The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 18, 1902, Page 9

ri VALUE OF TORPEDO BOATS. | To Re Thoroughly Tested in the Com- | ing Maneuvers in Newport Been Decided Upon After Full (R, L) Waters. and Careful Investigation. | EW NAVY RATION,| ¥ | The value of torpedo boats and tor- pedo boat destroyers for war pur- Comprehensive Change Provided im poses is to be definitely determined by the Food of the Jackies—What | the maneuvers of the flotilla, which ! } the New Eation Will | has arrived at _ Newport. The war | T Comaixt Of. {with Spain indicated that the destroy- | } er and torpedo boat were much over- | Uncle Sam's men of war's men are’ rated, but there are mz uny experts in “to have a comprehensive change in , the navy who believe these types had their food. Rear Admiral Kenny, pay-! no chance, and say under conditions | master general of the navy, hus sub- | permitting torpedo warfare they would | mitted to Secretary Moody for pro-| be found extremely valuable. mulgation the draft of anofiicialorcer! Lieut. Commander J. H. Chandler, prescribing the compotents of a new: the commander in chief of the flotilla, ration to be given to the enlisted men. | is one of the enthusiastic torpedo boat This draft is based upon the provision | experts of the navy. He was specially of the naval appropriation law, ap} selected for this duty, because it was | proyed by the president on the day of} believed that he would obtain the | the adjournment of congress. In the! greatest development of the boats. | Bavy the ration of the juckies is pre-| His instructions are to train the offi- scribed by law, and no deviation there- | cers and men to run the boats, try and from is permitted, Defects in the ra-| develop a system of tactics for them, + orereresrrroes 22Se22> Don't be a Clam? You won't be touched. Cut We will not ask you to shovel coal or carty water—both are free. Come in at once the buttons off your pockets. After seeing our stock and hearing our prices the Mayor and City Pa’s took to the woods, dis- missed th: City Police, and turned the calaboose and jail into conservatories. The cause of all this was that our prices being so low, and the quality so good, there is no excuse for stealing. tion fixed by law in July, i861, were | brought to the attention of Rear Ad-! miral Kentiy some months ago, and he | obtained the appointment of a board | to consider the food of the enlisted men with a view to finprovement. It as found that individual members of esses or board ship, inorder to make | eir meals palatable, were compelled o raise funds for buying fresh vege- bles and fruits and various delica- ies whenever a ship wasin port. ‘This | measure, purely voluntary on the part of the men, was encouraged by the cf- ficers of cruising ships as affording a | ‘\much needed relief from the inelastig! |diet fixed by the law. The new ration will, Rear Admiral! Kenny is confident, do away with any expenditure by the men of their own money. This is what the enlisted man will hereafter eat: “One pound and a quarter of salt or smoked meat, with three ounces of dried or six ounces of canned fruit, and 12 ounces of rice or eight ounces of canned vegetables, or four ounces of desiccated vegetables; together with one pound of biscuit, two ounces of but- ter, four ounces of sugar, two ounces of coffee or cocoa, or one-half ounce of tea, and one ounce of saeeiied ‘milk or evaporated cream, and a week ly allowance of one-half pound of mac- \ ficient another flotilla will be formed and, in fact, get up some specific plan for using them in time of war. There is an absolute lack of knowl- edge on these points, but by constant drills and maneuvers results may be achieved which will cause the navy to reverse its present opinion of the ef- fectiveness of this craft. The flotilla will not participate in the joint army and navy maneuvers off the eastern entrance of Long Island sound, though it may take part in the exercises of the North Atlantic squad- ron, Lieut. Commander Chandler will be left to work out the problem set be- fore him; all the department wants is results, If the boats should prove ef- in the fall, and the two will be ordered to the Caribbean sea to take part in the maneuvers of the North Atlantic, South Atlantic and European squad- rons, INCREASED POSTAL RECEIPTS. Over Half a Million Dollars More Taken In Last Month Than Dur- Ing Same Month Last Year, A statement of the gross postal re- ceipts for June, 1902, just issued by the post office department, shows that test aroni, four ounces of cheese, four ounces of tomatoes, one-half pint of vinegar, one-half pint