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"IAN AND HIS WORKS. ETHNOLOQICAI. WONDERS A' THE WORLD'S FAIR. Strangre Races of Primitive Men, Tj1\ ing and Dead, oa ExhibitionHabits of Life of CHfl" Dwellers Aztecs, Esquimaux and Othc <^noer Inhabitants ofthe World. All tkcs^ who wi*h to study ">I:in and H Works."' as th?i motto over the buildins? hr It, will linn in tn? uopanarjui ui i.iuu?.v/K at the World's Fair, wonderful facilitifc It has exhibits of live men ami dead men ( the most strange varieties of color and cuj torn, and it presents remarkable collectioi showing the works of man from as far bac as any trace of him can be found, down totl present day. k - *. ~MrT7) CLIVF DWF.I.LKSS' MOUNTAIN. , ? Professor F. W. Putnam, of Harvard Un versity, has eharere of the ethnological e: hibit. It tak<-s in ethnology, archaeolofi and anthropology, history and natural hii tory. This, says the New York Herald, is very wide field, but the different branches ai \po11 represented and the department must t a contiuual source of delight to students < primeval man and the untamed barbarian. In a plot of laud one thousand feet loc and from one hundred feet to two hundre feet wide Professor Putnam has pitched h camp. It adjoins the lake front and loot upon the lagoon in which floats the Ne Bediord whaling ship. The quaint convei of La Rabida, modeled after the original i Palos. Spain, in which Columbus rested h weary feet and soul before and after comin HIGH T0WE2-BUISS Of to America, is part of the ethnological di play, but it is assigned to the Latin-America division. Its red roof and white walls loc down upon the works of the American sa' age. Models of the ancient ruins found in Yuci tan stand in the open air outside the a1 thropological building. There are six < these models. They were made under tt supervision of Edward H. Thompson, Unit* States Consul in that country, who ha papier mache casts taken of the original which are reproduced In "staff," a sort < plaster with which almost all the fair builc ings are faced. By a little ingenuity '"staff oan be readily converted into the most sul stantial looking marble or granite. Thes Yucatan ruins, which have stood the weatht In South America for no one knows ho many years, will amaze people who are n< aware* tbat a high civilization preceded 0< lum'ous on this side of the world. In sty. they resemble the architecture used at th very date in the construction of trust con pany buildings and banks in the more mot era city of Philadelphia. There is a port! from the rained group of L3br<t, a straiffl arch from Uxmal and the "Facade of tl Serpent." from the same city. Three po Hons of the ruin, which the early Spaniard called the "House of the Nuns." are repri duced. Mr. Thompson, after erecting ti walls, returned to Yucatan for a collection < plants to place around them. Near this group is a fac-similoof the hom< of the cliff dwellers of Utah. Colorado an New Mexico, occupied long before tho; lands resounded with the monotonous repet * tion of the marriage ceromony and argumen for free silver. Tne cliff dwellers' homes ai operated as a "concession," the builder pu ting them up at his own expense and rein bursinff himself by selling tickets of admi sion. This is the oaiy money making soctic of the ethnological exhibit, except the Esqu maux. who can only be seen after the pn duction of twsnty-Hve cents. , Of course there aren't any life cliff dwel but th?*re are plenty of .savages. The wi man of Borneo has now come to town, bi the wild man of America has?exclusive < purely lay visitors to the Fair, some of who appear his cultured than the Indian, who; lace. daubed over with colors and looking lit a pen wiper, sees that none of the work thi is to be done escapes the notioe of his wife. The savages (those on exhibition be it ui dorstood) are placed in habitations such i 'fO Q?J-X - ftrlra^ *?$?13 YUCATAN BUHT*. they occupy when in a state of nature. Pe haps the: most elaborate of the ethnologic contributions come Itoui New York, who Commissioners contributed deiajrates fro the aix trib?s of the Iroquois, and they w live on the grounds for a period of six. month entirely free from all care. New York has a strip of iand fronting Jeet on the border of the lagoon and i-xten injr 100 feet back. Tlvj Stntj has erected council l.'OU3>) of bark 30 feet f>y 50 such : ware user! for political caucuses by ti R Iroquois wncii mo ;trnv?u uj?>u u ?23*"' flcene to take charge. In this structure t! Iroquois will carry on their strange and ir pra?6ive ceremonies, boating the tomtom at jumping about in their untamed way, free all charge to the spectator. In a bark house 10 feet t>y 15 live a grot of New York Oneidas who have been sui Jected to an expensive process of heir tamed. There are round bark houses 16 fe< M in diameter inhahited by Mohawks, Ouo: dagas. Cayugas and Tuscaronw who are a of the Iroquois race. On the border of tl SBpgl lagoon is a hunter's lodge and on its bank a sorts of canoes and a big war canoe. Tl ?xbibit altogether is most picturesque ex !J reflects great credit upon the Empire State. j Camped near thorn are a group or live Chippewas and Sioux owned by the State of Minnesota and loaned for the Fair. A lot of Navajos have been sent on by Colo?