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Another Arkansas Negro mobbed.

Pine Bluff, Aug. la.-Near Sheridan, the county seat of Grant county, q mob took a negro namod Amos Neely frosa the officers and shot him, killing hlm instantly. Some five months ago Nicely committed al outrage on the person O. Mrs Reinhardt of Saline county He was arrested near Sheridan and identi- fled by Mrs. Reinhardt as the man 1s-alitad
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Governor schofield xeoominatsd.

Milwaukee, Aug. Governor scho. field was renominated by the Republican state convention i'll this city.
 The platform adopted indorses Inc course of the national administration and reaffirms the St. Louis declaration of principles. No mention is made as to the annexation question.
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Fiscal Agent at Santiago.

Washington, Aug. I9.-The North American Trust company of New York has been designated by the treasury to act as fiscal agent of the United States at Santiago de Cuba
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London, Aug. 99.-The Daily Mails Hong Kong correspondent says;
 General Augusti sailed yesterday oa board the German steamer Prince Hein- rich.
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sarions cnttine ARrsr.

HillsDoro, Tex, Auy. l9 salome Ramos, q Mexican section hand, was cut to the To low by q negro here. The negro escaped. Ramos may die.
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Meeting Interstate Merchants As sociation St. Louis Mo. Aug. 2nd to 9th Aug. 18th to 18th and Sept. 5-12. For this occasion the Cottton Belt willsell round trip tickets for one and one-third fares. Tickets on sale July 2Gth to Aug. 4th inclusive return limit Aug. I2th 1898. Aug. l5th to 20 inclusive. return limit Aug. 29th 1898. Sept. 2nd to ' inclusive return imit Sept. 10th 1898.
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Trans-Misslssippi and Interna- tional Exposition, Omaha, Neb. June 1st to Nov 1st. For this occa- sion the Cotton Belt route has made rates of $30. 30 for round trip. Pass engers may have choice of route via St. Louis, or Jonesboro and kansas citv. Tickets on sale June 1st to Oct. 18th 1898. In addition to the above, will sell round trip tickets re- turn limit thirty days from date of sale, but not later than Nov. 10th 1898, $25. 40.
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For the annual meeting Hot Springs district NJ. E. Church, at Stamps, Ark. August r to 9, 1898. the Cotton Belt route will sell round rip tickets for one fare. $3.50; tickets on sale August 1G 10 q, inclusive. Return limit. August 9, 1898.
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National Encampnent c. A. k. Cineinnatti, Ohio, Sep 5th to 10th 1898.
 For the above occasion the Cotton Belt will sell round trip tickets for $l5.s5. oate of sale Sep. 2nd. 9rd. nd 4fh: Return limit Sep. 18th. Extension limit Oct, 2nd
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For the Meeting Merchants Asao ciation of New York, in New York City, August [ to 10 and 2 to S1, 1898 the Cotton Belt will self round trip tickets for one and one-third fare on the certificate plan. Tickets on sale August , to 5, inclusive, and August 9 to 90, inclusive.
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COATED celebrated Hot Springs @ and @ one @ dnd |lx Hot springs fatou
 what the most popular resorS tte % valley |1 in In picturesque te
 e in mountains of dense tore4 y @ |Nsh sparkling
 The proper has forty bedrooms. large office anhg eith the drive are
 with the hotel grounds have been ta @ with eyefgeehs uhu
 h ,nain nla in makes very peaslh t
 E tmbered mountains on elu aore of health twhether Ill seareh ~ Aphur '' "'H " 7
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H. Bringman, Agt.

Meeting of national Association of Merchants and Travellers. Chicago, H.. August l0-l7 and September l4-2l and November 2-s. The Cotton Belt Ky. will for this occasion sell round trip tickets for one and one third fares, on the cer critic plan. Tickits on sale. Aug. 6 to II inclusive, return limit Aug. 20. 1898; Sept. 10 to l6. inclusive. Return limit Sept. 24 Oct. % to Nov. 1 inclusive,
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Grand Eneampment knights of Pythias Supreme Grand Lodge Sess. ion. Indianapolis Ind. Aug. P to Sept 10, 1898. For this occasion the Cotton Belt will sell round trip tickets far SLIGO. Tickets on sale Aug. 19, 20 and 2l 1898, return limit Ang. 30
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1gsg ho work

