Norwalk gazette, Friday, July 7, 1899 · page 11

 

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OUR MERCHANT MARINE.

_ .‘he Year’s Output of American Ship—
yards Has Been Unusually Large.
WASHINGTON, July 3.——The fiscal

year which ended on Friday was excep-
tional for the American merchant marine
in several respects. Full reports will not
be received by the bureau of navigation
for several weeks, but returns already
received warrant these statements:

 

The total output of American ship-5
yards has been the largest of any year"

for the last quarter of a- century, except

1 .1891, when 1,384 vessels of 369,302 gross

. tons were built and documented in the
United States. During the’ past fiscal
year the construction of merchant ves-
sels officially returned has consisted of
1,429 vessels of 320,876 gross tons. Be-
sides these, 22 vessels of foreign. con-
struction. aggregating 30,181 gross tons,
have been admitted to American regis-
try. 'It is also reported from Manila that
since last August 141 vessels have been
transferred from the hands of the Span-
ish, German and British subjects to
Americans, indicating the confidence of

V the business men of Manila in American

government. The tonnage of these ves‘
sels has not yet been reported, and the
transfer does not carry with it all the
rights of American registry. Had the
senate passed the house bill for the regis-
try of Hawaiian vessels, the total addi—
tions to our merchant fleet during the
year would have reached nearly 400,000
tons. Our largest annual production“ was
in 1855, when "2,027 vessels of 583,450
tons were built and documented.

For the first time in our history, steel
has become the principal material in our
annual construction of rigged vessels. the
steel tonnage for the year being 133,991
tons, wood 130,300 tons. Iron has ceased
to be a shipbuilding material.

No General Strike Yet.

CHICAGO, July 3.—There will. be no
general strike of the packing house
employees at present. The opinion pre~
vailed at yesterday's mass meeting of the
employees that the time was not ripe and
that the interests of the men would be
best conserved by waiting until an or
ganization could 'be perfected. The first
move in that direction was made at the
meeting. An organization known as the
Packing House I‘lmployees’ union was
formed,- and over 500 men became mem-
bers. By September the union is expect-
ed to have a membership of 15.000, and
if by that time the demands of the men
for better working hours and increased
wages are not complied with it was said
4: general tie up of the packing houses
would be ordered

Reading Wreck Caused by Boys.

SHAMOKIN, Pa., July 3,—Policemen
connected with the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad have ‘worn out war-
rants before Justice Ro \ for the arrest
of several youths suspected of having
caused the wreck of the express train
near Buckridge last Friday. The sus-
pects' will be apprehended today. when
their identity will be disclosed. The ages
of the accused boys. it is known. range
from T to 13 years. Hon. S. P. Vx'olver-
ton. counsel for the company, and the
police conferred yesterday on the line of
prosecution. The detectives have dis—
covered that two nuts instead of onc,.ns
was at first‘believed, were placed on the
rails at a distance of 5.00 feet apart.

 

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TH E TEXAS FLOODSr

Waters Still High—The Dumazeflow
Estimated at $4,000,000.

AUSTIN, July 3.—Rc;*"rts from the
Brazos bottoms are that Lee waters are
still very high, but are slowly receding,
and it is believed that the worst is over
in that section of the state. The Inter-
national and Great Northern railroad

ing force to work in the. water between
here and Hearne to replace the track and
bridges, and they announce that they ex—
pect to' have a train operating today.
They have several bridges to be replaced,
and much of their track has been under
water. The Houston and Texas Central
do not expect to get their trains running
for six days yet. Their track is four feet
under water for much of its way from
Hearne down, and as they have had a
number of bridges washed away and
cannot get at the creeks to replace them.
owing to the raging torrents, they will of
necessity have to wait until the waters
subside.

The‘estimated damage to the country
tributary to the Brazos valley of $4,000,-
000 is none too high. It is not believed
that the loss of life will be anywhere as
large as reported and will be principally
among the negroes.

Reports from along the bottoms state
that hundreds of people have been res-
cued during the last two days by means
of improvised rafts and that in each case
of known drowning some party has in-
discreetly upset a raft after getting on it,
with the result that the entire load was
thrown into the water“

A Conference With Bryan.

