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THE LABOR WORLD.
Government

Ir is estimated that English shops can
turn out 6400 locomotives year.
TILE oldest man In the London postof1ce
has been in the service forty-ilve years.
BROOKLYN IN. Y.) motormen receive the
same wages as the street car drivers Of old.
The National organization OF the Brother
hood Of Painters and Decorators, 1t Is said,
Is likely to be disrupted.
TIE Brotherhood Of Locomotive Flremen
will remove ito headquarters from Terre
Haute, Ind, to Peoria, I'll.
The Belgian Government proposes to IN.
troduce legislation for the amelioration Oh
the condition OF the laborlng classes.
FELIX ADLER thinks that New York City
should buy up some land and build tenement
houses on It, 10 be let to lahoring people at
low rental.
WORK at the sugar reflnerles which were
recently shut down in the Eastern District
Of Brooklyn WIS resumed. Fourteen hun
dred men were set to work.
OFFICIAL statistics show that the total
number OF blast furnaces blowing IN tne
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire
land Is 274 out OF a total OF 719.
THE Park Board has appropriated $5O, 600
for Immediate work on Como Park, st. Paui,
Mimi. The object Is to give lmmeolase woFA
to the unemployed Of the city.
TIE Southern Pacific began wholesale
reduction OF salaries. The cut will be felt
In every department by practically every en-
ploye, from the highest to the lowest.
The fishing industry employs consider
able portion OF the population Of japan. Be
turns Just published give the total value OF
the "take" as 800, 100000. Fresh water fish
represented the value OF 81, 100000.
C. a. NEWTON, agent OF the Wabash Road
at Fort Wayne, has been elected President
OF the Yong Mems Christian Association OF
Indiana. He has done much to increase the
work OF the association among railroad men.
A BIG iron plant In England which has
been doing business since 1872, has been
forced to suspend and the trade and other
journals are discussing the matter from the
standpoint Of the decay OF the British iron
industry.
JOHN BURNS, famous as member OF
Parliament, and as the representative OF
amal0amated labor IN England. arrived at
New York to attend the Labor Convention IN
Denver, COL, and was received by Samuel
Gompers, President Of the Federation OF
Labor, and q committee Of local labor leaders.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

TIE National Women's Indian Associa.
tion met at New Haven. Conn.
ANDREW J. CAMPBELL, Republican Con-
gressman-elect from the Tenth District,
New York City, who defeated General
Daniel E. Slckles at the recent election,
died at his home. Mr.. Campbell was sixty
six years old, and was a Eative Of Newark,
N. J.
MYRoS SHERMAN, his wife and grandson
were struck by n train between Ashville and
Lakewood, N. Y. The child was instantly
killed, Mrs. Sherman fatally mangled and
her husband received severe internal in
juries. The horse was killed and the buggy
smashed.
Six young boys, ranging from eight to
twelve years OF age, ventured on the Ice in
the dam Of tine Lackawaxen River at White
Mills. Penn. Two OF them, Willie Rodine
and Joseph Hill, were drowned.
HENRY STOKES, aged seventy, of Pitts
burg, Penn, committed suicide on his wife's
grave.
The three hundredth anniversary OF the
birth Of Gustavus Adolphus, Sweden's Refor-
nation warrior and King, was commemor-
ated in New York City and elsewhere In the
Lutheran churches.
POLICE COMMISSIONER JOHN C. SHEEHAS,
indicted for contempt of the uexow Commit
tee, surrendered himself at the District At
torney's Office and was admitted to ball lp
$1,000.
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NEW CHINESE TREATY.

President Cleveland Issues His frG
lamation Announcing Rati ficat1o..
Ratihcations of the new treaty betvee
the United States and China were es
changed at the State Department after ofio
hours by Secretary Gresham and Ministe
Yang Yu. The President then signed tn
proclamation announcing the ratification oI
and the taking effect OF the new Chinest
immigration treaty. The proclamation Is
such cases and Is confined to q recital Of the
text Of the treaty, with notice to the public
OF its ratification.
The convention was negotiated on March
II, and agreed to by the Senate on August
13. 1t will remain in force ten years
and unless six months before that tint
notice Ct It's final termination shall b.
given by either party. it continues for sim
liar period. The convention Is designed te
provide reciprocally for the better protection
of citizens or subjects of each country within
the jurisdiction Of the other.