of pickles, one- half pint of molasses, four ounces ot alt, one-quarter ounce of pepper and e-half ounce of dry mustard. Vive pounds of lard or a suitable substitute will be allowed for every hundred pounds of flour issued as bread and such quantities of yeast as may be necessary.” A substitute for the components of the ration may be made under certain tircumstances, as follows: “For 1% pounds of salt or smoked meat or one pound of preserved meat, \% pounds of fresh meat. In lieu of the article usually issued for salt, smoked or preserved meat, fresh vege- tables of cqual value; for one pound bf discuit 1% pounds of soft bread or 18 punees of flour; for three gills of peas or beans, 12 ounces of flour or rice or | tight ounces of canned vegetables; ind for 12 ounces of flour or rice or tight ounces of canned vegetables, hree gills of beans‘or peas.” This al- owance will cost the government. ybout 30 cents per man per f liem and contains everything neces- ; \ary to support the health and well be- ng of the men in every climate. tREAT MIRRORS FOR CHILI. jast in Paris, Po Polished in Pittsburg and Now Awaiting Shipment ‘\ + at San Jose, Cal, The reflecting telescope mirrors for se with the D. 0. Mills expedition tom the Lick observatory to Chili, re- ently completed by an Allegheny Pa.) firm, have reached Mount Ham- ‘ton, San Jose, Cal., in perfect condi- ition. The glass was cast in Paris and ent to Allegheny to be polished. The telescope mounting to hold the lirrors had been sei up in the rear of ae observatory. When the adjustments and tests of ae assembled apparatus have been bmpleted, all will be packed for ship- lent early in August to the vicinity of alparaiso, Chili, A modern steel ome to cover the telescope has been Z| >nstructed in Cleveland, U., and will A yon reach San Francisco for ship- \" . ent. The purpose of the expedition is to x serve spectroscopically the brighter : rs in the southern hemisphere, 2) hich cannot be observed from Mount 4 | milton, the observations in both i | i i mispheres to be used by Director tmpbell and Assistant Astronomer right in determining the motion of lar system through space. The ex- dition plas to remain in Chili about ’ Fee years, ork Brings Heavy-Weight Baby. The largest child ever.born in Lake unty, Ill, physicians say the la rgest | the entire state, saw the light of y in Waukegan. Mrs. George Gat- 4 became mother of ‘a daughter aich weighed 21% pounds. While ap- rently healthy the child died within ‘hours. Of her four other children \ ts. Gatlin has raised two, each of ! tom weighed more than 14 pounds. ',¥o who died at the ages of 9and 18 respectively weighed 15 each, On the father's side, in | f several children, every ap pounds. Watehmaker Honorea, “SO"yeare of Ghiidiate resiat- the watchmak- peed a cer- igirl, Gisela | shall pay for this service $4,000, and 50 of the _largest post offices $4,473,368, as compared with $3, in June, 1901, a net ine eof 882, or 14.6 per cent. The receipts at the New York office increased from $826,174 in June, 1901, to $43,576 in June, 1902, a gain of $107, or 12.8 per cent.; Chicago, from $588,149 to $704,425, an incrense of $116,276, or 19,7 per cent.; Philadelphia, from $299,- 708 to $337,052, an increase of or 12.4 per cent.; and Boston $261,570 to $291,061, an increase of $29, 421, or 11.2 percent. It is evident from the statement that St. Louis has al- ready begun to feel the efforts of the coming Louisiana Purchase exposi- tion, for the receipts for June, 1902, were $200,082, as compared with $162,- 985 for June, 1901, an increase over last year of $43,079, or 26.4 per cent. The receipts at Buffalo fell off from $85,365 in June, 1901, to $82,721 for last month, a decrease of $2,644, or 3 per cent., and at Albany from $24,599, a loss of $1,400, or 5.6 percent. ‘The only other decrease was at Jersey City, where receipts for last month show a falling off of 8 per cent. from June of last year. USED GOLD BRICK SCHEME. French Swindlers Adopt the Ameri« ean Idea with Certain Peculiar Variations, were In the little town of Marennes, France, a robbery of much ingenuity has just been perpetrated. Two men called at the house of a citizen and told him their sister had been dishon- ored. In order, they said, to conceal this fact and preserve her good name, they were searching for a family who would adopt and raise her child. “We in two years will double this sum,” they said. “Will you accept the charge?” The man consulted his wife, and when she consented, the two strangers produced $4,000. Then they asked if the person who took charge of the child had a guarantee to offer. The man