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O’NEILL, ’ NEBRASKA.
OYER THE STATE.
7i •' The Dodge county fair proved a great
•access.
Tub Norfolk sugar factory will be
Started October S.
Gage county has decided not to bold
any fair this year.
Hamilton county's fair this year was
If: the most successful thus far given.
Ax a recent sale of horses in Dor
chester t33 was the top price paid.
Work is to be commenced at once
npon a new creamery at Humboldt,
and it will be in operation within sixty
days
Frank Abel, one of the five prison
ers who escaped from the Cass county
jail in Plattsmouth, has been captured
•t Seward.
Gebing gets the western Nebraska
reunion for next year, it having been
located there at the meeting held at
Harrisburg.
Charles Van Pelt of Danbury is not
’ expected to live. Ahorse fell on him
some time since and his injuries proved
worse than anticipated.
The city council of Norfolk voted to
cancel its street lighting contract with
the Electric Light company, owing to
failure to secure a satisfactory price.
The pumpkin pie is ripe. It is one of
the luxuries, savs the Sutton Register,
that is within the reach of every farm
er who owns a cow, a hen and a pump
kin patch.
It required the work of a ten-horse
power engine and fifteen days to make
a big silo at the Plattsmouth cheese
factory. Forty acres were cut up and
nlantpH In tha elln
Tins Nebraska City distillery i^ in
debted to our Uncle Sam in the sum of
93.337. and he has served notice that he
must have the stuff or the plant will be
•old to satisfy the claim.
Matters are shaping' themselves
whereby it would seem that Dakota
City will be connected with Sioux City
by an electric street car line before the
•now melts in the spring.
Buy home-made goods and build up
home industries, is a good policy: Far
rell’s Fire Extinguisher, made by Far
rell & Ca, Omaha; Morse-Coe boots&nd
■hoes for men, women and children.
Paul Borglum, a Missouri Pacific
ear inspector was struck by a Milwau
kee engine at South Omaha and in
stantly killed. He stepped in front of
one engine while watching another
fslloat.
Four prisoners in the city jail at
/Grand Island broke out, escaping
through a hole. They had cut through
' the two-foot brick wall with a piece of
iron they had broken off a patent water
■ tank and a steel nail
Word was brought to Hcmingford
that Mrs. Doken, living five miles east,
1 has become violently insane. Her hus
" band is a prosperous farmer and the
matter is much to be regretted, us they
’ - have several small children.
Don’t insult a man because ho is
poor in purse and raiment, says the
Cook Courier, for beneath a ragged
coat it may be that, a muscle lies con
cealed that could put a head on the
eldest man in the business.
The steam threshing machine of
i Charles Werdegren, while threshing on
Mrx Chapman's farm south of Oakland,
set fire to the straw and burned barns,
■tables, grain and in fuel, everything
except the machine and the house.
The Red Cloud roller mills caught
Hire and were totally destroyed, to
gether with the elevator, warehouse
and the plant of the Red Cloud Power
company, which was used for the pur
pose of generating electric light for the
city.
A prairie fire, supposed to have gone
? out, caused a great loss to Bennett
Chriswisser, a farmer living thirteen
miles southwest of Plattsinouth. by
creeping into a straw stack standing
la close proximity to his corn crib and
> wagon abed, which caused a total loss
of several hundred dollars; with no in
surance.
The Oxnard beet sugar factory at
Grand Island ia being placed in read!
■ ness to begin work on tbe season’s
> crop about the first week in October,
f The factory is offering premiums for
boots bald until mid-winter in order
■ to avoid the rush from the largest crop
ever grown. Many acres will average
twenty-five tout and the warm aunny
I days are increasing the sugar at a rapid
f:: rate.
V RussB. Williams, a farmer living
. scar Aorm uoup, wno made a contract
r with a foreign seed firm for melon seed,
" reports that his plants have grown so
|i. luxuriantly and borne so profitably
g. that he can walk over large portions of
gl his field by stepping on the melons and
v without touching the ground. He is
- sow busily engaged In harvesting tho
j??:. seed, of which he will have an immense
f. crop
News haa reached pawnee Citv of a
murder committed fifteen rcilea south
west of that city. A widow, Mrs.
Finity, aged 65, lived with her nephew.
Hu was absent at Summer field, Kas.,
and upon his return found her in bed,
dead, with her head bruised on the side
fg naif it had been done with a club.
