that one swarm will produce 13,582 pounds
of honey and 7497 pounds of beeswax, and
that honey sells for nino sen (cents) a kin
(1.325 pounds), and beeswax at thirty sen a
kin.
An interesting feature of the Japanese ag-
ricultural section is the exhibit of domestic
fowls. One coop contains some bantams,
which are kept mostly as pets, though tho
flesh may be used as food. Another cage
contains Siamese gamo fow!, whose flesh,
beinz almost as delicious as that of turkey,
is largeiy used as food. The cock exhibited
is about two years old, weighs almost ten
pounds and has never been defeated. A good
fighter will command from twenty to eighty
yen (dollars). The high coop holds long-
tailed fowls. The cozk, four years old, has
a tail measuring 1036 feet in length. The
black cock, only two years old, hasa tail five
feet long.
The Japanese have likewise on exhibition
specimens of their wild birds, both useful
and injurious, and of their forage plants.
They have published descriptive catalogues
of both birds and plants. The former are
divided into three classes The beneficial
birds of forest and farm, twenty-one varie-
ties ; the birds used for food, thirty-five vari
eties, and the birds for miscellaneous uses,
fourteen varieties. These are numbered
consecutively, and are carefully described as
to location. characteristics and utility. The
forage plants, similarly numbered, are
minutely described with reference to dura-
tion of growth, height, flowering, seed-
ripening and cutting times, produce to the
acre, composition and locality.
Last, but not least interesting, are five
pictures which hang in the southwest corner
of the Japanese pavilion, and represent
methods of hunting. One shows the way of
catching small birds by hanging cages of de-
coy hirds near bird-limed twigs. Another
represents sportsmen, in the early morning
or evening twilight, when the wild ducks
are flying low, catching them in nets at the
end of long bamhoo poles. The two pictures
at the extremes portray the two allied
methods of catching wild duck on Lake
Teza in Chiba prefecture. One is by means
of bird-limed ropes stretched over the sur-
face of the water ; the other is by a number
of large spread-nets toward which the ducks
are driven by hunters. The remaining
picture illustrates Japanese hawking, which
Just beyond the Shizuoka booth is the ex-
was a very popular sport in former times.
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JAPANESE EXHIBIT IN THE
AGRICULTURAL BUILDING.
hibit of Ise tea, above which is a series of
pictures illustrative of the different stages
and kinds of labor employed upon the leaves
from picking to shipping. A group of photo-
graphs of similar scenes may also be found
just over the front entrance. Ise is the name
of a province famous for its traditions and
its tea. It is the place where, according to
Japanese history (unfortunately not credi-
ble), Jimmu Tenno, the Japanese Romulus,
in 660, B. C., laid the foundations of the
Japanese empire. It is now the most sacred
spot in all Japan, the seat of the ancient and
popular shrines where the ancestors of the
present emperor are worshiped. It is also
the place where, according to tradition, the
tea-plat was first discovered and cultivated.
Other important agricultural products ex-
hibited by the Japanese are rice, barley,
wheat, buckwheat, beans, sweet potatoes
(dried), daikon (a large, bitter radish, which
is a staple article of diet) and tobacco.
A great many kinds of jellies and sweet-
meats are made by the Jupanese from vege-
table products and are harmless and de-
licious. Several varieties of bottled, boxed
and canned fruits, jellies and confections are
on exhibition. The sembei is a kind of waffle
much liked by both natives and foreigners.
Many kinds of ame also are exhibited. The
advertisement of one is a curiosity
“The manufacture of the Awa-Ame is per-
fected by my house with experiments of
many years and scientific principles. It con-
tains more nutritive materials. That taste is
very sweet. Persons who have tasted it al-
ways would taken the cheerful feelings.
“The Okinakan, a cake. is made of the
Awa-Ame again. It is most delicate in taste
and especially excellent quality for tea-cake,
There is no slightest danger for the change
of its taste kept long. ]
“Both are so honorable that obtained |
medal at each time of National industrial ex-
hibitions. !
‘‘Original manufactured by Osugi Kuroui-
mon. i
i chinery annex.
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
EvaGENE SECOR, of Forest City, Iowa, has
been appointed judge in the honey exhibits,
SECRETARY CARLISLE has decided that
foreign exhibitors may sell their exhibits for
delivery after the Fair.
