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THE WITECIAPEL FIEND.
Another Victim of tlie Mysterious
Murders in Lon !on.
A Policeman's Discovery of a
Woman's Mutilated Body,
A low part of Wliitcchapel, London, called
Old Castle street, has been the scene of another
atrocious murder of tho too wellknown
"Whitechapel type. A large mass of
clotted blood and traces of a desperate struggle
bear testimony that "Jack the Ripper"
has again rosumcd his deadly work of cutting
up the bodies of unfortunate women.
Four months ago the extra force of London
policemen and detectives who had been on
duty specially for the purpose of trapping
the assassin wero withdrawn, as it was
taougnc mat mere wvuiu uo nv muiv
of such terrible outrages committed.
But it seams that tho cruel-lienrtcd, unnatural
beast is still living. The sceue of the crime
is in tbo same restricted area, and once again
the murderer is able to shield himself from
discovery so as to leave no trace.
At 1:30 the other morning a constable was
walking leisurely down his beat when he
noticed tho form of a woman lying in tho
shadow of a doorway. Ho was
about to rouse tho woman when ho
was horrified to discover that she was dead
and that there was a gaping wound in her
throat. The body was lymg in a pool of
blood, which had run in streams from a
terrible gash in tho stomach, evidently inflicted
by a sharp knife or razor.
An alarm was raised and a crowd of detectives
were instantly on the spot. Tho
murdered woman seemed to be about forty
years of age and belonged to the most depraved
class of "Whitochapol unfortunates.
On September 9 last news of the murder
and horrible mutilation of a depraved woman
in the Whitechapel district of London was
cabled all over the world. Threo weeks later
came the news that two other women, of
similar character, had been mysteriously
murdered and mutilated in the samo
manner. This was on September
30, and tho next day all Christendom was
shocked with the announcement of two more
such lives sacrificed to some unknown demon
in human form. The death of the eighth
victim was flashed over the wires on
October J!, and that of the ninth
and last in 1888, on November 10.
One more victim fell early this year, and
only a few weeks ago fragments of a woman's
body were fished out of the Thames
which may or may not have been the
eleventh.
Chalked upon a board surface near some of
? the murdered women were notices signed
"Jack, the Ripper," announcing that a specified
number had been slain, and that when
the fifteenth had died the murderer would announce
himself and surrender to the authorities.
The throat of each was cut and slashes
forming a cross upon the abdomen were made.
Several arrests were made, but the perpetrator
of this most astounding series of murders
on record has not been apprehended.
Since these crimes came to light
similar deeds have been reported
" n ? n?i,? frA?#?e
in .prance, uerinuuy, vuuu, niiuj
and other places, while the "Whitechapel
fiend" has chased unprotected women in Boston
and numerous other cities and towns of
the United States.
DOUBLE MlHQEB.
Two Boys Suspected of Killing Tlieir
Parents Because of a Grudge.
John 'Elfrins and wife were brutally murdered
on their farm in Elk Township, Clayton
County, Iowa.
Ellans's second son, a boy of eleven, by a
former wife, slept in the barn. He states that
he was awakened about 3 o'clock by a
rifle shot. Going into the house a
fearful sight met his eyes of his father
lying dead on his bed with a bullet through
his brain, and his wife also on the bod with
her head smashed in. A babe was still sleeping,
the boy says, between them.
Grasping the babe he made his way to the
neighbors and gave the alarm. Suspicion
rested on the boy and his elder brother, a
young man of twenty-four, who both had a
grudge against their stepmother. Elkins
was a man of fifty and his wife of twentyseven
years.
THE LABOK WORLD.
We have 6000 furniture mills.
Chicago has 40.000 idle people.
Strikes in Germany are subsiding.
The bolt and nut makers have a trust.
The bottom has dropped out of the Maino
?a\s-mill strike.
The Clyde (Scotland) shipbuilders have
given notice of a lockout.
English barbers earn less than half the
wages that American barbers do.
The wages of hod-carriers in the country
towns of England are S3 per week.
Dressmakers say the most unjust employers
are those among their own sex.
The coal miners of Illinois are on strike
because they cannot live on $17 per month.
Russia has 48s cotton-weaving establishments,
which give employment to 80,500
people.
Russia has declined to take part in the
International Labor Congress at Berne,
Switzerland.
* Birmingham (England) bricklayers de- j
mand an increase, their first complaint in
twenty years.
The small machine shops between Pennsylvania
and the Mississippi River are
crowded with work.
The workers in the Hematite Iron Works,
Barrow-in-Furness, England, earn from $*<
to $9 a week and work eleven hours a day.
The dressmakers in Meritt, Mo., have organized
themselves into a society for the
regulation of wages and protection against
the avarice of unscrupulous employers.
The movement to unite the various
branches of railway employes progressed so
far at Chicago as to combine the firemen,
brakemen and switchmen into one federation.
According to the latest report the National
Building Laborers' Union has now
thirty-seven branches, with a membership of
nearly 8000. The national secretary of the
union says that it is growing rapidly.
It is reported from England that the 20,000
South Staffordshire miners who recently
threatened to strike have accepted the offered
advance of twenty-five per cent, in wages,
with the promise of an equal advance in the
autumn.
The recent eight-hour demonstration of
tiie American Federation of Labor in Chicago
was a great success. About 4000 men took
part in the parade. Samuel Gompers, of
New York, and Mayor Cregier made
speeches.
The greatest strikers in the world are the
sbip-builders of Harland & Wolff's yard,
Queen's Island, Belfast, Ireland. They are
almost constantly either on strike, recovering
from the effects of a strike or projecting
? now c+rrilrp
In Larenton,Ill.,there is a woman carpenter
who has a shop of her own and does light
carpentry, but employs men to do the heavy
work. Her own work is said to be remarkable
for its neatness, and she is a very rapid
workwoman.
There are twenty cotton factories now in
operation in Japan, with 82.680 spindles and
employing about 5000 workingmen. Their
wages are about So per week, which is ten
times the amount craftsmen of any kind received
in Japan ten years ago.
There is a great feeling in London at present
against the employment of anymore
female type-setters. The employers say that
one or two women in an office can take the
attention of the men away so much that they
cannot set as "clean" work as they would
otherwise do.
