Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1906 — STARTS ON LONG TRIP [ARTICLE]

STARTS O N LONG TRIP

CHANT FLOATING DOCK DEWEY OFF FOR MANILA". At Rtlt It I* N»W Making the 14,-000-Stile vo>»*e Will Coimomf Mnrr than Nine Warasn JM— !■ MlistispolU llrf. *- The huge floating dry dork Dowry. jritU the last of. its anchors .stowed aboard, started off down Chesapeake bay Thursday on its 14.000 mile cruise to the Philippines. Until the immense anchors are safely dropped In the wnters of Suing bay tKe cruise of the Dewey will be watched with the deepest concern by the' Navy Department. Many nnval oterCrs are doubtful whether the trip can' be made ini safety. Commander 11. Ilosley -vs the United States nary is ia command of the expedition. The powerful tug Potomac and thycc colliers will form the convoy. The trip trill be made by way of the Suez canal. The only naval feat, in American history comparable so that of towing, the Dewey to the Philippines was the trip, of the big double tarreted monitor Miantonomoh in 1867. The monitor was then the latest type of naval architecture and was sent across the Atlantic and into the Mediterranean ns a "show ship,” to give Europe an idea of how far ahead the Americans had gone as n result of the sea fighting of the Civil War. Captain Lane of tbe.steamer Alabama, which arrived at Norfolk, Jj-, from Baltimore, reports—having passed off Point Lookout, abofit twenty-five miles south of,Solomon's Island, the floating dry dock Dewey. According to Captaitf Lane’s report the Dewey had traveled only a Unit twent y-five miles in eleven hours. She has over 14,000 miles to go, and at the rate of two miles an hour It.aHai take hOT.tipjf'iSd"of nine months to make the voyage with smooth weather. Should severe weather be encountered at sea it is calculated there would be long delays. ONE DEAD, 17 HVHT, IN FIRE. Minneapolis Tenement Dentroyedf 27 Fnmilien Ronted from Bed". Mrs. Lorain Buekliff is dead, two persons seriously burned and fifteen or more are injured as the result of the destruction of the Higgins tenements on Minnehaha avenue, Minneapolis. The fire started in the apartments of Mrs. BucklUT. Twenty-seven families were routed from their beds and seat-outdoors shivering. Mrs. Folley, who lived with Mrs, Buekliff, arose at 4:30 to start-irffrif in an oil as she lighted a match exploded. Mrs. Buekliff -Aras standing near by and in a moment her clothes were a mass of flames. - NORTHWEST PASSAGE BAD. Capt. Amnndtrn S«jr» Water Is Not Dorp Enough for Big Vessel*. Capt. William Hogg, master of the whaler Bonanza, says Capt. Amundsen accomplished all of the matters relative to the location of the north magnetic pole and sailed his vessel through the northwest passage. Captain Ami&dpen was compelled to jettison a part or his cargo in order to accomplish his feat of navigating the northwest passage, which shows that the northwest passage, now that it has been defined, is not deep enough for vessels large enough for commercial tonnage. Ineendlarlea Are Feared. Incendiarism is thought to _be the cause of the fire which ..destroyed the Riverside hotel, at Epwortß Heights at the camp meeting grounds near Cincinnati. The loss is placed at SIO,OOO. The suspicion of incendiarism is based on the fact that the fire started iu a part of the house not in use and in which there was no fire. DraggUt Kill* Himself. Charles Atton, one 'of the most promi nent druggists of Toledo, committed suicide by shooting. No cause is known. Atton gave a banquet to n few friends and going home late u3RF?%wd for bed. Just as he lay down his wife was Startled by a shot and woke up to find him dead at her side. Inherit* Fortune and Kill* Her*elf. Mrs. H. J. Lewis, wife of the cashier of the Illinois Club, committed suicide in Hot Springs. Ark. She tied a clothes „ljne to the etairway and jumped off. 11l health ia supposed to have prompted the deed. Mr. Lewis had just received word that his wife had been left a comfortable fortune by a relative. Die* Trying to Reduce Fnrff* Mrs. 3d«ry Kollinjr, daughter of a wealthy ranchman of Nuckols county, Neb., died from the effects of treatment ■he had been taking to reduce her flesh. She was 19 years old and weighed upward of 400 pounds when she began to take the treatment. F*Ul G*a Explosion la Home. Mrs. Hattie Sweeney was fatally burned and eight other members of the Sweeney family seriously Injured as the reflnlt of a natural gas explosion in the kitchen of their home in McKeesport, Pa.

Engine Hid Trolley Car. Three persons were killed In a collision between a Lehigh Valley freight train and a Schuylkill Railway Company trolley car on a grade crossing at Oiiwrdville, Pa. Several other persons were slightly injured. . UairleS for Rebate Girlif. The .Burlington railroad, Darius Miller, first vice president, and Claude 0. Barnham, foreign freight agent, hare been indicted on charges of granting rebates. '' '• Pearl* la a Bird’s Neat. ▲ woodcutter working on the farm of Patrick Meagher in the township of St Wendel, a abort distance from St. Clond, lfinn., found fifteen pearla deposited In a bird's nest In tba hollow of a traa which be had felled. The pearla are white and rather small In sire.