1EGs E ho work on, III, or by the water, or are ex- posed to the cold or damp are prone to suffer from that most painful dis ease, rheumatism. This is a disease of the blood and can only be per naanently cure d by going back to first principles and driving out all impurities S, and filling the ar- teries with a new, rich, red, healthy life stream.
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Commercial Travellers Day Omaha, Neb. Sep, 24ta, 1888. For this occa- sion zhe Cotton Belt Railway will sell round trip tickets for 2l.05. Tick cts on sale Sep. 22nd. and 23rd, 1897, Return limit Sep. 26th, 1898.
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Aususti Leaves Hong Kong.

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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15
DOWN ANDES ON Fl HIND CIR
An Exciting Trip From Mountain Top OF
Steepest Railroad of the World

ton to it's enormous cost. Only two
passenger trains are run over it a week,
and the chief freight down the noun
tains Is ore.
Climbing Andes With Engine.
The usual trip over this road is TAX
en- on the regular passenger train,
which carries the traveller up the
mountains one day ard brings him
back the next. Through the kindness
of the influential American firm Of
Grace & Co., was taken up on little
engine and had my ride down on the
hand car l thus had wonderful OPP
portunity for studying both the rail-
road construction and the mighty
mountains up which 1t climbs. Our
special engine was called La Favor
ita" It was composed of the engine
proper and a cab walled with glass and
fitted up with comfortable seats. This
observation compartment was part
of the engine itself, taking the place
that the ordinary engine uses for coal.
Our It'll engine burned coal oil, and
, II was Peruvian petrol UNI IN At puEeu
us up the Andes. he party Isl tea
of the Amer can minister, Mr.. d III ";
the secreta Y of our legation, MI N q !,
Mr.. Sherman, the manager OF the n us ,
of, Grace at Lima; FIR, n Imam name
Piper, and Mr.. Pier on, All II at; c
street railroad man from o 10, HI 4
out here to see wi her tn Lima TT I'M
ways are worth buyiHg. TIE engi er
and his helper were Peruvians We
left at in the morning and sp n tn
whole day ON the road, stopping to
take photographs at the most In crest :
ing points, and going on as fast OF as
slow as we wished. Lima, you know,
is situated in the valley of the r mao
river 1t is right al the foot OF the
Andes, and our t p W up he moau-
tains along the cou. sc Of this iv to
its very source on the summit. At
Lima the Rinac is what in an ,ica
would be called a good lied or elk.
1t is nowhere navigable, and is, m
fact, stream Of framing white water
from the top of the Andes to the a.
The descenI is SO st en- that olliet TO s
are nowhere TO be found and the riv ,r
is a succession of waterfalls, foam
ing churns ard rushing rapids. Dur
ing the ride we ccu,d. often see the
river above and he'ow Us at tho me-
time, and we went up, elm ling the
sides Of the noun. aims. cheer d Oh our
way by the rus ing ef the waters
Sugar Cane and Cotton.
We first passed through the sugar
and cotton plantations which fill the
valley above Lima TIE fields look like
gardens gotten up for show. They are
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15

