Æwdwff Ewij Niews «
0. W. KKANEIt, Editor.
M’CRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1901.
VOL. I.—NO. 19.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
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PERSONAL AND roi.ITICAL.
On the 1st Lord Mayor Frank Green
of London received, through J. S.
Morgan & Co., a contribution of £5,
000 to the Queen Victoria memorial
fund, made “on behalf of the dele
gates of the New York chamber of
commerce” vho recently visited Lon
don. The lord mayor returned a cor
dial acknowledgment.
Everyone of the 25 delegates of the
chamber of commerce of New York to
the recent London dinner contributed
$1,000 to the Victoria memorial fund.
Secretary of Agrieultuie Wilson, in
terviewed at Omaha, one the 2d, said,
among other things: “Corn is some
what seriously injured in all the
states In the corn belt, how much J
can not pretend to say. Our monthly
bulletin, issued August 10, will give
the percentage. You people in Nebras
ka are not going to starve, it is only
a question of how much money you
will be able to put in the bank.”
• Thomas Malley, an old time actor,
who for years played in “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin.” was, on (lie 2d, committed to
the Rochester (Minn.) insane asylum.
Malley had seen so much of Uncle
Tom that it affected his brain, and
he imagines that Simon Legree is con
stantly pursuing him with blood
hounds.
King Edward has accepted the res
ignation of Maj. Karrie Davis, as
companion of the both, that officer
having expressed the wish that he
“might be permitted to serve his
majesty without any reward.” Maj.
Davis received the decoration for con
spicuous services in South Africa, es
pecially in connection with the relief
of Mafeking.
On the 1st Walter S. Harrington, of
South Ilend, Ind., manager of the. St.
Louis branch of the Oliver Chilled
Plow works, died in South Bend, on
the 1st, of injuries received in step
ping off' a moving street car in St.
Louis.
The Dominion minister of agricul
ture estimates the yield of wheat in
Manitoba and the Northwest terri
tory for this year at from fifty-five to
sixty million bushels.
United States Consul-General Bit
tinger, at Montreal, has written the
Washington authorities asking that
the United States send a war ship to
join the representatives of France
and Germany in the welcome to the
duke of York.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the 1st the Southern Cotton Oil
Jo. filed papers at Trenton, X. J., in
creasing its capital stock from $200,
000 to $11,000,000.
The fight between the British war
office and the London Daily Mail ter
minated, on the 1st, in a victory for
the paper, the war olfice being-forced,
by public pressure, to call ofE the
boycott bn official news established
against the paper.
The monthly circulation statement
of the comptroller of Ihe currency
shows that at the close of business
July 31, 190', the total circulation of
national bank notes was $350,152,903,
an increase for the year of $36,057,012,
and an increase for the month of $2,
401,710.
The monthly statement of the pub
lic debt, issued on the 1st, by the
treasury department, showed that at
the close of business, July 31, 1901, the
debt, less cash in the treasury,
amounted to $1,369,179,339, a decrease
for the mouth of $2,928,657.
(In the 31st the hottest weather ever
recorded in Montana was reported at
the government bureau in Miles City,
when the thermometer registered 111
degrees. There were no prostrations.
On the 1st the strike at the Ontario
silverware works at Mnncie, Tnd., as
sumed a serious phase, when a desper
ate fight occurred between union and
non-union men, and a squad of police
was called to quell the riot. Three
men were seriously injured.
In parts of Kansas wheat is lying
on the ground in danger of being
damaged by rain, the railroads being
again short of cars.
The Chicago & Northwestern rail
way Co. is trying the use of oil as a
dust preventive, and, if successful,
will adopt it on its entire system. Five
miles of double track were selected
for the experiment, 2,000 gallons of
crude oil being used to the mile.
Pictures taken before and after using
show a great improvement, the oil
seeming U> do away with the dust.
Lawton, Okla., which sprang- into
existence, on the night of Angnst 1,
on the 2d contained 10,000 inhabitants,
400 temporary business houses and a
newspaper. Three streets had been
laid out and a national bank pro
jected.
