Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1899 — NAVAL SCHOOL SHIPS. [ARTICLE]

NAVAL SCHOOL SHIPS.

I I UNITED STATES NOW HAS THIRis ® teen OF them - gSKanapolia and Vicksburg Found Too II Hhnall for the Service—Fatal Riot K>Betw«a Prohibitionists and Liquor ■ EMen in an Oklahoma Town. ' I? ~ ~— IK instructions given by Secretary iKgltng, the gunboats Annapolis and VicksHkir* are to be placed out of commission Hnd refitted for service as gunboats in9K»*d of as training ships. Experience demonstrated that these vessels are ■O’ 0 small for the traiuiu K service, and |Ur places will be taken in this service by I j|o and Pensacola in Pacific ■Sliters. Not counting these ships, ten ves■■Hte Vvill soon be engaged in training boys be sailors, landsmen to be seamen and to be expert gunners. The Amand Lancaster will soon come Bgaorth, and the men who have undergone giSuning in S unnery exercises for the last B Stat months will be transferred to other I SttHß, and new classes will take their MUINMEN OUTWIT A SHERIFF. —— I B|^* I>ccemfnl Attempt to Attach a ■ ’ 'Train In Ohio for Back Taxes. | Toledo and Ohio Central extension HMjtilroad, which passes through Bishopg|ftßße. Ohio, owes the county about $5,000 gSHch taxes. As a south-bound local was ■Kissing through Amesville, the sheriff of KfgLthens County and his deputies held it up gMmd attached it. Strong chains were progßttced and the engine and cars securely looted to the track. The crew of the gHprth-bound, however, knew a thing or | Bro, and, getting wind of the proposed |Kjild-up, stopped. The mail car was taken | Brom its usual place at the head of the ■ Bain and placed at the rear, and so the |Main P rocee ded without further interrupI Bion. An excursion train was due in a I ®BW minutes, but the conductor, getting a g®p as to the proposed scheme, shot |Kkrough the station at the rate of a mile a IKfanute and pulled into Morgan County, ISMtere tbe sheriff could not follow them. ___ | Bparson shoots saloon man. I ■Riot in Oklahoma Between ProhibiI tioniats and Liquor Dealers. L LThere was a riot between the prohibi- | jpnists and the liquor element at Alva, Npk., apd a dozen citizens have been nursI Hag wounds in consequence. The pastor | ||ff 'the First Methodist Church, the Rev. J BpJifctander Ross, entered Gene Hard- | Bick’s saloon and commenced shooting at I Hardwick quickly returned the tire IHmd both fell mortally wounded. Others, I Birtisans on both sides, quickly gathered, I Had before the officers could get the crowd control six others had to be carried |Hway.' They were wounded seriously. |HBie prohibitionists have been making ev|Bry effort to get the saloons closed, but IMikve failed. . ■■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ I WsK? Face for the Pennant I ||The standing of the clubs in the NaI Shoal League race is as follows: | W. L. W. L. I Louis... .18 6Baltimore ...12 13 lUtfcago .....17 7 New York.... 9 14 | Siiladelphia. 17 BLouisville ... 9 14 ||®rooklyn • ■••15 BPittsburg .... 8 15 IBEincinnati ..15 BWashington.. 5 20 Kpatbn 14 11 Cleveland.... 320 I is the standing of the clubs 180 the Western League: W. L. W. L. I Hmdianapolis. 10 7 Milwaukee ... 9 8 | gfet. ’Paul..... 9 7Detroit 8 9 I gwuffalo ..... 9 7Kansas City.. 7 11 Minneapolis.. 9 BColumbus ...6 10 I :«■ Wife Saved His Money. KDaniel Mahoney sued his wife Mary for 0600 at Kansas City. They were separatHifl, but were not divorced. Mahoney | claimed that his wife had saved the money Orom his earnings. The case did not get r| to trial. Mrs. Mahoney’s lawyers simply | to the case, saying it had no Blanding in court, because a husband could jjbot sue a wife, although either one might Iwue or be sued by a third party. The : Hndge dismissed the case. Trusted Attorney Flees. ETrafford N. Jayne, a prominent attorjHfey, society man and churchman of Min■Mapolis, has been missing several days, file left the city presumably on business I Hnd when it became necessary to open his I ISesk a letter was found stating that his fHKcounts with several estates in his charge ■ |Sore wrong and intimating that when the Hotter was found he would be dead by his ■Km hand. . China Near to War. soldiers and warships from ■;.Mong Kong have taken formal possession / .H|:'sjKow-Loon, opposite that city. The fgHfcsent trouble is the result of a sudden ’Pffimewal of the native opposition to British Ejptrol of the ceded territory. ■ Many Persona Badly Hurt. E-At Paris, Texas, a reviewing stand on were seated 4.000 persons, witness■RH • display of fireworks, fell with a No one was killed, but a great Hfeber were injured, some probably RWidow Acquitted of Murder. Kyit Georgetown, Colo., the trial of Mrs. , Kpe Fish, accused of having murdered Es husband, Gaylord Fish, by chloroferming him while he slept, ended in her Famous French Critic Dies. ■gPrancisque Sarcey, the famous dra- . Hue critic, died at Paris, in his seventyIlf Km H—r L C «“ h °® New York Central. < iThe Southwestern special was run into |KEbie .New York Central depot at Utica, by an express train. A Wagner engine and one car of the ex-