The men who were engaged in repairing
the damage done by the flood along the
Pennsylvania Railroad line, in the Conemauzh
Valley, will, it is stated, bo paid
double wages for every hour they worked.
Fach man will also be given an additional
gratuity of 35.
The strikes in Germany are wanic~,
starvation forcing the strikers to yield. In
Berlin 3000 masons have resumed work. The
painters have appointed a committee to meet
the masters. The police are obliged to protect
workmen coining from the country
against the attacks of strikers. The better
iCmiss of men continue to emigrate.
i THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. I
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Eastern and Middle States.
John Mulvaney and James? Crosby were
killed at a railway crossing in Newark, N. J.
Miss Amy Crocker, a niece of Charles
Crocker, the Central Pacific Railway magnate,
and th9 divorced wife of R. Porter
Ashe, the well known turfman, was married
in New York city to Henry M. Gillig, of the
American Exchange. The bride is worth
$10,000,000.
A desperate and bloody fight between
Italian laborers occurred on the Schuylkill
& Reading Railroad, between Staliugton
and Reading, in Pennsylvania. Knives and
clubs were used on both sides, and the battle
was a fierce one. Twenty men and one woman
were reported as having been fatally cut
or clubbed.
Foster Wells, aged seventeen, and Geo.
Hussey, aged fourteen, were drowned while
bathing in Messalonskee Lake, Me.
T. C. Evans, an advertising agent of Boston,
has failed. Liabilities, ?40,000.
Samuel Fessenden*, Treasurer of the
Cape Cod (Mass.) Ship Canal Company has
failed. Liabilities about $75,000.
The new l nitecl States cruiser jtiainmore
returned to Cramp's yard, Philadelphia, after
a satisfactory test of both speed and sea
manceuvering.
Charles Hamlin and Denton Reifsnyder
were killed in a barn ten miles south of Gettysburg,
Pehn., by a stroke of lightning.
C. H. Treat & Co. and the C. H. Treat
Manufacturing Co., Georgetown, Del., have
failed with liabilities amounting to about
SI00,000. They employed about three hundred
persons and manufactured crates,
baskets and plaques.
Dr. William B. White, a medical electrician,
of Boston, Mass., seventy-five years of
age, shot his wife, Ellen, who is an attractive
young woman, about twenty-five years of age.
and then committed suicide.
James Montgomery and two brothers,
Charles and Emmanuel E&cassi, were drowned
while bathing in New York Harbor.
The conference between the officers of the
Amalgamated Association and the firm of
Carnegie, Phipps & Co., at Pittsburg, Penn.,
ended in a satisfactory agreement to both
sides and full recognition to the Amalgamated
Association. Over 0000 men are affected.
The strike is off.
Two Swedes were killed by a locomotive at
a crossing in Asbury Park, N. J.
The diver who examined the foundations
of the stone bridge at Johnstown, Penn., for
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, says
that the bottom of the Conemaugh" River,
near the bridge, is full of dead bodies, and
that probably hundreds are lying there, one J
upon another, held down by tons of wire.
Michael Bolak has been hanged in the
.-jail at Belvidere, N. J., for the murder of
Michael Bollinshire.
Soulh and "West.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt in
Charleston, S. C.
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THE pnzengncer oonn u. oumvau ?ivs i
arrested at Nashville, Tenn., on a telegraphic I
requisition from Governor Lowry, of
Mississippi, but immediately released on a
writ of nabeas corpus.
A cloudburst occurred on the Sante Fe
road a few miles above Albuquerque, New
Mexico. The tracks for several miles wer9
washed away and two bridges are gone.
Steel rails were twisted into all kinds of
shapes.
Wm.Weddixgtox,colored, has been hanged
at Charlotte, N. C., for the murder of Policeman
John Pierce. The eight-year old
son of Pierce witnessed the execution of his
father's murderer.
Edmund Rice, Congressman from tho
Fourth District, of Minnesota, died recently
at White Eear, Minn. He was seventy-one
years old.
The Chippewa commission was successful
at Red Lake and the Indians cede the greater
portion of their reservation.
The "green midge" has appeared in myriads
around Palmyra, Wis., destroying everything
infested by the insect. Whole acres of
State vines are dead from their ravages, and
rmers are burning their grain fields.
Acting Secretary of State Wyatt, of
Colorado, was committed to jail in Denver
for ten days for having refused to comply
with an order of court.
Fire at Fresno, Cal., destroyed half a block
of brick buildings. Loss, $300,000.
The funeral of Mrs. John Tyler took place
in St. Peter's Cathedral, Richmond, Va. At
the conclusion of the services the remains
were taken to Hollywood and interred by the
side of her husband, the ex-President.
Joseph N. Moody, of Ansley, Neb., shot
and instantly killed his wife. He then fled,
but his body was found some distance away
with a bullet hole in his head.
Heavy rains have seriously injured crops
in Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana.
Thomas Jefferson, the colored murderer,
has been hanged at Memphis, Tenn.
The Otis Iron and Steel Works in Cleveland,
Ohio, have been bought by English
capitalists for $4,500,000.
Several lives are reported lost, cattle
drowned and farm buildings and crops destoyed
bv the storm that swept over Baltimore,
Hartford and Carroll Counties in
Maryland. The rainfall was the heaviest on
record. In a few minutes fifteen bridges in
the flooded district were destroyed. The
losses in Baltimore County are estimated at
ever S50,000.
Newton* Cook, aged fifty-six; Henry
Hoover, aged fifty-five, and Frank Warner,
aged nineteen, were burned to death in the
jail at Jacksonville, Oregon. j
A cloudburst occurred in the mountains
}"ust north of Fort Robinson, Neb. Marsh |
)uncan, a woodchopper, and three of his
children were drowned.
Princeton*, Ohio, has been blown away by
a terrific wind-storm. There were about
thirty houses, including a sawmill and
school-house. All are gone.
While out sailing at Portsmouth, Ohio,
William Bickle, Philip Herbst and his son
were drowned by tne capsizing of the
bor.t.
Near Booneville, Mo., 150 head of cattle
belonging to Chicago parties were killed in
a railway collision. Both engines were demolished"
and twentv cars were destroyed.
