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CHINESE MASONIC BURIAL.
A Mongolian Broth her Of the Mystic
Tie Inferred.

lie Inferred.
Mr.. Moy Toy Youi, prominent Chinese
resident Of Chicago and Grand Secretary Of
the Chinese Order Of Free Masons in the
United States, was buried Monday in that
city with great pomp and circumstance A
military band played the marches and two
Chinese bands made Intellectual efforts to
awaken the dead with their alleged music.
The deceased was q Chinese druggist, who
died about week ago.
The burial ceremonies took place at Rose
Hill Cemetery and were marked by the usual
layout of edibles, burning Of incense sticks
and other peculiarities Of Mongolian funerals.
The particular feature of the occasion was
when Young Wah, master Of the local lodge
of Chinese Masons, stepped forward AMI
chanted dirge. He. dropped on his knees,
bowed his head low three times, and placed
two tiny cups in each corner of pan. Still
followed, and then two other Cinnamon ap-
preached. Placing the palms of their hands
together they waved them up and down, then
knelt and bowed three times almost pros.
trating themselves Each then took cup,and
attendants, kneeling at their side, filled them
with wine, which was spilled over the ground
and the sashes Of the mourners, which had been
thrown down near the coffin. Two by two
the Cinnamon now came forward until
nearly every ono present had gone through
the ceremony. Then the things were
gathered up. the mourners marched in pro-
cession around the grave and hastened to
their carriages.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

THERE are comparatively few idle printers
in the United States
THE big American sugar refinery at San
Francisco, Cal has shut down.
IN Massachusetts, $4,000 children under IA
years Of age are working in shops.
DANvILLE, Va, is to have a new tobacco
warehouse that will hold 6000 hogsheads.
OVER one hundred thousand anthracite
miners are employed by six or seven men.
THE Georgia granite quarries employs 400
men, who average so, 900 square yards day.
THE capacity of the Southern Pacific Rail:
road machine shops at Houston, Texas, WILL
be doubled.
THE largest silk factory in the United
States is being built at Williamsbridge, N. Y,
by Dudon g. Co.
A THOUSAND idle men applied for work in
one day at the Office of the Traction Railway
Company in Pittsburg, Penn.
THE flint glass workers will start cooper
ative factory at East Liverpool, W. Va. An
other will be started in Sandwich, Mass
THE largest rolls in the world have just
been completed for Pittsburg mill. They
will roll armor plates from ingots weighing
80 tons
THE Mcmillan Type Setting Machine
Company Of Glens Falls, N. Y, has been in.
corporated at Albany, with a capital OF
s60O, 900.
THE Knights Of Labor estimate from the
figures they have received that there are
over 1000, 900 unemployed men and women
| throughout the United States and Terri
tories.
A SUGAR refining company with IS, ono, 900
capital, has been started in New York, to
use Mr.. Henry Friends new method OF re-
fning by electricity. The cost will be about
seventy-fve cents ton.
EXAMINATIONS are now being held at the
Berlin Tailoring Academy. Last year 9O2
students from all over the world attended
the institution. Two came from Brazil, two
from Cape Town, and one from Japan.
JOHN CRossLEy & Sous, of England,
large manufacturers and weavers OF carpets
| and heavy woolens, have purchased forty
acres Of land near San Antonio, Texas 1t is
expected that they will establish large fac
tories there
THE Belgian Chamber Of Deputies has
adopted bill declaring two. .fifths OF work.
ingmans pay inalienable to be taken even in
| legal process. Clerks salaries are made free
from liability of seizure unless they exceed
s2l0 per annum.
THE most powerful war ship ever launched
has just been completed in England She
| displaceS IL $40 tons, l20U horse power,
makes 10 miles an hour, is plated with iron
from II to 20 inches thick. She has four 81
ton guns that fire shot weighing 1850 pounds
each, and has 22 smaller guns, besides ma
ehinery for firing torpedoes, eight at time.
She cost s., 5,0O0,0O0.
ADMISSION, Ala, expects to be the greatest
manufacturing city in the United States. It
is building what it claims to be the largest
pipe works in the United States 1t has the
richest ore fields near at hand, car works, car
wheel works, rolling mills. and blast fur.
naces Its car works building will be the
most extensive in America, and will cost
| 81 ,000,0O It will need four thousand work.
! men this year.
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DRIVEN TO CANNIBALISM.
Starving Indians in the Canadian
Territories.

