(Efjc isljcrman & arrarr. PUBLISHED EVERY FKIDAY BT THE Merman & Farmer FntlisMag Co. PBICE $1.50 PER YEAR. MIGHTY WAR VESSELS. Launch of a Dynamite Cruisei and the Gunboat Yorktown. A New Era Began in American Naval History. There have been many launches of big and little ships, iron and -wooden, in years gone by at Cramp's shipyard, in Philadelphia, but never in the history of the city was so much excitement created as the dual launch on Saturday of the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius And the gunboat York town. What made it particularly notable was that it is the first launching for years of a -war vessel there, that there were two ships to slide into the water and that Congress "would be in town to witness th5 event. At noon the excursion steamer Columbia, Captain (George Tyler, lay at the pier at the foot of Washington street, adjacent to the old Navy Yard of blessed memories. She had boen chartered by the Secretary of the "Navy to convey his Congressional party from the cars to Cramp's yard. The steamer was gayly decked out in bunting, and after re ceiving her cargo of distinguished people, took up a good position in view of the event. Strange to say, on the Columbia there were lfifj members of the House of Representa tives, which i three more than is necessary for a quorum. At three o'clock the Yard Superintendent reported everything ready for the launch and Mr. Charles Cramp gave the command, with the consent of the Secretary of the Navy, to ".Let go the breaks"' of the York town. Whack, whack, sounded the mauls as the men struck the chunks away, and just as this big iron hull began to slide riverward Miss May Cameron, daughter of Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, whacked the gunboat over her nose with a bottle of champagne, held by red, white and blue ribbons. It broke and as the wine spilled all down over the ship's rigid iron and paint, this lovely girl said: "I baptize thee Yorktown." The Yorktown be gan to move at six and a half minutes past three o'clock, and Heated gracefully on the Delaware within a minute. llanlly had the excitement over the first event subsided when it broke out afresh over the dynamite cruiser, which lay on its ways, near the place the Yorktown had left. Miss Eleanor fireck in ridge, daughter of Congress man I 'reck in ridge, of Kentucky, performed the christening function for the dynamite cruiser, as Miss Cameron had for the gun boat. As she broke the bottle over her bow this Blue Grass belle exclaimed, "I baptize thee Vesuvius." This was indeed news to even the Secretary's intimate friends, as he had kept it a secret till, at the last moment, be handed Miss Breckinridge his official order to call the cruiser Vesuvius. The Vesuvius glided graceful on her element four minute after the York "own. I The Vesuvius. ' The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius has a length of 240 feet, with a beam of 20 feet ( inches; her mean draught is 8-4 feet on the plans and her displacement 700 tons. Her engines will be of the latest triple expansion type, with twin screws, designed for JJf.OO horse power, which is expected to give a speed of twenty knots per hour. There will be four cylindrical locomotiv-i boilers, 100 pounds steam each. She is very lightly built, but firmly put together, and. will trust to her speed and shallow draught to choose her own time for fighting. She will have three dynamite guns, fifty four feet in length, fixed in position side by side, and they will really be built into tho ship. They will pro ject above the deck at an angle, and the shells to be thrown by them will weigh 20J pounds. In firing the guns it will le necessary to move the essel in tak ing aim. The officers' quarters will be right aft, while the crew will berth forward in the usual manner, the midships of the boat being taken up with the appliances for loading and firing the guns, machinery, coal space and stores. The gallery and conning tower are on the upper deck. The success of the dyna mite t miser has bern and will be watched and waited for with deep interest. Its suc cess simply means the revolutionizing of naval warfare. The Yorktown. Tho g-anboat Yorktown, or as she is mora commonly called, "Gunboat No. 1," is an un armored steel cruiser of 1003 tons displace ment. Her length is "SiO feet, beam 3$ feet with a draught of water of about 13 feet for ward and 15 feet aft There will be twin wre" s, with triple expansion engines of the latest improved type, designed for a horse power oC 2200 with natural and i)0 with forced draught, and it is expected that she will make a speed of seventeen knots. It carries four pneumatic gu ns for the hurling f dynamite projectiles-, each with a range of at least a mile. The training of the guns is accomplished by steering the vessel, and the loading is all done by steam. The guns are of lo-inch calibre, and tha shells, which can be fired with great accuracy twite a