Article stipulates that, except under con
grafton OF Chinese laborers to the United
States shall be absolutely prohibited.
Article excerpts from the provisions Of the
preceding article the return to the United
States of every registered Chinese laborer
who has @ lawful wife, child or parent
In the United Stares, or property to the
value of $1,000. or debts OF Ike amount
pending settlement. To secure this
exception, however. such laborer is
compelled, before leaving the United States,
to deposit with the Collect or Of Customs be-
fore he departs, full description In writing
Of his family or property or debts, and shall
In exchange be furnished with certificate
OF his right TO return. Forfeiture OF the
right Is provided In case the description Is
proved to be false. .s-,
Article continues the right at present en-
joyed OF Chinese subjects who are officials,
teachers, students, merchants, or travellers
fer curiosity or pleasure. but not laborars,
OF coming to or residing in the United States.
This class, however, is admitted only upon
certificate approved by the diplomatic or
consular representative OF this country at
the port whence such Chinese depart. The
privilege OF transit OF Chinese laborers
across the United States in journer1ng TO or
from other countries Is continued.
BY article 4, 1t Is agreed that Chinese OF
the laboring or any other class, either
permanently or temporarily, in the United
States, shall have all the protection to their
persons and their property that Is given to
citizens OF the most favored nations, except
the right to become naturaiized citizens.
Article recognizes the right OF China to
enact and enforce similar laws and regula-
.ons to our Chinese Registration act, pro-
ylding for the registration OF all American
skilled and unskilled laborers residing in
China, and binds this Government to report
20 tho Government Of China the full name,
age. occupation and place Of residence OF all
citizens of the United States, including mis-
,ionarles, within and without the treaty ports
Of China. .....
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LATER NEWS.

REPUBLICANS carried the municipal elec-
tion in Boston, Mass, electing the Mayor
and majority OF the Aldermen.
B1RaE's wallpaper factory, covering half
square at Buffalo, N. Y, was destroyed by
fire, causing loss OF about $500, 900, and
throwing from 500 to 700 employees out Of
work.
TIE man under arrest in Chicago, sup.
posed to be Samuel O. seeley, the defaulting
New York bank bookkeeper, admitted his
identity.
ErTsELL ADAMS, well-to-do farmer living
three miles from Florence, s. O., in q flt Of
insanity shot his daughter In the head. BE
afterward shot his wife and then slashed
himself to death. All three are dead.
TIE pretty slxteen-year-old daughter Of
Farmer Enos bennett, of Flintstone, Nd,
was shot dead by her thirteen.year.old
brother. The shooting was accidental.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY CARLISLE
presented to the House Committee on Bank.
ing and Currency bill embodyins his plan
for currency reform, and It was introduced
In the House.
REPRESENTATIVE SWANSON, Of Maryland,
and Miss Elizabeth D. Lyons, formerly Of
Richmond, were married at the residence Of
the BRIDES mother, in Washington.
BUSINESS in Newfoundland is paralyzed
by the financial and political crisis.
TIE clipper ship Richard Parsons, OF New
York, with six Of her crew, was lost In the
Indian Ocean. .-. -|
In New York City ex-Police Captain John
T Stephenson was found guilty Of bribery
without a recommendation to mercy. he
may get ten years In Sing Sing.
CARL ScHURz delivered the annual ad-
dress as President Of the Civil Service Re-
form League at Its convention in Chicago,
Ill.
TIE President and Mrs. Cleveland aban-
doned their country home at Woodley for
the season and moved into the White House.
The Goodridge Ministry in Newfoundland
resigned on account OF the financial crisis.
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it was, and still is, matter OF regret on the
part of the management OF that great enter
prise, and OF every visitor there, but more
particularly or the part OF the people OF the
South, that there was not larger display OF
the products Of that very resourcelul part OF
the country. The reason for this incomplete
display at the Chicago Exposition was be-
cause of the peculiar provisions in the Con-
stitutiops OF most Of the Southern States,
which prevented the appropriation OF any OF
the public money for such purposes.