. Nothing, in the house was disturbed
aad no motive can be assigned for the
g ghastly deed.
The Seward county teachers' assoda
: . Hon is making preparations for a large
aad interesting meeting on Friday
| evening, October 11, and Saturday, the
; ' Utk Among those who are to take
g part in the exercises are Chancellor
■ MncLean of the state nnieersity. Prof.
$, William E. Chancellor of the Polytech
Bis institute. Mrs. M. E. Tucker of Lin
coln, Miss Hay H Bennett and Prof,
g Tsa Eaton of Seward,
g A tkaveuxo evangelist preacher
f\: living near Kesterson was fined *20 and
f eoeta for beating his two daughters,
ig--. am of them a married woman
■r E. JH. Tracy, capuin of the Moore
^ rifles, Norfolk, received notice of hie
»
appointment ae aid <k campon the gov
’s staff with the rank of colonel.
Ruin n Poetee. attorney for
Johnson county, has been pronounced
lam ns. and was taken to the Lincoln
aeylnm for treatment The examining
physicians hare little hope of hia re
eeiviag say benefit, however. He has
•eked units strangely for the past tan
day, hmt Sunday and Monday he waa
la a rarieg eoaditioa.
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Kann a Flih Canmiuloa.
The new state fish commission has
been appointed by Governor Holcomb.
It consists of J. 8. Kirkpatrick, Lin
coln; William L. May, Omaha, and
Robert OberfeldRr of Sidney. The per
son el of the new commission represents
three parties. Mr. Kirkpatrick is a
republican, Mr. May an administration
democrat, and Mr. Oberfelder a pop
ulist. With the exception of Mr. May,
the others of the old commission had
resigned. Mr. Kirkpatrick succeeds
R. H. Oakley of Lincoln, whose term
expires June 81, 1890. Mr. May suc
ceeds James B. Meikle of Omaha, term
expiring June 21. 1897. Mr. Oberfelder
succeeds May, whose term expired last
Jnne. This gives Mr. Oberfelder the
long term, until June 21, 1898. Mr.
Kirkpatrick is a prominent lawyer in
Lincoln, of the firm of Darnell <fc Kirk
patrick. He was formerly a law part
ner of Governor Holcomb's at Broken
Bow. Robert Oberfelder ia a prom
inent business man of Sidney, inter
ested in stone quarries and cattle ranch
ing. "Lew” May has been one of the
fish commissioners for the past seven
teen years, and has also been prom
inently mentioned as a candidate for
United States fish commissioner.
Gold In Nebraska.
Milford dispatch: Rumors of. golc
finds have disturbed the peace and
quiet of the sober village of Milford for
the past week, but the discoveries have
been kept from the eager gaze of the
curious until prpperty here commenced
to change hands and the report of the
chemist indicates that gold-bearing
quartz, lying about one foot from the
surface at various points on the Dillen
beclc homestead three miles east of
town running from $70 to ¥19G per ton
iiave been discovered, and delegates of
capitalists from the various towns ar
rived and evidenced their faith in the
new find by purchases of real estate in
that vicinity.
What Nebraska Can Do.
Kearney dispatch: The Buffaloccun
ty fair closed last night, and was quite
& success, so fur as showing what the
county was capable of producing was
concerned. The display was not as ex
tensive as it has been on some former
accasions, but what was on exhibition
was good, and surprised even those
who had lived in the county for years.
1'here were onions that would measure
from live to seven inches in diameter,
potatoes that could not bo laid down
iat in a peck measure, ears of corn that
measured from eleven to thirteen inches
n length and were sound and full to
the very end, sugar beets that meas
ured two feet in length and were thick
in proportion, and one squash that
measured six feet and two inches in
sircumference.
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RECAPITULATION.
64,020 admission tickets at Sic.*32,01M)0
11,828 ampltbeatra •• •• 2 c. 2,a>7.oo
1*519 " reserved seats at 50c 159.50
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, Postmaster’s Smooth Soheme.
A stranger presented a money order
at the postofflee in Nebraska City
tor *100, payable toWilliara Young.
