ox BACK DOWN
!EADY fob war and
UST HAVE IT.
inJ( England or China Will
jjtu« Dlfferonca—Bang
1(ltd—Battle Ship* to tlia
New**
AIMS, JULY 28.—
l'runce means busi
ness in Siam. The
1/ebats says that
I
I
‘l,M •* &/AH
i 01 ^
AASfcll <jl/A*D
uiuob
retreat from the
position already
taken, even though
it invites the hos
tility of England
and China In this
it voices the senti
ment of nine
tenths of the peo
ple of France. The
French people are
thirsting1 for war >
and they don’t I
much care who
their opponents
are. Of course
Germany would bo
acceptable, but
Germany is keep
ing mighty silent
just notv. That
England means to
protect her inter
ests in Siam, there
is no longer any
doubt. To-dav
Lord Dufferin noti
fied Minister De
v^lle that four
ships from the
Mediterranean
squadron had been
dispatched to Bang
kok. As these are
heavy ships of war
it looks as if Eng
land anticipates
the worst. The
French fleet at
Bangkok will at
once be strength
ened.
Bangkok is now
under effective and
so far undisputed
blockade, but this
will not be sound
ed officially until
after the arrival of
the French men-of
war now on their
way to that point.
Hostilities against
Siam will be begun
not later than Fri
day. The French
minister to Siam is
now on board the
Inconstanee and
will remain ‘Until
hostilities are over.
The Debats, after
noting that the re
gion south of the
twenty-second par
allel, to which
France hopes to ex
tend her territory
in Siam, includes
the provinces ceded
by Great Britain to
Siam after the
Burmese war,
makes these com
ments:
"This, we be
lieve, is what the
marquis of Dufferin
was charged to
represent to M.
Develle, and what
China will also
direct attention to.
It's useless, there
fore, to shut our
eves to the fact
that, beyond cer
tain points, we no
longer have to
deal with Siam,but
perhaps with Eng
land and certainly
with China.”
With the horrors
of war so close at
hand it would be
well to make an
unprejudiced in
quiry into the
causes thereof.
'1 he origin of the
quarrel of France
with Siam grows
out directly from
a question of in
demnity for the
murder by a Sia
mese mandarin of
M. Grosgurin. a
French military in
spector, of Annam,
who was endeavor
ing to expel the
former from terri
tory which is in
dispute between
France and Siam,
and, indirectly,
from the demand
of France for rec
ognition of the
rights of Annam
and Cambodia, both
under the protec
tion of France, on
the left or east
bank of the Me
kong river. The
second demand is
the outcome of the
t Pavp „ "pporiuntty of the
ice of.si. ^chanue to acquire a
• ; 5 ^se territory,amount
“lti'm°l!?uare mlles- Th«
br bothl>,m ,demand* jurisdic
m indemn^^* °f t*le Mekong
a«r “n; y of 3,000,000 francs
181 fruar»t,*,r0s«^urin' and the
gooi faith, to
uiouth nf ill a __
the Y* ^ooa uutn, tc
otherwiin 0,the Menam river,
i* .lse ls forbidden by
if this , ui forbidden by
Ki within u ^'™atum were not
“ • - m a (nven time Bang
atnT .. fnven
is py,.. aid under
ts eIt)ip^ under siege. The
'w&tum isa^„t 8ia*’a rePiy to
_jc -° bU
e0chi?oveyn 1 8Btisfactory to
yjziTt t
°«s'noiTler as Prorfsedby
ot a?_ree with tSat
>? PrinL **"• with tfiat pro
Paraiui « f,ormer fl«a the
aliel of latitude as the
northern boundary of Cambodia: the
latter fixes it on the twenty-third par
allel. In other' words, Siam la
reidy to concede only about one-half
the French demand. As to the money
indemnity the Siamese government
thinks 3,000,000 francs too much and
offers 2,000,000. This, accompanied
by an expression of regret on the part
of Siam, is the substance of its answer,
. T,ls neither regrets nor money
that I ranee specially cares for so much
** " the extension of French ter
ritory. The tax collections In the new
district are worth a good deal more
than the proposed indemnity.
