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Fai 1MB Located in the Finest Fish, Truck and Farming Section in North Carolina. ESTABLISHED lsso. A II. MITCHELL, Editor and JJusiness Manager EDENTON, N. 0., FHIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1894. NO. 471. SUBSGRiPTIQH PRiGE ! li"vc. rt tt n rrsi "tt lv AT A Tx t AND TO w. m. BOND, Attorney at Law EOENTON. N. C. OmCB ON KINO PTKKET, TWO DOOK WEST OK MAIN. tyncUce In tUe Superior Courta of Chc-wta tai Mfjotn'nf tor,tle, and in the Jinoreaie Court t lit lb. in olhctlosa promptly rna'.. DR. C. P. BOGERT, Surgeon & fflechanical ARD HOUSE, EDENTON, N. C. JT. L. ROGERSON, Prp. This eld a4 mtM:ihnd hotai !IU oflcrt tra. cUa ar.cjamodat!cia to the traveling pabilc TERMS REASONABLE. Simple room lor trTitne ciilaimen. an e varanccs fnrmahuil when desired. tVfru) llaok t ali t'Hintt aai atramera. rir.i eia bar atuetied. Tbe Roet Importer Mid liomcidc Liquors always on bad. -DCK NEATLY AHD PROMPTL! Fisherman and Farmer Publishing Company EVER! m HIS OWN DOCTOR UvJ. Hamilton A. is, A. M., M.I. 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It tell how to detect rod cure disease; to feed for egus ami also fttrfaUeiiim.-; which fowls to save for lreeil.iifc purposes: and everytliieii. indeed, you ahouiii know on this subject to make it profitable. bent postpaid for tweuty-flve cents in ic. Of 'ic Stamps. Book Publishing House, 135 Leo.nakd St.. X. Y. City. Waat to turn an anoat a 3nsr Bow to Pick Out a flood Oao? Knew Imperfec-l Ooaa a4 o Gtoard acalaat Fraud t Detect Dlaeaso aa4 Effort a Cur. rhea aame la poulble? leu the o t ne leeti, r What to call the Different Partt Ot tho alr-i? w - to snoe a Eor Properly? All thli Md ouier vinilbta itfonuauoo cut bo obtained bf tadui, wa ioo-PAOB 1LLCSTRATBP '"8st BK. wtlojt we will forwari r- ECOS PUB. HOUSE. cacnatd fit. DENTIST. WOOD JOB PRINTING Hi CAUSB YOU CHICKENS 1 A "S. T Here Ot Is! "4. REY. DR. TABIAGE. rilK BKOOKL.YN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SEltMOX. Subject: "Narrow Kscapcs. Text : "I am cscapo'J with tho skia ofmy teeth," Jobxix.,20. Job had it hnr.l. What with boils and be rcavcrncnts and lumkruptcy nml a fool of a i : .1 l V, -wrta rtrtfi.l nri'l T llo Tl." WHO Ull VIut-ii ii'i o .... - - - j blame him. His fl'h was pjonf. 7;u,i hi3 tionos were dry.. His "aiexi away nn- tilnotlii lUt tjio enamel gcemotl loft. Ito crioB ont,""! am escaped with the skin o! my teoth." ... Thoro has bnrn some difforonfe or opinion about this pass'iKo. St. Jerome and Kohul-tPDSun.lDr-. Oootl and l'ooln and liarnos have all tried their forceps on Job's tooth. Yon deny my interpretation and say, "What did Job know about theenamel of theteethV tt., Lrtew pvervthine about It. Dental surgery is almost as old as tho fiarth. Tho mummies of F.yrpt, thousands of years old, aro found to-day with gold filling in their teeth. Ovid and Horaco and Solomon ami Moses wrote about thesn important factors of tho body. To other provoking complaints Job, I think, has added an exasperating toothache, and putting his hand a-atnst tho inflamed faco ho says, "I am escaped with tho skin of my teeth." A very narrow eseape. you say, for Jot) 9 body and soul, but there are) thousands of men who make just as narrow escape for their soul. There was a tim when tho par tition between them and ruin was no thicker than a tooth's enamel ; but, as Job nnaUy escaped, so have they. Thank God ! Thank ' Taiii expresses tho same idea by a differ ent 11'uro when ho says that some people aro "saved ns by fire." A vessel at sea is in flames. Yoa o to the stern of tho vessel. Thi boats havo 'shoved olT. The flames ad vance. You can enduro tho heat no longer on your face. You slide down on the side of the vessel and hold on with your lingers un til tho forked tonuo of tho fire begins to lick the back of your hand, nnd you feel that you mut fall, when one of the lifeboats comes back, and tho passengers say they -think they have room lor one more. ine boat swings under you ; you drop into it ; you are saved. Ko some men are pursued by temptation until they aro partially con- sumi'il, rut alter an j;ei un o"" - j lire." But I like the figure of Jo!) a little better than that of Paul, because the pulpit has not worn it out, and I want to show you, if God will help, that some men mako nar row escape for thtir souls and are savod oa "with the skin of thoir teeth." It is ns easy for some people to look to the cross ns for you to look to this pulpit. Mild, gentle, tractablo. loving, you expect them to become Christians. You go over to tho storonndsay, "Grandon joined tho church yesterday." Your business comrades say "That is just what might have been expect ed." He always was of that turn of mind. In youth this person whom I describe was always good. He never broke things. He never laughed when it was improper to laugh. At seven hecouldsit an hourinehurch, perfoctly quiet, looking neither to tho right hand nor to the left, but straight into tho eyes of the minister, ns though he under stood tho whole discussion about tho eternal decrees. He nover upset things nor lost them. He floated into the kingdom of God so gradually that it is uncertain just when the matter was decided. Here is another one, who started in life with an uncontrollable spirit. He kept the nursery in an uproar. His mother found him walking on tho edge of the house roof to sea if he could balance himself. Therowasno horso ho dared not ride, no tree he eould not climb. His boyhood was a long series of pre dicaments ; his manhood was reckless ; his midlife very wayward. But now ho is con verted, anil you go over to the store and say, "Arkwright joined tho church yesterday." Your friends say : "It is not possible ! You must bo joking." You say : "No ; I tell you tho truth. Ho joined tho church." Then they reply, "There is hopo for any of us if old Arkwright has becomo a Christian." In other words, we nil admit that it is more diliicult for somo men to accept the gospel than for others. I may be addressing some who havo cut loose from churches and Bibles and Sundays and who have at present no intention of be coming Christians themselves, but just to see what is going on. And yet you may find yourself escaping before you hear tho end, as "with the skin of your teeth." I do not expect to waste this hour. I have seen boats go oft" from Capo May or Long Branch anil drop their nets and after awhile como ashor.) pulling in their nets without having caught a single fish. It was not a good day, or they had not tho right kind of a net. But we ex pect no such excursion to-day. Tho water is full of lrsh ; tho wind is in tho right direc tion ; the gospel net is