The postmaster noticed that the
letter ot advice and money or
der were in the same handwriting
and refused payment without identifi
cation. Later Young was arrested and
confessed that the order was bogus. He
further stated that his name is Sim
fconda and that he was postmaster at
Bell*, fa He had made the order pay
able to himself. He had collected mon
ey from a number of similar orders
Over WOO was found on him which he
bad obtained through this scheme.
Red Cloud Mill Burned.
The Bed Cloud roller mill, elevator
and warehouse were totally destroyed
by fire. The plant was one of the
largest in the state outside of Omaha,
and the loss will probably amount to
*40,000. It had been idle since the high
water in June took part of the dam
out. but hnd been recently leased to
Gnthrie liras, of Superior, who were
getting the plant in shnpe to run. The
mill company was repairing the dam
and in a few days the repairs would
have been complete. Insurance on the
building and machinery, *23,000
A TERRIBLE VENGEANCE
A GEORGIA NEGRO BRUTE MAIMED.
SHOT AM BOBBED.
HE CONFESSED HIS GUILT.
The Father «f the Outraged Girt Cal
OIT HU Kan, aad Another One at
the Blob Cat Off HU Fingers Joint
by Joint—Then Kach One
•I the Crowd Took s
Shot at Him.
Chattanooga, Term., Oct. 7.—Neal
Smith, the negro convict who brutally
assaulted Miss Henderson near Cole
City, Ga., Wednesday, was taken from
the stockade used for confining pris
oners, by a mob of not less than 200
men, last night. The sheriff and
jailer, with several men, were on
guard, but the crowd refused to listen
to reason and threatened to tear down
the stockade and burn it. He was led
to a point near where the assault was
committed. He confessed his guilt.
Then the father of the girl, William
Henderson, cut off the nogroe’s ears,
while one of the crowd pounded his
fingers, joint by joint, one finger at a
time, until the hund was a shapeless
masa This was because, in the strug
gle to subdue Miss Henderson, he had
bitten off one of her fingers.
Each man in the crowd then took a
turn at shooting at the wretch until,
when he died, he must have had four
or five pounds of lead in him. Ho was
literally shot to pieces.
The body was< finally thrown into a
hastily prepared pile of brushwood
and burned until not a scrap of bone
remained.
AUSTRALIAN CATTLE.
They Are Uncle Sum's Moat Formidable
Competitor for the European Trade.
Washington, Oct. 7.—The most
formidable competitor to the United
States for the control of the European
cattle markets has arisen in Australia,
according to a special report to the
state department by United States
Consul Bell at Sydney, which gives
much valuable information of the
present condition and future prospects
of the industry of cattle raising in
that country. He shows that New
South Wales and Queensland, where
the industry flourishes, have about ten
times as much land fit lor cattle feed
ing as the whole state of Iowa.
While much of this land is so scantily
supplied with natural water so as to
greatly limit live stock operations,
the government has coine
to the lescue and its successful ex
periments in artesian well boring has
vastly extended the possibilities of the
industry. One well alone supplies
5,000,uoO gallons of water daily.
At present prices cattle can be
raised in Queensland at a profit for
their hides alone. In that colony
there are 7,000,000 head of cattle and
in New South Wales 2.500,000. The
people liavo nearly twenty head of
cattle per capita as against less than
one head per capita in the United
States. For several years there has
been considerable export business in
frozen and preserved meats, but cat
tle raisers are reaching out for live
stock trade and a number of ship
ments have been made to Europe. Fat
tened cattle at export points are worth
$21 per head, freight is $40 and
time of voyage to Europe from
forty- fi vo to sixty days. Aver
age weight is 1,800 pounds per
head and the cattle gain in
weight on -the voyage. The consul
says that while the eattle raisers of
the United States have the advantage
of from 0,000 to 10,000 miles in dis
tance, still with cheaper production at
first cost, and lowering of freights, if
the Australian trade beeame well es
tablished, the saving in distance by
the American shipper will hardly off
set the Australian advantage, and the
latter could place well fattened 1,600
pound cattle averaging better in qual
ity than the best in the United States
in the London market more cheaply
than they could be brought from any
other part of the globe. Of course, he
says, as yet there is an “if in all
these calculations.
HONORS FOR M. PASTEUR.
An Impressive Public Funeral Accorded
to the Great Scientist In Farts.