>do and rthey are living in their native way. British Guiana sent a lot of Arrawaks. and the Dominion of Canada was good enough to spare a quantity of their aborigines. There are Flatheads, Blaekfeet. Pend d'Oreilles. Nez Forces and Kootenais. One of the features r- of the redskin display is the Columbian In_ i dian Band of sixty pieces. | Eugineer Robert E. Peary, of the United * | Stites Navy, has a collection of Esquimau r I things that illustrate life in the Arctic rej gions. During his sojourn in the Whale j Sound region of North Greenland, although is he failed at reaching a high latitude, he was is able to get together skin tents, kayaks or , J canoes, and the weapons of the "Arctic high' j landers."' as-the most Northern tribe of peos j pie in the world are called. An imitation >f | snow house has been prepared and an ice3. i berg not made out of a very cooling sub-* i stance. The chase of the white bear is shown ^ i andthe method by which the Esquimau catches ^ j the walrus and sits ou tho ice and Harpoons ! thn seal. Trophies of the chase in the way i of narwhal teeth and reindeer skins are on ? view which are particularly interesting just now because of the tever for northern adventure which prevails at present. A family of Esquimaux is borrowed every day from the colony ou view in another part of the park, and they sit and so through the indignity of beine: looked at for nothing in order to supply dramatis personae to this ingeniously contrived scenery. To those who think that a dead Indian is a ~ much mora artistic product of civil ization than a tame one there will be plenty of satis. faction in this department. The Anthropo^ logical Building, the last of all the fair structures that it was decided to build, is 415 feet long and 285 feet wide, with a gallery fortyeight feet wide on every side. Of this space much is given up to reminisce aces of Indian tribes that can never be revived, but the exhibit naturally takes in the whole world. There are 30,000 square feet devoted to hygiene, sanitation and charities and correci tion. There are many small collections of c- an archaeological nrtfure and of ancient art y from Assyria, Exypt and Rome?The Greek ! f?- Government loaned valuable exhibits of this a character, and some of great interest were e I found in the Chicago Art Museum. There >a I jvre French relics and a complete Spanish col>f [ lection taken from the Madrid Exposition, as } well as groups of objects from the museums ig j of Vienna and Berlin and from the Russian >d i exhibition. is j Asia, Africa and New South Wales have cs their contributions, and the Pacific and w Queen Charlotte Islands all have their story it to tell of the happy days before man began to n swear allegiance to a janitor and live in a is j Hat. There is a complete model of the vilg ? lage of Skidegat, in British Columbia, show " c"~' ' AX AXCIZXT BACK IV UTAH. 9- ing the houses, totem poleg and inhabitants, in In the still life department are also re>k mains of all sorta of Indians. Canadian and /- United States. There are the State collections of Ohio, Missouri, Colorado and Utah, i- the results of the Hemenway Southwest exl pedition. Mexico and the South American )f republics sent singular sculptures and le strange tablets of hieroglyphics. The ex(d plorations of Professor Putnam's envoys in ,d Ecuador, Chile, Peru and Bolivia gave valub, able results, showing the arts and customs of )f ancient people. Similar collections come 1- from British Guiana. Paraguay, Brazil and the Argentine Republic. >- There are special exhibits of folk lore and | 19 the games and religions of all countries. In I jr the latter is the collection of idols of William w J. Gunning, which contains four hundred )t ..'V la J , ^ Lit ? of rare specimens. From the Gaboon Elver m comes Po-Po. the "Goddess of Maidenhood," ? | and Ipa. the "God of Deliverance,"supposed :o to be three thousand years old. Ipa was at found by Livingstone. Alaskan Indians of | the Thlinkeet tribe have queer gods and a- 1 fottches. From British Columbia are shown us good spirits and hob-goblins and from _ Dakota the medlcino bag of the Sioux, which no Indian will consent to part with. Mexico )3 represented in the Guuning collection by a number of little gods, among them Centotl, the "Great Producer," and Vo-tan, the "God of Culture. From Thebes is a sacred jackal. Man lived in the glacial period, as the collections show. There are relics of that chilly time as well as specimens from the shell heaps of Maine and Florida. The Peruvian rinds include the best assortment of mummies ever unearthed on this L continent. The peculiar methods of burial | are shown. In some of the graves were found work baskets, beads, flags and, most important 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 ornaments and trinkets. The anthropological laboratories show an immense quantity of Instruments and apparntna un.t o,, V, x- i divided into anthropology, neurology and al ; psychology-. Anthropological tests will be so : spoiled to this visitors on thy payment of a nj i small fee. They will he measured, weighed ill j and all the statistics obtainable about them3. ! selvo3 no!;ei on a card. They will also, if [ they ar^ women. b? able to see wheroln they 55 ' differ from the shape of the Venus do J{ilo 'j- and remedy the defects. a Whenever Professor Putnam's associates as I set hold of an aboriginal person they meas30 ; ure him. A series of results obtained by 10 ! measuring skulls and skeletons have been i le ! collated and placed on charts. Fifty thou- | a- ' sana senooi caiuiren nave oeen examined id | and described. Seventy-five men worked of i two years measuring uearly twenty thousand Indians. They thus found one use to which ip i an Indian could be put. b- In the archajological division, to which it; I reference has been made, are arranged geoat I graphically the shell heaps, ancient villages, a- mounds, earthworks and pueblos, making a ill very picturesque sight. In the great earthie works of Ohio there are combined squares, :11 octagons and circles, which are shown by ie maps. The great mound at