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. ,. ., .... '.. . - - - 3 '" ' -' i'.,a,iii.Miri -.iii w.Wii.wf AtiiM-i' I ' T'-rwr rrinntr-a-nr-v.r-rirfir--4 - KKMK'4rwMMin .s-m:-i-F a, .v-s.'.-'kj ..' fey?r :- i timmm m 1 'I M'mi innfelMP '. ALL HONOR TO ROOSEVELT President Deluded With Notes of Congratulation at Oyster Bay. RECOGNITION 0F;, HIS EFFORTS Heads of Governments, Prelates, Dljjnl taries and Noted. Men the World Over Unite in Prahlne Oar Chief ExecntlTe For His Labors In Behalf of Peaeo Between Russian and Japan. . Oyster Bay, N. Y. From: out of the. "whirl of excitement and the clouds of doubt arises a solitary figure, majestic in its just pride of accomplishment, simple in its pure, American democracy. President Koosevelt stands to-day in the eyes of the entire world, the most potent, figure in current history. -4 ' While the ' telegraph "wires leading Into this little village on the shores of the Sound were humming with con gratulatory messages from the mighty nes of the world, the President might have been seen dressed in khaki and carrying an axe, striding down the wooded slope near his summer home. 'A heavy drizzle was falling. It was but a few minutes before the axe awakened the echoes. I Two hours later, at 9 o'clock in the inorning. Secretary Loeb arrived at Sagamore Hill for his daily session of executive business with the Presi dent. He carried a handbag filled with congratulations from crowned heads of Europe, from men occupying exalted places in State and church the world over, and letters that came from men and women in humbler station. Mr. Loeb found the President half hidden behind a pile of wood. Thus it was that the man on whom is centred the gaze of the world received the official thanks of the world. "Whistle softly. "We are getting into the thin timber, but we are not yet out of the woods." This homely admonition is said to have been used by President Roosevelf in speaking of the situation at Ports mouth. Peace was in sight, but was not yet an accomplished fact. The telegraphic force at the execu tive office was swamped with messages from those who wished to congratulate the President on the happy outcome of his efforts for peace. Among them were the following: Peterhof , Alexandria. " Accept my congratulations and warm est thanks for having brought the peace negotiations to a successful con clusion owing to your personal ener getic efforts.. My country will grate fully recognize the great part you have played in the Portsmouth peace confer ence. NICHOLAS. Marienbad. The President: Let me be one of the first to con gratulate you on the successful issue of the peace conference, to which you have so greatly contributed. EDWARD R. I. . . -- Neues Palais. President Theodore Roosevelt: Just received cable from America an nouncing agreement of peace confer ence on preliminaries of peace. I am overjoyed; express most sincere con gratulations at the great success due to your untiring efforts. The whole of mankind must unite and will do so in thanking you for the great boon you have given it. WILLIAM, I. B. La Begude, Presidence. President Roosevelt: - Your Excellency has just rendered ito humanity an eminent service-for which I felicitate you heartily. The French republic rejoices in the role that her sister America has played in this historic event. EMILE LOUBET. Ischel, Austria." On the occasion of the peace just con cluded I wish. Mr. President, to1 send you my friendliest felicitations on the result of your intervention. May the world be blessed with many years' con tinuance of peace undisturbed. . ; FRANCIS JOSEPH. Janesville, Wis. President Roosevelt: - ; Accept congratulations. - Your suc cessful efforts to secure peace between Russia and Japan reflects credit on the nation. WILLIAM J. BRYAN. Secretary Loeb, who will see that all the congratulatory messages are an swered, began the task at once. The.earnestness of endeavor and sin cerity of purpose of the Chief Execu tive in his efforts on behalf of peace are shown in his prayer before the opening of the -negotiations when the plenipotentiaries . met on the Presi4 dent's yacht at Oyster Bay. He said: "Gentlemen, fI propose a toast to which there will be no answer and which I ask you to drink in silence, standing. I drink to the welfare and prosperity of the. sovereigns and peo ples of the two great nations' whose