strong. O thou who didst help Simon and Andrew to llsh, show us to-day how to cast tho net on the right side of tho ship ! Some ot you, in coming to God, will havo to ruu against skeptical notions. It is use less for people to say sharp and cutting things to those who reject the Christian religion. I cannot say such things. By what process of temptation or trial or b". rival you have como to your present stat- J. know not. There aro two gates to your nature tho gate of the head and the gate of tho heart. Tho gate of your head is locked with bolts an 1 bars that an archangel could not broak, but tho gate of your heart swings easily on its hinges. If I assaulted your body with wea pons, you would meet me with weapons, and it would be sword stroke for sword stroke, and wound for wound, and blood for blood, but if I come nnd knock at tho door of yout house you open it and givo me the best seat in your parlor. If I should come at you to day with an argument, you would answer mo with an argument ; if with sarcasm, you answer me with sarcasm, blow for blow, stroke for stroke, but when I como and knock at tho door of your heart you open it and say, "Come in, my brother, nnd tell me all you know about Christ and heaven." Listen to two or throe qaostions : Aro you ns happy as you used to be when you baliovo i in tho truth of the Christian religion? Would you like to havo your children travel on in the road in which you aro now traveling? You had a relative who professed to be a Christian and was thoroughly consistent, living and dying in the faith of tho gospel. Would you not like to live the same quiet life and die the same peaceful death? I re ceived a letter sent rue by ono who has re jected the Christian religion. It says : "I am old enough to know that tho joys and pleasures of life are evanescent and to realize the fact that it must be comfortable in old nge to believe in something relative to the future and to have a faith in some system that proposes to save. I am free to confess that I would be happier if I could exerciso tho simple and beautiful faith that is possessed by many whom I know. I am not willingly out of the church or out of the faith. Mystatoof uncertainty is ono of un rest. Sometimes I doubt my immortality and look upon the deathbed as the closing scene, after which there is nothing. What shall I do that I have not done. Ah, skepti cism is a dark and doleful land ! Let me say that this Bible is either true or false. If It be false, we aro as well oft as you ; it do true, then which of us is safer? Let me also ask whether your troublo hag not been that you confounded Christianity with the inconsistent character ot somo who profess it. You are a lawyer. In your pro fession there are mean and dishonest men. 13 that anything against tho law? You are a doctor. There are unskilled and contempti ble men In your profession. Is that anything asrainst medicine? You are a merchant. There are thieves and doirauders in your business. Is that anything against merchan dise? Behold, then, tho unfairness of charg ing upon Christianity the wickedness of ita disciples. . . . We admit somo of tho charges against thoso who profess religion. Somo of the most gigantic swindles of the present day have been carried on by members of the churcn. There are men in tho churches who would not be trusted for $5 without goo 1 collater il security. They leave their business dishon esties in the vestibule of the church as they go in and sit at the communion. Having con cluded the sacrament, they get up, wipe the wine from their Hps, go out and tafte u? their sins where they let off. To serve tho devil is their regular work ; to servo God. a sort of play spell. With a Sunday sponge tboy expect to wipe of! from their business slate an the past week's Inconsistencies, iqu have no more right to take such a man l a ilito as a specimen of religion than you ha e i to take the twisted irons and split timbers that he on the beach at Cc-.iey Island as a speci men of an American ship. It is time that wo drew a lino between religion and tho frail ties of those who profess it. r Again, there mav bo some of yon who, In tho attempt alter tt Christian life, will havo to run against powerful passions aal".? petites. Perhaps it is a disosit'ctl io anger that you have to cortfiwyl against, and per haps, while jj 7t very serious mood, you hear Qfo-'jjething that makes you feel that "".Trmust swear or die. I know of a Chris tian man who was once so exasperate 1 mat Ue said to a mean customer, "I cannot swoaT nt you myself, for I aai a member of tlie church, but if you will go dowu stairs my partner in business will swear at you. All your good resolutions heretolore h ive been torn to tatters by explosions of temper. Now, there is no harm in getting mad if you only get mad at sin. Yml nee I to bridlo and saddle these hot breathed passions, an l witn tnem riuo ao.vu iujuhu n- r There are a thousand things in the world that we ought to be mad at. There is no harm in getting rodhot if you only bring to the forge that -which needs hammering. A man who has no power of righteous indig nation is an imbecile. But be sure it Is a righteous indignation and not a petulancy that blurs and unravels and depletes the There is a largo clas3 of persons i midlifo who havo still in them appetites that were aroused in early manhood, at a time when they prided themselves on being a "idtlo fast,,f"high livers," "freo and easy,' "hail fellows well met." They are now p-iyin? in compound Interest for troubles they collect ed twenty years ago. Some of you are try ing to escape, and you will, yet very nar rowly, "as with tho skin of your teeth. God and your own soul only know what the Btruggle is. Omnipotent grace has pulled out many a soul that was deeper in the mire than you are. They lino the beach or heaven, the multitude whom God has res cued from the thrall of suicidal habits. If you this day turn your back on tho wrong and start anew, God will help you. Oh, the weakness of human help ! Men will sym pathise for a while and then turn you off. If you ask lor their pardon, they will give it and say they will try you again ; but, fall ing away again under tho power of tempta tion, thoy cast you off forever. But Go 1 forgives seventy times seven yea, seveu hundred times yea, thouir'.i this be tho ten thousandth time He is more earnest, more sympathetic, more helpful thislat time than when you took your first misstep. If, with all the influences favorable for a right life, men mako so many mistakes, how much harder it is when, for instance, some appetite thrusts its iron grapple into the roots of tho tongue and pulls a man down with hands of destruction ! If