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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-11-06
THE INDIANA A SUCCESS.
A Record of 1851 Knots Made on tho Bat.
tie Ships Trial.

In her official trial trip between Cape Ann
and Boone Island, OF the coast Of M1ssachu-
setts, a distance Of thirty-one knots, the bat
tie ship Indiana made an average speed Of
1851 knots for four hours. This is 61-10O
knots above the speed required by the
Government, and as there was q pre-
MUM offered of s25.0OO for every quarter
knot made over fifteen, the Cramps will re-
ceive $50, 900 rs bonus in excess Of the con-
tract price offered. This may be increased
to $4,000 when the tidal observations are
worked out, as the allowance for tidal OBJ
structions will probably give the ship 1915
knots.
With their usual fortune the Cramps had
day that was perfect for a trial trip Forced
draught was turned on an hour lefore the
starting point was reached. The can buoy5
that staked the course were further marked
by Government boat anchored at each one.
The Indiana started at 10:03:13H. and II
was 2:30:2l when the trial was over, just one
hour iifty-flve minutes and thirty-hve sec.
onds from Boone Island. and total Of three
hours flfty-eight minutes and twenty-eight
seconds. A remarkable circumstance was
the speed between the lust two stake.
boats. 1t proved that the Indiana
Was abe to do better after her ma
chinery had been driven at high pres.
sure for considerable time than when
the engines were first put under forced
draught. This Is in marked contrast to the
performance Of English battle ships OF the
Royal Sovereign class. The English are said
to have never succeeded in getting much
better than sixteen knots out OF their first
class battle ships. and when they have at
tanned this speed it has been at the expense
OF machinery.
The Indiana's machinery was declared
triumph by the engineer officers OF the trial
board. Not the slightest difficulty devel-
oped, and the engineers were unanimous In
the opinion that the engines were the best IN
any war ship they have ever handled.
After the run was over, helm test was
made. The ship was turned in a circle OF
400 yards, or 200 less than it took to turn
The cruiser New York. She answered her
helm with great promptness. After the
helm test, the Indiana ran up the bay to
Boston light and the Naval Boasd went
ashore in tug.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-11-06
NO MORE SILVER DOLLARS.
Secretary Carlisle Orders the New Orleans
Mint Closed.

Secretary Carlisle Orders the New Orleans
Mint Closed.
All silver coinage, except that ofsubsidiary
silver, has been ordered suspended after No
vember 16 next. by Secretary Carlisle. In
carrying out this policy the New Orleans
Mint will be practically closed and disman-
tied after that date and its seventy employees
furloughed without pay. OF the employees
in the New Orleans Mint thirty are women
and forty men.
Secretary Carlisle for some time has been
considering the advisability of stopping all
silver coinage except that OF subsidiary
coins, and since he has been at the head Of
the Treasury Department only 1882, 1924
standard silver dollars have been minted.
Since July only ninety standard silver dol
lars have been coined.
The practical effect Of the action taken by
Secretary Carlisle Is to convert all the silver
bullion held by the Government into gold
obligations. The suspension of the coinage
Of standard silver dollars leaves the bullion
silver free from any further liability OF con-
versionin silver obligations
The closing ofthe New Orleans Mint leaves
only the United States Mlnts at Philadelphia
and San Francisco in operation. At these
Mints only gold and subsidiary silver will
hereafter be coined. unless Congress should
direct to the contrary and its action should
be approved by the President
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-11-06
HOMES OF lOOO BURNED.
Nine Blocks in AIgiers, Suburb Of
New Orleans, Destroyed.
THE FIRE OF INCENDIARY ORIGIN.