To make up for the loss OF the display
which should have been had at Chicago, II
has been decided to hold an exposition at
Atlanta in 1895, beginning September 1S and
closing December 81. This exposition will
take the place OF the Cotton Exposition
which Is usually held In the South. It will
be called the Cotton States aud International
Exposition. It Is not intended that 1t shall
be merely local or provincial affair, as the
Cotton States Exposition has usually been,
but it will be an exhibition of all the pro-
ducts of the South, as we'll as OF interesting
material from all American countries and
from as many foreign countries as can be
interested in the project 30 soon after the
cle.:ng of the Worlds Fair at Chicago.
In view OF the fact that American coun-
tries are to be particularly interested in this
exposition, It was at first proposed to call 1t
the Pan-American Exposition, but the favor
with which the idea was received by some
foreign countries seemed to give 1t an inter-
national character. The exposition has been
lndorsed by the United States Government,
by the Governors Of all the Southern States,
and by all commercial bodies Interested In
the development of the South. It Is ex-
pected that the Southern States will be fully
represented In the exhibits and that there
will be many displays from Northern States.
white the amount of material that Is pledged
from South American countries Is large
enough to assure an interesting, II not COM
plete, exhibit Of the resources and products
of these countries.
Although the exposition was at first out
lined something after the plan OF the usual
cotton exhibitions, It grew 80 steadily that
It has now become universalin plan. 1t was
In last February that mass meeting OF the
citizens OF Atlanta was held to take steps to
Inaugurate the plans OF the exposition.
Following so closely upon the Worlds Ex-
position and the close Of the Pacific Coast
Exposition, at San Francisco: 1t was felt
that many large exhibits could be obtained
for Atlanta with very little trouble and at
comparatively small cost. The fact that the
South was 30 little represented at the
Worlds Fair, and that the bulk OF the WIS.,
itors there came from the North, because the
Southern people were unable to attend, ow-
ing to the business depression, seemed to
make It almost imperative that there should
be well-organized movement to provide
for the attractiv. display OF the wonderful
products Of the South.
Atlanta. which Is the capital Of Georgia, is
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Sketch of His Career.

Count Ferdinand De Lesseps was born In
Versailles, France. November 10, 1906. He
was the con Of Jean Baptist Barthelmtn,
Baron de Lesseps.
At the age Of twenty years he was ap-
pointed Attache OF the French Consulate at
Lisbon, and was afterwards engaged In the
commercial department Of the French Min
istry Of Foreign Affairs. In 1928 he was
made attache OF the Consul-General in
Tunn's, and in 1881 became Consul to
Alexandria.
When tbirty-fve years OF age he was made
Consul at Rotterdam, and In 1889 negotiated
q treaty with Spain in behalf of French COM
merce. He was made consul ut Barcelona,
but In 1874 returned to Alexandria. Thence
he went back TO Barcelona, and In the last
davs of the reign of Louis PHILIPPE, Citizen
King, was made French Minister at the
Court or Madrid.
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the entrances, thus leaving the floor space
available for the exhibits. In the act appro-
prlating the money for the exposition, the
Government included clause providing for
the admission OF foreign exhibits tree Of
duty.
The architectural idea OF Machinery Hall
is that which prevails throughout most OF
the buildings-the Romanesque. The build
ing is designed to give great deal OF space
inside, but little room being taken up BY
stairways and oif1ees. 1t is sixty-fye feet
high In the Agricultural Building the
architecture Is pyramidal In character.
The Electricity Building will be brilliantly
Illuminated. It Is situated at the foot OF the
lake. where its towers and arches, outlined
in rows OF light, will be particularly notice.
able. The building designed for forestry and
minerals Is to be erected Of natural wood,
something after the style OF the Forestry
Building at the Worlds Fair. In the in
terror 1t will be festooned with Southern
moss and greens. The spaces between the
posts and braces, which are OF natural trees,
will be covered with bark. A roof prone-
made garden, with an area OF 26, 900 square
feet, will be one OF the features Of this build
ing. Its sides will be formed o. palms and
palmettos. -
In the woman's Building there will be e1-
hibits of books written by women, musical
compositions. patents and inventions and
artistic work. Special attempts will be
made to secure q large collection OF oil
paintings, etchings and water colors, archi-
Iectual designs, sculptures, and models in
clay, wood carving, embrolderies, plain sew
ing, ceramics and china painting. There
will also be a cooking school and kinder
garten.
