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the opening of the Suez canal, the idea OF
which he had conceived during his sojourn
In Egypt: While on a visit In Egypt, In
1854, he disclosed the project to Said Pasha,
who invited him to draw up a memorial on
the subject, which was done, with full de-
tails. Said Pasha issued firman sanction
of concession in January, 1885, took a large
number of shares, and after many difficult
ties LesSepS formed company in Paris in
1858. Work begun in the spring Of
1859. and the completed canal was formally
opened Nov. IL, 1869. Lesseps then directed
ing to flood portion Of it, and afterwards
offered plan for railway through Asia.
Beginning with 1873 he concentrated his en-
ergies on the construction of a canal across
the Isthmus of Panama. In the following
year the project was vigorously advocated
in the French financial press, and at the
meeting of the congress of the geograph-
ical sciences, held in Paris in 1875, Lesseps
formally proposed to cut q canal across the
isthmus. In the following year he formed a
the preliminary surveys. He visited Ger
many. England and Belgium to Sc
in 1879. obtained from the Colon
bian government the exclusive privi-
lege of constructing q canal between the
He returned to Paris and opened a subscrip
ton for company with a capital of $780,
100000. which proved failure. He then
came to the United States, where he Wis
tied the principal cities, making speeches.
and finally called q congress Of engineers
TO meet In Paris ana discuss the merits or
the proposed routes. That OF Panama hay
ing been approved, he again began a sub
scription for a company with a capital or
500, 900 coo, which. was successful. The COM
pany was definitely constituted on Jan. 81,
1881, and work begun in October of that
year. The work was conducted in the
most waSteful and extravagant manner,
and was continued until 1889. when $780,
600 900 had been expended, for which there
was very little to show. The French gov
eminent had become interested In the
scheme, and result of the collapse
commission was sent out to investigate.
This commission reported that 1T would cost
S342, O0O, 900 TO complete the work, and the
immediate result was the appointment of
a receiver The inquiries set on foot re-
suited in scandal of national proportions,
in which members of the government were
involved series of trials followed, re-
sulting in the conviction of LessepS and his
son and several other celebrities. The fall
ure of the Panama scheme Frustrated the
elder Iesseps, and, though he was con-
yicted in the courts he was never per-
mitted to know that he had been tried.
and the sentence as to him was RENTED.
His son Charles and the others found
guilty served portions of their terms OF
Imprisonment, but all are now at liberty.
Neither his own countrymen nor intelll-
gent men in other lands believed that
the elder Lesseps personally prohted by
the complete collapse Of the great scheme
OF which he was the originator and the
central figure.
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BABY SLAUGHTER HOUSE.
Result of a COroner's Investigation of
Founding Asylum.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. "a shocking
scandal has been caused here by the coro-
ner's investigation of the San Francisco
Founding Asylum. where thirty-three ba-
bies have died within the past six weeks.
The place has been closed. The coroner as
certained that the thirty-three waits died
of lack of nutrition and maltreatment. The
Daughters of the Good Shepherd publicly
branded the asylum as a slaughter house for
babies The sanitary condition of the asy-
lum is very bad. 1t is charged that the
nurses and attendants occupied the sunny
rooms upstairs and kept the babies in
damp, dark apartments. Before the coro-
ner to-day il was developed that the dead
babies had been kept on the premises four
days. The official undertaken of the insti-
tuition testified that when an infant died the
attendants put the body in box under the
front door steps and Ii was kept there like
so much garbage until he came to take il
away. He had found three bodies cast in
discriminatory into the box at one time.
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IIne -Z:I4 a, z Z. 2:Io. Z:Io 4, Z:II 4.
ESQ trot; for two-year-olds; purse, $500.
Sale of PnIo Alto Stock.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct AT the Wood
ard & Shanklin horse sale of Palo Alto
stock. at Lexington, KY, to-day, nineteen
head brought S1O.9O5. an average Of 500 per
head. The principal sales were: Electro
city (2:17S), out of Midnight, the dam of
Jay Eye See G:1W. $1,000. to Graham &
Conley Lexington, Ky; Weldock. br c..
by Electricity, out of Ida Wilkes, Ss25, to
j. II. pepper, st. Paul. Mimi; Wilma s.,
br. m, seven years old, by Electioneer,
out of dam Winnie, the dam of Palo Alto
(2:0Ss4), $3.50, to l.. Broadhead, Spring Sta
ton, KY; Ellener, by Electioneer dam
Lady Ellen, $1,000 to T. G; Anytime, Lex
ington, KY; Bernel,s by Electioneer, dam
Lexington, KY; Elma Sontag, by Election
eer, dam Sontag by Dixie, $780, to John
z. Madden, Lexington, KY. Several daugh-
tiers of Electioneer. out of high-bred dams
and in foal to Palo Alto stations, ranged
from $3.50 TO 500. The largest crowd Of the
ing Senator PETER, Of Kansas.
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CRUEL PARENTS.
Mother and Father Charged with I'm
natural Conduct.