Dsn:.- ! \ ..s k, mi_r__ a .
conveying' the body of the late Pro
fessor Louis Pasteur to Norte Dame
catredral, left the Fcsteur institute at
10:30 o’clock. Ueneral Sanssier, the
military governor of Paris headed
the escort of troops. An almost
innumerable number of wreaths were
borne before the eotjin, which was
followed by the family of the de
ceased, the ministers, senators, depu
ties und numerous delegations from
different scientific and other bodies
from all parts of France and from
many foreign countries. An immense
concourse of people lined the streets
through which the procession passed,
although the sky was heavily overcast
and r downpour of rain was threaten
ed.
TO 8E MARRIED MONDAY.
Kx-Priest Dmtielrk Wagner Will Make
Hand Steldel HU Wita
' St. Joseph, Mo., Oct 7.—Arrange
ments have about been completed for
the marriage of ex-Priest Dominiek
Wagner and Maud Steidel next Mon
day after the return of Bishop Bnrko
from Borne. The transfer of certain
property that can only be made by the
bishop is the cause of the delay-.
Wagner has turned over to Alexan
der Podvant notes and mortgages
for $5,000 and $530 in cash, to be
held iu trust for the glrL
The marriage will not bn by a Cath
olic priest, as it is said that Wagner
will be degraded and excommunicated
by the church. An efTort will be made
to excommunicate all other Catholics
who may assist with the marriage.
Members of the church are bitter in
their denunciation of the fallen priest
and declare that he ought to be pun
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EPISCOPALIANS AT WORK.
A Great Mlmlonmry Rally—The Revised
Prayer Book—Deputies Busy.
Minneapolis, Mina., Oct. 7.—The
attraction of the 'great all-day mis
sionary rally at the Lyceum theater
to-day was too much for the house of
bishops of the Episcopal convention,
and after transacting a little routine
business it adjourned until Monday
morning.
The house of deputies, however, sat-,
isfied with the attention it had given
to missions yesterday, continued its
work. The committee on canons rec
ommended that a number of proposed
articles referred to them be not adopt
ed, and the report was approved. The
Rev. E. H Ward of Kentucky pre
sented the invitation of Louisville for
the convention of 1898. It was referred
to a special committee.
The joint committees on the stand
ard prayer book reported the final re
vision and printing of the book of
common prayer on line paper and the
distribution of copies among the dio
ceses and prominent institutions. The
handsome vellum volume bound in
leather and silver and inclosed in a
carved oaken box was delivered for
mally to the custodian of the standard
book of common prayer. This volume
was held aloft in Secretary Hutchins's
hand while the house rose to its- feet.
In committee of the whole the con
stitutional revision report was taken
up, E. F. Wilder of Minnesota offered
an amendment to the amendment of
James S. Biddle of Pennsylvania, re
quiring the house of bishops to re
port to the house of deputies within
three days their disapprobation of
any measure, and the reason for it.
Mr. Wilder wanted to add the words
“As long as the house of bishops shall
sit with closed doors.” This was
aimed at the exclusive session and
nn iKPfl a Wlirm Kut in^nnieiwo I
The principal social function of the
day is the reception tendered by Mrs.
Doretius Morrison this afternoon fol
lowed this evening1 by a dinner to
twenty-one of the leading church dig
nitaries.
Three Vessels Lost
St. Johns, Oct. 7.—^Three vessels,one
French and two English have been lost
on the south coast of the island and five
men drowned. More seizures of smug
gled goods were made yesterday, and
the customs authorities aspect to reap
a harvest from the vessels returning
from the wreck of the Mariposa with
the.goods saved from her. The short
age in revenues is exciting much ap
prehension and further financial
trouble is expected.
Water Famine In the East.
Philadelphia, Oct. '^.“Reports re
ceived from different parts of Eastern
Pennsylvania and New Jersey indi
cate that the country is suffering a
drouth of large proportions. In some
places there is almost a famine on ac
count of lack of water.
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Italy and France have combined to
press their claims against Brazil.
The British parliament lias been
further prorogued until December 23.
Bcttina Ordway-Gerard-Wolfo is su
ing for divorce from her latest hus
band.
J. Ewing and George Bebout were
arrested at Bedford, la., for assault
ing little girls.
Father Gentile of Shreveport, I.a.,
has received two threatening letters
from the Mafia.
The Kirkman court-martial at Fort
Leavenworth is to be dissolved and
another ordered.
Populists are trying to select a pres
idential candidate by means of the
newspaper ballot.
