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The A rmy May Take 10 Hand.

VIENNA, April 3D. There is high palace
authority for stating that the army pro-
poses TO take a hand in the LIST of May
demonstration, great dissatisfaction ex-
isting In the ranks with regard 10 pay. II
is further stated that the officers are in
full sympathy with the working men, and
IL the rank and file are not appeascd by
an increased remuneration there is
danger that on the ist of May the army
will fratnerize with the socialists instead
of firing on them. In view Of this state
of things. great precautions have been
taken by the authorities.
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SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
A Temporary Government for Okiahorn
An Arinona Customs District.

An AriRona Customs District.
WASHINGTON, April 23-In the senate To-
day the committee on foreign relations
reported back Tin lieu OF Reagan's bill
the Rio Grande river a concurrent reso-
luton requesting the presidentto enter
into negotiations with Mexico on the sub
ject adopted.
Chandler offered a resolution to incor-
porate among the standing rules OF the
senate one TO expedite the taking OF votes
and facilitating public business. Re
ferred TO committee on rules. II provides
for procedure similar to that In the
house TO head of dilatory motions,
etc., and also provides that
the presiding officer may cause
to be entered on the journal names OF
senators present and not voting to make
up quorum.
Reagan spoke In support Of his bill. re-
porting all the laws for the retirement Of
army, navy and marine officers, and judi
ciary from active service on pay.
The conference report on the bill pro
vitling for q temporary government Tor
Oklahoma was agreed to; yeas 30, nays 5,
Butler. Cockrell, Pugh, Quay and Vest
Among the bills passed were the follow
ing: The senate bill improving Arkansas
pass, Texas; the senate bill appropriate
ing 6,076 to reimburse the state OF Wash
ington for the expenses of the constitu
tional convention; the senate bill amend
ing aud further extending the benefits oi
the act Of February 8, 1887, providing fcI
the allotment Of land In severalty TO the
Indians on various reservations, ETC.; thu
senate bill providing for n commission Il
determine the northern boundary line o
Warm Springs Indian reservation, Ore
Ron, and making an appropriation there
for; the senate bill to create q customs
district for the territory Of Arizona.
Plumb gave notice that he would To
morrow ask senate consideration OF hi
resolution as TO the increase of silve
coinage.
The land forfeiture bill was taken NJ
and the senate adjourned.
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. New CASTLE, Pa. April 2s.-An explo-
sion occurred at the Etna mills this
morning. Three men were killed and six
badly injured, two of whom will probably
die. While the men were working on a
fiue on the en- 4 of big boiler il collapsed
with dcafening roar. In a moment the
place was drenched with steam. The
Killed are George Klingensmith. John
Welsh and Johnny Murphy.
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CHICAGO. April 23.-Therc is no change
in the carpenters strike to-day and pros
poets OF any compromise are still very
gloomy. ID. z. Roland, president, of the
National Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners arrived ia Chicago yesterday and
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w.adsash.~ rrse. ss..r,mo.v Ax.in.

NEW YORK. April 23.-A special from
New Haven, Conn.,, says: Wilson wad-
bingham, the New Mexico cattle king
has returned To his million dollar resi-
dence at West Haven. -As recently told.
he obtained a divorce from his first wife
about month ago and was soon after
ward married in New Mexico to Miss
Mamie Barrows. II was believed that
they would live in New Mexico, but they
have surprised every one by coming back
"
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THE COMING FIGHT.


Boston, April 28.-John L. Sullivan
said to-day that the purse OF s2OyOOO
offered by the California Athletic club
was satisfactory to him and he was
willing to meet Jackson, but until the
trouble in Mississippi was settled he
articles.
CHICAGO, April 22.-The fact that the
California Athletic club had agreed to
$4,000 purse was telegraphed TO Peter
jackson to-day and the answer came
back promptly, II accept those terms"
Sullivan's answer Is now awaited.
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Must Purchase Na,Iy. s,ocL

CoLuMBus, Ohio, April 23.-The'legisla-
tnre has enacted law which requires the
officers OF all state and county institutions
20 purchase native stock for consumption.
The law declares native stock TO be those
fore being killcd.
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King L.ropold'. Plan.