ONE thing which strikes the average vis-
itor with peculiar force is thealmost total ab-
sence of drunken men at the Fair.
Tre Board of Lady Managers voted each
member an Isabella quarter. They have con-
firmed some selestions for Judges on Awards.
BurraALo is the first city to follow the ex-
ample of Brooklyn. It has arranged for the
celebration of Buffalo Day at the World's
Fair. The date fixed is August 23.
Mavagers of the Virginia and New York
Buildings are much troubled by the work of
vandals, who have written and carved their
names all over the walls of these splendid
structures, It may yet become necessary to
exclude the public from portions of the build
ings if these petty outrages continue,
THE office of W. I. Buchanan, Chief of the
Department of Agriculture, was thronged a
few days ago with foreign commissioners,
who came in response to an invitation from
the exhibitors of agricultural machinery to
to make a tour of inspection through the ma-
At night the commissioners
were dined at a hotel, seventy-five of them
being present, with nearly one hundred ex-
hibitors.
ExmiBiTors in the galleries and upper
floors of the large buildings complain that
vistors will not climb the stairs to view their
displays, and they sit idly by waiting for the
crowd that never comes. Many of these
persons have gone to great expense in fur-
| nishing and finishing up magnificent booths
in which to show their goods, and they do
not feel that the attertion given them war.
ants the outlay.
The Weekly Crop Report. |
‘The weekly crop report issued at Wash- |
ington, D. C., says: Pennsylvania—Alter-
nate showers and sunshine very beneficial |
to crops; corn and tobacco making excellent
growth; oats ripening; outlook brightening
indry sections. West Virginia—Haying in
progress; buckwheat doing well, corn clean,
good color; fine crop of early potatoes. Ohio
—Wheat, clover, timothy and barley nearly |
all harvested. |
—BurLineToN, N. J., has a resident, Mnr.'
Martha Post, who is more than 101 years
oid, and has not tasted food for five weeks
Cotton Miils Closing.
The Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N. H.,
employing 8,000 hands, will close for the
month of August. It has a pay roll of $225.
000 per month and uses 6,000,000 pounds of
cotton per week.
Other mills are likely to follow suit. The
Amoskeag Mill is the largest producer of
manufactured cotton in the world.
—GENERAL ORDER issued by the G. A. R.
department provides that no member will
be allowed to parade at the Indianapolis
encampment unless he isin good stand-
ing.
LATE TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGS
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BOTH FEOM HOME AND ABROAD.
What is Going On the World Over.
Important Events Briefly Chronicled.
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Financial and Commercial,
Apa, O.—The Citizens’ Bank the most
prominent in Hardin county, has failed.
Manson, Ixp.—The Carrollton Woolen
Mill Co., has assigned with liabilities of $7,-
000.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. ILouis
Railway Company has declared a dividend
of 14 per cent., payable August 1.
The McNamara Dry Goods Company, of
Chicago bas suspended, It wasamong the
largest houses of its kind in the West.
PomoNa, Carn.—The People’s Bank has re-
opened with plenty of coin. Only $4 were
drawn out the first hour, Deposits were lib-
eral. :
PARKER, KaAx.—The
failed.
SterL1N, CorL.—The Bank of Sterlin has
assigped.
BozeuMax, MoxT —The Bozeman National
Bank has closed.
Yates CeExTeRr, KAN.—The Woodson State
Bank has’suspended.
HurcHinso~, Kax,—The Hutchinson Na-
tional Bank has closed its doors.
AsprexN, Con.—The J. B. Wheeler Banking
Company and the Pioneer Bank have failed
State Bank has
OrranoMA City--The Bank of Oklahoma
City and the Oklahoma National Bank have
succumbed to runs and failed.
Fort Scott, Kax.—The First National
Bank the oldest financial .institution in
Southeastern Kansas suspended payment.
AsgrLaxp, Ky.—The Second National
Bank which suspended three weeks ago.
resumed business Thursday.
CH1cAGo.—The Chemical National bank
will not resume busine:s. The reasons given
are the stringency of the money marketand
the inability of some stockholders to meet
the assessments which would be levied up-
on them if the bank resumed.
