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HOTTED DOWN IN TEE BOCKEES
IN A SNOW STOEM.
Blackfoot Scouts Trailed the Gang
Which Held Up the Northern
Pacific Train to a Hut?Three
Robbers and an Indian Killed?
Two Bandits Captured.;
Three train robbers and one member of an
/ Indian posse were killed in a pitched battle
which took place in a blinding snow storm
near Two Medicine Creek, on the east slope
of the Rocky Mountains, not far from Kalispell,
Montana.
Their names were Charles Jones, alias
Charles Kincaid, John Sbipman and Ben
Hall, alias Ben Mattocks, robbers, and Henry
Sohiber of the Indian police. 8everal other
members of the posse wore wounded. The
robbers were members of the gang of four
which held up the Northern PaciQo passenger
train near Livingstone, Montana, on
August 25.
They were traced from Livingstone by twc
ninM-fr^f o/*r*nfa wKa flmi 11 it t/>
uu?viviuvi cTvvui^i nuw uumij' iau mcui iv
< ground near Two Medicine Creek. The
scouts returned to Kalispell and notified
United States Marshall Jackson, who started
out on the trail with a posse of about thirteen
Blackfoot Indian police. Where the robbers'
camp was struck at Two Medicine Creek was
within a mile of the Great Northern Bailroad.
Prom signs about the traoks of the road it
is believed that the gang intended to wreck
or hold up a Great Northern train. There
% were five men, one of whom probably joined
the Northern Pacific robbers after their esoape
from Livingstone, encamped in a log
house, which had been erected by Shepherd,
Siems <k Co., raliroad contractors. Whe?
Marshal Jackson reached the camp a heavy
snow storm had set in.
The cabin was surrounded, and Marshal
Jackson approaohed it with a flag of truce
and ordered the men to. surrender. The
answer was a sheet of flame from the windows
of the cabin.
Henry Schiber was instantly killed. The
fire was returned, but without effect. The
robbers were again summoned to surrender,
but responded by another volley.
Marshal Jackson sent a messenger to
Helena and Kalispell for reinforcements.
The reinforcements of 115 men arrived at
night under Sheriff Curtiss, of Helena, and
8heriff Granger, of Kalispell.
The besieged and besiegers had kept up a
steady firing in the mean time, and three of
the robbers had been killed by the Indians.
The fourth robber. Brown, and the unknown
man kept up tbe tiring ror an nour arter tne
^ reenforcements came, but their ammunition
gave out and they finally surrended.
None of the robbers had anything to eat
for four days. All the booty, with the ex'
oeption of a few artioles, was recovered.
Brown and the unknown man, who said
his name was Sinclair, were taken to Kalispell.
They may be lynohed before their trial
oomee off.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Ex-Sxxatob Dawes, of Massachusetts, is
to deliver a course of lectures at Dartmouth.
Rev. Benjamin Jowktt, one of the foremost
classical scholars of Great Britain, is
dead.
"Tbcst in God and defend thyself bravely,"'
is the motto on a sword presented by the
German Emperor to his ten-year-old son.
Ex-Congbebsman Heflin, of Alabama,
boasts that he lived In Washington for 830 a
month, and saved $9600 oi his two years'
aslarr.
Sib John Gladstone, nephew of the Grand
Old Man, is a tall, broad shouldered young
giant, as ardent a Conservative as his uncle
la the reverse, and one of the most extensive
distillers in Scotland.
Mb. Balfocb, who will, it if thought, be
Premier of England someday, is also thought
to be the most interesting bachelor in Englagd.
He is 'orty-flve ywtra old, and an unmarried
sister presides over his household.
The Rev. T. M. Hitchcook, of Glens Falls.
N. Y., eighty-seven years old, preached on a
recent Sunday in the Fifth Avenue Methodist
Church, Troy, a sermon in rhyme. Mr.
Hitchcock has preached for fifty years in the
Troy Conference.
Thsbz has just died at Mietschisko one
Herr<Wendt, in his 100th year. A born
Pomeranian, he took part in the war of
freedom against Napoleon, and had both
eyes shot out. Herr Wendt bore his sorrow
to the day of his death with fortitude and
resignation.
Mas. Fbanczb B. Ltbsakd, of Ohio, has
been on the examiners' corps in the civil
engineering department of the Patent Office
at Washington for about ten vears. Railways
are her specialty, and she has the annual
task of passing upon about 8000 alleged in
venuona, o: wmcn u uoseu maj poiuap i
practicable.
Panics Bismabok, according to a correspondent
who recently visited him, is still
erect and vigorous looking. His head is
bald at the top and fringed with hair, which
is now nearly white. His voice is somewhat
husky and his breath short, but the face, as
it is raised in some emphatic sentence, shows
doggednoss, determination and iron wilL
, Kino Leopold, of Belgium, is always looking
out for the main chance and speculates
heavily. It is hinted that if the true inwardness
of the Panama speculation on the Paris
bourse is brought to light, His Majesty will
figure as one of the ohief manipulators. He
is not at oil popular with his subjects, and is
set down as a cold-blooded, insincere man
of the world, who cares for nobody but himself.
RESOURCES 01' ALASKA.
Interesting Facts From' a Census
Agent's Heport.
Charles H. Isham, Deputy Collector of
Customs of Alaska, who was assigned as
census agent, to the duty of preparing sta
Hatloal data of the Territory, arrived at Port
Townsond, Washington, from Sitka tho other
day, and gave out some information concerning
the resources of Alaska which has
not been published before. He estimates the
annual gold product at about $1,000,000.
Miners who nscend tho Yukon River In the
spring usually return with from $2000 to
$6000 in gold dust, and about $700,000 in
gold is taken out annually by tbe Traadwell
mlnps. For the year ending June 30, 1893,
118 vessels entered from foreign ports, and
110 cleared; coastwlso vessels, eighty-five
and eighty-nine. In the district there aro
Bfty-flve vessels documented. The value ot
domestic exports to foreign" countries was
14,811, and foreign goods exported to
foreign countries, $3020, making a total of
$17,831. The valuation of tbe imports for
the same time was about $60,000. The customs
receipts from all sources amounted to
4 $11,789.64, but the expenses of collection
were $19,119.26.
In the customs district of Alaska there are
thirteen employas, including six deputy collectors,
one at each of the 3ubports?Mary
Island, Wrangle, Juneau, Kadiak, and Unalaska.