extent of the increase of their business
may be judged from these figures: In
1884 the total shipments from them
were 2,39O,605 gross tons; in 1897, they
were 12,215,645 gross tons. Naturally
then, terminal handling is an Important
item in the economy Of both time and
money. Since the construction of the
ore railroads dispatch has been the
word, and intelligent dispatch. The
{ days when ore was hauled in wagons,
dumped on rudimentary dock and
then tossed carelessly into the holds by
the crews of the ships belong to a by
gone period. Modern docks, some as
high as fifty-seven feet above the
water, have been built, out upon which
the ore trains are run. The ore is
dropped through the bottoms of the
cars into pockets of great capacity; and
thence it slides through iron chutes
into the vessels waiting for 1T below.
Thus there is no handling unless the
ore is trimmed in the holds, the rate
for which is 2a cents per gross ton.
These improved docks of Lakes Mich
igan and Superior have 4,32S pockets
with total capacity of 617,25O gross
tons. They vary in length from $40 to
1904 feet, in width from SO to So feet.
and in height above water from n to
90 % zee deef 6o Their total cost has been about
Ut, 800 600. Through them vessels of
4,O00tons frequently load and depart in
two hours.
LAKE PORTS.
The principal lake ports at which
this ore Is received are Toledo, San
dusky, Huron, Lorain, Cleveland, Fair
port, Ashtabula. Conneaut, Erie and
Buffalo and Tonawanda-thec combined
receipts of the last two being at pres
ent nearly equal to that OF all the
others. All of these ore receiving norris
are we'll equipped with the latest ma.
chfnery requisite for the rapid removal
OF ore from the holds. This can now
be done at some docks at a total COST
or about 10 cents per ton, almost ali If
Which is for the manual labor of SHOW.
cling the ore from the hold into b,1cL.
cts. AT the new Conneaut dock II 10
calculated that vessels will he nno
loaded at the rate of from 800 10 mn
tons per hour, through the legs con-
meeting with each hatchway. And Vet
1t Is not fourteen years since ore No
lfted In buckets by horse power. DUNN.
ca into Whee' rrows, wheeled back An
cne dock and .emptied on the stock nile
Al! these improvements In terminei
handiing have promoted the reiluctio,,
OF rates; for they prevent loss of tinoa
at the docks, where the daily exnensas
or vessel are almost as great as when
| on passage.
The conduct Of transportation on the
lakes has been equally as intelligent.
Vessels are now being constructed es-
pecially for this traffic. Instead Of the
helter-skelter methods which formerly
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15

above you. Some Of the rocks take the
shapes of gigantic cathedrals, very
temples Of the gods, their spires hidden
in the clouds. Others look like vast
Notifications, walls Of rock to shut the
nations of the west away from the
riches Of this great continent. There
are no pretty bits of scenery such as
you see in other mountains. Here al
is on the grandest and most terrible
scale. In our ride we climb along the
sides Of these walls. Now we pierce
them by tunnel high up in the air,
and higher still see another tunnel
which we shall reach later on. We
cross gorges in going from one tunnel
into another over an iron network OF
bridge which looks awfully frail as
the Favorfta passes over it. We pierce
a wall Of srock, where river has been
turned aside that it may not interfere
with the road, and ny winding tunnel
dash out into what is called 1.-The In
fernillO" or, hell. 1t is a slender iron
bridge two miles above the sea, high
up between walls Of rock. Far down
below you see waters rushing, and out
Of the wall we have left great torrent
Of foaming water plunges. Before us.
at the other end Of the bridge, there Is
another wall of rock, in which there is
a black hole pierced by the track, and
as we look upward between these walls
we see as through narrow slit the
blue sky Of heaven above this Andean
hell. - -,-5-, -.
There are a number of these hanging
bridges on the route. We stopped at
the Veruguas bridge, which spans q
chasm $50 feet long hanging to tunnels
500 feet above the VeruguaS river. This
bridge was swept away some time ago.
and for months both passengers and
freight were carried across on a cable
the little car hanging to the rope
stretched from wall to wall across this
frightful chasm. At times we saw tun-
nels above and below us. The track
goes up its steepest places in a zigza g
route SO that at one time we counted
five tracks running almost parallel be-
low u.s. Almost the whole line was
blasted out of the mountain rocks. On
many places along the line the hills
| are so steep that men had to be lowered
| in ropes over the edges of the precipices
| to drill holes for the powder which
blasted away the lodges for the track.
| Failing rocks killed some, landslides
swallowed up others, and many died CT
| fever.
On the Hand Car.
You can imagine something Of the
sensation Of going down such a road
on a hand car The reality is wilder
and more exciting than anything you
| can conceive. The hand car on which
I rode was Of the rudes't order It was
| merely a platform five feet long and a
| little wider than the track, upon four
| ordinary car wheels. On the front part
| of the platform a strip of wood two
| inches thick and about that wide was
nailed, and at the back was q seat
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15

