Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 31, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 December 1896 — Page 2

lihcl’ifec (Eounttj Democrat M. MeC. ST001.*8, Editor ud Proprtoto» PETERSBURG. - * IN1MANA. The body of Mathilda Blind, the an* thoresa and lecturer, who died recent- j ly, was incinerated in the crematory at Woking, England, on the 1st. Secretary Francis of the interior] department submitted his first annual : report to the president on the 4th. A large majority of the English non-union laborers who went to Hamburg to take the places of the strikers, refused to unload Tessels and returned to England.

Th* public debt statement, issued on the 1st, showed a net increase in the public debt, less cash in the treasury during November of 18,500,33^ Total in the treasury, $835,961,vn. ' It was ax&ounced, on the 1st, that Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, would be willing to accept the oflice of secretary of the navy uuderjth© McKinley administration. . A DISPATCH to the London Daily Mail from Constantinople, on the 3d, •akl that another massacre had occurred at Everek, in which 1<#) Armenians were reported to have been Willed. __ A DisraTCH from Bombay, on the 3d, said that the mortality from famiuein - the Belapuraud Belaghai districts was steadily increasing. Hundreds of persons had died from starvation in the Gona district. _ Mh. llAfCH, the Hawaiian minister to the United States, accompanied by Mr. Cooper, miuisterof foreign affairs of the republic pf Hawaii, called upon Secretary Olney at the department of state on the 2d. Bishop Kean*. late rector of the Catholic university in Washington, will sail for Home, on the 5th, iu response to the commands of the pope to go to that city aud perform such duties as may be there assigned him. Th* fifth accident in three weeks in the wheel pit extension of the power Lunuel at Niagara Falls. N. Y., occurred, ou the 3d, when the fastenings iu the bucket carrying some stoue. gave way, fatally injuring two laborers. ■_ _ Th* report published in the London Daily Mail, on the 1st, that Sir Matthew White Rio ley,“the home secretary, had ordered the release from Holloway jail of Dr. Jamieson, the Transvaal raider, is confirmed upon official authority. Th* announcement was receited in London, on the 4th, of the death, on November li, of Joseph James Cheeseman, president sof the. republic of Liberia, and the inauguration, on November 13, of Vice-Fresideut . W. IX Coleman as president. Thirteen signed letters from George Washington to Arthur Young, the agriculturist, dated from 1786 to 3793, on farms iu America, were sold at auction at Sotheby's (London) on the 1st. After some smart bidding the documents were sold for A47U. ' Th* annual report of FostmasterGenerai Wilson will not be made public until after the president has submitted his annual message to congress. This is takeu to indicate that matters of great importance pertaining to postal affairs are under consideration. A yavsTs of persons suspected of be Ing concerned iu plots against the Turkish’government continue. Many of those takeu into custody have been te.zed while in bed aud takeu at once to the central prison. The suffering and distress in Constantinople is increasing. Th* cabinet meeting, on the 4th,was atteuded by ail the members except Secretary Lament and Attorney General Harmon. It is understood that such portions of the president's message as relates to foreign affairs were discussed and financial recommendations considered. Th* Manchester Guardian says that Lord Salisbury, British prime minister •nd secretary of state for foreign affairs, will make very strong representations to the Spanish government with reference to the detention iu Cuba by the authorities there of Richard and John Beatty, residents of British Columbia.

Tit state of Minne.sota will probably realize $10,b00 by the seizure, on the 3d, of 30 tons of veaisou by the state game warden, because it was belug illegally shipped from that state to Boston, »w York and Chicago. The hues for the illegal transportation of the game will amount to over S40,0u0t This seizure is said to be the largest ever matte iu the United Mates. Tuz United Mates court of claims has ordered a reheariug in the celebrated La Atra aiming case, involving a claim for large au-ounts against Idexico, which was disputed on*the ground of fraud, and referred by congrass to the court of claims for final judgment. The rehearing will not take place until after the Christmas holidays, the persona chiefly interested in the claims being in 2iew York. Bbcav&S of repeated unfriendly acts shown toward this nation President Cleveland, on the 3d,-issued a proclamation revoking his former proclamation of January ,10, 1S»S, suspending the collection of port duties imposed upon foreign vessels upon “vessels entered in the ports of the United Metes from liny of the ports of the German empire; this revocation to take effect on and after the second of Januai*,