LONDON Oct 9-The hearing in the
case of Constance Phelan and her hus-
hand. charged with extreme cruelty to
their two children at their home in Ches-
ter reveals a story that is. in many re-
spects. worse than that brought out at the
celebrated Montague case. The Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has
charge of the prosecution. The court room
at Chester was crowded on Saturday, when
the hearing was begun. AS the prisoners
entered they were Missed. One of the for
mer servants of the PhelanS testified that
the prisoners were most cruel in their
treatment of their children. Five days
after the witness had entered the employ
of the prisoners she saw Mrs. Phelan put
the young child into bathtub. holding it
by the hair This act she repeated nearly
every morning In the daytime the child
Ernest was generally strapped to a chair
and left on the lawn until the evening At
times he was not brought into the house
until 10 o'clock His meals were taken out
to him. The witness said that on one oc-
ca sion she had seen Ms. Phelan strike Err
nest repeatedly on the head with an ivory
hair brush, and she did not desist until the
brush broke. On another occasion, when
Ernest refused to take castor oil, his moth
err took him by the arm and leg and threw
him a distance of three yards. AT another
time she saw Mrs. Phelan strap up her
younger child in a cruel way while he was
i'm bed. She also beat Ernest with dog
whip and strap with buckle az the end
OF it, The elder child was beaten by both
Mr. and Mrs. Phelan but not so often as
the Younger one was punished The wit
ness then made the remarkable statement
that she was promised 81 advance in her
wages and a handsome present if she
would consent to beat the children during
the confinement of her mistress. Much
further testimony showing the unnatural
manner I'm which the prisoners had treated
was adjourned. The prisoners were adj
mitted to bail. their solicitor saying that
the defendants were people of means and
position and it would be very serious
matter to them If they were deprived OF
their lihartv
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Guns Booming at Rio Again

Rio DE JANEIRo, Oct. 9.-The insurgent
fleet again bombarded the outside forts
to-day. There has also been some
firing to-day on the other side OF
the bay. opposite to the city. 1t is
believed that the insurgents will make
an attempt to capture the Estrel!a
powder magazine. but the government 10
determined to blow the magazine mp II lt
seems likely that it is in danger of capture.
foreign ships are loading sailors to protec {
foreign subjects. The insurgent Admiral
De Mellos has issued manifesto in which
he disciaims any intention of bombarding
this CITY,
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FRANCE AND ITALY.
uI-FeelinE So Strong that War Is n
Possibility.

LONDON, Oct. 10-The Chronicles cor
respondent at Paris says that the unex-
pected resignation of General Mathelin.
commander of the Fifteenth Army Corps,
who, in the ordinary course, would have
taken command of a French campaign
against Italy, has caused a painful sensa-
ton in government and army circles This
feeling. the correspondent says has been in
creased by a telegram from Marseiles to the
Jour. which telegram the authorities caused
TO be suppressed, stating that i'm the
higher military circles no surprise
would be felt if Italian troops should
pass the frontier tomorrow. The
telegram also said that General Mathelin.
owing TO the condition OF his health, did
not feel equal TO the task with which he
would be confronted If the Alpine out
posts were doubled. 1t says, further that
. the attitude OF the officers and men OF
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ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.
Observations at San Francisco, Where
1t Was Only Partial.