representatives have met one another on this ship. It is my most earnest hope and prayer, in the interest of not only these two great powers; but of all mankind, that a just and lasting peace may speedily be concluded between them." ' ' - - - But for his unfailing efforts and re lentless zeal the conference would un doubtedly have failed, and the entire civilized world knows it. EIGHTEEN LINERS FOR JAPAN. Contracts Being Placed With Scotch Shipbuilding Firms. ' , Glasgow, Scotland. The Nippon Yu sen Kaisha (Japan Steamship Com pany), through the Japanese Consul, is placing contracts for eighteen liners with Clydd shipbuilding firms- r Both Tokio and St. Petersburg showed dissatisfaction-with the peae agreement, and mutterings were heard that the war should be continued. DYNAMITER PROVES FATAL Aeronaut Blown;; to Pieces While r H 1500 Feet ih the Ain -Vc fb?in E. Hakwln Meeli WUh Horrible Death While GlTinjr a Demon. , . stratlon at Greenville, O. V , Greenville, .Ohio. John E. Baldwin, an airship r navigator, was blown , to atoms here while lot feet in the air by the explosion of six sticks of dy namite. His wife and two children were among;the 25.000 spectators who witnessed his death. , Baldwinhad been giving dally ex hibitions at the county fair here. Ho would ascend several thousand feet and explode dynamite at intervals. This time he had gone up 1500 feet, and his airship was soaring birdlike. Every eye , amongi the thrilled-spectators be-, low watched him until he became, al most a speck. Suddenly a great cloud of smoke ap peared. It hjd the airship from view, the spectators supposed, as the; bal loon had vanished. In another moment the sound of the explosion reached the straining ears. The airship1 did not appear again to vision. ' -' : ; For a moment the crowd waited ex pectantly, thinking that a view of the aeronaut would be obtained through a rift in the smoke. A second two three and, finally, a minute passed ad the supposed smoke did not clear. Then a groan of horror rose from the mul titude. The airship had vanished. Where it had been but a moment before was only space. . Twenty-five thousand pairs of eyes searched in vain over the heav ens for the speck which had been hu man lif e4 " f ; i A woman's shriek broke the spell. The practiced eye of Baldwin's wife told her of the tragedy in the clouds before the crowd could fully compre hends With one piercing scream she fell in a dead faint. Searchers immediately began looking for fragments of the wrecked airship. A half mile away they found pieces of silk cloth, of which the balloon was made, and splinters of the basket-like frame work on which the aeronaut had been perched. Scattered about a twenty-acre field were fragments of Bald win's body. The distance was so great that the crowds had net seen them fall. When they realized what had hap pened forty or more women fainted, while the faces of the men blanched. The tragedy occurred at the end of the day's program, and the crowd was quickly dismissed from the grounds. No one can tell how the accident oc curred. The six sticks of dynamite which Baldwin carried with him must have exploded simultaneously, as only one report was heard. It is supposed that in igniting the fuse connected with the dynamite he set fire to a leak of hydrogen gas from the balloon,, the gas forming an explosive mixture with the air, and that this explosion set off the dynamite also. Baldwin was engaged in a demon stration of the possibilities of aerial warfare. For almost twenty years he had been giving balloon and airship ex hibitions about the country, for the most part at county fairs. Ho was thirty-seven years old. and his home was at Losantiville, Ind. PRESIDENT RECEIVES NEWS. .. ;i - ' : ' Message of Peace Reaches Him at Oyster Bay. Oyster Bay, N. Y. President Roose velt received his first news of the agreement between the envoys of Rus sia and Japan on terms of peace at 2.50 o'clock 'In the afternoon. : i The President was in the library at Sagamore: HlU dictating letters having ah important .bearing on the peace ne-gOtiationsr- " - The telephone rang. Secretary Loeb dropped his pen and stepped up to receive the message, and the next mo ment Mr. Roosevelt knew that the ef forts in which he had set his heart bad finally borne fruit. EARTHQUAKE IN PORTSMOUTH. Three Distinct Shocks Drive People in Terror From Houses. Portsmouth, N. H. Three