Cahokia, 111., is id nearly 100 feet high, and the Serpent mound, t I of Ohio, is 1400 feet long. These, as well as Fort Ancient, the largest ancient fortification in the country, and the Turner and Hopewell groups are represented pictoriallv. One subdivision of the section contains such special exhibits as stone implements, pottery, ornaments and pipes. Everv material exemplifying 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 of its Indian school system. The tribes of Indians have prepared collections of articles relating to themselves which are entered for competition. These are not exclusively of an entomological character, but will deal with their modes of life, thought and industry. esquimaux family. In the department of natural history New York State again takes the lead. The Wurd's Natural Scicnce Museum, of Rochester, has an exhibit which Professor Putnam says is perfect. It shows every form of animal life from sponges to man." Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado send the birds and mammals found in those States. In the line o! documentary exhibits are found charts and maps of thy world anterior to the voyage of Coiumbu3 and at different periods since. There are physical anthropological statistics and criminal statistics. All i the books in the library after the Fair will go to the Memorial Museum of Science of Chi- ( cago. i A creditable reproduction of Fort Dearborn is shown. This, as almost every one krfows, , was the nucleus around which the city of Chicago was built. Somewhat in the same i style of architecture in an old log cabin of ( the country type of a hundred years ago, containing some forefathers in fac-simile, | dressed in the co3tumeo? the colonial period. WORLD'S FAIK NOTES. Goverxob Flower, of New York, has been spending 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 exhibition 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 tne little folks at the Fair nas been opened with simpl9 exercises. The programme was carried out principally by children. A number of ?horu3es were sung under the direction of Professor Hartunc. A company of children, under the leadership Ut miss riuuiui?iuu, ?!! lumoouuij uiui in the gymnasium on the first floor, after which luncheon was served. Tho children's building is a typical kindergarten, and every contrivance imaginible to interest and instruct young folks has been secured. The larger children will have the benefit of a gymnasium ou the first floor, and adjacent rooms have been flttid with cradles and cribs which it is expectod will be used extensively. Visitors at the Fair who have children can leave tham here. No child under two years of age will be admitted. The Japanese Commissioners have given a large number of dolls, and juvenile literature has been furnished by the German Commissioners, Illinois giving the book-oases. The building was erected at a co3t of $45,000. The playground is on the roof, which is furnished with swings and 1 hammocks. A trained corps of nurses will ' be in constant attendance on the children. The formal opening of tho Electricity Building has at last taken place. The feature J of the display was the unveiling and lighting of the big Edison tower erected by the Gen- j eral Electric Comp;iny. This shaft is sit- j uated in the exact centre of the building,and represents the highest achievement of the in- ] candescent lamp. It extends into the groined < arch formed by the intersection of the nave and the transept, reaching a height of about j 100 feet. The methods used in construction ( have resulted in showing a perfect column, ( as inougu me emiro sami wore ucwu irum ( ons massive block or stone. It springs from ( the roof of a pavilion surrounding the base, j and the entire interior is strewn with thou- , sands of.incandescent lamps, as many hued j a3 the western sunset. The colors are ar- , ranged by mechanical methods, capable of i being flashed in harmony with the strains of , music. The column is crowued 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 frame, and are all lighted from the interior ' by a large number of insane!oscent lamps, t The effect produced is marvelous, and can be 1 appreciated only when seen. 1 PROMINENT PEOPLE. ' Senatob Stanford's income is $400 per hour. Thk Infanta Euialia has eleven Christian names. The Pope refused to let the German Kaiser kiss hla tand, but gave the band three shaken. Thomas Dunn English, the author if "Ben Boit," i3 living in Newark, N. J., at the age of seventy-four years. i3aac Holden, a member of the English Pirlmmm? ia nlffhtv-air vears of aire. He lives chiefly upou fruits and biscuits. ? Pkp.e Hyacinthe delivered an oration in London, recently, with all his old-time vigor, though he is now sixty-six years old. The late Commodore Anderson did two big things in his day. He commanded the Great Eastern and introduced the stock ticker into England. Henet M. Stanley declares that he will be a candidate for a s^at in the British Parliament at the next election, and that he has no intention of returning to Africa. Caudj.val Vauohan. the Archbishop of Westminster, is not only the handsomest pr?