Kaxsas City, Kanx,—The Citizens bank,
the Bank of Richmond and the Farmers
and Merchants bank at Ossawattomie, also
of Kansas, all private institutions, closed
their doors.
Harrisoxvinre, Mo,.—The First Naticnal
Bank of Harrisonville, suspended payment
and is in the hands of the Comptreller of
the Currency,
Nasavrs, N. H.—The Security Trust Com-
rany closed its doors. It promises to pay
depositors in full.
AxTHONY, KAs.—The First National Bank
and the First National Bank of Canso City,
Col., have suspended.
THE Bank of Bellville, Republic county,
Kan., a private institution with $20,000 cap-
ital, has failed.
NartioNaL bank examiners have recom-
mended to the Comptroller that tke First
National Ban of San Bernardino, Cal,
which recently failed, be allowed to reopen
at once, its affairs being in good tondition.
Nrw Yor—Charles BM. Preston, state
bank examiner, reports the banks of this
state to be in a good condition generally and
he anticipates no failures,
CONFIDENCE RESTORED AT DENVER.
Dexvern—The financial scare here is virt-
ually at an end. A telegram from Comp-
troller of the Currency Eckels, saying he
believed the closed banks were solvent and
that he would aid them to resume business,
caused great rejoicing to-day. A few small
failures occurred Friday in Colorado as a re-
sult of the recent flurry.
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Capital. Labor and Indnetrizl,
The National Association of Iron-Roofers
1s in annual convention at Piqua, O.
Over 2,000 workmen are out of employ-
ment at Ellwood, Ind.,and many are suffer-
ing for the necessaries of life.
At Toledo, O., the Milburn wagon works,
employing 1,500 men shut down.
The Cambria [ron Company's coke works
near Dunbar, Pa., were shut down on Mon-
day, throwing 700 men out of employment.
Wages at the Norway, Mich., iron mines
will be reduced 10 per cent.
At St. Louis, Mo., two
makers at the yards of Rohan
Waunzler, Garstang & O’Brien
for 10 hours’ pay for 6 hours’ work.
The New Castle (Fa.) tin plate mills have
been completed and during the first week
in August the fires will be lighted and the
machinery tested. It will give employment
to at leaat 300 hands.
hundred boiler
Bros. &
struck
The Norway iren mine, Michigan. will
close and the Penn Iron Company will re-
duce wages 10 per cent., August 1. The
Cleyeland Cliff Company willalso make a
reduction, and other mines of the district
will probably follow suit.
The Dueber Watch Company, Canton, O.,
employing 2,000 hands, will reduce wages
from 10 to 20 per cent.
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Crops.
An inch-long worm threatens the de-
struction of Towa’s timothy crop.
Crops in part of Nova Scotia have .been
ruined py hail.
Heavy rains have fallen throughout the
Northwest and the corn crop prospects
greatly improved.
Dispatches and letters from Lincoln, Neb.,
sav that the condition of corn is more per-
fect than for many years, and predict a 200,
000,000 bushel crop for Nebraska this year.
The crop last year was 157,000,000 and in
1891 168,000,000,
The New York Prodnce Exchanee Week:
ly estimates the crops ot the United State:
on the basis of July percentages as follows:
Wheat, 393,520,000 bu; corn, 1,940,656,000
bu; oats, 724,930,000 bu; rye, 26,196,000 bu;
barley, 64,421,000 bu; and potatoes 227,950,~
000.
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Washington News.
Since March 4, 1893, 245 pensioners have
heen dropped from the rolls, and 5,090 have
been suspended pending further investiga-
tion.
The Navy Department formally accepted
the cruiser Detroit, and authorized the pay-
ment to the builders of reserved funds
4mounting to about $225.000
The treasury gold reserve on Friday was
£07,912,66J; currency balance, $26,066,348.
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Religious.
A call has been issued for a Catholic col
ored congress at Chicago September.
Dr. Brigg's new book, in which he says:
“It is evident that the assembly vo'ed with
‘ittle discrimination and in determiparion
to sustain the appeal at every cost to truwn
and right,” and on the cover of which he
had emblazoned the phrase: ‘So-called
prosecuting committee,’ is creating quite a
stir among orthodox Presbyterians.
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Crime and Penalties.