Speaking of the fishing industry.
Mr. Isham says: "The canneries tnat Delong
to the combinations enterrtd into an agreement
not to put up mora than 400.000 cases
this year. From reports received to September
1. I estimate their catch at 250,000
"N cases. The independent canneries have
packed about 50,000. The whole output will
not exceed 300.000 caws. The codflshing
business is now principally operated l>y a
combination controlled by a San Francisco
ilrn. The base of their operations is l>etween
l'opol an 1 S.m:ikii Islan ds. The Ash
aro taken to thesalt Jiousi; and then transported
to San Francisco, whore they ar > prepared
for market. The catch in lrl'jl (later
figures are not accessible; was 1,-3^0,000 Ush,
Talued at $56i),00').
The Secretary of War has awarded a
medal of honor to Captain Ernest A. G'.rDntrton
of the Seventh Cavalry "'for distin
gulshed gallantry at Wounded Knee Creek,
? South Dakota, during the Sous war of the
winter of 1890-91." Captain Garlington was
badly wounded in the battle. His regiment,
the Seventh, was near'y wiped out in the
Custer massacre.
Black bears are unusually bold and
numerous this fall in the mountains along
the entrance of the Columbia River, Oregon,
and farmers and orohardists are suffering
much damage through their depredations
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
At Trinity Churcb, Boston, the Rev.
William Lawrence was consecrated Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts.
Light winds prevented the conclusion of
the first of the America's cup races off New
York between the Valkyrie and Yigilant
within the necessary six hours. At the time
it was declared off the Valkyrie had a lonpj
lead, but it was duo entirely to a fluke.
About 35,000 people watched the race from
craft o! all kinds.
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand, hoir presumptive
to the throne of Austria, arrived at
New York.
The New York Democratic State Convention
at Saratoga named a ticket headed by
Isaac H. Maynard, for Judge of the Court of
Appeals, and Cord Meyer, Jr., for Secretary
of State.
The Republican State Convention at Syracuse,
N. Y., nominated a State ticket, headed
by Edward C. T. Bartlett, of New York, for
Judge of the Court of Appeals, and Captain
John Palmer, o* Albany, for Secretary of
State.
The Cunard Line steamer Lueania has
made a new western record from Europe to
New York, beating the Paris's time by fiftynine
minutes. She went over the passage in
Ave days, thirteen hours and twenty-five
minutes.
The Massachusetts Republican State convention
met at Boston and nominated a full
ticket, headed by F. T. Greenhalge for Governor
and Roger Wolcott for Lieutenant
Governor.
In East Providence, R. I., Frank Nelson, a
colored boy. sixteen years old; Edward Yolker
and other ladi were playing Indiana.
Nelson and Volker had rifles, and snapped
them at each other. The one held by Volker
was loaded, and the ball struck Nelson in the
forehead, death resulting in ten minutes.
Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.,
celebrated its hundredth anniversary.
The first yacht race off Sandy Hook. N.J,
for the America 9 Uup, oetween toe iinsfusu
cutter Valkyrie and the American sloop Vigilant,
was won by the latter, the British yacht
being beaten Ave minutes and forty-eight
seconds.
The second race in the contest of 1893 for
the America's Cup between the British cutter
Valkyrie and the American sloop yacht
Vigilant was sailed by previous stipulation,
over a triangular course off Sandy Hook, N.
J. The Vigilant again won by ten minutes
and thirty-five seconds.
Eighteen hundred weavers in Rhode Island
woolen mills went out on strike against
a reduction in wages.
A fatal grade crossing accident occurred
four miles west of Branswiok, N. J., by
whioh James T. Ferguson, aged fifty-two, of
Brunswick, and Miss Annie Jacobus, aged
twenty-six, living near Franklin Park, were
both instantly killed.
South and West.
A tbaix carrying non-union workmen
from the Big Four Railroad shops at Indianola,
Ind., was attacked by a crowd of
sympathizers with the strikers; one man was
killed and one Injured.
The Democratic State Convention at Lincoln,
Neb., declared for prompt and unconditional
silver repeal, and denounced the
movement for a commercial division of the
country.
A coyoBKse of Young Men's Christian Associations
of the world was opened in Chicago.
Tbkascbeb McCubtin, of the Choctaw Nation,
made his report to the National Council
at Tushkahoma, Indian Territory.. He is said
to be short over $100,000, and, after reporting,
fled,
A tbain crushed into an electric oar near
Cincinnati, onto, Killing two persons ana injuring
several others.
The South Baltimore (M<L) Car Building
Company assigned.
Tme tornado in Union County, Arkansas,
proved to be a disastrous one. Many houses
iv?re destroyed, two women were killed and
Iv o fatally injured.
Washington.
The nominations of J. J. Van Alen to be
Ambassador to Italy, and of R. E. Preston
to be Director of the Mint, were favorably
reported to the Senate in executive session.
The Secretary of State has reoelved a despatch
irom Mr. Flshback, Secretary of the
United States Legation in the Argentine Republic,
saying that the revolution has ended
and the country is at peace.
Orders have been sent by the Navy Department
to Rear Admiral Belknap at New
(London, Conn., directing him to send out
(the dynamite oniiser Vesuvius on the unique
and hazardous duty of blowing up fourteen
,derelict vessels that endanger navigation.
The President sent in the following nomi* *
' t> _?I n^rrr
nauoub ; oiepueu i>uuooi, vi iuc*ij?.uu,
Secretary of Legation at Peking, to be Secretary
of Legation at Madrid, Spain ; Charles
Denby, Jr., of Indiana, now second Secretary
of Legation at Peking, to be Secretary
of Legation at Peking, Ctyna.
The President has appointed these Consuls
: F. A. Deane, of Michigan, at Naples,
Italy: Marshall Hanger, of Virginia, at Bermuda;
VV. B. Hall, of Maryland, at Nice,
France, Edgar Schramm, of Texas, at
Montevideo, Uruguay, J. H. Btewart, of New
York, at St. Thomas, West Indies; P. B.
Spence, of Kentucky, at Quebec; Reavel
Savage, of Maryland, at Nantes, France; E.
S. Wallace, of South Dakota, at Jerusalem,
Syria.