The Fine Arts Building Is OF the italian
Renaissance, with tendency to the Floren-
tine school. It Is proposed to make the edu-
cational exhibit better, In every way, II pos-
sible, than the one at the Worlds Fair. 1t
has not yet been decided to have separate
building for this exhibit, but as the space
accorded to 1t at Chicago was inadequate, 1t
is probable thnt building will have to be
provided. 1t Is proposed to have a sample
OF the work Of every pupil OF every school
in the South.
The most unique thing about the ex[psi-
ton Is the fact tnat the work CT the negrp In
the South will be acknowledged and have q
place. A special building has been pro-
vided for the negro exhibit. 1t is 100 by 300
tee:, and It Is intended that the best work OF
the negro in every department OF labor,
showing the progress made In education and
in industrial pursuits since his emanclpa-
tion, shall find place there. Representa-
tive colored men have become greatly in
terested in this proposed exhibit. Several
OF them are now travelling through the South
arranging for exhibits. The Virginia and
Mississippi committees are particularly ac-
tive. It Is expected that this showing OF the
negro's progress will be OF mutual benefit to
the blacks and the whites OF the South.
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situated on high rolling land, bordering tho
Allegheny range, and Is HOO feet above the
sea. It has many fine sites for an exposition
like the one contemplated. OF these, Pied
mont Park, which is situated two miles from
the center OF the city. was finally adopted.
Its beautiful landscape features made 1t the
most suitable of the numerous sites which
were suggested by the enterprlsing citizens.
The grounds slope from the hills on one side
TO the line of the railroad on the lower bor-
der, and were possible OF development in Il
very artistic manner.
A part Of this park was dug out so that an
inland lake, twenty acres in area, was pro-
vided, and around this lake, as around the
lagoons at the Worlds Fair, 1t was proposed
to group the principal buildings. The lay
Ing out Of the grounds and the arrangement
Of the buildings and their location was done
by Grant Wilkins, OF Atlanta, who was made
Chief OF Construction. Mr.. Wilkins Is well
known to the South as a railroad and bridge
constructor, and has been very successful in
laying out the grounds for the Atlanta Ex-
position. "
Although It was at first proposed to have
only one building, which was to be large
enough to contain all the exhibits which 1t
was thought it would be possible to obtain,
so much interest In the exposition was de-
vsloped in the South and in other countries
that the scope OF the enterprise gradually
extended until It was found necessary to
provide ten buildings for the exhibits alone,
There will also be the Government Building,
to build which and for the installation OF
exhibits the Government has appropropri-
ated 5000, 900, and the Administration Build
Ing, which, In addition to holding the
offices OF the exposition. will contain an au-
ditorlum that will seat $500 people.
Mr.. wilkins gave TO the building set apart
for the fine arts the location on the top OF
the hill in the most conspicuous part OF the
grounds. The Government Building will
also be near by, on a high plane OF ground.
The other buildings are all grouped about
the lake. In the centre ofthe park Mr.. Will
kins provided tor tropical horticulture! gar
dens, In the centre OF which there will be an
electric fountain similar to the ones on each
side Of MacMonnies fountain at the Worlds
Fair. The Terraces, as the Midway
Plaisance Of the Atlanta Exposition is called
are winding street along the southern end
Of the park, which is broken by q bridge
over lagoon near the centre. The ter-
races are situated where the old trenches
ar. still visible. Piedmont PHrk contains
1919 acres. It will thus be seen that there is
p.snty of room for the buildings and for the
winding paths, horticultural gardens and
other landscape features, which, even In
their present incomplete state, promise to
make the park one Of the most beautiful In
which any exposition was ever situated.
Bradford L. Gilbert, OF New York City. Is
he architect OF ten OF the exposition build
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M. Burdeau was born at Lyons, France,
on September 10, 1851, and served during ring
the Franco-Prussian war In the army untii
he M was wounded and taken as prisoner to
Germany. In November. 1881, he became
Chief of the Cabinet Of N. Paul Berf, MINIS
ter of Public Instruction. In 1850 M. bur
desu was elected to represent one OF tu'
Rhone districts In the Chamoer Oh DePu,aHIs. IoIs'
e,atse NJ fhe international Labor Conference
@ ensned in Berlin by Emperor William. The
eF.Mintster was decorated with the Cross OF
the Legion OF Honor for the gallantry which
fae he Displayed display as a soldier, and he Is IT,. the
anthor of a number of historical and ecu.
cational works. He was elected President
Of the CHAMBER Of Deputies IN July OF the
present year.
