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cent. Exports of tea from Yokohama
showed an excess over the previous year OF
one million pounds On account of the war
there was demand from the United States
and Canada. Ginseng cultivated by the Jap
anese farmer has proved OF considerable
America. Shipments amounted TO s4ss,lsS.
peppermint and peppermint oil are other
Japanese products of export. The cultiya-
ton of tobacco extends throughout the en-
pire, and its consumption by natives is said
TO be enormous. as both men and women
product In Japan is rice, more than half OF
the cultivated lands being planted in ic,
and the value of the crop is over half the
entire Japanese agricultural product. Moth
ing is known of the crop of 1894, but in 1893
II was ls5 300. 600 bushels, and in 1892 about
tai Importance in Japan. as failure means
a famine.
Although Western civilization is making
rapids progress in Japan. meat Is but little
used for food. In Toxic a city of 13e9,ee0
people. there were slaughtered for food DUR
5,46S hogs and 443 sheep. Most of the young
men eat meat only while i'm the army. Pa
per making is also one of the important in
dustries OF Japan, and the Americans and
English are the principal buyers of that
exported. Cotton has replaced hemp, and
has become an important factor in Japan
Textile industries are rapidly developing
there being forty-seven mills with 4SS 1873
spindles In operations There Is nothing in
patents 10 prevent Japan from using the
latest machinery, and labor is so cheap that
even Europe can no longer compete. The
manufacture of hemp and cotton carpets is
a new industry. whole troops of little boys
cheap. but not durable. The principal buy
erS are Americans
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WHISKY DISTRIBUTORS.
Preparing to Organize an Associa tion
for Mutual Protection.

CINCINNATI, July 2.-The Western dis
tributors of the late American Distiilling
and Cattle-feeding Company met here to-
day and held forenoon and afternoon ses-
sion in the committee room OF the Cham
Der OF Commerce. behind sealed doors. They
had full representation, either by tele-
graphic proxy or in person. Those actual
ly present were Louis Tescher and Isaac
Ross. OF st. Louis; c. j. Hennessey, of Chi
cago: also the following local distributors:
w. N Hobart. who presided; George De-
terle, who officiated as secretary: W. L.
Hunt, of Fleischman & Co.; Abe Hoffeimer,
L. NJ. Greene, L. Block. j. L. workum and
NJ. f. Freiberg. This is only one of series
of meetings that have been recurring at
intervals for several months. The partic-
ipants in to-day's meeting say that moth
ing definite was done. One member said
there was protracted and earnest discussion
OF variety OF topics, but there was a
marked lack OF enthusiasm In the confer
ence. which. nevertheless. was harmonious
night. Henry Corning, Of Peoria. who was
anxiously expected, did not come, which
caused some surprise and disappointment.
The general object of these preliminary
meetings appears 10 be to organize an as
ISOLATION for the mutual protection OF the
organization was discussed. A proposition
to name II the Western Distributing Com
pany was talked over. but not acted upon.
1t looks on the outside as II the distrib-
ly when the order OF things In the Whisky
Trust Gomez into being. The meeting seems
TO have had no references to the old trust
which Is on its last legs. and all reference
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Insurance Agent Had the Grave
Opened Yesterday and Found the
CONN Empty.
TWELVE PEOPLE POISONED
ARSENIC IN THE FLOUR Used BY A
DAvIEss COUNTY FAMILY.
Warrant Issued for N Son-fn-Law
Who Has Fled 10 the Woods-How
the Nicholson Law Works.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.


