Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1899 — ESTIMATE FOR NAVY. [ARTICLE]

ESTIMATE FOR NAVY.

TOTAL AMOUNT IS FIFTY MILLJON DOLLARS.. Expenditures for Fiscal Year Ending Jnne 30, 1901, Are Ex >ected to Be Large—Terrible Deed of an Insane Man in Mexico. The naval estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, will aggregate about $50,000,000. This considerable increase in the cost of the navy is due in great part to the expenditures which will have to be made during the present and coming fiscal year for the construction of fifty-four vessels building, and the three battleships and three armored cruisers which will be contracted for as soon as Congress takes action enabling the department t<> place contracts for armor. Admirals Hichborn and Melville have estimated that $18,000,000 will be required to meet bills of ship builders. In addition to this sum, Admiral Hichborn estimates that $5,000,000, instead of $3,000,000, will be required for repairs of ships. Admiral O’Neill’s estimates for the armor for the vessels under construction and proposed are. very high. His estimate for the present fiscal year amounted to $4,000,000, which was appropriated. The estimates for the coming year will exceed this amount. LUNATIC KILLS CELLMATES. Terrible Deed of an Insane Man at Chihuahua, Mexico. News comes from Chihuahua, Mexico, of the terrible deed of a lunatic there. A crazy man created a disturbance among the people in the plaza. He attacked an American with a heavy billet of wood, but the American knocked down his assailant with a walking cane. The police arrived quickly and soon overpowered the lunatic and took him off to jail. ■' They locked him in a large cell where fifteen other prisoners were confined and neglected to search for weapons. It soon develpoed that the lunatic had a lon gknife concealed and began slashing right and left at his unarmed cell mates. Two of them were killed and a third fatally wounded before the guards could rush iu and disarm the lunatic.

Killed on His Front Porch. Frank W. Pape, the assistant park commissioner, was murdered on his front porch in the presence of his son William at St. Louis. Henry Fry, the assassin, fled from the scene, pursued by the victim’s son. After a flight of two blocks Fry turned the weapon on himself and expired almost instantly. was a huckster, who became infuriated because Pape could not obtain a city license for him free. For a Great Railwax System. There is a plan arranged to form a gigantic railway system which will create a trunk line consolidation greater than any now in existence in this country, and it will embrace the Baltimore and Ohio, Pittsburg and Western, Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Reading, West Virginia and Pittsburg and several smaller roads in as many States. Illinois Convent Burna. St. Xavier’s Girls’ Academy and Convent of Mercy of St. Columba Deanery, at Ottawa, 111., together with a new sl3,- ‘ 000 addition under construction, were destroyed by fire. Forty Sisters of Mercy and twenty boarding pupils escaped in their night clothes without accident. The loss.on the buildings is $50,000 and on contents $25,000. Swept by a Tornado. The little city of Bowling Green, Ohio, had a narrow escape from a tornado. Just north of the city limits a strip about two miles long and half a mile wide was literally swept clean. One person was perhaps fatally injured, while several others were more or less hurt. Porto Rico Needs More Help. The central Porto Rican relief committee has issued another appeal to the people of the United States on behalf of the sufferers from the hurricane. The appeal declares that $1,500,000 will be required to procure for the destitute the bare necessities of life. Lightning Strikes Five Men. John L. Larson. John Lundstrom, Albert Larson aud Henry Eggan, of Garfield, and O. C. Westman, from Belle River, thrashers, while returning from Brandon, Minn., were struck by lightning. Lundstrom and Westman were killed. Two others were injured. Girl Is Chained to a Pump, Mabel Prindle, 16 years old, was chained by the neck to a pump in a yard at Watertown, N. Y. Her father, Charles Prindle, had taken this means to punish her for going away from the house to spend the forenoon with her aunt. Death at a Banquet Table. Richard B. Leech of Brooklyn, N. Y., died suddenly just as he finished his address at a banquet of the Forty-eighth New York volunteers at a Brighton Beach hotel. He was 54 years old. Takes Charge at Tuskegee. Mrs. B. K. Bruce of Mississippi, widow of the late United States Senator Bruce, has accepted the position of lady principay of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute at Tuskegee, Alh. Memphis Vau Fatally Hurt. Attorney General George B. Peters of Memphis, Tenn., was injured while making a tour of inspection of the Chicago stock yards. -He fell through a shaft and fractured his skull. ' Costly Blaze in Brooklyn. Five vessels were burned and a loss of $250,000 was entailed by a fire which, destroyed one of the largest buildings of the Brooklyn Storage and Warehouse Company at pier 47, South Brooklyn, N. Y. • John Y. McKane Is Dead. John Y. McKane, at one time “king” of Coney Island, died at his home at Sheepsheafl Bay, New York. His death was due td a paralytic stroke. His, health had been poor for abbut a year. Japanese Ports Are Opened. United States Minister Buck, at Tokyo, has notified the State Department that the Government of Japan ha/opened to foreign trade twenty-two additional ports under the operation of the new treaties. Children Are Fatally Hurt. •In St. Louis, an electric street car col-'* tided with a wagon load of school children, fatally injuring two and badly hurting four others.