A Tbeabuky statement just issued shows
the total paper money of each denomination
outstanding on October 1 to aggregate
$1,126,395,031.
The President's family moved from the
White House to "Woodley,'' Mr. Cleveland's
suburban residence. Mrs. Cleveland and
her babies and Mrs. Perrine, her mother,
will remain at "Woodley" for several weeks,
in order that Mrs. Cleveland may fully re.
gain her strength for the winter season'^
social duties. The President will spend hi4
nights in the country and will drive to th4
White House in the mornings.
The Joint Congressional Commission to i
inquire into the status ot the law3 organiz
ing the Executive Departments, etc., ha*
made a report showing that there are 612'
more persons employed there than arj
specifically appropriated for, and that o;
17,599 employes 5610 have from one to nin4
relatives each in the Government service af
Washington.
President Rodbiooez, of Costa Rica, demanded
reciprocity as a condition of hi?
surrender of Eraberaler Weeks tothe authoriJ
ties of this country.
Foreign.
There were 400 cases of cholera, with 220
deaths, in Palermo. Italy, daring i week,
Ave d?ath believed to have been due to the
plague occurred a' Bradford, England.
Pallas, the Anarchist, who attempted to
kill Captain-General Martinez de Campos,
was extwuti-d at Barcelona, Spaiu. He was
shot in the bacsc.
Thk anniversary of Parnell's death was
observed in Cork, Ireland, with imposing
<;eremonit*<.
The holy men of "Morocco aro preaching
the extermination or expulsion of all Europeans
from their country.
Pbinct. Bismarck reached his home at
Friedrichsruhe but little fatigued by the journey
from Kissingen and in a cheerful frame
of mind. An ovation was extended to him
along the routo.
R. G. McCo.nnei.l, commissioned by the
Ottawa (Canada) Government, reports that
he has discovered the head waters of the
Mackenzie River?a lake at the head of
Findlay River. Gold was found in abun|
dance for fifty miles along the river.
The panic at Kio Janeiro. Brazil, has subsided,
and business is going on as usual.
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS KILLED,
Terrible Disaster at a Barracks in
Central Russia.
The Ncwsky infantry barracks at Roslavi,
province of Smolensk, was burned a few
nights ago. The fire was discovered shortly
I after 10 o'clock by a non-commissioned ofI
fleer. He gave the alarm, but baforo all tha !
men could be roused the flames had 3pread
through most of the building.
About 400 men ran out in their night ]
clothes. Of the sixty who were driven to thu
roof and obliged to jump for their lives, j
eleven were killed and eight Wi'je injured so j
severely that they will die. Twenty-three
men and Ave non-commissioned officers were
overcome in the halls or rooms by the smoka ,
and heat, and were burned to death. j
torn Ml Mill
THEIR STRIKING EXHIBITS
AT THE WORLD'S FAIR.
This Is the First Time Far-off Korea
Has Taken Part in an International
Exposition?Articles of Interest
on Exhibit ? Guatemala
and Its Productions.
This is, the first time, according to the
Chicago Record, that Korea, commonly
known as the "hermit Nation," has participated
in an international exposition. Though
ahe has been open to the world for more
than ten years, her relations with other
powers have not been intimate, except with
China, Japan and Russia. By these three
Nations she is surrounded and jealously
watched, lest sha may become either too independent
or too much under the influence
of one of these thi-ee powers. Korea thus occupies
a very delicate and dangerous position
and must act cautiously with other Na
tions. 8he la less Known tnan eitner uapau
or Chins. Her exhibit, therefore, in the
World'3 Columbian Exposition, is very important
and instructive.
The Korean booth is in the southwestern
part of the Manufactures Building, and, being
small, is crowded with exhibits. It is in
charge of Royal Commissioner Jeung Kiung
Wow, who, with his associates, lives at 275
Forty-eecond street. The Korean flag, which
hangs from the booth, is blue and yellow,
and as a symbol has a very interesting meaning.
As explained in the preface of Dr. H.
N. Allen's book on Korea, the flag represents
the male and femalo elements of nature.
Blue stands lor the heaven, or male element,
and yellow stands for the earth, or female
element. As seen across the eastern
sea, the heavens seem to lap over and embrace
the earth, while the earth to landward
rises in lofty mountains and folds the
heavens in its embrace, making a harmonious
whole. Such is the explanation of the
curious design on the Korean flag. The four
characters around the central figure represent
the four points of the compass.
Just at the left of the entrance to the booth
are some miscellaneous articles of considerable
interest: A cupboard with dishes, a
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bronze table and dinner set for one person, i
linnrx and shoes of wood, straw and feather ; I
a Are pot and tools, a board on whioh is
played a game evidently resembling chess,
banners and lanterns, a kite and reel, vases
(white and blue) and on the floor a brass
cannon, very old, used In the American attack
on Korean forts in the 70*. One of the
naval officers, by the way, who participated
in that attack, is now a resident of Chicago.
He is Lieutenant F. S. Bassett, interpreter of
the foreign department of the World's Fair,
and Secretary of the Chicago Folk-Lore Society.
On the walls of the booth hang banners
like Japanese Kakemono. One painted on
straw attracts attention. There are also here
and there screens, of which one was handembroidered
by the ladies of the palace. The
boxes and cabinets for clothing look like
trunks and seem durable. Skins of sable,
leopard, fox, tiger and other animals are
scattered about. In an upright glass case
are exhibited various fabrics, articles of foot
gear, an embroidered silk cushion and arm
rest, a man's suit, a lady's dress and a lady's
court dress, while on dummies in the center
of the room are shown the ancient warriors'
costumes, the ladies' dress for dance and the
court dress of both a military and civil official.
The young Korean in charge of the exhibit
has evidently become tired of answering hundreds
of times every day the same questions
bv different visitors. Consequently to the
corner'of a map showing Korea and the
neighboring countries he has attached a
paper headed "Questions Answered." Many
of them are her# reproduced:
" 'Korea' and 'Corea' are both correct, but
the former is preferred."
"Korea is not a part of China, but is independent."
' The Koreans do not speak the Chinese
language, and their language resembles
neither the Chinese nor the Japanese."
"Korea made treaties in 1882."
"All the articles are owned by the government."
"Korea has electric lights, steamships,
telegraphs, bat no railroads."
"Koreans live in comfortable tile-roofed
houses, heated by flues under the floor."
