Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — ARMED LAKE VESSELS [ARTICLE]

ARMED LAKE VESSELS

CANADIAN GOVERNMENT HAS BUILT THREE CRUISERS. Daring Hold-Up in Colorado Springe —Death of Dr. Julia M. Smith of Chicago—lmportant Electric Light Decision— Shipping Docks Burned. The Lake Navy. _ Ottawa, Ont., dispatch'. Opinion on this side of the line appears to differ from President Cleveland's interpretation es the treaty of 1817 regarding the right of Canada or the United States to build warships on the great lakes. Sir"Ch3Tfc*H~ Tupper. Minister o& Justice. being asked whether Canada has not infringed the treaty in constructing cruisers on the lakes, said they were only revenue cruisers. The treaty stipulates that the naval force of each country shall consist of not more than one vessel not exceeding 10(1 tons burden and armed with one eignteenjK>und cannon on Lake Ontario, two such vessels on the upper lakes and one such vessel on Lake Champlain. A doubt has arisen over the clause in which it was agreed that all other armed vessels on those lakes should be dismantled and that no other vessels of war should be there built or armed. The Gonadian Gove.-n----ment lAs built three armed cruisers on the lakes since 1891—the Curfew, the Constance and the Petrel. The Constance and her sister ships are armed with three quick-firing guns, and are far superior to the boats maintained on the lakes by the L T nited States,, revenue department, and in case they were ever -weeded for such.purposeAhejLgonld make Aery formidable lake commerce destroy-, ers. It will be an interesting question to solve ns to how far the equipment find armor of a revenue.cruiser may be car—ried in her construction, and where the line is to be drawn between a revenue cruiser, available for revenue purposes only, and that mayAjeput to liioi’e severe defensive or offensive purposes when national exigencies demand it.

Wells-Fargo Express Looted. Two masked bandits at Colorado Springs, Col., robbed the Wells-Fargo express office Monday night of .S2O,'JOO. They presented revolvers to the head of Assistant Agent George Krout and compelled him to open the safe. After they had helped themselves they made. their escape. The stolen money was in a package which the agent left carelessly lying on a table while he went out to a train. The robbers secreted themselves in the office. Agent Krout did pot give up all the safe contained, for the thieves were in too big a hurry to get away. Over $35,000 was left behind. f Noted Woman Physician Dead. Dr. Julia M. Smith, ohe of the first practicing- woman physicians in Chicago, died Sunday morning at the residence of her nephew, J. C. Ford, 278 41st street. She had suffered from a tumor on the throat for the last five years. During this long period of illness she was still actively engaged in the practice of her profession, though without being able to utter a word above a whisper. Her work was marked by charity, and in the Woman’s Medical Club circles she enjoyed a wide popularity because of her kindly disposition.