earthquake shocks, which began at 5.40 o'clock in the afternoon and followed each other in rapid succession, caused great alarm here. Buildings, trembled perceptibly, dishes were shaken from shelves, and in many cases people rushed in terror from their homes into the street. TO CALL STATE SEQUOYAH. Indian Territory Committee Selects Name Decides For Prohibition. Muskogee, I. T. The Statehood Con. stitutional Committee agreed on Se quoyahforthe3iame of the Common wealth." I J.'tj ' It also was decided to make prohibi tion atpart of the organic law and to issue bonds for. ?25;000,000. . BIG PRIZE FOR WRECKERS. Government -ixposition Building Sold For $10,500-Cost $500,000. I i St Louis. , Mo. The United States Government building at the Louisiana' Purchase Exposition, erected at a cost of $500,000, has been sold to a wreck ing company for $10,500. The steel trusses ih the structure alone cost $100,000. Coal Lands Sold... , ' " ' 6 vTwo Immense coal tracts ia Somer set County, Pa.f valued at more than .$LO00,000,s have changed v hands. ; and ; indications are that extensive develop ments will Ie made. The holdings dis posed of are the . unopened Kennerly CoaI; Company's tract of 3000 acres, sold, to J. L. Mitchell, ot Philadelphia, for $55Q,000, and 900 acres controlled by the Valley Stone "and Coal Com pany together with a large operating, plant, sWd td -J; Blair -Kennedy, of Philadelphia; for $550,000. FULL ECLIPSE OF THE OUM Solar Data Obtained From. Different Points the World Over. ... t v, . . j ? - "" LITTLE SEEN IN THIS COUNTRY BIot of the Astronomical Parties Accom plished Their Work of Taking Fhoto irraphu and. Making Obserratlons From Place In the North of Africa i ( and in XSarope. v Guelma, Algeria. The American as tronomical expedition headed by Rear Admiral Chester,, Superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory, suc ceeded in obtaining a splendid photo graph of the eclipse of the sun. The expedition, also, by means of special apparatus, sketched the sun's protuber ances. ' ' ; . , Tripoli. The American, Italian and French expeditions observed the eclipse here in a clear atmosphere. It lasted three minutes and four seconds. The shadow bands were particularly fine, beginning ten minutes before the to tality. Bailey's beads were not seen. The corona was evenly developed. Pro fessor Ttdd, of Amherst College, head of the American expedition, took many photographs. Assouan, Egypt. The eclipse was ob- Russians' Loss in Guns and Ammunition on Land. The Russian losses in guns and ammunition in land battles up to and including the rout at Mukden have .been compiled as follows by a London military expert. The armament of captured naval vessels is not included. M .v , XT , , " Rounds of Rounds of Name of Battle Guns. Ammunition. Rifles. Rifle Am'tion. The Yalu.. 26 58,715 1,021 535,003 Fengwangcheng 357 ' ... 181,000 NansW... 78 - 357. Teh"2 6 2,121' 958 57,233 Hsinoyen 300 1 g- 2 570! 63' 980 lushuhn Yantseling. ..7... 2 .... 600i Liaoyang 8, 10,036 - 3,478: The Shaho .. 45. 1 6,920 5,478 78,000 Port Arthur.... 529 206,735 36,598- 1,636,730 Heikautai .. 2 000 Mukden 66 227,700 " 62,200 26,640,666 Total.... .... .. 775 512,532 112,692 . 28,928,948 High Russian ofl3cers killed during the war: Admiral Makaroff, Ad miral Witsoeft, Admiral Voelkersam, Admiral Molas, Commander Steph anoff, General Count Kellar, General Kondratchenko, General SmolenskI, General Realinkin, General Tserpitoff. Several officers of high rank, including Admiral Rojestvensky, Ad miral Nebogatoff, Admiral Ukhtomsky and Generals Hock and Pflug, from Port Arthur, axe held as prisoners of war. served here by the British, American and Russian expeditions in perfect weather. The corona was of moderate size on account of the haze. .The to tality of the eclipse lasted two minutes and1 twenty-four seconds. The American expedition, headed by Professor Hussey, of Lick Observatory, carried out Its complete program. It obtained eight plates with a forty foot lens, eight plates which were ex posed for - the intramercurial ' planet, with a composite battery of four tele scopes, and one plate of the general coronal spectrum. London, Eng. The solar eclipse was not visible in London, owing to cloudy weather. Efforts were made to take observations from high altitudes by means of balloons. The eclipse was distinctly, seen from