In the settlement of this difficulty
France must reckon with England
rather than with Siam. England's in
terests in Slam are so considerable that
she cannot permit France to dominate
that country or to wreck it Siam ad
joins liritish territory in India, is with
in easy sail of liritish ports, and 80 per
cent of its trade is in liritish hands,
oiam is in debt, and its creditors are
mostly liritish. The Kiameso princes
have been as frequent borrowers in the
London market a4 the Irish land
lords used to be. and a recent writer
says: -‘There are thousands of pounds
(sterling) in London unpaid at this
moment, as several Bond street trades
men could testify." That England
will protect its interests and those of
MAP OP SIAM.
(Shaded portion (bows territory claimed
by France.)
its merchants and moneyed men there
is no doubt. Lord Roseberr v is oa
eager on this score as Lord Salisbury
or Lord Beaconsfleld ever was, but
Lord Roseberry is diplomatic and
cautious, and not disposed to provoke
a quarrel.
Labor Troubles in Kansas.
Topeka, July 27.—The strike situa
tion in the Cherokee district is regard
ed as so serious by Governor Lewelling
and his advisors that eleven companies
of militia have been ordered to hold
themselves in readiness to move on
three hours’ notice.
The orders were telegraphed by Ad
jutant Genera] Artz, by direction of
Lieutenant Governor Daniels, who is
the major general of the Kansas mili
tia, after a conference of three hours
.with Governor Lewelling. The lieu
tenant governor arrived from the scene
of the strike early last evening and
was immediately closeted with Gov
ernor Lewelling, to whom he made a
full renort of the situation as he view
ed it The governor decided that troops
would probably be needed and turned
the command over to Major General
Daniels, with instructions to act as his
judgment might direct. Accordingly
General Daniels issued the orders plac
ing the eleven companies under arms.
By noon word had been received from
the captains of all the companies in
cluded in the order that their men were
under arms and ready for the march.
Governor Lewelling, in order to be
more fully advised and to be posted as
events progressed, last night sent F. J.
Close, his private secretary, to Weir
City with orders to report from time to
time by telegraph.
Lieutenant Governor Daniels stated
this morning that he regarded the situ
ation as very critical and that it might
break out at any time into violence and
bloodshed. He hopes that Sheriff
Arnold will be able to preserve order
with his force of armed deputies, but
they are so few, compared with the
strikers, that it would be an unequal
contest should the two forces come to
gether. Lieutenant Governor Daniels
submitted his report in writing to the
governor tonight. He rehearses the
differences between the miners and
operators which caused the strike and
says that the dispute now hinges on a
difference without a distinction. The
miners say they are willing to go back
to work at the price per ton regulated
by the pay they were getting before the
change in the screen law. The opera
tors say they are willing to pay the
same price per ton that they were pay
ing before the change in the law.
Lieutenant Governor Daniels says this
difference ought to be arbitrated with
out difficulty and recommends that the
governor take steps to bring about ar
bitration.
Continuing, the report says: “At
the same time, as the situation there
is so critical as to render a conflict in
volving serious consequences liable at
any moment, I would suggest that a
proclamation be made to notify all par
ties that the state administration will
not condone the violation of law by
either side; that the sheriffs are ex
pected to protect all interests as re
quired by law and their oaths; and
whenever the forces at their immediate
command are not ample for the pur
pose the state authorities are ready to
respond immediately to their call for
aid.”
The report discourses upon labor
troubles as general and says they
are due to vicious legislation, inspired
by capital and against labor, and con
cludes as follows: “But the methods
by which these wrongs must be right
ed, by which labor must be restored to
its constitutional rights and to its God
given position, must be by constitu
tional ones, or our institutions are not
only ready to crumble, but republican
governments in the world, for the pres
ent, at least, are doomed.”
Sloped with HU Hire.
Elwood, IncL, July 29.—Pleasant
Weddell and his wife have eloped.
They .were married last spring and
ahe tried to commit auicJde because of
bad treatment at his hands. They
afterward separated and she went to
live with relatives who would not
allow her to see him. The couple
planned an elopement, succeeded in
eluding her relatives and are now in
Cincinnati.
PUNCHING OF HEADS.
FRBS FIGHT IN THB HOU8B OF
COMMONS.
twit Day Of tho Homo Role Debate
Marked by a Bl«(raw(d Row—Mom
bora Cursing, riiktlni and Yelling—
Sill Through the Committee.
London, July 29.—On the govern
ment program 10 o'clock last evening
hour set for the closure of the
committee on the home rule
Dill. Ooscure members continued the
debate until 9:4.1 or just fifteen min
utes before the closure was to be ap
plied.
