Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-03

gums and d..maInlain her speed In q
seaNny that would render smaller
ships helpless.
When the New York Is finished.
she will be the most formidable
cruiser vessel that floats the stars
and stripes. snd in addition she is
the largest AID most powerful en-
rined steamship ever built outside
of European shipyaris. II the d :
sign Of her builders is fulfilled, theie
i nothing efloat today Of her class
that viii be able 3 team FROM hcr
or to engage with her with any
great hopes OF victory. TIE New
Yosk viii carry battery oi SIX o.
inch breech oading rifles, twelve 4
inch rapid-flring guas,eight0 @ pound
ers, four Gatlings iand six torpedo
tubes. The following are the princi-
bal dimension of the New York:
Length OF fwaier-line, $50 feet 81 inch
es: breadth Of beam, Ga feet; mean
draft, % feet 30 inches displace-
ment, $3.50 tons. Maximun speed,
20 knots; sustained sea speed, 1876
knots. Complement Of officers aud
men, AS; coal endurance, total
capacity, 1857 tons The New York
will be .win-screw vessel, propelled |
by four separate engines, each hav-
ing the power cf 1900 horses. An
electrie.iight plant will have a
capacity Of 10000 amperes, and will
include 1000 incandescsnt lights.
III addition there are also four search
lights.
NEGRO wIFEBEATER.
SEATTLE, Dec. 2.--Alfred Evans,
q colored miner at Newcastle, fatally
shot his wife this evening in the
house Of Thomas jackson, with
whom she has been living for some
time, and fred two shots at jackson,
neither of them taking effect.
Evans was arrested after hard
struggle. He will be brought to
Seattle ia the morning.
CALLED TO SEE FOSTER.
CHICAGO, Dec. 3.--General Ham,
ilton, OF the United States Marine
hospital, left hurriedly for Wishing
ton last night on receipt Of tele-
gram asking for his services to
attend Foster.
THE PENSION OFFICE.
WAsHINGToN CITY, Dec. g. Rep |
resentatiye Cooper, who introduced |
10 the last congress the resolution
providing for an investigation of
Commissioner Ranm's administra-
tion Of the pension Office, and who
personally prosecuted his charges
against Mr.. Raum before the house
committee on invalid pensions, said
that II Raum retired within a month |
rso he believed there would be no
investigation of the pension office
by the fifly-second congress. Mr..
Cooper added that If the president
was determined TO keep General
Raum the fight would be renewed.
1t was for the president to say, said
Mr.. Cooper, whether there would
be q renewal Of the investigation.
POST MoRTEM.
The DALLEs. Dec. 3.--The post
mortem examination held on the
body Of Ralph Fonger, who was
struck by passing locomotive last
Monday, revealed the fact that the
immediate cause of his death was
the lodgment of large piece Of
beef steak In the windplpe. Fonger
had vomited beef steak while under
the influence of an anesthetic. The
jury censured the engineer Of the
locomotive for not ringing the bell.
THE KAISER RESIGNS.
Sr. PETERSBURG, Dec. 3.---Con-
siderable excitement, at one time
akin to panic, was occasloned on
the bourse by report that the kaiser
had written to General d'Schwein-
itz, the Germcn ambassador, in
struciing him to notify the ozar Of
his (the kaiseI's) resignation of the
rank OF honorry colonel In the
Russian army. This was considered
such an evidence Of hostile feeling
on the part OF tho kaiser, that war
was believed TO be imminent. 1t
was part Of the report that M. de-
Giers, Russian foreign minister, has
made II his special business, at the
request Of the ear, to endeavor to
dIssuade the kaiser from his purpose,
but IN vain.
Remarkable Rescue,
Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfeld,
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