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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23
HELD lsAUk.
Schedule OF the North Atlantic Squadron
Has Been Cancelled.

WASHINGTON, Dec, 23.-The proposed
cruise of the North Atlantic squadron .s
off for the present Mt least. Departure Of
the vessels, il they 60 at all, will be con-
tingent upon the arrival at Norfolk OF the
cruiser Texas now i'm the vicinity OF New
York awaiting the final official trial OF
her engines. The squadron Is also await
ing the arrival Of the cruiser Maine.
Meanwhile the ships now at Norfolk will
In all probability make good time avail
able by engaging i'm a series OF drills and
maneuvers that will he beneficial to the
commanders and crews alike.
Admiral Bunce was in the city yestcr.
day, and called on Secretary Herbert
with whom he talked .over the matter oi
tho proposed cruise. The lattcr was non.
communicative regarding what took place
and declined to say anything further thnn
that the neot would not leaye tomorrow.
nor untn the arrival Of the Texas.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23
Tho Traction Strike.

PHILApELPHrA, Dec. 23. Tho strike on
the Union Traction line, which was de-
clared off by the labor leaders early Satur-
day morning upon proposition sent to
them by Mayor Warwick, on the authority
OF Traction officials, represented by
Thomas Dolan. through Rev. DR.. Baker
and George Griffiths, a committee of the
Christian league, WAS declared on again.
and rs hard and fast as ever. There was
obviously misunderstanding or mis-
take In Interpretation Of the proposals
submitted to the strikers on one side or
the other. No cars were run yesterday,
and there has been no disorder.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23
Couldn't Resist leo Pessure.

HARTFORD, Dec. 23,-The temporary
bridge connecting the town Of East Hart
ford with this city was carried away By
the ice early this morning. The bridge
has been unsafe for a month past, and
though 1t has been strengthened at inter.
walls, the Ice had pressed against the
spilings so strongly that they snapped like
pipe>stems when the heavy ice struck them.
Travel over the bridge had been stopped
for seven hours before 1t had been swept
down the stream. The bridge was built by
the Berlin Iron Bridge company, to tako
the place Of the old East Hartford bridge
which was destroyed by fire last summer.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23
Cannot Attain Required Speed.

WASHINGTON, Dec-~ %. The presidents
has decided that the government cannot
accept the ram Kathadin, because Of her
failure to attain the IL knots speed re.
qnired by the contract. Senator Hale has
accordingly introduced bill in the senate
authorizing the acceptance of the vessel.
Naval authorities are OF the opinion thar
she Is an efficient warship, and Is prevented
from attaining the prescribed speed only
by peculiarities of her model for which
the builders, the Bath (Me.) iron works
arc not properly responsible
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23
THE NEW ENGLAND R. R. CO
Passenger Train Service, Week Day,
Corrected TO December /, 1895.

Corrected TO December 1, 1895.
Trains leave PROVIDENCE as follows,
For Bostop-s;oS a. m, u m; s:3J p. M RETURl
$50, a. m; 1906, 5:26 p. m.
WALPoLE-s:Oo a. M ~ m; 4:3o .. m.
FRANkLIN-s;o5 a. m, ~ m. 4:3l 7:i5p m
NlLFoRD-s!0o g. m; II m; 4;sJ D. m
ARLINGroN-ts&o. O. m; 5;N. ESQ 7:la ..a
WEST ARLINGToN-sao q m; F4.so.b.s
$3.50 p. m
KNIGHrsvILLE--ts:@ a. M; 5;ss, $751; ..iI p. m
AYLAND PARK--F s:so, Il s:00a m; $50 \
s;ss $3.50. t7is, '.il;Oo p. m
NATIoK, RIVER POINT, CENTREvILLE
WAsHlNaToN-s;to $500 g. M; siso. $3.50
$3.50, '7;i5 '+ii:oo p. m.
CRANsToN, oAKLAwN-s:so 900 4 IN; 40
5:sa, ESQ, 7:l5. '.nioo p. m.
PONTIAC, ARCTIC, QUIDNICK-fs:4 40 O. m
6:ss, $50. 7:l5. '-ii:oop M
ASTHoNy-sto, $500 a. mi 4so. 6iss, $50, 7:la
.-ll;po p. m
COVENTRY, sTERLING-stl 500 a. m: 1,so
SUMMIT GREENE, oNEco, MoosUP, PLAIN.
FIELD-6itO. $50" a m; 4;3O. 7sl5 D. m.
JEWETT CITY, CANTERBURY, SCOTLAND
~ VERSAILLES. BALTIC. SOUTH wINDHAM-
$40 $500 a. M; $3.50 y. m.
wlLLIMANTIC--6;40 $500 a. m; 4,so. 7n5 n M
HARTFoRD-s:sc, 300 a. m; 4.so, Ii5 D. IN.
FIsHKILL& NEWBURG-OOo a. m.
koRWIcH-s'4O. $500 a. m; 4;So. 7;l6 p. m
WATERBURY, DANBURY-g;00 a. m. 7:t5 n m
EAST THOMPSON, WEBSTER, soUTHBRIDGE
WORCESTER, THOMPSON, PUTNAM AN,
PoMFRET - 8 ;55 a. M; 400 p. m.
CHICAGO AND THE WEST VIA NEwBURo
ERIE -Rlf-e.oo s1EHs-==---
PAsCoAG AND INTERMEDIATE sTATIoNs
6:ib il;2O a. m; and s;25 and s.li.l5 D. m
Returning leave Psscoag at 7;45 a. M; 1850
$500 and $500 p. m.
All trains leave from west end OF Union Depot
Providence.
saturdays only.
w.R gABcocK. GPA
J.E. KING, Supt
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23
Exciting Times In idaho.