- . late in England, but also one of the finestlooking men in the British Kingdom. Colonel John S. Mobby. the famous ex- ] Confederate, is practicing law in San Fran- ] cisco. He is nearly sixty years old, but , stands straight ns an arrow and is full of < vigor. , , It is said that the readings given by the , late James E. Murdock, the 3Ctor and elo- ] cutionist, in aid of the Sanitary Commission < during the Civil War, produced $250,000 for | that organization. < The wife of Professor Bell, the inventor of < the telephone, was a deaf-mute until taught > the lip language ; out sue now converses ens- i i)y anil understands all that is said around j her. Her husband instructed her in the sign 1 language. < Quken Victoeia, when on her continental journey, if u!w-,ys accompanied by George ' Greenham, one of fcbo most respected mem- ] bers of the Scotland Yard staff, whose duty it ' is to shadow and safeguard Her Majesty upon ! ali occasions. , Doctor Kudolf Fal3. of Viena::, wno uas ; had a reputation for twimty yours past as an | earthquake prophet, is the nan o.' an Austrian miller. He publishes every year a list of "critical days." ami these are tfco days when j the moon approaches the. earth most closely. : Ex-Pzikhident Harrison is already at work 1 on his course of lectures on international i law, which ho will deliver at the Stanford < University in California next October. When I completed and delivered the lectures will be i printod as a text book on the subject of which they treat. Sallie Wallace, a young woman firing near Midvillo, Oa., shot and killed Manuel Roseuwarg, a peddler, who had sold her a pail of shoes which were not satisfactory. n? LIZZIE BORDENON TEIAL. A MURDEB CASE THAT EXCITES NATIONAL INTEREST. The Daughter of the Fall Rivei (Maas.) Capitalist Arraigned at New Bedford for the Murder ol Her Father and Step-Mother? Dally Progress cf the Trial. The trial of Lizzie Andrew Borden, who la under indictment for the murder at Fall River of her aged parents under circumstances that have created a National sensation, wbs begun, amid much excitement, at New Bedford, Mass. Large numbers ol strangers had been attracted by the event, and the hotel were filled to overflowing. The court house is an old fashioned, poorly 1IZZIE A. BORDEN. ventilated building of the typo of fifty years ago. Judge Blodgett, the ablest member of the Supreme Bench, presides over the court. District Attorney Moody leads the array of counsel for the commonwealth, and exGovernor Robinson that of the defense. At 11 o'clock Miss A. Borden, the prisoner, came slowly into the room, preceded by Deputy Sheriff Klrby, and was shown to her 3eat in the dock. She was attired in a becoming costumo of black brocaded stuff nnd tvoro a pretty shade hat relieved by a touch hers and there or blue. A3 sho passed the bar inclosure, Melvin 0. Adams, of counsel for tho defense, stepped to the rail and bowed to her. But Lizzie, while acknowledging it with a slight inclination of the head, sat down, without raising her eyes to his and passed on slowly to the dock. Every seat in the room was occupied by talesmen and newspaper men, no outsiders being admitted, and within the box enclosure were MBfl. ABBIE D. BOBDBIT, 7TB8T VICTIM. i few of the prominent men of the county, cvho had been accorded seats by courtesy. Court came in at 11:27. Rev. M. C. Julien, af New Bedford, made a brief prayer, Miss Borden standing. The clerk was then directed to proceed with the impaneling of the jury. Miss Borden was asked to stand up rod told of her right to challenge. Challenges on both sidos were numerous. The jury when it was chosen was formed of the following men : George Potter, of Westport; William F. Dean, of Taunton ; John Wilbur, Df Somerset; Frod. C. Wilbur, of Raynham ; Lemuel K. Wilbur, of Easton ; William Wesoott, of Seeconk ; A. B. Hodge, of Taunton : Augustus Swift, of New Beaford; Frank 0. Cole, of Attleboro, John C. Finn, of Taunton; Charles L Richards, of Taunton, and Allen S. Wordoll, of Dartmouth. They are a very solid lot of citizens. Richards, the foreman, is a rich land owner; Swift is the manager t>f iron works, and the rest are farmers and master mechanics and such like. To get a dozen of them 101 were called. Fifty-two ivere excused for scruples of prejudices, sixteen were challenged by Miss Borden, and [ourteoa Dy ine commuuweiuiu. On the second aay ortno trial tne courtroom wa3 crowded with spectators two;hlrds of whom were women. Assistant Dis:ricl Attorney Moody, of Essex County, opened the case for tho prosecution. He related the details of tl> finding of the AVDHEW T. BORDF.X, SECOXD VICTIX. oodles of the old couple, and told of th;> iifference that had for years existed between Miss Borden and her stepmother. Elero the skuils were produced by Doctor D%laa. The counsel said that the exact measurement of the blade of the broken-handled latchet was 31* inches: the Instrument svhich fits into the daatii-woun.Is of Anirew J. Borden was just inches wide. L'.rrJet Borden fainted after Mr. Moody bad ieclared that It would be proved that she jurned a dress three days after the murder :>f her father and stepmother and had proluced 4t\ court the hatchet with which it is supposed the crimes were committed. Sho remained unconscious for several minutes. Mter District Attorney Moody hud outlined :he State's case the jury, accompanied by ounsel for both sides, visited Fall lliver to + 1*A nfomicia Ixrhora fhrt /?rtm? committed and all other places in tlvi locality ivhich were to be used as landmarks in the :rial of this <?!??. The prisoner refused to iccoran.'iny the jury. Uu uiii; iiuru day oi the triai Civil Engineer Kiornan w.is the first witness cximined. Ho testified as to the location ot the bodies when they were lound. James A. Walsh, a photographer, showed views of the Borden house. Surveyors' and photographers' evidence beinj; concluded, John V. Horse, unclc of the prisoner, took the stand. On cross-examination he swore that sn reaching the Borden house after the murlcr ho saw no officers in the yard ; that the jarn door was closed and he heard no ono nsido. This wntradicted tho Government's jluima that officers. by immediate examination of the barn, ascertained that the prisoner