minute, will contain tioo pounds of explosive gelatine, equivalent to $52 pounds of dynamite, or 'M'j pounds of gun cotton. It is claimed that this gun, properly handled, will be the most destructive engine of war yet invented, for tho heaviest armored ships in the world will go all to pieces from the explosion of a shell much smaller than those thrown by the guns on the Yorktown. The conning tower wi:l be armored with two inch steel plates, and will be on the fore castle. The Captain's quarters will be under the qinrter deck. as will also the armory and a room devoted to the torpedoes. Speaking tubes and telegraphic arrangements wili enable the officer and pilot to communicate with those below. There will also be a cora jilete electric light plant, with two sets of dynamos. A United States Consular report declares that increased railroad facilities have made the beautifully located city of Zurich.Switzer land, a formidable rival to Lucerne and Geneva as a resort for pleasure-seekers from foreign lands. The erection of a large num ber of handsome new buildings, and the city's new quay improvements, which will cost "when finished nearly $1,400,000, have already, transformed Zurich into the most attractive of Swiss cities. The Chinese colony in Chicago consists of 2,000 souls, of whom only two are women. About one hundred of them are merchants, several of whom have fortunes of from 100,000 to $200, (XXX Four firms, dealing in tea, coffee and Chinese groceries, Lav an ag ,reate capital of $500,000. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eatmi and Middle State. The Pennsylvania Republican State Con vention at Harrisburg nominated James T. Mitchell for Supreme Court Judge and chose Delegates at Large to the Republican Na tional Convention headed by Senator Quay. The platform declares for protection to American industries. Thk Delunater Ircn Works in New York City were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $100,000. Four "firemen were severaly in jured by a falling walL At Yonkers. X. Y., four workmen were killed by the caving-in of the walls of a tun nel they were digging. A grand celebration was held in New Haven, Conn., in commemoration of the U.jOth birthday of the city. The Massachusetts Republican Convention met at Boston and elected delegates to the Chicago Presidential Convention. It is an uninstructed delegation, headed by Senator Hoar. The platform is for protection. j Forest fires have caused great destruction I of valuable timber around Kingston, Ply mouth and Foxboro, in Massachusetts. The Maverick Oil Works at Boston, Mass., were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $200,000. One employe was "killed and three others frightfully burned. George Dunham has been hanged at Woodbury, N. J., for the murder' of his mother-in-law. The Maine Republican Convention held its session at Bangor and adopted resolutions urging a maintenance of the present pro tective tariff. Delegates were elected to the Chicago Convention, who are pledged to support Blaine for the Presidential nomina tion. The Crosby High Liquor License bill has f)ased both Houses of the New York Legis ature. It fixes the liquor license at from $i'Hi to $1000, and the beer license at from $100 to $400. John B. Btscoe, a colored man, has been hanged at Leonard town, Md., for the mur der of Captain R. P. Dixon in lbSo. The sixty-sixth anniversary of the birth day of General Grant was celebrated through out the country, particularly by notable gatherings of men in New York, Boston and Pittsburg. The remains of ex-Governor John T. Hoff man, who recently died abroad, were brought to New York, and after memorial services in Grace Church, were taken to Sing Sing, N. Y.j and there interred. Frederick Witte, a New York clerk, while attempting to put out an electric light received a shock that resulted fatally. A lad in Grove City, Penn., hanged him self because his mother whipped him. The Rev. Edgar L. Heermance, former fastor of the Presbyterian Church at White 'lains, N. Y.. committed suicide Sundav bv shooting himself while standing in that church's pulpit. General. Joseph E. Johnston, the high est in rank of living officers of the Confed erate army, has been unanimously elected an honorary member of E. D. Baker Post, G. A. R. , of Philadelphia, Konth and West. The Republican State Convention met in Fort Worth, Texas, and sent an uninstructed delegation to the National Republican Con vention to be held in Chicago. Florida's delegation to the Republican National Convention is uninstructed. An examination of the books shows that James Cummings, manager of R. G. Dun fc Co.'s Business Agency, at Dayton, Ohio, Who killed himself a few days ago, was $04, 000 short. Samuel Dew killed the City Marshal of Nelsonville, Ohio, and then committed sui cide. The large dry goods house of Metcalf Bros. & Co., at Detroit, Mich., has made an assignment.: Liabilities, $300,000. Heavy frosts have done great damage