Loss, $40,000.
The engagement of Emmons Blaine, son of
Secretary Blaine and Miss Anita McCormick,
of Chicago, the second daughtor of the late
C. H. McCormick, of reaper fame, is announced.
She "will have a fortune of two
millions or more in her own right.
John Fitzpatrick, of New Orleans, who
svas referee in the Sullivan-Kilrain fight, has
surrendered to the Mississippi authorities.
Mr. Rich, owner of the mill where the fight
took place, and Mr. Jamison, who had charge
of the guards at the ring side, have been arrested.
Steps have been taken to forfeit the
charter of the New Orleans and Northeastem
Railroad.
Mbs. Eatenhover and child were murdered
by John Gilman, on his farm near Coquille
City, Oregon. They were tenants of
the murderer, who wanted them to leave,
which they refused to do until their lease expired.
Mrs. Terrt attempted to light a fire al
Salt Lake. Utah, with coal oil. An ex.
plosion occurred, and the burning oil caused
the death of herself and a thirteen-year-old
daughter.
A violent wind storm accompanied by
heavy rains swept over portions of Ohio, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Texas. The damage to houses and crops was
immense.
Tom Condor, who murdered Jack Riley?
has been hanged at Nashville, Tenn. Condor
was forty-three years old and had been a
Mormon for years.
Robert Dalton, fatally shot in Oklahoma,
Kan., by Lee West, a desperado, was tho
third United States Deputy Marshal killed
within two weeks in that city. After receiving
his mortal wound the officer fired at
West, killing him instantly.
The United States gunboat Petrel returned
to Baltimore from her trial trip,
which was very satisfactory to LieutenantCommander
Bainbridge Hoff, who was in
charge for the Government.
The Mississippi Democrats have nominated
ex-Governor J. M. Stone for Governor.
Washington.
The extra session of Congress is to be convened
to meet Monday, November 4.
President Harrison has recognized
Nephtali Guerrero Lorrain as Consul-General
of Chili in the United States.
Under a decision of Secretary Tracy the
the per diem employes of the Navy De
partment, will hereafter be entitled to thirty,
days' leave of absence each year.
The President made the following additional
appointments: Frank C. Crosby, to
be Pay Director in the Navy; John W.
Cobbs, of Kentucky, to be Survoyor of Customs
for the Port of Paducah, Ky.; Alexander
McMaster, of New York, to be Supervising
Inspector of Steam Vessels for the Ninth
District (Buffalo, N. Y.). To be Collectors of
Customs?Henry H. Lyman, of New York,
for the District of Oswego, N. Y.: Robert
Hancock, Jr., of North Carolina, for the District
of Pamlico, N. C.; John P. Horr, of
Florida, for the District of Key West, Fla.
To bo Collectors of Internal Revenue?Frank
E. Orcutt, of Massachusetts, for the Third
District of Massachusetts; William H. Gabriel,
of Ohio, for the Eighteenth District of
Ohio; John Steckete. of Michigan, for the
Fourth District of Michigan.
President Harrison, accompanied by
Secretarv Windom, Mrs. Windom and the
Misses Windom, arrived at Deer Park, Md.,
from Washington in Mr. Robert Garrett's
private car "Baltimore," to spend a few days
with Mrs. Harrison.
An armed body of men, about ISO white
and thirty colored, broke open the jail at
Lafayette, La., ana took Felix Keyes, colored,
to the house where the night beforo he had
murdered his wife, and there hung him.
The President made the following additional
appointments: Jesse Johnson, of New
York, United States Attorney for the Eastern
District of New York; Eugene Marshall, of
Texas, United States Attorney for the Northern
District of Texas; Charles S. Varian, of
Utah, United States Attornay for the Territory
of Utah: Elias H. Parsons, of Utah,
United States Marshal for the Territory of
Utah, and Lars P. Edhohn, of Utah, Judge
of Probate, Morgan Comity, Utah.
United States Treasurer Huston has
directed that hereafter in the redemption of
legal tender notes only the three-fifth rule,
used in redeeming national bank notes, shall
be observed. The three-fifths rule provides
that where three-fifths of a note is presented
for redemption the full amount of the note
shall be paid.
The Secretary of the Interior has made a
ruling which allows pension attorneys to
collect from veterans $25 for services, for
which they were previously allowed only $8.
Superintendent of Census Porter has
appointed Edward Stauwood, of Boston,
Mass., the editor of Youth's Companion,
a special agent of the census office, to
collect the statistics of cotton manufactures
throughout the United States.
The contract for the exterior walls of the
Congressional Library Building at Washington
has been awarded to the New England
Granite Works of Hartford, Conn., of which
James G. Batterson is the President. It ia
for $1,221,600.72.
R. J. Hartman, of Findlay, Ohio, has
been appointed chief of the division of accounts
in the General Land Office.
Foreign.
The International Deaf Mutes' Congress
J convened in Paris. Delegates were present
from the United States, England, Ireland,
Canada, Belgium, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey,
Austria and Spain.
A force of Egyptians cut off sixty dervishes
from the main body to which they belonged,
and in the fight which followed all
the dervishes thus cut off were killed.
The Germans bombarded Tanga, on the
East Coast of Africa, and carried the town
by assault.
Hadji Hassein Ghooly Khan, the Persian
Minister, and his Secretary, Mirza Mahmoud
Khan, have left Washington and
sailed for France. He is disgusted with
America because of newspaper comment on
his royal master, the Shah of Persia.
The Russian Government has totally suppressed
the Lutheran Church in Russia.
English troops are b9ing hurried to Malta
and Egypt in such numbers as to foreshadow
serious fighting.
One-half of the town of Djarkend in
Semiretchinsk, Russia, has been destroyed by
an earthquake.
A conservative ministry has been
formed in Norway, with Herr St&ng as Minister
of State.
General Boulanger has bean indicted at
I Paris for the crimes of an attental against
a Secretary of State, of conspiracy and of
embezzling public moneys amounting to $50,400.
In skirmishes with the Egyptian troops
the dervishes have lost ninety men.
The 100th anniversary of the Fall of tho
Bastile was celebrated throughout Franco
and the rest of the world by patriotic Frenchmen.