Then Joseph Chamberlain rose to de
liver the final broadside of tho op
position. tie was still smarting under j
the lash which Mr. Gladstone swung
on Tuesday evening, and spoke with
corresponding bitterness. After a few
scorntul and biting words as to the
oonduct of the ministers he began giv
ing his opinion of the closure, os ap
plied by the government The mem
bers, he said, were about to witness
the last scene in a discreditable farce.
The debate on the financial clans* s
had been a mere sham. Tho govern
ment has stood over friend and foe
alike ready to let fall the guillotine !
without regard for justice or conetitu- i
tional riirhta.
Jeers from the Irish, cheers from
the unionists and counter-cheers from
the liberals interrupted Mr. Chamber
lain at this point, lie waited two or
three minutes before the confusion
abated sufficiently for him to speak
without effort. He then proceeded
thus:
“The prime minister calls ‘back’ and
his adherents say it is' good: the prime
minister calls 'white' and thev say it
is better. (Unionist laughter). It is
always the voice of God. Never since the
time of Herod, lias there been 6ucb—
Mr. Chamberlain got no further.
Immediately after resuming his speech
he had been warned by mutterings
from the Irish benches that a storm
was gathering. He could hardly have
expected the suddenness with which it
broke, for with his half-flnished refer
ence to Herod there came from the na
tionalists such a roar of indignation as
has not been heard in the house 6ince
the days of Parnell.
Mr. Chamberlain plainly was startled
but he tried to talk on. His voice Was
inaudible to the members on the next
bench. He turned toward the na
tionalists and shrill yells of execra
tion sounded above the uprbar. T. P.
O’Connor sprang to his feet and lean
ing toward Mr. Chamberlain Bhouted
“Judas" so loudly that the epithet
could be heard throughout the house.
The rest of the Irishmen seized upon
the cry and for half a minute shouted
“Judas" in chorus.
Meanwhile the clock struck 10. The
chairman tried to put the closure, but
his voice could not be heard am d the
shouts of the Irish and the unionists.
Then came a scene unprecedented in
parliamentary history. Mr. Mellor
gave iii a weak voice the customary
directions. The conservatives, how
ever, flatly refused to quit the house.
Vicary l. ibbs, Gibson Bowle3 and
William Ilanbury shouted to the chair
man that he must first call Mr. O’Con
nor to order for having called Mr.
Chamberlain names. Mr. Mellor pro
tested that he had not heard the epi
thets m question. Nobody told him
what Mr. O'Connor had said, so he sat
helpless and unenlightened before the
house, while members crowded for
ward in excited groups, Bhaking their
fists and shouting their demands.
Gibbs, Bowles and Hanbury got to
gether,and to make themselves heard,
shouted in chorus at Mr. Mellor:
“Will you direct that those words be
taken ‘down?*’ Lord Randolph
Churchill and Sir Edward Clarke got
hold of Mr. Gibbs and started him to
ward the front bench {hat he might
elucidate the cause of the row to Mr.
Mellor, who was making strenuous,
but vain efforts to learn what the
grievance of the tory tribe was. Mr.
Gibbs tried to go forward, but in the
general jostling and shouting he was
sc pushed about and confused that he
gave up his purpose and Mr. Mellor re
mained uninformed.
Meantime half of the unionists had
climbed to the benches and were
shouting: “Gag," “Gag." Others were
struggling in the aisles or between the
benches with radical, liberal or Irish
antagonists. Curses, yells of pain and
gross insults were beard on every side.
John Logan, liberal, ran down to the
first opposition bench and began up
braiding Edward Carson, a tory. As
he shook his fist under Mr. Carson’s
nose, George Wyndham and William
Fisher jumped to the assistance of
their party colleague, seized Mr. Lo
gan by the neck, threw him to the
floor headfirst and then bundled him
under a bench. Somebody smashed
Tim Healey’s high hat down over his
eyes. Healy tore off the hat and
sprang into the aisle in full fighting
posture, just as' Hanbury, still shout
ing that the chairman must name Mr.
O'Connor, was trying to get by. Mr.
Hanbury was knocked over a bench
by the force of the collision before Mr.
Healy got in a blow.
A free fight then broke out in the
gangway. The center of it was Will
jam Redmond, Parnellite, who had
taken advantage of the. general license
to push over Col. Sanderson, the
champion of the men of Ulster. San
derson was rescued and led an attack
on the Parnellites. Blows were struck
right and left. Members fell and were
picked up by their friends to fight
again. The'whole space between the
front benches was filled with a strug
gling, cursing mass of members strik
ing, clawing and upsetting each other.