a Blaze Started by an italian for Insur-
ance Sweeps Away 1877 Houses BELONG
ing to the Poorer Classes---The
Flames Burned Themselves OUT.
Tried to Lynch the Incendiary.
That portion OF New Orleans. La, known
as Alo iers. has been almost wiped out by
fames. The fire started few minutes after
midnight in the shanty occupied by Paul
Boufia. Six fires have started IN this place
before the present one. and the facts sur
rounding this one indicate that he started It
for the insurance. He bought six gallons OF
coal oil few days before and those who at
first responded to the alarm claimed that
they plainly smeled burning oil. The house
burned as though 1t had been saturated by
oil.
So plain did the citizens consider his guilt
that they made an effort to lynch him, and
strong Gordon OF police was all that saved
him. The fire wiped out nina squares, or
1877 bousas. ant rendered homeless 1000 per-
sons. These were nearly all OF the poorer
class. and the flames destroyed all they
possessed.
The confederation started several squares
to the rear OF the river bank and
burned down to the edge OF the
Mississippi. There we're no water
mains in the portion OF the city where the
fire burned. and the flames had to be fought
by bucket brigades. This method availed
nothing, owing to the high wind that pre-
vailed. All the harbor tugs steamed across
the river ard offered their assistance, but
could do nothing. as they had no lines OF
hose and there were none to Rivethen.
The Fire Department was sent over from
New Orleans. but the fremen were power
less. as they had to depend on the fire wells
for a water supply. None Of these lasted
more than hve minutes. as there was no
water in them owing to the low stage OF the
river. The fire conld not be headed OF. It
simply burned itself out.
All the furniture was DESTROYED with the
buildings, aud the occupants were virtually
left destitute. At night public school and
three public halls were put at the disposal
OF the homeless people. A relief committee
was appointed, and at meeting $1,000 was
raised for the homeless. This Is mere baga-
telle compared TO what will be required. 1t
Ia estimated that the loss will be between
s35O.OOo and s50O.000.
A Suspicious fact. and one that goes far TO
confirm the belief that the fire was ot In
cendiarv origin. is that Paul Bouff1a. in
whose place II started. had taken his entire
family from home and spant the NIGHT on
the New Orleans side of the Mississippi River.
His excuse is that he came over to be treated
for rheumatism and was afraid to leave his
family alone in kleiars.
An immense crowd went across to Algiers
to look at the ruins. They were packed so
densely on the wharf. awaiting the ferry,
that 1t gave way, and over sixty persons, in
cludine many women and children, were
precipitatel into the river. They were oil
rescued, but several sustained broken limbs
and internal injuries.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-11-06
VOLCANOES OF THE NORTH.
Grand Sights Witnessed by the Commo-
dore Perry's Crew.

dore Perry's Crew.
The United States revenue cutter Commo-
modore Perry has returned from the North
ern Sea, where she has been confronted each
night for weeks by a gigantic line OF light.
AS Captain Smith expresses it: "The stok-
ers of the under world have been stirring up
the subterranean sea of flames that Is sup
posed to lie thousands OF feet under the Ber-
ing bed, and as a consequence fully twenty
of the forty volcanoes in the Aleutian chain
are now active"
The line Of islands lying between the Ber-
ing Sea and the Pacific Ocean belong to the
United States, and on them are probably the
only active volcanoes lying within American
territory. Much has been written OF BoSas-
Low Island, which has been throwing up a
cloud Of steam at times for years, but it was
supposed that all the other peaks on this
singular line Of islands were extinct cratersN
only. Now, as far rs the eve can reach.
from point in Bering Sea. and even at
distance from tho famous seal islands, the
rising smoke and steam can be seen In both
directions. The eruption Is general, and
and so very lively that at night the airy co.
umns take on the reflections Of the fires deep
in the earth beneath the craters.
Nowhere else on the globe can such a
sight be witnessed. In the daytime only
white smoke or steam is visible. AS dusk
comes and darkness follows the wonder
grows. The brighter columns show up in
the cold Alaskan night first, and as it gets
darker other vivid curls Of smoke nre to be
seen at greater distances. Sometimes when
the position OF the observer is advantageous,
dozen or fifteen Of these modern pillars OF
fire are in sight.
As proof Of the mighty power that is at
work beneath the islands q neck Of land has
been forced up ont of the sea between Bogo-
lav and old Bogolav, and the two islands are
one. It is a queer looking land. and one Of
the passes shown on the chart as connecting
Bering Sea with the greater ocean to the
southward. The rocks in this neck are man
ifestly of volcanic origin. Black and smooth
IN surface, as if once melted.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-11-06
CALLS HYPNoTlsM A FRAUD.
uarry Davis, a Professional Subject, Gives
Away Some Secrets.