could not have been there at the time of the murder. A. G. Hart, Joseph Sliortlieve and James Mather, witnesses, called after five minutes' recess llxed the time when Mr. Borden was lust seen. Cross-examination developod nothing but slight confusion And uncertainty as to tne exact time. Miss Borden yawned and looked on listlessly. Mr. Moody then called Bridget Sullivan to the stand. Bridget Sullivan was tho strongest witness ol the day, but while her testimony placed Lizzie Borden, the accused, in the home at the hour of the murders, the effect of .it was weakened by the statement, reiterated with emphasis, that between the accused ;inu her stepmother, there had never been, to witness s knowledge, an unkind word. When tho cross-examination oI Bridget had been concluded the court adjourned. The lino of defence wiis indicated uy calling on witnesses to testify that tho person who committed the murder might Have been concealed in a closet. Details of the Crime. The eldest victim of the crime was Andrew J. Borden, a capitalist of Fall River. Mass.. who was seventy years old. The other victim was his second wife, stepmother to the prisoner. She was considerably younger than her husband, who married her wheD Miss Lizzie was about four years old. She was a large, fleshy woman. There wore two naugaters. jjiotio auu rumua. Emma was out of town on the day of tht> murder, which took place on August 4, 1892. Emma called her stepmother "Abbie," but Lizzie did not call her anything to her face or speak to her at all. She quarrelled with her live years ago because her stepmother induced her father to clear a piece of property of debt and give it to his wife's sister. Miss Lizzie was born in 1860. She and her sister had -35000 in cash or in mill shares or in each form. This their father had given to them. At the time of the murder all the members of tho family were 111. and this led to the theory that they had all been poisoned. A drug clerk was said to have sold prusaic acid to Miss Lizzie, but it was a case of mistaken identity. No poison was found in the bodies of the victims. On the morning of the day of the murder Mr. Borden had been on his business rounds and had come back. Mrs. Borden was I dressing to go out. Bridget Sullivan was upstaira washing windows. The old man went to sleep on a lounge in the sitting room. Tho wife continued dressing, if she was not already dead, and Lizzie Borden, according to her own story, went out to the barn in the yard and stayed there thirty minutes. She passed her father in going out. and stopped to stroke his head. All this was between half past ten o'clock and ten minutes past eleven o'clock in the morning, in a disagreeable side street, a semi-tenement neighborhood with small shops in it. It was in the heart of the city, in its business part. The wife had sent the servant to wash the down stairs dining-room windows. At four or five minutes before 11 the servant went up to her room to lie down. She had been lying there ten or fifteen minutes when Miss Lizzie ha* fi*Am Hnmn afnira in a IJUUDU 1/V7 UO& li ViU uvnu ?M ? I v.vv suggesting alarm or terror. She is reported to have seen Lizzie in tho kitchen, who said either '-Father's dead; go for doctor" or "Father's hurt; go for the doctor." The servant wiil clear up this confusion as to what was said. The scrviint.Bridget Sullivan, went and came back and was sent out to get a Mrs. Russell. When she returned again Dr. Bo wen was there and had been preceded by Mrs. Churchill. a neighbor, whose windows looked close upon the Borden house. These visitors sayr the father's body. Mrs. Churchill said some one should notify Mrs. Borden, and Lizzi9 remarked that shethoughtshe heard her moiber come in. The neighbor and servant went up and discovered the dead woman. Both victims had been brutally chopped about tho head and face. Lizzie Borden was suspected and placed under surveillance from the moment the crime was discovered. Finally, the District Attorney went before the Grand Jury and declared that he had sufficient evidence to convict her. -So she was indicted, arrested, an J has been confined in jail ever since. THE SIXTH WEEK. Progress of the Opening of Exhib!t3 at Chicago. * The sixth week s festivities at the World's Fair wsre opened by the Danes. The various Danish societies of tho city came out together, and at 12 o'clock 10,000 Danes paraded and walked around until they were worn out. It was Denmark's day at the Fair and Festival Hall was the place set for the exercises. Thbodore Thomas Drought his Exposition orchestra, and Director-General Davis, In the. name of the Exposition,' delivered an address of welcome. Denmark's exhibit, a modol of system and elegance, waa thrown open at noon. UJUii. J- A japans quaint js.luuii ux wu xjma alw 3uilding was also formally opened. Every visitor expressed great admiration for the delicacy and beauty of the work. The invited guests went over 10 the Japanese tea house where tea and lunch were served. The Hooden, or Phoenix Palace on Wooded Island, the building which the Japanese Government ia to give the city alter the Fair, was also opened. Visitors were not allowed inside, but the sliding panelled doors were thrown back so that a view of all the interior could be had from the balconies. Queen Victoria's tapesteries taken from Windsor Castle and consigned to President Higinbotham for exhibition at the Fair, were taken from the salety vaults where they have been kept since Royal Commissioner Harris brought them to Chicago, and removed to the J Exposition. They wore placed in the building, Their safety is guaranteed by a bond of $100,000. The individual exnibit of Margherita, Queen of Italy, was placed