Civil service examinations of appli
cants for places in the railway uiail
service have begun.
It is said that Baron von Hammer
stein, fugitive Berlin editor, is in
Washington, I). C.
The Kansas Democratic state com
mittee decided to put no one in the
field for chief justice.
Ambassadors of European powers
protested to the Porte against the
riots in Constantinople.
A terrific gas explosion occurred at
Nevada, Mo. Three firemen were in
jured going to the scene.
Five persons were injured in a wreck
on the International and Great North
ern near Galveston, Texas.
According to the present state line
Kansas is said to have territory prop
erly belonging to Missouri.
The United States has made a de
mand on the Siamese government for
payment of the Cheek claim.
Mrs R Plllllitvs nf Ruvnlra fall
into a Are while suffering from epilep
sy and was burped to death.
Ilinshaw's attorneys say that they
have proof that the jury that con
victed him was tampered with.
Engineer William C. Henry, who
murdered his wife at Springfield, 111.,
while drunk, committed suicide.
William R. Hearst is negotiating for
the New York Jouruul as an Eastern
adjunct to the San Francisco Ex
aminer.
A member of the commission that
investigated the Sassoun fights says
that not more than 400 Armenians
were killed.
A trustee was appointed to take
charge of Father Wagner’s property
before his marriage to Miss Steidel
tabes place.
The mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, has
refused a permit for the sparring con
test between John L. Sullivan and
Faddy Ryan.
No reply has been received by the
United States lo the notice to lireat
Britain of their position on the Vene
zuelan qnestlon.
The foreign trade of Mexico during
the last fiscal year amounted to 3152.
000.000 in silver. Impoits from the
United States were 9110,000,000.
Sturat says no location has yet been
secured for the Corbett-Fitzsimmons
tight, but Vendig says one has been.
Present indications seem to point to
the Chicksaw Nation.
A company of Kansas City capitalists
have organized for the purpose of con
structing a line of electric road forty
miles in length from Kansas City, ’
Kan., to Leavenworth.
WAS BY ACCLAMATKM
T. L NORVAL NAMED FOR 8U.
PREME JUDGE.
Proceedings of the Republican State Con
ventlon Held at Lincoln—The Mattel
of Selecting a Ticket Speedily and Har
monioueljr Accomplished — What thi
Platform Sets Forth—An A. P. A. Bel
Intlon Given Its Qaletns.
Nebraska Republicans.
For Justice of the Supreme Court—
_ _ . T. L. NORVAL, Seward
For Begents of the State University—
U. H. MORRILL, Lincoln
H. L. GOULD, Ogalalla.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct 3.—The repub
lican state convention met in this citj
yesterday. Chairman Morriil called
the convention to order at 3:45 p. m.
Rev. K P. Chapin offered divine invo'
cation.
Secretary Sedgwick read the call foi
the convention, stating in substance
the object, which was to nominate one
candidate for supreme judge and two
regents of the State university, and to
transact such other business as might
come before it
C. A. Atkinson of Lincoln moved, and
was sustained, that the convention pro
ceed to the nomination of candidates
under the call without nominating
speeches.
Delegate Collins of Pawnee moved
that the rules be suspended and Judge
Norval be nominated by acclamation,
it was carried amid wild applause, and
the chief justice was escorted to the
platform.
Delegate Atkinson also moved, upon
the same terms, the unanimous renom
ination of C. H. Morrill of Lincoln for
the regency. In accepting’Mr. Morrill
pledged his best efforts to the interests
of the State university, which now
■3MWU lui lii iu usb ui uuwerr
ities.
Senator Thurston then addressed the
convention, after which came
THE TLATFOBM.
Chirman Frick of the committee on
platform, then presented and read the
platform.
We, the republicans of Nebraska, in
convention assembled, declare our ad
herence to the statement of principles
and policies adopted by the national re
publican convention of 1892. Governed
in accordance with these principles,
the industries of the nation have pros
pered, the revenues were always suffi
cient for the ordinary expenses of the
government, the veterans of the war
for-the union, disabled in the service,
and the widows and orphans of the
dead were liberally provided for, and a
greater part of the national debt in
curred in the defense of the flag had
been paid out of the surplus. The na
tional debt had been established, the
currency of the country (amply secured
by a treasury reserve never impaired)
was beyond question, and a degree of
prosperity attained unexampled in the
history of the nations.