11. G. Dun <S’ Co., on the 2d, reported
business failures for duly as 697 in
number, against 793 last year, and
$7,035,933 in amount of liabilities,
against $9,771,775 in 1900.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
Three persons were drowned while
bathing, on the 3d, at Queponeo, in
Sinepuxent bay, Md. The three un
fortunates became separated from
other members of their party and
suddenly found themselves going in a
deep hole. The ladies became fright
ened and on finding themselves going
down, grabbed their male companion,
who was a good swimmer, and
dragged him down with them.
Senator J. M. Thurston, of Nebras
ka, said, on the 4th, that the pub
lished Statement that he had tendered
his professional services to Admiral
Schley was incorrect. “As his warm
friend and admirer,” said the senator,
“I wired him a message indicating my
friendship and desire for his complete
vindication; but nothing in the line of
professional assistance was suggested
or thought of.”
'The Venezuelan government an
nounced, on the 4th, that a force of
invaders under Gen. Kan gel Garbiras,
including 25 battalions of the Colom
bian army, was repulsed by the gov
ernment troops and compelled to fall
back across the frontier after 23
hours’ fighting, July 28 and July 29. It
is officially asserted that the invaders
lost 900 men, the government troops
losing 300.
In an interview at Pittsburgh, Pa.,
on the 4th, President Shaffer of the
Amalgamated association said: “With
in a week every union man and every
union man at heart in the employ of
the United States Steel corporation
will be asked to join in the strike now
being waged by the Amalgamated as
sociation. We must settle whether
unionism is to stand or fall.”
The Anchor line steamer Astoria,
which arrived at New York, from
Glasgow-, on the 4th, brought the
spars and gear of the cup challenger
Shamrock 71. The great mast, lower
and topmast, which is in one piece,
was lashed securely to the spar deck
on the port side. This mast is 16S
feet 9 inches in length.
The biggest ship in the world, the
Celtic, of the White Star line, reached
her dock in New York, on the 4th, on
her maiden voyage. Her time from
Liverpool was eight days and 40 min
utes. Three hundred and forty-five
cabin and 268 steerage passengers
came over on the Celtic.
The center converter of the smelter
of the Detroit Copper Mining Co., at
Morenci, Ariz., blew- up, on the 4th,
seriously injuring eight men.
A botanical and geological expedi
tion of research, in charge of Dr. Hen
ry C. Cowles, of the University of Chi
cago, left that city, on the 5th, over
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railway, for exploration and research
in the mountains of Montana and
Washington. In the party were many
distinguished educators representing
different colleges and universities of
tlie country.
A frightful explosion (supposedly
of gasoline) occurred in Philadelphia,
on the 6th, which caused the wreck
ing of six buildings, and a loss of
life estimated at over twenty, with
twice as many more or less seriously
injured. The wreckage caught fire,
and despite the heroic efforts of the
crowd, it is feared many of the im
prisoned victims were cremated.
Referring to the published state
ment that the imperial government
had decided to organize a colonial
force with the troops returning from
China, using this as a nucleus of .v
future colonial army, the Berlin Fries
sinnige Zeitung expresses the opinion
that such an attempt would lead to a
new conflict between the government
and the reichstag.
On the 5th James Wilson, a patient
at the insane ay-slum at l’rovo, Col.,
threw himself head-first into the open
door of a furnace. He was badly
burned before l)eing pulled out. While
bandages were being prepared Wilson
broke away and again threw himself
into the furnace, this time being so
frightfully burned that he died with
in a short time.
District Judge Dixon, at Pueblo, on
the 5th, decided at that the new Colo
rado state revenue law was invalid,
having never been legally enacted by
the senate. The state will appeal the
case to the supreme court. The deci
sion, if sustained, may necessitate
calling the legislature iu special ses
sion.
The programme arranged for the
forthcoming zoological congress in
Berlin includes 130 addresses. Prof.
Samuel Schneck, of the University of
Vienna, will discuss before the con
gress his method of pre-determining
sex.
The private bank at Andrews, Ind.,
was closed, on the 5th, and the pro
prietor arrested, charged with forgery
to the amount of $12,000.
The Kosta glass works, at Stock
holm, the largest in Sweden, were
burned on the 5th,
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
ArknitHtis at the World's Fair.
