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THE DE LESSEPS FREE.
sentences on the Panama Convicts
Quashed at Paris.

Sentences on the Panama Convlcts
Quashed at Paris.
Considerable excitement has been caused
at Paris by the decision by the Court OF Cas-
sation on the appeal of Charles de Lesseps
and the other defendants convicted OF fraud
in connection with the Panama Canal Com
nonv THE court handed down its decision
nuashing the sentences on the grounas tnas
tbe statute OF limitations covered the onences
charged and that the 1nd1ctment on ~n1cA
the prisoners were tried was irregular.
In consequence of this decision N. Eiiie'
vas at once liberated from prison. NJ. Charles
de Lesseps, who YVES in the st. LOUIS aospr
tai. suffering with an acute attack Oh o!s'
nensIa. was informed that he was ~ hDert!'
but he was too i'll to leave the hospital
There were five defendants conVlcseu on
the trial, which ended on February stn iast.
These were Ferdinand de Lesseps, MS son
Charles. Marius Fontsne, Henri Cottu ana
Gustavs Eifiel. .,, g.,
Ferdinand de Lesseps was sentenceu "
five wears Imprisonment and to pay Q nne OF
$500 Ferdinand de Lesseps, VINO Is very
old and i'll. was not imprisoned, but the other
convicted men wers taken 70 Jail. .,
Tins ends one Of the greatess criminal
ceseI France has ever known, In Wnlcn tne
names OF men prominent in political anu
social life were badly smirched. and Whlca
causad one man. Baron do Reinach, 70 &C n
NIT suicide and two or three others to nee us
country.
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twill be remembered that the complaint
that the Fair wac unfinished deferred many
early visitors in Chicaso-mony more than
were kept away from tie Philadelphia Fair
in May. Besides the actual receipts for ad-
rnittances at the gates the Fair treasury Is
swelled by the sale OF many souvenir tickets,
which are carried away by visitors as keep.
sakes. Over 1o5, ,442 such tickets, or 90, ,221
worth, have already disappeared, presumably
into home albums and souvenir books. 1t Is
not possible to ret .. c:s,.ct statement Of the
running expenses, baE tde Chairman Of tho
Finance Committee says they are not NOW
greater than 100000 per day, and that they
are sometimes as low as $4,000. II the
operating expenses a.s kept down to e15, 900
for the remainder Of tho time the Fair H
open, and II the average attendance each day
tor the next 100 DAYS is more than double tha
AVERAGE attendance to date, there seems TO bs
no obstacle in the way Of the ExpoctHa0
proving q financial success.
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THE FAIR IS FINISHED.
SPLENDOR OF TEE WHITE
CITY" AS COMPLETED.

Best Points From Which to Get a
General View of the Buildings
Plaster Figures and Columns That
Seem to Have Been Sculptured
For All Time.
The White City, which Americans have
spent nearly $40, 900 900 in building, is COM
plete in all but a few minor details, says q
Chicago dispatch to the New York World.
No such temporary home for the arts and
sciences and the products Of all the Nations
was eTer erected before. Nor is 1t probable
that its like will be created again soon. It Is
something that all Americans con view with
pride. for the spirit and form of the classic
age have been reproduced on the soil Of the
youngest OF the Nations. It Is triumph OF
art as we'll as Of enterprise.
It is no injury to tho Fair that its sur
foundings are unsttractive. By any OF the
land routes the visitor approaches 1t through
morutonous and common place suburbs or
along Greary maze OF railroad tracks. It
renderc the transformation more abrupt and
more effective when he passes through the
gates and enters the grounds. He has passed
from dark and smoky Chicago, with its dirty
streets and begrimed sky scrapers, into q
fS@S
white or cream tinted. He is in an enclosure
two miles long and about q half mile broad.
Old Tyre, one of the most powerful cities OF
the ancient world. stood on an island smaller
than this enclosure, and the whole popula-
hol Of Athens, in its glory under Pericles,
could have been seated comfortably In the
Manufactures Building, all at the same time.
Chicago's 1 800 600 people would not NIL the
park. .
There are about hundred large buildings
on the grounds md the whole place is laid
Of into streets and courts just like real
city.
The first impression the visitor receives as
he sees the completed Fair is that Of i'm
mens!ty: He might have had the same feel
tng, but more indefinite, had he been here
on the opening day. But then there was 80
much debris and SO much was not finished
that half the Fair was hidden. Now he sees
It ss it's builders wish It to be seen.
Then comes feeling Of perple1!ty. he
does not know where to begin his travels
through this city. He may remain here sew
eral days and then 90 away, leaving build
tnes he did not see and OF whose existence he
did not learn.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