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CURRENT TOPICS THE HEWS IK BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Peter Bkosskau, a Chicago com mission merchant, was held up and robbed of $3,000 on a Halstead-street electric car at Thirty-ninth street on the JOth. Charles Mathusek, who stole ttte wallet containing the money, was arrested after a severe struggle, but two companions who aided him snatched the pocketbook while Mathusek was struggling with his captors, jumped from the car and escaped. The steamer City of Kalamazoo was burned at her dock at South'Haven, Mich., on the morning of tjhe* 30th. Robert Van O-trand and Jbe Lang, firemen, were burned to dea/th. The stewardess is missing, aud it is feared she also has perished. Plague has made its appearance in there are Cholera is Formosa, aud the Japanese dying in large numbers, prevalent in Tokio, and appears to be on the increase. The h"ine of Luther Or^enman, a I farmer, four miles northeast of Perry. N. Y., was destroyed by hire, on dhe j morniug of the 20th. aud jthe entire family, consisting of five persons, w as | burned to death. Tue Falls Cotton Co. at] Norwich, i Conn., resumed, on the 30thj, after four and a half mouths’ shut-down aud som^&00 employes began work. Wm. Steixway. the well-kfiowu piano j manufacturer, who had bjeeu ill for j some time with typhoid feter, died in j New York on the 30th.

A sew oruige is to oe constructed over the Hudson river at New York at, a cost not to exceed S£5,000„000. Tux t>50 employes of the Standard silk xutU. at Philipsburg, N- J., who had been working on short time for several mouths, went to w ork on full time on the 30th. The knitting establishment of Seifert & Eitouheart, at the same place, which had been idle several months, has beetf purchased by Carty & bouders, who also commenced operations on the 30th. ] Gen. Weylkh. as acknowledged by «himseif iu interviews with! prominent Spaniards of the Junta de Defeusa in his palace at Havana, has resolved to exterminate all the Cuba|ns in the province of Pinar del Rio nlot engaged as soldiers in the Spauishj ranks, no matter how peaceful apd harmless they appear. A riRE engine called out by a false alarm at Everett, Mass., On the 1st, was run iuto by a locomotive. The eugineer of the steamer was killed, and the driver aud both horses were fatally injured. Axx the logging camps ini the neighborhood of Manilla, -Mieh.w are making preparations to begin! work, and mauy have already started. The prospects are for a very prosperous w inter. The Wisconsin board of election canvassers completed its labors, on the 2d, finding that McKinley electors received £68,135, as agaiusti 162,528 for the Bryan electors. The situation at Chippewa Falls Wis., was very critical, on the 2d, the entire city aud much of th(e Chippewa valley being liable to destruction and devastation at almost auy |uioiuent by the giving way of the ijumeu-e ice gorges that had formed in the river at intervals for many :i kc>.| Tin- r -.- dents were rapidly moving tin ir merchandise and household j eticcVs to higher ground. The official coutft of the votes cast in the recent election in t:.e state of Rhode lslaud is 1,000 larger than at first supposed. The correct McKinley, 37.347; Bryan, rality for McKinley, £2.07$. Tux body of Sheriff William E. Herron of Plymouth couuty, la., was found, bruised and frozen!, beside the railway track near Merrill, Neb., on the 2d, where he had evidently fallen from a train. figures are; 14,450; plu

v*:* me *.u aauw> vivv officials arrested Jeff Paget and Albert L.ls, two of the bandits kho held up ami attempted to robau Alton express traiu at Biue Cut* near Independence. Mo., on the eveniug oij October 24. Evidence against Uieiu is conclusive. John W. 1 Hoxs. secretary ofthe Fulton county board of health, reported to the Indiana state board of health, on the 3d, the death of hie children in that county from diphtheria. Their parents belonged to the sanctifies sect, and positively refused uieuical aid. for the children. Finally, however, they submitted to allow a physical to prescribe, and! the disease was broken up after five children had died. Tmi iadies’committee, wbieh during the past year has beep engaged in raisiug the €100,000 endowment fund for a chair cf English literature in Lawrence university, at Appleton. \VLv, have completed theiir work. Mrs. J. T. \' itter. of Grand Rapids, gave $£.000. on the 3d, making 111 10,000 raised, and thus securing Senator Sawyer's conditional gift of UXOak Kim Cctutixoa, 33 years of age. of Hillsboro, O., a guest at tjbe Empire hotel. Sixty-third street a^d Boulevard, New York city, while in a fit of insanity, on the 3d. jumped.. from the fifth storj of the hotel to the yard, and was instantly killed. News was received from Cuba, or the Id, confirming the report that Maj.-Gen. Serefin Sanchex was killed in an engagement at Laa Hamas. Santa Clara nrovinc# l • >