under such circumstances ho break away, there will be no sport in the undertaking, no holiday en joyment, but a struggle in which tho wres tlers move from side to side and benl and twist and watch for an opportunity to get in a heavier stroke until, with one final effort, in which the muscles aro distended, and tho veins start out, and tho blool starts, the swarthy habit falls unler the knee of the victor escaped at last as with the skin of his In tho last day it will bo found that Hugh Latimer and John Knox and IIu3s and Rid ley wero not tho greatest martyrs, but Chris tia n men who went up incorrupt from the contaminations and perplexities ot Wall street. Water street. Pearl street. Broad street. State street, Third f treet, Lombard street and the bourse. On earth they were called brokers or stockjobbers or retailers or importers, but in heaven Christian heroes. No fagots were heaped about their feet, no inquisition demanded from them recanta tion, no soldier aimed a spiko at their heart, but they had mental tortures, compared with which all physical consuming i3 as the breath of a spring morning. I find in tho community a large class ot men who have been so cheated, so lied about, so outrageously wronged that they have lost faith in everything. In a world where every thing seems so toosy turvy they do not see how there can bo any God. They are con founded and frenzied and misanthropic. Elaborate argument to prove to them the truth of Christianity or thetruthof anything else touches them nowhere. Hear mo, all such men. I preach to you no rounded periods, no ornamental discourse, but I put my hand on your shoulder and invito you into the poaee of the gospel. Hero is a rock on which you may stand firm, though the waves dash against it harder than thelAt lantic, pitching its surf clear above Eddy stone lighthouse. Do not charge upon Go I all these troubles of the world. As long as the world stuck to God, God stuck to the world, but the earth seceded from His gov ei nment, and henco all thoso outrages and all these woes. God is good. For many hundreds of years He has been coaxing tho world to co iio back to Him, but the moro Ho has coaxed the more violent havo men been in their resistan3e, and they have stepped back and stepped back until they have dropped into rum. Try this God, ye who have bad tho blood hounds after you, and who havo thought that God had forgotten vqu. Try Him and see if Ho will not help. Try Him and see if He will not pardon. Try Him and see if He will not save. Tho flowers of spring have no bloom so sweet as the flowering of Christ's nffections. The sun hath no warmth com pared with tho glow of His heart. The waters have no refreshment like the foun tain that will slake the thirst of thy soul. At the moment the reindeer stands with his lip nnd nostril thrust into the cool mountain tor rent tho hunter may bo coming through the thicket. Without crackling a stick under his foot he comes close by the stag, aims his gun, draws the trigger, and tho poor thing rears in its death agony and falls backward, its antlers crashing on the rocks, but the panting heart that drinks from the water brooks of God's promise shall never be fa tally wounded and shall never die. PROMINENT PEOPLE. The Tope's annual Income is $1,430,000. Wanamakeb's life 13 insured for $1,505,- 000. Queex Victoria speaks ten languages flu ently. WiiiTjiAM Walter Phelps left $100,000 to Yale College. Mb. Gladstone's eyo is worse, and an other operation will be necessary. WiTi.tiw D. TTowft.t.s. the novelist, has de clared himself in favor of woman suffrage. Senatob Joh.t Sherman, Of Ohio, has kept all his letters since he was fifteen years old. Sesatob Hawlet has been thirty-six years In active newspaper serviea in llartiord, Conn. Titr f.ivorito amnsemont of Theodore Havemeyer, the New York multi-millionaire, is playing the violin. The late President Carnot, of France, was a lover of American horses, and purchased many in this country. James B. Godefboy, the last chief of the Miami tribe of Indians, diod a few days ago, at his home near Fort SVayne, Ind. Bishop John M. Walden. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, began life by working on an Ohio River flatboat for fifty cent3 o day. It is said that Senator Wolcott. of Color ado, approaches nearer to the ideal orator than any man now in the United States Sen ate. Among the many other feats in literature. Mr. Gladstone has translated the famous hymn, "Root; of Ages," into Greek and Latin verse. So dreadful is tho midday glare of tho United States Senate Chamber that Senator Hale and Senator Carey wear dark glasses to preserve their sight. Mbs. Pebbine arrived at Buzzard's Bay, Mass., from Buffalo, on a few weeks' visit to her daughter. Mrs. Cleveland, wife of the President, at Gray Gables. Conan Doyle, the novelist, is a very fine specimen of manhood. He is bigan I blonde, six feet tall, athletic and weighs 225 pounds. He is only thirty-five years old. "Jeebfoot, the Seneca Indian, who, in 1863. was declared to be the champion run ner of the world, is still living on the reser vation of his people, near Irvine, N. Y. Miss Frances H. Willabd, the temperance advocate, attributes her gain in health and weight to tho fact that while she was visit ing in England they made her eat flva hearty meals a day. TW1XT FLAME AND FLOOD FOREST FIRES DESTROY POP ULOUS WISCONSIN TOWNS. Driven in Panic From Their Homes, Citizens of Phillips Rush for Safety to a Lake Nearly a Score of Lives Lost A Sea of Flame in the Lumber Region. Forest fires raged over a wide area In Northern Wisconsin and wiped out the town of Phillips, driving citizens headlong into the lake. Nearly a score were burned or drowned, nnd 3000 wore made homeless. A dispatch from Ashland, Wis., gave the following particulars Northern Wisconsin is being swept by tho worst forest fires in the history of tho State. The losses already amount to millions of dollars, and unless rain falls speedily this sum will be vastly Increased. Reports indicate that several towns have boen burned within a radiu3 of a hundred miles of Ashland. To the south, Phillips, the county seat of Prico County, a thriving town of three thousand inhabitants, has been wiped out. Taylor County, directly south of Trice, is being laid waste, and Shores Crossing has been destroyed. To the southwest of Ashland, Mason, a busy town of Bayfield County, has been burned, while in Forest and Langlade Coun ties the flames are making destructive progress. It is reported that twenty persons lost their lives in Phillips. It is said that when the flumes swept over the town many per sons tried to save their valuables and house hold effects, and lingered