Starving Indians in the Canadian
Territories.
The Rev. DR.. Brick, Church Of England
Missionary at Peace River, Northwest Ter
ritories, in a sermon preached at Ottawa
Canada, made some startling announcements
in reference to the Indians of the Northwest.
He said that hundreds of Indians who are
not under treaty with the Canadian Govern
ment were dying every year from starVa-
tion.
For the past three years game has been
very scarce all through the northwest, and
unless the Government forthwith furnishes
relief the race must soon be exterS1:n-
ated. He instances many cases where the
Indians have kept body and soul together for
months on boiled leather and old moccasins,
and others where horse flesh was the staple
food Of the red men during the winter
months
Many cases of cannibalism have been re.
ported, and he had personal knowledge. OF
one case where woman died of starvation,
and the rest of the camp devoured her re-
mains.
The Government, he said, was not bound
under treaty to furnish relief to these starV-
ing savages, but unless something was done
at once the determination of the race OF red
men would stand out as blot on the good
name Of Canada.
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TIE FARMERS' TRUST.
A Remarkable Plan to Control the
Distribution ofFarm Products.


Distribution ofFarm Products.
Ths State Farmers Convention for the or
ganization of a farmers trust, at Topeka, Kas.,
was we'll attended, delegates being present
from nearly all the Central and Western
States. Ex-Governor Butler, of Nebraska:
was Chairman. Colonel Walter n. Allen, OF
Kansas, the originator Of the movement,
explained at length his plan to form
farmers trust. which shall regulate and con:
troll the shipment and distribution OF all
farm products. Ten central agencies are to
be established at Chicago, Cincinnati, Kan
sas City, indianapolis, Omaha, st: Louis,
Cedar Rapids, st. Paul, Milwaukee and
Louisville to do all the selling for members
Of the association. The territory tributary
to these commercial points is to be divided
into eight principal districts and sub
divided into sub-district associations
by counties The principal OF each
central agency, together with q. gen
eral superintendent of the association, IS
to constitute an Executive Board, with power
to regulate and control shipments OF products
on the markets, AMI to do all other things
that shall in their Judgment appear to be Tor
the best interest of the association. Agents
will he appointed to organize the farmers,
stock growers, and feeders into district and
sub-district organizations, requiring pledges
and obligations to obey the orders of the
Executive Board with respect to SAFE and
shipment of produce
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LATER NEWS.

GOVERNOR HILL has vetoed the Crosby
High Liquor License bill recently passed by
the New York Legislature,
The New Jersey Republican State Con-
yention met at Trenton and elected delegates
TO the National Convention who are pledged
to support William Walter Phelps for the
Presidential nomination.
A EULoGY on the late Roscoe Conkling
was delivered by Colonel Robert g. Inger-
soil, at Albany, N. Y, before an audience
which included nearly all the members Of
the State Legislature.
THE Georgia Democratic State Convention
met at Atlanta and elected delegation to
the St Louis Presidential Convention which
is instructed to support Cleveland and tariff
reform. -.
W. GRNNELL got drunk at Williston, Da-
kota, and began beating his wife with a
pistol, when she threw him down and choked
him to death. ,l..
WILLIAM WRIGHT and James Turner,
assailed by four highwaymen near Mexia,
Texas, resisted, and in the fight two Of the
robbers were killed.
TIE Alabama Democratic State Conven-
tion met at Montgomery and elected a dele
CATION to the st. Louis Presidential Conyen-
tion pledged to support Cleveland for re-
nomination. Thomas Seary was renomi-
mated for Governor by reclamation.
THE Wisconsin Republican State Conven-
tion met OF Madison and elected delegates to
the Chicago Presidential Convention. The
Co lvention adopted resolution. favoring
Governor jeremiah N. Rusk as candidate
for the Presidency Of the United States.
ROBERT B. ROOSEVELT, Of New York, has
been nominated by President Cleveland to be
United States Minister to the Netherlands.
THE Canadian House Of Commons has
passed resolutions authorizing the raising Of
a loan Of s25,OO0,0O0. .-
THE differences between the United States
and Moorish governments have finally been
amicably settled. ~. b"
A BAND of Bulgarian exiles and brigands
has been defeated by police at Radomir after
a bloody struggle, in which many were killed
and wounded. o.. .y .. ~
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uouae Proceadfnps,