to truck farms in Virginia. The dwelling house of Louis Stroman,near Springfield, S. C, was burned and four of Stroman's children two boys and two girls perished in the flames. Stroman's eldest son was fatally burned while endeavor ing to rescue his brothers and sisters. The Indiana State Democratic Convention met at Indianapolis and nominated for Gov ernor, Courtland C. Matson ; for Lieutenant Governor, W. 11. M3ers; for Secretary of State, R. W. Miers; for Auditor, C. A. Mun son; for Treasurer, Thomas Byrne. The Convention then adopted resolutions indors ing the Administration and suggesting the name of Governor Gray for the Vice Presi dential nomination. Delegates were in structed to support Cleveland in the St. Louis Convention. Fire destroyed the shoe shop attached to the penitentiary at Chester, 111. The keep ers marched the 125 convicts out of the build ing and locked them in their cells just in time to save them from death in the flames. At Galesburg, 111., W. A. Hedberg, a Bur lington engineer, killed Herbert Newell, a striker, and seriously wounded a fireman. Alexander Jones has been hanged at Tallahassee, Fla., for the murder of George Cuthbert. While in jail waiting to receive the death penalty he murdered one of his guards. By the breaking through of the floor in the Rushsylvania (Ohio) town hall, three persons were killed and many injurei. John Quarles, of Ridge way. S. C, at tempted to punish his young brother for a tritiing oHense, when the boy stabbed him to the heart, killing him instantly. Arch Stoltz. a farmer who lived near Richmond, Ky. , killed himself with poison. His brother William, seeing the corpse, took the remainder of the drug and died, asking to be buried in the same coffin with Arch. "Washington, The President has approved the act for a bridge across the Mississippi River at Mem- Ehis: the act granting the right of way to the uluth, Rainy Lake River and Southwestern Railway Company, through certain Indian lands in the State of Minnesota; the act making an appropriation for the erection of a building for the Chief Signal Officer of the Army. The Ways and Means Committee has de cided to continue the debate over the tariff bill seventeen days. On Tuesdays, Wednes days and Thursdays the House will rise at 5:'-M) p. al, and reassemble at 8 p. M., the evening sessions to be for debate only. On Mondays and Saturdays the sessions will end at50p. m. Saturday will be devoted to pension legislation as usual. The President has approved the act to pre vent any person in the cities of Washington and Georgetown from making books and pools on the result of trotting or running races. President Cleveland has decided to visit New York on Decoration Day in order to participate in the Grand Army memorial exercises in that city and Brooklyn. He will first review the parade in New York and will then go to Brooklyn and review the parade there. A majority of the members of both houses have accepted the invitation of the Secretary of the Navy to with ess the launching of the new war vessels at th9 Cramp shipyard in Philadelphia. Total amount of bonds offered in reply to Secretary Fairchild's recent call. $?, G01,050: total accepted, $-3,775, 650; total cost, $4,291 ,790. 75. Total saving in interest to the Government, $65,934.75. Foreign, The Prince of Wales has, for the fifteenth time, been installed as Grand Master of the Free Masons of the world. The Queen of England ended her visit to Berlin by reviewing a brilliant military pageant that was held in her honor. Queen Victoria has returned to England, landing at Sheerness. The Servian Ministry has resigned and a new Ministry formed. The Panama Lottery Loan bill has passed the French Chamber of Deputies bv a vote of 312 to V.12. This emrowers Count De Lessens to establish a lottery in furtherance of his Ship Canal scheme in Panama. Thirteen lives were lost by the sinking of the ship Smyrna off the Isle of Wight. LATER NEWS. - Freshets have done much damage in val leys of the Connecticut, Merrimac, Kenne bec and other New England rivers, and in the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota. David N. Bcrke, of New York, to be Consul of the United States at Bahia, and Francis Gross, of New York, to be Appraiser of Merchandise in the district of New York, are the latest appointments by President Cleveland. W. G. Duttenhoffer, tax-collector of Columbia, Penn., having defaulted to the amount of $0X), now turns out to be a forger as well, his bonds having no genuine signatures upon them. Two little children of Emil Faist were burned to death in New York city by the explosion of a kerosene lamp in the hands of their mother. A peanut trust has been formed at Nor folk, Va., which controls the entire peanut interest of this country with the exception of three small factories. The bodies of Mrs. Mary J. Kearney, aged sixty, and James Hand, aged seven, have been discovered on the ranch where they had been living, ten