Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1898 — THE WINSLOW LOST. [ARTICLE]

THE WINSLOW LOST.

SINKS IN STRAITS OF MACKINAW. Crew Taken Off by Steamer Inter Ocean Near the White Shoals—Chaplain Mclntyre, of the Oregon to Be Court Martialed. Another Lake Craft Gone. The schooner Winslow, in tow of the «teamor Inter Ocean, was lost near the "White Shoals. The crew of the schooner arrived at Mackinaw City, Mich., on board the Inter Ocean, having been taken off the lost boat with the greatest difficulty, as the wind was blowing a gale from the southwest and a heavy sea was running. The steamer and consort were coming down the straits of Mackinaw when the gale proved too much for the "Winslow. Water began to pour into her hold and the vessel soon became unmanageable. The steamer then engaged in taking off the members of the crew in the big gea running. All were taken off in safety, and for two hours the steamer lay within sight of the abandoned boat. At the end of that time the hull was nearly out of sight and its sinking was a question of only a short time. The lost vessel was owned by Peter Wex and was insured for about 75 per cent of her value. She was built in 1871 and registered 885 tons. She was worth about SB,OOO. Had not the Escanaba ore rate gone to 45 cents the V inslow would have had a cargo of grain. As it was, she was chartered for ore from Escanaba to Lake Erie. TEN KILLED OUTRIGHT. Trolley Car Cut in Two by a Train at Cohoes, N. Y. A trolley car of the Troy City Railroad Company was struck by the night-boat special of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad at a crossing at the west*end of the Hudson river bridge, which connects Cohoes, N. Y., with Lansinghurg, and its passengers were hurled into the air. Ten of the thirty-five passengers were killed outright, eight died shortly nfterward and at least ten of the remainder will die. The motor car was struck directly in the center by the engine of the train, which was going at a high rate of speed. The accident came without the slightest warning. When the collision occurred the motor ear parted in two, both sections being hurled into the air in splinters. The people were torn and mangled. Those in front met the worst fate. Every person in that section of the car was killed. Bodies were burled into the air and their headless and limbless trunks were found in some cases fifty feet from the crossing. COURT MARTIAL FOR M’INTYHE. Naval Chaplain Who Circulated Sensational Reporta. Ever since the printed reports of the sensational utterances of'the naval chaplain, Joseph P. Mclntyre, reached the Navy Department the officials have been making a quiet inquiry into the accuracy of the newspaper publications. The chaplain, who was attached to the Oregon and was on board when the battle of-July 8 was fought, was accredited with some savage criticism of officers of the American fleet. His trial by court-martial has been ordered.

standing of the Clnba, Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 74 42Pittsburg ... ,61 62 Cincinnati ..77 44Philadelphia. 56 57 . Baltimore ...70 43 Louisville ...50 70 Cleveland .. .68 48Brooklyn ... .44 67 Chicago <KI 53 Washington. 40 76 New Y0rk...64 53 St. Louis 38 86 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 75 47 St. Pnul 60 56 Kansas City.7s 48 Detroit 48 77 Milwaukee ..78 51 Minneapolis. 44 85 Columbus .. .68 50 St. Joseph... .40 81 Wreck on an Ungllah Nail way. At Wellingborough railway station, on the London und Northwestern Railway, near Manchester, England, two l*oyß pushed a loaded luggage “trolley” on the track just as the express train was approaching at a speed of fifty miles an hour. Tlje train was derailed and fearful sceues ensued. The wreckage of the I railway carriages caught tire. The engineer, fireman and two passengers were killed and many others were seriously wounded. Torpedo Removers Blown Up. The Government steamboat John 1. Meigs was destroyed by an exploslou at Bt. Philip, Ist. She had aboard Lieut. Jervey and a party engaged in removing the tbrpedoes luid in the Mississippi river during the beginning of the war. Lieut. Jervey had n narrow escape. Four men were killed und two badly wounded. Hard Battle in Africa. The sidar, Gen. Rlr Herbert Kitchener, with the khulifu’s bluek standard, after a bloody battle, entered Oindurman, the capital of Muhdiam, opposite Khartoum, Nubia, at the head of the Anglo-Egyptian column, after completely routing the der▼ishes and dealing a death blow to Mah-' dlam. Lightning Strikes Oil Tank. During a storm lightning struck one of the mammoth iron oil tanks of the Buckeye Pipe Line Company, west of Findlay, Ohio, containing 35,000 barrels of crude oil. The tauk exploded and set fire to a second one. The loss will be $60,000. Wheat in Australia. The nrca sown to wheat in New Soutn Wales is shown by complete reports to' be 1,500,000 acres, which Is an increase of 26 per cent over the urea devoted to that product lust year. It is estimated that the total yield will be 15,000,000 bushels. Big Loan Company Kails. At Topeka, the Kansas Loan and Truss Company, lutely known as the Trust Company of America, has failed. The liabilities are estimated at $400,000; assets at $1,200,000.