John Tod, of Cleveland, one of Ibe prominent business men of northern Ohio, and a son of David Tod, one of Ohio’s war governors, died suddenly of apoplexy at the Crittenden hotel in Columbus on the 3d. Dr. Louis Pebnas, Senor Figuerra, a druggist, and several other well* known residents of Cienfuegos, Cuba, have been arrested as political sus1 pects. A Half a dozen steamers are said to | be bound- tight in the ice along the north shore of Lake Superior, and it will be impossible to release them. Mb. and Mbs. Walter M. Caster are in Philadelphia. The object of their visit is to have the afflicted worn* an undergo treatment for nervous disease. Mrs. Castle is in a private institution, anct she has been examined by specialists. It is the intention of Mr. Castle to have his wife’s mental and physical condition improved before starting for their home in California. The ten-year-old son of E. B. Warder, a wealthy citizen, was strangled to death at his home near Antioch* Kyn on the 2d. Heawas weak from sickness, and was seized with a spell of .coughing that resulted in death. A copy of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, j abridged and edited by Benjamin j Franklin, at London, in the year 1773, was sold for §1,250 at auction in Boston on the 2d. Tee guns of the vanguard of the army of Gen. Maximo Gomez are thunderiug uncomfortably near the gates of Havana, while the captain-geueral I is ostensibly in pursuit of Antonio Maceo in Piuar del Rio. _ j Eugene W. Harrington, deputy city j comptroller of Buffalo, 2s. Y.» has been i arrested on a charge of graud larceny, j An investigation had shown that llar- ! riug ton had been “stuffing” a pay-roll* Havana newspapers are urging the j necessity for carrying on farming I operations in the island to avert a

uisastrous lamiue. It is claimed by the Uruguayan minister of foreign affairs that the threatened revolution in that country is unimportant. All the candidates on the silver municipal ticket of Boston withdrew on t;hp 4 th. The strike committee, on the 4tli, called out all of the Hamburg harbor workmen, irrespective of the character of their employment, in order to assist the strike of the dock laborers. The men called out iuelude the engineers, bargemen and others employed by the state and city. Thu proposition of Englishmen, acting unofficially, to present Ambassador Bayard, at the close of his mission, with a substantial recognition of the esteem in which he is held by individuals, is said to find no expression of disapprobation at the state department. Ecuador has had another disastrous fire, Daule, am important town in the province of Los Rios, being the scene. More than thirty houses in the business section of the town were destroyed, the losses aggregating hundreds of thousands of dollars. Arthur Palmer, of Montexuma, (X, and E. L. Godfrey, of Emlenton, Pa., both oil men, were drowned in the reservoir at St. Mary's, 0., on the 4th. Palmer broke through the ice and Godfrey went under while endeavoring to rescue his eompauion. The Milwaukee health department reported. On the 4th, a wholesale poisoning of families in the northern part of the city, supposed to have been caused by eatiug bread from a certain bakery, containing arsenic. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Famish is beginning to add its gaunt hand to the agencies that are at work scattering destruction throughout the fair island of Cuba. In Bramatas, province of Pinar del Rio, more than 10,000 persons are dyiug from hunger. In Cardenas poverty is so great tha,t families who were wealthy before the war are now begging, on the streets, iu Cieufuegos, an opulent city until IS95, the misery is also great, and even iu Havana famine is expected soon as a consequence of Weyler's methods of warfare and his destruction of all the provisions in the country districts. On the 5th Dr. Fortner made the discovery that a prisoner in the Cook county jail at Chicago, named Hcurv Weriekne, was suffering from smallpox. He sent for City Physician Gar* riott, who also pronounced the case a well-developed oue of the dread disease. Weriekne had recently been sentenced on two charges of burglary to the reform school. The county jail was immediately quarantined and no one allowed to enter. Commenting upon the proclamation of the president of the United States restoring touuage dues upou German vessels, the Berlin National Zeituug says that the tonnage does at Hamburg, Bremen aud other German ports will surely be increased, but solely for the purpose of improving the harbors for the general benefit of shipping an .1 not for state purposes, as iu America. Tue official canvass of the election returns of North Dakota was made ou the Sth. The total vote of the state was 47,3ssl, of which McKinley received .’6.3 it'; Bryan, Levering, 356. There were no Palmer or Matchett electors in North Dakota. Mo • Kmley’s plurality is 5,647. Johnson Itrepuoiieau), for congress, was elected by 4,166.

