THE JOURNAL.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
PLATTSMOUTH,
NEBRASKA.
OVEE THE STATE.
The Dodge county fair proved a great
success.
The Norfolk sugar factory will be
t tarted October 5.
Gage county has decided not to hold
any fair this year.
n a MiiroN' county's fair this year was
the most successful thus far given.
At a recent sale of horses in Dor
chester SQ5 was the top price paid.
Work is to be commenced at once
upon a new creamery at Humboldt,
and it will be in operation within sixty
days.
Fraxk. Abel, one of the live prison
ers who eseaped from the Cass county
jail in Plattsmouth, has been captured
at Seward.
Gering gets the western Nebraska
reunion for next year, it having been
located there at the meeting held at
Harrisburg.
Charles Va Pelt of Dan bury is not
expected to live A horse 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
planted in the silo.
The Nebraska City distiller is in
debted to our Uncle Sam in the sum of
J3.337, and he has served notice that he
must have the stuff or the plant will be
bold 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
snow melts in the spring.
Uuy home-made goods and build up
Lome industries, is a good policy: Far
rell's Fire Extinguisher, made by Far
Tell fc Co., Omaha; Morse-Coe boots and
Lces for men, women and children.
Paul Bokglvm. a Missouri Pacific
car 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
pull out.
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 Hemingford
that Mrs. Loken, living five mns east,
has become violently insane. Her hus
band is a prosperous farmer and the
matter is much to be regretted, as they
have several small children.
Don't insult a man because he 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,
oldest man in the business.
The steam threshing machine of
Charles Werdegren, while threshing on
Mrs. Chapman's farm south of Oakland,
set fire to the straw and burned barns,
stables, grain and in fact, everything
except the machine and the house.
The Red Cloud roller mills caught
tire 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 Plattsmouth. by
creeping into a straw stack standing
in close proximity to his corn crib and
wagon shed, which caused a total loss
of several hundred dollars, with no in
surance. The Oxnard beet sugar factory at
Grand Island is being placed in readi- .
ness to begin work on the season's
crop about the first week in October.
The factory is offering premiums for
beets held until mid-winter in order
to avoid the rush from the largest crop
ever grown. Many acres will average
twenty-five tons and the warm sunny
days are increasing the sugar at a rapid
rate.
llvss B. Williams, a farmer living
near North Loup, who made a contract
with a foreign seed firm for melon seed,
reports that his plants have grown so
luxuriantly and borne so profitably
that he can walk over large portions of
his field by stepping on the melons and
without touching the ground. He is
now busily engaged in harvesting the
teed, of which he will have an immense
crop
News has reached Pawnee City of a
murder committed fifteen miles south
west of that city. A widow, Mrs.
Finity, aged 65, lived with her nephew.
He was absent at Sutntnerfield, Kas.,
and upon his return found her in bed,
dead, with her head bruised on the side
as if it had been done with a club.
Nothing in the house was disturbed
and no motive can be assigned for the
ghastly deed.
Thk Seward county teachers' associa
tion is making preparations for a large
and interesting meeting on Friday
evening, October 11, and Saturday, the
12th. Among those who are to take
part in the exercises are Chancellor
Mac Lean of the state university. Prof.
William E Chancellor of the Polytech
nic institute. Mrs. M. E.Tucker of Lin
coln, Miss May B. Bennett and Prof.
Van Eaton of Seward.
A traveling evangelist preacher
living near Kesterson was fined 20 and
costs for beating his two daughters,
one of them a married woman.
H H. Tracy, captain of the Moore
rifles. Norfolk, received notice of his
appointment as aid de camp on the gov
ernor's staff with the rank of coloneL
Samuel D. Porter, attorney for
Johnson county, has been pronounced
insane, and was taken to the Lincoln
asylum for treatment The examining
physicians have little hope of his re
ceiving any benefit, however. He has
acted quite strangely for the past ten
days, and Sunday and Monday he was
in a raving condition.
Xama a Fluh Commission.
The new state tish commission has
been appointed by Governor Holcomb.