One of the Arkansas honorary com
tnisisoners to the St. Louis World's
fair has submitted a suggestion to the
executive committee. The sugges
tion, which will be adopted, follows:
“We want to show Arkansas to the
best advantage at the St. Louis
World’s fair. We must have some
thing new and attractive that will en
gage the attention of the millions of
visitors at the exposition. Now, my
idea is that we should arrange an ex
hibition hall in the Arkansas building,
in which shall be exhibited stereopti
con and eineomatograph views of the
varied interests, industries and scen
ery of the state. There could be pic
tures of mines, sawmills, pearl fish
eries, manufacturing plants, cotton
plantations and many other thngs
that would be of intense interest to
all the world. We might also exhibit
pictures of our distinguished citizens.
Let all of this be free, and the hall
would be continually crowded with
interested visitors. They would be
given a concrete idea of the state
which they could not get from books
or literature of any sort.”
Fooled Witli nil Old Pistol.
•Toe Holly, about 12 years of age.
and a playmate, Charles Utchison,
about 17 years of age, were playing
together at the home of .loe Holly at
Hatten, 20 miles south of Mena, and
found an old rusty pistol. They
thought it was great fun to stick the
barrel of the pistol into each other’s
mouth and pull the trigger, thinking
the weapon was not loaded. They
had snapped the pistol several times
when it became Utehison’s time to
snap it in Holley’s mouth, and when
he pulled the trigger the cartridge
exploded and killed Holly instantly.
The ball went through his throat in a
slanting course and came out between
his shoulders, severing the spinal
3olunin.
Killing nt Pine Hluff.
Lewis Brown, colored, shot and
killed .Maggie Owen, also colored, at
Pine Bluff. The killing was done with
a shotgun loaded with bird shot.
Brown was arrested and locked up.
He says the shooting was accidental,
but witnesses say the shooting was
purposely done. Brown is prominent
;n Pine Bluff colored circles.
Confessed to' Train Wrecking?.
Mont liandali, colored, aged lb, was
arrested at Forest City, charged with
wrecking a Choctaw fast freight,
which resulted in the deaths of En
gineer Shelley and Fireman Simmons.
He confessed that he had broken I he
lock and thrown ihe switch, through
pure maliciousness.
Drowned in 11 Creek.
The 14-year-old son of James A.
Alsabrook, of Laneburg, was drowned
in a creek on his father’s farm, near
that town, lie was subject to epilep
tic fits, and it is supposed that he had
started to where his father was plow
ing, was seized with a tit and fell in
to the water.
Sidney Sliorrod Accidentally Killed.
Sidney Sherrcxl, of Rust in, La., was
killed at Camden by Ureavd Wood,
aged 13, liis cousin. Young Wood was
cleaning a. shotgun, when it was acci
dentally discharged, the large buck
shot striking Sherrcxl full in the face.
Stunned by I.iulitninnr.
Six men sought sneiter from rain
under a tree, near Conway. Light
ning' struck ihe tree, rendering ,11
of them insensible, but none was
killed. A span of mules, also under
the tree, were, killed.
A Double Killing.
Lewis llaynie, of Prescott, and Hop '
Halton, of Stephens, were shot a.id ;
killed, at tllennville, Nevada county,
by a negro named Lige Siegler. Sieg
ler was found dead iu the road next
morning'.
Senator Clark Drew \o. 71!.4
Among the fortunate ones to draw
a prize in Uncle Sam’s land drawing (
in Oklahoma was State Senator Law
rence W. Clark ot Newton county, lie
drew number 724 in the Lawton dis
trict.
Injured in an Kxplosion.
While blasting lock in his quarry,
near Bentonvilie, Benton county,
“Major" Williams lost his left hand,
blown off by a premature explosion
of a dynamite blast. Thomas Feath
erstone was also severely hurt.
After EiKht Years.
Thomas Prince, wanted at Poeahon
las on a charge of horse-stealing, over
eight years ago, has been arrested at
Dixon, Mo. lie was brought to this 1
date by Sheriff Kiser, of Pocahontas.
llow In Tills?
Elmore Fulton and llarrison Dixon
negro boys, were fined $20 each, in |
Judge Davidson's court, at Jackson
ville, Pulaski county, for stealing wa
'■ermelons.
llumoil by nu Electric Wire.