so long in the ef fort as to be cut off from every avenue of es cape except a small lake formed by the widening of the river. They then rushed to the lake, and while some succeeded in es caping, twenty are reported to navo oeen drowned. Five hundred women and children from Phillips are in the woods near Fifleld, the next town, without food or shelter. A re quisition for supplies was sent from Mil waukee, Wis. It is feared many persons have perished In tne woods, as witn tne nre burning all around them there is no chance for the women and children to escape. The number who have lost their lives will probably never be known. The list of dead whose bodies have been recovered is as fol lows : Mrs. David Byrden nnd her two chil dren, Frank Cliss and child, James Locke and three children, Charles Pflantzer,burned to death . A hole has literally been burned in the ground over a territory one a half mile3 long and a half mile wide, and the saw dust, which is all of four feet thick, Is still burning, sending clouds of smoke over the city to stifle the few residents who have returned and are engaged in putting up temporary sheds for the pro tection of their wives and families. In the woods around the city the people have erected tents to shelter them until such time as the crude houses which they are building Will be ready. Appeals for aid to fight the nre were com ing in all day. Relief trains were despatched, but in nearly every instance they encoun tered burned bridges and were forced to re turn. Being walled in by the flames it was practically impossible to get assistance to the towns frantically asking for it. Cut off from all outside succor, rains were tne oniy source of relief. The woods are dry and the flames sweep through them. There were only three brick buildings in Phillips, the rest being constructed of wood. The lumber Industry was the main source of wealth and prosperity to the inhabitants. They hewed an open spaoe in the forest and built a wooden town. Baked for weeks by a blazing sun, it fell an easy prey to the flames that swept up to its edges through the forest . When the box factory burned the boiler exploded and shook the entire town. An ex plosion of powder and dynamite occurred when the lumber company's hardware store burned. It is estimated that twenty million feet of sawed lumber was destroyed. The John R. Davis Lumber Company sus tained the heaviest loss, as its plant was val ued nt $500,000. A big tannery, several churches, the Court House, the Wisconsin Central Railroad station, the publio school nnd all the business and dwelling houses are in ruins. A dozen bridges on the Omaha line have been burned and it will tako weeks to rebuild them. The littletown of Mason, with its big lum ber mills was wiped out, with a loss of near ly $1,000,000. The fire started in the lum ber yard3 of the White River Lumber Com pany, The Are came upon Shores Crossing with terrible rapidity and residents there lost everything they possessed. A freight engine with a caboose arrived from Mason, and the worst reports of Are there aro confirmed. Tho town is literally Wiped out of existence. Superintendent Collins, of the. Wisconsin Central Railroad,said in the morning that all the news there was from Prentice, the Arst station next south of Phillips, was that the town was gone. As the wind had changed and decreased in violence, the prospect was that lurther progress ot the forest Ares would be stop pe l. In various cities throughout the Stite Bteps were being taken to send relief to the 6ufferers. Provisions, food and money will be forwarded. Briefly summarized, the fires have burned as follows : Phillips is wholly Wiped out ; Mason is practically destroyed, with the White River Lumber Company and 80,000, 000 feet of lumber; the headquarters of the Ashland Lumber Company, tiear Shores Crossing, are gone; a special train on the Omaha, consist ing of sixteen cars and locomo tive, was burned, having broken through the bridge near Ashland Junction ;the caiaps of the Thompson Lumber Company are burned at White River, along with two bridges on the main line of the Omaho Rail road and two bridges on the Wisconsin Cen tral's main line, south of Ashland. The damage to timber and logs scat tered through the woods, to individual homesteaders, nouses and other prop erty, to cut cord-wood, etc., will swell the general damage to appalling figures. Several parties of berry-pickers from Ashland narrowly escaped with their lives, and it is almost certain that some of the lone homesteaders through the timber perished, unless they in some providential manner escaped through the suffocating flames and smoke. A COMMA SAVED HIM. Joues Was to Be Hanged, But There Was a Flaw in the Judge's Charge. Jesse H. Jones, nineteen years old, owes his escape from the gallows at Littlo Rock, Ark., to the use of a comma in tho Judge'3 charge. Jones was charged with the murder of two brothers named Hibdoh, with whom he traveled through Arkansas. They camped one night in an unoccupied house. The next morning the charred bones of the Hibdons wero found. Jones's Irial was hurried for ward, and on April 9th he was sentenced to death. A stay was secured pending an ap peal. The opinion of the Supreme Court points out that by the misplacement of a ei. mma in the Judge's charge tho Judgo appears to have made an error. SIXTY BUILDINGS BURNED. The Business Sectiou of BeUe Plain, Iowa, Destroyed by Fire. The entire business section of Belle Plain, Iowa, with the exception of three buildings, was destroyed before the Are which de vastated it had burned itself out." More than sixty buildinurs, business houses and dwellings were burned. The loss is esti mated at $500,000, whilethere is only tluO, 000 insurance on the property consumed. The flames originated in a livery stable, and, leaping across the street, were soon communicated to several buildings. LATER NEWS. I Ocean Gbove, N. J., Celebrate J tho twenty-fifth anniversary of its birth. The Michigan Republicans placed a full State ticket in tho field, headed by Governor Rich, who was renominated on the first bal lot. Thbee mon wero killed an I several hurt, two of them fatally, by an explosion of dyna mite in a Chicago stone yard. A railroad Btation 1500 feet away wa3 damaged and a car Wrecked. Attorney-General Olxey decided to in vestigate grave charges against Uuited States Judgo Ricks, of Cleveland, Ohio, upon which impeachment proceeding may bo based. TnE Striko Commissioners met in Wash ington and decided to begin their public in quiry at Chicago August 15. Spaxisii troops defeate 1 tho Malays at Mindanao, killing 25!) of them. The annual camp mocting of tho National Temperance Society