on view. It Is made up largely of laces, and is under heavy bonds for safe return. Visitors also had an opportunity of seeing diamonds removed from gem-bearing clay brought here from Africa. The exhibit of xhe Cape Town diamond mines was put In motion, demonstrating tuo muuuai m mutu diamonds la the rough are taken from the earth. Krupp's great cannons, that poked their noses toward the late from the fort-like pavilion soutn of Agricultural Builduig, were put through drill and the great exhibit was formally opened to tho public. Herr Wermuth, Imperial German Commissioner, and Herr Oillhauseu, Krupp's representative, were the hosts, and explained to a large number of guests the working of the great guns. Tho paid admissions at the gates on this day numbered 55,881. NAVAL CHANGES, Erben Goes to Sea and Gherardl Takes Charge of the Navy Yard. At noon, a few days ago, Commodore Erben hauled down his fla^f on tho Vermont and gave up the command of tho Brooldyn Navy Yard. ^ tho flag was lowered it was saluted wii'n eleven guns, and aa the flag of Rear Admiral Gherardi took its place a salute of thirteen guns was fired. Then Commodore Erben escorted his successor to the Lyceum, where the Marine (iuaru was paraaea in ms uuuui, auu uo Introduced to all the officers and heads of departments in the yard. After the ceremony at the Lyceum Commodore Erben was escorted to the Chicago, where Acting Kear Admiral Walker relinquished the command to him and introduced him to the officers of the ship. Here again the ceremony of saluting the flags was performed. Commodore Erben now holds the position of Acting Rear Admiral, commandant of the European squadron. FIVE PEKISH BY FIRE, Tenants Wake Froin Sleep to l^lnd Nscnpe 0?T. Fivo persons were killed at a lire that began just about midnight in the live-story flat wuseat 138 East Forty-third stroK. Now I York City. They were William Uenta, :i stenographer: Mrs. Cento, his wife: li&jic Bente, his sister, age.it twenty, who was on a visit to him: Helen Wotmore Dietz, his niece; 1'ugh, a young man who had a hall bedroom on the top floor. All theso were on the top floor when the fire was discovered. All the flats in the house were occupied except the third, and there the (ire began, It was up through tho roof in a minute by means of the stairway, and was illuminating the neighborhood. The lire was easily controlled, but before it was under control an:l within ton minutes from their arrival tho firemen had long ladders up to the front widows of the live-story building, and were beginning a search. It was nearly X :30 o'clock in the morning that they found tho live bodies THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Matoe Gilbov informed Commander Dickins that New York City could not officially receive the Duke de Voragua again. It was intimated that the reason was that the Duke did not acknowledge the courtesies extended on his first visit. The Rhode Island Senate voted to adjourn to January next, refusing to meet with the House in Grand Committee. The annual examination at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., began. The Cornell Iron Works in New York City wars destroyed by Are. The loss is about half a million. Governor Bbown prorogued the session of the Rhode Island Legislature to January, 1894, the Senate refusing to meet with the House In Grand Committee. An Vow Vni?t rS'^r fha Tnfonfa the members of tho Reception Committee of | the Committee of One Hundred and their wives aboard the Dolphin, and gave them an excursion and luncheon. William T. Xijtoslky, one of the proprietors of the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, Penn., oommitted suicide on his model farm on the iow?r outskirts of the city. Ho had been a sufferer from nervous dyspepsia and insomnia. Jose Cabbiebo, a Portuguese farm band, is held for the murder of Bertha May Manchester in Fall River, Mass. Scabcitt of servants has become a serious matter in New YorkCity. Many homes have been closed for want of domestic help, which employment agencies are unable to supply, because the girls are flocking to Chicago or the country. The Austrian training ship Frundsberg arrived at the Port of New York and the cadets on board will visit the World's Fair. The Infanta of Spain left New York City for Chicago by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Canal Street Bank of New York City has gone into voluntary liquidation. Eight hundred and fifty-nine east side merchants have $436,691.90 on deposit. All will be paid in full. South and West. ? The Old Kentucky Home at the Chicago Fair Grounds was dedicated. It is the Blue Grass ijtato Building and one of the most attractive in the grounds. Miss Enid Yandel's statae of Daniel Boone was unveiled. At the Sisseton Agency, South Dakota, Miss Cynthia Rockwell, an Illinois teacher at Coodwill Mission, has married Richard King, an Indian, studying for the Presbyterian ministry. The Plankinton Bank in Milwaukee, Wis., closed its doors. The bank had loaned 8200,000 to F. A. Lappen & Co. and the Lappen Furniture Company, and this was the principal cause of its suspension. The Victoria Cordage Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, members of the Cordage Trust, has assigned. Assets, $500.000; liabilities, 4400,000. Tobnadoes did great damage to property in Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Kentucky. At Bosedale, Miss., W. L. Bawdre and wife were killed. Iowa Prohibitionists nominated a full State ticket. The members of the graduating class at Annapolis (Md.) Naval Academy, forty-four in number, received their diplomas at the hands of Secretary Herbert. W. V. N. Powelson, of New York, received the honors of