BRUssELs, April 23.-In the deputies
to-day Bermaerl. president of the minis
terial council referring To King Leopold's
speech yesterday, said the king really at.
tended To his plan Of endowing Belgium
with Congo free state. He added that
the principal act In his case would be in
assisting the king To do this.
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CHICAGO. April -. The jury this even
ing awarded the death penalty to W. 4.
Purdy for the murder of Samuel Rein
niger. Not a muscle moved in Purdy's
face as hc heard the verdict. The muir
dered man was Purty's friend, and evil
dence in the case was largely circum-
stantial.
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The suprcm. Council, WIN Decide,

PIT-rsBuRG, April 23-The men pre-
scented final proposition tn the railroads
to-day aud met with refusal. The mat
ter now lies In the hands Of the supreme
council OF the federation. These mem
bers will decide whether a strike will bc
ordered ar the terms of the railroads ac-
ceptcd.
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4 Baron O.trac,.e,l,

STUTTGART. April ga club Of mobiles
In this city has ostracised Baron Muenich.
because he was elec,. 4 To the reichstag
as a representative of the reople's party.
The baron has challenged eight of the
members.
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The Tonawanda Fire.

ToSAwANDA, n. ", April 23.-firc was
discovered in the yard Of the Tonawanda
Lumber company last night and at mid
night another i'm a different quarter of the
town. Both were subdued after n hard
fight. Considerable excitement was
caused by the discovery that the wires of
the fire alarm system had been cut In sew
eral places. The general opinion was
that there was deliberate plot to burn
the town.
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Psn-Anericans Visit Mount vernon.
WAsHlNoToS, April 23.-MerEbers of
the late Pan-American conference now in
Washington, went to Mount Vernon to-
day rs guests of Secretary Blaine.
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stanley and IN. slavery Question.

BRussELs, April 23.-At luncheon
given by the anti-slavery society to-day,
Stanley said an effort for the suppression
OF slavery without, the assistance and
direction of local officials of the powers
occupying Africa would be disastrous
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Public Printer. ON Trial.

DENVER, April 23.-The trial Of Public
Printers Collier and Cleveland and Secre-
tary Of State Rice on the charge of con-
spiracy to defraud the state, began here
to-day. The day was taken up in securing
a jury.
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Nomin.,ed for Congress.

INDIANAPOLIS. April 3.-In the repub-
lican convention Of the Sixth Congress
sional district to-day, state Senator Henry
Johnson was nominated for congress to
succeed Hon. Thomas Browne, the pre-
sent incumbent.
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Ru..,.n Documrnt- stolen

Sr. PETERSBURG, April 23.-A document
embodying plans for mobilization of
Russian troops on German and Austrian
frontiers In the event of war has been
stolen from the war Office.
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PARIS. April 23.--Otiicial dispatches
confirm the report Of French reverse i'm
Dahomey. One white was killed and
- native allies were wounded.
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Fran,i. ste,Iu,an Dead,

BosToS, April 23.-Hon. Francis Dana
Stedman died at his home this morning
aged ~ years. Stedman was the last sur
viying grandson Of William Ellery. one
of the signers Of the declaration Of indie
man.
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STRIKING for Mare PAY.

OMAHA. April 23.-Two hundred men
employed by the East Omaha Land COM
pany grading near Cutoff Island. struck
to-day for AN increase of from sl.5O to
81. .15 per DAY.
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The Waters sub.idiux.

SYDNEY. n. ;. W.. April 23.-The floods
caused by the overflow OF the Darling
river is subsiding. Funds have been
opened for the benefit of the sufferers.
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Denied By the OuicIm,..