The steamship Rapel. from Valparaiso,
struck on tho rocks at the Hamblin or t!v:
Socorro Islands, in the Atlantic, and immediately
went down. Eleven of her crew were
lost.
William A. Bushnell, the noted swindler,
has been captured in Chili. He robbed a Wall
street (New York) firm of $75,000 ten years
ago.
A collision occurred at Grenoble,
France, between a passenger train and a
goods train on the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean
Railroad. Twenty persons were
killed.
Mr. Lincoln, the United States Minister
to England, and his wife and Russell B. Harrison,
son of President Harrison, dined with
Queen Victoria at Windsor Palace.
Manuel Lopez, British Governor of the
Bay Islands, in the Bay of Honduras, South
America, is dead.
The International Socialist Congress
opened in Paris.
The session of the French Parliament was
closed in Paris amid some excitement.
A fight has taken place at Puerto del
j Agua, State of Nuovo Leon, Mexico, between
a party of thirty smugglers and a force of
custom house guards, in which two guards
and three smugglers were killed.
A waterspout destroyed the town of
Chilapa, State of Guerrero, Mexico.
The Bundesrath (Switzerland) has postponed
the time for holding the International
Labor Congress at Berne until next spring.
General Grenfell, of the English army,
has assumed command of the Egyptian
troops now fighting the Dervishes.
The Chinese Emperor has issued an edict
ordering the immediate building of the projected
Tung Chow railway, and has appointed
Marquis Tseng general director of all
railways in China.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
; President Harrison is very fond of fish.
Queen Victoria has reigned fifty-one
years.
Meissonier, the French painter, was married
recently.
Julian Hawthorne has produced twenty-nine
novels.
Governor Foraker, of Ohio, is fortythree
years old.
The Prince of Wales is quite a successful
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VICCUCi UJ. U-Ci.ia.lC.
General Boulanger thinks of visiting
the United States.
Herrmann, the magician, has his life in*
sured for $800,000.
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, the writer, u
George Francis Train's sister.
R. W. Gilder, editor of the Century, geta
$20,000 a year for his services.
The late General Simon Cameron, ol
Pennsylvania, left a fortune of $1,500,000.
Allen G. Thprman is again suffering considerably
from inflammatory rheumatism.
The Earl of Zetland, the new Viceroy ol
Ireland, has an income of over $1000 a day.
Chadncey M. Depew, President of tha
New York Central, has gone to Europe for
the summer.
Prince Bismarck, lakes more pleasure in
recounting the duelling and drinking feats of
his student days than in relating any of his
triumphs in the field of statesmanship.
John Dillon, member of Parliament for
East Mayo, Ireland, will soon sail for America.
He goes to Denver, Col., and thence to California,
and expects to be absent a whole
year.
Tiie widow of N. P. "Willis, the poet, is
living in Washington. She is a pleasant, attractive
woman of sixty, and s occasionally
seen in society. Her son, Bailey Willis, is a
member of the corps of the geological survey.
Frank G. Carpenter, the traveler and
newspaper correspondent, is just back from
a trip around the world. Carpenter is an odd
looking chap, as slim as a fence rail, with
6omewhat ungainly figure, startling red hair
and moustache and homely face. His is a
persistent and voluminous writer and a rapid
talker. He lives in Washington, where he
has a delghtful home, and makes $13,000 to
$15,000 a year,
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ACROSS THE WIRES.
An Array of Important Foreign
and Domestic Events.
Parnell and Counsel Withdraw
From the Special Commission,
Mr. Parnell's counsel liavo formally withdrawn
from tho inquiry before the spccial
commission in London. At the reassembling
of tho Parnell commission to-day Sir Charles
Russell of the Parnellite counsel stated to
the judges that after full consideration Mr.
Parnell had given himself and Mr. Asquitb,
his associate, instructions to no longer represent
him before the commission.
Presiding Justice Sir James Hannen replied:
"Mr. Parnell will, of course, remain subject
to the jurisdiction of this court."
This step was taken by Mr. Parnell, under
advice of his associates, on account of the
manifest unfairness of the commission
towards his side in its refusal to allow his
counsel to examine the books of the Loyal
and Patriotic Union.
Messrs. Pveid and Lock wood, of the Parnellite
counsel next withdrew from the case, fol
lowing tho action or. air uuanes ivusseu anu
Mr. Asquith. Mr. Parnell then personally
addressed the judges and made application
for a speedy final settlcmont of the case as
far as he was concerned.
He asked that if there was any design to
further examine him, the Court would proceed
to do so without delay. He complained
of Attorney-General Webster's postponement
of the inquiry for three months in order to
re-examine him in regard to certain chccks.
The Court, he declared, ought to appoint a
rlay for his examination, if any was required,
or else it should dischargo him from any
further attendance upon tho commission.
Sir James Hannen promised to try and
meet the convenience of Mr. Parnell in this
matter, and said that he would recall him on
Thursday next.
After tho Parnellito counsel had retired
from the court Sir James Hannen said that
the scopc of tho inquiry would noli bo
altered and that the persons liithorto represented
by counsel could appear in their own
defense if they desired.
Dakota Crops a Failure.
The wheat crop of Dakota is thirty million
bushels short. The total production cannot
exceed twenty million busnels.
Outside of the valley of tho Red
River all the grain grown will probably not
All fivo hundred cars. The best crops and,
in faci, tho only fair yiold, will
bo In the counties of Pembina, Walsh, Grand
'Forkfi, a small portion of Traill, the centre
of Cass and Northwestern Richland. Elsewhere
the ground is as bare and almost as
brown as though a prairie Are had crossed it.
In Nelson County, famously prolific, wheat
will not yi ald as much grain as was seeded.
Ramsey is bare, except in tho immediate vicinity
of Devil's Lake, and in the famonsTurtle
Mountain region, the rich soil of which has
hitherto been regarded as drought proof;
there will be but littlo wheat for export.
Along the main line of the Northern Pacific,
in the once famous bonanza farm district,
the elevators are closing up and the country
tributary to Bismarck is as barren as a sand
hill. The Jim River Valley will barely feed its
pe-ple, and, in short, nowhere in Dakota
will thero be any wheat for export save
alone the main line of the Manitoba road
from a point thirty miles north of Fargo, the
boundary. The cry of famine that was
raised last winter in the western part of
Walsh County will finds its echo all over the
Territory the'coming winter.