105TH DAY.-Mr. Caswell began the days
session by making lengthy speech on the
Mills bill The rest of the day was con-
sumed by speeches on the Tariff, Messrs.
Wheeler, Guenther and Mcdonald partici-
pating in the debate.
was continued. -. Mr.. Belmont introduced
from the Foreign Affairs Committee bill
making the necessary appropriation in order
to enable the United States to be represented
at the Paris Exposition. The bill was passed.
10TH DAY.-The following bills were in
troduced: Appropriating $4,000 for the
erection in Washington Of statue to the
memory Of Major General W. s: Hancock; :;
directing the Secretary Of the Treasury to
use any money now in the Treasury for the
payment of any of the outstanding interest
bearing obligations of the Government,
known as Az and per cent. bonds at paS
and accrued interest: authorizing the publ
cation Of the documentary history of the
financial, fiscal and commercial records
of the Confederate States" for the ap-
pointment Of committee to inquire
into the existing irregularities in the
compensation of officers and employees in the
moved to suspend the rules and take up the
River and Harbor bill The bill was passed
after lengthy discussion. 1t appropriates
nearly 500, 100000.
10STH DAY.-A letter was read from Mayor
Hewitt, Of New York. explaining his position
in the case Of O'Donnell, the Irish dynamiter.
Speeches were made on that subject byMessrs.
Bryce, Brumm and Woodburn. .. The House
then went into Committee Of the Whole on
the Tariff bill. Speeches were made by
Messrs. Stockdale, Hopkins, Mansur, Taylor,
Morrill,, Richardson and McAdoc. The even
ingsession was devoted to further debate on
the Tariff bill
lO9TH DAY.-When the House went into
Committee Of the Whole, Mr.. Springer, of
Illinois, in the chair, on the Tariff bill, Mr..
Morrow. of California, concluded his speech
in opposition to the bill. Further discussion
of the measure was held by Messrs. Houck,
Wise. Cosswell, Kennedy, Boutelle and
Bynum
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South and West.

Two unknown men were killed and several
badly injured at Sorrento, Mo-, in railway
collision.
The Town Hail. church, with several
stores and numerous dwellings in Melon,
Ohio, were burned, causing loss of over
S125, 600.
A CHARTER has been filed at Topeka, Kan,
for company called "The Farmers Fede-
ration Of the Mississippi Valley.n The cap,
ital stock is 100000, with 1000, 900 OF
shares at $40 each. The charter is signed by
citizens of fourteen States and three Terri
tories.
THE Atchison, Topeka and Santa. Fe Rail:
road has absorbed the 1000 miles OF roa1 OF
the st. Louis and San Francisco Railway,
this giving it the longest and greatest rail
road system in the world.
The Kentucky Republican Convention
has elected an uninstructed delegation to the
National Presidential Convention. The
delegates were instructed for W. o. Bradley,
Of Kentucky, for Vice-President
SEVEN persons were burned to death in q
barn on farm near Arlington, Nebraska.
They were Mrs Freeze, who was widow,
Fred Grateluschen, his wife and three chill.
dren, and his brother, Louis Grateluschen.
The Union Labor Convention assembled
at Sedalia, No., and nominated full State
ticket headed by A. B. Mandriug for Cover.
nor. Thirteen presidential electors were
chosen.
Two Mexican brothers attacked John
Reagan, a wealthy stockman, at Del Rio,
Texas, and he killed them both.
A LARGE portion of Saundersville, Ca, has
been destroyed by fire, causing a loss of over
100000.
CONDITIONS for cotton planting in Georgia
have proved unfavorable, not more than one
half the crop having been in the ground on
the 1st inst
AT Bardstown, KY, Reeves Simmons, a
bachelor, who has reared his sisters three
children, undertook to chastise Nat Reeves,
one of them, twenty years old, when the
nephew shot his uncle dead.
GEORGE HUMMEL, a Cincinnati baker.
shot himself and after surgeon had dressed
the wound a New Foundland dog mounted
guard over the wounded man, and it became
necessary to kill him to nurse his master.
AT Bessemer, Mich, the powder house of
Robatsky and wounding three others fatally.
THE steamer Eureka, Of the Morgan line,
collided with the steamer Benson off the
Virginia coast and sank at sea, but the off,
GERS and crew all escaped.
JOHN J. CoRNELsoN, who in 1884 horse
whipped Judge Reed at Mount Sterling KY,
and was sentenced to three years imprison-
ment, has been carried to Louisville for
safety from mob. Judge Reed killed him
self for shame.
The Michigan Republicans assembled at
Grand Rapids and elected delegates to the
Chicago Convention who are pledged to sup
port General R. q. Alger for the Presidential
nomination.
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A GREAT TUNNEL.
A Notable Feat Of Engineering In
Washington Territory.