NEW foRN, April 23.-Officials of the
New York Central deny any foundation
for the rurnored probable strike.
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Because it is one of

Missoula has doubled its popu-
lation in the past twelve months,
and will certainly more than
double it again in the next twelve
months. Money invested there
now will net the investor a hand
some proit.
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stood means, the great seas would be
DlOughed by mvriads Of keels were re-
garded as Missionaries. There were.
some, however, who dipped into the,
future far enough to catch a glimpse Of
what is to us no special wonder. The
eminent scientist, DR.. Lardner, is on
record as believing that steam naviga-
ton of the ocean was impracticable,
but he confined his prediction to YES
sells of the size then built. Yet so gen
eral was the unbeIief in the success Of
such experiments, that the voyage of the
Savannah appears to have caused little
excitement, until It became known that
she had safely arrived at Liverpool.
Newspaper enterprise was at dis
count in those days, and we find little
material from which to write a history
of the event. Our engraving Is taken
from an old picture, which has the fol
lowing legend: Steamship Sa-
vannah, Captain Moses Rodgers. The
first steamship that crossed the Atlantic
Ocean. Was built IN New York, and
sailed March %, 1919; arrived In Sa-
vannah after a passage. of six days,
thence to Liverpool in thirty-One days.
When entering the st. Georges Chan
mel, off the city Of Cork, she was deserted
by the commander of the British feet,
lying in that city. Seeing q volume Of
smoke ascending from the steamer, he
naturally concluded she was on fire,
and with cOmmendable promptitude
dispatched two cutters to her relief; on
boarding they found her all right. She
steamed for Liverpool; on nearing the
city the piers we're thrOnged with
thousands of people, who greeted her
with enthusiastic cheers" The regis
try of the Savannah, made March n,
1919, the daY before she left New York
for the city after which sac was named
states that she was owned by coma
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pany of (which William Scarborough, of
Savannah, was President; that she was
built In New York by Samuel Pickett
and William Crockett, master .carpen-
tiers; that she had one deck and three
masts; was ninety-eight feet SIX inches
in length, twenty-five feet ten inches
in breadth, fourteen feet two inches In
depth, had a burden Of 3l9.7O-95 tons,
and was a square-sterned ship. AS VIII
be seen by the picture, she carried
good load Of canvas, and, according to
the best authorities, this helped her to
England more than her steam, as a mat
ter of fact. She left Savannah May
.. 1919, and did not reach Liverpool
until June pa trip of thirty one
days. She subsequently visited St.
Petersburg and Stockholm, and did
not return until December. Her vov-
age occupied so much time, and was so
expensive, that it discouraged, rather
than encouraged, attempts at ocean
steam navigation, and 1t was not until
1888 that any further serious attempts
were made at ocean steamship navi-
cation, In that year the Royal vii
liam made the trip from Quebec to
London in twenty-five days. In 1888
regular voyages began to be made, the
pioneers being the Sirius and Great
Western, the former of which made
the distance from London to New York
in seventeen days. and the latter from
Bristol to New York in fifteen days.
This was a great advance on the time
made by the Savannah and the Royal
( William, but seems slow, indeed. COM
pared with the rapid transit Of the pres
ent time The last-named steamers
were much larger than the craft of
/ Capt. Moses Rodgers, and we may pre-
sumo that DR.. Lardner was less skepti-
cal as to the ultimate success of the
enterprise, when he witnessed or learn
ed their proportions.
It is claimed by some historians that
the Savannah was not, in the strict
sense of the term, the first steamship
to cross the ocean, but that the honor
belongs to the Royal William. which
was built at Quebec in 183O-31, and in
August, 1888, sailed for London, where
she arrived after q prosperous trip of
twenty-five days. 1t is claimed and
we believe it is true-that the Savan-
nah was not an ocean steamer, but a
regular-built full-rigged sailing ship,
and that she depended more largely
upon her sails than upon her crude
paddle-wheels. In fact, it IS averred
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One of the finest collections of pipes