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COUNT DE LESSEPS DEAD.
THE CREATOR OF THE SUEZ
CANAL PASSES AWAY,

He Has Been In Feeble Health Since
the Panama Canal Exposures
His Splendid Achievement and His
Disastrous Failure-Review Of the
Great Frenchman's Life
Count Ferdinand De Lesseps died. few
afternoons ago, at the Chateau La Chesnaye,
near Paris, France. The sacrament was ad.
ministered to him. and his physicians re-
mained in attendance all night, and until the
end came. His health had been exceedingly
precarious ever since the Panama Canal
scandal, In 1892-93. About a year ago he
had asevere illness, which It was believed he
would not survive.
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NEWFOUNDLAND CRISIS.
The Big Fish Dealers Involved in
- Ruin.

The Commercial Bank OF Newfoundland,
at St.. Johns, suspended payment owing to
the failure OF several large fish exporting
houses to respond to their liabilities to the
bank. This involved other banks and Grip
pied at least ten OF the largest concerns
there. Four Of them have closed their prem
ises and others Will close. .-''s.a...H
Small depositors are demanding gold from
the Union and Savings banks, AMI thu gold
reserve is being steaaily drained. II they
are able to meet the rtn, everything is safe.
The chief danger Is the difficulty in getting
more gold into the country. Business men
of all classes are trying to effect an arrange
ment with London bankers or with Canadian
concerns which will be urged to extend busi-
ness to ST. Johns.
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A special effort has also been made to
secure a better display OF tobacco than was
ever had before. The cultivation, curing,
marketing and manufacturing OF tobacco
and oftobacco products will be shown In all
forms and stages. Provision has Plso been
made for music and lecture halls, and for
the exhibition OF live stock and dairy prob
ucts.
Mr.. Fielder, Chief Assistant to Director
General Collier. called particular att iention
to the amusement features. He said that
while the Midway Plaisance of the exposi-
tion had been called the Terraces, 1t was ex-
pected that the more popular term would be
used by the visitors.
awe shall refuse to accept the applications
OF any but tlrst-cIass attractions. There will
be q Mexican village, including q street
scene In Mexico, with its cathedral, theatre
and booths, and the grounds will be orna-
mented with Mexican plants. A fine or
chestra will provide music for this village.
Ample private capital Is back of this enter
prise, and its projectors have been at work
several months collecting material There
will also be a picturesque exhibit from
Guatemala, showing the bamboo huts In
which will live Carlb Indians, nut carvers and
other natives Of that country. Exquisite
carvings on Guatemalan nuts, musical
stones and other things will be on sale. .
"There will be a Hawaiian village, with
IN exhibit from the Royal Museum, deep sea
divers, hula-hula dancers, and the pictur-
esque huts OF that country. A German village
will also be one Of the features OF this part
OF the Exposition. There will be beer
garden and band to furnish music for the
people who assemble there. Instead OF sew
eral Oriental villages. we expect 10 combine
a thorough representation OF Oriental life In
one village. There will be model gold
mine, an electric scenic theatre, and beauty
show. A company has also been organized
to secure q concession for u lift on the can
tilever principle, something on the style OF
the old fashioned teeter.
efforts are being made to secure for At
lanta during the Exposition meetings OF
commercial and professional societies, so
that their members may combine pleasure
with profit.
although Atlanta was the scene of one OF
the most destructive and terrible battles OF
the war, the people there have lost sight OF
the causes which led to the war, and there
IS no sectional feeling. We do not try to
revive war memories. A curious example
of this oblivion of the past is shown by the
appointment as one of the Secretaries OF the
exposition OF General J. R. Lewis, Union
veteran. General Lewis was with Sherman
on his march to the sea, when Atlanta was
destroyed. Fifteen years ago he moved to
| the city and he has been one OF its promi.
nent citizens ever since. He was Postmaster
under President Harrison and Is thoroughly
identified with all the interests OF the city. !"