THE British Embassy has been temporarily
transferred to Newport. r. l., where Sir Ju-
liam Pauncefote has rented cottage Tor the
summer The Embassador and his family,
and all the attaches except one OF the under
secretaries, will spend the season there.
AT the instigation OF tho neighbors wealthy
and aged Eliphalet Stratton. Of Brooklyn,
N. Y, has been arrested on charge OF
starving his invalid young wife.
Rev. G. P. McKENNA, a priest attached to
st. AIMS Church, in New York City, and
Mrs Mary Burchell. his cousin, were
drowned in the North River while boating.
DocroR GUL1cK, one OF the best known
physicians of Scranton, Penn, committed
suicide by thrusting the muzzle OF shot gun
into his mouth and pulling the trigger.
Shortly before he took his breakfast he told
his wife that his head panied him and that
he believed he was going crazy.
TIE Duquesne Tube Works Company,
PlttsburS, Penn, have failed for S35o,ooo.
The Infante Eulalia arrived in New York
City from Chicago and vent to the house OF
J. N. Ceballos, which had been placed ut her
disposal. She expected to remain there
week, incognito.
TIE Cassell Publishing Company, OF New
York City, is embarrassed through the note
kiting operations of its President,O. NJ. Dun
ham, and Judge Lawrence has appointed
Henry J. Braker receiver.
JOHN J. HAaaEarY, OF New York City,
jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge into the
East River while intoxicated and escaped un-
injured. He swan ashore. He was arrested.
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LATER NEWS.

man boat race at New London, Conn, by
eight lengths
FRANK COLLINS. G six-year-old boy, Of
Keansburg, N. j., while playing with shot
gun dropped it. The gun discharged and
blew off the head OF his fUur-year-old niece
and playmate, Madeline Carhart.
The Suburban Handicap, a sweepstakes OF
$500 each, half forfeit, at mile and q
quarter, worth to the wianer $4,000, to the
second horse $4,000 and to the third $4,000,
was decided at Sheepshead Bay New York.
! Lowlander won, Terrifer was second and
Lamplighter third. Time, 2 O6 So, the fast
est ever run.
In New York City and vicinity the temper
ature reached 99I5 degrees in the shade, the
highest recorded in June for twenty years.
DANIEL LORD, JR., of New York City,
while asleep, walked out OF a window in
friends house in Chicago and was killed.
TIE West Virginia Building, at the Worlds
! Fair, was dedicated.
|
headed discipline OF Official Force" which
directs that "the Office hours OF the several
bureaus, Offices and divisions shall be from
o'clock a. m. to o'clock p. M, with re-
cess Of half an hour between - o'clock and l
o'clock p. m. each day.
MRS. CLEVELAND, her little daughter, and
household servants left Washington on a
special car for Buzzard's Bay, Mass. The
President did not accompany her.
THE President OF the Bering Sea Tribunal
sharply rebuked Sir Richard Webster. OF
counsel for Great Britain.
HEAVY storms were reported from Paris,
Berlin and Lisbon.
SECRETARY CARLISLE had conference In
Philadelphia, Penn. with trade orgaAiza-
tions and with individuals over the selection
of O site for new mint. Twenty-nine sites
we're presented.
Four lives were lost in fire at Duluth,
MINI.
In one day six banks shut their doors In
California-four at Los Angeles and two at
San Diego.
The President has appointed Charles h
Howry, OF Mississippi, to be Assistant At
torney-General: Benjamin d. Ridgely, ol
Kentucky, to be Consul at Geneva, switzer.
land /; c. F. Macdonald, OF Massachusetts,, to
be Consul at Hamilton, Canada.
In the Brodski Chemical Works, at Odessa,
Russia, large quantity OF benzine exploded,
killing sixteen men, including the director.
EIGHTY dwellings, six grocery and general
stores, two churches, the railway station and
round bouse were destroyed by fire which
swept the village o; Gibson, New Brunswick.
Loss, 81, 100000. ... ..
A REVOLUTION has been started in San Sal,
vador against President Ezeta.
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LELAND STAMFORD DEAD.
THE CALIFORNIA SENATOR
sUCCUMBS TO APOPLEXY.