points in the north west of Ireland. The umbra at the greatest made the sun appear like a crescent moon: " i Paris, Franco. The eclipse of the sun was observed here under the most favorable conditions. , I Dispatches from Burgos, Spain, re port that excellent results' were ob tained by all the scientific - expeditions. Military . balloons took, part in the ob servations there. St. John's, N. F. All stations along this coast report sdtisfactory observav tions of the. eclipse of the sun, but lack of telegraphic communication with Labrador makes it impossible to learn If equally favorable results marked the efforts of the scientific parties there. i - . j New York City; Cloudiness made it Impossible to catch any satisfactory glimpse of the sun in or near this city at the time of the solar eclipse. Many people arose at an inconveniently early hour and sought posts on housetops, bridges or elevations in the streets which commanded the eastern horizon, but without avail. CASUALTIES. EXPENSES AND LOSSES OF THE WAR. . . : Length of war, days... ' ; - 569 TotarRus8ian casualties v 210,000 TotalJapanese casualties ' i r 169,000 " . Cost of war to Japan.. $1,125,000,000 Cost to Russia...... ,.; 1,500,000,000 : Japan's war loans . ..... 650,000,000 Russia's war loans;.. A.: 670,000,000 Russia's loss in' ships:. 4 150,000,000 Japan's loss in ships... 20,000000 Russian war ships sunk or captured,..,...'. .... 7 . ' 64 Japan's big vessels lost. . : - 5 Big land battles won by t ' - . the Japanese 15 Chief naval victories of "'Japan....-..' .. .' . I'' 'a S'. Length of Port Arthur ; ' siege, days . 21S Japanese casualties at Port Arthur. r.v.-;-' ; 46,000 Russian casualties , at :, , t. sv Port Arthur.. ....... 15,500 . Love Causes Tragedy. t ? William Barbour," of Huntington, W. Va., shot and killed Etta Denney, his sweetheart, and then killed himself. ' i '' 3 -.i.T.rT-tr - 11 - ; j J ; j Orders Courtfartlal of Young. ! Secretary of tbe "Navy Bonapart, at Washington. D. C.,f ordered the court ipartlal; of Commander LucI en; Young, commander of the gunboat Bennington when many of her officers and; crew were killed bya boiler -explosion on the Vessel. ' " r "',., .Unconscious For 145 Days. After- Jlylng in a state of coma for 14.1 da vs. Chcxlf s CaneDi. eisht years bld,died in-. YonkersN; Y.'A from spinal I meningitis. Proportion cf Children to Adults Steadily Decreasing 0 facial Government Report Shows Son ; . Startling FactsStatistics In Brief From 1810. "Washington, D. C That the propor tion of children under ten years old to the total poulation of the United States has decreased almost uninterruptedly since the early part of the century is the startling information contained In ft report of the Bureau of Census of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Believers in the race suicide theory have found in the report much in sup port of their belief. The proportion of children under ten years old constitut ed approximately one-third of the pop ulation of the United States at the beginning of the century, and less than one-fourth at the end. The decrease has been more rapid during the last two decades than In those immediately preceding them.! The report says in part: ; "The decrease in the corresponding proportion for whites began as early as 1810 and continued uninterruptedly until the end of the century. ; "Since 1830, when the figures were first obtained, the proportion of the negro children under ten years of age to the total negro population has de creased. There was, however, an in crease from I860 to 1880. On the other hand, there was a rapid decrease from 1880 to 1900. "The proportion of white children under five years of age to the total population decreased steadily, except from 1850 to 1860, the number of such 1 Children being in 1900 about three- fifths of what it was in 1830. The de crease during the last decade of the century was insignificant. "The corresponding proportion for negroes was at its Height in 1850 and 1880 and except for 1870 was least in 1890. "The decades of great, immigration and the Civil War showed the greatest ratio of decrease in the proportion of children. , . . ,'The decades immediately following those of great immigration, showed a reduction in the rate of decrease, prob ably because of the high birth rate among the immigrants. The reductfon in the proportion of children