The three year-old son of Mr. Hall,
living at Fort Smith, was badly
burned by stepping' on an electric wire
that had been blown down during a
storm.
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A Block of Six Buildings in Phila
delphia in Ruins as the Re
sult of an Explosion.
UPWARDS OF TWENTY PERSONS KILLED.
Over Two Score Others More or Less Seri
ously Injured—The Ruins Took Fire,
Forming; a Funeral I’yre for Some of
the Victims—Heroic Rescues by Fire
men and Others.
Philadelphia, Aug-. 6.—A terrific ex
plosion in a block of six buildings on
Locust street, above Tenth, last night,
completely wrecked five of the struct
ures and caused the death of from ten
to twenty or more persons. Over two
score of others were more or less
seriously injured. Some of those taken
to the hospital will die. It is esti
mated that at least thirty-five persons
were in the six buildings when the
explosion occurred, and the exact
number of dead will probably not be
known for 24 hours.
The buildings were occupied as fol
lows:
Xo. 1008—Houseman’s pool and bil
liard rooms.
Xo. 1010—Morris Rosenthal’s sec
ond-hand clothing store; occupied by
Rosenthal, his wife and five children.
X'o. 1012—William Jones, colored
restaurant; occupied by Jones anc
about fifteen boarders.
\o. 1014—George McClemmy’s gro
cery store, occupied by McClemmy,
clerk and servant girl.
Xo. 1010—Patrick Quigley’s grocery
store; occupied by Quigley, his wife,
three children and his uncle.
Xo. 1018—Albert Mountain's grocery
and meat market, occupied by Moun
tain, his mother, sister ahd clerk.
The explosion occurred about 9:30
o'clock. What exploded and how it
happened is not know at this time,
but it is believed to have been a bar
rel of gasoline in one of tire three
grocery stores. With the explosion of
Xo. 1008, the front walls of the build
ings were blown outward into the
street, ^vhile the floors and roofs were
►blown upward and fell straight to the
ground.
Almost every building in a radius
of two blocks about the scene of the
explosion had window panes shattered
and otherwise damaged. livery build
ing on <he opposite side of Locust
street was more or less wrecked, but
none of them fell.
A terrible cry went up from the
ruins the moment the explosion oc
curred. Women, children and men,
occupants of the wrecked houses,
could be seen crawling from the
debris, while the agonizing cries of
others were heard in the wreckage.
From all the surrounding buildings
in jured people came running and fell
in the street unconscious.
To add to the horror, fire broke out
in the debris the moment it settled
to the ground, and in less than five
minutes the great pile was burning
fiercely, from end to end. A general
alarm was turned in for fire appa
ratus and ambulances, and in the
meantime the work of rescue was vol
untarily begun by those in the neigh
borhood that were not injured. Here
and there a person was dragged from
the ruins before the fire could reach
the victim, several lives being saved
by this prompt work.
When the firemen reached the scene
the flames had made great headway
ami were igniting the buildings across
the street. The fire, however, was
soon under control, and with the ex
ception of a small blaze here and
there was extinguished in a few min
utes.
The work of digging away the
ruins was then begun in earnest. Near
the edge of the debris several colored
men were taken out and sent to the
hospitals.
While the firemen and policemen
were digging in the debris and haul
ing away heavy timbers in several sec
tions of the werckage, cries were
heard coming from the cellar of
Mountain’s grocery store. Fifty men,
with rope and tackle, were immedi
ately put to work at that point, and
pulled away the roofing and flooring
which had fallen into a massed heap.
From the bottom of the pile, doubled
up, were taken a man and a woman.
The man was able to speak, but the
woman was apparently dead.
While the work of rescue was going
on in the exploded block, hospital at
tendants and others made a search of
all the damaged houses on the oppo
site side of the street, and almost a
score of persons were taken to various
hospitals from these places.
The Jefferson and the Pennsylvania
hospitals, which are located nearest
to the scene of the explosion, were
soon crowded with the injured.
None of those taken to the hospitals
had died up to midnight.
Two hundred men are now at work
clearing away the wreckage.
The buildings containing the pool
rooms, clothing store and the restau
rant were three story brick struct
ures, while the other three building
iverc two and one-half stories.