Frank Von Loon, sentenced to be hangea
at Columbus, August 4, has admitted that
hekilled Farmer Vandermark, but elaims it
was accidental.
Fires
At Susanville, Cal., sixty buildings were
burned. Loss about $25,000. Five entire
blocks burned. WIith the exception of one
restaurant, not a business house is left.
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Cholera Advices .
United States Surzeon Young at Napl
reports four fatal cases of cholera there Sun--
day and Monday.
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Miscellaneous,
J. R. Thomas, a bank cashier at Ovid. N.
Y., surprised a gang or burglars and opened
fire, killing one. Thomas was also shot but
not dangerously.
Sixty Chinese are being officially starved
and unofficiatly fed by the Government at
Portland. A libelled steamship company
refuses to depart or care for them pending
a legal decision.
BEYOND OUR BORDERS.
A tornado swept down suddenly on Vog-
hera and Castieggio,in Piedmont, Italy. In
one section of Voghera hardly a house was
left standing. Not a structure in either town
was left intact and a number of persons
were killed and hundreds injured.
Contributions to the Victoria relief fund
in London have been closed, reaching now
0 £50,000.
Oats have risen in price in Austria by
reason of a prolonged drought, and the
Government has ordered that army horses
be fed on a mixture of one-third corn and
two-thirds oats, if the later get any
dearer.
The Chinese Government has refused to
make reparation for the killing of two Swead-
ish missionaries by a mob in Maching, three
weeks ago. Trouble is promised.
A warehouse fire in the heart of the city
of London did damage estimated at $7,500,-
000.
CASH WANTED AT DENVER.
Security Plentiful, But Unsatisfactory
Only a Temporary Panic.
Three rational banks—the Union
National, the Commercial National and
the National Bank of Commerce—closed
their doors at Denver. Col., owing to the
heavy demands of excited depositors. The
clamor was mostly confined to small depos-
itors, the larger ones expressing confidence
in the banks’ ability to pay in full. The
Mercantile bank, a small private institution
doing business in the Mining Exchange
building, also suspended, owing to the close
of the Union bank. through which its
clearances were made. The liabilities are
stated at $100,000.
The suspension of three savings banks on
Monday so alarmed the community that at
10 o'clock Tuesday morning, the hour for
opening the banks, crowds had gathered in
front of nearly all of the financial institu-
tions. The streets were full of people dis-
cussing the situation. It was an orderly
crowd, however, and there was much sens- -
ible and conservative talk.
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THE PANIC ABOUT OVER.
THE FINANCIAL EXCITEMENT IN DENVEK
THOUGHT TO BE AT AN END. MONEY COM-
ING IN AT THE BANKS.
The timorous feeling - mong depositors in
the Denver banks which has resulted in the
closing of a number of these institutions
within the past few days seems to have
reached its limit and most of the people are
now stopping to think, with the result that
nore money was being deposited than is be-
ing drawn. The German, State and Peoples’
National Banks closed their doors early
Wednesday morning. in order to forestall
the heavy demands “that it was evident
would be made. As soon as this action had
been ta en depositors in other banks seemn-
ed to take new courage, and talk on the
streets was much more conservative and
rational.
During Wednesday afternoon the five na-
tional banks that are open for business
showed no signs of any usual excitement
among their patrons. Indeed their banking
houses were quieter than on many days
during ordinary times and everybody seems
to feel that the end of the unjustifiable ex-
citement has been reached.
A number of banking houses at Denver,
and small banks throughout Colorado failed
Wednesday on account of Tuesday’s excite-
ment at Denver.
Kansas City,Mo.—A feeling of confidence
is growing daily in Kansas City. People now
realize that the flurry amone the banks is
over and at every bank on Thursday receiv-
ing tellers were busier than the tellers who
pay out. If th» wishes of the depositors in
the two national banks which suspended,
the Bank of Kansas City and the Missouri
National were followed the doors would be
thrown open at once.
THE SIAMESE SITUATION.
China Will Support Siam. England
Sends An Ambassador to Paris. The
King Prepares to Leave Bangkok.
Information received at London from
Pekin that China has taken rieasures to
support Siam against France.
The Parliamentary Secretary of the for-
eign office stated that the only part of the
French ultimatum concerning England is
that relating to territorial arrangements.