brought out $300, and the two brothers took both sums of money and put them ina box. Then the four people breakfasted, and the pair pre- senting the box to the man, said they would send the key of it with the child. After they had gone, the man, becoming suspicious, opened the box, to find only a few sous and some pieces of lead. NEW COUNTERFEITS. Warning Against Twenty-Dollar Gold and Five-Dollar Silver Certificates, The treasury department has ts sued a tvarning of new counterfeits de- scribed as fqllows: “Twenty-dollar gold certificates; check letter A; plate} fl number, 51; act of July 12, 1862; J. W. Lyons, register; Ellis - berts, treasurer; portrait of Garfleld; and five-dollar silver certificates; check letter A; series of 1899; J. W. Lyons, register; Ellis H. Roberts, treasurer; portrait of ‘Onepapa.’” These coun- terfeits are crudely executed photo- graphs, with coloring applied to seals, numerals and backs in such a bungling — manner as to make impossible their ex-} tensive circulation. The makers of these counterfeits have been arrested : at Centerville and Mcntgomery, Ala. The king of Italy bas gone to see— the czar, says the Chicago Recrod-Her- | au, and wecrrepn to ae out t wheth=' ee STA MTTRTMTMTRT IE 2 We have just received a fresh car of Michigan salt, a car of the famous Pleasanton flour en route a car of Peoria Wilson & Garland Heaters unload- You all are, nothing ever beat them. ed and they must go. know what they We have received one car of the world’s best Sulkies and gangs, the DEERE RANGER and High Lift. A ear each of the Peter Schuttler, Mitchell and Moline wagons. Our buyer just ordered another car of Mitchells, and you will have to hurry or they will be gone before you get yours. floosier Drills going like chaff before a_ fire, Nothing beats a Hoosier Dise Drill, and don’t fail to see the Grain King Feed Mills and Scoop Boards. In farm harness we have the largest stock we ever carried, and the price is right. Come in, we are always glad to see our friends. Make the EIG STORE your headquarters. We Ne we dEN EUILD NEW CHURCH. as Mex, Generosity of Miss Leary New York Ix to ficent Structure. Mave Maze the Blessed Sacrament in New York eity are soon to have a church of their own, the first in the suussscue permitted by the ruler of the order. The Fathers of the Llessed ment had long desired to c New York, the perpetual blessed su e to adoration of ument calls. for unusual splendor, their application for admis- sion to the diocese found little en- couragement, But Miss Leary took up their cause {and herself pleaded with Archbishop Corrigan, and on her promise to be- friend the order and to help build a church the srehbishop gave his con- Meanwhile the fathers made their home in the church of St. Jean Baptiste, in East — Seventy-sixth sent, street. This little house wa re- decorated at thes expense of Miss Leary’s purse and was fitted with furnishings in keeping with the serv- lees, new altars, stained glass win- dows and marble casements, Miss Leary recently enlisted the aid of Mrs. Plant, and the two wom- en dee 1 to build a fine church out of their own funds, though they will not refuse contributions, Mrs, Plant only a few weeks ago made a proposition to the son of her husband by his first wife that if he was agreeable the Tampa Bay hotel, in Tampa, Fla, should be converted into a Jesnit college, is She said that if ber stepson would give his interest in the hotel for this ¥ | purpose she would do the sme, and, 43 moreover, would endow the college ‘$ with a fund of $1,000,000, }}| WOMAN FARMS OWN LAND. 2b te Te Eb i ae ib si ie Sb tae tao Ue san GB ab sib ib ie tie sie ip tae “he Ie sie Ae y Miss Abbie Peffer, Niece of Former nd Senator Petter, In Successtul, an 3 Tiller of Soil, New Yorker’ Visits President in Borrowed. Evening Dress. | Amasivg Predicament In Which a Throngh generosity of Miss | , Anni the only American | | woman de a countess of the fhely see, and of Mrs. Henry B. } Piant, widow of the ad and ste ation nate, the Fathers of | United | States and the only one that will be but as the ceremonial of? the dress as if the president were in the i Basincss Mam Found Himself at Oyster Bay and How Newsxpa- v Men Helped Him Out, Although Pre: nt Roosevelt roughs 1 day about Sagamore hill, he and retary Cortelyou always dress for dinner, and it is well understood that anyone who is asked to the house at ight will attend in the same formal nm white house. Hence the embarrass- ment of a New Yorker who went to Oyster Bay on business. He had no time to make preparations, and his outfit-when he got there consisted of just the