The Uruguayan government Is now thoroughly alarmed at the momentum which the revolutionary movement in that country has obtained. It has been learned that the departments in the northwestern part of Uruguay — Salto, Paysendsand Artigaa—will soon declare in favor of the rebellion. The cruiser Newark has sailed for Key West, Fla., where she vrili assist the revenue cutters in keeping a lookout for filibusters, relieving the Raleigh, which will come north. The cruiser Marblehead, lately returned from the European station after a two years’ cruise, is undergoing repairs at the Sew York navy yard. Tax short session of the Fifty-fourth congress began on the Tth.

INDIANA STATE NEW&

Andrew A. PtmitAW wu appointed Receiver for Louis Wolf A Co., dry foods bouse of Ft. Wayne, on the application of the preferred creditors, who hold a $36,000 chattel on the stock. Other creditors hare commenced at* tachments and replevin proceedings to recover goods on recent shipment. These creditors claim goods were purchased through misrepresentation by the firm as to its financial standing. The stock is worth $50,000. Prof. IIrich, assistant in the department of geography at the State Normal, is dead at the home for invalids. His death resulted from a complication of diseases. Pro! Heich came to the normal this fall.. The immense shoe shops at the prison south are now in operation. The Tar-Box Shoe and Leather Cot has taken about 15 men there in the capacity of foremen, and the output from the factory will be -very large. The new building is a model one for the purpose'and the firm haTe put in the most approved machinery. AT Windfall the jury in the case of the state of Indiana- against Frank Ross, who, it was alleged, killed a playmate with a croquet mallet, returned a verdict of not guilty, on 4he ground of self-defense. Charles Bell, a carpenter, escaped from the constables at Milan .amid a shower of bullets from the officer's revolvers. Bell had been arrested on charges made by Miss Edith Abbott. Kerry Warren, a farmer living six miles east of Winchester, hanged himself in his barn. John S. Lackey', of Cambridge City, .has bought the young trotter. Red Bee, by Redfield, from Charles Beeson, of Kennard. He is a promising animal. L. A. Brown & Ca, of Richmond, have issued the initial copy of the Red Men's Chieftain, a journal which will be devoted to the interests of the Red Meu in the state. Charles Lacket. of Cambridge City, has sold to A. Asher, of Pittsburgh, a handsome bay team. The priee was $500. One of the horses was purchased in Rush eounty, and the other at W illiamsburg. in Wayne county. TWO masked men held up Saloonkeeper Nolan Beckner, at Arlington. He was hauled from his buggy and beaten insensible. His horse and buggy, gold watch and $100 diamond were takeu, and he was left on the roadside, supposed to be dead. He was found next morning. Becker was almost frozen. Aqvilla Lavkrty, aged 76, one of : the wealthiest farmers of Parker counI ty, died the other morning of injuries ! received five days ago by falling through a shaft iu his elevator. Dur- ; ing the war he served in Thirty-first ; Indiana volunteers. lie owned land here and in Missouri. Michael Flowers, an aged farmer, was instantly killed by a freight train I at Cromwell. He was deaf and had been through three almost similar a|s i cidents before, escaping each time | without injury. A few weeks ago Mrs. Leon Wuilard, i of Marion, received notice that she had ' inherited a large estate in France, and she at once went to that country to in- | vestigate. Her daughter, Mrs. William Paulus, has received word from her I that the report was genuine and that j her share of the estate is nearly a million dollars. The second death occurred the other : day at Anderson among the triplets j born to Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Carpenter, of that city, three weeks ago. They were all boys. „ ' The total loss to the Wabash county jail by fire the other night was $£,500— $3,000 on the buildingnand $500 on furniture. The jail was insured for $5,000, equally divided between the Connecticut of Hartford and the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co. of Philadelphia. The furniture was insured in the Fire i Association of Philadelphia. James Lynn, Jr., trustee of the j Wabash Church and School Furniture Co-, has received an order from, a Chicago firm for twenty-five thousand ■ school desks, with the privilege of I making it twenty thousand more. The above order is the largest order ever received by the company, and will I insure work for a full force of emi ployes for a year. | Indiana pensioners: Original—Jas. ' Good, Uniou Center, Laporte; John j Robbins, deceased. ML Pleasant- Perry; i Lemuel Johnson, deceased, Greenfield, Hancock. Increase—Peter Myera, ' Lynnville, Warrick; Isaiah L- Ramp, Bloomfield, Greene; Benjamin F. Richard, Mauckport, Harrison: James H. Yarbrough, bhoals, Martin: James W. May, Brazil. Clay: John Pipes, New | Amsterdam. Harrison. Original Wid