began at Ocean Grove, N. J. The Armor Plato Investigating Commit tee of tho House of Representatives visited the Carnegie works at Homestead, Penn. State dispensaries in South Carolina opened. Local authorities in two towns ar rested the dispensers. The North Dakota Prohibition State Con vention named for Governor Roger Allin, of Tark River. Jcdoe Joseph Holt, who was Judgo Advocate-General of the Army, and at ono timo acted ns Socrotary of War, died at hia resi dence in Washington. His death was duo indirectly to a fall sustained a few days be fore, but to which he paid llttlo attention. Joseph Holt was born in Brockeuridgo County, Kentucky, on January G, 1807. Evidence taken by tho Sonato Sugar Scandal Investigating Committoe was raado public. Commodore Meade was ordered to com mand tho North Atlantic Station with tho rank of Roar-Admiral. Secretary Cablisle accepted the Sixteenth and Spring Garden streets site as the loca tion for tho now Philadelphia Mint Building. Tho consideration agreod on is $305,000. The White Star steamer Majestic ran down and sunk the fishing schooner Antelope in a fog off tho Grand Banks, New Foundland. Ono member of the schooner's crew was drownoti and another died from exhaustion. The keg containing $10,000 in gold that was stolen whllo in transit from New York to Taris, but not its contonts, was found at a railway station near Paris. Three thousand insurgent troops aro marching upon Torto Alogro. This city is tho capital of tho State of Rio Grando do Sul, Brazil. TnE Spanish Government purchased three cruisers from English firms to protect her Philipplno possessions against tho Japanese. THE LABOR WORLD. Barbers have 100 uniouy. Japan reports a cotton strike. The Cramp ship yard employs 5000. Detroit, Mich., has 2000 carpenters. Chicago painters get 32 cents an hour. Toronto, Canada, has a Building Labor ci' Union. Policemen in Austria must understand telegraphy. Massachusetts plumbers have a Slato association. Toronto (Canada) city laborers got fifteen cents an hour. A Texas K. of L. District Assembly has 5000 members. Massachusetts K. of L. rocently hold a State convention. Leadworkino is the most disastrous of all trades to the health. A Proofreaders' Union has boon organ ized in Indianapolis, Ind. A union of shirt ironers and laundry workers has boen organized. The New York State Worklngmen's As sembly condemned prison lab jr. Wheeling and Lake Erie railroaders havo had the 33 por cent, cut restored. A union of workingwomen was organizod lately in the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum. Tacoma (Wash.) unions aro opposed to the abolishment of tho manual labor school. The Chicago Printers' Union has In four months distributed $3500 to Idle members. A St. Paul striker was flnod $50 for turn lug off air brakes and "attempting Intimida tion." losgsuoeemen'b National Association re cently held its annual convention In San dusky, Ohio. The annual convention of the Harness and Snd lie Makers' International Associa tion was held in Peru. Ind. Chicaoo railway officials annouuee that they will manage their properties indepen dent of labor unions hereafter. The American Labor Union was success fully launched at tho stockyards. Chicago. The pioneer lodge has 1548 members. Tt is reported that 5000 discontented for eign-born workmen have left Cleveland, Ohio, rocently and returned to Europe. No employes on tho face of the earth havo a moro certain tenure or oince, it is t nought, than those who stood by their roads during the recent strike. John Byrnes, of Boston, claims to be the oldest street car driver in the world. He has been at it forty years and has traveled a distance equal to twenty-five times around the world. About Co.000 miners navo strucs against a proposed reduction in their wages, accord ing to advices from Edinburgh, Scotland, and 20,000 steel workers are now idle in con sequence of the lack of fuel. Edward Myrtle, of Syracuse. N. Y., says "There are three branches of organized labor which can paralyze the business of this country from ono end to the other. These aro the' railroaders, the telegraphers and printers." TIN PLATE PRODUCTION. Report of Special Agent Ayer to Sec retary Carlisle. Special Agent Ayer, of the Treasury De partment, detailed, in connection with the tin plate industry reports, to Secretary Car lisle that during the quarter ended 3Irca Bl last thirty-six firms produced 38,250,411 lounds of tin and terne plate proper, against 27,510,441 pounds by thirty-nine firms in the previous year. Of the tin plate seventy-two per cent, was rolled in the United Stales. All classes of tin and terne plate produced aggregated 40, 23,300 pounds, ot which 30,070,601 pounds were blank plate produced in th United (states. Of the thirty-six Arms making for mal returns, nineteen used American plate Wholly, three foreign plates whollyand tour teen firms used both. The salmon run at the Cascades, Oregon, is something unprecedented in the history of the State. Wheels catch tons every day, and the facilities for transportation over the portage are sorely taxed to afford means of b hipmeut. There are now more damage! freight cars ihan ever before at one time in the history ot the country, nud it will take six months. -tJn.- n'-'-, -; ' Aav to reo-ib- u-n. AT HOME AND ABROAD. LATE DOMESTIC AND FOR EIGN TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. John Craig Killed Ills Wife, Mother-in-Law, Father-in-Law, Brother-in-Law, and Then Tried to Kill Himself Murderers Hansed Rumors of War. T bn Craig, Los Anzelcs, Cal., shot and killed his father-in-law. William. Hunter . his mother-in-law, Mary Hunter; bis brother-in-law, George Hunter, and his wife, Emily Hunter Craig. Craig drove to Glendale, five miles from Los Angeles, where his wife, from whom he was divorced three months ago, was stopping with her brother. George, and deliberately shot and killed them both. Ho then returned to Los Angeleg and went to tho homo of his father-in-law. William Hunter, and killed him. after which, stopping overthu holy, he walked to the dining room, whoro he shot and killed his mother-in-law. He then turned the pistol against his fore head and fired two shots, bo'.h of which failed to kill him. He was taken Vt the po lice receiving hospital nnd will recover. H states that be was hounded by his wife's relatives an 1 wanted reveu j, but was sorry he had not succeeded in killing himself to complete tho whole business. Craig was prominent in polities. Thekill ing grew out of troublo over the settlement of community property. Craig has borne tho character of a desperate man, and had few friends. Down a Shaft to Death; Lehigh Coal Company officials went on a