There is another danger which will be felt
very severely, and that is the want of fodder
for the stock. Tho oat crop is bad and the
meadows away from the river bottoms areas
parched as the prairie.
More Room at tlic White House.
Lieutenant-Colonel John M. Wilson, lingineer
Corps, Superintendent of Public Buildings
and Grounds, at Washington, in his ?vnnual
report to tho Chief of Engineers, says
that since the opening of tho Washington
Monument 121,Si 1 people have ascendcd it.
The Executive Mansion has been kept in
good repair. The erection of an addition as
a private residence for tho President is
recommended, and it is suggested that
it might be built on the site of
the greenhouse, opposite tho State,
War and Navy buildings, while on
the other side of the White House, toward tho
Treasury, a picture gallery might be built,
opening out of the East room, and thence
into a handsome conservatory and winter
garden, worthy the homo of the Chief Executive.
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Salaries of employes, $52,300; improvement
and eare of public grounds, $102,500; care of
Executive Mansion, repairs and fuel, $38,000;
lighting Exccutivo Mansion and public
grounds $15,783.50; repairs to water pipes,
$2500; departmental telegraph lines, $10,000;
total, $221,018.50 For the Washington Monument
$11,000 additional is asked.
Destructive Forest Fires.
?T Great rivers of firo havo boon rolling in
different directions through the woods in
Multnomah County, Oregon, and in Southern
Washington. The firo was started by persons
burning brush on tho Creighton Tract.
The tiames, fanned by a strong
west wind, ato through tho forest
to tho Sunderland road and flayed
havoc with tho cordwood and standing timbei
in that ririnit.v. Tho loss to pnwvtv will
be in tho neighborhood of three-quarters of
a million of dollars.
"The Angelas" is Ours.
M. Proust has written a letter in which ho
announces the withdrawal of tho request to
the Chamber of Deputies for a credit for tho
purchase of Millet's "Tho Angclus," for
which he had bid $110,600. The painting will
therefore become the property of the American
Art Association of Now York city.
The agent of tho American Art Association
will exhibit "Tho Angelus" in Paris for two
months for the benefit of charitable institutions.
A Mexican Hanged.
Jose Abram Ortez, a Mexican, who last
March murdered a miner named O. E. Leduc,
has been hanged at Antonito, Col. The
crimo was committed while Leduc was asleep
and for the purposo of securing possession oC
a bag of gold dust valued at 550. On tho
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SCailOlCl UI"W.'i ULKiiumcuj; mu umicwiu
asked forgiveness of all present.
DEATH TRAPS BURIED,
Snow Slicds That Cracked Brakemen's
Skulls Destroyed.
Within the pasi six months six Union Pacific
brakemen have failed to stoop whilo on
top of trains passing through snow sheds between
Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Laramie,
fifty miles west. All of the men were almost
instantly killed.
The Iirakemen's Brotherhood petitioned for
the removal of the sheds or the revocation of
the rule compelling the men to stand on top
of the cars while passing through artificial
tunnels. No attention was paid to their requests.
A shed one thousand feet long was mysteriously
burned on a recent night. A second
one nearly three thousand feet in length, was
burned next day, and at three o'clock in the
afternoon a third big one was fired. Three
remain, and these are closely guarded.
Tho officials say that sparks from passing
engines caused the damage, but it is generally
believed that the brakemen have turned incendiaries
iu self-defence.
BIG- BANKING- ENTERPRISE,
A Syndicate Puts Up $15,000,000 to
Boom Beet Sugar.
A conference of delegates from the coun.
tries engaged in tho production of beet sugar
was held in Brussels, Belgium. The conference
founded a syndicate bank, which will
establish branches and agencies in all the principal
cities of the world. Tho capital will
be $15,130,000. Tho bank will do no speculative
business, but will sell sugar on commission
and make loans to manufacturers.
The profits of tho bank will bo divided
among tho members of tho syndicate. Tho
bank will also furnish the members with news
concerning the sugar market. Tho books for
subscription to the capital stock ware to bo
opened simultaneously in tho Europoan centers.
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TENANTS' LEASE
A. Powerful Irish Organization
to Eight Landlords.
k Defense League Modeled After
British Trades Unions,
Charles Stewart Paraell authorizes the announcement
that the Irish party will immediately
form a Tenants' Defence League for
| protection against the landlord syndicate.
Conventions will be summoned throughout
Ireland. The movement will be worked on
the lines which Mr. William O'Brien has laid
down. Mr. O'Brien announced that a league
would be lormed uniting the Irish throughout
the world for a final struggle against the
landlords.
Some weeks ago Smith Barry, with the
knowledge and approval of Balfour, the
English Secretary for Ireland, formed a syndicate
of Irish and English landlords, the
avowed object of .vhich was to compel tenants
to pay rente. Since then the Irish leaders
have had several anxious consultation.'
as to the best means of protecting tenants
against this new and formidable danger.
The new league will be openly inaugurated
Ct a public conference, which will be attended
y every member of the Irish party and representative
men from all parts of Ireland.
The league will be modeled as closely as possible
on lines of British trades unions. It
will be in every respect as legal as those formidable
organizations, and it will be difficult
for the Government to suppress it without
throwing to the winds every shred of consti
nationalism m ireianu.
Tne movement is the most important inau
gurated since the establishment of the Land
League in 1879. It has already created a
veritable panic in the landlord camp, and
their organ, the Dublin Express, weeps copiously,
predicting all manner of dreadful
things, including the extermination of the
Irish people, and the handing over of the
country to military colonists from England.
The .'landlords are gasping at the possibility
of a general strike against rent, and the Tories
predict turmoil and bloodshed during the
coming winter; but the new league will be
ptrong enough to prevent crime, and will afford
Balfour no reasonable excuse for proclaiming
martial law in order to fight it.
That is what the Tories are urging the Government;
to do, and it enables one to estimate
the extent of their fears.