"Korean civilisation is ancient and high?
area, 100,000 square miles ; population, 16,000,000?climate
like that of Chicago, country
mountainous, mineral wealth undeveloped
, agricultural products, chiefly rice,
beans, wheat and corn.
GUATEMALA AND ITS EXHIBIT.
Close up to Mexico lies Guatemala, the
first huid of Central America. Although the
frontier of Mexico is like an impassable
chasm, and the Republic of Guatemala is shut
offlromall intercourse with the realm of
t>?niu* ahf? h.-Lq almost without any
assistance risen to a high degree of commercial
worth. Over the Mexican border almost
all the trade that is done is carried on
by smugglers. No railway crosses the frontier,
and when a citizen of Guatemala wants
to visit the Mexican capital he Rets on a
steamer at San Jose, goes to San Francisco
and then by rail travels back to the city of
Mexico. President Barrios married an
American girl, and the friendly feeling of
tbo country was increased toward the Unitei
Status.
Guatemala lias erected a buildiDg at tho
Fair and (ll)od it with exhibits which explain
the resources of the country and toll of
its prosperity. There are still vast and almost
unexplored regions of tho republic,
which in itself covers an area of only 50,600
square miles. When Cortez was pillaging
Mexico he heard of a country to the south
where there was more gold, and he sent
troo;-sto Guatemala, who robbed the native
Indians. These aboriginal inhabitants hail
reached a state of civilization higher than I
that of the great majority of American Indians.
In one corner of the Guatemala Building
j is a grotto where is exhibited specimens of
the fauna of the country. Here is a kind of
bird called the gavilan, which sings the half
hours, and is as correct as a sun dial. It is
almost as good as a Government observa
: r- .
tory. It stops its vigils, however, at sundown,
and begins again in the morning,
which is the salvation of the bibulous Guatemalan,
who keeps one of these birds in the
house.
On the east wall of the open court there la
painted a map which shows the location of
the principal towns and the railways already
built, in course of construction and projected.
The principal work the Government
is doing at present is the building of a railway
which, when completed, will connect
San Jose, the principal town on the Pacific
const, with Puerto Barrios, on the Gulf of
Honduras. Already the city of Guatemala,
the capital of the republic, has been reached
from San Jose, and 175 miles of the road has
been constructed from the Puerto Barrios
end. The Government has already expended
$8,000,000. The total cost of the work it
is ^timated, will reach $10,000,000,
The the Guatemalans claim that for flavor
their coffee is the best in the world. To advertise
it to the American people they have
built a pavilion by their building, where they
serve Guatemala coffee to the music of the
marimba. In the center of the building is
an open court, where about a fountain is
displayed the exhibit of the flora of the country.
Pictures are hung about the balcony
whioh show the principal places In the city
of Guatemala and the other large towns.
Along the Pacific coaat of the republic
Al 1 ^anlfO fhfl lAfHoflf
I Utm 19 t% 11UO \J JL VVIUOUIV pwae, vuw
of which is that of Tajumulco, which la over
14,400 feet above the level of the sea. The
land of Guatemala is dotted with lakes, some
of which are very large. The population ol
the country in 1892 was 1,510,326. More than
two-thirds of these people are Indians, the
other part being Ladinos, descendants of the
white race and a mixture of Europeans and
Indians. The Indians for the most part are
devoted to agriculture, while the Ladinoe
are engaged in commercial pursuits. Guatemala
is one of the most fertile of the Central
or South American republics. Without cultivation
pineapples, oranges, bananas, lemons,
anona, zapote and almost all kinds ol
tropical fruits are produced. In the northeastern
and southwestern parts of the oountry
are vast forests. Gold, copper, iron and
8liver mines are worked with great gains.
All of the South American republics have
courted immigration in emulation of the
United States, but most of them without
very bright results.
Guatemala is ruled by a political code
which was adopted in 1879 and in part revised
in 1885. The President is elected directly
by the people. His term of office is
six years, and by the constitution he is no)
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allowed to succeed himself. The legislative
branch of the Government is constituted by
an assembly, the members of whloh are
elected by the people. The President appoints
his cabpiet of six secretaries, in oharge
of departments of foreign affairs, interior
and justice, public works, war, treasury and
publio instruction. The judiciary is composed
of a chief justice and a supreme court,
and the system is very similar to that of the
United States.
FOSSILS AT THE FAIB.
There are all forms of fossils ranged in
rows of cabinets and oases in the south gallery
of the Enthropological Building. The
evolution of the first form of life to its perfection?man?is
laid out and traced in order,
according to the lore of paleontologists, in
the Ward collection. Cabinets of crustaceans,
trilobitea, crinolds do not alone monopolize
the spaoe of the exhibit in paleontology.
There are all sorts of things of all
the geologioal ages, from the first to the
latest before our own, from the Laurentiaa
to the quaternary. There are reproductions
of the forms of giant reptiles, mastodons and
models of the hugo beasts of prehistoric
times. To the mind of the paleontologist the
term antediluvian does not convey the impression
of great antiquity. He deals witb
things of the age when the earth was a shapeless,
molten mass, of the age>when it first
began to cool se that existence was made
possible upon it.
The models of these prehistoric animals
probably attract more attention than any
other exhibit In the Anthropological Building.
The largest of these models is that oi
tho great Siberian mammoth which stands
near the center of the south gallery. The
restoration wns made by the celebrated German
preparatem, Herr L. Martin. The
measurements were taken from the largest
bones of the mammoth contained in the
Royal museum of Stuttgart, while the character
of the outer covering is copied from
portions of skin, covered with hair, taken
from a mammoth that was found in 1799 in
glacier ice near the mouth of the River Lena,
in Siberia, and is now preserved in tne Imperial
museum of St. Petersburg. The specimen
stands sixteen feet high and twenty-two
foet long from its tail to the forward curve
ot the trunk. The tusks are nearly six feet
long and curved. A huge skeleton of a
plesiosaurus, a marine reptile ot the jurassic
time, stands with a coterie of other models.
The original specimen was found in 1848 in
the Lias, near Whitby, England. It measures
over twenty-two feet and would be a
hideous compliment to any nightmare.