Manful efforts were made to separate
the combatants Both sergeants-at
arms forced their way through the
thick of the fight, but as fast as. one
group was pacified another came to
blows.
jsventuauy rar. uiausionc oeggea
Edward Majorlbanks, a sturdy lib
eral. to do something to stop the fight
ing. Mr. Majorlbanks dug his way
through the tangled mass of belliger
ents, and by repeated appeals in the
name of the premier succeeded in
stemming the conflict
Col. Sanderson emerged first from
the crowd of fighters. He was hold
ing a bunch of keys to his black eye.
Others followed in more or less dam
aged condition. Just as peace was as
sured the dojr leading to the lobby
opened and Dr. Tanner, who had been
out aide and had heard of the fight but
a minute before, came down the Louse,
leap'ng over benches in his haste to
get in o the melee. A sergeaat-at
»■ S» t .
*rms entight him half wav from the
aoor to the flret bench and restrained
him until he conaented to keen the
peace. Mr. Balfour had been absent
during the. riot. Mr. Gladstone. sit.
, € .uPrl»ht* h*d watched the scene
with V nfiamed face and an expression
of sorrow, indignation and astonish*
ment which will never be effaced from
the memory of those observing it.
Chairman Mellur sent for Speaker
Peel as soon as order was restored.
When the speaker entered several con*
servatlvea rose, and, pointing to Mr.
Gladstone, exclaimed: ''There sits the
author of it all.”
While Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Balfour
and Mr. Mellor conferred as to what
should be done the combatants were
comparing notes. Not a few of them
showed the effects of rough handling.
Tim ilealy had received a hard blow
in the face and one cheek was badlv
swollen. William Redmond also had
a bad spot on his face.
The hum of voices died out as
Speaker 1‘eel, stern and dignified, took
the chair. A s ight cheer was given
for him, and th u Mr. Mellor, as chair*
man of the committee, reported to
Mr. P03I. as speaker of the house,
what had occurred. Mr. Mel. or spoke
in a low. sorrowful voice, but the
members had become so quiet that
not a word was inaudible.
au icapuuac iu mo HpeuKer s renuesi,
Mr. Gibbs then made his complaint in
regard to Mr. O’Connor’s calling Mr.
Chamberlain "Judas,” Timothy Henly,
amid loud cries of order, interpo ed to
ask whether no attention would be
paid to the refusal of members to
enter the lobbies for division. This,
he said, was the real reason wliy the
speaker was summoned. Should it
not. then, be considered first?
The speaker at once appealed to the
party leaders to tell him what had oc
curred. Cheers and calls for Mr.
Gladstone brought the premier to bis
feet He said: ‘‘I regret to sny that
neither my eyes nor ears enabio me to
give a very clear account of the
affair.” He then gravely described
the events as they had been reported
to him by his lieutenants, and eventu
ally expressed the opinion that the
diyision should be taken before the
"Judas” incidentshouldjbe considered.
Mr. Balfour recounted the version of
the fight given him b/ his coileagcues
and at Mr. liealy's request Mr. Mollor
again told what he knew of the
trouble. Mr. Meilor repeated that he
Had not heard the offensive express on,
but had ordered that it be taken down
and then had summoned the speaker.
Mr. Peel thanked the leaders and
Mr. Melior for their assistance. lie
added:
"I have arrived at the conclusions
that the expression alleged to have
been used was the original cause of
the disorder. I feel certain that the
gentleman who usod the words did so
in the heat and irritation of the mo
ment. If he were simply to sav he re
grets having used them, I am quite
certain it would be my duty to take
no further notice of the affair.”
Amid conservative cries of “With
draw” Mr. O’Connor humbly apolo
gized to the speaker.
The new clause was adopted by a
vote of 312 to 291.
When the committee rose and Chair
man Melior reported to Speaker Peel,
presiding over the house, the home
rule bill as amended in committee;
cheer after choer was given and all
hats were waved for Mr. Gladstone by
the liberals and Irish, who were an
swered by the unionists with counter
cheers. The report stage was fixed
for Aug. 7.
One Fare Pine »S.
Chicago, 111., July 27.—Western lines
have agreed to make World’s fair rates
on one fare for the round trip, plus 82,
from all points, the only except ions to
this blanket rate are from short dis
tance points where the 83 added would
make a higher rate than now in effect.