STILL A FIGHT AHEAD.
The Colmnlmn Convention Did Not
Settle Everything to the
Party’s Satisfaction.
The democratic convention of Ohio
was controlled by the McLean ele
ment and those leaders who bolted
the ticket in 1896 and gave but a per
functory support to Mr. Bryan in
1900. To placate the fusion element
of the party and to aid the candidacy
of Col. Kilbourne for governor, the
railroad taxation planks demanded by
the friends of Tom Johnson were in
cluded in the platform, but any men
tion of the leadership of Mr. Bryan
or the national platforms of 1896 and
1900 was studiously avoided. This
unpardonable rudeness and incon
ceivable folly of ignoring the nation
al platform and candidate, who in
two of the greatest campaigns in the
history of the party had polled more
votes than were ever before record
ed, has led to the calling of another
convention at Columbus on July 31.
The McLean ring have long domi
nated the democratic party in Ohio,
and the more complete their rule the
worse the condition the party has at
tained until the last election for gov
ernor, when McLean himself was a
candidate, he was disastrously de
feated, but still controlled the party
machinery. McLean's interest in
Ohio politics has always been of a
personal nature, and if he was not
a candidate the assistance he ren
dered was lukewarm, to say the least,
and yet by his control of the party
machinery it has been impossible to
clear the organization of this Old
Man of the Sea.
The republican and trust-controlled
newspapers pretend to take great
satisfaction at the action of the con
vention. They call it a defeat of
Mr. Bryan. Of this Mr. Bryan says:
‘Mr. Bryan is not a candidate for
any office, and a mention of him might
have been construed by some as an
indorsement of him for office. The
vote should have been upon the naked
proposition to indorse the platform
of last year, and then no one could
have excused his abandonment of
democratic principles by pleading his
dislike for Mr. Bryan.”
Referring to the platform, he con
tinues: “The convention not only
failed, but refused to indorse the
Kansas City platform, and. from the
manner in which the gold element
has rejoiced over this feature of the
convention, one would suppose that
the main object of the convention
was not to write a new platform,
but to repudiate the one upon which
the last national campaign was
fought.
The gold papers assume that the
convention refused to adopt the Kan
sas City platform because it con
tained a silver plank. If so, it would
have been more courageous to have
declared openly for the gold stand
ard. If the gold standard is good, it
ought to have been indorsed—-if bad
it ought to have been denounced. To
ignore the subject entirely was inex
cusable.
The money question is not yet out
of politics. Every session of congress
will have to deal with it. Republic
ans declare that it is dead, but they
keep working at it.
Mr. Bryan comments on parts of
• he platform, especially those refer
ring to state and municipal affairs.
He indorses the nominees of the con
vention and urges their support. Re
ferring to the senatorial fight and the
reported candidacy of John R. Mc
Lean, he says: “Did the leaders ignore
the money question in order to please
those who bolted? Or does Mr. Mc
Lean want to be left free to affiliate
with the republicans on financial
questions in case of his election?”
He concludes as follows: “If any
of the Ohio democrats feel aggrieved
because the reorganizing element
of the party triumphed at the con
vention. let them not visit their dis
appointment upon the state ticket,
but rather see to the nomination of
senators and representatives who will
select a trustworthy senator. Let
them see to it also that the state
platform is made at the primaries
next time rather than at the conven
tion.”
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
-“Cuba is, and of right should be.
free and independent,” and yet it is
said to be the purpose of the adminis
tration to hold Morro castle, which is
the key to Cuba.
-The sheep shearers of Wyoming
are enjoying the fruits of their sup
port of the republican party by a re
duction in the price of shearing sheep
I from seven to six cents a head, and
\ this under the highest wool tariff ever
imposed.
-The Hanna soft coal combine
has been formed, with Daniel R. Han
na, son of Senator Hanna, as presi
dent. Democrats and republicans
alike will have to suffer when winter
comes and the trust begins to get in
its work.
j-The Kansas farmer is in the
midst of republican prosperity. Hay is
$20 a ton and corn 55 cents a bushel,
and he is bqying at these golden prices
to keep his stock from starving.
Wheat, of which he has some to sell,
Is only 60 cents a bushel.