COLUMBUS. Ind, July 2-Parties at Cliff
ford. in the northern part OF the county.
yesterday received a telegram from Marion,
Ind. asking them to dig a grave at what
is known as the Liberty Graveyard for the
remains of Thomas Myers. who formerly re-
sided at that place, and who 1t is said. had
died at Greenfield. The grave was dug and
a minister was secured TO conduct the serv-
ices. The first train arrived. and the re-
mains did not appear. when IL was made
known that the trip was TO be made over
land, and the time Of the arrival was
D. IN. A number Of the young mans former
friends and acquaintances were present. and
services were held at the grave. The re-
mains were not presentable. il was claimed
by those who accompanied them, and the
casket was not opened. After the ceremony
nothing was thought OF the matter aside
from the usual talk on such occasions be-
yond casual review OF the young man 5
life as 1t was remembered by the villagers.
Shortly after the arrival of the early
morning train to-day the village received a
report that a stranger had arrived and de-
manded an investigation of the grave and
an identification of the remains. The
stranger was a representative of the Inde-
pendent Order OF Friends and the deceased
carried in that benevolent order 5000 life
insurance The entire village turned out to
the graveyard and witnessed the exhuming
of the casket. when to the surprise Of all.
there was no corpse TO be found. The box
inclosing the casket was slightly broken.
and in the casket was found only an open
ring. such as are used by farmers An in
vestigation was at once started. There il
considerable speculation and excitement
over the affair
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BAMIRoNA, Tex, July "A peculiar
homicide was brought to light here by the
finding. this morning. OF the. body of young
Backman. the twenty-one-year-old son of
well-to-do family Of this town. about a
mile from his home. swinging from a tree
with a rope around his neck An examina-
ton developed the fact that his neck had
not been broken. but that he had been
strangled to death. Doc Harris. a neigh
Dor. his wife and daughter were arrested
on suspicion of having murdered Blackman.
Mrs. Harris was released on $1,000 bail. but
the other two were held The cause OF the
tragedy is supposed to have been a love
affair of Blackmans. He made love to the
young woman and. it is said. promised TO
marry her. Later he transferred his affec-
tions to younger sister of this girl and
incurred the enmity OF the latter and her
father
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sLAsHED HIS THROAT.
Attempted Suicide Of Chief Engineer
John l.. ID. Borthwick.

NORFOLK. Va, July 2-Chief Engineer
John L. D. Borthwick, of the United States
ship Amphitrite, now lying at Old Point,
attempted suicide tonight by cutting his
throat. Borthwick's attempt, about which
the statements are meagre. was made in
his room, at the Hygeia Hotel, he having
retired early. At about $50 o'clock he was
discovered, and word sent to his ship and
also to the navy yard. launch was dis
patched from the latter place and he was
taken TO the hospital, where he was at
tended by Assistant Medical Inspector
Weaver. The wound, while large one.
is not very deep. and consequently not nee
essarily fatal. At latest accounts d2:30) he
was resting easily. No reason is assigned
for the deed.
Engineer John d. Borthwick ranked thir-
ty-first on the active list of the engineer
corps of the navy and held the relative
rank of lieutenant commander. His total
sea service aggregated twenty-four years
and shore service seven years. 1t is said
that Borthwick's age and poor health made
his duties unusually heavy and resulted in
a general undermining of his constitution.
He has been complaining for some time
past, and Ii is presumed that this, in addi-
tion to his exhausting labors on ship
board, made him despondent and resulted
in his attempt on his life.
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5000 WILL ATTEND
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvORERS WILL
STORM BOSTON IN FORCE.
Programme Of the Great Religious
Held on the "Hub's" Common.