SAN Francisco. Oct. 9.-1he eclipse OF
the sun to-day was only partial here. At
the time of the greatest observation six.
teuths Of the suns diameter, or nearly
one.half of the disc. was obscured.
The sky here was cloudless, The
first contact occurred at 10l9:2y A. NJ.
The time of the greatest observation hero
WAS 11:40. A partial loss of sunlight was
plainly noticeable. but the eclipse did not
attract very general interest. The final
contact occurred at l2:55:9 All observa-
tories, including the Lick Observatory at
Mount Hamilton are taking accurate OBJ
servations of the phenomenon.
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Cable Notes.
ali

An epidemic of influenza is raging at Trip
oil.
M. De Giers, Russian Minister for For
eign Affairs, whose health has long been
declining, has had a fresh relapse, and is
growing weaker.
The sailing vessel Sinyo Maru was
wrecked off the coast of Japan on the 4th
inst. Twenty-Five of the twenty-eight pas
SengerS were drowned.
Arrangements have been concluded be-
tween the Berlin banks and the Bance Ma
tionale and other banks of Italy providing
for the advance of 100000 marks on Sc
curity of the Italian rentes.
One of the largest paper mills in England
has closed its doors owing to lack Of
coal and many other mills are upon the
point of similar action This may lead to a
paper famine in the newspaper world. where
the stocks of paper are being quickly ex-
hauSted.
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WON BY ORA WILKES
Rich Stake for Three Year-Old
TrOtting Stations.
Fastest Five-Heat Race for the Class
This Year-0ther Events at the
Lexington Track.

LEXINGTON, KY, Oct. 9.-The weather
was clear and delightful to-day, and seven
thousand people some magnificent rae
ing. OF the four races on the card the star
event was the stallion representative stake
for three-year-olds, worth Sll,95O, Of which
the winner received 5000, the largest
amount ever trotted for by three-year-
old. 1t was stubborn fight between Ora
Wilkes. Medic and the Conqueror, while
Axle was very prominent in the first two
heats. Ora Wilkes fought for every heat
and his gaIneness and Goldsmith's great
drives through the stretch won first money.
The struggle for the place was very excit-
ing. William Corbitt, Of San Mateo, Cal,
bred the gallant black colt, and pocketed
81 $50 by the conditions of the stake. In
the betting the winner ruled favorite all
through. The track was very fast, and the
time in the three-year-old stake is the
fastest five-heat race for three-year-olds.
Summaries:
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TWO PRIZE FIGHTS.
One Drawn and the Other Won from
Ernst by Leeds.

NEW YORK. Oct 9.-There were two
fights at the Coney Island Athletic Club
this evening, and four thousand people, at
their conclusion, pronounced themselves sat-
isfied. There was a preliminary ten-round
bout between Charlie Kramer and Jim Sui
Ivan. local bruisers. which. after a hammer
and-tongs contest, resulted in a draw, but
the star attraction was go for blood be-
tween Horace Leeds and Billy Ernst.
They fought at 1873 pounds. and put up a
pretty, though one-sided, exhibition, Ernst
was clearly outclassed, but game. The
eighth round ended the agony. a straight
one on EInst's heart putting him and his
pugilistio aspirations TO sleep
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M. DE LESSEPS DYING
The Worlds Greatest Engineer at
the Door of Death.
Career of the Man Who Built the Suez
Canal and Started the Abandoned
Panama Ditch.

PARIS. Oct. 9.-Count Ferdinand de Les
seps is dying in his country house at La
Chesnaye.
Ferdinand Marie Lesseps was born in Yer
sailles, France, Nov. II, 1906. He received
his early education in Paris, but finished it
with his father, consular agent, and lived
with him in Philadelphia I'm 1892 where
he acquired, as he said, at dinner given
to him in that city in 1880. the qualities Of
pluck ard tenacity. He was French con-
sular agent at Lisbon in 1851, when he
received an appointment in the Division Of
Commerce. In 1923 he was attached to the
consulate at Tunis. and three years later
became vice consul at Alexandria and cam
sui at Cairo where he remained until 1858,
when he was sent TO Rotterdam, afterward
to Malaga and to Barcelona. After the
downfall of Louis Philippe he was appoint
ed minister to Spain, and afterward to
Rome. After 1850 he devoted his energies to
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French Lacy Shot.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct 9.-The fall meet
ing of the Louisville Jockey Club was in
augurated to-day at Churchill Downs by a
six-event card of good racing. The crowd
numbered about fifteen thousand and the
weather was all that could be desired. In
the second race there was a jam at the six
teenth pole, which bruised Soup Perkins
up considerably and French Lady had her
leg broken. She was shot, and Scoggan
Brothers lose 81, 100 by the accident. Per
kins was fined SIS in the same race for
breaking away. The favoriteS had the
best of the day, taking four of the six
events. The winners were Hampton, En-
ma Mack, BuCkwa, VolantreSS, George
Beck and CoSmoline.
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NEWS FROM PEARY.
Twenty Tons of Walrus Meat Secured
for the Explorers Dogs.