From such points present rates will be
maintained. Tickets sold at reduced
rates on and after August 1, will be
first-class in every respect. They will
take the place of first-class tickets at
far as Chicago is concerned and will be
good returning any time within thirty
days of purchase.
This rate is the lowest blanket re
duction ever made in the western terri
tory. There is uo present likelihood oi
there being a further reduction in
western rates.
CHOLERA MAY BE HERE.
Authorities at Kaples Refuse to Permit
Retention of Immigrants.
Washington, July 27. — Surgeqn
General Wvman has received the fol
lowing cable dispatch from Assistant
Surgeon G. B. Young of the marine
hospital service, station at Naples.
“Cholera • prevails. Condition is
worse. A large number of emigrants
are preparing for America. Isolation
on shore is impossible. Authorities
refuse to permit detention on beard.
Passengers are transferred from train,
to ship and lsoiation on the way im
perfect”
To this dispatch Dr. Wyman has
sent the following answer:
“Refuse bill of health unless all
regulations are complied with. In
form companies full tine will be im
posed without the bill.”
HELD FOR TRIAL.
Ainsworth and Others Indicted for tha
Ford's Thoator Murder.
Washington, July 26.—The grand
jury has found a true bill against CoL
Frederick C. Ainsworth, chief of the
record and pension division of the
war department; George W. Dant, the
contractor employed to make the ex
cavation fur the electric light plant;
William E. Covert, superintendent,
and Francis Sasse, engineer of the
building, holding them responsible for
the old Ford's theater disaster of June
9 last, in which twenty-three persons
lost their lives and a large number of
others wefe injured.
Desire No Substitute.
New York, July 29.—The committee
of five appointed by the New York
Lumber Trade association to demand
the repeal of the hherman silver law
haa prepared a petition to congress,
which will be circulated throughout
the state for the signatures of all en
gaged in the lumber business.
The document, in addition to urging
the repeal of the Sherman act, asks
that no substitute be enacted at this
session of congress but that an expert
commission be appointed to consider
and recommend a scientific plan of
currency based on the experience of
other countries and adequate to the
requirements of a great commercial
nation. ,
MONEY FROM SILVER.
THIS 18 THE WAR CRY FROM
COLORADO.
Ei*ltnlor Tabor of that State Faints a
Gloomy Picture Unless the White Metal
Is Given Due Prominence—Comptroller
Eckels Shows How Senseless are Soma
of the Bank Runs—Charles Loekstaedt
Beats Chicago Banka out of a Largo
Bum of Money—France Beady for Ac
tion In the Slam Question—A Bank's
Silver Scheme.
Tnbor Talks on Silver.
Omaha, July, 38.—lion. II. A. W.
Tabor, ex-United States senator from
Colorado, was in the city yesterday on
a flying trip pertaining to private busi
ness matters. Ho was seen by a news
paper representative, who asked him to
talk about the situation in Colorado in
particular, and the silver question in
general.
"ii s reauy too onci to talk about,
said the senator sadly, "and It looks as
though nothing we can say will do any
good. Look at the condition wo are in
at present. Thousands and thousands
of men leaving Colorado to find work,
most of them tramping it out or going
by the box ear route, thoso who have
families leaving those families behind,
for the most part, to trust to fortune
and charity until their natural protoo
tors provide means to caro for them.
Between 10,000 and 30,000 men are em
ployed in metalliferous mining in Colo
rado alone, and most of these are now
out of employment, while all are affec
ted disastrously. The same condition
of affairs obtains in other mining
states. "What are we going to do?
The Lord only knows, unless something
is done very soon. With the sources of
their chief maintenance shut down,
what can the mining states of the
west do?
"They can go under, that's all, with
every industry that belongs to them.
It is only a question of a short timo
when all of - Colorado's industries aro
likely to be in the same position tho
silver interests now occupy. No, there
have been few failures among Denver’s
big jobbing houses, but they ure likely
to come ut any time. Collections are at
a standstill, and it is now only a ques
tion of the survival of tho strongest,
those, especially, which have not made
a practice of carrying on a too extens
ive credit business in both sales and
purchases.
"As to the means of relief, there is
only one way in which it can be found,
and that is the repeal of the Sherman
law and further legislation by the way
of leaving us a substitute that will
make money out of silver. The failure
of congress to enact such a substitute
or the adoption of a gold standard
means acsolute, complete ruin, and the
forcing of the silver interests and many
others into their present position can
not be retrieved by tho repeal of the
Sherman law. The law is bad enough,
heaven knows, but its flat repeal with
out further recourse for tho advocates
of free siiver would be infinitely worse.