CHICAGO, July 3.—A conference was
held here yesterday between “'illiam
Jennings Bryan, .a number of Illinois
Democratic leaders, including M. F.
Dunlap, candidate for state treasurer
during thelast campaign; ex-Congress-
man Hinrichsen and Judge Thompson of
Jacksonville, all of whim were instru-
mental in swinging the Illino-3 delegation
to Bryan in the last Democratic national
convention. Allen TV. Thurman and R.
M. Ditty of Columbus, 0., were also
present. The conference lasted the great-
er part of the afternoon. Mr. Bryan de-
nied there was any political significance
in the meeting.

Serious Railway Wreck In England.

LONDON, July 3.—Many people were
injured in a railway accident at Wins-
ford, near Crewe, in Chestershirc, Satur-
day evening just before midnight. A
freight train on a siding overshot the
buffers and left the rails. Another
freight train collided with the wreckage
and caused the partial fall of a railway
bridge. Then a crowded excursion train
ran into the others. Upward of '50 cars
were wrecked.

 

Neyv Steamers Ordered.

BERLIN, July 3,—The North German
Lloyd Steamship company has ordered a
10.000 ton passenger and cargo steamer
for the Bremen-New York line. The
vessel will be constructed at the Tecklen-
berg works in Geestemunde. For its far
east line the company has ordered two
5.000 Lu cargo steamers, which will be
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the steamship lines.’

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PICTURES OF PLANT 'GROWTH.

The Moving Picture Machine Made
to Do Service For Science.

WASHINGTON, July 3.—The agricul-
tural depairtmeut has pressed the moving
picture machine into the service of sci-
ence. The“ division of vegetable patholo-
gy now has a device of this sort in opera-
tion in one of its greenhouses, photo-
graphing the growth of a small oak tree.
The machine works automatically, taking
a picture each hour. At night an electric
light is thrown into circuit as the expo-
sure is made. The machine has been run.

 

ning about two weeks and will be kept.

going about two weeks longer on its pres-
ent subject. When the series of pictures
is completed, it will be possible to repro-
duce with the stereopticon the growth of
the plant from the time the first shoot
appears above ground till the tree is in
full leaf and a foot or more high. While
the oak’ tree pictures are purely experi-
mental to develop the capacity of the
machine, it is intended to use the serial
photographs in watching the progress of
plant diseases, blights, insect parasites
and the like. The department hopes in
the nearfuture to be able to loan to the
agricultural colleges and experiment sta-
tions rolls of lantern slides film to illus-
trate certain of the department’s bulle-
tins on these subjects. .

It is pointed out that a lecturer before
a class of students could show in five

\minutes the growth and seed distribution'

0f any noxious plant, such as the Cana-
dian thistle, or the life history of an in-
sect pest so that it could be readily rec-
ognized and combated on its first ap-
pearance in a region, even ,though the
Fvorkers there had never seen it in actual
ife. ,

DEATH IN TROLLEY CAR.

Fatal Collision at Pittsburg—Two
' Iiilled. Fifteen Wounded.

PITTSBURG. July 3.—As a result of
a street car collision last night on the
road of the Monongahela Traction com-
pany two persons are dead, five seriously
injured and ten others more or less hurt.

The dead are 0‘. C. Opsion of 4741
Friendship avenue, this city, and \V. H.
Kirkland, motor-man. of Braddock.

The accident happened on a steep
grade near High bridge. The two cars
in collision were heavily loaded with pas-
sengers returning home from Kennywood
park. Motorman Griffith stopped his car
near the bottom of the hill to get a drink
of a water at a spring near by. He had
hardly left his car when the electric cur-
rent. for some reason as yet unexplained,
was shut off. [caving the car in darkness.

Motor-man Kirkland, with his car, fol-
lowed shortly afterward, and as the fore-
most car was in darkness it could not be
seen until too late to check the speed.

The rear car crashed into the other
with terrific force, almost telescoping it.

 

President Plnnt's ‘Succcf'ssor.
CHICAGO. July 3.—The Times~Her-
ald today says: "It is announced that R.
G. Irwin will be the successor to H. B.
Plant as the president of the Plant sys-

ter. Mr. Irwin was formerly at Atlanta,
but now lives in New York. He has
been very closely associated with the

Plant interests for the last few years and
will be able to fulfill Mr. Plant’s inten-
tions with regard to the roads and also

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PANA STILL. EXCITED: '

 

the Last of the Negro Colony Ila.