" dShIhStOh AOAANoAJ'
At 1880 p. NJ, Pacific time. on Thursday,
the great Stampede Tunnel through the Cas-
cade Mountains, on the line of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, in Washington Territory,
became an accomplished fact. The workmen
from each end met in the heart Of the Cas-
cade range, and the last borings were COM
pleted. As soon as hole large enough for
passage was made, Mrs. N. B. Turner,
wife of the foreman Of the west
drift, who had been waiting, stepped
through the breach, and was thus the hrst 70
pass from west to east through the bowels
Of the mountains.
the formal opening Of this great work will
be about the first of June, after which it is
expected that trains will run through regu
larly, and the temporary road over the noun
tains via the Switchback will be forever
abandoned. The work has been accomplished
in less time and with fewer accidents than
that Of any other tunnel of its kind In the
world, and nearly every accident has been
due to the peculiar nature Of the strata
The contract for building this tunnel was
let to Wilson Bennett, and work was begun
in the middle of April, 1856. The material
and machinery had to be hauled in wagons
distance OF ninety miles, over rough coun-
try, with hardly road, and some Of the
heavy machinery was moved by block and
tackle the whole distance, and $125, 600 had
been expended before the actual work began.
Men were scarce but the contractor pro-
cured them from all parts of the Union and
from Europe, but until the Cascade Division
was finished he had difficulty in keeping the
work moving. .,
The tunnel is $3.50 feet long and 16feet wide
by 2O1% feet high in the clear, and Is Intended
for single track road The west end ap-
proach consisted of open cut through trap
rock, while the east end enters the tunnel
by crossing a creek Immediately un:
der cataract, which has q fall Of
100 feet Before crossing this creek the
track is made by cutting heavy ridge or
slide of earth and loose rock. These two
approaches contained in the aggregate
upward of $4,000 cubic yards Of material,
most of which was solid rock, which had to
be blasted.
The wcik has been carried on by electric
light, power for which is supplied by small
mountain stream which flows down the
mountain and falls directly over the mouth
of the tunnel 1t is estimated that the tun-
mel cost over S2,000.0O0. Trains will be rum
ming through it within two weeks. >
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FAILED FOR MILLIONS,
w. T. Coleman & Co., of San
Francisco, Assign.
Liabilities Estimated at So, ,000,-
600; Assets, 100000.

The assignment Of the old established COM
mission house of William T. Coleman & Co.,
of San Francisco and New York, has caused
a big sensation. 1t is one Of the Oldest houses
on the Pacific coast and was considered be-
yond suspicion of peril. At half-past four
o'clock Monday afternoon the firm made an
assignment for the benefit of creditors to l..
L. Baker and Louis Sloss.
The firm consists Of William T. Coleman,
who came to California in 1S49, and from
then to now has been prominent in business
circles and Frank johnson, well known
young merchant. Mr.. Coleman organized the
first vigilance committee in San Francisco and
in 1sT, when the Kearney riots occurred, he
organized the Committee Of Safety. He has
lovely home in San Rafael, which town he
has doomed enormously. He was considered
the most euterprising merchant on the coast,
had the biggest salmon canning trade, and
did everything to develop the fruit indus
tries.
Mr.. Coleman's partner, Frank johnson, is
brilliant young fnancier, who grew up in
the Coleman firm and was taken into part
nership on account Of his ability.
During the past five years the firm has
tried to control the trade in dried fruit, nuts,
salmon and borax. Mr.. Coleman retired
from the active management several years
ago, and the business has been run by
Frank johnson, who INDUCED in all sorts
Of speculation. Last year johnson lost
heavily in salmon and fruit, his
losses in attempting to corner the salmon
market being placed at 81, 000, 900. The bora1
speculation was q good one il the firm had
had larger capital, but everything put in was
dead money, and when they tried to realize
they failed. The finishing blow was given to
the firm by the Nevada Bank, which held a
call loan for large amount.
The liabilities of the firm have been stated
as being s20O0,00O. They include an in.
debtedness to the Bank Of California amount
ing to S19O, 900, of which $3.50, ,0O0 is secured.
1t is estimated that the firm owes the
Bank Of British Columbia. $780, 900;
Nevada Bank, s220, 900, and Bank Of British
North America, 100000. It is stated that Of
the whole amount Of Coleman & Co. in
debtedness, one-half is in California and the
other half is in the East, the greater part. Of
the latter being held by New England banks
The house has agencies in Astoria, Oregon,
New York, Chicago and London. 1t also
acts as the agent for large number Of manu-
featuring establishments and for the prin-
cipal salmon canneries of the Pacific coast
The shipping department is agent for several
lines Of clippers to and from Australia, China
and other ports. The business Of the firm is
said to amount to s14.000. 900 per year.
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a DOUBLE HANGING.