| CHICAGO LIMITED WRECKED. three Deaths Dne to the Dastardly Work of Tramps. Train No. 5 on the New York, Ontario and Western Railroad, known as “The Chicago Limited,” was wrecked at Ingalls Crossing, four miles south of Fulton, N. Y. t at 5 o’clock the other morning. The wreck was doubtless due to the dastardly work of tramps, who threw open the switch at which the train was wrecked, as well as two switches to the north of the wreck. The train was running nearly sixty miles an hour when it struck the switch and was thrown over to the side track. Tie engine was thrown twenty feet and blown to pieces. The tender was turned over. The trucks of the baggage car were torn off and the head coach telescoped the baggage car. A vestibule chair car and the sleeper Farragut were derailed, but neither was badly damaged. Engineer Dowd and Fireman Hall both jumped and were found under thh wreckage of the tender by passengers from the sleeper. Dowd died in a few minutes and Hall three hours later. The body of Brakeman Osborn was torn in two. Several passengers were injured. SERIOUS UPRISING IN CHINA. Kwangf-Si Insurgents Are Preparing to Attack City of Canton. The Kwang-Si rebellion in China, which has been quiescent for some time, shows signs of serious recrudescence. The rebels are in great force fifty miles northwest of Canton and are preparing to attack the city. Tan, the viceroy of Lang-Ivwang, protested against the surrender ’of Kwang-Chow to the French, and when the foreign offiee insisted upon the surrender Tan telegraphed his resignation to Pekin and handed his seals of office to the governor of Ivwang-Tung. The viceroy of Canton, having failed to dispatch troops to suppress the rebellion in Hainan and protect the American missionaries, the United States consul at Canton has made strong representations to the acting viceroy reiterating his demand for the prompt suppression of the general disturbances. GOOD OUTLOOK IN SAMOA. Prospect for Trade Improved by Cultivation of Cocoa. The schooner Sophia Sutherland, which left San Francisco eighteen months ago with a party of treasure seekers for the Solomon Islands, has returned with a cargo of eocoanuts. The men were deceived by the projector of the enterprise, L. P, Sorenson, who was put ashore on the island. The others sailed for Samoa, four of them dying of fever. Captain McLean has a poor opinion of the Solomon Islands, but says the outlook for trade in Samoa is good, as the people are beginning to raise cocoa. The political situation in Samoa was strained when the vessel left, as the death of King Malietoa was expeetpd. Pensions for Spanish War. Private William H. Hook enlisted for the war on Thursday, went into camp on Friday, fell ill on Saturday, died on Sunday, and on the following Wednesday his widow went before a magistrate and executed an application for a pension. Mr." Hook enlisted on May 12 at Milwaukee, Wis. On the 18th he went into camp at Camp Harvey, near Milwaukee. On the 16th he died. On the 18th, his widow, Lida M. Hook, executed her pension application, and on the first of June it was filed in the pension office. She was the first applicant for a pension growing out of the pending war with Spain. The application, with a number of others, is in the office of the chief clerk of the bureau of pensions in Washington, whore all await the completion of the records necessary to their adjudication. Up to date about a hundred applications have come in and for the present all sleep together. All pension applications have to be referred to the War Department for the record of the soldier involved. The muster rolls of the recent volunteer army are not yet in, and the records of the soldiers are very incomplete. Until these records are in better shape, which may be several months, the pension office is held at a standstill in the adjudication of applications growing out of the existing war. The pension office hns plenty of work to do, however, because there are pending in that bureau 635,000 old applications. Anti-Foreign Feeling In China. The Empress of China, in port at Vancouver, B. C., brings the following Oriental advices: The American ship Baring Brothers, from New York, burned in the harbor at Kobe Aug. 18. About 3,000 tons of matting was also destroyed. It is intimated that the fire was of incendiary origin. When the vessel arrived at Kobe from Yokohama six of lior crew were in irons. Four were afterward liberated. The United States consul at Shanghai is Inquiring into an anti-foreign outrage. Messrs. Chapin and Alexander of the International Alliance Mission, while on their way up the Yuen river with their houseboat, were stoned at Hong Kiang, Hunan. The boat was smashed aud then burned by the mob. The two travelers barely escaped with their lives on a Chinese gunboat. The officials did nothing to protect them. The annexation fever has spread to Japan, which recently hns raised the flag of the “rising sun” over a small island south of Japan. The Indemnity paid by the Hawaiian Government has been received. The .Inpanese delegations at London and Washington will be raised to the rank of embassies. Beached Off Galt Inland. With the water high In the hold of his ship, which was already deeply laden with iron ore, and running in through leaks so fnst that the steam pumps were unable to take care of it, Captain Hiram Eldridge of the steamer Superior beached the steamer on Gull Island, off Charlevoix, Mich., to prevent her being sunk iu deep water. The wreck is a total loss. The officers and crew were saved. Killed In a Railroad Wreck. Fireman Fred P. Smith was killed and Engineer George Hartford seriously injured in n wreck on the California and Oregon Railroad, near Simms station, Cal. The engine and eight ears jumped the traoU and rolled down an embankment. Shipyard Fire in Toronto. Fire broke out In Bert rani’s shipyards at Toronto, Out. TJie docks of the company and the large carpenter shop and some smull buildings, together with a barge arid a quantity of lumber were destroyed. The loss will reach $200,000. * Mod Dog Raids nn Asylum. A mad dog at the Ohio State hospital for the insane at Toledo bit a number of patients and tore n thumb from the band of Dr. F. A. Todd, first assistant superintendent. 9£he dog was killed after a desperate fight.