his class graduating No. 1. A receiver was appointed at Charleston. W. Vx, for the Norfolk and Western Kailroad. During a heavy rain storm Are was discovered in a block on Farnum street, Omaha, Neb. The entire city Fire Department was called to the scene. A high wind was blowing. One of the walls fell on seven firemen, Five of them were instantly killed. While a primary election was held in Bell County, Kentucky, by the Democratic party, excitement ran high, and in a fight at Pineville, the county seat, John Jones and Levi Hoskins were killed and two others were fatally injured. OyiNo to a storm less than 60,000 persons visited the World's Fair on the second Sunday opening. Twenty-five men walked into Decatur, I1L, a city of 22,000 people, and lynched Samuel Bush on the principal street without opposition. Bush was a colored man accused of assaulting two white women. At Chicago, HI., Herman Schaffner A Co., private bankers, made an assignment. Schaffner <fc Co. have been the largest private bankers in the Northwest, dealing exclusively in commercial paper. John C. Mining, Town Treasurer of Fori ? * J-S -./I i1P.AAA Jennings, unio, nas OlsapptJttruu w-im ?<JVW cash, and an additional shortage qL $10,000 has been discovered. Wild and unfounded rumors of impending financial disaster caused a senseless run oa many of the banks in Chicago. Tnose chiefly affected were the Prairie State National Bank, the State Bank of Commerce, the Hibernian Savings Bink, the Dime Savings Bank, the Union Trust Company's Bank and the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank. Ileado we ro ft Brothers, private bankers of Chicago, failed with liabilities estimated at $450000. The Bank of Spokane, Washington, has failed. It is a private institution, owned bj A. M. Cannon, who is reported to be wortfl $3,000,000. The Sandussy (Ohio) Savings Bank assigned, The Merchants' National Banli, of Fort Worth, Texas, capital $250,000, has failed. Washington. The State Department has received offlcia; notification from Hawaii of the appointment of L. H. Thurston a3 Minister to xne United States, in place of Dr. Mott Smith. Because of the foul condition of the Vesuvius, the Navy Department abandoned the intsntion of sending her round from New York to the mouth of St. Lawrence to convej the caravels, and sent her to the Portsmouth Navy Yard to be docked. a ? ?hv nf rnll at ix. 21 l 1 pic^wiuu i Eckels shows that from January 1 up to May 31, twenty. National banks, witn a capital oi $(?,150,00t), failed, as against sdvea National banks, with a capital ot $025,100, for the corresponding period of 1892. The Government receipts during the month of May ware ?.'50,971,497 and the expenditures $30,872,502. Official notice has been given of the raising of the Italian Legation at Washington to the rank of an embassy; Baron Fava will be the first Ambassador. Babon von Sacbma Jeltsch. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for Prussia, at the Court of Stuttgart, Wurtemburg, has been appointed German Ambassador to Washington. He is the first German Ambassador to the United States. The President appointed Charles H. Mansur, of Missouri, Second Comptroller of the Treasury. President Cleveland announced that an extra wssiou of Congress would bo called early in September to deal with the financial question, which he urges the peopie to study closely. Chahler W. Dayton" was appointed Postmaster of New York City. tt? succeed Cornelius Van Colt, by President Cleveland. He was born in New York City October 3, 1846. Ho a a lawyer. Foreign. Is tho British House of Commons t'ue Government accepted an amendment to the Home Iiul? bill, excepting forts, navy yards, etc.. in Ireiaud from the Irish Government's control. Wir.i.tAX Townsend. who tnreatened to take Mr. Gladstone's life, has been' adjudged ins,-ins and committed to a British asylum. Reports from Manipur. India, say tn.it an the rivers in tlio country have overflowed their banks. have swept away the hrid^s ua.l are submersing villages and ttel'ls. Dozens of dead bodies are floating down stream in every river At on.< point in a .small str?am tweuty bodies were recovered in three days. The Nitiaz went ashore on the Corean coast and became a total wreck. Nino lives were lost. Obhi Eddy, his wife and daughter Emma were murdered at Clarenceville, Quebec. Cauada, a few nights since. RobDery is the only motive that can be assigned for the crime. Eddy was a well-to-do farmer. Mb. Rcnyoh presented to Emperor William his credentials as United States Minister to Germany, and Mr. Phelps presented hia letter of recall. - - 1 LATEB NEWS. flaptov2 Mabtella, the Italian who nror- H dered Giovanni Parello at Saratoga, May 6, B 1892, was electrocuted at the State Prison at ^ Dannemora, N. Y. Two contacts were necea- 1 sary. Judoe Andrews, of the Supreme Court, of New York, dismissod William R. Laidlaw's complaint in the suit to recover $50,000 damages from Russell 8as;e for being used as a shield against a dynamite crank. t ;J A heavy rainstorm, accompanied by s-bigh wind and frequent flashes of lightning broke over New York City and suburbe, do- ' ing much damage ; one man was killed and there was heavy loss by fire in Brooklyn. The Infanta Eulaha rsacned Chicago from New York; much enthusiasm was shown by the crowds that lined the route from the rail- t j road station to the hotel. J A SKIF-' containing Alexander McOloud and Robert Anderson was upset in a whirl- J pool at Boundary City, Wyoming. The men K were drowned. * Serosa.kt 0'LEA.bt,.of the United States j Army, was shot and mortally wounded by Private Roberts, in Fort Sherman, Idaho. Jealousy over promotion was the cause. ^ The State Department