Found Lifeless in His Bed by His
Valet After an Unusually Active
Day-He Had Long Been iE Dam
ger Of Apoplcctic Attacks-His
Eventful Career
United States Senator Stanford. OF Cali
foruia, died very Unexpectedly OF spoplexy
at 12 o'clock \ few nights ago. Ho passed
away peacefully at his home In Palo Alto.
Senator Stanford was in the best OF spir-
its on the day before his death. Hs took
drive around his stock farm and seemed as
we'll as ever He went to bed shortly after
10 o'clock, and about midnight his valet go
ing into his bedroom discovered that he was
dead.
For some time tn, Senator had shown
apoplectic symptoms. and his weight In
creased alarmingly. There was o stiffness
about his limbs that made locomotion On eX-
ceedinzly difficult task. His body was fast
becoming too heavy for his limbs to support.
Six months ago the Senator sent for Doctor
Curtis, OF San Francisco. The doctor pre-
scribed heroic treatment, but the senator was
not ready to undergo drastic methods forthe
reduction OF flesh and the restoration OF his
waning strength. His apoplectic symptoms
incrxased and the situation became such as
to create serious alarm.
About six weeks ago it was found neces-
sary to impose aseverely plain diet upon the
Senator, and since that time his sole 1000
hos consisted OF fried hashed meat With
hot water as the only liquid accompani-
ment.
The Senator rigidly adhered to the severe
requirements of the physician, and 1t
seemed for time that the results were most
beneficial and might possibly effect q per-
manent cure. The Senator expressed him
self as much encouraged and looked Tor.
ward hopefully to the time when he could
devote himself with renewed energy to pub
lie affairs and to thu completion OK certain
educational and other benevolent enterprises
that were very near to his heart But his
strength was not sufficiently great to respond
to the demands upon 1t. Its fundamental
weakness suddenly manifested itself and ne
passed quietly away.
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can purse which has built this Fair. The
Roman Emperor might have ransacked his
dominions from Spain to the Caspian, but
the American republicans had the whole
world to hunt through, and they have done
it. The classic age cannot compete with the
age OF steam and electricity. Il would not
be In the race. Pericles and Augustus
would have many things to learn If they
could come back.
Yet this entire city was built for tenn
porary purpose. It was oil raised that a
Nation might have a playground for six
months holiday. When the people have had
their summers revel the white buildings
will disappear. Everything will vanish, and
the place where it stood will be park
again.
This Is the Fair. Despite all the bioker-
ings and petty quarrels that occurred during
the first month Of its existence, the result
has been achieved, On soil that two OF three
generations ago was bit OF the universal
wilderness Of the Northwesr, O Fair has been
created with which none other that has gon
before 1t can be compared.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

IOWA now has State Federation OF Labor.
DuNx1RK, France, is a cooperative village.
HOLLAND bakers get from "a to 81 week.
GREAT BRITAIN reports 1000, 900 unem-
ployed. 80. .. .,nsx:
OVER 500 unemployed theatrical people arc
said to be In Chicago at.Present, ,.r
Fob Government railroad employees $4,000
dwellings have been erected In Russia
A MINNESOTA law prohibits the employment
OF children under sixteen years Of age.
TIE first yiolinists OF flrst-class symphony
orchestra earn from s3500 to $4,000 year.
In Europe they demand compulsory trades
unions to be managed by the Government.
In the United Kingdom there are ,S94s CO.
operative societies, with S2l, ,6O0 mempers.
NEW YoRK has population OF working.
women reaching in round figures to apout
100000.
OVER 25. 900 women IN this country are en-
gagged In the decoration OF different k1nds OF
china and pottery. ..... ,... ......t'a
In France the railways employ 24,0so wo-
men. Most ofthem, however, merely receive
small sum for opening and closing gates.
Tx Indiana children under fourteen must
not be employed in factories and those OF
that age must not be worked over eight hours.
NEW Pennsylvania law fixes the max
inum weeks work OF minors at sixty hours.
Children under thirteen must not be en-
ployed. =. ....,.... ..,..-. T..
LEAD pencil makers get 81 weekly, but
the work appears to be unhealthy. The hours
are shorter than iasone other factories; and
the work is lighter. The operators commence
at about twenty years. .--a n.G ..
THE great difficulty In cofee-growing IN
Costa Rica is to secure good labor. soutn
Sea Islanders, Ike Chinese, refuse to work
for the small wages and the native Indians
run away ss soon as they get months pay.
Is South Africa the Kaff1r servants have
formed union to which the members nave
TO give a character for their mistresses.
No member Is allowed to enter upon situa-
ton unless the registered character OF the
mistress OF the house is satisfactory. "'
ACCORDING to official reports, the total
number Of persons employed In and about
the mines of Crest Britain and Ireland s
721, ,02s. OF this total, 57l.S40 were men
working underground, 143,S69 were men
working above ground, and the remaining
6O99 were women working above ground.
The total number of fatal accidents during
the past year was s62, and the number OF
deaths resulting therefrom was 1884. This Is
at the rate OF one death by accident to every
679 persons employed.
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Sketch Of His Life.