Michael Davitt, in an interview, said:
"The new Tenants' League will give a new
start to the Irish cause, which will be of immense
importance. It will bring men of all
shades of opinion on the popular
side invo a fighting line under Mr.
Parnell. The whole of the reserves
will move up to his support. The Government
will no longer deal with men in the gap.
but with the whole Irish race. Mr. Parnell
is more emphatically than ever the 'man on
horseback.' Mr. Balfour will be better able
to appreciate the difference six months hence
than to-day."
It is reported that Mr. Gladstone and Mr.
Morley have approved the Tenants' Defence
League. Mr. Tarn ell will be President of
the League. The main object is to raise a
fund for the purpose of giving legal assistance
to tenants against combininglandlords,
ead not to divert rent from the proper*
channels.
LATER NEWS,
The large stable ?f the Lowell (Mass/)
Street Railroad, was burned with 120 horses,
about thirty cars, four carloads of hay and
one carload of straw, 400 bushels of oats, be
sides tools and ether materials. Loss, $200,000.
Two running cars collided with a passenger
train near Shamokin, Penn. JohnRoush,
married, and Aaron Shipe, single were killed
and seventeen passengers injured.
John E. Barton, known as the Gogebic
Iron King duringthe Wisconsin miningcraze
two years ago, has made an assignment;
liabilities, ?825,000.
Shell Rock, Iowa, has beet totally destroyed
by fire.
The cotton crop in the vicinity of Columbus,
Texas, has been damaged to the extent
of $500,000 by a freshet along the Colorado
River.
At Brewton, Ala., a man named Gaston
committed suicide by throwing himself on a
circular saw. He was cut in twain.
The Virginia State Prohibition Convention
in session at Lynchburg nominated a
ticket as follows: For Governor, Thomas E.
Taylor; Lieutenant-Governor, W. J. Shelburn;
Attorney-General, Judge J. M. Quarles.
Three fanners have been killed by lightning
at Grand Forks, Dakota.
Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of the
Census, has appointed Dr. David T. Day expert
and special agent to take charge of the
subiect of mines and mining for the Elev
entli Census.
President and Mrs. Harrison returned
to Washington from Deer Park, Md.
The wheat crop in Hungary is below the
average and is in poor condition owing to
the shrinking of the grain in the ear. -Ths
rye crop is poor and the barley crop is very
bad. Corn is in good condition. The vineyards
make an excellent showing.
The Manitoba and Canadian northwest
wheat crop is a failure. The total yield will
be little less than half last year's crop, and
the disaster is so widespread and serious that
there are thousands of acres that will not ba
cut at all. The damage is the direct result
of the drought.
Emperor Doji Pedro, of Brazil, was fired
at as he was leaving the theater in Rio de
Janeiro. The shot was fired by a Portuguese.
The Emperor was not hit by the
bullet. The would-be assassin was immediately
seized by guards and attendants.
THE WAR IN EGYPT,
Terrible Slaughter of the Advancing
Dcrvislics.
Tho dervish prisoners arriving at Assouan
Egypt, are terribly emaciated, having suf- j
fared greatly from hunger and thirst.
Among them are many women and boys.
An Italian woman, Marietta Cavacalo,
says she was brought from Kordofan,
Soudan, by Nad-el-Jumi. Thero were
five nuns and two priests still
alive at Khartoum. The dorvishos loft DonSola
with 8000 men and six guns. Nad-elumi
hoped to reach Bimbau without fight[
ing. On the march many died and deserted,
I while many others were killed. Colonel "VVode'
* * |
nouse, in commana 01 ino onusu auuu^jrptian
troops, estimates the dervish killed at
2500.
The Government Is forming grain depots
| along the Nile for the purpose of supporting
fugitives who are fleeing before the advance
I of the dervishes. Many tribal sheikhs are
j tendering their services to the Government.
HEAVY FLOODS IN CHINA,
A Tornado Drowns 6000 People and
Renders 10,000 Homeless.
The City of Now York, from Hong Kong
and Yokohama, has just arrived at Sau
Francisco., Col.
She reports that a tornado burst in the
district northeast of Kwang Lung, China,
June 2, and flooded the level country.
Seven villages were inundated and houses
were swept away.
Moro than six thousand persons were lost.
Other districts suffered greatly and hundreds
of lives in those places were also lost.
IVIore than tea thousand survivors are homeless.
Arabs in large numbers have swarmed
down upon the villages in East Central
Africa, turning and pillaging the houses and
robbing and murdering the people. The
women and girls have been subjected to the
grossest indignities, and several babies were
I roasted alive in the presence of their pa'
rents.
THE FAIRS OF 1889.
Where and When the Independent
and State Fairs Will be Held.