LONDON. Oct. 10.-A letter from q mem.
Der OF the Peary expedition. received
by the Morgenblatr. of Christisna, says
that the Falcon reached Bowdoin bay.
Murchison sound. on Aug. 3. By diligent
shooting, twenty tons of walrus
meat for the use of the dogs dur.
ing the winter had been secured. A
cache of provisions had been established
on the inland ice for the use Of
the slefr party on their journey IN the
spring. i ,u,enant Peary wac going with
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Called Gladstone n Qunck.

LONDON, Oct. 9.-Lord Randolph
Churchill. in a speech at Huddersfield,
this evening took occasion to criticise the
speech which Mr.. Gladstone delivered re-
Gently at Edinburgh. He characterized Mr.
Gladstone as a common auack, and said
that the Liberal Unionist party had not
tried to secure the amendment of the home
rule bill, because the measure was of too
hairbrained and insane character to be pos
sible OF Improvement. The speaker de-
clared that If the House of Lords had not
rejected the bill, he himself would have
voted for the abolition of that body.
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Union Veteran Legion.

CINCINNATI, o.. Oct. 9.-Tne eighth Ma
tional Encampment of the Union Veteran
! ~"'on is - bc held here during this week.
National Commander w. II Tucker, Adj
J-.,..a--A eneraI IS. &. Shaw and Col. j. II.
Payer. Charles A. Foster and NJ. NJ Muir
ply. of the executive committee. have ar
rived and established headquarters at the
Grand Hotel.
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We May Have a Bail Club.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Oct. "a meeting
to reorganize the Western Baseball Asso-
citation will be held in Chicago Oct. %. Mil
waukee, indianapolis, Detroit, Toledo
Kansas City, Omaha and Minneapolis viii
become members. The eighth club will be
either Columbus, St. Paul or Grand Rap
ids. a salary limit of $500 or $3.50 VIII
he adoDted
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fifty dogs to establish other deno's ord
try TO penetrate half way into Independ-
ence bay. house built at A,C ,rnh. x
bav by Lieutenant Peary's party. in Isl.
has been demolished by the Esquimanx.
Mrs Peary was enjoying fine health and
vigor and takes part In most of the shoot
ing trips. Mrs. Peary will remain for the
present IN tho house at Bowdoln boy.
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Miners Return to Work.

KNOXVILLE Tenn, Oct. 9.-Four hun
dred miners, who have been on strike for
two months in the Coal Creek and Brlce-
Vile districts returned to work to-day, on
compromise with the coal companies,
which was 10 per cent. reduction and one
dollar off on house rent. The reason given
by the miners for accepting the compromise
starving and that they must feed them.
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Strike in Contemplation.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Spcclai 10 the InulaildpolS JOURNAL.
MARION, Ind, Oct. "a strike among
the workmen in the press ware factories
has been under contemplation for some
time, and il is understood here that the vote
just counted is decidedly I'm favor of the
strike. The union has over $4,000 in its
treasury, and expects help from the other
branches of the flint glass workers The
contest will, therefore, in all probability,
be a stubborn one. The manufacturers
want a reduction of wages.
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imparting tone and vigor TO the whole sys-
tenn. It's legitimate medicine, too-care-
fully compounded by an experienced ply
stefan, and adapted TO woman's delicate or
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orders peculiar 10 the sex, it is an unfailing
remedy. It's because il Is unfailing that il
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it fails to give satisfaction, IN am case for
which it's recommended, the money paid for
it viii be promptly returned.
You pay only for value received.
1t is legitimate medicine-not beverage.
Contains no alcohol TO inebriate no syrup or
sugar 10 sour or ferment In the stomach and
cause Distress AS peculiar in its marvellous,
remedial results as IN its composition.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Oct 9.-Harry c.
Tyler, of the Springfield Bicycle Club, low
cred the worlds record for the quarter
mile, standing start, to 20 1-5 seconds, to-
day. The previous mark for the distance
against time was 80 1-5 seconds, made by
i. A. Nelson, of the same club, at Hart
ford, Conn.,, on Labor day. The Springfield
track now holds the worlds record for all
distances up to twenty-six miles. Tylers
trial was made without pacemakers. The
record was officially timed.
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the army towards Italy has become so
ing calmness and prudence. The corre-
spondent adds that probably the reports
of the anti-Italian feeling are somewhat
exaggerated. but he says it is difficult TO
imagine greater unpleasantness. short OF
positive hostilities, than now exist be-
tween France and Italy.
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Obituary,