A restored oast in plaster of the huge dinosaurian
reptile, the badrosaurus foulkii,
from the upper cretaceans of New Jersey,
stands near the huge mammoth. A testudo
of wonderful proportions, and an immense
ungulates or hoofed animal, called the dlnosaurus,
which, in the tertiary day, were numerous
in Wyoming.
In the insiosure of the Ward exhibit are
the skeleton and several legs of various specimens
of moa, a gigantic, wiugiess bird, found
in recent deposits in New Zealand. The moaa
were but lately exterminated. Complete
skeletons, with portions of the skin and
feathers still adhering. have Deen lonna.
A i*lyptodon relic of the latter part of the
eerii.iry ap? was found near Montevideo. A
east of thla animal.is contained in the Ward
xhlliit. It was a huge armadillo, but without
toe bands or Joints present in modern
species, by means of which they can roll
themselves into a ball. There are nearly a
score or mora of these peculiar animals, all
of which have no counterparts in modem
life.
BHODE ISLAND DAY AT THE FAIR.
Rhode Island's day has been celebrated In
lifting manner at the World's Fair. The
Rhode Island National Guard was represented
by the staff officers of the Newport Artillery
and 115 men, Governor D. Russell
Brown's personal staff, and many military
officers on the general staff. At the Rhode
Island Building Governor Brown and Professor
Williams delivered addresses.
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" STORI STRICKEN SOUTH.
i
AWFUL WORK OF WIND AND
WATER ON THE GULF.
The Dead Estimated at Fully Two
Thousand?Great Suffering Among
the Survivors?Immediate Relief
Needed?The Stricken District to
be Abandoned as a Habitation.
A. late dispatch from New Orleans, La.f
ftays The news from every section stricken
by the storm makes It safe to estimate the
loss of life at fully 2000, while property worth
millions of dollars was destroyed. Besides
that; thousands of people have been deprived
i of the means of making a livelihood. The
situation is appalling, but New Orleans is
i doing all it can to relieve the thousands in
want. Dr. 8tory, Coroner of P&quemine
Parish, has made the following report:
' A good many carloads of provisions and
olothing have been sent, but not near
i enough. Men, women and children are
without food and clothing. It is a frequent
sight to see little sufferers crying and beg>
giiig piteoualy for something to eat. Single
i graves for the dead were Impossible. Oreat
! trenches wore dug and bodies were plied in
one on top of tne other. The earth was
i thrown over them, and if their names were
i ascertained they were cut in rude crosses
above the graves. I do not think I exag
' KUiaiu mo lauio wucu x oiow ium cm. loom.
i 2500 goals were ushered into eternity by the
recent storm in Louisiana. This, of course,
includes those at Bayou Cook, Cheniere
Caminada, Grand Isle, etc. I never saw
bodies decompose so rapidly as those of the
storm sufferers which were viewed by me.
This was due to the fact that the fish and
crabs in the bayous eat the remains. I believe
firmly that the marshes and other places
are filled with human forms.
"It is impossible to get at these however,
1 as no one is adventurous enough to explore
the swamps. There can be no doubt of the
fact that this is conducive to an epidemic of
fever, or even cholera. If one case of the
' latter disease should develope it would'
spread through the country like wildfire, but
1 nothing can be done to prevent this."
The relief party which set out from Bllloxt
tells an awful story of the destitution and
loss of life in the Louisiana marshes. The
marshes are filled with dead and putrefying
bodies, in very few cases the corpses being
recognizable. The number of lives lost on
these marshes will never be known. The
territory covered was a distance of 200 miles.
Newly made graves were everywhere. The
only sign of life seen in the marsh was one
raccoon, and it was floating on a log. Hundreds
of oyster boats and luggers wejre lost
with most of their crews, and the few survivors
tell terrible stories of suffering. Most
of them were nude when found.
Captain Julian Lefort, the leading spirit
amoug the survivors of the Cheniere Caminada,
places the number of saved at 300. The
population of the island and the bayous immediately
connected with it was slightly
! more than 1500. He says it will be abandoned
as a habitation of nan. Grand Isle and
Chemedeleur will alai he abandoned.
THE LABOR WOULD.
It takes 1,500,000 men to work the world's
coal mines.
Ik Naples, Italy, compositors are paid is
little as $1.25 a week.
Sxvibax Pittsburg mills that were idle)ill
summer have started up. .
Tkx thousand people are employed as telephone
operators In this country.
It is estimated that since July 1 800,000
employes have lost their situations.
Ik Chicago, according to an exact count,
79,364 wage workers are out of employment.
Neablt 2,000,000 wageworkers are out of
employment in England since the coal strike
hAomn
""o"?
A lab ok number of idle miners from the
Michigan Upper Peninsula districts are leaving
for the mines in Alaska.
A law in England provides that no^
person under eighteen years shali be employed
about a shop for longer thanseventyfour
hours, lnoludlng meal times, in any one
week.
The Chinese in California have a chance to
go to a warmer climate. They are offered
$25 a head in British Guiana to hoe sugar
oane and dig gold. The cplony only wants
5000 of tkem.
The north of England miners live, on an
average, three years longer than Englishmen
taken as a whole. They live elgnt years
longer than the Cornish and nine years longer
, than the South Wales miners.
i Bbass grinders working by the piece are
able to earn about $40 a week, but their
i average life time is not quite thirty-five years.
Most of them die from hemorrhage of the
i lungs, caused by particles of the brass inhaled
by the men while at work.
L All the oollleries of the Philadelphia and
Beading Coal and Iron Company at Shenandoah,
Penn., have resumed operations under
' orders to work six days each week for two
months, the miners to be paid at the rate of
five per oent. above the $2.60 basis.
Statistics show that the entire agriculture
i ot the world furnishesemploymentto 280,000,000
men and represents an invested capital of
$324,000,000,000. The annual product is
worth over $20,000,000,000. It is estimated
that the civilized Nations pay annually for
food $13,700,000,000.
A Pabis shop girl ordinarily begins at a
salary of from $5 to $8 a month. Besides
she invariably has a commission on her
sales, varying from one half to one per cent.,
according to her success. Many receive as
high as $30 a month in salary and make
much more in commissions.
The Government of Portugal has appropriated
sufficient funds to establish
labor exchanges, under the control of
organized labor, in the larger cities and industrial
centres of that country. These exchangee
are under the supervision of the
Department for Commerce and Industries.