surrounded by mud walls, and the
crops are as green as those Of the
United States in June. Now we pass
sugar hacienda, in which, on one side
of the track, two steam Sgines are
pulling a cable pillow through the field,
while on the other side men are plow-
ing with oxen and wooden ploWs, urg-
ing the beasts onward with goads fiji
teen feet long. In the cotton fields
gangs of Indian workmen are working
under overSeers on horseback. Inc
cotton plants are in blossom. and the
fields look like vast gardens Of pink and
yellow roses. The men weed the plants
and they are as clean as any rose gar
den at home.
There is a cotton mill, and farther on
we pass sugar factory which grinds
out thousands of pounds of sugar
day. There is no better sugar land
anywhere than this, and we learn in
passing that it produces from two to
six tons of sugar per acre, and after
once started will keep on producing for
as long as six years. We notice that
all of the land Is used. The water is
taken from the Rimac and nothing
grows without irrigation.
In the Andes.
Now we are in the foot hills Of the
Andes. How bleak and bare and gray
they look in the early morning. There
is not a green spot to be seen on these
is not green spot anywhere to lie
seen on these vast walls, which here
face. the sea. We shall find 1t different
as we rise to the, mountains behind.
Fere they are of soft silver gray velvet
where the sun casts its shadows, and
of dazzling white where it strikes full
in their faces Tbn only green Is the
little strip along the Rimac. Further
on we notice thin fuz of green crop
ping ont of the gray. 1t is as though
ground emeraids. Here there Is lit
tie cactus and there a small bunch of
weeds.
AS we rise higher the mountains grow
greerer until at the level Of Mount
Washington we find them covered with
a thin coat of vegetation. AS we near
the altitude of Leadviile there Is plenty
OF grass, ard at one point We count
forty different kinds of flowers at a
stopping of our engine. There are
buttefcups. without number, silver
gray MOSES and flowers of all cosors,
the names Of which l do not know.
AS I remark upon the vegetation, say
ing that 1t is still very scanty. Mr..
Sherman tells me that the fact that
there Is any green at all to be seen
is due to the rainy season, and that
at OlneF 'ttficS VI TIC JSdi ILLS y
western side of the Andes is bleak, dry
and almost absolutely sterile. The foot
hills, which, in fact, are mountains in
themselves, looked as though they were
of dirt and gravel.
Further Up YOU come into region Of
rocks, where only bits Of SOD. ara to
be seen here and there. II such places
eve: inch Of ground Is cultivated. The
mountains are ter1'aced clear to their
40
rocks, ard so ct: duat: that a man can
stand on one # tia low st ps or l d.
ees. and plan the seed or weed the
crops Of the ret lie ge withou st OPP
ing over. Some Of the feds are not
as big as bedsp cad, and some on tn :
opposite side OF the mountain do not
look as big as a pocket handkerch ef.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15
SOJI1E ELOQUENT BaBE FIGURES
Great Development of the Iron Ore Industry
in This Country