"We want silver made into money.
This statement is so moss-grown that
it sounds like a platitude, but it is our
war cry and cannot be too much re
peated. We want a ratio of at least
15% to 1. That is the ratio of Franco,
and it would put silver in this country
where it ought to be.”
How Charles C. Lockstaedt Beat Chicago
Banks Out of a Large Sum.
Chicago, July 28.—It appears that
the man who is alleged to have swin
dled Chicago banks out of 8JO,000 is
Charles C. Lockstaedt, a manufacturing
electrician. The amounts secured by
Lockstaedt are said to be approximate
ly as follows: Metropolitan National
bank, 820,000; Chicago Trust and
Savings bank, 815,000. The story is
that Lockstaedt was one of the bidders
for lighting the World’s fair. He bid
8400,000, while tho Westinghouse com
pany bid 81,500,000. The management,
not satisfied with his ability to carry
out the contract, let it to the Westing
house company. Lockstaedt assigned
his bid to that company. Lockstaedt
gave it out that he got 850,000 for the
assignment and when he presented
notes signed by General Manager Lem
uel liannister of the Westinghouse
company, explaining that they were
the outcome of his World’s fair light
ing contract and the Westinghouse
company had given them because it
had not yet collected from the World'*
fair, he found no difficulty in getting
them discounted.
Here's a Sliver Scheme.
St. Louis, July 87.—A prominent
banking institution of this city has re
ceived a letter from a correspondent in
the silver regions who writes among
other things: "1 think that the east
could do one thing which would do a
great deal to conciliate the west. It is
simple and one which all the rest of the
world has long since adopted, viz: To
abolish all bills of smaller denomina
tion than 85 and use silver in their
stead. This is done in England, France
and Germany. It is done on the Pacific
coast. If it were done in the east it
would make a market at once for the
entire body of silver bullion locked up
in the United States vaults, and would
give us a limited but steady market for
silver for the future. On such a line as
this a compromise can be effected which
will bring about the repeal of the Sher
man law immediately.”
Dead of a Madman* *
Cleveland, Ohio, July 37.—Word
haa just been received'of the terrible
suicide a week ago last Saturday of a
grape-grower named Fred White at
hia farm three miles east of Euclid
creek. With his wife and child he was
visiting his parents, who live a few
rods from his house. Without warn*
ing he suddenly seized his aged mother
and hurled her across the room. Then
he grasped his old father by the throat
and choked him until he was black in
the face. Ilia wife pulled him away,
and, seizing his little daughter, he
started ior<his own house, but the two
women succeeded in dragging the
child away from him. He proceeded
to his own house, got a shotgun, killed
his pet cat with one barrel and then,
in tne sight of his family, blew off the
top of his head with the charge in the
other.
ST. LOUIS IANKS
Cfth ee Hul, Aoteeallag to Otm, «S '<£
for Coni of CMh Liabilities.
8t. Loos, July *7.—The 8t Lout*
clearinghouse hu prepared a tUW>
neut shotting tho exact condition of
tho twenty-tour banks tthioh hits
membership in It Tho statement haa
bean prepared with great care and
shows that deposits payable on do*
mand at all these banks amonat to
(42,383,000, The cash on hand amounte
to *18,*33,000, or considerably In ex
cess of 40 per cent of (he total. Under
ordinary conditions *5 per oent la con*
sidered a safe margin and It la fell
that with nearly 43 per cent on hand
almost any kind of a run could bo
easily met There has not, how
ever, been a breath of suspic
ion against any bank, and although
a very large number of small deposit
ors are said to have withdrawn and to
have placed their money In safe de
posit vaults, there Is no evidence to
prove that this Is so, and the faot la
not generally credited. The banka
have tlmo deposits amounting to near
ly *14,000,000, while they have out
standing on demand and time loans,
excluslvo > f bonds deposited to secure
circulation, *03,010,000. The eapltnt
stock aud surplus funds of these banka
total *33,104,000, and experts are of
opinion that the figures as returned by
them indlcsto an exceptionally healthy
condition and go to prove that there
Is very little foundation for the dole
ful forebodings which have appeared
In some eastern papers. If the banka
of all the large cities are as well
equipped as those of St. Louis, there
will be very little financial stringency
when the faot becomes generally
Ifnown.