The Prairie Farmer publishes the following
list of independent and State Fairs for
1889, with the dates on which they will be
held:
Alabama, Birmingham Oct 21-Nov 2
Alabama, Eastern, Eufaula... .Oct 31-Nov 6
Alabama, South, Greeneville
American Dairy Show, Chicago.. .Nov 12-21
American Fat Stock, Chicago Nov 12-21
American Poultry Show, Chicago..Nov 12-21
American Institute, New York..Oct 2-Nov 30
American Horse Show.Chicago.Oct 30-Nov 9
Buffalo International,Buffalo,N. Y..Sept 3-18
Canada Industrial Ass'n, Toronto.. Sept 9-21
Central Canada Fair, Ottawa Sept 9-14
Colorado, Pueblo Oct 3-9
Connecticut, Moriden Sept 17-20
Dakota, North, Grand Forks Sept 17-21
Dakota, South, Ashton Sept 23-27
Delaware, Dover Sept 20-0ct 5
Detroit Exposition, Detroit Sept 17-27
Georgia, Macon Oct 23-Nov I
Great Central, Hamilton, Ont Sept 23-27
Iowa, DesMoines Aug 30-Sept 6
Illinois, Peoria Sept 23-27
Indiana, Indianapolis Sept 23-28
Inter-State Fair, Elxnira, N. Y... .Sept 17-20
J. S. L. Ass'n, Trenton, N. J.. .Sept 23-Oct 4
Kansas, Topeka Sept 16-21
Kentucky, Lexington Aug 27-31
Louisiana, Shreveport Oct 8-14
Maine, Lewistnn Sept 10-18
Maryland, Pimlico Sept 9-14
Mass. Horticultural, Boston Sept 17-20
Michigan, "Western,Grand Rapids.Sept 23-27
Minnesota, Hamline Sept 6-14
Minnesota, Southern, Rochester.... Sept 2-7
Missouri, Sedalir Aug 20-24
Montana Agricultural. Mineralogical
& Mechanical Ass'n,Helena..Aug 26-31
Nebraska, Lincoln Sept 6-13
Nevada, Reno Sept3(>-Oct5
New England, "Worcester, Mass Sept 3-6
New Era Exp n, St. Joseph, Mo.Sept 3-Oct 5
New Hampshire Grange, Tilton. .. Sept 10-12
New Jersey, "Waverley Sept 16-20
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I>ew xorK, iu Daily ocpt
North Pacific Industrial Ass'n, Portland,
Ore Sept26-Oct23
Ohio. Columbus Sept 2-6
Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska Sept 3-6
Ontario Central Agricultural and
Live Stock Ass'n, Perry Oct 2-4
Ontario Provincial, London, Ont.. .Sept 9-14
Oregon, Salem Sept 16-21
Penn., "Western, Washington Sept 17-20
Rhode Island, Providence Sept 23-27
St. Louis, St. Louis Oct 7-12
South Carolina, Columbia Nov 11-15
Southern Exp'n, Montgomery, Ala.Nov 5-15
Tennessee, Nashville Sept 16-21
Texas State Fair & Dallas Exposition,
Dallas Oct 15-27
Tri-State Fair, Toledo, 0 Sept 9-18
Utah, Salt Lake City Oct
Washington and Idaho Fair Ass'n,
Spokane Falls Sept 24-28
West Virginia, Wheeling. Sept 9-13
Wisconsin, Milwaukee Sept 16-20
Wyoming, Cheyenne Sept 17-20
A TRIPLE TRAQEDY,
Augustas Rosenberg Kills a Woman,
Her Son and Himself.
A triple tragedy, one of the most horrible
that has ever occurred in that vicinity, took
place early in the morning in Somerville,near
Boston, Mass. Augustus Rosenberg, whose
mind is believed to have been unbalanced,
Jailed Mrs. Catherine Smith, the woman
with whom he had lived, and her fourteen*
year-old son Thomas, seriously shot three
more of the woman's children, Willie, aged
twelve; Gussie, aged seven, and Charles,
aged five. Then the murderer jumped from
the window. His dead body was found 500
feet distant from the sceno of the crime.
Willie, the wounded boy,was fatally injured.
Rosenberg had been living with the Smith
woman on ana on tor sevenu years, xus
wife, who died a few years ago, was a sisterin-law
of the murdered woman. From
all that can bo learned Mrs. Smith was
a vixen, and led the murderer a hard life.
She had a penchant for dinging on to
all the mcnoy that came into her hands.
By the death or disappearance of
her husband sho got control of tho store in
Dane Court where the tragedy occurred.
Rosenberg, who had an express business, began
paying attention to her, and soon moved
his family to tho Smith house. The man
and woman had many quarrels, Rosenborg
claiming that she seized all his
monoy. He left her often, but always came
back. Recently his mind has been affected,
and he asked to be sent to an asylum.
He was heard soveral times to threaten to
kill Mrs. Smith, and some days ago purchased
a revolver. Mrs. Smith was shot dead while
asleep. The children must have been awakened
and pursued by tho maniac while endeavoring
to escape. The body of Thomas
was lying at the door.
SCOTCH-IRISH IN" AMERICA.
Their Executive Committee Decides
to Issue a History.
The Executive Committee of the ScotchIrish
Society of America met at the Olenham
Hotel in New York city. Robert Bonnor
presided, and there were present Rev. Dr. J
S. Mcintosh, of Philadelphia; Professor
Georgo McLoskie, of Princeton: Colonel
T. T. Wright, of Nashvillo; Secretary
A. C. Floyd and Treasurer Lucius
Frierson, of Columbia, Tonn. The chief sub
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JCCli UJL UiMJU9diUU ?tcw uuw v* ?MV
"Scotch-Irish in America," a journal treating
historically of tho part taken by tho men
of tho North of Ireland in building up this
country, and Dr. Mcintosh and
Secretary Floyd were appointed to
compile and publish the work,
which will be furnished gratis to the members
of the Society. The Committee also
considered where nezt year's Congress
sball be held, and Philadelphia, New York,
Pittsburg and Nashville were mentioned,
but no decision was reached.
Colonel T, T. Wright, to whom the Society
owes its existence, says ho was led to conceive
tho idea by observing, both from history
and personal contact, the remarkable
number of influential men of Scotch-Irish
birth in this country. He said the first Declaration
of Independence was drafted by men of
that lineage in Mecklonburg, N. C., while
Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Philadelphia
Declaration, was of tho same stock, as
were Presidents Madison, Jackson and I oik.
"Sam" Houston and "Davy" Crockett were
also Scotch-Irish.
DEATH IN A CESSPOOL,
Four Men Perish, at .Lincoln, Neb.
From Poisonous Vapors.
During the afternoon four men lost thiir
iives in Lincoln, Neb., under peculiar circumstances.
A watch was dropped in a cesspool and the
men were endeavoring to recover iuThey
dug a large hole at the side
of the pool. This hole was filled
wth water by the rain. One man stood on
a ladder above tho water and made an opening
into the cesspool. The foul air and gas
rushed out and overcame him and he fell
into the water.
A friend went to give aid and was likewise
overcome. Others came to help and one by
one seven men fell into the water, which by
this time was full of muck and 9lime from
the vault. Three were rescued, some by
men who afterward perished in attempting to
save the others.
The dead are James Crawford.a bricklayer;
Albert Kunkler, a laborer; John Cleary, a
blacksmith, and Frank Maloney, a plasterer.
TEE KNIftHTS OF LABOR,
Their Next General Assembly?Pre.
sent Condition of the Order.
The next General Assembly of the Knights
of Labor will be held at Atlanta, Ga., on tho
second Tuesday of November, 1589.