Labor bureaus which were expected to
solve the problem of the unemployed in
London have proved a disheartening failure.
At one office some 800 applicants in search
of work of any kind registered, and only
three employers applied for help; so that
after three months' work the bureau found
employment for only two men.
TEXAS HIGHWAYMEN,
After Looting the Stage Mall They
Remind the Driver of Lot's Wife.
Particulars of the latest atago robbery
have just been received. Three miles east of
Robert Lee, in Coke County, Texas, the
Ballingerand Robert Lee stage was held up
by two masked highwaymen at a point in
J ? -.-J +W4/?L.
the road whore tnere are ravines uuu luiwa |
underbrush, who ordered the driver to
throw up his hands, pointing a six-shooter
' at him. They rifled the mail sacks, securing
about |I3100, which was being sent from the
bank at Robert Lee to other banks throughout
the State. After securing thole booty
they ordered the driver to turn his face to
the rising sun and drive fast and '-remember
the command given by the angel of God to
, Lot's wlfe?
A TRAIN" BLOWN UP.
Its Freight of '200 Kegs of Powder
Exploded.
An eastbound freight train on the Pittsburg.
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad
passed the villago of North Lawrence, a few
miles east of Alliance. Ohio. Five minutes
. lnf?p f-hn inh.-ihlfanM of tho vlIlaiTO Wt.T3
startled by a terrible explosion.
The train hud a cur containing over 200
hundred kegs ot powder, which in dome mysterious
manner was exploded, completely
wrecking the train. The track was torn to
pieces for a distance of 150 yards and an excavation
twenty feet deep beneath the powder
car was mado. Engineer Colvin and his
fireman. Thomas McCowan, were fatally
burned. The damage will reach $24,000,
and trafflo was suspended for twelve hour*
1 or more. .
Five hundred boys and girls from the
i Carlisle Indian Training School visited the
' World's Fair. They paid their owi expenses
i from their earnings of the paflt six months.
Their band of thirtv-two pieces and choir ot
eighty voices gave a concert every day. and
there was a dress parade and drill on Ui?
croun da.
LATER NEWS.
The failure of J. 8. McCaleb, who con- '
ducted banks in Uniontown and Connellsville,
Pennsylvania, is found to be much
more serious than at first supposed. His b
place of business was surrounded by mobs e
of angry Hungarian and Italian creditors,
who threatened to kill McCaleb on 1
Bight. The clerks in the banks have armed *
themselves to protect the property of their ?
employer. n
' a
A traix ran into an open switch at Whit- ?
ing, Ind., causing the engine, mail-car and e
two Pullmans to leave the track. The dead ^
are: Henry Warner, engineer; John Christie, e
fireman. Six passengers were injured. ,> : ?
Miss Etta. Qukk and Josephine Dreeeer J
were walking along the railroad track near e
Bluffs, 111., and a train came up behind tl
them before they were aware of the danger.
Miss Ounn was killed instantly, and Miss g
Dresser was fatally injured. e
Bbioadieb Gxkxbal Bbeckimbidgx in a t
report to the War Department declares the 1
seacoast defences in tbe Soutn are in a 010- ~
graceful condition.
Thx Tuoker bill, ref>ealing all present t:
Federal election lawB, was passed in the |
House of Bepresentatives by a strict party
vote, 200 to 101. s
i
Tax rebel Brazilian warships again bom- y
barded the forts at Bio Janeiro.
A poLicKKAit and a sanitary official were t
killed in a cholera riot in St. Panli, a suburb t
of Hamburg. Germany.
c
Five students we re dismissed and five suspended
forharing at Princeton (N. J.) Col- 0
lege. I
The Flint Glass Worlfjrs' Union, all the t
men employed by tho United States Glass *
Company, better known as the Flint Glass f
Trust, in its sixteen factories, went on strike 1
at Pittsburg, Penn. The company employs 1
2500 men. T^e Flint Glass Workers' Union ?
is considered the strongest labor organiza- p
Hon in America. It kas 7000 members and J
' has in its strike fund $175,000.
The American yacht Vigilant and the
British contestant Valkyrie met in a race of a
fifteen miles to windward and return off I
Sandy Hook, N. J., but the wind failed and .1
they could not finish within the six hour c
time limit.
Cohhxctxoot Dat was celebrated at the *
World's Fair. t
Becxttsbs were appointed for the Chicago *
and Northern Pacific Bailroad by the United <
States Court at Chicago, HL c
1 f
T < /IA1A?A^ mlfa-hflofor wis 1
taken oat ol the Covington (La.) jail by a *
mob and hanged.
Several thousand additional men will be
needed to man Uncle Sam's new warships.
A maix boat plying between Bousay and
Eday in the Orkney Islands, was upset In a
squall and the two boatmen, a woman and
her three children, were drowned.
Choleba is decreasing in Bussia, although
the mortality is still heavy.
FIFTY-THIRD 00NQBE83.
^ ^ The Senate.
. 48th Dat.?The open legislative session ol
the Senate lasted fifteen minutes. The remainder
of the day was spent in executive
session.
49th Dat.?The Senate proceeded to the
consideration of tne resolution for a select
committee to inquire what legislation is ne??
essary to improve the banking system of the
?/- rti a 1 mi_^. wit ]
uuuxiirj. iliX. Diowttn BpUKP. xno ourcr Purchase
Repeal bill was then taken up, and r
Mr. Blackburn sent to the Clerk's desk and j
had read an amendment to the Bepeal bill. ,
Messrs. Call. Butler and Teller spoke against
repeal.-1 Mr. Morgan's resolution-instruct- J
ing the Judiciary Committee 'to inquire '
what provisions of the Free Coinage act of
1837 are still in force, was agreed to without
disoussion and without division.
50th Day.?Before the bilver Purchase Be- .
peal bill was taken up Mr. Wolcott offered a
resolution directing the Committee on Finance
to report a bill for the coinage of gold
and silver in accordance with the policy set
forth in the declaration section of the Voorhees
bill. Mr. Roach addressed the Senate
against the repeal of the Sherman act. Hja
was followed bv Mr. Allen.
51st Day.?The debAte on the silver bill
developed into a lively discussion, in which
many Senators took part; Senator Cockrell
began a long speech on the subject of repeal.