BOISE, Ida, Dec. Ex-Governor McCon.
nell has been informed of an alleged con-
spiracy on the part of the Miners union
in Cnur d'Alcne to capture militia.
arms and ammunition recently shipped to
Mullen. The governor issued orders to
hold the company at Mullen in readiness.
and promised re-enforcemcnts If needed.
TO Captain Wilson he says: "Shoot
down every one who attempts TO capture
the arsenal
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23
DECE EMBER.

l. james Harvey Partridge, educator and au.
thor, nj Crawford, n. j. aged IS.
5. NJ. Jean Marie Arthur Challa'not, French
senator; aged 13.
3. George Augustus Sala, the well known
London journalist, at Brighton, England;
aOpd O..
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23
Had For Ie.m.n.

CATsETLL, ". Y, Dec % The channel
of the Upper Hudson Is entirely free from
ice. lcemen had hoped to begin opera
tions before Christmas. tho iccfields n
week ago averaging six 10 eight inches In
thickness. The recent warm spell and
heavy rainstorm yesterday morning dis.
posed effcctually OF the first freeze up.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23
PIllsbnry In the Lead.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 23.-Play was re-
sumcd In the international chess tourna-
ment Saturday, when one game resulted
ms follows: Pillsbury (white) drew with
Steinitz after % moves, the game being
queen gambit, declined. Lasker was un-
well, aud so the game with Tschigorln was
not played. Tic present score: Pillsbury,
eJs; Lasker, 3; Steinitz, IL; TschiUorin.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23
Aged Woman uuy,ier.a.

LAFAYETrE, Ind, Dec. %. - Hester
Curtis, an aged widowed woman, living
alone In this city, was found dead ut her
home yesterday, sitting upright in n chair.
with her skull crushed in and a blood
spattered handbook I'm her lifelcss hand.
She had evidently been trying TO convince
her assailaDts, whose motive was no doubs
robbery. that all her monss &C., "a. 80.
poslt In the Dang.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23

Democrats who reside on Federal Hill
are requested 10 meet in Literary Hall
this evening. when the subject of regis
traiion is to lie discussed.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23

BosToS Dec 23.-Rcv. Minot j. Savage.
pastor OF the Church Of the Unity. this
city. states that he has decided 10 remain
in Boston. He was considering call TO
the Church OF the Messiah, Now York. as
assistant to DIR. Collyer. the present pastor.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23
specie Movements.

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Thc exports of
specie from the pert OF New York last
week amounted to S7lBl, ,574 in gold and
s9i6,9s2 in silver. The imports were:
Sold, sijf7ji; silver. seV, ,527
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-23
THE CHILDREN.
In the Onslaught Against Armenians
n the City Of Akahissar.
SULTAN ORDERED mAssAcREs.
Three Hundred Thousand Peo-
pie Are Starving.