tour of inspection of Exeter mine, ono of tho company's collieries at West Pittston, Penn. The pwty comprise 1 Colonel A. Mason, of Pittston, tho superintendent ; Uo'i ertMerour. of the Lehigh Valley Engineer Corps ; Professor Burrell, of Lehigh Uui versltv, and Inside Forcm iu William Wil son. With the party was tho foreman, Jacob Gates. While coincrun the old air shaft, which isa second opening for the Exeter shaft, tho bot tom of tho carriago gave way and precipi tated the men to tho bottom. Gates, tho foreman, when ho felt tho timoer giving way, grasped tho side of tho bunting and held on until rescued. Colonel Mason was killed by the shock. Inside Foreman Wilson was fatally injured and died at 3 o'clock. Mr. Mercur was badly and Professor Burrell slightly in jured. Half-Breed Indian Hanged. At two minutes past 11 o'clock a. m. Wal lace Burt paid tho penalty at Dylostown, Penn.. for tho murder of Mr. aud Mrs. Sam uel L. Rlehtlv. He caused no scene at ho gallows. Burt was asked by tho sheriff if ho bad anvthincr to say. Ho replied, saying his f.ito was a warnintr to all wrong-joers, in tbrnit twentv minutes after tho drop fell Burt was pronounced dead. Ricrhtlv and his wife were over eighty years of nge and lived noar Richboro, Bucks Ponntv. Penn. Thev wero murdered for their money. Burt was a hal'-breod Indian, who had worked for thorn. The first clue to the murder was a pioco ot tobacco dropped near tho dead man, which a neighbor recog nized as the kind usod by Burt. Tho fellow afterwards confessed. Invalid Burned Alive. George W. Dee, a farmer, living eight miles west of Burlington, Iowa, was burned to death in his house. He w is eighty-seven years of age and weighed 300 pound?, nnd had been confined to his bed. When the II ro was discovered the flames were all around Dee's bed. His son-in-law. Scott Devault, attempted to assist him out of the houso, but tho sick man was unable to walk. Devault partly carried and partly dragged him as far as tho door, when tho flames 6wept upon them and Devault was com pelled to abandon tho invalid to his fate. The flames soon reduced his form to a black ened mass in full view of the horror-stricken spectators. His agod wife was terribly burned. Rumor of War Declared. The Central News of London has this despatch from Shanghai : "War has been declared between Japan nnd China. Tho Japanese havo seized tho King of Korea and noia mm pnsuuer. v. if von Chinese steamers are on thoir way to Korea. Most of the troops aboard them aro coolios, armed with bows and arrows. "Some Chinese steamers w.iich have ar rived at Korea have boen prevented by the Japanese from landing troops. It is report ,i f i,..t tho .Tan inesa artillery sank several of them." Two Men Instantly Killed. While John Everly, Frank Jones and Milt Black were engaged in ruuniug a traction engine three miles south of Warsaw, Ind., it broke down. while Black was repairing it. Everly and -Trmoa Who had lost several nights' sleep sit ting up with a sick frioDd, threw themselves HniFn in front of tho encrino to take a nap. Black, not knowing where his companions were, started tho machine, killing both in stantly. A New Japanese Minister. GozoTateno, Japanese Minister to Wash ington, has been recaiioa to japau, uuu mi. 1 din'.omat. has been JiUMHV, v 1' appointed to succeed him. Thianhonw I made on account of dis satisfaction at the mannor in which Minister TDn bna ennducrod the negotiations with iha Washington Government, looking to tho modification of tho extra-territorial treaties Two Girls Drowned. Katie Johnson and Sadio Johnson, aged fourteen and twelve years respectively, wero od in a littlo nond of one acre in ex- tfcnr nt Bav View Heights. West Chapel ITill, W -T.. while bathing. Tho children with nonrlv one hundred others fro n St. Chn-sos- nm Chanel. New York, were having a two ' 1 T . ' weeks recreat'on. 31urderer Executed. Charles Wilson, colored, was executed In the jail yard at St Louis. Mo., for tho mur- der of Jioses woman. Hodses in a quarrel over a FIRE IN CHICAGO. Half a Mile Sauare in the Lumber District Burned. Flames a few nights ago destroyed more property in a shorter space of time than any Are which has visited Chicago since the big conflagration in 1872. About $3,000,000 worth of lumber, electrical apparatus, ears, car-wheels, castings, stoves, patterns, buiid- Incr and other material were consumed In a half mile square in less than three hour-. The scene of the Are was wffat is known as the lumber district. The territory burned over was bounded by Ashland avenue on the east, the South Branch of the Chicago lilver on the south. Blue Island avenue on the north, and Rohy street on the west. The fire was the worst which the department bos been called ou to fight in the last twenty-two years. There wert many casualties among tho firemen and spectators. The only death was that of a boy who fell from a lumber pile into a river slip and was drowned. Among the Aremen injured were Lieuten ant McGann. tripped bv pipe thrown by Areboat Geyser, nnd thrown into blaz ing lumber, badly burned, taken to hospital. J. P. Phelan, burned in same man ner, removed to county hospital. 1'ipeman Flaherty, seriously burned in the same man ner, taken to the hospital ; Assistant Marshal Musman, blown by the gale from the Are boat Geyser into the river, cut and bruised, continued on duty ; James Connors, assist ant engineer, blown from the lumber pile, cut ana badly bruised, taken home. Owing: to the hard times thousands of foreigners, principally Italians, Slavs an A Hungarians, axe leaving for Europe, THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Enstern and Middle States. Tolice Captain DmitnTY and his wnrl men. Hook and Mivlmn, of New York City, were found guilty of the chare nctiln-rt them and dismissed from the force ; charge were also preferod ngaint five serifoants and two patrolmen, who were suspended until trial. The General Term of the Supremo Court, In Brooklyn, handed down a division nffirm iuu' tho judgment of eouvietion and sentence of John Y. McKane, thy Grnvesend The first election of School Trutvs un der tho new Rorouich and Townshiji law passed by til livt l.eglalnturo of New Jer sey was held in Vlneland. N. J. The women ma. in a bitter fight to exercise tho rigid of suffrage, but they were rolusod. Andrew Frr.MAN. tho infant son of Andrew Dllks, died at Milville. N. J., from the effects of an overdose of medicine a ImiulsteroJ by his two-year-old brother Wlllard. Several deaths from sunstroke and nmnv prostrations from hivU were feature in New York City of wlmt the records sh-jw to have been one of tho hottest July davs ever known in this latitude. Tho temperature on the