It consists of .1. S. Kirkpatrick, Lin
coln; William L. May, Omaha, and
Robert Oberfeldi.r of Sidney. The per
sonel 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. II. Oakley of Lincoln, whose term
expires June 21, 1896. Mr. May suc
ceeds James R Meikle of Omaha, term
expiring June 21. 1897. Mr. Oberfelder
succeeds May, whose term expired last
June. This gives Mr. Oberfelder the
long term, until June 21, 1898. Mr.
Kirkpatrick is a prominent lawyer in
Lincoln, of the firm of Darnell & Kirk
patrick. He was formerly a law part
ner of Governor Holcomb's at Broken
Bow. Robert Oberfelder is 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.
ioll iu Nebraska.
Milford dispatch: Humors of gold
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 property 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
beck homestead three miles east of
town running from S70 to $190 per ton
have 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 Da
Kearney dispatch: The Buffalocoun
ty fair closed last night, and was quite
a success, so far 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
occasions, but what was on exhibition
was good, and surprised even those
who had lived in the county for years.
There were onions that would measure
from five to seven inches in diameter,
potatoes that could not be laid down
flat in a peck measure, ears of corn that
measured from eleven to thirteen inches
in 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
circumference.
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State Fair I Compli-IIteserved Total.
Tickets. Imentaryl feats.
Mon. " 20 : " 5.V (14
Tues. 2.4XX 221 390 3.0W9
Wednes. 3,.rW J'."J 611 4.313
Thurs. 4.143 155 347 4,64tt
Fri. 1,14 183 116 1,473
Total 1 1.8-3. 79 1.5t9 14.145
RECAPITULATION.
64,020 admission tickets at 50c. $32,0ir.00
11,828 ampltheatre " " 2c 2,957.00
1.519 " reserved seats at 50c 7.VJ..r)0
Total J35, 726.50
Postmaster's Smooth Scheme.
A stranger presented a money ordei
at the postoffice in Nebraska City
for $100, payable toWilliam Young.
The postmaster noticed that the
letter of 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
niwivlg and that he was postmaster at
Belle, la. He had made the order pay
able to himself. lie had collected mon
ey from a number of similar orders.
Over $800 was found on him which he
had obtained through this scheme.
Red Cloud Mill Burned.
The Red 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
S40,P00. It had been idle since the high
water In June took 'part of the dam
out. but had been recently leased to
Guthrie Bros, of Superior, who were
getting the plant in shape to rUn. The
mill company was repairing the dam
and in a few days the repairs would
have Veen complete. Insurance on th
building and machinery, $25,000.
SOUTH AFRICAN BUBBLE.
IT GIVES SIGNS OF VERGING ON A
GRAND COLLAPSE.
A SMASH IS INEVITABLE.
Declines In the Stocks Temporarily
Checked, Bat Disaster Likely to
Come Any Day Hage Propor
tions of the Craze in Both
K n gland and France
Story of Promoters.
Londox, Oct. 7. While South Af
rican and other mining' shares have
suffered a considerable decline there
has been a sufficient rally to apparent
ly show a bull control of the scheme,
but an ultimate smash is considered
inevitable.
All financiers agree that there has
not been in many years such reckless
even idiotic speculation as in many
of the South African ventures. The
amount of it may be realized from the
fact that during the last month alone,
when the market was already, seem
ingly glutted, companies connected
with South Africa and Australia for
mining and other purposes were reg
istered at Somerset house with a capi
tal amounting altogether to mure than
115 million dollars. These were ex
clusive of the new Barnato bank, out
of which the former stowaway and
circus employe, already a multi-millionaire,
is said to have made 5 million
dollars within twenty-four hours after
putting his scheme on the market.
A serious note of warning of the
coming collapse is given in a thought
ful article in the Nineteenth Century
from the pen of an obvious expert,
showing that the market for these
shares is largely artificial, that its con
trol is in arbitrary, often unscrupu
lous, hands, and that the most favora
ble output for next year will not pay
adequate interevs upon the capital in
vested. He gives some startling in
stances of the magnitude of the specu
lation. The aggregate quotation of
Witwatersaud shares, for instance, has
risen from Si50,000,000 a year ago to
8750,000,000 now. Shares in certain
mines which actually have not paid a
farthing dividend have risen within a
few months ii.OuO per cent or more
above their face value are common.