[ ows, ete.—Renewal: Minor o: James a. Spear, of Columbia City. Whitley, Mary E. Payne, Winchester. Randolph: Mol* | lie 1. Robbins, Mt. Pleasant, Perry; j Anna M. Jones, Greentieid, Hancock. Thk count was completed the other day of the special election in Fulton county for a representative, and Mark L. Patterson, republican, was elected by SI votes. This gives the re* publicans 32 members of the house, a majority of 4, and S3 members of the ; senate, a majority of 1«; a majority on j joint ballot of 20. Lee 5*n api* w as standing in front of | J. «>V. Patton’s store, Sheiburo, when a ’ large piece of window glass, which had previously been broken, fell from the j frame, a distance of six feet, on the back of Snapp’s neck, inflicting a serious. if not fatal, gash. Jobs V a ilk, of South Kokomo, while out hunting, was killed by the cars. In following the game-he did not no tier the approach of the train. £xoas Kiojitt. of Erie, nine miles west of Wabash, has filed suit for $3,00C damages against Andrew Wise, of the same place, for injuries inflicted by the latter's dog, which attacked him J while he was w alking along the high- | way last August, and terribly lacerated his arm. Ciutus Bakxktt, of Crawford* ville, was killed near Lafayette tiding on top of a Monon passenger train. His head struck a bridge and hia skull was crushed.

THE WAR IN CUBA.