street level reached a maximum of 104 di grees in tho shade. There were ten deaths from heat. Joseph Haul, of Newark, N. J., irhtneod at a Broadway thermometer, saw that it registered 102 degrees, tin 1 then out his throat. By tho explosion of on of a nest of l boilers nt Packer's N 4 colliery of the L -high Valley Coal Company. Slienandoab, Penn., one man was instantly killed, two s badly hurt that they died, an 1 one se riously burned. Postmaster Charles W. De Bevoise, of Congers. N. Y., who was found 1100 short in his accounts, died of heart disease. Fire practically destroyed tho I.orillar 1 block on tho southwest corner of Fulton 1111 I Gold streets. New York City, at nu estimated total loss of $150,00) to $200,000. At Waynesboro Junction, l'enn., Jamis Wally. a farmer, was dfrlving over the truck when lie was struck by the train. In thee ir riage witli him wero his wife and two chil dren. Mr. Wally and one child have alii: died. Both horses were ktlle I. TnE squall which swept the Hudson River, overturned, opposite Hastings, N. Y., neat boat containing seven young men, three of whom were drowned. South and West. Ma.iok W H. I'pham was nominated for Governor by tho Republicans of Wisconsin. Mrs. M. A. Hartly shot and klllod State Senator M. I). Foley, at Reno, Nev, Mrs. 'tartly is an artist, and she killed Foley in her rooms in tho Bank of Nevada Building. William Henry Harrison Duncan, col ored, agod twenty-seven, was hanged ut Clayton, Mo., for tho murder of Policeman James Brady on tho night of October li. lS'jii. Duncan had been sentenced to death ut seven different times. fuiKO, tho chimpanzee attached to B ir num & Bailey's circus, died at Dayton. Old . Mr. Bailey had refused an offer of $10.00.) from Hagenbeek for tho animal. The body has been embalmed and sent to New Y'ork. The North Dakota Democratic State Con vention nominated this ticket : Gover nor, E. M. Kinter ; Lieutenant-Governor, E. A. Uolnhd ; Secretary of State, George Slette ; Superintendent of Publio Instruc tion. Mrs. Elsenhuth : Auditor. A. W. Por ter ; Treasurer, Knutt J. Newland ; Commis sioner of Agriculture, George Kurtz ; Insur ance Commissioner, James Cudahio ; Con gressman. N. G. Larimore. Joiix W. Love, cashier of tho Watkins (N. Y.) National Bank, was arrested In Chicago. charged with having a shortage of $0,0iM) In his accounts. Commonwealers from Seattle captured an Ohio train and held it until threatened at Alliance with a bath by hose. Mayo Coileoe, tho loading educational institution of Northeast Texas, at Cooper, Delta County, was destroyed by fire. Loss, 100,000. Washington. Senator Vilas defended tho President iu . . I . ... ... A t inul .il.il speecn in mo oemm. iui iw mon..- v Iho conferees to report a tall maKing com and iron ore free was defeated. Carroll D. Wright made a report to the President concerning his investigation of the r-lums of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore. The President approved tho Naval, Diplo matic and Consular and Military Academy Appropriation bills. An investigation of tho tacts concerning tho Nova Scotia coal syndicate shows that lhe charges that W. C. Whituey, Secretary Lamont and President Cr.-voland aro inter ested in it aro false. Admiral Stanton applied to b retired under tho forty-year service law. Ills appli cation is before tho President. Mail advices from United States Minister Willis, at Honolulu, wero received at tho State Department, giving in detail tho facts attending tho inauguration of tho new re public and its recognition. Mr. Gozo Tateno, tho ex-Japaneso Minis ter took leave of tho President. Express ion's of personal and national good will were exchanged. The Conferroesonthe Tariff bill adjourned without reaching an agreement. Both House nnd Senate conforroes announced they would make no concessions. Secretary Guesham ordered Minister Denby to return to I'ekiu immediately, be lieving war between China and Jup.iu to bo inevitable. Secretary Heimiert has finally accepted the y()i) tons of barbett J armor intended for the battleship Oregon, represented by tho tevenleen-inch Carnegie H.irveylzod steel plute, which has been tried at Indian Head. Foreign. The French Chamber of Deputies passed tho Anti-Anarchist bill, to V,.i. Meunler, tho Anarchist, was found guilty of having blown up tho Cafe Very, in 1'aris, and sen tenced to penal servitude for life. The Bank of England celebrate 1 in Lon don tho two hundredth unulversary of its establishment. An earthquake has done much damage nud killed several persons in Macedonia, Id Servia and Eastern Bulgaria. Ihe laying of the new Atlantic cable be tween Heart's Content, New Foundland, and Valentin, Ireland, wus completed. Twenty-five lives were lost by the sinking of a Russian ferryboat in a collision. The Archduke William Francis Charles, of Austria, was thrown off his horso and killed Hear Baden. The Britannia defeated the Vigilant at tho Penzance (England) yachting regatta. A great heat wave, which was predicted by Professor Falbe, vis.tul Germany. While or.e I i : Chinese army is marching through Korea anoi her is preparing to fol low. Japan is said to have fired on tho British flag in the recent n ival light. GOVERNMENT FINANCES. A Cash Balance of $11,0.,,.'5.j2 Gold Reserve $45,024,39.'$ Short. Tho regular monthly statement of tho publio debt, just issued by the United States Treasury Department, shows that the aggre gate on July 31, 1B94. was l,614.0G,24u, as against $1,632 253.63G on Juno 30, 101. This apparent increase is owing to the increase In the issue of certificates and Treasury notes, which, however, are offset by an equal amount of cash in the Treasury. The In terest bearing debt amounted to $035,042,590, an increase for the month of $703. The debt bearing no Interest was $37,950,470, a de crease of $54,215. The increase in certificate? and Treasury notes, whlcli, however, are offset by an equal amount of cash in the Treasury, was from $615,355,820 on June 80, 1894, to $616,972,329 on July 31. 1H94. The cash in the Treasury is $774,201,766. against which there are demand liabilities amounting to $655,136,414, leaving a cash balance of $119,065,352, of which $54,975,607 was gold reserve. The increase in the cash balance during the month was $1,430,915. CHINESE WAR SHIP SUNK. THE JAPANESE VICTORIOUS IN A NAVAL BATTLE. China's Second Largest Wr Xfnel Lost, W)fh Many Lives, and Two Cruisers Captured or Destroyed Superlo- Fighting Skill of tho Japanese Mat eim-nt by Japan. News has jut Invti reeelvod of a d.porRto buttle Wtwoon the fleets of China and Jitpnn, in whh-h tho Chinese were defeated nud tho Chen Yuen, tho lari'st battle ship but om lu tho Chinese service, was sunk, an.l two oth er largo Chine vessels, s-iid to Im llrtrt ehiss cruisers, were capture I or destroy!. Tho little was hotly contested, but th Japan ese appear to have h-mlled their guns, ships, nnd torpedoes with morn klll than the Chinese. The Chinese fleet enuaged e.