in the world is to be found in the En-
glish residence of Capt. .Bragge. we'll
known to every antiquary and bric-a-
brac dealer on this terrestrial sphere.
He has clay pipes from the sixteenth
century, wooden pipes from SwitZer-
land, very ancient German pipes of
china and porcelain; French pipes of
great antiquity, made from curious
woods now unknown to growers; Swe-
dish pipes of copper and stone; Rus
sian Of silver, niclO and malachite;
great, seductive Turkish pipes of glass,
metal and clay, nargilehs, chibOuQues
and hOOkas; italian pipes, centuries
old, of terra Gotta and olive wood; an
tique Spanish pipes, that might have
been smoked by the Moorish dOns after
the invasion, and which were formed
Of various woods, and of a material re-
sembling meerschaum, that IS still
found in Spain; African pipes, brought
by traders from the interior, where
they had belonged to kings and chiefs
in the Black Country; venerable Chi
nese pipes, said to he of almost myth
cal age; and those that the HindO0s
use in their temples.
America contributes jade, flint, and
hard stone pipes from Mexico; but
how pipes were carved from Jade Is a
! mystery. 1t is the hardest of all ma
teriaIs, and was used in Egypt and
Greece for certain weapons, and it is
even to-day esteemed as so valuable
that the Chinese hold it as the equal of
! gold. Also Indian calumets made from
/ the pipe stone or catlinite. Others
/ were of Aztec clay. similar to our pot
/ ter's clay, and having the general char
! acteristics of all Aztec pottery work
/ manship. From the Lake Superior
region came many pipes artistically IN
laid with copper and lead, and along
the lower valley of the Mississippi the
/ pipes of the mound builders, some
what similar In form to those of the
Aztecs.
This collection has been repeatedly
loaned to exhibitions, and contains
! 5000 specimens, and Is considered very
valuable as showing the progress in art
development In the past.-T0bGcco.
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engaged in experiments looking to the
development of steam navigation as
early as 1884, and in 1855 he succeeded
in driving a boat on the Potomac River
at the rate of four miles an hour by
means of a water jet forced out at the
stern. Rumsey subsequently went to
England, and continued his expert
ments on the River Thames. John
Fitch worked at this problem at the
same time with RUmsey, and had an
experimental steamer on the Delaware
in 1856. His prOpelling instru-
ments were paddles suspended by
the upper ends of their shafts.
and moved by a series of cranks.
Fitch's steamer, which IS herewith IL
Illustrated, was sixty feet long. In 1896
Fitch resumed his experiments in New
York, using a screw. In Scotland, IN
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by many navigatOrs that without her
sails she would never have been able
to reach the shores of England. These
claims are borne out by the fact that
on her return to New York, after her
first and only voyage across the ocean,
her engines were taken out, her side
wheels unshipped and she resumed
her place in the line as a regular sail
ing packet.
On the other hand, the Royal VIII
lam was built expressly for an ocean
steamer, and was the first Of her class
to cross the Atlantic.
James GOudie, the man who super
intended the construction of the Royal
William, Is still living in Chicago, and
in excellent health and spirits, al
though over 81 years of age. In let
ter written by him not long ago he
says:
I proceeded to Quebec in ii y 1870, and was
engaged 70 carry out the plans nd Instruction
of vessel. She was laid down j. the fail OF 1880,
and completed in 1881. The late, $ of the sea-
son at which the ship was got ready precluded
her from doing much that season. The next
year opened up with very poor prospects. ChOi-
era had made It's appearances at Quebec, and
business was almost entirely suspended. So
she was run at q great loss ultimately being
laid up. The following year she was run q few
trips at a loss, and it was decided in the month
Of August, 1888 TO send her to London, England,
for sale. She arrived out after g prosperous trip
and was finally sOld to the Spanish Government
for 10000 sterling, having cost in building 819-
COO Halifax currency.
The Royal William was by the Span
ISL Government rechristened the Isa-
bel Segunda, and added to the Spanish
navy. Thus she was the first steam
ship ever employed as a man-Of-War,
and the first in any service to be IN
der fire And she was designed and
constructed on this side Of the Attain
tic, and by an American shipbuilder.
