Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1898 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

John Wanamnker offers to raise a regiment of Pennsylvanians for military duty and go with them for service. Professor Charles Shields of the Princeton Theological Seminary has been received into the Episcopal Church. The base-ball season of the National League opened Friday, with the Western Hubs playing iu the Eastern and Southern cities. All of the guns ordered in England by the United States have been shipped, so that no matter what comes the neutrality laws cannot be applied. Cardinal Elzcnr A. Taschereau died at Quebec. He was a member of one of the oldest and most distinguished French families in Canada. He was born at Ste. Marie de la Beauee, Que., on Feb. 17, 1820, and was elevated to the Cardiualate iu 1887. The North German Lloyd steamer Saale, Capt. Blanke, which arrived at New York from Genoa, reports that she picked up a lifeboat containing two men of the crew of the ship Marlborough of Windsor, N. S., who probably are all that survive of the ship's crew of fourteen. The Marlborough sailed from St. John, N. 8.. for Sharpness, with a eurgo of boards. There was experienced a succession of heavy gales in which the ship labored heavily, causing her to leak badly. During the height of the gale the ship went to pieces. The crew attempted to launch the lifeboat, but it was dashed to pieces before it reached the water. There was one other boat. The men went to work making life rafts from the cargo ot boards, and nine of them left the side of the water-logged vessel. Capt. Cochran and fonr men were the last to leave, in the remaining boat. Shortly after the lifeboat lost sight of the remainder of the crew. The little crew suffered fearfully from thirst and later from hunger. Capt. Cochran died from exhaustion and exposure; the following day another occupant of the boat diet!, and later another of the crew died. There wore now left in the boat Chief Officer George V. Masters and Seaman James Faunon. Both were well-nigh worn out from hunger and thirst. They had almost despaired of being rescued when the Saale picked them UP, The Holland submarine boat lias been inspected by Lieut. Nathan Sargeant and his report has been submitted to Washington by the board on auxiliary ships. This report, with the one which will be made by Lieutenant Commander Sperry, who will attend the practical test of the vessel, will determine whether the department shall purchase outright this craft. Lient. Sargeant reports that there remain several minor details yet to lie perfected before the boat can lie considered as ready for service. lYle report says: “These are principally 4h the matter of adjustment of the different parts and appurtenances, and should not take over two or three weeks, provided that the experiments .with the lioat are systematically curried out. The engine, dynamo nnd air compressors all worked satisfactorily, both alongside the dock and when under way, and the boat dived nnd came up readily in answer to the action of her horizontal rudders, but her steering qualities were not as good as they should be. she being sluggish in response to her helm and describing n much larger circle thna should be the case in a boat of this size and model. With the large supply of compressed air provided in the boat there is nothing to prevent her remaining under water for a run of several miles, but to carry out such an experiment it will be necessary to try her in some open water, when there is sufficient depth for diving and no danger of obstruction to vessels.”