Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1896 — LAUNCH OF THE BATTLESHIP IOWA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LAUNCH OF THE BATTLESHIP IOWA.

President and Mrs. Stevenson, Secretary and Miss Herbert and Mrs. Micou, Secretary and Miss Morton, Attorney General and Mrs. Harmon, the naval committees from both houses of Congress, the lowa and Alabama Congressional delegations, Maj. Gen. Miles and staff, the chiefs of the naval bureaus and other army and naval officers. Most of the excursionists were accompanied by the ladies of their families. The lowa is intended solely for fighting purposes and is, the fourth battleship built for the new United States navy. It has been constructed with the idea of eea purposes and is to be far superior to the brag ships of the English and French navies. It is not easy to comprehend the potential power of this mighty fighting machine. Imagine, if you can, a monster of white aspect, 360 feet long, 72 feet broad, sitting 27 feet in the water, and weighing 11,410 tons. Down in the hold of this great craft an army of coal heavers and firemen will shovel fuel into thirty yawning, glaring mouths. The steam .-thus generated is used in almost innumerable ways. There will be no fewer than a hundred engines in the lowa when she is finished, electrical and hydraulic, used for the purposes of raising anchors, taking on and discharging stores, bringing ammunition from the magazines to the great guns, turning the turrets, swinging the rudder, discharging ashes

from the fireboxes, lifting and lowering the ship’s boats, heating and drying every nook and cranny of the hull, illuminating thousands of electric lamps, and the grekt searchlights as well, freezing tons of ice for daily use of crew, pumping cold air into the firerooms, where the stokers stand almost naked at their work—these are only a few of the wellnigh limitless purposes to which steam is put on a modern man-of-war and the energy of coal is used to facilitate the daily work. Cost $4,000,000. The lowa has been built in an almost incredibly short time, indicative of the facilities which this country is acquiring for turning out great battleships in short order. The contract for the lowa was awarded only a little more than three years ago, and her keel was not laid til'.

on his trial last fall, has been suspended from the privileges of the Pennsylvania courts for one year. He was found guilty of subornation of perjury in that case and was sentenced Saturday. Shoemaker got a woman to sign a false affidavit to the effect that Pitezel, the man mur-

dered by Holmes, had in her presence expressed an intention to commit suicide.

LAWYER SHOEMAKER.

MISS MARY LORD DRAKE.