uuuaing continue* with imi
activity in the city. The new Union
depot and the new *>,000,000 hotel aro
boih being pushed toward* comple*
tion a* rapidly a* possible, and the
fourteen-story office building on Oliva
street, six blocks east of the exposi*
tion, will soon be out of the hanoa of
tho contractors. Tho site has also
been purchased for another hotel near \ \
the Union depot, and there is also
much activity In the way of bridge
building. Up to within three or four
years ago the Kads bridge was practi
cally tho only means railroads had of
crossing the Mississippi river in this
section; now the merchants' bridge 1*
in general use, and bridges which will
be of great importance to railroad*
are being constructed over the Mis
souri river at Itellefonralne and over
the Mississippi at Alton. Both tne '
bridges are within easy unviag
distance of the city and they
will be used by tho Burlington
and other roads for obtaining
access to the city without wasting
time at the relay depot in Bast St.
Louis. ‘fho distaned between St,
Louis and Alton will be reduced by V
these bridges to sixteen miles, short
ening the time distance between St, '
Louis, Chicago and eastern point*
from thirty to fifty minutes. A new
passenger depot will bo erected for tb*
Convenience of friends using theso
bridges, which can also obtain aceesa
to the Union depot by means of a new
belt line. ;
The first shipment of hay ever mad* ,
from St. Louis to Europe has Just been
completed, at. Louis is the center of
an immense hay district, but th*
cost of shipment and the difficulty
in keeping hay in good condition
through a long ocean voyage hav*
kept shipments to Burope back. There
bjing, however, a large shortage in
the French hay crop an experimental
shipment was made to France th*
other day and if It proves a sucoea*
another important export business
will be built up. The hay wt*
shipped via New Orleans.
A Coffee Drunkard.
A good citizen who was once what
the boys terra a considerable lusher re
marked recently: “When I drank
whisky I felt that it was Incumbent
upon me to take as much of it as pos
sible, but when I quit I qnit for good.
I saw that I had enough of it. Now,
strange as it may appear, I was about
as confirmed a drunkard for six months
after I quit as I was before, but 1 was *
coffee drunkard. It appeared to me
that I must have Btimulant, and I drank
coffee, sometimes as many aa fifteen
and twenty cups a day. There could
be no doubt that coffee was doing me
more harm than whisky, so I gave it
up. , I was a coffee drunkard—-just as
bad as a whisky drunkard.—Washing
ton Post.
TO THE WORLD'S PAIR.
Meat Monday is Your Day. .
Th* Qheat Rock Islahd Route has mad*
great reductions in fare, and on this low
rote you can go on Monday, July 81, or An
gust 4, snd return the following Friday
from date of purchase, or one week later. V
Ask your nearest ticket agent for particu
lars. Jons Hehastias, (J. P. A.
Some of the devil's best work is done by
careless people._
The Cresent of an Emblem.
The cresent has been known sine*
time out of memory. In ancient my
thology it decorated the foreheads of
Diana and of Astarte, the Syrian Ven
ice. In the _ days of Rome's greatest
gloVy the ladies wore it as an ornament
in their hair. Since the foundation of
Constantinople (the ancient Byzantium)
it has been the emblem of the city, and
as such adorns its walls and public
buildings, besides being stamped on its
coins and postage. The legend which
accounts for its universal adoption In
Turkey, and Constantinople in particu
lar, is aa follows: Philip of Macedoa
laid siege to the city in the year 340
B. C. He chose a night of unusual ,
darkness for the proposed assault, bat
was foiled by the moon suddenly break
ing from behind a cloud. In commem
oration of this providential deliveram*
the cresent was adopted as the symbol
of the city. The Mohammedan Sultana
were slow to assume this emblem until
someone mentioned that it was th*
symbol of increasing greatness, pow*r
changing as rapidly as the phases of
the moon.—SL Louis Republic.
The oldest industry of the Atlsntia
coast, the fisheries, is the newest of the
Pacific. Until a few years ago the
fishermen on the northern coasts of
California paid no attention to the vast
quantities of sturgeon and halibut
there, regarding them as worthless,,
and it is only within two or three
years that the majority of places fur
ther north and down the southern
coast now making money in fish hare
paid any attention to the industry.
Last year 6,000,000 pounds of sturgeon
were taken from the Columbia river,
and shipped east, and altogether 100 or
so carloads of this one kind of fisK
west east from that region.