BOSTON, Mass, July Zone week from
to-day there opens in Boston the largest
religious gathering that has ever assembled
in America. There will be more than five
thousand delegates present during the five
days of the Christian Endeavor convention,
July lola representing every State and
province in North America, and no less
than seventeen different nations. over
thousand addresses will be delivered. The
largest auditorium In Boston will not hold
one-fifth of the delegates so, in addition
to the immense Mechanics Fair Building,
two mammoth tents have been made for the
convention, and these will be pitched on
Boston Common. The convention opens
with twenty simultaneous meetings i'm as
many of the largest churches of Boston,
on Wednesday evening. Thursday after
noon the convention will split into a num-
ber of lesser meetings, the members of each
denomination going off by themselves to
hold rally. After the morning meetings
on Saturday the delegates will repair to
Boston Common, where a monster open-air
demonstration Is to be held The speeches
will be made from the hill on which the
soldiers monument stands. On it's crest will
be located a chorus of three thousand voices
The instrumental music will be on CORE
spondingly large scale. DIR. S. F. r. Smith,
author OF America" has written an orig
inal hymn, which he will read on this oc-
casion. The principal speakers will be Gov
Greenhalge, Mayor Edwin u. Curtis Fran
els Z. Clark, d. D., founder and president
Donald McLaurin, ID. d.. of Detroit, ami
Hon. 5. B. Bapen. president of the Boston
Municipal League This will doubtless be
The largest religious demonstration In favor
of good citizenship that has ever been wit
messed In America. Another feature of the
convention will be the Fellowship meeting
In all its forms and in all lands will be
heard from. The movement now numbers
1000 societies and 100000 members The
Of the delegates on Monday. The Christian
Endeavorers will assemble at the close of
each morning session, and, dividing them
selves into groups of twenty or thereabouts,
and, SO far as possible, by State lines will
hc't services in the stores, shops. factories,
halls and car stations. Each morning. at
$50, there will be score of sunrise prayer
meetings.
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THE FIGHT INTERRUPTED.
Muncie sports and Two WomeH
Chased by "a sheriff.


Special to the indianapolis Journal
MUNcIE, Ind, July 2.-The Bailin-Foster
prize fight was nipped in the bud this MORN
ing in an old mill near Luray. Henry coun-
~, twelve miles south OF Muncie. The
principals were in the first round I'm the
presence of two hundred sports who paid
81. 80 each, when the sheriff of Henry county
broke down the door and caused the prin-
cipals and spectators to scatter. They
dashed out back doors and windows. on top
of each other, several being badly bruised.
Two women, Kate Phinney and girl.
were at the ringside when the stampede
was made and they alone remained in
the building. When the sheriff knocked ne
pected the raid and decided 10 keep the
officers out. One of the men on the inside
fired a shot through the door at the ofit-
GERS, but this did not stop them. The lights
were darkened when the shot was tred-
The mill had started with the men in the
mink of condition. Time was called at 5:f5
o. m with Acy Chiffon as referee. Bailin
was seconded by Mike Finn and Timothy
Hennesey. George Dixey and Hughey Nc
Farland looked after Foster Hailiff made
the first lead, but fell short and the men
clinched. He led again, landing on Foster
mouth In the clinch that followed Bailin
threw Foster hard upon the floor. AS the
louisville man got up he made vicious
lunge at Bailiff, who very neatly ducked
and landed an upper cut. While the men
were sparring the knock came at the door
and what would have been red hot hight
was all of.
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HOW TO HELP OUR TRADE.
Views of Manufacturers and Others
ON an Important Subject.

BALTIMORE, July 2-The Manufactur-
ers' Record recently addressed to the
State vice president of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers and to a few
leading manufacturers in foreign trade the
question: What is necessary to secure a
great extension of the foreign export trade
of American manufactured goods?' The
replies TO this are published in this weeks
issue
Hon. Warner Miller. Of New York. takes
che ground that we r.ast first establish and
maintain steamship communication with
all the countries with which we desire or
expect to trade, ard that without regular
and rapid lines of tran soortation there can.
be little or no trace. The government
should help by rins subsidy b or liberal
the reciprocity tres.es and further ex-
tend them.
Mr. Wllseo ,,n e. sssrsssry Of the Ma
the ground that American manufacturers
must have practical business organization
free, from political o., private control which
the doctrine Of reciprocity.
The Lodge & Davis Machine Tool Com
pany Of CINCINNATI, says we must have a
American ships built in America and owned
by Americans. 10 csure fair and straight
freight rates to foreign countries
1--WE want direct communication with
South America ard other countries. This
United States shGald encourage foreign
commerce in the same way that England
does We must have better banking ar
rangements and be independent OF England
in that respect, ard we must secure the
speedy opening of the Nicaragua canal"
The Silver Manufacturing Company, of
Salem. o., gave two answers: First, the
construction of the Nicaragua canal; Sec
ond. subsidized ship lines
Mr. n. b. Scott, Wheeling. w. Va. an
swers the question by saying the building
up of a merchant marine. Let Congress,
by liberal appropriations and otherwise. en-
courage the capital of this country to in
vest in building and operating steamships
10 carry our manufactured articles TO all
parts of the world. and then we will see
such a revival at our factories as has not
been seen for years.
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ALL HANGED TO TREES
sALLIE DEANS AssAILANT LYNCHED
BY A MARYLAND MOB.
FaithIess Lover strangIed in Texas
Two Horse Thieves Strung Up
I'm oklahoma.