miles from Colorado Springs, Col. The boy had a large fortune, which was held in trust for him. There is no clue to the murderers. The boiler in William Caldwell's file fac tory at Rushville, Inr"., exploded, killing three men and wounding five others. Mexican troops had a sharp battle with hostile Yaqui Indians on the Tejambpo Mountains, in which twenty-one redskins were killed and fourteen taken prisoner. The British Government offers to owners of over twenty horses an annual retainer of $2.50 for each horse for the option of pur chasing them in time of war. Paul Kruger has been re-elected Presi dent of the Transvaal Republic. Charles A. Rickerd, a New York police man caught in the act of robbing a store on his beat, was arrested, disgraced by having the buttons cut from his uniform, indicted, sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, and taken to Sing Sing, all in less than ten hours. Dr. Simmons, of New York, who attended Samuel J. Tilden in his last illness, has sued the executors of the Tilden estate for $113, 000, the amount of his bill for medical ser vices. Ex-Assistant Cashier De Baun, of the National Park Bank, New York, has stolen $95,000 of the institution's funds and fled, it is surmised, to Canada. This does not affect the stability of the bank, as it has a large surplus. New Hampshire Democrats held their State Convention at Concord, and adopted resolutions approving the President's mes sage on the subject of Tariff reform, and recommending him to the St. Louis con vention for renomination. The delegates were instructed to so vote in the Presidential Convention. Henry Pope, a colored murderer, was sen tenced to be hanged Friday, at Summerville, Ga., but Governor Gordon respited him for sixty days. There was such intense feeling against the culprit, however, that a mob of citizens took him from jail and lynched him. The State Republican Convention met at Columbia, S. C, and chose delegate? to the Chicago Convention, who go thither unin structed on the subject of a Presidential nominee. Two section men were killed and three badly hurt near Elko, Neb., by an engine running into a hand car. The Wisconsin Democracy assembled in convention at Madison and adopted resolu tions demanding Tariff reform and indorsing the administration of President Cleveland. A delegation was sent to the St. Louis Con vention that will support Cleveland for the Presidential nomination. As electors-at-larga the Convention elected Nelson Dewey, who was the first Governor the State of Wis consin ever had, and Thomas Thompson, a young Norwegian, from Trempealeau county. General Wirt Adams, postmaster of Jackson, Miss., and John IL Martin, editor of the Xew Mississippian. fought a street duel, in which both were killed. The cause of animosity was certain articles in Mertin's paper reflecting on the veracity of Adams. The President has approved the act mak ing appropriations for the support of the Mil itary Academy: the act to secure the relin quishment of the In ban title to certain por tions of the reservation of the Sioux nation of Indians: the act ratifying an agreement with the Gros Ventre, Piegin, BlooJ, Black- feet, and River Crow Indians in Montana; the act for a public building at Greenville. S. C, and the act for the construction of an ar senal at Columbia, Tenn. Sir Alfred Phillipps Ryder, Admiral of her British Majesty's fleet, has been drowned in the Thames at London. Admiral Ryder suffere 1 from insomnia, and the drowning was the result of an accident. Dr. Junxer, the explorer, in a lecture be fore the Berlin Geographical Society, ex pressed his conviction that Stanley is now with Emin Bey. This is the opinion of all the leading German explorers. THOUSANDS POISONED. Attempted Annihilation of Indian Tribe in Brazil. Over Three Thousand Natives Killed by Poisoned Water. An account of an alleged poioning of a large number of Brazilian Indians by one Senhor Joaquin Bueno, has been received. The story shows that Bueno has already pois soned Indians and was meditating the murder of 5oJ0 more. The Sao Paulo weekly, ths PauHstat of Taubate, a Brazilian newspaper says: The worthy Bishop of Goyaz has engaged several missionaries and acquired books for the purpose of teaching and con verting the Indians of our backwoois. Little did we think that at Paranapanema a cer tain Senhor Joaquin Bueno was also carrying out a conversion of a different kind" among tha Guaymus Indians, sur rounded with the greatest horrors. A person recently arrived from the west, who deserves oxir entire confidence, heard Senhor J. Bueno himself relate in the presence of the Municipal Judge of Lencoes and of other persons the following exploits achievef by him against the poor Indians: Bueno, who resides at Sao Jos3 dos Campos Novos, stated that he had under his orders about seventy people employed in the perse cution and "extermination of the Indians. Some days agothey attacked a village and put to flight all