Leland Stanford was born in Albany
County. N. Y, March 9th, 1924. After receiving
IN academical education he studied law In
ALBANY, and on the completion OF three
wears course OF study he was admitted to
practice by the Supreme Court OF the State
or New York. He removed to Port Washing
ION, Wis, where he practiced law for four
years.
After the destruction OF his Law library and
other property by fire In the spring Oh laS.
he went to California and associated himself
In business with his brothers, three o. whom
had preceded him to the Pacific cocst. He
was first In business at Michigan Bluffs, and
In 1856 removed from there to Sacramento to
engage in mercantile pursuits on an extern
sive scale.
he was one of the earliest members OF the
Republican Party. and was its candidate lor
Governor OF California in the campaign OF
1859 the other two candidates being Latham,
Democrat, who was elected, and Curry, anti
I,ecompton Democrat. He was delegate to
the National Republican Convention et CHI
cago in 1860 ....
In the contest for Governor in 1881 he was
successful over Mcconnell, Democrat ana
Conness. Union Democrat. being elected by O
very large majority. He was one OF tho
original incorporators OF the Overland Rail
road Company, and as President OF the Cen
trail Pacific Railroad Company superintended
its construction.
Through the energy OF himself and asso.
ciates the remarkable feat was performed OF
building $50 miles OF it in 293 days, which Is
unparalleled in railroad construction.
His act Of founding university and en-
dowlng 1t with millions is proof OF the large
heartedness OF the man. He was large IN
every respect-physically, mentally ana
tonevolently. California has never nad
citizen OF more public spirit and OF whom sne
could be more justly proud. ....,
His fayorite amusement IN past years was
the cultivation of trottlng horses. ne pled
Bonner. and Arion, for the latter OF which
Mr.. Malcolm Forbes, Of Boston paid $4,000.
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a GALA OCCASION.
German Day at the Fair-Indiana
Building Opened.

The anniversary Of Kaiser Williams cor
onation, was designated as German Day by
the management OF the Worlds Fair. The
Germans OF Chicago decided to observe it by
a grand demonstration. The parade was the
largest and most impressive demonstration
ever given by Germans in America. 1t was
divided into eight divisions, composed OF
bands, turner's, militia, singing societies and
elaborate floats. Fully y20. 900 marchers wera
in line. Frank Wenter was Chief Marshal,
and was assisted by 100 aids.
'.Koosiers'' thronged the Exposition
grounds on the same day. For several days
incoming trains from the East have been
loaded with citizens Of Indiana, and when
the hour arrived for the formal dedicatory
exercises oltne Indiana Building the spacious
halls and parlors Of the structure were filed.
Ex-President Harrison arrived just before the
beginning Of the ceremonies and was greeted
by applause. Prayer was offered BY Doctor
q. A. Tobin, after which B. F Haven, Ex
ecutive Commissioner. made short address,
and delivered the keys OF the building to
Clement Studebaker, President of the Indi-
ana Board OF Managers Mr. Studebaker &C
cepted the keys ina brief speech, and pre-
sented them to Governor Claude Matthews,
who received them and consigned the build
ing to the use OF the people Of Indiana and
their friends during the Exposition.
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Most people soon find their way to the
Court Of Honor, or the Grand Plaza, as it is
indifferently called. It is the space between
the Administration Building on the east and
the Peristyle on the west, with the Manufsc-
tures Building and the Agricultural Building
occupying most OF the northern and south
ern sides, respectively. The water curves
under the Peristyle from the lake and forms
. grand basin in the center.
With the MacMonnies fountain at the head
Of the basin, the Peristyle at the foot, green
turf and flowers along the rides and the huge
white building further back, Is formed the
finest artificial view that the world affords.
The effect is heightened when the basin Is
covered with gondolas and launches filed
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Foreign.