DENTON. Nd, July 2.-Marshall E. Price,
who waylaid., assaulted and murdered little
Sallie Dean while on her way to school.
and who yesterday received a respite pend
ing an appeal for new trial, was taken
from Jail tonight and hanged to a tree.
Rumors reached the guard early this even
ing that many strangers had been seen
in the outskirts of town, and that lynch
ing was probably their object. Price, on
learning this. became greatly alarmed and
begged to be spirited away. but the guard
discovered. to their dismay. that every ave-
nue. Of escape was cut off, and were obliged
by overpowering numbers to give up their
prisoner. The. leaders were masked. but
several Of them are known.
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ANoHoRING DEMOCRATS IN PLACE.
Reorganized Pension Onices to he Put
Under Cfvil-Seryice RuIex.

WASHINGTON, July 2.-The work of re-
adjusting and classifying the forces of the
pension offices of the country has just been
completed with view TO shortly extend
ing to them the protection of the civil-serv-
ice laws. Heretofore. as long as the pen
sion agent kept within the amount allAWed
him for the expenses OF his office, he could
do pretty much as he pleased in regard 10
the size of his force and the amounts OF
salaries paid. When ii was decided to put
the offices under civil service laws it was
found necessary to change this system. The
amount and character of work done by each
office was carefully noted and classification
made accordingly. While this has resulted
in small reductions both in force and salary
in some Offices in others there has been a
corresponding increase, the total appropri-
alton being about the same. The date when
the civil service order will go into effect
has not yet been determined but it prob
ably will be at an early date now that the
A half-dozen of the principal agencies are
given a chief clerk at $500 a year. Other
clerks IN all offices receive from S1800 to
5000. Following is the list of agencies, with
the numbers of clerks and amounts granted
TO each for salaries:
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Kills an Engineer and Injuries Five
People, Three Probably Fatally.

HOWARD. 5. D.. July 2.-The boiler IN the
Howard roller mills exploded this afternoon.
wrecked the building. killed the engineer
and seriously injured FIVE other people. three
cf them perhaps fatally. The two p=oprie-
tors OF the mill not expected TO live
The victims are G. p. Walker. engineer
killed; T. c. Gould of Lemars Ia and j.
p Lawson, proprietors Of the mill. not ex-
L ected TO live; Robert Dec3.t, badly
= aisi INJURED in both legs. one arm broken
ana head badly hurt: c. A. Lawson. seri-
ousy burned. The loss on the building is
aoout $400(0.
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THE CHILDREN TOOK POISON.
Mrs. Bennett Did Not Administers the
Drug Except to Herself.

SpeSidi 10 the Indianapolis journal
JEFFERSONNILLE, Ind, July 2-From
the testimony of several persons who
reside in the neighborhood where the triple
poisoning OF the Bennett family occurred.
IL has been learned that the two children
who were poisoned took the fatal doses OF
their own accord. and the theory that their
mother administered the poison 10 her
children is now disbelieved The statements
on which this new theory is based is up
held by the fact that the children on sew
eral occasions, in conversation with the
neighbors announced their intention Of GO
Ing TO heaven to meet their papa, and that
they were perfectly willing to do anything
10 gain that end. A letter left by the lit
tie girl TO her cousin, I'm which she stated
that she and her brother would go 10 meet
their father soon. causes many TO believe
that while the mother may have inffu-
enced the children and advised them 10
take the fatal step. that she did not ac-
tually administer the poison. The body OF
the little boy was taken to the vault az
the cemetery account of decomposition.
but will be brought in early in the morn
ing, and the three bodies Will be buried tn
one grave at 10 O'clock. The intermcnt
will take place in Walnut VIII Cemetery.
The funeral services will be conducted by
Rev. George Foskett.
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Terre Haute Lawyers Believe the New
Act is Full Of Errors.