clothes he stood in, He telegraphed to New York for things to wear, and was enjoying a loaf on the hotel veranda when a telephone message from Secretary Cortelyou in- formed him that the president would be pleased to see him at 8:30 o'clock that evening. There are no dress suits for rent in Oyster I and the New Yorker sat on the veranda and worried, His predica- ment to the knowledge of the newspaper correspondents, they put their wardrobes at his disposal. This New Yorker had never been able to buy ready to wear clothing, his legs are so long, his girth sosmall, and his shoulders so broad. But he got all the contributed dress suits together, collected all the dress shirts, buttons and ties in the visiting delegation, and from this room full of many sized and multishaped men's garments built a composite whole. of which these were the component parts: The trousers of the New York Times, The white waistcoat of the Philadel- phia North American, The coat of the Seripps-MeRae league. The shirt of the New York Sun, The collar of the Associated Press. The hat of the Secret Se The tie of the New York Herald, In this attire he looked about as well as the ordinary citizen in his evening having come ™~ Ss fy i > j will show you cnough to make you foret your troubles for at least a week, Should any of our clerks or proprietors. appear 827 bw lo lot wy te LLL L Ls non-attentive, report tothe bouncer and they will be fired from a cannon just as the sun goes down. Come see us, Yours truly, Senator Stewart's Wife Killed in Auto Accident. New Albany, Ind, San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 12 —The wife of United States Senator Will- iam A, Stewart, of Nevada, was kill- ed in an automobile accident in Alemada this afternoon, H. B. Taylor and the young son of Lawyer W. W Foote were running , the automobile when something hap pened to the steering gear, and the machine swerved to one side of the street and crashed into a telegraph pole. Aged Mrs. Stewart was thrown out and three of her ribs were broken She also suffered internal injuries, which cansed her death. The yonug men were not hurt. Mis. Stewart’s home was in Wash- ington, D.C. Walter Q. Gresham, secretary of under President: Cleveland, «eh ed the 99th anniversary of her 11 miles west of New Albany. sali active and vigorous. Fortune Favors aT “Having back and stomack, and. bei ‘ing out appetite, IT began to use soon felt like a new man in stomach and liver troubles, senmmerrmanes ts ee te FLOUR. KANSAS DIAMOND never disappoints. Car of strict- ly old wheat just in at PIERPOINTS, Lay in your winter’s supply now. Remember the price is only 95 cents for the high patent. on $500 Ib. ‘ thing else at rock bottom. Special lig- ‘Every Your ures lots. fall business will be appreciated. -— PIERPUINT BROS (GHENGSISNGUSNGS alo hl Walter Q. Gresham's Mother. Sept. 8.—Mrs Sarah Romley, mother of the lat: Sufiday at her home, near Lanesville, ‘aiteher great age) Mes. Raney is istressings pains in head, King’s New Life Pills,” writes WP Whitehead, of Kennedale, Tex . “* " Infaltibl: 25¢ at H. L. Tucker’s drug store. WS 4 has for the past ten years conducted K O-acre farm three miles southwest Vhhie Peffer, educated for the and society and for vight sea- 1 teacher in the public schools, ) i a, Ind, She is a woman 4s of refinement and culture, but has taken up agricultural pursuits because Y she does not want to 4 stead pass into the hands of strangers 4 and because reliable, indolent and worthless when t under the supervision of a frail wom- Her fruits and vegetables are fa -e the old home- male farmhands are un- MiB sich or sare taciiateams. work is really marvelous, Miss Peffer is a niece of ex-Senator W, A. Peffer, of Kansas, and she combines a remark- able determination with industry and a thorough knowledge of agricultural pursuits. The farm which she cultivates is one of the finest in this locality. It pro- duces corn, wheat, potatoes, the finest strawberries, apples, ete, In addition the woman sells butter, raises poultry and hogs, cares for two horses and two cows summer and winter,All- the pro- duce is marketed by herself, D. Miss Peffer is a misogamist and in 12 years no man has moved a plow, a reaper or a hoe on the Peffer She is a very remarkable woman who takes pride in that which but few other women could ever carry out, All the work in the fields, in the gar- With} den, orchard and stables is done by her De.