the Indians, who abandoned to their persecutors their huts, which were inhabited by bodies of from ten to twenty Indians, who sleep on raised platforms made of logs fastened together . so that from the beds, when all are counted, the nuralier of the in habitants contained in each village can be ascertained when they are absent. Around each of these villages there are three wel's or holes; one, the deepest, is the well which supplies then with water, in another they keep a drink made of fermented maize, which they call "piksi," and which composes their wine or rum. anl in the last they preserve game, birds, and salt ti-h for their subsistence. As soon as the assailants found themselves in possession of the village, being furnished with a considerable amount ot strychnine, they set about poisoning all the wells con taining water, wine and provisions, and after putting into execution this treacherous deed withdrew without touching anything else. Some days afterward Bueno and his fol lowers returned to the villas:e,and even from a distance comprehended tha horror of the sight from clouds of crows hovering over the site of the crime, where they found stark and scattered :X)00 corpses. The crimes do not end hera Days after ward they attacked and exterminated an other village of eight hundred Indians on which occasion, having no strychnine, they made use of sublimated mercury in the same manner, poisoning the deposits of water, wine and provisions, and at the time of speak ing they were preparing to attack another village of five thousand Indians. This Senhor J. Bueno states that he is sup ported by influential people and by five Pro vincial Deputies. If still in time it is the duty of the provin cial government to prevent the horrors planned for the next attack, the description of which we have here recorded, in favor of these unfortunate nomads and for the shame of the human spscies. THE G0VEKN0RS MEET. Chief Executives of Thirteen States Assemble in Convention. In response to a call issued some time age by Governor Beaver, the governors of the thirteen original States, or their representa tives, with the exception of Massachusetts, met in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, Saturday, to consider plans for the establishment of a fitting and Aisting memorial to commemorate the first centvjry of the Constitution of the United States. Governor Green, of Xew Jer sey, was made Chairman of the meeting. Resolutions were unanimously adopted calling upon the National Government and the various States and Territories of the Union to make suitable appropriations to a fund to be dedicate! to the build ing of a grand national monument commemorative of the framing and adoption of the Constitution, to be erected within the cit' of Philadelphia, said monument to bear the names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence in their autographs, and of the framers of the Constitution. A resolution was also adopted declaring that the Governors of the thirteen original States be invited to ap point a Commissioner from each State to co operate with the citizens of New York in their preparations to fitly celebrate the centennial celebration of the inauguration of George AVashington as the first President of the United States, and to invite co-operation on the part of the sister States and Territories. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Tenxyson is at work on a poem of some length. Henry T. Coxwell, the balloonist, now TO, has made TOO assents. Bishop Wilson is the oldest preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Emperor Don Pedro, of Brazil, is a great admirer of George Eliot's novels. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, at 72, is as much interested in this world as ever. Senator Saclsbury, of Delaware, is the only bachelor in the United States Senate. Empress Elizabeth, of Autria,is s-unerb-ly beautiful, and has a weath of golden hair. Miss Hose Elizabeth Cleveland will re main in Washington until the latter part of June. President Diaz, of Mexico, has received the French decoration of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Secretary Whitney is very fond of animals, and has several fine horses and one dog for which he paid o0). Secretary Balfour, of the English abimt, used to be known in school and at allege as '"Clara Balfour.1 Congressman- IV. D- Kelley. of Penn sylvania, "Father of the House, recently ' celebrated his seventy-fourth birthday. 'TflE Duke of Mariborousrh returns to this country m June, it is said, to continue his wooimr of a young and very wealthy Ameri can wid aw. The Pwev. Robert Collyer, of New York, was twenty-seven years old when he came to this country and brought his wife over with him in the steerage. Gabriel Salausox, the young French man who is to marry a daughter of the Brit ish Minister at Washington, is of Hebrew descent and wealthy. 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