Lord Dufferin, British Ambassador to
France, is to be sent back to Paris to secure
an immediate exchange of views in an am-
icable spirit. >
From Bangkok it is learned thata panic
pervades the court. French gunboats are
making warlike manifestations and the
King is pre; aring to leave the city.
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‘Why the Treasury Pays Gold.
‘The Treasury policy of paying gold coin
on its current obligations is for the reason
that it is believed that an infusion of gold
into the clearing houses and other payments
will have a beneficial effect and lead to a
restoration of general confidence. Inci-
dentally, it has the advantage of staving off
the necessity for the issue of gold certifi-
cates.
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—Omnr0 tobacco dealers have a scheme to
circumvent the new cigarette license
law. A cigar will be sold for ten cents and
a package of the little weeds will be throwp
in,
LATER NEWS WAIFS.
FINANCIAL AND CCMMERCIAL.
Tacoma, Wasa.—The Trader's Bank su-
spended. An carly resumption is expected.
MiLwavkee—The Commercial Eank hat
assigned.
Tue Johnson County Savings Bank. Mis-
souri, suspended Thurs ay, Depositors will
be paid in full.
Sax BerxarpIzo, CAL. —The First Nation-
al bank reopened by permission of Comp-
troiler Eckels. The bank is in fine condi-
tion. The Farmers exchange bank will
reopen in a short time. Confidence isagain
restored.
PrrrssurG BAxks Souxp.—The report of
the Comptro ler of the Currency shows that
the 29 National banks of Pittsburg are in
sound condition. The reserve held by then
July 12 was 24 35 per cent, This Cornptrol-
jer Eckles regards as indicating that there is
no alarm or distrust in the community.
The First National Bank, of Russell, Kas,
has failed.
The announcerient Saturday that the First
National Bank of Vernon, Tex., has failed
was erroffeous.
The New Hampshire Trust Company, of
Manchester, N. H., one of the heaviest fi-
nancial institutions in the S: ate, has been
enjoined from continuing tusiness.
The Bank of Grand Avenue, Ka nsas City,
Mo., on Saturday resnmed business.
The First National Bank of Santa Anna,
Cal,, which closed four weeks ago, reopened
its doors again Saturday.
The Kentucky National Bank, Louisville,
a government depository, suspended. Lia-
bilities of $2,742,62¢ 01, balanced by re-
sources.
The Milwaukee National Bank of Wiscon-
sin and the Southside savings bank,both of
Milwaukee, closed their doors.
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CAPITAL AND LABOR.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY miners. employ-
ed in the Sunday Lake mine, at \Wartfield,
Michigan, controlled by the Schlesinger
syndicate, went on stri e because they had
not received pay for last month.
Orders have been issued by thePennsyl-
vania Company to lay off 1,000 men now
doing construction work between Philadel-
phia and Harrisburg, Pa.
U. S. marshals have served 40 injunctions
on the leaders of the strikers at Weir City,
Kan. The mine owners threaten to import
1,000 negroes from the south.
Jritish miners have refused to have their
differences with mine owners arbitrated,.
and the record breaking strike is
probable than ever.
more
Denver miners passing through Hastings,
Neb., describe the suffering in Colorado's
mining regions as something appalling.
Contractor Charles B. McCormick, of
St.Louis, notified his journeymen carpenters
of a reduction of 2} cents an hour Saturday,
and 16 struck. The Carpenters’ council
anticipates that other contractors will fol-
low McCormick's example, and is making
preparations for a lockout.
The Aragon Mine Company of Norway,
Mich., operated by the Schlesingers, is said
to owe its employes wages for three months
amounting to £50,000.
The Oxford fron and Nail Company of
Belvidere, N. T., has applied for a receiver.
Three hundred and fifty men are thrown
out of emplovment. The liabilities are
estimated at $225,000, assets, $150,(00.
The number of unemployed men at St.
Paul, Minn., now 4,000 is constantly in-
creased by arrivals from the mining districts
The few Michigan mines still running will
rednce wages or shut down soon. Th s wil
add 14,000 to the unemployed in Michigan.
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WEATHER.
The heat at Huron. 8. D., was so intense
Saturday that werk in barley and rye har:
vest fields was abandoned. The thermometer
has ranged {rom 96to 106 during the last five
days.