Departed, and Mines Are Closed.

thrown into a turmoil Saturday night by
repeated gunshot explosions in the
Springside and Penwell mining district
and by two' heavy discharges of dyna-
mite in the vicinity of the Baltimore and
Ohio railway shops.
gation .was made by the police, but they
were unsuccessful in finding the origin of
the explosions or in capturing the parties
doing the shooting.

The last of the negro colony of fully
1,000 brought here by,operators during
the past ten months to supplant union
men has departed on tickets furnished
by Governor Tanner. An the mines are
closed, and the mules have been hoisted
therefrom and placed on pasture. The
.operators claim that the pits are closed
indefinitely, However, it is reported that
when repairs under way at the Spring-
side and Pana mines are completed these
pits will'be opened with union men. '

John Hicklin, a negro barber, .was
waited on and ordered to leave the city
in five days. He appealed to Mayor Gor-
man for protection, claiming the lives of
himself and family were in jeopardy.

CAPTAIN DREYFUS A MARVEL.

\Vondertul Self Control Exhibited
During His Voyage to France.

PARIS, July 3.—Captain Coflinieres de
Nordeck, commander of the French cruis-
er Sfax, which brought Captain Dreyfus
to France, says in an interview published
yesterday that he was struck by the im-
mense power of self control displayed by
Captain Dreyfus during the voyage. The
prisoner’s attitude throughout was “one
of irony and disdain.” He had been suf-
fering severely from seasickness when he
was transferred to the Sfax, but he walk-
ed with firm tread and, during the entire
trip across the Atlantic, never showed a
sign of weakness or nervousness.

Captain Dreyfus was ignorant of the
fact that a new court’ martial awaited
him and remained in ignorance during
the first part of the voyage. When he
was finally informed. not a muscle of his
face moved. He merely said:

“I have no ill will toward anybody. I
shall be glad to re-enter the army, which
1 have never ceased to love.”

 

during the voyage. Most of the time he

passed in reading.

General \Vriglit Dead.

 

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CONDENsEo' CISl’ATCHES.
Ten thousand bales of cotton have been

.| burned in a Brooklyn storehouse.
PANA, Ills., July 3.—-This city was

Immediate investi‘ ;

 

A strike has begun in the Carnegie

Steel company’s plant at Homestead, Pa.
Ex~Congressman West of Ballston
Spa, N. Y., has suffered a second stroke
of paralysis. '
Minister Wu Ting Fang of China re-
turned to lVa-shington from a three

,_months' European trip.

A 13-year-old boy in Alabama killed
his mother and sister, having several-
weeks previously shot his father.

' Harvard, in addition to her aquatic and;
athletic victories over Yale this season,
has also carried elf the honors at base-
ball. ' -
M. Charles Victor Cherbuliez, novelist,
literary and art critic and member of the
French academy, died in Paris in his.
seventieth year.

More than 1,000 tons of fodder and
war material have already been forward—
ed from the W'oolwich dockyard, Eng-
land, to South Africa..

Troops Not Wanted.

ST. LOUIS, July 3.-—-A special to The
Republic from Carterville, Ills., says: “A
delegation of merchants and property
owners called on Colonel Culver to pro-
test against the presence of the troops
and to ask their withdrawal. The mem-
bers of the delegation stated that Sherifi
Gray had not exhausted his resources to
prevent a conflict and that he did not
even attempt to raise a posse; further--
more, that he was not at the scene of the
trouble more than three "hours during the
two days it lasted." At a meeting of the
leading merchants of the town Saturday
night $450 was raised to defray the ex—
penses of sending away the nonunion
miners in the Brush shaft.

More Yellow Fever.

SANTIAGO, Cuba, July 3.—Ten new
cases of yellow fever were reported Sat'
urday and five yesterday. This raises
the total number of casesto 74. No
deaths were reported yesterday.
United States troops have all been re-
moved from the infected camp, but the
doctors seem unable to check the progress
of the disease among them. The camp,
which is on the road to El Morro and in
hilly country, was chosen because of, its

He did not allude to the subject again 2 known salubrity and perfect sanitary

condition. There are no cases of yellow

; fever in the city.