uarry Davis, a Professional Subject, Gives
Away Some Secrets.
Harry Davis, who has for four years been
n professional hypnotic subject. has made the
declaration publicly that hypnotism is a
fraud, and has issued challenge to all pro-
fessors of that science to meet him in public
at any time or place, Davis agreeing to obey
any instructions given him and defying any
professor to hypnotize him.
DAVIS, who is twenty-three years old, has
lived in Chicago for seven years, and during
the last four has appeared in hundreds Of
public and private exhibitions OF so-called
professors OF hypnotism. He has undergone
every alleged test known to the profession,
and the details of these have appeared in
newspapers and medical journals, not only
in this country, but in Europe. Despite these
facts. the young man asserts that he has
never been hypnotized, and declares himself
capable Of performing and explaining any
"test" known to the world.
He explains number of so-called tests,
and among others refers to his famous "hvp-
motto sleep" of seven days, recently, In q
North Side theatre. He says: "Three OF us
took turns sleeping in that bed. We took
the ianitor of the theater into the deal the
first night and the next night the watchman.
l was downtown every day that week while
the people supposed l was sleeping in the
theatre"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-11-06
The Labor World.

Of1O,0oO British seamen. sixty-six are lost
at sea every year.
A strike OF thirty.s seven boys in mill at
Taftyille, Conn.,, led to 14J0 men being
thrown out Of work.
The great cotton mills destroyed by fire at
Warren, r. l.. are to be rebuilt with greater
capacity for turning out cotton cloths.
Union hatters announce that Union labels
IN hats must be sewed.
Birmingham, England, is the greatest
brass-making town in the world, and 1t Keeps
In steady employment an average OF 7oOo
brass workers. Parls, France, comes IN
good second.
Girl walters in Smith & McNell's, the big
gesr restaurant in New York City, wear a
uniform Of white aprons and caps. Inc
former force Of girl waiters refused TO wear
them and quit work.
Sixteen artesian wells will be drilled near
Hazleton, Penn, by coal-minlnS company
to supply water to its engines ana eoiaerles.
The drought this sehson has caused distress
in the mining villages.
The employees OF the Tattvilla (Conn.)
mills have received notification OF general
increase of from five to ten per cent. in
wages.
A conSideraDle portlou ol ING ciotn hat
md cap making industry has been trans
ferred from New York City and other cities
to country districts on account OF strikes in
the trude.
The 'longshoremen OF New York City are
being organized by the Knights Of Labor
They receive twenty and twenty-five cents
an hour, against forty cents when they were
olgunized.
During the past two weeks over 100 addi-
tional freight brakemen have been employed
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
preparatory to the expected heavy traihs
during the remainder Of the year.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-11-06
SHIPS LAUNCHED TANDEM.
The Nashville and Wilmington Slide
From the Same Ways.

From the Same Ways.
The launch OF the United States gunboats
Nashville and Wilmington at Newport News,
Va, was made the occasion OF an
unusual naval demonstration. Admiral
Bunce assembled the North Atlantic
squadron In Hampton Roads oppose
the ship yard, and Secretary Herbert
with distinguished party went from Wash
ington by special steamer to participate.
The event was remarkable as the first in
stance on record of two warships being
launched on the same day from single set
of ways. The vessels had been constructed
one ahead of the other, tandem" fashion,
upon a continuous decline. the Nashville
nearer the water with her bow few feet
from the Wilmington, both vessels taking
the water stern foremost.
At 9.48 o'clock the Nashville started. while
Miss Emma Thompson, OF Tennessee's capi-
tai, christened her with champagne. Seven
teen seconds later. amid the din Of steamer
whistles and shouts of the crowd. drowning
the National airs played by the artillery band
from Fortress Monroe, the ship foated in
deep water.
The Nashville had to travel only $50 feet
before floating freely. but the Wilmington's
stern post had $50 to slide before reaching
the water, and ITS yards, altogether before
she was fully floated. At lilo o'clock
Miss Annie Gray, Of Delaware, Senator
Gray's daughter, received the signal
that the ship was beginning to move, and
she swung the champagne bottle, christen-
ing the Wilmington. With rapidly acceler-
ating velocity the ship moved seaward with
salutes like those which had greeted the
Nashville. and in forty-eight seconds COM
pleted her journey.
The two new additions to the navy were
then towed past Admiral Bunce's feet and
moored at the docks where their machinery
will be put in. All the officers Of the squad
Of seventeen guns had been fred in honor Of
the Secretary Of the Navy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-11-06
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
Annual Report or the Commissioner OF
Labor Just Made Public.

