St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-29
TAKE YOUR CHOICE.
A Trio of Travel-Stained Wis.,
itors in the City Yes
terday.
They Talk in an Interesting
Strain of Their Thrilling II
Experiences.
A Grand Illustration Of YAM
kee Skill, Ingenuity and
Endurance. r
Missionary Effort Among the
Japs--Notes and Comment
About Town.

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the condition of the iron trade. said that
the outlook for an immense fall trade
was improving daily. 1.-The same may
be said of the iron trade the world
over" continued Mr.. Thompson. BEL
gian, French and especially English
trade is lively, yet does not seem to In
terfere with the demand here. The
Belgian rail rolling mills are pretty well
employed. although they have found
difficulty in accepting orders for prompt
delivery, and several large contracts
leaked through their hands to ours. We
received an order last week for 1900
tons of steel rails for the French
Hanoverian Railway company last
week. on account of our ability to turn
out the work in short order. Talking
about turning out steel rails, the order
Our works turned out for the PennSyl-
vania Railway company, Immediately
after the JehnStOWn disaster, was, l sup
pose, as fast a thing as has ever been
done anywhere. The order wasa per-
emptory one, for 1000 tons of steel rails
to be delivered at Johnstown the next
day. The rails were to replace those
washed away by the floods and there
was the most urgent necessity for rapid
delivery. The order had to be begun
from raw material, the rolls had to be
changed, but just the same the rails
twenty-four hours, and in thirty-Six
hours from the receipt of the order the
rails were on the side track at their
destination seventy miles away.
Capt. FL. j. May, who has been for
many years and still is acting British
consul at Suakin, was in the city for
few hours yesterday. Capt. May, in
company with his wife and daughter, is
en- route to San Francisco for visit to
his brother, merchant in that city.
The party have spent the past two
months in New York and the East, and
will visit points of interest, including
the Yellowstone, on the way to the
coast. The captain talks Interestingly
of the island city in which he has made
his home for many years past, and says
that although no very decided improve
ment in the trade of the country can be
chronicled for the past year, owing to
the wars which have been going Oh con-
tinually, the extinction of Osman
Digna'S power would improve matters,
provided that no local Sheik undertook
to succeed the intrepid Arab leader,
The total value of imports last year.
-
This increase, however, is deceptive
as regards general trade, the inn
ports of food and other articles
for the garrison alone showing an ina
crease OF. e16, 900, or considerably mores
than the increase in the total of Imports.
The exports from Suakin declined in;
value from ell, 704 to ga, TAO last year.
s'There isl says the captain, "a regret
table revival in the slave trade where.
the coast is temporarily under ltal-
ian surveillance south of RaS KaS-
sor, and.the collisions, between the slav-.
ing parties and dervishes keep. the.
country in a continual state of turmoil.
There is hope, however, that the influx
of American and English merchants,
which has been large during the past
year, will have the effect of settling
trade, and that the once thriving town
will regain its former prosperity. Moth
ing would have greater tendency to
eXtinguish the slave trade than the in
crease of legitimate trade conducted by
the Banians with such minor ports as
Halail, Rowezzah and Agig, and to this
end the European and American mer-
chants are striving"
i
Rev. W. B. Laird, of Topeka, Kan,
who has been for the past seven years
engaged in missionary work in Japan,
was in the city yesterday. He has re-
turned to his native land on account of
failing health, and will leave for Topeka
this evening. "The American and Eng
lish missionaries" says Mr.. Laird,
shave been the means of working
wonderful change in the natives of less
civilized portions of the country,
though they have been severely handi-
capped IN their efforts by the example
set the Japs by the whites, who are
yearly becoming thicker. The spectacle
of a drunken American or English
sailor rolling along the streets is hardly
the thing to carry the impression to the
minds of the natives that their white
brethren practice what they preach.
The people are quick to take up
with modern wees, and can scarcely be
made to understand that the drunken
or vicious white man is not repre-
sentative OF his race. The employment
of dynamite for the purpose of commit
ting outrage has also made its way into
japan. Some time before l was COM
PEELED to leave the country the HigaShl
Hongwangi, the famous temple OF
KiotO, had been restored, and among
other presents sent to celebrate the
restoration were 500 wax candles. Two
days after the receipt of the present one
of the candles was lighted, and almost
Immediately exploded with loud re-
port, filling the burning building with
smoke and flame. The costly and
beautiful ceiling decorations were ut
terly ruined and the building seriously
damaged. An examination showed that
all the candles were filled with dyna-
mite. The sender of the present has
so far escaped discovery"