52d Day.?Messrs. MoPherson and Cockrell
spoke on the Repeal bill. Mr. Cookrell spoke
for five hours and then, without coming to
an end, yielded the floor.
53d Day.?The 8Hver Purchase Bepeal bill
was taken up at 11.45, and Mr. Cockrell be- <
gan the third installment of his speech
against 'it. He spoke until 2.10 p.
m., and then said that he would yield
the floor temporarily to Mr. Smith.
At the conclusion of his speech Mr. Cookrell
again took the floor. He was followed by
Mr. Allen. At 6 o'clock, instead of ?
an adjournment, the muoh talked-of t
"test of physical endurance" was begun. t
At 6.06 p. m. Mr. Dubois suggested that it i
was past the hour when the Senator from In- 1
diana (Mr. Yoorhees) usually made a motion 1
to adjourn. He asked that Senator whether t
he desired to submit that motion. a
"[ feel it my highest duty," said Mr. Voorhees,
"not to make that motion this evening,
but, on the contrary, to ask the Senate
to sit 1n continuous session until the pending
measure is disposed of." I
17.e House.
47th Dat.?Toe bill placing the Secretary j
of Agrioulture in the line of the Presidential j?
succession was passed. Speeches on the t<
Federal Elections bill were made by Mr. 31
Murray and Mr. Haines In the negative, and g
by Mr. Bussell and Mr. Money in the nfflr- ^
mative. is
43th Day.?The call of committees for re- b
ports was dispensed with, and the Federal w
Election bill was taken up. It was dis- <u
cussed by Messrs. Hainer, Hicks, Brook- a
shire, Cummings, Tawney, Talbert and Qeis- d
senhainer. jv
49th Dat.?The Federal Election bill was s<
taken up, and. Mr. Everett odvocated It. He a
was followed by Messrs. Grosvenor, Oates, c]
Hepburn, Swanson, Cannon and Hunter. w
Fifteen members were present when, at 5.46
Alock, the House took a reoess until 8 e,
o olock, when the debate was continued. ai
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OUTH UAY?j. no CUUOIUtiriKlUU Ul uo iwvi- q(
eral Election bill was resumed, and Mr. a
Aldrich spoke in opposition to it. He was A
followed by Messrs. Dolliver, Boutelle, Pajrfle t.
and Fitch. ?
51st Day.?The day had boen set for the jj(
passage of the Federal Election, Repeal bill. K
Routine business, was first transacted, but at tc
10 o'clock the :3rst vote was taken on Mr. w
Burrows's amendment to Mr. Lacey'a jg
amendment, and it provided for the reten- 3?
tion of sections 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and
2010 of the law. On a standing vote there ip
were eighty-one in tho affirmative and 188 aJ
in the negative. The yeas and nays ID
wero ordered. The vote was?Yeas, 100; jj,
nays, 192. The next vote was on the w
Lacey amendment, which strikes from fa
the repealing clause the criminul sections of hi
the statutes. The Lacey amendment was ^
defeated?Yeas, ninety-six; nays, 192. Mr. 0I
Fitch then withdrew his substitute for the .
Tucker bill. The Tucktr bill was passed?
Yeas. 200; nays. 101; a strict party vote. Tho 0j
Populists voted with the Democrats in the ;u
affirmative. Tho House then, at 2.45, adjourned.
cl
52? Day.?The bill to amend tho Chineso
Exclusion act was debated by Messrs. McCreary
and Geary. The bill to remit tho
penalties on the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius
was then taken up. The amount involved in
the hill Is $39,700. No action was taken. ?
Mr. Hunter asked unanimous consent for the
consideration of a joint resolution providing ?
for a recess of Congress. Mr. Outhwaite ob- tl
jected, and the resolution was referred to '
the Committee on Rules. **
Superior and Duluth prodaced 1,010.848 o
barrels of flour in September. The produc- a
tion for Septemt-er, 1893, was 688,930 Darrrls. a
a
CHICAGO'S BIG DAY.
7 ?
'aid Attendance at the World's Fair
Breaks all Records.
Seven hundred and eighteen thousand two -.y j
undred and twenty-three people?the great*
st crowd'that ever congregated In America
-visited the World's Fair on Chicago Day.. j
'his breaks the greatest one-day record at
'aris with many thousands to spare, comletely
smothers the "big day" figures of any
tber exposition ever held, and establishes a , ]
lark which, it is safe to predict, the present j
eneration will never again see attained. To I
bis end glorious October weather contrtbot- ?. J
When the gates opened'at 6.80 o'clock j
ally 1000 people besieged each passage. ]
ager for admission. From that hour until J
ite in the afternoon there was a constant 4
am at every gate, The Department of lid?
lisslons had an extra force on duty, and M
very turnstile was kept registering Jt
he highest speed. Yet these fadli- fl
lee were inadequate, and at 1 o'clock w
Superintendent Tucker ordered every wagon J
ate opened and stationed a corps of men at a
ach to take tickets. When the wagon gate* 41
rere closed at 4 o'clock- 600,000 people had i
een admitted, and 181,000 more were added 1
a the next three hours. At midnight a coo-, / J
ervatlve estimate place the attendance for ]
he day at ^00.000.
The total number of paid admissions sines
he opening of the Fair is 10,492,070. The
Teatest day at Paris was S97,1M and at
'hiladeiphla 217.536.
Every Exposition building, great and
mall, was decorated, but the Illinois Bulldog
was the most gorgeous of alL The dome
ras ooverafl with flags and streamers^ and
|
Q6 \r&liflf WWffS ana ruore ware unuuwis /
rith colors of ail nations. In the wast earaace
the name '-Chicago" burned in alecrlc
lights in the night. . t '
The exerdaeo beOTn with the Introduction
>f two Indian chiefs at 9 o'clock.
The old Pottawatomie Chief, Simon Poka- 1
;on, whose father deeded the land upon
rhich Chicago is built, -had come from his,' , ;
lomein Hartford, Xien. He stood. besld*
he Columbian bell with unooreredhead la.' \
he drees of the white man.
By his side stood a; more picturesque
Igure. His dress consisted of a heavy and
arled coat of paint on his face, body and
Lrnbe, a headdress of feathers and a breechlout
of.beaded buckskin. Ho woremocoa
Ins and looked a typical Indian on thel war-,
iatb, although he came with a ineewge of{ }
tea^e. standing as a historic figure between; ; -V v
he Chicago of yesterday and the Chicago of'
o-day.