to total population during the century suggests,, but does not prove, that the birth rate was lower. "The increase in the proportion of children among negroes from 1S60 to 1880 and the decrease from 1880 to 1900 suggests a high birth rate during thevtwenty years following emancipa tion and a rapid fall in the birth-rate thereafter. . "The. proportion of children under five years of age to women of child bearing age increased from 1S50 to 1860, but has decreased since then, being in 1900 about three-fourths of what it was in 1860. "The decline in the' proportion of children since 1860 has been less marked in the South than in the North and West. The proportion in the North and West in 1850 was about five sixths, and in 1900 less than three fourths of that in the South." PARIS DEEPLY IMPRESSED. President Roosevelt Praised by Pre mier Rouvier and Diplomats. Paris, France.-The news of the suc cessful termination of the conference at Portsmouth produced a profound im pression when it was communicated to - - the members of the Diplomatic Corps and the high officials of the Gov- ernment, who unanimously expressed the keenest satisfaction that the heavy strain and anxiety had been removed. President Roosevelt's unrelenting per sistency was generally , considered to have been the main factor in bringing about the result. RUSSIAN WAR PARTY ANGRY. Rest.of Czar's Pfeople Expected to Wel ' ' . come Peace. , St. Petersburg, Russia. The news of the peace agreement did not reach here until S o'clock In th,e evening. It speed ily circulated by word of mouth, and was received with general incredulity. Not for a moment have the members of the war "party "believed that peace was a possible outcome of the confer ence Their attitude is one of furious exasperation as of people who have been tricked into a false position. 400 FISHERMEN DROWNED. Many Boats Wrecked by Hurricane, In f.v Japanese Archipelago.-' "London, Eng. The correspondent of .the Daily Telegraph at Leghorn sends a report received from Nagasaki of the overtaking of a hundred fishing boats by a hurricane off Goto Island (belong ing to the Japanese archipelago in the channel" of Korea). - tThe -report says that 400" teri " were lost. VSSif: . j . WASHINGTON. , Edwin S. Holmes, Jr., indicted in th cotton report scandal, surrendered and gave $10,000 bail. . .. 1 Jesse E. Wilson, of Indiana, has been appointed Assistant Secretary of th Interior to succeed Melville W. Miller, resigned. , . ' Mrs. Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox, said to have been the. first child born In the White House, the grand-niece of Andrew Jackson, died aged seventy fire years. , I - The President has approved the sen tence in theiCpurt-martial case of First Lieutenant George S. Richards, .Twenty-third Infantry, who was convicted of duplicating pay accounts and sen tenced to dismissal and to one year at hard labor. Consul-General Lee, at Panama, cabled the State Department that there was one "death from bubonic plague at Panama. ' . OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. There was a lively scene in Manila Bay as the transport Logan, witH Sec retary Taft, Miss Roosevelt and their party aboard, sailed for Hong Kong and Yokohama. The municipality of Manila has been authorized to issue $4,000,000 gold bonds "for the construction of water and sewerage works. : Secretary Taft ' and his party re turned to Manila. The Korea, with a number of the visitors, was. booked to sail for Hong Kong. DOMESTIC. M. Witte, with his suite, attended an Informal concert by Mr. Hansen, at Portsmouth, N. H., the first secretary of the embassy in Washington, in the ballroom. Mr. Hansen played several pieces by Russian composers, of which M. Witte is extremely fond. ; George W. McFarland was arrested In Trenton, N. J. on complaint of his wife, who alleges that while she was ih her bath he threw carbolic acid over her, burning her severely. McFarland denied the charges. J John Dunton, aged. 101 years, died at his home in Londonville, Vt., as the result of the shock caused by severe burns received from the accidental overturning of a lamp. i A huge area has been devastated by a forest fire north of San Bernardino, Cal. ' , "Eight Italians were blown to bits with dynamite in the Greenbrier Val ley, near Barlow Station, Va. Two hundred and eighty-eight boys took the Civil Service examination