; Large Blast Furnaces For Chicago.

WASHINGTON, July 3.—General Ho-

ratio G. Wright, who made a brilliant
record in the late war, serving at Gettysé
burg and the campaign in the \Vilderness
and around Richmond, died here yester-
day after an illness of three months. Be-
sides his fine war‘ record, General \Vright
achieved eminence as an engineer, serv-
ing as chief of United States army engi-

neers from 1870 until his retirement in -

1884.

Socialist Distu’rbii'nce‘s' Continue.

BRUSSELS, July 3.——The Socialists
organized demonstrations yesterday in
this city, in Liege and in Alost against
the electoral reform bill. There were no
serious disorders except at Alost, where
the police charged with drawn swords.
wounding ten.

CHICAGO, July 3.—The Illinois Steel
company has let a contract for two new

blast furnaces to be located on Eighty- ,

sixth street. The contracts amount to
$800,000. The new furnaces will have
the largest capacity for pig iron produc-
tion of any in the country.
Newspaper Man Dead.
ATLANTA, July 3.——Montgomery M.
Folsom, one of the best known newspaper

' men in this section of the south, died at

his home in Atlanta yesterday of apo-
plexy.
Disturbed Over Dreyfus.

MARSEILLES. July 3.—There were
slight disturbances here yesterday grow-
ing out of discussions regarding the Drey-
fus afiair. The police made several ar-
rests.

L ‘ I e
- CHAMBERS PROROGUEQ

lo Intention of France to Curt-II
Right. of Parliament.

PARIS, July 5.-—In the chamber of
ieputies yesterday M. Paul Beauregard,
Republican, representing one of. the dis-
tricts of the Seine, submitted his prom-
ised interpellation on the subject of the
bill dealing with workmen’s wages and
the hours of labor. He disputed the right
of M. Millerand (Socialist), minister of
commerce, to deal with the matter by de-
cree, as he propOSed to do, until the next
session. The speaker was loudly inter-
rupted by members of the Extreme Left.

M. Millerand, in replying, disclaimed
any intention upon the part of the gov-
ernment to curtail the rights of parlia—
ment.

Other deputies desired to debate the
matter, but the premier, M. Waldeek-
Rousseau, declined to consent to this, and
the chamber upheld him by 338 to 186
votes.

The premier then read a decree pro-
roguing parliament for the long vacation,
and, amid applause from the Leftists
and protests from the Right, the house
was adjourned.

 

Miles speaks In Ohio. .

MANSFIELD, 0., July 5.—General
Nelson A. Miles, who arrived here Mon—
day as the guest of Hon. John Sherman,
to whom the general is related by mar;
ri‘age, was the orator of the day at the
celebration of the Fourth of July at
Sherman-Heineman park. The ex.sena-
tor was unable to participate on account
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manding general, but every attentiOn
was shown General Miles here, and li'e
was accorded an 'ovation wherever he
went. He was introduced at the pa. k
by General R. Brinkerhotf and tender d

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Fierce Fire In Meinphls.
MEMPHIS, July 5.—Fire broke out in
the establishment of the Memphis Paper
company, :3; the corner of Gayoso and
Front streets, late yesterday afternoon

rious injury of Assistant Fire Chief
James Ryan, besides a property loss of
about $450,000. The Gayoso hotel, one
of the oldest landmarks of Memphis. was
one of the buildings totally destroyed,
and while the guests were all rescued
some of them lost valuable effects in the
fire, which burned fiercely for more than
six hours.

Michigan Divorce Cases.
LANSING, Mich., July 5.—~Duriug the
year 1898, according to reports just re-

were 1,808 divorces granted in Michigan,
this number showing a “healthy in-
crease” over the preceding year. In
1,336 cases the wife was the complainant,
and in 472 cases the husband was the ag‘
grieved party.

 

Chilean Naval Arsenal Burned.

VALPARAISO. Chile, July 3.—The
naval arsenal at Talcahuano, about eight
miles northwest of Concepcion, was burn—
ed to the ground last Friday. The loss is
more than $50,000. It is suspected that
the fire was the work of an incendiary,
with a view of covering defalcations by
government officials.

 

 

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