But the fallacies of so-called pop
ulism having temporarily demoralized
the rank of republicanism in its strong
holds, the last national election re
stored the democratic party to .power
in the executive and legislative depart
ments of the government, and the re
sults of the “change” immediately ap
peared. The industries of the nation
were paralyzed, financial panic follow
ed, unprecedented for its duration and
widespread disaster to our commercial
and manufacturing interests, its im
pairment of values of all property and
product, and its reduction to a pauper
level of the wages of labor. The fears
of the people were finally justified by
the passage of the Wilson tariff bill, a
measure so obnoxious and indefensible
that a democratic president, pledged to
free trade measures, denounced it as an
act of perfidy and dishonor, but suffered
it to become a law without his signa
ture. This law, based upon no recog
nized principle, fathered by no party
platform, that neither protects Ameri
can industries nor raises a sufficient
revenue to supply the ordinary necessi
ties of the government, that lias forced
the borrowing of immense sums of
money on the bonds of the government
in a time of profound peace, and the
farming out of the functions of the
treasury department to a syndicate,
controlled by foreign capitalists, has
once more proven the utter incapacity
of the democratic party for administer
ing the affairs of tho government.
The election of a congress last No
vember with an unparalleled repub
lican majority immediately strength
ened the national credit, restored, in a
great measure, the confidence and umr
age of the people, and revived our lan
guishing industries, and has signally
vindicated the republican policy of pro
tection to home industries and a sound
currency.
We, therefore, call upon all patriotic
people, irrespective of foriner political
affiliations, to join in assisting to bring
back prosperity to the state and nation
by re-enacting protection to American
industries on the basis of that splendid
law known as the “McKinley act,”
thereby securing an adequate revenuo
while guarding the American market
for American products and furnishing
steady and permanent employment of
American labor at American wages,
and returning to the beneficial system
of commercial reciprocity with our sis
ter American republics. •
ALT, KINDS OF MONEY EQUAL.
Favoring the use of both gold and
silver standard money, we oppose all
monetary legislation that would result
in either gold or silver monometallism,
and demand the maintenance of a na
tional currency, every dollar of which,
whether in gold, silver or paper, shall
be of equal debt paying or purchasing
power. *
We denounce the democratic national
administration for its supine neglect of
American interests in its foreign policy,
and its cowardly abandonment of the
doctrine of the fathers of the republic,
that guarantees the friendly offices of
the government in favor of the inde
pendent states of the American conti
nents threatened with spoliation or
conquest by anv European power. We
most heartily sympathize with the peo
ple of Cuba in their desire to obtain in
dependence and self government, and
deman in case of Spain’s attempt to
make good its threat to wage a war of
extermination against them the prompt
recognition of the belligerent rights of
the Cuban republic by the United
States
The republican party, always fore
most in the march of progress, recog
f nizes tbe importance of irrigation to
the people of the western part of the
state, and we pledge the party to the
same friendly spirit in the considera
tion of future legislation as it exhibit
ed toward these interests in the enact
ments of the first general irrigation
■ law in 1889, and again in 1895, upon its
, return to power in both houses of the
legislature, when it greatly extended
the features of the law of 1889 and in
’ eluded provisions for the organization
• of irrigation districts.
And we hereby ask the congress of
the United States to enact such laws
as will determine the rights between
citizens of several states in the use of
water for irrigation purposes from
streams flowing through two or more
states.
T'o further aid in the development of
irrigation, we would respectfully re
quest our congressional delegation to
urge the passage of a law granting the
state for this purpose the remaining
public lands undisposed of within our
borders.
We congaatulate the people upon the
restoration of the sugar bounty and the
wonderful impetus given this industry
on account thereof, but we demand
that*the books of those that receive the
benefits of the bounty of state and na
tion should at all times be open to the
inspection of lawful authority and that
sworn statements of costs of produc
tion should be furnished in order that
justice may be done to the people, as
well as to the recipient.