for positions as office boys in municipal departments of New York City. Prince Louis of Battenberg visited Niagara Falls. Asbury Park's annual festival was held with the crowning of Queen Tita nia. Mrs. Jane Johnson was drowned off Coney Island, N. Y., at the same time her brother died in Little Rock, Ark. ; Frederick A. Peckham, charged with complicity in the cotton leak, was re leased in Saratoga, N. Y., on a $10,000 cash bail. : Despondent because of poor health Miss Elizabeth L. Healy, a well-known music teacher, hanged herself at Bos ton, Mass. Mistaking him for a burglar, Frank Hasty shot and killed Wade Robinson, his thirteen-year-old . brother-in-law, at Bolton, N. C. William Barbour, of Huntington, W. Va., shot and instantly killed Etta Den ney after a quarrel over a love affair. He then shot and killed himself. 1 Robert L. Wimberley,- of Downie yille, Nev., was shot dead by his sev-enteen-yea-old . sister-in-law, Bertha Bennett. In a head-on-collision of freight trains at Bridgeport, Conn., Fireman George Dawson was fatally injured. . John Temple Graves, editor of the Atlanta Naws, will be a candidate to succeed Senator Bacon, of Georgia, and the latter will strive for xe-election. In "a collision between a trolley car and an ice wagon Thomas "Tod was killed and two other men were injured at Buffalo, N. Y. Three members of the family of An tonio Gomez died at Boston, Mass.. of ptomaine poisoning, following a lobster dirnor. ;In a three-cornered fight with stil ettoes at Fairmount, W. Va., Joe Raf funi 'war killed and Tomaseo Bargo was fatally stabbed. - - - - - Employes of the Bremerton Navy Yard, at Puget Sound, were charged with wholesale thefts of "Government property. V i Indianapolis (Ind.) Democrats reom Inated Mayor John Haltzman. The furlough class of 116 members returned to .West Point (N. ) Acad emy from a leave of absence, which began on June 13. ' "' Forcing his way into a saloon from which he had been ejected, Frank Johnson, A negro, was shot dead by Charles Riehler. Jr., sixteen years old, at Wilmington, N. C. ; - ; FOREIGN. :. f S ': A special cable from Valparaiso an nounces the death in Berlin, Germany, of Francisco AT Pinto, Chilean Minister; to .Germany. . 1 ; Two deaths from cholera have oc curred at Lemberg, .Austria,, and sev eral suspected eases are under obser vation. The. deaths occurred in th family of a river boatman, who has been working in the Vistula district of Prussia." .-) 'ifi ; Dr. S." H. Lee7 Health Officer B f Kingston.; Out, committed, suicide. iHe was a physician In the Union Army In the American Civil ,War.v - . ;'t The Swedish and Norwegian dele gates, appointed to consider. the terms of the dissolution of the union of Swe den and Norway met in Karlstad. Swe den, fti'l .; ' 'h -;' ?f :C The French" Minister at Vez, Moroc co, has telegraphed that the Sultan has released the Algerian' citizen. Bouzian, but has not satisfied the French de mands. The; Government -t - Paris-is 'determined to press its claimsl - NEW. WARSHIP, LAUNCHED ' J t 4 it ; battleship Vemoiit Takes: the Water I . ' at Quineyy Mass.. . , - t t & IT- Cbrlatenlnr Ceremonies Held In book iards-.MlM Jennie C. Bell ; . -tvV- tne- Sponsor.' uxi j , Quincy, , . Mass, The battleshipV-Ver-imont,. built for the United, States Gov ; ernment, was launched aJLthe yard of . out mlsnaprandi slowly , kndnfobtnly, 6"ucu juuwu. me ways. nousanas cheered as the hull rushedJinto,-the .water.' . .. '' . - ' : I The guests t of honor Included jQover- " nor Charles JBell of Vermont, Gover nor W. L, Douglas of Massachusetts and Assistant Secretary of the . Navy. Charles H. Darling. They occupied a" platform In the bow" of the'bigvvessel. Miss Jennie C. Bell, daughter of Gov ernor Bell and the sponsor of the; ves sel, was the central figure on the plat form. Beside' her were the! maids -of honor, Miss Mary-E. -Moore, ofRani dolph, Vt, and Miss Virginia E. Perry of Mclndoes, Vt. The Vermont f Veteran Association of Massachusetts, with the Vermont Association of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Daughters of Vermont, occupied a special reviewing stand near the bow of the battleship. -; The ) shipbuilding ' j company ?had opened the - gates of the yard' tothe general public, and thousands saw the launching from the premises, ft When the; new man-of-war -ivas re--leased, Miss Bell drew back a bottle