The elections in Germany passed of
quietly reballots will be necessary in many
districts. At two o'clock on the morning
after the election the returns foreshadowed
defeat for the Army bill. Every candidate
in Berlin pledged to support the Army bill
was defeated. The provinces also seem to
be very emphatic against it. The Socialists
made great gains and their success created
4 sensation.
The latest returns from the German elee
tions showed slight gains for the Govern:
ment in majority Of the districts heard
from re-ballots will be necessary.
A GOVERNMENT powder magazine 3 few
miles from Athens, Greece, exploded. Tween
ty persons, including officers and soldiers,
were killed, and great damage was done tc
surrounding property.
GLApsroN1Ays have lost scot in the Brit
ish House OF Commons, LinlithSowshire
having returned Captain Thomas Hope. the
conservative candidate for the seat previous.
ly held By Mr. Peter McLagan, with ma
iorlty OF 163.
WITH only one district to hear from, the
results of the Relchstag election in Germany
are: For the Army bill, l0l; against 1t, 1l4 ::
rsballots necessary, 1S1.
HERR LIrBKNEcHr, the Social Democratic
lie. Or, admits that the German Governman,
will have q majority for the Army Dill
by effecting a compromise.
INTENSE heat prevailed throughout the
United Kingdom and on the Continent, ac-
compsnied in England by. violent storms
causing serious damage in various dlstricss
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WORLDS FAIR ATTENDANCE.
just 56,S16 Tickets Sold Daily For
S1,163, 379 in Forty-one Days.

S1,163, 379 in Forty-one Days.
The average number Of paid admissions to
The Worlds Fair in tho first forty-one days
i has been open is 56,sls. The average daies'
gate receipts have been s2s, ,4os. In these
lorty-one days 1850 900 peopls havs visited
HE Fair
It is estimated that the paid sdmittances
must average 10000 daily from July to
November before the stockholders OF the
great Exposition receive q dividend on the
sS1 .000, 600 which the Fair has cost. 1t Is In
teresting to compare tho present attendance
with that at the last Nocld's Fair In Ph1ia-
delphia. which, though moro side show be-
side this one, was as notable In 1876 as the
present one is in 1898. The following table
shows the daily aYe-age paid attendance at
Philadelphia:
NAV. 10. st5i August t.........34,9 949
juno ...26 $6rSsptember 80. ..81 1854
July .26, ,s53 October. .....s9, ,7ss
II Chlcago's visitors increase as Philadal.
pnia's did, the attendance at the Columbian
Fair in October will reach ths magnificent
total of 16O, 900 daily visitors. The Chicago
Fair is slx times as big and six times ns
costly as the Worlds Fair OF 1876 and
many experienced prophets predicts an
attendance six times as great before the Ex-
position closes. Tha first twenty-five days
attendance at each exposition is here given
- atI
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South and West.

CHrNcH bugs are damaging wheat and corn
in Kansas.
THE Congress of the American Sons OF the
Revolution met in Chicago. A reception
was rendered to eX-President Harrison In
the Ohio Building at the Worlds Fair.
A DISASTROUS rain and wind storm swept
over South Georgia. Valdosta and Thomas
vile report many houses blown down. The
melon and poar crops were badly damaged
across the lower sections of the State.
BYwAB1c and Mountain, two mining towns
on the Iron Range Railroad, north Of Duluth,
Mimi. were reported to be wholly wiped out
by fire.
EDWARD DAVIS, George J. Ringcamp and
George Mortzan, all Of CarDonado, Iowa.
were drowned while bathing.
The crowd at the Worlds Fair was smaller
on the fourth open Sunday than on the third,
and the attendance did not exceed $4,000.
This, no doubt, was due to the sultry
weather. The Government exhibits were
closed as usual Most OF the State buildings
were open.
AN unknown cowboy entered the Turtle
Mountain Bank at Dunsuth, North Dakota,
held up Cashier Tu cker, and ROBBED tho
bank OF $1,000. The citizens caught and
lynched him.
OK California Day at tho Worlds Fair the
building OF the Golden State was dedicated
with bnnal ceremonies.