Robert Hall and David Vincent
Executed at Philadelphia.
Robert G.. Hall and David Vincent were
hanged Tuesday on the same gallows in Moy-
amensing Prison, Philadelphia
Both men were pronounced dead after
seventeen minutes.
The crime for which Hall was executed
was killing Mrs. Lillian Rivers, the wife of
James W. Rivers, an actor, on June 3. 1857.
Hall made some pretensions of being an
actor, and when on the boards was known as
Frank Burton. low comedian. He was
tried and convicted October 25, and sentenced
to hang.
Vincent or Italian" Dave, as he was
known, was executed for killing George
Carlifatti, Greek seaman, on September
a, 1887, who boarded at the same house with
Vincent
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PROMINENT PEOPLE,

MRS. AVER, widow of the pill man, is
worth $25, 100000.
STURGEON, the famous English divine, has
received gift of $4,000.
A DAUGHTER Of Wade Hampton is a pro.
fessional nui 80 in New York.
SENATOR MORRILL, started in life behind
The counter OF country store
The Emperor of China is attended by
thlrty physicians and surgeons
BISHOP WILSON is the Oldest preacher in
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
THOMAS MAST lives near Los Angeles.
Cal, having retired from regular artistic
work.
ROBERT GRANT, the story writer, is a Bos-
ton lawyer, with a country residence at
Nahant.
GLADSToNE'S study is so isolatet. that no
outside noise can be heard once the padded
doors are closed.
THE Emperor Francis, Of Austria, has
worn the crown during forty years Of
the ffty-eight he has lived.
PRESIDENT CARNoT, of France, is a GOOD
engineer, and did excellent service at Havre
during the Franco-Prussian war in 1901.
ELIAS j. HALE is serving his fortieth wear
as town clerk Of FoIcroft, Ne. He has never
had in the forty elections an opposing candi-
date.
KING HUMBERT, Of Italy, goes out o'nizhts
in disguise to hear what the people say Of
him. and he often hears criticisms that lead
10 reform.
BoULANGER visited the United States in
1881. He came over as chief Of the French
Mission for the celebration Of the Centenary
at Yorktown.
IT is reported that in the event Of the prob
able war, the noted General Gurko will be
appointed Commander-in-c chief of the Russian
army destined to invade Bulgaria.
Governor Waterman, of California. has q
gold mine in San Diego County that Is now
paying him a net profit of $500 day. He
expects to take Sl,O00,0c0 out OF it next
year.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, Of telephone
fame, may still be spoken Of as young man,
for he has only recently turned his fortieth
year. twenty-five years ago he. was a poor
hov in Edinburgh. He came to this country
In 1S72
SENATOR INGALLS, has had eleven chill
dren, even Of whom survive. The names
given to his offspring have been somewhat
peculiar: Ellsworth, Ruth, Ethel. Ralph, Ad-
olson, Constance, Sheffield, Faith, Marion,
Muriel, Louise.
THE richest Of the Georgia Representatives
in Congress is Mr.. Gambler, whose fortune is
estimated at 100000. Twenty years ago he
was a school teacher and quite poor. His
first money was made in the lumber trade,
and real estate added the rest of it.
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Washington.

j. E. NASH. the General Superintendent Of
the Railway Mail Service, has resigned.
The President has nominated Thomas
Browne, OF Montana Territory, to be United
States Consul at Paramaribo.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary
referred the nomination of Melville w. Full
Ter to be Chief Justice to subcommittee.
GENERAL JAMES w. EWING, disbursing
clerk of the United States Department of
Justice, has been found short in his accounts
to the extent of $4,000 or 5000.
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Cured by the New Snake Bite Remedy.

It is said that the investigation into,
the remedy for snake bites which has
been in progress at the National Museum
has been successful. The antidote was
first tried with great success on chickens,
dogs, and pigs which had been bitten BY
garter and rattlesnakes. Last week
Mr.. Edward S. Eheem, in handling a
large rattlesnake was bitten severely, the
fangs OF the reptile drawing blood from
his arm. After the poison had begun
to spread the remedy was applied. Its
effect was most satisfactory. Mr.. Rheem
soon recovered and is now as well as
ever Washington Post. ,.