of " American wine suspended from the platformbyxibbons,ancUas the iwige craft dipped stern foremost into the high tide she swung the pendulum harcf against the armored bow. The bottle ; struck squarely and broke upon the ship, as Miss Bell - exclaimed, ;"I christen thee Verniorit ! The battleship is one of the largest and most powerful of the ships of war that have been constructed for the' United States Navy. She is of 16,000 tons burden with-a lehgth'of 450 feet' and extremei breadth I bf 76 feet, 10 Inches. She will T)e required to steam' eighteen knots , an hour ,for . f our -pour ,' secutive hours. : " v' " The main battery of the. Vermpnt' will consist of four 12-lrich breechioad lng rifles, two mounted forward and; two aft; eight 8-inch breechloajUng1 rifles, and twelve 7-inch breechloading rifles." In the-secondary battery will' be twenty 3-ihch impounder rapid 'fire guns, twelve 3-pounder and semi-automatic guns, six ' 1-pounder automatic guns, two , 1-pounder semi-automatic guns, two 3-inch field "pieces, two "ma chine guns and six automatic guns.-. - At the luncheon which followed Rear-Admiral Bowles, President of the shipbuilding company, introduced Gov ernor. Douglas and Governor Bell to the 500 persons present. 'Governor Bell , spoke briefly. ; : Rear-Admiral Bowles? then f proposed a toast to 5 President Rodsevelt. The toast was: "I give you the health of a soildier, peacemaker, statesman and a ' brave and honest gentleman-tTheodore . Rbosevelt, ' President- of the United States." ... An enthusiastic 1 demonstration fol- . lowed. Every one" present arose and cheered. f r j t - Assistaut it Secretary DarlinL in re sponse, spoke of the President's part., in a the victory of an ' Ju&h and his I courage in making the recent trip on the submarine1 boat Plunger. Then he said: "But-greatest of all, he-Is an envoy of peace. In ; . uniting Russia, our long-time friend,-and Japan, our foster child the Yankee of the East-he?-has added great' glory to himself. ' - The contract for the Vermont was . signed in June, 1903. At heriaurichingj ' the vessel was about two-thirds r fin ished. She is to be ready for commis sion December. 20,, 1906. When, com pleted the : new battleship will have cost the United States $7,000,0007 " The hull of the battleship Is of steel throughout. It i is t protected - at the water-line by a complete, belt of armor 0 feet 3 inches wide, having a maxi mum thickness of 11 inches for about 200 feet amidshipsi Forward .and aft of - this the maximum - thickness is 9 inches within the limit of magazines, from which points . the thickness is gradually decreased to 4 inches at the l stem and stern. x . .; Iv ! The ehglhes'are of the 'verticltwih 4 screw, four cylinder, triple expansion type, of a .. combined horse, powerpfc 10,500. -There are twelve boilers plaeed in six . water tight .compartments. There are three funnels each 100 feet high above the" base line YOUNG ROOSEVELT GOT BEAR. 1 Not as Big as President's,, But a Betr '; rJust'thea)ne. ?; f , D'eadwood, S.tD. Kermlt Roosevftt.s son of the President,; has returned htra1 v, f ter; a ten daysT hunting : trip . w Captain Seth- Bullock The boy sv.,4 reeded'inuklllirig a brown bear, halfiC big as that killed by his father in' Col .r .orado, and two wildcats. , ! C'lO.OOOSil ver Service j oBa'ttleship. j Adjutant-General Breintnall.at Tre 1 ton,. N. J.,,.waa( advised: by, the Seci - tary of the Navy that-the t qattlest ; New Jersey probably will be placed i. i t ommission on April 4, 1906. T! Ftate has placed an order forja $10,00 i silver. srvicei fwhich will bepTesented' to the battleship at that time. 4 . Bomb Kills Two,:in Odessa. ; A bomb yas exibasd; ih the Fresclv Boulevard it Odessa.4. Two revblu: tionaries were injured and were taker1 trthe. military -hospital where ttey JtlaA 'IJ j ..J Jjfi IV -4 1 Good :Crvp IJeport'sir'' J'f i T Generally' good retornp09ie f rpr i r!l crops in the North and Wc !i nd there is apparent assurance of ft 12; 1 1 fact" plenteous, yields of all kinds c:. ; lwOdstufl's. t ; '. . J: '-, " . i' ft.-. Lightning Stuns Three. I WhileexaM the summit of Me Hobdr OrePr'o-' . fessor 'M. W. Lyon,- Mrs: Lyon' and r. Mark Weigant, a guide, were struck v by lightning. and all were prostrated- . ithe Fore mrjenbTrtldCCa!py. She was released from the'sncklfwhi
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