MANUFACTURERS’ TROUBLES.
The Coast Is Not Altogether Clear Ue«
fore Those Favored by Pro
tection.
Even the protected manufacturers
have their troubles. They have al
ways taken it for granted that those
who vote for McKinley and Dingley
tariffs believe in high prices and are
entirely willing to pay them. There
fore the protected manufacturers
have always had two or more price
lists and have reserved their highest
prices for Americans and the lowest
for the benighted foreigners, who,
presumably, believe in cheapness. Or
dinarily the American pays about 40
per cent, more than does the foreign
er for American-made goods.
This method of selling our goods
was working with the smoothness of
well-oiled machinery when the Ha
waiian islands were annexed to this
country. Then the trouble began. As
the Hawaiian lias never voted on the
McKinley and Dingley bills, how could
our manufacturers tell whether these
Pacific islanders preferred high or
low prices? As a result some manu
facturers kept on selling goods to the
Hawaiians just as if they were still
foreigners, while other manufactur
ers treated the Hawaiians as full
fledged Americans and entitled to
genuine American prices. Chaos fol
lowed. As our western tariff waTl
does not stop at the Pacific coast,
but lias been extended around the
Hawaiian islands, American goods
sold in Honolulu at low prices were
brought back to San Francisco and
sold at a profit, at less than the
prices fixed by the manufacturers on
the same goods in California. As it
is contrary to one of the fundamental
laws of political economy to have the
same goods selling at the same time
and in the same market at two prices,
the consternation of the manufactur
ers may be imagined. They began to
blame each other and to apply harsh
names to those who were not prompt
in extending the blessings of high
prices to all under the folds of the
American flag. The discussion of this
question has been raging among the
manufacturers for a year. One of
the latest contributions to this dis
cussion is in the Iron Age of June
27, 1901, and is signed by a “Western
Manufacturer.” It is in part as fol
lows: “It so happens that at present
the price of our goods is about 25
per cent, higher for domestic con
sumption than the export prices. We
had an inquiry for export prices,
which we quoted. The order now
comes in to be shipped to Honolulu.
Is it fair to consider the Hawaiin is
lands entitled to export prices?
“Our own opinion is that they have
become a part of the I nited States
and should he considered domestic
territory as much as Alaska. Also,
we understand our tariff applies to
this territory, so that they are pro
hibited from buying outside and we
are thus enabled to get domestic
prices.”
BYRON W. HOBT.
FIASCO IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Sham Civil Government Gives Way
and Militarism Still Holds
Sway.
The republican party has brought
us to a pretty pass in the Philippines.
On July 4 they slet up a sham civil gov
ernment in all but three provinces and
within a month are obliged to with
draw even this semblance of freedom
from nearly all over the island and give
the military full swing again. The
Chaffee reforms and proposed consoli
dation of troops at three points in the
islands is obliged to be abandoned.
The reduction of the army there by
one-half, which was announced with a
great flouri-T is also now found to lie
impracticable and will be impossible
until an indefinite time in the future.
Thus the expense that this country is
paying to hold the islands is likely to
be prolonged indefinitely, which in
round figures amounts to the enor
mous sum of $100,000,000 a year. The
profit on the trade we are now doing
will not pay one-tenth of one per cent,
on the $20,000,000 we paid Spain to quit
claim the islands to us, let alone the
vast amount being yearly added.
Then we have the future of the re
public at stake, of which the St. Louis
Kepublic says: “It will repay Amer
icans to contemplate the changed atti
tude of their country as bearing upon
their own and iheir children’s safety
and liberty. IVe are on dangerous
ground in a most dangerous frame of
rational thought. We are abandoning
a creed that preserved our own rights
and respected the rights of others.
The final abandonment of this creed^
means more of calamity to us than
ever to those weaker than us whorn we
may conquer, despoil and forcibly gov
ern. This is due to the fact that we are
destroying the foundation of the
fabric "of free government and that it
is we ourselves who will be crushed by
the collapse of the splendid structure.
•-The “community of interests”
plan will work very well until one of
the interests thinks it is not getting
its full share of "the swag or until th#
I people combine and force congress to
amend the interstate commerce law
so that combinations cannot rais*
rates beyond a fair tariff.
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