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.--Rev. DR.. James
Chambers, pastor Of the Calvary Presby-
terian church, preached a sermon yester-
dav on the Armenian horror. He read
several letters which he had just received
from friends I'm Turkey. In one OF tho
letters the correspondents graphically de-
scribed In detail the massacre at Akahis-
sar. Here the Armenians were gathered
together on a market day. While engaged
In their peaceful pursuits, without any
warning or proyocation, the Turks began
the massacre.
Men, women and children were shet and
cut down without mercy Ten-year-old
Turkish boys pursued tho frightened Ar
menians through the streets and poinied
them out To the soldiers In their hiding
places. The slain were stripped OF their
clothing. dragged through the streets with
ropes and thrown into a number of empty
wells on the outskirts Of the city.
In one instance the writer saw an old
man, 80 years OF age, seized by several
brutal soldiers and thrown alive into one
Of the wells
with Scores Of Corpses.
At the close OF the massacre, the Turks
held a general celebration over the slaugh.
ter. The officials made no effort TO stop
the massacre.
The letter from Erzroom stated that tho
massacre at that place began at several
places In the city mt the same moment show
Ing that IL was premeditated. The mission
school was attacked, but the crowd was
dispersed by the writer and the American
bicyclist, Sachtleben, who fired several
shots at tho rioters. According to this
ent in a condition OF starvation. Tho
whole trouble Is not only due to.the vacil.
lating policy OF the sultan, but to direct
notion on his part.
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A Hug That Can Gut Metal.

The Zopherus Melieanus is the only known species of American beetle that has strength enough in it's mandibles to cut metal. This curious faculty of zopherus was accidentally discovered by F. W. Devoe, member of the New York Microseopical society. A friend had sent MT. Devoe some specimens of this queer species of bug from the northern states of South America. The miscroscopist was busily engaged when the insects arrived and simply provided temporary quarters for the creatures in a glass jar having metal top in which the porcelain cap was wanting Within less than forty-eight hours they had cut holes in the metal sufficient to get their heads through, and would soon have escaped had their operations re- maired undetected. By careful experi- meps MT. Devoe foun,i that the force necessary to do such cutting was equal to 360 g1.aI,raes.
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was fortunate enough to be present ss turnout of the Royal guard. A very gallus-looking old officer was pointed out to me as Koniglicher Kommanda- teur, and I must say he looked 1t every inch. Ills uniform showed that great ingenuity had been exercised, together with a total disregard for expense or taste, in the getting up Of his uniform; but he was dull-loolsing object com pared to the drum major of the-I can't for the life Of me tell now whether 1t was q regiment of Landwehr-B Bezirks- Kommando, or a detachment of the Seh1ossgarde-K -Kompagnie; or maybe it was the Esladron des Regiments der Garde du Corps. Very likely it was all three. I may nave got the name of one regiment divided 'nto three parts by accident. The names of these regi- ments are so simple. He was beauty, this drum major; and if I could only have him shipped ] would have him with me, even if l had to pay AT NJ. excess baggage. By the way, they carry this excess baggage charging to excess-this country. As I couldn't cart him along l made hurried sketch of this most gorgeous of all drum ma jors, a sketch that will preserve, even if it takes 30 pounds of sugar to do it.
 Here at Potsdam is colony planted hy Frederick the Great, which is full of interest and Russians. The latter are descended from the Russian mer- cenaries whom the great Prussian king hired for target practice. They are the most descended people I ever saw They live in houses that are an unhappy medium between a Swiss chalet and what 1 imagine a Russian abode to be-
 West of the town, on the right bank of the deep sea, der tiefe See, as an off, shoot of the river Hayel is called on the local maps, is the Babelsberg park, and at the north end of this is another castle, also the abode of royalty. It is 8 fine affair, and as is accustomarv, visitors are permitted to skate through some of the rooms when the royal fam fly is away. It is 25 pfennig shot at each palace or castle, and you are ex- pected to drop q tip or a tear as you go along. It all depends. It's tip at the writing table of Konig Heinrich, the S'teenth, but a tear is considered more appropriate at masoleum where few kings and queens are planted.
 There are a good many articles of vertu to be seen here, but they don't come up to the collection of brio brae
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buttons followed closely behind to see that did not nip a granite vase or two, or a few samples of royal bedroom china. Most of the furniture consists of samples from stone and marble quar- ries in other countries Every room has at least one vase or malachite table. weighing about ton. which the guides informed visitors was present from king so and so or the emperor this and that. Mind, I mention no names. There isn't pint of running water in all the rooms of the four palaces I in- spected. The furniture may have been very good ill it's time, but is very much out of style to-day. My friend, tho varnish and axle-grease manufacturer in New York, has much newer, and even more gilded, furniture in his house. The only things that impressed me were few tortoise-shell bedroom-sets and writing tables, but even they looked shopworn. Two of Frederick the Greats music-stands are made of the same material. suppose tortoise shelf was cheap commodity in those days.
 Some paintings by the old mas ters are rather fine. In fact a few
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Highest of all Leavening Power-Lae U. Govt Report R|'A'!I! a! Rskdss': RRskiRs
 AEsSSoKUTEH.N pURE