| own hands. FINDS LONG-LOST GIRL. state brat- birth land, ‘anid Kidnaped Danghter of Fastern Man Discovered After Years as Wife of Chicago Man, Ouly eee oleae ale a ioTeerolelelelcy Nicholas Nathan, of Hoboken, N. J., who came to Aurora, IIl., some weeks ago searching for his long-lost daugh- ter, has finally made up his mind that he has found her in Ethel Green Blum, The girl was kidnaped many years ago at Hoboken. During his first visit to Aurora Mr. Nathan was convinced by the church records and the statement of Maj. Green regarding his sister's birth that Mrs. Blum and his daughter were not the same. But his attorney was in Aurora and again examined the ree- ords. Tle said he believed that if it could not be proved the girl was kid- naped she will be adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Nathan and become the ,sole heiress to their immense wealth Ethel Green Blum is the wife of Na- thaniel Blnm, manager of a wholesale carpet house. The marriage was sol- emnized when the girl was 16 years of age. and two weeks later her supposed mother died, leaving a statement that the girl had been kidnaped. A MOVING PLATFORM. Bridge Travel Between New York and Brooklyn to Be Simplified by New Contrivance, Bridge Commissioner Lindeuthall has a new moving platform scheme for the relief of the Brooklyn bridge. A firm of contractors has agreed to place moving platforms on the bridge within nine months, and will ask no money from the city until the plat- forms are accepted as a success, Commissioner Lindenthall says pas- sengers can step without fear upon a platform moving at the rate of two and a half miles an hour, and by continuing to walk at normal speed when upon it will then be moving at five miles an hour. Then the passen- ger can step to a five-mile platform, and so on from the five-mile to the seven and a half, and ten-mile an hour platform which moves across the bridge. ald, bad when _ get st Tes, AiTer a pleasant evening with the president he drove back to the vil- lage, where the real owners of the seve eral articles stood inline in the street demanding their property. OIL TO SUCCEED COAL. Eastern Manufacturers Have In- and Are Watch- ‘rice of Coal, ing the The prospect of higher-priced bi- tuminous coal has again started east- ern manufacturers figuring on how soon they may begin using oil as a fuel with saving to themselves. It {s already established that oil can be used at a less cost than anthracite coal at prevailing prices, It takes about 170 gallons of ofl to generate the same amount of power as one ton of this kind of coal, which now costs about $7.50 a ton. Its equiv alent in oll, at the present price of the Standard Oil company—4% centa a gallon—would cost only $7.22, bes sides efeocting-a-saving of at tenst the wages of one fireman and the expense of removing ashes, At the present price of soft coal the oil costs about $2.75 more, which, of course, makes its use inadvisable at » coal will have to sell at about six dollars a ton before it is possible for oil to become a formidable com- petitor. Many manufacturers and owners of big buildings have had their furnaces fitted with oil-burning appliances as an emergency measure, so that the change from cou) to oil could be made without the | + of a day. The instaljation of the necessary ap- pliance is very simple, and can ordi- narily be done in about a day. BRIDE Bi BALKS AT ALTAR. Wealthy Washington Girl Stops the Ceremony to Muse on the Mar- riage Problem, A story of a half-completed mar- riage ceremony came to light at Washington the other day, The prin- cipals are Frank Mitehell, a elerk in the car department of the Southern railway offices in) Washington, and Theodora H. Van Wyck, daughter of the late Senator Van Wyck, of Ne- braska. The young woman is said to have an income of $60,000 a year, The couple appeared before Rev. Dr. Radcliffe, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian church, and said they desired to get married. The man, who said his name was Frank Mitchell, showed a marriage license. Miss Van Wyek was very nervous, and when asked the question: “Doyou take this man to be your lawful wedded hus- band?” the prospective bride prompt- ly answered: “No, I don't.” “Why not?” asked Dr, Radcliffe. “Because,” Miss Van Wyck an- swered, “this is too serious, I've got to think it over,” Mitchell endeavored to persuade Miss Van Wyck to continue with the ceremony, but she flatly refused to do so. When It Pays to Marry. The wedding presents received by W. If. Vanderbilt's granddaughter who was married a few days ago amounted in value to $1,300,000, It pays, says the Chicago Record-Herald, to marry a girl like that. Those Bad Frenchmen, They have just had a riot in the French chamber of deputies, several been disarrunged. The French, says the Chicago Record-Ler-