He wag Chief John Young, sixty years of
ge, who came from the Pottawatomie rev*- <
atlon, near Miles, Mich, to tell the people of */*' i
11 Nations that his father, who bore the Vara ; v2. >a
Lame, .christened the World's Fait etty"Chti;
ago" which literally interpreted, means
'where the sknnk dwells." -i j;': ' ^
The ground of the Terminal Plaa* could'
lot be seen for the mase of people who
illed it In front of the stand erected for
he chorus of 2000 voices, under thedireoion
of W. L. Tonilins, an orchestra' the'
id tod Exposition bonds and the Eighth j
Javalry Mexican Band accompanied the j
ihorus in a mighty melody which' aroused I
he people to a high pitch of patrbtJe 1
enthusiasm,
Following this great burst of song the .
mtoiwt Han/4a nt th? Vrnoittlnil TCltnAfi In
laying the mnsio ot the Southern 8 tat es,and
he chorus, orchestra and band joined In
'Columbia, the Gem of the Ooeaa." " /'- yf$|'& S&f-j
A notable feature was the ringing of the
lew liberty bell at noon by Mayor Harrison,
kcoompanied by a blare of trumpet* and
irash of drams by the united bands. The
Jiorua sana; "Die Waoht am Bhein," "Mar-1\
?iilaise," the Austrian hymn, the Russian
lymn. the '.'Star-spangled Banner/' and
ither National and patriotic hymns. ,
At the came time thousands-ot -peopla
srowded the stook pavilion to witness fba
ohibition drill of the Chicago Hussars, who >' ^
mtered by the Midway and paraded sroumd :
lie grounds. 1 if...s si<t'&??& '
The Bennlon. of the States was the tpecta-'
die which the great crowd assembled to wit- , i^v;
jess. As the Slates In the afternoon paSsedf ^ ; w
n review around the Court of Honor, each
epreeented by young ladies bearing petf
lants, cheer after oheer attested
sation of the vast audienoe. The review
vas divided Into five sections. - ' ? sjs '
At night the most gorgeous pageant ever'
produced took place, and It was folio wed by
i most wonderful display of firework*'
rwentT-flve great floats illustrated the arts,'
Sciences. Peace, War, Chicago, and theH*v
Ions. Each was a magnlfloent and costly
production, and the spectacular effect war ,
forgeous. _ -J - i: I
DOTTED STATES BAILROADsi
Inter-State Commerce CommissSts . . .
Report for the Y?ar. 7
The fifth statistical report of the Ints^ '
State Commerce Commission has Just beea
lubmitted for the year ecded June 89,189L'
rhe total railway mileage of the country '
71.56S.52 miles, being an increase during
he year of 3160 miles, the smallest increase
or a number of years. . '
The total number of employes in the tec*
rice of railways was 821,415, being an in- :reasa
of 87.130 over the previous year. The
lapitalization of thn 162,397 miles oovered by '.:
he report was $10,226,748, 134. The total ' \
mmber of passragors carried by therailwayB
luring the year \ras 560,95(5,211. xne groat
arnings from operation of raihrajs wera
>1.171,407,343. The operating expenses fM
i780,997,39?.
The number of railway employes killed
ras 2554, being less than the number killed
luring the previous year. The number of
imployes injured, however, was In excess of
he number Injured during the previous year,
lelng 23,267. The number of passeng?Of
Hied was largely in excess of tne numbeC , /
:illed during the previous year, being 876
n 1802 as against 293 in 1891, wb Ire the number
of passengers injured was 3227 in 1898, '
A against 2972 in 189L *
AN mPEOYO) lifeboat; / S
t is Built to Travel Equally Well lm
Either Direction.
A novel lifeboat has just beenoompletedia
laJtimore, Md? The boat was designed and
i patented by Charles Dlokenson, and is tain
ded for use from vessels or at life-saving
Nations. The model, a ays the Baltimore -?
un. is eighteen feet long, with four test
ddth of beam. It ie constructed of galvan:ed
iron and is called a self-righter and selfaller.
The boat Is built to travel equally
'ell in either direction, both ends being tho
ime. At each end h hooded cabin rises /
bovethe sides and is closed by a water-tight '
oor. It is said that should the boat be overtimed
it would instantlyright itself by rea- '
m of the air contained in these compartLents.
Ventilation is secured bv air-tubas,
losed by valves, to prevent the entranoe. of I
ater when waves wash over the boat or it , I
overturned in the sea. Between the two I
id compartments the boat is decked over fl
id has seats and oarlocks for rowers. -Be- I
sath the deck is a tank lor fresh water,with I
? 1 k: I'm
tube leading to it. to wnion may lk> aiuKuw .
pump. Another tubo leads to the bottom I
>r pumping out any water which may be I
ashed into the hold. A third tube ia lor I
aiding a signaf staff. The boat has a nar- I
>w opening running tlirough from the dqok J
? the keel, whicii will serve to carry off . V
ater from the deck. A feature of the boat J
a means of self'propulsion to and from H
randed vessel to t ho shore. A small tubo .V
ins from each end to the deck section. ' V
hrough these tubes a rope may be passed
id a turn taken around a reel and windlnaB V
. the middle of th?? deck. With one end of I
ie rope fastened on board the vessel from I
hioh the boat is launohed and the other 1
steoed on shore after the boat is rowed or 1
is driftad through the brokers, it is claimed
ie little vessel ma/ be easily propelled from I
nMer hv turnini the wind- I
iU I.V mv vn>?v* ~j - ? ^
ss. A special carriage is built for the boat
f which it may be launched from any part
a vessel's deck and in any position. A seaichor
or drag of a peculiar pattern is cared,
to be thrown out and keep the boat out
! the trough of the seas.
A jealous wife of Perpignac, France,
?aked her dress with petroleum, locked the f
ouse door and then called her husband to
er. Just as he approached she lit a match
ad set her clothes on Are. Then, seizing
er husband in her arms, she held him tight
11 they were both enveloped in flames. The
roman died and t.'ae man is crazy and likd?
) die.
Lbadixo lumbermen of the Northwest have
rgonlzed an insurance concern patterned / .
fter the old English Lloyd's plan of insur* v
nce, which will operate aver Wisconsin and
number of other States.
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