-of the half-dozen machines for dumping whole carloads of coal, which have been built at Lake Erie ports dur ing the past summer, one is now in operation, that of the New York. Pennsy ylvania & Ohio, at it's Cleveland dock. On September l9 this machine unloaded 5s cars (1,20O tons) in Az hours. including delay of s5 minutes. Forty-five ears were unloaded in three hours. This is more than twice as fast as the best work ever done by the ordinary methods.
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KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bct- ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the worlds best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in tho remedy. Syrup of Figs.
 Its excellence is due to it's presenting in the form most acceptable and pleas ant to the taste, tho refreshing and truly beneficial properties of perfect lax ative; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and levers and permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid neys, Liver and Bowels without weak ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance.
 Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man- ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Go. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered.
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The Chicago drainage canal, when in operation, may lower the lake level six inches in about two years, accord ing to the report of the board of United States engineers appointed to investigate the matter. The board re- ports further that the drainage canal. as navigable waterway, and by req son of it's effect on other navigable waterways, is under the jurisdiction of the national government.
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During the civil war the First Maine heavy artillery lost at Peters burg 2l0 men killed; at Gettysburg the First Minnesota lost 2s per cent of it's men killed. The last regiment lost in killed and wounded s2 per cent. of it's strength at that battle. The First Texas, at Antietam, lost in killed and wounded S9. 3 per cent. This was the heaviest percentage of losses among the confederate regiments.
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"A census of centenarians recently taken in France give two hundred and thirteen persons of one hundred or over, one hundred and forty-seven of them women and sixty-six men. The oldest was woman who had just died at one hundred and fifty, in village of the department of Haute Garonne. Nearly all the centenarians belonged to the lowest ranks in life.
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s.DID you enjoy the concert, Mrs. Barberln s'They wasn't any. A man calno out and banged pianner, while his wife stood be- side him shriekin' at him all the time Seems to me they'd ought to have arrested the woman for interferini.n = Harner,s Bazar.
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Trips Undertaken for Health,s Sake