-irrlM nearly a thousand men, mil tho later t ilospnt-'hea state that few if uuy of them is 'apod. Two of the German officer in command of lh Chen Yuen were report e I to have met death with the orow of that vessel. The news means that 1111 end lins !ion put to the. power of China so far as lighting Japan upon the seas is eoneerned. Not ono of the remaining ships of Chlm would dura to show itself out o! port after lenrnlti t lint the first -class battle ship Chen Yuen bin been sunk. The two Chinese cruisers, supposed to have been captured or destroyed dvirltig tho I'ligtieomeut, nre the Chin Yuen nnd th l'oo-Chlng. The Chin Yuen whs a pmteete.l cruiser, built lit l'.lswiek. l'.u-'liind. She had a displacement of 2;l00 tons mid attained nil average speed, in her trial trips, with ali weights, batteries, and crew aboard, of ls'j knots. Her arinanent con sisted ol three S'-lne',i Krupps nnd two ali ineh Armstrongs, prote.-ted by splinter proof Shields. She also eiirrte 1 elht six-pounder rapid-lire Hotehkiss gun, six Gatlliik's. and four torpedo tubes. The I'oo Clilng was nlso an English built protected eruiser. very sim ilar to the f tun Yuen. She had n displace ment of 2500 ton-, was built of steel In lv.io. an 1 carried ten guns of about th" miino cali bre as those carried by the f hln Yuen. A Statement ly .l.ip.m. The following official statement of the dif ficulties between China and Japan, which led to the inbreak 'f hostilities between thoso two countries, has been Issued by the Japanese Government : 'Japan nnd China were approaching a set tlement of their difficulties when China sud denly requested Japan to withdraw her fleet irom Korea, and to give a formal compliance with the Chinese demands by the'.'llth, other Wise tho whole Chineoo forces were to Inn I and a sea advance upon the part of China was to be made. Tho Japanese reirnr bd this in an ultimatum ; but, acting un'erthe a lvie,, of the friendly power-, thev a.Tcnd to the) proposals, in principle. In aim-ii led form, at Ihe same time declaring t hat if the threat -ned Chinese advance was made on the 2uth, U would bo regarded as a menace to Japan." it is conjectured that the Japame naval commanders were instructed to be on tho tpui vivo for tho Chinese warships an I s.s'tng l ho latter ad vanning ou July 27, they opened lire. Japan Dpcluren War. Tho nows that tho Emperor "f Japan had doelanvl warng ilnsMli" l'-np 'tor of China i-.wirtiovl iho lnlilt.li Foreign Ofil'e. Tim Japanese Government has wired Instructions to the Japanese Minister lu Lou Ion to off r j an npologv to Great Mi'ltaln for firing 1 upon and sinking the Kov Shlng while she j w is llj'lllg IhO lirllloh Hag. 'l he Minister is ' also Instructed to in'orui the (lovcriiinent of I Great llritaln that tho commander of th t I Japanese cruiser was tin attar" until alter the ! fl(ht that the Kott Shlng was ;rlsli ves- i 80'- I Captain (Mewortliy, Um eommni t of j the Kow Shlng, and in any others on board tin; transport, wern".ivd by the boats of I ha i Japanese war ship Naulwa. In coiisiKJUenee of the de daratlon war Upon China, th" .'iln-so M blister left Tokio. ! The Japanese Mag was h iule l down Iro n . l,e Consulate at Sliniu'l-il. Tho II 'lit h i , been removed from the mouth of the Nmg-l'o River. It was report ed that eight U isnan wir ships were about to Hall from Vladlvosto -K-. Advices from Yashan statu that th - Chi nese aro strongly int rvuehod there ant that repeat od attempts have been inabj by t i Japnneso troops to dhdodgn t hem. In every Inst ince, however, the atta'Unig force, af ter hard-fought engagements, wre rpulo I at all points with heavy losses. A portion of tho Chinese ol llers engaged In these battles wero the best troops of the northern army of Viceroy LI HungChaug. The Chinese loss.- were small. ..... The North China News says that th-t Japnneso brought up for the attack every available man, almost tleuuding Seoul of troops. Tim toiccossiul defence made by the Chineso was directed by European officers. Fifteen hundred Japanese wero killed b tho Chinoso at Yusv A BIG BLAZE. Half u Million Dollars' Worlli of Lum ber and Knllro.id I'roperty Burned. The thir l disostrou.-i (Ire iu tho history of Minneapolis, Minn., broke out about 3.30 p. m. in the lumber yards of the Sli-vlfii-far-penter Co r.p.uiy, on the bank of the Missis sippi, at the foot of Eighth avenue. North. It Hpread with remarkable rapidity an I burri-d 20.0b0,0')0 feet of lumber, th" un manufacturing plant of tho Omaha Railroad Company, with its round-house, tool-house, sand-house and turn-tables, nearly forty freight ears, some of them loaded, and t tie office building of tho Sh; vlln-f arpenter Com pan v. Tho saw-mill, tho plnning-mli', drying kilns and store-house for moulding and pre pared wood, although In the very Henri oi the fire district, were saved by a fortuitous 1 1 etemi'H in Trill Willi. Iieill n a w i t . I .. I If.. I. .1 Ll.tfllllAIII. lr....i Kr Paul and seven entities with full erews were sent ovT trom that city Tho loss is nearly $500,000 and Insurance about $350,000. COST OF THE STRIKE. One Kailroad Alone Present Chicago With a Bill for $450,000. Bills for damages to railroad property by the strike rioters are now coming Into the City Hall, Chicago, III. J. T. Brooks, Sec ond Vice-President of tho Pittsburg, Cincin nati Ht. Louis Railroad, has prosentol a bill which aggregate $449,691. The largest item is $401,691 for 729 freight ears d.-stroye i and forty-two damaged. The Pittsburg. Fort Wuyne & Chicago has present I bill of $21,347. The largest Item is for fourteen freight cars destroyed an I fifty-eight damaged. Mayor Hopkins smiled when he saw tn bills, and remarked; "Walt until we get through with them." WEIGHED 590 POUNDS. Sirs. Walters Lost 2.V Pounds lu Three Weeks. "Big Alice," a museum freak, whose name was Mrs. Hattle Walters, died at Camden, N. J., of blood poisoning. Mrs. Walters scratched her finger on a rusty n&II three weVs befor. When In good health Mrs. Walters weighed 590 pounds. Her intense suffering reduced her weight until she only weighed 300 pounds at the time of her death. The door of the bouse in which she live I wostoo fmall to allow the coffin to enter, an I the body had to be carried to the hearse on a cooling board. Mrs. Walters had boen a dime museum freak for a long while, and had been exhib ited all over the world.
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