More than a year ago a man familiar
with South African affairs said that
most of the shares offered were as
high us they ought to be, but the ad
vance since would have surpassed the
wi'.dest imaginations then.
The craze began in October, 1S'J4,
when speculation turned in the direc
tion of South African mines. For some
years before that the public had been
given little chance to speculate, for
good securities had risen so high there
was no use in buying them in the hope
of a not tier rise. America and Aus
tralia were in bad shape and the spec
ulators finally turned to South Africa.
There was enough real work and profit
in the mines to warrant it at first, and
some of the big financial houses of
Paris soon became, interested. Then
company after company was formed
and floated. Financial houses bought
the shares in many instances and then
when the boom began, split up their
holdings and sold certificates of own
ership, even as low as one-tenth of a
share, to the small purchasers. Eng
land first took the fever, then it was
caught by France, and afterward by
Belgium and Germany. Since then it
has been almost universally- upward.
Some of the stocks in which the deals
have been heaviest are sound finan
cially, but a remarkable feature is
that the greatest advances in the value
of stock are found in these companies
which pay no dividends.
"Berney" Barnato. the central fig
ure in this wild speculative craze, is a
Portuguese by birth, but looks and
acts like a typical modern English
man. His present wealth is estimated
at $100,000,000. His latest deal was
the establishment of the Barnato
Bank, Mining and Estate company,
limited, with a capital stock of $5,7f0,
000. The 'first stock was sold Septem
ber 2, and 35 shares were forced up by
crazed speculators to $25 in a day.
It was in the promoting of these
companies that the Barnatos first ap
peared. Now the brothers are inter
ested in an almost endless list of con
cerns. One of their latest is a scheme
for the formation of trusts, which are
to take contracts and claims, said by
the promoters to be of great value, but
of which the public knows absolutely
nothing. The Barnatos went to South
Africa as stowaways and circus per
formers. Tough Lot of Boarders.
Lkavknworth, Kan., Oct. 7. A
special train made up of two cars
brought forty-six convicts to theUnited
States penitentiary at Fort Leaven
worth yesterday. The convicts were
all from Fort Smith, Ark., and were
convicted there at the term of the
United States district court that just
ended. They are men who committed
crimes in the Indian territories and
were a tough looking outfit. Some of
them had no hats or coats; they were
s.hackled together in pairs and were
guarded by fourteen deputy marshals.
Goes to the Catholic University.
Champaign, III., Oct. 7. Professor
Daniel A. Shea, of the chair of physics
in the University of Illinois, has ac
cepted a call to the chair of physics in
the Catholic university at Washing
ton, 1). C.
Married the Man She Shot.
Quikcy, ' 111., Oct. 7. Dora Heil
wagen, who recently shot and wounded
J. II. Bowling and Rose Swearingen.
and who was afterward acquitted by
the grand jury, married Bowling this
morning.
Wilson a Congressional Candidate.
Washington, Oct. 7. .Postmaster,
General Wilson announced to-day that
he would like to make the race again
for congress and would accordingly
try to secure the nomination next
year.
IS JIM CORBETT AFRAID?
His New Orleans Interview Indicates
That He Is.
New Oblbans, La., Oct 7. The
opinion is expressed here by certain
sporting men that Corbett is building
up a. foundation to get out of his fight
if possible. It was noticed that to
every newspaper man who inter
viewed him, Corbett talked only on
one subject, and that was on the many
strings that were attached to the Fitz
simmous stake. Every conversation
the pugilist indulged in this subject
would prominently be brought for
ward by him.
When it is taken into consideration
that the attachments against Fitzsim
mons' money in Dwyer's hands were
issued more than a month ago, and
Corbett refrained saying anything
about it at that time, give rise to the
suspicion that the conqueror of John
L. Sullivan has kept this as his last
card.