For some days at Fort McKinney. Wyo.,
the temperature has been 112° in the shade,
at Buffalo, Wyo.. the mercury in the sun
stood 130° to 150°. This is the hottest
weather recorded for eight years. Not a
drop of rain has fallen for nine weeks.
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FOREIGN.
The exportation of hay, straw or other
fodder from Austria-Hungary is now pro-
hibited.
A special from Mazaltan, Mex. states that
yellow fever has broken out there with
great virulence and that many deaths occur
daily.
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CHOLERA ADVICES’
A dispatch from Rome states on good
authority that there is no cholera at Naples.
There are several cases of suspicious sick-
ness at Cuneo, 55 miles southwest of Turin.
The sick persons are pilgrims who are re-
turning to France.
DISASTERS, ACCIDENTS AXD FATALITIES.
George Hickey, fireman, of Sheffield, Ill,
and Engineer Henry D. Strong, of Blue
Island, 30 horses and many hogs were killed
in a freight wreck at Tiskilwa, Ill.
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MISCELLANEOUS,
The Governor of California appointed
ex Governor George C. Perkins United
States senator, to succeed the late Senator
Stanford.
Exhaustive experiments have convincea
the Agricultural Department that peach
yellows cannot be prevented by fertilizaticn
of the soil.
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A COSTLY FIRE.
Flames on Long Island Sw:2ep Away
Almost $1,000,000.
Fire destroyed two blocks at Long island
City, L. I., Friday, The new St, Mary's
Roman Catholic church, just completed ata
cost of £300,000, was totally destroyed. The
costly new parochial school was also de-
stroyed. A number of business houses,
dwellings and tenements were burned.
More than a hundred families have been
rendered homeless The loss is about £800,-
000, only partly insured. The water lasted
until the fire was nearly under control and
then there was a great shortage.
Hail Sweeps a Clean Path.
A bailstorm almost totally destroyed the
grain in two townships six miles east of
Wheaton, Minn. Information is not very
complete, but indicates that from 5,000 to
10,000 acres were totally destroyed.
AND AGAIN HE SAYS HE LIED.
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PAT GALLAGHER RETRACTS LIs
LATEST CONFESSION.
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A Conscience Which He Claims to Have
Led Him to Make a Retraction Just
as the Same Conscience Moved
Him to Swear That He Perjur-
ed Himself at the Trials of
Dempsey ard Beatty.
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Patrick Gallagher, the se f-confessed pois-
oner and perjurer, now serving his sentence
in the penitentiary at Pittsburg, Pa., seems
to have an elastic conscience since he ac-
quired the habit of confessing, and it ex-
pands and hurts his head every time he
makes a new statement. Thursday he con-
fessed that his last statement was false and
that the only reliable one was
that which he ma’e on ihe witness stand
in the trials of Hugh I. Dempsey and Rob-
ert J. Beatty.
He says he passed a sleepless and wretch-
ed night after making the sworn statement
relative to the inno ence of Dempsey and
Beatty on Wednesday. Thursday morning
he sent this note to Warden Edward
Wright:
“Will you see me as soon as possible, as
have something I think youn ought to have,
tor I have suffered the tortures of hell sinee
yesterday, and I don’t want another such
night as last night was. What I have I
want no one to see but you for the present.
You can tell alter you see it who the prop-
er party is to get possession of it. A 207.”
HIS VERY LATEST CONFESSION
The warden visited Gallagher and Sreceiv-
ed from him two rolls of manus:ript,which
Gallagher said had been prepared by Beatty
and delivered by a range man, who jis also
a convict. The first roll was received by
Gallagher on Monday, and it contained full
details of the confession Beatty thought
Gallagher ought to swear to. .It contained
suggestions which the writer said if carried
out would liberate ali implicated in the
poisoning cases. The second ro!l was deliv-
ered to Gallagher Thursday morning and it
also contained sundry suggestions for Gal-
lagher to incorporate in his aR.
Gallagher informed the warden that
everything he tesiified to on Wednesday
was false, and th t the testimony was given
in pursuance of a plot whereby = the four
men expected to be liberated, He hadn't
eaten or slept since Wednesday evening, he
said. and then he broke down and cried. He
begized the warden tos:nd for District Attor-
ney Clarence Burleigh and the others who
had taken his statement. He said he want-
ed the testimony taken Wednesday destroy-
ed if possible, and asserted that under no
circumstances would he sign it. as he was
informed he would be expected to do. The
warden then drew up the following, which
Gallagher signed:
“The statement, under oath, by Patrick J.