Another Great Cruiser.' "
Pmr.ADEi.rniA, Oct. 3.—The great
United States armored cruiser Brook
lyn was launched into the waters of
the Delaware at Cramp's shipyard to
day, and Miss Ida May Schieren,
daughter of the mayor of the city
from which the mammoth vessel takes
its name, broke a bottle of American
champagne, on the cruiser’s bow, and
said: “I christen thee Brooklyn.” An
immense crowd witnessed the launch
lug ui ims laiesi auaiuon to the na
tion’s fleet. On the christening stand
was a distinguished party. After the
ceremonies, luncheon was served in
the mold loft, and a number of
speeches were made, among the speak
ers being Mayor Schieren of Brooklyn.
Assistant Secretary McAdoo, Mayor
Warwick and the Messrs. Cramp.
The Brooklyn is regarded bv naval
experts as a marvel in the art of ma
rine arcitecture. She is classed as a
steel armored cruiser, having four
eight inch barbette turrets. Ilercost,
exclusive of armament, is $'1,980,000.
The principa' dimensions are: Length'
on the load water line, 400.5 feet;
beam, extreme, 04. C8 feet; draught,
mean, normal, 24 foot; displace
ment, normal, 9,271 tons, indi
cated horse power, 16,000; speed
in knots per hour, 24; total coal
capacity, 1,753 tons, coal carried,
normal displacement, 900 tons. The
same dimensions of the New York are
respectively. 380.65 feet; 64.1 feet;
23.35 feet; 8,200 tons; 9,000 tons; 1,290
tons; 750 tons; speed, 21 knots. The
Brooklyn will have twin sere ws. There
will be four engines, of the versical
triple expansion type, two on each
shaft, located in four separate com
partments. There are seven boilers,
placed in three compartments. The
hull is of steel, not sheathed with a
double bottom and a close water tight
subdivision, running to about twelve
feet above the water line.
The ship’s battery will consist of
eignti eight-inch breech loading rifles
of thirty-live caliber, twelve five-inch
breech loading rifles of the rapid lire
type, twelve six-pounder rapid fire
guns, four one-pounder rapid fire guns
and four machine guns. The eight
inch guns will be mounted in four bar
bette turrets, placed one forward and
one aft on the center line and one on
cither side of the vessel amidships.
The guns in the turrets on the center
line are to have a train of Slu degrees.
Those in the side turrets can fire
from right ahead to right astern, or
train through an are of 180 degrees
each. .Jhe center of the side turrets
will be distant from the center line
of the vessel about twenty-three feet.
The armor forming the barbette
which will protect the carriages, plat
form and turret machinery, will be
eight inches in thickness for a portion
equivalent to the train of guns of the
respective turrets. The remaining
portions may be reduced to four inches
in thickness. Under the turrets will
be placed three inch armor supporting
tubes which will protect the ammuni
tion hoists. The armor of the turrets
will be five and one-half inches in
thickness. The guns will be so
mounted that they can be supplied
with ammunition and loaded at anv
position. _ ,
THE MOB WAS DISSUADED.
Two Attempts to Bang William Dyer
Overcome by Kindly Interposition.
SedaliA. Mo., Oct. 3 —A mob of 1.10
young men assembled near George
town Sunday night to lynch William
Dyer, who murdered 'Thomas Walker
here Saturday nigh*. The mother of
Walker ssnt a messenger to the
mob, who implored the men in
her behalf to allow the law to
take its course, and the vigilantes dis
banded. Last night citizens of Dres
den, Hughesville and Heath's Creek
assembled near Thoraleigh and pro
posed to hang Dyer a his mistress,
when another relative of the murdered
man interposed and begged that there
be no lynching. Deputy Sheriff Ram
sey was informed of the movements
of the mobs and he took Dyer to the
Clinton jail for safe keeping. In con
sequence of the excitement, the pre
liminary examination was postponed
for ten days.
JUDGE CROZ1ER DEAD.
Another One of the Kansas Pioneers
Gone to Hit Eternal Kest.
Leavenworth, Kan., Oct. 3.—Judge
Robert Crozier, a pioneer of Leaven
worth county, died at his home at
12:20 o'clock this morning. He was
stricken down with paralysis last Sat
urday night. Judge Crozier was for
sixteen years the judge of the district
court of Leavenworth county, and in
1808 was appointed United State-, sen
ator by the governor. Judge Crozier
was ,0 years of age, and leaves a wife
and two children, one of whom is Cap
tam Wilhara Crozier, a distinguished
United «Lthe or‘l“unce department,
United States army, and the other the
rennSylvanianSreSim“n Ee^iurn