Concerning tho present condition of af- |
fairs among the Knights of Labor Mr. Pow- j
derlv: "In the beginning of 1SS0 we had 87.- '
900 "members. Sis months later we had 1
TOO,000. At present we have 300,000. When
I am asked to explain the falling off I ask
why should so many come in? This present
number is really an increase which I strongly
opposed. Much of it is made up of those
people who think the strike the solution of
all evils. I have opposed this membership
from the beginning.'1
About 5000 people have received railroad
passes to leave Johnstown, Penn. Some ol
them have been sent as far as New Mexico, j
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POPULAR SCIENCE.
Underground lighting has proved so|
successful in Chicago that -the plant is toi
be largely increased.
Power .obtained from a fall of water ty
mile distant is to be used for lighting thaf
tower of Segorbe, in Spain. j
The maximunj intensity of the ligh#
from the Eiffel tower is 500,000 carcelsjj
giving a range of 127 miles.
It has recently been proposed to use aq?
alloy of zinc and phosphorus in boilers ta>
prevent incrustation and pitting.
Naturalists and others are becoming
considerably alarmed over the prospecfc
of the early extermination of the kanga^f
too. ,
Experiments made on the dog an<?
rabbit show generally that the quality o?
water is less in the venous than in th*
arterial blood.
M. Chauvin concludes that Iceland spa$
possesses magnetic rotary power not onlA
in the direction of its axis, but also i&
the neighboring direction.
After more than twenty-seven years th^
pearl oyster has produced pearls off th?
Madras coast in sufficient quantities to b4
worth thft oirnprsfi nf fishina.
Gurjun oil produced from a fir tre*
that grows in the Andurame Island ty
said to be a sure cure for leprosy. It ifc .
used by inunction and taken internally^,
Carpenters and other tool users wh?
keep up with the times now use a mixture
of glycerine instead of oil for sharpening
their edge tools. Oil, as it is well known}'
thickens and smears the stone. ' >
The invention of a "fog machine," by>
which water is thrown in spray as fine aft}
vapor, makes it possible to spin the finesl.
cotton thread in mills established in th*.hottest,
dryest parts of the South. ' ;
The Insect House of the Zoological So-1
ciety of London is said to be the onlyj
place where an attempt is made to afc-4
tract public attention to the various and!
wonderful groups of the insect family.
The increase in the amount of tonnage
passing through the Suez Canal is claimed}
to be due in a great measure to the light* ^
ing of the canal by electricity, admit*
ting of its use by night as well as by day*
Abroad conductors are being laict .
underground and insulated by placing that bare
wires in glass tubes, which are pib*
tected by layers of cement, outside o?
which is an iron pipe. This method fit
cheap, gives a high degree of insulation^ W
and water cannot penetrate.
Both the French and German Govern*
ments have provided facilities for the ex*
amination and certification of electrical
instruments, and it in now found thatapf
paratus bearing the official indorsement ^
brings a better price in Continental
markets than non-attested instnnnents.
A steam carriage in which coke is used!
as fuel has lately appeared in France*'
The driving is effected by two hini
wheels, and the speed attained is abouj'
fifteen miles per hour, twenty-eight ana
three-quarter gallons of water being sufi I
ficient for a run of twenty-five miles. I
In an improved method of wire-mak- ?
ing, the wire is drawn eold over success I
sive pairs of rolls, each pair having. * V
greater speed than the pair preceding !t^ J
with an intervening friction clutch to*
graduate the speed of the rolls to thfi*
speed of the wire in process of rolling.
From the general appearance of tha
vegetation, together with a discussion o4 I
the origin and relations of the florist, iti I
is concluded by eminent botanists that;^V
Greenland is not a European province! I
from the point of view of botanical geography,
but has nearer relations to
America.
A century ago only "300" species of;
orchids were known, and those very imperfectly.
Now the latest authority gives*
the extreme number of knows speciesas^
10,000. This may be an excessive estimate,
but shows the immense advances
which have been made in our knowledge
of these interesting plants, for which
collectors now ransack the most remote:
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A Skinless Boy. /
William Crawford, the son of the well- "
known' tug captain of that name, died
the other afternoon in Chicago. He
bled to death at the nose, but had lost i
so much blood previously that the hem- M
orrhage from the nose was not great. I
Young Crawford, who was but twenty- I
two years of age, was peculiarly afflicted. I
He had but one skin. Which is to say I
that he had no outer skin at all. The J
veins stood out all over his body in the~^
plainest manner possible. From the time
he was six years of age young Crawford
had been subject to bleeding spells,
which were liable to break out at any /
time and in any part of his body. He
lost vast quantities of blood in this way,
and was afraid to take any sort of exercise
at all, for fear of starting the bleeding
afresh. For the past two weeks the
young man had been confined to his bed,
being too weak to sit up, even, and
bleeding at the nose having set in he
soon passed away. Physicians were sent
fcr from various cities in the East, but
they could do nothing for him. A new
skin could not be grafted on, and it was
but a question of a short time until the
patient would bleed to death.?New York
Journal. ^
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Richest of American Chinamen.
I had the pleasure of meeting Sara jfl
Lock, recently. Mr. Lock is probably T
the richest Chinaman in California, and is /j
nnotoccod nf nn annteness which would f j
r""-"""* ? ?
do credit to a Sam Slick. He is one of
the very few Mongolians who have become
citizens of this country, and has
cut loose in every way from his native 1
land, and as far as possible from his people.
He wears "store" clothes and
keeps his shirt inside of his trowsers. He
has a large ranch in this country, and possesses
a number of mines in Montana.
He spoke quite casually of building a
canal seventeen miles long to take water
to a mine which has not been profitable
heretofore because of the lack of that
article?New York Tribune.
A 'Legend of Forget-Me-Nots.
j The poet Shiraz gives the following
legend of the forget-me-not:
I "It was in the golden morning of the
early world, when an angel sat weeping
| outside the closed gates -of Eden. He
had fallen from his high estate through
loving a daughter of earth; nor was he
permitted to enter again until she whom
he loved had planted the flowers of the
forget-me-not. When their task was
ended, they entered Paradise together;
for the fair, without tasting the bitterI
ness of death, became immortal like the
angel, whose love her beauty had won,
when she sat by the river twining the
forcret-me-not in her hair." .
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