telegraphed its ac~ M ceptance of the resignation of Rowland B. S Mahony, Minister to Eucador, and instructed B him to tarn over the legation archives to the fl United States Consul. ^ The Russian extradition treaty was J officially promulgated by President Cleveland. ' ...7 Advices from KotI, a port on an island In the River Koti, on the east coast of Borneo, state that an explosion, attended with fatal results, occurred at that place on board the steamer Houthandelbunalda. Five persons j were killed. jj Daniel F. Beitty, tiiriie Mayor of Wash- M ington, N. J., a piano and organ dealer In fl that place, has been arrested by Postofflce ; Inspector-in-Chiof Christopher C. Jamee and Inspector Joseph E. Jacobs on th* charge of 1 using the United States mails for fraudulent I purposes. ' Two huhdbed aud frtty apprentice b0j8 ' from the German ship Gueisenau were landod ' at Fort Adams, Newport. R. I., for infantry and artillery practice. They formed a battalion of four compan ies? threa of Infantry and one of artil lery. The latter had two field pieces and drilled apart fromtho others. The infantry sections were manoeuvred in battalion and'skirmish drill and passed in review. The Now Albany (InJ.) Banking Company has suspended payment. Mayor Harbison, of Chicago, gave a break- jj fast and reception for the Infanta ; she was the guest of President Higinbotham, of tho 1 World's Fair Directory, ut the evening. < The business portion of Fargo, North Dakota, was destroyed by fire ; 2200 people were rendered homoless. Loss. |I2)000,000. * Fiee broke out on Page street between Baker and Lyon streets. Son Francisco, CaL, and in less than an hour a whole block hod M been totally consumed. Throe firemen were flj instantly killed by falling walls. Notice was recoived by the department of | State that Russia would ratsa her Mission at . T]| Washington to the rank of an Embassy. I Tub Postmaster-General has instructed 1 Postmasters not to admit to t(ie mnilg diseaao J germs sent to phy?icians S*r analysis. J The work of readjusting the salaries oI fl first-class postofQces is la progress at the H Department. Tho adjustment is for the fl year ended March 31, 1893, and among the offices already completed is that of New fl York, showing receipts of $7,215,240, on In- Bj crease over last year of $^35,183. .9'! Despatchts from Buenos Ayres announce E that tho Argentine Cabinet has resignod. 1 Shots were exchanged between the police J and revolutionary soldiers in Managoa, Ni earagua. Six of tho police were kilied. I Destructive and fatal floods continue in I Austria. o Sib Richard Wbdsteb finished his address J in behalf of the British base before the Bering H Sea Court at Paris ; C. Robinson, a Canadian 9 lawyer, followed him. V Waa has been renewed in Dahomey, 1 Africa, King Behanzin having ropulsed the I French in a sharp conflict. ^ I BOLD OUTLAWS. They Cleaned Oat a Bank, Bat the Money Was Recovered. The People's Bank at Benton viJle. Ark., was robbed at 2:30 p. :n. by a gang of six , j desperadoes, armed with Winchesters, who I Secured over $10,000. Thty were from the Indian Territory, and ^ came tito town with four flue horses and a white-topped bugTy, which were left in the ~ rear of tne Sun office, under charge of one. man, while the other iive went single fllo in the front of the office, one-half block north. to the People's Bank, whore they entered and covered the bank officials?President A. W. Dinsmore, Vice-Prcsident J. R. Hall, Cashier J. C. McAndrew. and Assistant Cashier G-. P. Jackson?with Winchesters. One of the men made Cashier McAndrew dump the contents t of the safe into sacks brought for the purpose, putting gold and currency into one and the | silver into another. After securingthe boodle they made the officials march in front of . them as they started for their horses, forcing Mr. Jackson to carry the sack of silver con- > taining over 310.000. When they passed the Sun office Miss Maggie Wood of the Sun force had the presence of mind to rush to the door and open it, lettine? Mr. Jaokson in with his sack of silver, and immediately shut and locked the door. One robber raised his Winchester, but the young lady's act was too quick for him. Thfe citizens soon rallied and a general firing was kept up. The robbers mounted their horses, going west, eioaciy followed by Saeriflf ?.-n. ??a iuimu AeaictAnt- f'ashler Jack VJTUlUlkliiu auu J^vikjv. son was shot in the hoad, back of the right ear, and also in tho left elbow. The wounds are not serious. Taylor Stone, a farmer. procured a shotgun and Ored two shots at the flying robbers, but was immediately shot down. The ball passed through his left groin . : and killed him. Tom Baker, a farmer, was ^ shot in the chin, and returned the eompliment by wounding the robber. Another one ' was wounded by Tom Woolsey, a drayman. CHOLERA S TUBKEY, . Thousands of I'eopJe Dying on tho Lower Tigris. i Hjports fro;n Sivuril eitissoi Asiatic Tarkey say that tho ohoiera lin appoarj I iu many districts and is spreading rapidly. Along the Lower Tigris a-i l the .<1 i*-;!-Vr.ib lliver people are dying by thousands. Whole viM have been destroyed by those floaiug from tii? put. Tho pmUr fcu basome so jjroat that fow families wait to bury thsir ilivii or even to mtrsa tiioir si.;Sc. but flee to the next town to esiape the infection. Over 70.000 persons have fled from Basaora proving alone. The United States Treasury Department will pay the Choctaw and Chickasaw claim of 52.291,450 with drafts on the SubTreasury at St. Lonia. Tho Indians want a larare portion in silver half-dollar, as the money is to be divided up per capita among tho Indians, and tboy prefer something that !jos d ring to it. A