NO TROUBLE OVER TRRaTT. Salisbury Expected to Abrogate Clay-ton-Bnlwer Agreement. Administration officials do not expect to experience trouble in securing the consent of Lord Salisbury to the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. The report that the Colombian Government proposes to inaugurate a movement in England with a view to continuing ihe Clay-ton-Bulwer treaty is not viewed with any alarm at Washington. It is'said'kt the State Department that there is a boundary dispute between Colombia and Nicaragua over a strip of territory which is said to take in the Atlantic terminus of the proposed waterway, but Nicaragua holds that there can be no doubt of her right to the territory. Besides, it is pointed out that Lord Salisbury agreed last December to abrogate the Clayto>vßulwer treaty, and. that the negotiations for such abrogation were practically completed when Great Britain presented her demands in the Alaskan boundary controversy and declared that this dispute would have to be settled before she would conclude the Clayton-Bulwer negotiations. STEAMER RE CUES SAILORS. Survivors of the Lost Schooner Lisgar Adrift on Lake Huron. After drifting around Lake Huron for ninety-one hours in a yawl boat two survivors of the lost Canadian schooner Lisgar were picked up by the steamer Case. They are Captain Freeman and Nelson Alture, a sailor. Captain Freeman is of the opinion that the other five members of the crew, including his wife, were all lost. The Lisgar had a cargo of coal for Parry sound and with the schooner Grimsby formed the tow of the steamer Clinton. In a gale of wind on Lake Huron the Lisgar foundered. ' The Clinton and her other consort put into Goderich after much difficulty. Captain Freeman and Alture managed to get into the boat, but they drifted nearly four days before they were sighted by a passing boat. In that time they had gone nearly the length of Lake Huron. AMERICAN APPLES IN DEMAND. shipments to Germany Commence a Month Earlier than Usual. American apples are in such great demand in Germany this year that shipments have commenced one month earlier than usual. The first consignment left on the steamship Lahn, and was from the Hudson river district. Last year 22,851 barrels were sent abroad. This year it is expected the shipment will reach 100,000 barrels. Bad Baltimore and Ohio Wreck. Probably fifty persons were injured in a rear-end collision on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Connellsville station, Pa. The presence of mind of Engineer John Haggerty saved the lives of many. The first section of train No. 5, an emigrant' special of eight sleepers, ran into the rear end of the Cumberland accommodation. Engineer Murray of the emigrant trqin lost control of his engine, the air brake refusing to work. Dunhams sell out to Trust. The Great Lakes Towing Company has taken in the Dunham Towing Company of Chicago. This is one of the three companies that remained outside of and endeavored to fight the trust. There is but one company now outside the trust and that is the Milwaukee Tug Company. Probable Murder at Cleveland. The body of a man supposed to be William Kendall of 3843 College street, St. Louis, was found in the river at Cleveland. Numerous wounds were on the body, and the police believe the man was murdered. Rules on Mother-in-Law. It costs $8.50 to beat a mother-in-law, according to a finding of Judge Kinsey in the first district police court at St. Louis, if the beating is not too severe. The severity of the beating is decided by the number of visible cuts and bruises. Found Dead, the Gas Turned On. Herman Groth of Chicago was found dead in his room. Gas was escaping from a jet turned partly on. It is supposed he committed suicide. Groth was 56 years old and had been ill for some time. Six Passengers Injured. As a result of a collision between two electric street cars on Ontario street, Cleveland, six persons were seriously injured. Wet rails caused the accident. Both cars were badly wrecked. Name Lowndes for Governor. The Republican State convention at Baltimore, Md., nominated Lloyd Lowndes for Governor.