The Batcher Md Tyrant Also Shown to he n Thief—Heavy Losses of Spanish Sol* j dters Concealed tr»m the Authorities at Madrid, so that the Wage* of the Head Men Can Be Collected and Appropriated. Nkw York, Dee. 6.—The Sun this morning prints the following: Havana, Dee. 8. The Spaniards here say that Gen. Weyler intends to issues decree order- „ iug every able-bodied man from 1|/ years to 60 to enlist in the armyortfd to take the held against the insur- j gents. This news has created such excitement amo^^Cubau families that the number of pHRTg men who have joined the insurgent forces within the past few days is greater than at any time since the beginning of the war. j A circular has been quietly issued to ! the Cubans,. which says uo man of | honor can doubt which side he must j take if placed by the tyrauuy of the Spanish government in the position of j choosing between Spain aud Cuba | libre. El Pueblo says: “Gen. Weyler’sdutj) j is to issue that decree. We ought to j know here who is a Spaniard and who j is a conspirator. Havana is full of Spain's enemies masquerading uuder i the guise of Spaniards. Let us kuow j who is frieud aud who is euemy. i Masks off.” The real motive of Weyler with regard to this decree has not been mentinned above. It is a fact that the I 18,000 soldiers recently sent by Spain j ! are not enough to cover all the losses j | of the Spanish army vvithiu the past j I few weeks. More than that, it is said ! ■ that high military authorities here are j concealing from Spain the knowledge ! i of more than half ol the army’s losses | for the purpose of coutiuuiug to draw i j from the treasury the wages and al- j J iowances of the dead men. It is esti- j | mated that from April, 1893, to last j ISovember more than §30,000,000 have j been stolen irom the Spauish treasury i iu this way. The uutaoer of soldiers | iu the held is less than the central ! government believes, aud is not sutli- ‘ eient for W'eyler's plan of campaign. Outside of ilavaua famine is begin- | uiug to spread. In Bramatas, provj iuce of Piuar del Kio, more than 10,000 ; persons are dying from hunger. Iu Cardenas poverty is so great that farni- j I lies who were wealthy before the war | are now beggiug ou the streets. In • Cieufuegos, an oouient city uutii 1893, ; the misery is also gi-eat, aud herein , Havana famine is Expected soon al> a ! consequence of Weyler "a methods of j j warfare aud his destruction of ail the j ! provisions iu the country districts* ~THEY KICK. The Geruiku Newspapers Fmlilrul Cleveland's Frui'Uuuttlun. Bkkcix, Dec. 6.— Commenting upon 1 the proclamation of the president of the United States restoring touuage ; "Hues upon German vessels, the 2va- j tional Zeituug says that the touuage : dues at Hamburg, Bremen aud other j German ports will surely be increased, but soiely for the purpose of imurov- ; ing the harbors for the general beuent of shipping aud not for state purposes as iu America. "Eoreiguers having their own I wharves iu Germany,-’ the paper adds, ; “German snippers must now build j their own wharves in America; Germany will now be deprived of the ad*, j vantages she obtaiuea iu 18S8, the sacrifice being imposed upon German shipowners.” The Ereisinage Zeituug estimates that the .North German Lloyd .^teamsnip Co. aioue will be subjected to an I increased expenditure of 150,000 uiarss, ! aud tne Hauiourg-Aiuerieau line will I suffer to almost as great au exteut. T'ue Cologne Gaactte regards i’resi- j i dent Cleveland's proclamation as auI effort ou his part,to retire frouiuliiee in | a blase of giory. The president s asser- | tion tuat state touuage dues are levied ’ j at German ports, however, is erroue- 1 j. ous, as the dues imposed are solely for j | the use of special port facilities. Iu j conclusion the Gazette expresses hope j ! tnat in the enforcement of the pro- ! j clamatiou, “even -in tne case of Uermausin America,” the American courts ! will see that the principle of right aud justice is upheld, aud that uieamvuiie j j Germany may convince America tnat ■ such an infriugmeut of German rights j cannot be accepted.

SUDDEN AND FATAL. I Xhe Wtle of Uot. lUtthenri of luilliiu b Uvf a. j I>'I>ianavous, lutL. Dee. 6.—Mrs. j Mattnews, wife of Got. Matthews, i was seized with a fatal hemurraiurOiOf l the stomach to-night. She had oeeu I iDciisposvii for a couple of days, but | was leeiiug so much better this ereuiug that sue was up aud about aud ' she aud the governor were aloae iu ! the library about »;3o o'clock,when she ( started to wa.k across the room aud j fell to the door with b.ood rushing i from her mouth aud nostrils. The goreruor carrier ter to a couch aud tue family ' puysictau. Dr. U. trench Stone, was caile-i at once. lie saw the fatal uature of the trouble aud telegrams were seat to their two I daughters, Mrs. Cortez Wiug, of I Greeusburg, auli Miss Helen Matthews, j aow attending tue Cincinnati con* ! serTatory of mu>ic. A consultation of , physicians was oai:ed, but they found that Mrs. - Matthews hail but a few hours to uve. Mrs Matthews was a daughter of Got. Whitcomb, aud i they have becu marricu nearly thirty I years, 'lue goTernor's only sou, bey* j mour Mattnews, died at ultiauta aycaf i — '.— CHURCH NOTES. The only cathedrals now in use in ; Scotland are in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dunkeltf. There are 22 allusions in the Bible j to the east wind, 19 of them being of a i disparaging character. Victoria Methodists hare voted, 15.000 to 2.500. for the amalgamation of all the Australian Methodists into one body. Ralph E. Prime, of Yonkers, was elected moderator of the Presbyterian synod of New York at its late conrention. This la the layman elected moderator fay tfaatsrnod.