Labor just Made Public.
The relations Of capital to laoor. so far as
these apply to strikes and lockouts during
the past seven and one-half years. are ex-
haustiveiy treated in the annual report OF
Colonel Carroll D. Wright, the Commission
or Of Labor. which is Just made public. Tho
report shows that during the foregoing pc
riod. Illinois had the largest number OF es-
Establishments affected. both by strikes ana
lockouts. There have been 10,O6O or the
former and 1195 of the latter. New iork
came second on the list. with 9540 establish
ments involved in strikes. and 1928 in lock-
outs. and PENNSYLVANIA third, with S2l9
strikes and 490 lockouts.
The total number Of employees involved Or
thrown ont of employment during the period
covered by the report was 1881. .2o3. The
total number OF strikers or persons oriCina-
ting the strikes OF the foregoing period was
115.377. Lockouts were ordered d in 1858 es-
tablishmcnts, having 274.657 eIhploved be-
fore the lockouts. OF which 295.S67 were
thrown ont of employment in consequence
thereof. These establishments secured 27.-
465 new employees after the lockouts, 16, 800
of whom were brought from other places.
The report shows that out Of total of TO-
4sS strikes for the entire country, more than
Sc per cent. occurred in 26 cities. The total
wage loss to the employees during the forced
idle period in these &c cities was in round
numbers S35. 900 900. while the loss to en-
ployers was something less than S29,0O0,-
600. The number of lockouts as compared
with the strikes for the same period was
small in the aggregate. but the losses in
Cured were enormously increased. The
total was 244 lockouts with loss of wages
to the employees Of S12, 100000. while that OF
the employers was nearly half that sum.
For the period covered by the report out
of the 46. S63 establishments affected by
strikes. success in their demands was gained
by the employees in 20,397: partial success
was gained in Ats establishments. and fail
ure followed in 21.6s7 establishments. Out
Of the 1858 establishments having lockouts,
1888 succeeded in gaining their demands;
391 partially succeeded and 1858 failed. The
leading cause of strikes was for an increase
of wages. and these represent 25 per cent.
of the whole number. Thirteen per cent.
were for reduction Of hours; per cent were
against reduction of wages; per cent. were
sympathetic; Der cent. were for increase OF
wages and reduction of hours; per cent.
were against employment OF non-union men.
and 8 per cent. for recognition of the
union. The remainder Of the strikes are
attributed to a number OF other causes OF
no especial general interest.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-11-06
Prominent People.

Senator PETER has bought Kansas news
paper.
The value OF Professor Huxley's estate is
less than S45,OO0.
Emperor William H.. Of Germany, has
caught the bicycle fever.
The Emperor of Japan is an all-round
sportsman, devoted to riding, shooting, ten
mis-, fishing, billiards and football.
The Duke OF Norfolk has been elected
Mayor OF sheffield, England.
Ex-speaker Reed worked off thirty pounds
Of flesh Inst summer on bicycle.
The largest landed estate is chat of the
Gear Nicholas Of Russia, 10o,0 900 acres.
The oldest lawyer is Judge Karl Slegmann,
OF Uelzea, Germany. l02 years OF age. He
practiced until 1892.
The Duke OF Sutherland sends his two
little sons, aged seven and five, to the village
public school, with the children OF his ten
ants.
Maria Dngmar. Dowager Empress Of Rus
sin. wti0 is said to be actual ruler, is yet
comparatively young, being only iortT-seven
years ot age.
Loai; aIirhel has scheme Of founding Il
home in Englanl for political refugees from
the Continent out OF the profits OF an Amert-
can lecturlng tour.
George Fred. Williams. the Democratic
candidate for Governor Of Massachusetts, Is
said to be the "original mugwump," He Is
| forty-three years age.
DR.. Theodore r. Timby. the inventor OF
the turbine wheel, is now living in Chicago.
! At ssventy-two years Of age he is as hale
! and active as most men Of fifty. DR.. Timby
is native OF Duchess County, New York.
Prince Bismarck keeps weighing ma
chine In his bedroom, and weighs himself
every day when he gets up, noting down the
weight in q register In 1879 he weighed
242 pounds, but latterly 202 is all that he
gets.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-11-06
THE v. c. 7. ]. RALLIES.
The Twenty-second Annual Convention
Meets in Baltimore.
FRANCES E. WILLARD'S ADDRESS.