Special TO the lnuldudpons Joufidi.
TERRE HAUTE. Ind. July 2.-Saloon
keepers here are generally obeying the new
law as TO closing hours. but nothing has
heen done in the way OF rearranging the
interiors according to the requirements
I'D to last evening IL had been understood
the saloons would continue TO do business
as heretofore Later il was decided 10 make
an effort to close at IL O'Clock. and I'm the
aIl-night saloons there a pretense OF
closing at that hour, although business
was carried on all night. IL Is expected TO
raise test cases at once and the lawyers
employed by the brewery and the Wholesale
point They viii not only raise the ques-
fIon OF its constitutionality, but they assert
that convictions cannot be had under the
law IL the courts pass on II with judicial
impartialty. They contend that IN the de-
sire TO give TO II sweeping effect the
Trainers of the law overdid IL and that
the statute Is so worded as TO defeat its
object The local option feature cannot be
tested until September. there viii be
no licenses granted until the regular ses-
sion OF the Board OF County Commission
ers which is 10 be held in that month.
One of the lawyers who will contest the
validity OF the law pointed out one OF the
alleged flaws to-day. In Section there .
provision for refundng license money
under certain conditions by cities and coua-
ties, hut there is no like provision for re-
funding TO persons holding licenses grant,
ed by INCORPORATED towns. This. II is said.
is in violation Of Article . OF the Consti-
tuition, regarding class legislation
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WASHINGTON, July 2--Captain Henry
w. Howgate. the former disbursing officer
of the signal service. who. after years OF
wandering as fugitive from justice, was
found in New York city doing business as
a secondhand book dealer and brought back
to Washington. was sentenced to-day 10
eight years Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary. He was convicted last week on two
counts, alleging forgery and falsification of
accounts in 1879 after the first indictments
found against him had been quashed by
gates counsel. Captain Howgate's counsel
noted an appeal to the Court. Of Appeals
at its session next fall and the court
granted a Stay of execution until that time
Captain Howgate was then remanded to
Jail to await the result of the appeal.
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Ru..ia Rich in Iron.

WASHINGTON, July 2. = Consul-general
Karel. at st. Peterburg, has sent 10 the
State Department report upon the iron in
dustry Of Russia. He says Russia IS rich
in iron ore. and has plenty of fuel TO de-
velop the industry, but has not yet made
great progress. Compared with other coun-
tries, she is considerably behind. The pro-
duction of pig-iron in Russia in 1894 was
l,4S9,64S tons. The Consul-general. speaks In
high terms Of the Ural iron. the ore YIELD
ing 64 per cent. in smelling. The manu-
facture of pig-iron is carried on mainly with
charcoal fuel. South Russia is rich in min
eral fuel but very little has been done with
reference to iron ore. Mr.. Karel says that
thus far Russia has neglected the riches
which nature has given her and offers great
invest caDital
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Conference Of CatboI,c.. !

CLEVELAND, o.. July A number of
well-known Catholic dignitaries met in con-
ference here to-day to discuss church af-
fairs in the various dioceses. Among those
present were Archbishop Elder, of Cincin-
rati; Right Rev. Dr. VIM McClosky bishop
Of Louivile; Francis S. Chatard, bishop of
Vincennes; John A. Watterson, bishop Of
Columbus: Henry Joseph Richter, bishop of
Grand Rapids; Joseph Rademacher, bishop
of Fort Wayne: G. r. Macs. bishop of Cow
ington; Ignatius F. Horstman, bishop Of
Cleveland; f. Bryne, bishop of Nashville
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