Gallagher in the interest of Dempsey and
Beatty was false in all parts, and now, on
the 20th day of July, 1893, at 12 to 12:30 p.
m., I deny and retract the same, and claim
that my evidence given at the trial of the
same people is the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth. This statement
is made to ease my conscience, and in the
interest of justice to all.
Patrick J. GALLAGHER.”
This was witnessed by Join Eisley and
D. IL. Wright, After taking this the warden
telephoned for District Attorney Burleigh
who, with L, K. Porter and a notary and
stenographer, went to the prison, Gallagher
was sworn again, and he testified that his
deposition of Wednesday was false,and was
brought about by many written documents
sent him by Beatty. These gave full in-
structions what 10 swear to, and Gallagher
swore literally as directed. Some of them he
had destroved and others he sent back to
Beatty. The only ones he saved were the
two rolls of manuscript he gave to Warden
Wright. He never received any letters from
Dempsey, but had talked with him while
they were employed in glazing. He did not
say that Dempsey talked to him on the sub-
ject. The scheme of all concern:d, he said,
was that he was to eontradict all the evi-
dence he had given. and then pardons were
to have been obtained for all.
The testimony Le gave at the trial he said
was true in every particular, and no one
had asked him to give fulse evidence, but on
the contrary he had been cautioned te
tell the truth. He was guilty of poisoning,
he said, and Dempsey and Beatty were
guilty also, as the jury had found. Unde:
cross examination by I. K. Porter he said
he was unable to tell what pose sed him te
make the stetement he did, and he regretted
1t before he was cut of the room five min-
utes, He reiterated that all he had sad
Wednesday was false.
Warden Wright was sworn and he toié
how Gallagher's retraction came about. He
said no one but prison officials had seen Ga}
sagher since he had made his statement on
Wednesday. District Attorney Burleigh,
who gave out the foregoing account of Gal-
lagher’s very late t confession, thinks this
effectively disposes of the case, but would
not say what would be done with Gallagher
for his false swearing. L. K. Porter thinks
this will help the Jcase before the Pardon
Board, for it will show how utterly unre-
liable and devoid of truth Gallagher is.
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
Comparative Figures on Both From the
Bureau of Statistics.
The chief of the bureau of statistics at
Washington. reports that the totai value of
‘the exports of merchandise from the United
States during the six and twelve months
ended June 30, 1893, as compared with sim-
ilar exports during the corresponding per-
iods of the the preceding year were as fol-
lows: Six months ended June 30, 1893, $588,-
155,440; same period in 1892, $479,152,953; 12
months ended June 30, 1-93. $847 423 147;
same time in 1892, £1,030,288,148. The
values of the imports were as follows: Six
months ended June 30, 1893, $496,605,701;
some period in 1892, $431,725,741; 12 months
ended June 30, 1892, $827,402, 462.
———————e
A BREAD PILL.
Thus Talmage Sizes Up What Congress
‘Will Do.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage is at the Audi-
torium in Chicago. Speaking of the finan-
cial situation. He said:
‘‘Greater crops will be harvested this vear
than ever before, and this more than any-
thing else will create a conditioa of compia-
cidity. Congress will meet and give the
country a bread pill, just asa physician
would administer a harmless pill to” a pa-
tient suftering from imaginary disease. Next
winter will, I believe, be a season of great
plentifulness and commercial activity, for
prosperity always accompanies such a ree
action.”
A Yellow Fever Vessel at New York.
The schooner Nas: yth has arrived atNew
York from Santos. James Fisher, of
Greenock, seaman, died of yellow fever and
was buried at sea. Thomas Roberts and
Walter Scott. seamen, were taken sick with
the fever. Roberts died and Scott was sent
ashore at Rio Janeiro. The Nasmyth was
detained at quarantine for observation and
fumigation.
— OP rm re.
—SEVEN men attempted to hold up a St.
Louis mule car Monday night but were:
frustrated by the driver's bravery. The car
was filled with men and women returning:
from the races.
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