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eyes fastened upon another form which
was slowly approaching it from a di-
rection parallel to that taken by Mrs.
Stapley in leaving the corral.
The mother at once recognized the
person nearing the brute as panther
Joe" and with intent fascination, the
greatest dread, and fearful suspense
did she watch his every movement. He
was stopping over to about half his
natural height and had his eyes, which
in the closing twilight were blazing
like Goals Of fire, riveted upon those Of
the beast With his left hand he held
between his lips the mouth organ on
which he was playing some low. strange
and weird music, while in his right
hand he held a switch cut from a mes
quite bush. He placed his feet upon
the earth with the greatest care, max
ing not the slightest noise, and with
each step he took he crouched lower
and the monotone notes of the rude in
strument grew more soft.
The panther dashed its tail gently,
and its eyes never left those of the Va
qui while he so slowly and silently ap-
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preached it, yet it kept its feet upon
the child all the while, and did not
show the slightest inclination to aban-
don its prey. AS Joe drew nearer and
nearer the savage animal became less
at ease, but his actions were more that
of a dog punished into submission by
its master than Of q wild and ferOciOus
beast seeking q meal on human flesh.
Its power to move seemed lost; it
appeared to be under a fascination as
strong as that which serpent ever ex-
ercised over bird When within about
six feet Of the panther Joe stopped
playing on the mouth organ, and while
uttering some words in a low tone,
slowly Strengthened to his natural
heighth.
At a single stride he was at the side
of the brute, and with an exclamation
of reproval he hit it a sharp blow over
the head with the switch. The pan
Their took first one paw and then the
other from the body of the child and
walked away dOggedIy for a few yards,
when it stopped, turned around and
licked its chops, as though it was not
yet disposed to abandon It's meal.
However, a sharp "Hi-yi!" from the In
dian caused it to take q trot and quick
~ disappear over the NILS.
Picking up the child, Joe returned
it to the delighted mother, who has
tened to receive it, and without wait
ing for her thanks he turned away and
followed the direction taken by the
~anther, vOuchsafng the cOmpIi-
mentary remark: "Usted brave goo
man; listed no shOOte; listed no
hOller."
The miners all heard the remarka-
BILE account next day when StapIey
came up to the diggings for the pur-
pose of thanking Joe. But the YaQui
was absent. and it was two days be-
fore he again put in an appearance.
When he did so he showed signs of dis
sipatiOn, but as it was known that he
would have been unable to reach any
place where whisky was to have been
obtained without the miners learning
Of it, this condition was attributed to
his experience with the panther at the
time the child was rescued or after he
had followed it from Stapley's place.
Nothing could induce Joe to converse
on the subject until some weeks after
ward, when one of the miners killed a
panther, over which fact the YaQui
grieved greatly and stated that the
animal was his friend and the one from
which he saved 5ne little child
The next winter was q dry one and
the placers did not pan out we'll, so
Ralph Smith, who is yet resident
and prominent citizen of Arizona, or
ganized a party of ten men. Panther
Joe being of the number, to prospect
for gold in the MongolIOn Mountains.
One evening, a few days after reach
ing the desired locality and making
camp, Smith and a companion named
Phil Teal, while returning to supper
from a disappointing examination Of
gulch which from all appearances gave
much promise of containing gold, had
their attention suddenly attracted to
the bottom land of mountain stream
by a humdrum, monotOnOus song, fol-
lowed by a particularly hearty laugh.
Feeling the necessity of ascertaining
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returned to the United States, and
with Chancellor R. Livingston had a
boat built $50 feet long, called the
ClermOnt, which made a successful
trip from New York to Albany and
return, accomplishing q speed Of five
miles an hour.
The engine of the Clermont, which
is shown in the illustration, had a
steam cylinder twenty-four inches in
diameter and stroke of four feet.
The boiler was twenty feet long and
the wheels fifteen feet in diameter.
The CIermont, after having been