Corbett very bluntly said that Fitz
simmons would have to put up $10,000
in the stakeholder's hands, without an
attachment tied to it, or he would npt
fight. He claims that Fitzsimraons
only has $2,000 of the side bet up, the
other $1,000 being attached by the
Metropolitan Printing company and
Attorney Friend, formerly the Aus
tralian's lawyer. Corbett is claiming
that Phil Dwyer told him just before
he left New York that if he won he
would get but $8,000 of the side bet.
Corbett also says that he will fight
Fitzsimmons for the side bet alone, but
puts in the old proviso that $10,000 un
attached must be put up.
Local sporting men are of the opin
ion that this provision of Corbett's
will occasion considerable trouble be
fore October 31. Just why the cham
pion is anxious to have the referee se
lected at this time cannot be learned.
Both Corbett and his manager, Billy
Brady, are clamoring for the referee
to be chosen immediately. When
asked the difference it would make in
selecting the referee the day before
the fight, they say that in such an im
portant case as this the referee should
I be known several weeks ahead in or
der to give confidence to the public.
I The general feeling in New Orleans
is mat me ncni, win never lukc pi act
FOR THE CUBAN CAUSE.
Great National Sympathetic Mass Meet
ing Proposed for October 31.
Chicago, Oct. 7. Every mayor of
every city, town and village through
out the United States will be advised
1 and requested by the executive com-
mittee of the Cuban sympathetic mass
meeting, held in Chicago last Monday
! "La a. M !L 11 . . A I
: aigui, LO comer wilu iuc tuu&b piumr
nent and public spirited citizens to ar
range for a national mass meeting the
night of Thursday, October 31, for the
purpose of awakening a kindly feel
ing toward the suffering and patriotic
Cubans, who are struggling for lib-
j erty. The committee will also call
upon every prominent organization in
the country for the co-operation of its
branches in every section. Churches
of every denomination and fraternal
and benevolent societies will also be
called upon for assistance in making
the mass meeting on October 31 a great
wave of public opinion and sympathy
for the Cuban cause from the Pacific
to the Atlantic and from British Co
lumbia to Mexico.
HIGHLY COLORED REPORTS
The Terrible Outrages on Armenians Not
Nearly So Bad as Stated.
London, Oct. 7. A dispatch to the
Pall Mall Gazette from Constantinople
Bays: One of the foreign delegates to
the international commission of in
quirj says that its report will show
that the total number of inhabitants
of the Sassoun valley did not exceed
,000, and that the number of Armen
ians killed in the capture of the vil
lages of Semal, Shemak and Gheligu
zan, and in the taking of Antokdagh
pass, was at most 300 to 500.
It is also claimed that the report
will demonstrate that there is no evi
dence that anyone was killed in cold
blood or that there were any mutila
tions of women or children. Finally,
it is asserted that about forty persons
were buried in the death pit at Gheli
guzan and that the statement that a
number of women threw themselves
over a cliff in order to avoid dishonor
is also false.
PLANS FOR THE FIGHT.
rhe Indications Are Now That It Will
lie Held In the Territory.
Akdmork, Ind. Ten, Oct. 7. From
present indications it now looks as if
the big Corbett and Fitzsimmons fight
is coming to Ardmore. The Chicka
saw Indians want them, the Santa Fe
railroad company wants to bring
them, and will run trains from the
Dallas amphitheater without cost, and
Dan Sttiart is keeping the wires
hot to know the conditions under
which it can be pulled off at
Ardmore. The hotels of Dallas, Fort
Worth and Gainesville are equally ac
cessible for visitors to Ardmore, and
Ardmore can accommodate 5,000 guests
for any length of time, and can feed
all who may come.
Fitzsimmons Keeps on Training.
Corpus Christi, Texas, Oct. 7. Fitz
simmons goes right along with his
training, notwithstanding the legisla
ture's action at Austin. He says he
has an offer from responsible parties
to pull the fight off, should the Flori
da Athletic club fail to do so. He says
he is determined to give Corbett - no
possible opportunity to escape him,
and that the big dude will either have
to fight or leave the country branded
as a coward, who is afraid to meet a
man who is much smaller than him
self. Bank Teller Arrested. .