Of 1896 was 81 per cent, or ASS, TAO
tons-a falling away since 1880 of more
than so per cent. That such a change
has been effected against the influences
of capital and custom proves that ma
ture must have been lavish in her gifts
Of iron to the Northwest.
SUPERIOR IRON DISTRICT.
The Lake Superior iron district is
circumscribed in area 1t includes the
upper peninsula of Michigan and the
northern portions of Minnesota and
Wisconsin, and readily separates into
i've ranges: Marquette, Gogebic. Me-
nominee, Vermillion and Mesaba. The
last two of these lie wholly in the
state of Minnesota, and it is only since
1884 That they have been productive.
ihese ranges vary from ten to sixty
nine miles in distance from the lake
shipping ports. That this territory
has only been scraped as vet. NAV he
judged from what Mr. John Birkin-
bine says of the Mesaba: mo other iron
range thus far discovered possesses
greater apparent reserves. Conserva-
tive estimates formulated from the
records Of properties now exploited
ana worked, together with others, de-
termined by systematic explorations
and analysis, show that the Mesaba
range can supply ore which will equal
in average iron and phosphorus con-
tents double the quantity Cor 200, OOO, OOO
gross tons) which the entire Lake Su-
perior region has produced in fifty
years" 1t is claimed by experts that
this estimate falls far short of being
comprehensive.
But quality, day by day, is becoming
the one ruling test in the availability
of iron ore; for, even as the Besseme1
process is now the cheapest method
for the manufacture of steel, so, too
are the owners of the Bessemer stee
works the largest purchasers of iror
ore, paying the highest prices Thus
the proportion of Bessemer pig iror
to the. total pig iron product of the
United States in 1889 was Ala per cent
in 1882 it was 48.5 per cent; in 1894 il
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brake, and the danger as we rushed
through the tunnels was not only that
OF the car jumping the track in going
around the curves, but also the pos
sibility Of meeting a donkey or an In
dian coming through. The rocks in
many places are loose and the danger
of a landslide Is such at this time Of
the year that hand car Is always
five minutes ahead Of the regular pas
sepger train to see that the road is
free. At one time we chased a cow
for about a mile and at another two
llamas blocked the track for g. few mo-
ments.
At times the road seemed to us to
90 down at an angle Of As degrees, and
many of the severest grades were
along the edges Of the precipices or
where we seemed to be clingtng to the
walls of rock. I cannot say that I
was not afraid nor that my heart was
not often in my throat, but I will say
that the experience was such that,
knowing what I now do, I would take
the journey again to feel the same
exhilarating sense of pleasure and dan
ger combined.
On the Top OF the Andes.
The sensation of standing on the top
Of the Andes was worth having. AS we
climbed up and up above Casapalca the
air grew colder and rarer. We rode
out Of heavy rain into dense snow
storm. Soon we were in banks of snow.
Now the mist and the clouds surround
ed US so that we could not see twenty
feet beyond the car. We rode through
the clouds and saw the storm sweep
down the Andes below us. AS the mist
disappeared we caught glimpse Of the
country through which we had been
passing and shuddered at the precipices
over Which we had gone. Mount Meiggs
was almost straight above us, and we
stopped the engine a moment in front
of the black mouth of the Galera tunnel
on the very roof of the South American
continent. Behind us all the waters
We're flowing into the Pacific ocean.
On the opposite side Of the tunnel al
the Amazon into the Atlantic. The d.
viding of the waters is, In fact, with
in the tunnel itself, and you could real.
ly stand at certain point in the Galera
tunnel and spit in 10th oceans without
taking a step to one side or the other
I did not do this, for the interior was
as dark as pitch, and I was too anX-
1ous to see the other side of the Andes
We went through the tunnel and stop.
ped the Favorita at the other side
among some of the grandest scenery OF
the trip. The mountains all about us
were capped with snow. Over us tow
cred Mount Meiggs, 1875 feet high, Its
top half mile above where we stood
Our altitude was more than three mile.
above the sea. We were on the higheS
railroad point in the world. Think o.
it! We were far above the height o.
the top Of F'ugiyama, the snow-cappei
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15

will be with the furnaces of the At
lantic coast; but why should not an
even greater advantage of manufac
ture come to the Northwest? Why
need this Incompatible iron ore be
transported 1000 miles by water and
then from 60 to 475 miles by rail
before it can be reduced and changed
into steel? Why should there not be
rolling mills and furnaces near the
western terminal shipping points, so
that the transportation of the future
shall be the transportation Of the man.
ufactured article? Let it be remem-
bered that, when. a natural product be-
comes exceptional, 1t attracts rather
than seeks the worker. The FORCES of
the world may some day be placed west
Of the waters of Lake Superior.
-COndit Crane.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15
THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION

Tyyo-Thirds of the Ore Now Comes
From That COuntry-It Is of a
Higher Grade Than That of Any
Other Part of the COuntry-Ores
on the Mesaba, Eighty-Nine Miles
From the Lake-The Tremendous
Recent Increase in the Business,
correspondence The st. Paul Globe.
WASHINGTON, May 13.-Since 1890
there has been a wonderful change in
the iron ore industry Of this country
m industry so vast in its proportions
Of product, and so far-reaching in it's
general effects upon trade, that it may
well be termed the backbone of the
commercial world. Then, and prior to
that date, the mines of New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio yielded
more than one-half of the entire output
of the United States. Since then there
has beeh rapid increase on one hand
and gradual decrease On the other.
with the result that at the present day
tWo-thirds of the iron ore in process CT
manufacture comes from the Lake Su-
pertor region of the great Northwest.
Nothing can be more eloquent than
the bare figures in describing the giant
strides with which this newly developed
field has progressed towards occupying
a market which the establishment of
blast furnaces, the proximity of mines
ard a direct connection with Europe
had given to the East. In 1880, 1,677. 1862
Ions tons or about 1876 per cent of the
total output came from the Lake Su-
pericr region. In 1895, these same mines
yielded &c per cent, or 10,566,259 tons.
The decrease in production in the four
states above named is equally signifi-
rant. Their share of the total output