LONDON, Oct. Sir William Smith. who
was for many years the editor of the Quar-
terly Review and a compiler OF various
encyclopaedia works relating to antiquity
died in this city on Saturday. He was
eighty-one years Of age.
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The yellow Fever Record.

BRUNSWICK. Ca. Oct 9.-The official
report to-day gives thirty new cases Of
yellow fever-fOur whites and twenty-six
colored Secretary cragg reports two new
cases at Jesap to-day.
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A fe ebIe 100
man is restored
to health and
strength, by DR..
Pierce's Favorite
Prescription. IL
you're overwork-
eb rundown,
Oh debilitated, you
need il. It's an
invigorating, re-
- - 4. A
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LONDON. oct 9.-The newspapers of Lon
don generally accept the defeat Of the Val
kyrie in Saturdays race I'm a sportsmanlike
manner. II there is any exception II is Mr..
Astors Pail Mall Gazette, which says that
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-10-20
Letters from Dr.. James B. Neal

WINNErEG, Canada, August 22nd,
1893.
Ny DEAR FATHER:
Here we are, half way across the
continent and in place which in my
boyhood days seemed away out of all
creation. Now it is city of 10000 in.
habitants, built right out apparently in
the midst of the almost limitless plain
through which we travelled all morn.
,e in North Dakota and Manitoba.
We left Chicago at 1850 P. NJ. Fri
day, August 18th, feeling we had en-.
joyed very satisfactory visit to the
Worlds Fair, reached ST. Paul about
noon on Saturday, and had a delight
full visit with friends of Mrs. Neal in
St. Paul and Minneapolis until Mon,
day evening, when we took train at
S:Io for Winnepeg. 1t grew dark so
soon after leaving Minneapolis that
we saw very little of Minnesota, only
enough to show us that we were pass,
ing constantly, lake after lake, which
lay placid in the moonlight. Of which,
we were told in St. Paul, there were
from seven to ten thousand in the
State. Next morning, Tuesday, we
woke up to find ourselves in the
boundless fields of wheat, of North
Dakota, lying in the valley of the
Red River Of the North, as it comes
up from the South. 1t seemed very
strange to me to see them Just har-
vesting their wheat in the latter part
of August, about seven weeks behind
us in Pennsylvania. We were in the
United States till about noon when
we reached the border, and customs
officer came through the train and
gave our personal baggage very cur
sorry examination before allowing us to
GO over into Canada.
One thing which astonished me was,
that he sealed up all the stores, etc
in the kitchen OF the sleeper, SO that
when l asked the porter for something
to eat about : P. NJ, he could not
furnish anything, though he had given
US our breakfast some hours before.
The porter told me that was a regu
lar performance every day on reaching
the border, the seal being removed
the next day in Winnepeg, before
starting back to ST. Paul We reached
Winnepeg about 2:3o P. NJ,
and are very comfortably settled for
the night at this new Hotel, which
scenes very nice indeed. We so on
our way at seven tomorrow morning
We found a party of eight or nine
American Board Missionaries in Min
neapols, who ale mostly going tc
North China and who came on in the
same car with lis and will continue
with us all the way to China.
With love to you and mother, aaec.
uonately your son,
JAMES B. NEAL.