The Platform Calls for Equal Suffrage,
Prohibition, a Referendum, Govern
ment Regulation of Monopolies, Direct
Vote for President, and Free Coinage Of
SIlver---A Change of Name Suggested.
Nearly 600 delegates from thirty-eight
States and Territories, representing nearly
100000 members Of ths Womnn's Christian
Temperance Union, met at Music Hall, Baltl-
more, Nd, to attend the twenty-second
annual convention Of that society. The
hall was handsomely decorated. In the
centre of large flag suspended over the
stage was the color of the Union, white
bow of enormous size. On the front OF the
platform were the letters "W. c. T. o." in
autumn leaves, pierced with a mammoth
palm.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-11-06
BICYCLES IN THE SIGNAL SERVICE,
Used to Locate Breaks in the Telegraph
Lines and In Keeling Out Wire.

Used to Locate Breaks in the Telegraph
Lines and In Keeling Out Wire.
The annual report Of General Greedy,
Chief Signal Officer, contains some interest
ing points. He speaks OF the advan-
tages derived by the use Of the
bicycle in repairing the telegraph
lines. In one case a break on the
line was located two miles from the station
in twenty minutes, less time than would
have been consumed In obtaining a mount.
At another station, Taylor's Ranch, Utah,
the bicycle has resulted in single year in
O greater saving to the Government than
the cost OF the machine.
Special attention is given by the Signal
Corps to the suitable equipment Of its flying
telegraph trains. Flying telegraph trains,
equipped as far as practicable with the most
modern appliances, are located at Fort Riley,
Kan: Fort Grant. Arizona; Fort Sam Hous-
ton, Texas; Fort Leavenworth, Kan, and at
the 'Presidio. San Francisco. The ques-
tton OF reelinl out and recovering wire
and outpost cable by bicycle, automatic
ally, has been concluded, and this corps now
has a bicycle equipped with an automatic
reel for the purpose that works perfectly.
The same automatic device Is now being
fitted to an outpost cable cart, three of which
have been ordered, from which are conf
IDENTIFY anticipated good results, as in
the case Of the bicycle This will give
the Signal Corps an equipment SUPER
ior to that OF any other country for rapid
paying out and taking up line. the op-
orators being at all times in communication
with the base. Each section Of the field train
will eventually be supplied with bicycles and
cable carts fitted with automatic devices.
The instruction of enlisted men of the Sig
nal Corps at Fort Riley, Kan, has been con-
tinued with satisfactory results. Most ac-
ceptable work IN signalling was done by the
special detachment mt Fort Trumbull, Conn,
in connection with the Signal Corps of New
York and Connecticut during the practice Of
the New York Naval Reserves. Messages by
flag and telegraph were transmitted rapidly
and accurately. both In the Morse and gen.
eral service codes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-11-06
DISASTROUS FIRES.

Damage Done at Blanchester. Ohio,
Crccde, Col, and New Orleans.
All the business portion OF Blanchestcr,
Ohio, was wiped out by fire. A few resi-
dences on the outskirts were saved, and
some goods from the stores are piled up in
the fields. The drought Left all the cisterns
used by the fire department dry, and there
was no water to use while the flames had
their way. No lives were lost.
All the frame buildings in Creede, COL.
burned. This is the third disastrous fire in
the famous mining camp. Thirty-four busi-
ness houses are destroyed, including the
postofflce, the two newspaper offices, the
Sentinel and the Candle. The loss Is estima-
ted at $150,000.
The Perseverance Rice Mills, New Orleans,
with an immense stock, and all the buildings
In the same square, were destroyed by tire.
The loss Is estimated at $500, 900.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-11-06
Girl Made Insane by Fright.

Anna, the eight-year-old daughter OF
Charles Hess, of Pice Lake, Wis.,. was taken
to the insane asylum at Mendoza. 1t Is a
very sad case. The little girl was playing in
the Third Ward school house during the
noon hour, when her playmates locked her
releasing her. She remained there several
hours. When released she was insane.