THE NATION’S NAVY. Features of Secretary Herbert*®* Annual Report. Fifteen LlKht-Onft War V«u*I» Wanted for Defense of AUnntlcnnd Gulf Coasts —Cobysratifo Naval Strength of Principal Powers* Etc.. Etc. >

Washington, Dec. 7.—Secretary of the Navy llerbert.iu his aauual report, asks congress at the coming session to* authorize t hree la jht-l>n»ft Battleships aud Twelve Torpedo Hosts. He recommends that these ships be planned for an extreme deep-load draft of not more than 23 feet, and suggests that considerations of strategy upon our Atlantic aud gulf coasts render this an essential to the success of naval campaigns. “This reasoning,” he says, “is. the final result of much careful study by able officers of conditions as they exist on our southern coast. Battleshipsthat could enter the harbors of Savannah, Brunswick, Key West, Tampa, Pensacola, Mobile and the mouth of the Mississippi at all times' would have an immense advantage over the battleships of foreign nations, few of which could enter these ports. Light draft battleships, if we had them, could make any of these ports bases of supply, could sally forth from them or retire into them at will and could therefore'almost always offer battle on. their own terms. “There .are also many of our porta further north, which would give the same advantages to such ships.” Au interesting feature of the repori is a resume of the progress of The Vpbulldtus of the New Navy From the time of its inauguration under Secretary, Chandler. Congress haa authorised during the present administration 20 -essels, with a total tonnage of 63,366 fcous; of these five are first-class battleships and 16 torpedoboats. ' “La rge as the above increase appears,” says the secretary, “it yet does not suffice to plaee the United States navy in a satisfactory condition, if we mean to be able at all times to defeud our long line- of seacoast, afford unquestiouahle protection to our citizens in foreign lands, render efficient aid to our diplomacy and maintain under all circumstances our national honor. The secretary, calling attention te.. the . - Comparative Naval Strength of the Principal Power*, states that while the results aeh ieved by the United States are highly creditable to the country, yet it is clear that the great powers with which wo are brought into close relationship largely exceed us, not only in tU© uurn ber of batt leships and torpedo boats actually in commission, but ip their naval programmes for' the future. The secretary shows that on June 30, 169S, there were SO vessels in commission, with a tonnage of 62,329 tons, while on December JO the total tonnage in commission will be 137,859* tous. Attention is again called to the necessity for some legislation by congress which will unable the department to make use. In Cue of an Enwifwicr, Of the tugs, yachts and vessels engaged in the fishing fleets' and ^pastwise and lake trades, and to call in to the service of the navy ti^f sailors and officers necessary to command, and fitsack ships ia case of threatened or actual war. He recommends an additional appropriation for the purpose of supplying guns and ammunition with which to arm vessels to be called into service from our merchant marine. inference is also made to A Rrttrvv System, and the secretary sets forth the report of a board appointed to formulate a general plau for the laving up of vessels in reserve, and in this connection it is announced that the department sxpects to be able to submit to the jougress at ap-=earfTy day during the coming sessitm suggestions for such legislation as may be needed to enable it to provide proper accommodations for ships so that it may establish and maintain a reserve system with the value and importance of which the department is deeply impressed. The subjvet of the Naval JUlItU is dealt with at some length, and it is shown that at the close of the last administration the number of militia lawfully certified was 1,749, divided among the- states of Rhode Islamic Maryland. South Carolina, North Carolina, Massachusetts* California and New York, From the last official returns they now number of 3,339 in the states of California, New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Connecticut, Michigan, New Jersey, Georgia and Louisiana, and the departineut has been informed of the prospective formation of an additional battalion in New York (at Brooklyn) and an organization in Ohio. \ The secretary devotes considerable space to reviewing the reports of fchechiefs of bureaus which have already been published, and in this connection asks congress to authorize the building of .a dock at Norfolk of sufficien t size to take in the largest vessel of the navy. This he recommends should be constructed of eoherete, as it is more durable, more readily repaired and cheaper than wooden dock. bueh satisfactory experiments have been made with -,r . ■

Fuel Bj Engineer-La-Chief Melville, that the department has Ordered that a tag now being constructed at the Norfolk yard and one of the smaller torpedo boats' being built by the Herreshoff company, be fitted for using this oil, intending thns to thoroughly teat its capabilities. These boats will be adapted for coal if oil fails. Onmatked Eagtmr Carps it is nrged that their number be increased until the limit shall reach SM instead of 1^4 as at present* w _ ■ —