Will be rendered more beneficial, and the fatigues of travel counteracted, if the voy- ager will take along with him Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and use that protective and enabling tonic, nerve invigorant and appetizer regularly. Impurities in air and water are neutralized by it, and itis match less tranquillizer and regulator of the stom- ach, liver and bowels. It eounNeraets mala- ria, rheumatism, and a tendency to kidney and bladder ailments.
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"WHAT is that place down there7n asked she of one of the officers. 'sWhy, that Is the steerage,p wered be- ssAnd does it take all those people to make tho boat ga straightl tl'-Iit-Bits.
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SoFTLY-"Yo trip to the mountains seems to have benefited you.v Bilkins- ssIt has made different man of meu Soft. ly-' Is that sol Then whath has become of the man loaned ten dollars to when you left the eity}'
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HmAND-s.I wonder why Mrs. Longtons dismissed her old family physician and called in Dr. Sugarpill" Halket-"Old pr. Barnes advised her to take two-mile walk every day, and keep her lips tightly closed .n Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
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 fotsdam! what name for Q place of imperial residence It had another name once-Potsdapimi which meant Under the Oaks in-well, some old .anguage-Slavic, probably. I wonder II It IS reasonable to think that "Un- aef-the-oaks" sounds prettier than fotsdam. Anyway it was Potsdapimi Ill an old document made July 3, in the year 933. 1 was shown the document the alleged document. Tenth century Aalnndwriting is very poor copy
 lhere are over 6o,000 human beings nere, including about 10000 soldiers qua the royal family when they are at ,lohle. The empress is here now; and lof that reason I am not permitted to pass the guards of the palace, which vas built in 1763, has no open plumb
 s, and has as it's only means of illum- ,naslon candles and oil lamps. A guide sDoA me through several other Pots lana royal places there are five of them Aefel where there were no mod stn eonveniences either; but the folks we're out, for even royalty can't live in
 'c palaces all at once, and so they let - 50 through the rooms-but an at- s7naant in swallow-tail coat and brass
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"DTD your father get away to the country this summer, HalTy7'' s'No, sir He was too busy to take a vaccination this year,n said Harry. y.--Harper's Bazaar.
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BRowN--"Our candidate says the salary of the office is no object to him. Jones. q suppose he has his eye on the perquis- ties. Brooklyn Life.
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Pisos Cure for Consumption has no equa as Cough medicine.-F M. ABBOTT, 3S, Seneca St., Buffalo, N. Y May 0, 1894.
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SYMPATHY sometimes grows tired, but never gets crippled in both feet.-Y oung Mems Era.
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oiseordant clamor of railway-station, and my golden reverie is shattered. we are at Potsdam. l must get a Dlenstmanna to take my "Gepack'- aporter to take my luggage.
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TEACHER Danny, define the word max imum.' Danny "Its-its dc limit.n-- Indianapolis Journal.
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that Frederick the Great strewed around Sans-souci. Here are no stat uettes like those the Great Frederick is said to have bought at all auction of Polnpeiian and Grecian antiquities. And in the picture galleries of Babels- berg there are no portraits of Napoleon or Mime. Pompadour, such as are to be viewed at the Orange palace of Pots dam. There were no Napoleons or Ponpadours in Frederick William the Thirds time, and the Napoleonic craze had not struck in at the time that mon- arch expired.
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I was skating on the grounds here when an officer of the household ap- preached me. I thought perhaps he was connoisseur, and as such I well comed his presence.
 sDas ist nicht hier erlaubt," he re- marked, as affably as his voice would permit.
 "No, it isn't so lad, is it?' replied. in an off-hand Yankee way-something like my sketch, which consisted of 0 few outlines of a group of peasants who were standing opposite the bank where had established temporary headquar- ters.
 And then the officer took me in hand and gravely explained ill choicest Ger man with a slight Zwiebel accent that there were a few princesses and princes stopping at the castlc and that during their visit they did not wish to be sketched.
 But I am not sketching them," ex- plained, by means of my Englisch- Deutsch and Deutseh-Engliseh Tas- chenworterbuch. And I showed him my sketch.
 'Das macht nichts aus. Diese kon- nen dach prinzessinnen sein."
 {That makes no differences; those may still be princesses.)
 He was an honest official intent on doing his duty; but he was no judge of pictures, and my sketch of group of peasants was torn into bits and ground into the soil CHARLES LEDERER.
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ssWHAT's the latest thing in bloomersp' 1.-The most modest girl will be. "-Truth.
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A WISE man should have money in his head, not in his heart.-Swift.
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VERSE sweetens toll, however rude the sound.
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THE man who rides hobby will not be- lieve that the world is big.-Ram's Horn.
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Hail's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally Price 75c.
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That there are nearly 10000 soldiers in Potsdam is due to the fact that this is the official summer residence of the emperor and his family. There are here four soldiers, I am told, from each regiment of the German army, these forming a sort of imperial guard. l
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-12-17

Liverpool Dec. 10 The American
liner Indlnrn, Capt Bogrs. from Phlla-
delphla December .. at 7i30 y. m. was
turning In the stream here In order 10
land her passengers. when Ahe uollidcd
with the British steamer Hhmora, at
anchor in mldstrehm. The Indiana re-
coived big rent In her port side.
through which tho water rushed IN u
great torrent. Tugs wero promptly on
hand and towed her alongside the land
Ing stage. where her passengers were
landed. There was nd panic among tho
paracngtrs. although tho vessel SAINT
three feet in half an hour. An unsue-
certful effort was made TO plug up tho
hole. Tho vessel was towed to tho
Che ifcr n ere nnc bcachec, Win only
a little more delay the Indiana would
have sunk IN midstieam. Tho zamnro
was also badly damaged.
A dispatch to the Times from Liver
pool Gays that tho officers OF the In
diana made every effort TO stop tho
hole IN tho ships side with bedding,
etc., but the water kept gaining and
had sank eight feet at the landing
stage. All the passengers and their
belongings were landed.