Chicago, Oct. 7. Harry J. I. Mar
tin, for seven years teller of the Com
mercial National bank of Chicago, was
arrested last night on a warrant
sworn out before United States Com
missioner Foote by National Bank
Examiner McKeon, charging him with
embezzlement of $4,100.
Snow In Colorado.
Dknvkr, Col., Oct. 7. In some por
tions of the state six inches of snow
fell yesterday.
WAS BY ACCLAMATION
T. L NORVAL NAMED FOR SU
PREME JUDGE.
Proceedings of the Republican State Con
Tent ion Held at Lincoln The Matter
of Selecting a Ticket ?peellly and Har
moniously Accomplished What the
Platform Sets Fortli An A. P. A. Ref
lation Given Its Quietus.
Nebraska Republicans.
For Justice of the Supreme Court -
l . 1,. NOKVAL, Seward.
For Regents of the State University
'. U. M OK KILL. Lincoln,
II. L. GOULD. Ogalalla.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 3. The repub
lican state convention met in this city
yesterday. Chairman Morrill called
the convention to order at 2:45 p. m.
Rev. E. P. Chapin offered divine invo
cation. Secretary Sedgwick read the call for
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. 11. Morrill of Lincoln for
the regency. In accepting Mr. Morrill
pledged his best efforts to the interests
of the State university, which now
stood forth in the list of great univers
ities. Senator Thurston then addressed the
convention, after which came
thk platform.
Chirman Frick of the committee on
platform, then presented and read the
platform.
W e, 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 18'Ji. 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 wares 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 measnres, 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 has 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 lunctions of the
treasury department to a syndicate,
controlled bj' foreign capitalists, has
once more proven the utter incapacity
of the democratic party for aduninister
insr the affairs of the 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 cour
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 former, 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 revenue
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.
ALL KIN PS OK MONKY Kljl AI-
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 foieign 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 any 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
nizes the 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-
t i ... .
biou ui imure ie ihiuuon as it exnioit
ed toward these interests in the enact
ments of the first general irrigation
law in lftS'J, 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 1389 and in
cluded 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.
To 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
J sworn statements of costs of produc
j tion should be furnished in order that
I justice may be done to the people, as
: well as to the recipient.
Another Oreat Cruiser.
Philadelphia, 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
ing of this latest addition to the na
tion's fleet. On the christening stand
was a distinguished party. After the
ceremonies, luncheon was served iu
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 by naval
experts as a marvel in the art of ma
rine arcitectnre. She is classed as a
steel armored cruiser, having four
eight inch barbette turrets. Her cost,
exclusive of armament, is S3,9Sti,000.
The principa' dimensions are: Length
on the load water line, 400.5 feet;
beam, extreme, 64.63 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 ton.'. The
same dimensions of the New York are
respectively, 380. 55 feet; 64.1 feet;
23.35 feet; ,'J00 tons; 9,000 tons; 1,290
tons; 750 tons; speed, 21 knots. The
Brooklyn will have twin screws. 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
eignt eight-inch breech loading. rifles
of thirty-five caliber, twelve five-inch
breech loading rifles of the rapid fire
type, twelve six-pounder rapid fire
guns, foor 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
either 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 arc of ISO degrees
each. The 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 carriagesplat
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 any
position.
THE MOB WAS DISSUADED.
Two
Attempts to Hang William Dyer
Overcome by Kindly Interposition.
Sedalia. Mo., Oct. 3 A mob of 150
young men . assembled near George
town Sunday night to lynch William
Dyer, who murdered Thomas Walker
here Saturday night. 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 Thornleigh and pro
posed to hang Dyer and 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 tan days.
JUDGE CROZIER DEAD.
Another One of the Kansas Pioneer
Gone to HI Eternal Rest.
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
1868 was appointed United States sen
ator by the governor. Judge Orozier
was 70 years of age. and leaves a wife
and two children, one of whom is Cap
tain William Crozier, a distincruished
officer of the ordnance department.
United States army, and the other tire
wife' of Congressman Roy burn of
Pennsylvania.