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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-19
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Special Correspondence of the Globe.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept 1e.-The
next battIeshfp that the United States
government will include in it's list Of
se1viceable vessels is the Alabama, now
on the ways at the Cramps shipyards
She is rapidly approaching completion
and when finished, will be one of the
king pins which uphold theshonor of the
American flag. -,
The Alabama will be different from
the 1battleships Indiafa and Massachu-
setts, with which those who have seen
the North Atlantic squaaron are famil-
lar. The double deck turrets that
mark the battleship ordinarily will be
missing. The smokestacks will no
longer be arranged fore and aft, but
according to the style. of our English
cousins, athwartship. This will remove
the somewhat topheavy appearance,
which has been considered the one
drawback to the graceful outlines of
the Indiana, the vessel that Fighting
Bob" Evans termed the finest machine
af1oat
Heretofore there has been very
marked difference between the cruiser
and the battleship, even to the unprac-
ticed eye, but this difference, barring
the smokestacks, will be greatly lessen
ed by the absence of the double turret.
1t is declared by naval experts that
the Alabama will be beauty, and
it is further claimed that as a speed
maker she will outclass even the Iowa.
The general dimensions and principal
features of the Alabama are as follows:
Speed, II knots an hour. Length Of
load water line, 1868 feet. Extreme
beam, " feet 2.5 inches. Freeboard for
ward, 10 feet So inches. Freeboard
aft, Is feet 6 inches. Normal displaee-
ment, II. 525 tons Mean draught, %
feet inches. Horse power, 10000. Ca
paeity of coal bunkers, 1000 tons.
Her armament is ample, as will be
observed from the following: Batteries:
Main, four 13-inch breech loading rifles;
fourteen 6-inch rapid fire breech load
ing rifles. Secondary battery, seven-
teen FOUNDER rapid fire guns; four 1
FOUNDER rapid fire guns; four machine
guns; one field gun. The four above
water torpedo tubes are placed two on
each broadside amidShips and will fire
through an are of so degrees. The four
l0-luCH GUNS are Ill pairs III
two balanced barbette turrets and Har-
veyized armor Is inches thick, aug
mented on the slanting faces by two
more inches.
Two of the 6-inch rifles will be placed
amidships on each side, firing through
an armor citadel of steel. Below on the
main deck, behind a seasemate armor
amidships, four more of these 6-inch
rifles will constitute broadside bat
terry. Forward of these guns, one on
each side, with six inches of armor
plate as protection, two 6-inch rifle
PARROTS will be located. The second
airy battery is placed in such portions
of the ship as need it most. The armor
belt, 1872 inches thick, will protect the
hull ct the water line. Its mean depth
is ~ feet. This belt will extend from
the stern to abreast the after barbette
and will maintain a maximum thick
ness from that point forward to the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-19
PIE ALABAMA
NOW APPROACH
ING COMPLETION.

continuation of the fat protective
deck This deck will be four inches
thick aft and three inches thick for
ward. The ship will be propelled by
two triple expansion engines, each in
its own water-tight compartment, hav-
ing cylinders 1915, 81 and 70 inches in
diameter. Eight boilers, two in a COM
partment. provide working pressure
of 100 pounds. Blowers in the fire room
maintain a forced draught.
The Alabama will boast of two fight
ing stations. One of them will be just
beneath the chart house and of steel
ten inches thick. The cost of the Ala
bama will be fully a million dollars
less than the government anticipated,
when it advertised for bids, it would
be necessary to pay. She will, too, be
one of the first ships finished built I'M
der what is called a non-speed bounty
In other words, no matter how fast
she goes, her makers will not receive a
penny extra in the way of bonus.
Despite this fact, 1t is declared that
she will be the best finished and the
most commodiouS in point of accommo-
dations for officers and crew of any
of the vessels of which the government
is the present proprietor. The number
of men she will carry. exclusive of Of
flcers and including marines, will be
five hundred Although her speed Is
estimated at seventeen knots, those
who have been watching her construc-
ton are of opinion that she will do
much better than that, though that Is
fairly fast speed. Said an official Of
the Cramps to me the other day:
keep your eye on the Alabama. We
have turned out some crack vessels
for the government, but there is one
which will bear watching. Mark you.
she will create great sensation when
she gets into running trim, as did her
famous old namesake that flew the
Stars and Bars. In my opinion when
completed the Alabama will be the
best battleship ever built. In appear
ance I do not think she will be equaf
to some of the other ships of war, but
when it comes to speed and utility and
conflict, give me the Alabama. She
is like one of those girls that never
would shine in the butterfly circles of
society, but who knows how to look
after her home. 1t will be a great
day for shipbuilding in the United
States when she is launched"
The Cramps are reticent as to the
probable length of time which will be
necessary to consume in completing the
Alabama but it is certain that they
are pushing work upon her very rapid
ly.
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half a mile minute There are places,
too, where your frail birch bark ca
noe scrapes the rocks as you go whiri-'
ing through the foaming rapids, and,
seated on the bottom, you can feel
the bump almost as distinctly as
though there were not two thicknesses
of wood and skin Of birch bark be-
tween the water and you.
The French Canadian guide is today
just what the traveller Of ten or fifteen
years ago pictured him. His birch
bark canoe is still Indian made, and
there is the same rare pleasure in sit
ting with your back to one guide and
your face to another while with well
trained hands and hardy muscular
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forward barbette, gradually tapering to
four inches at the stem
From the top of the side belt up to
the upper deck, the sides will be pro-
tected by 51a inches Of hardened steel,
backed, below the main deck, by belt
of cornpith cellulose and full coal
bunkers. Athwartship bulkheads twelve
inches thick will run inward to the
barbettes from each end Of the thickest
part Of the side armor, and on top of
the four walls so formed fiat pro-
tective deck, "a inches thick, will rest.
Below, and within the space embraced
by this heavy steel box, will be placed
the engines. boilers, magazines and
shell rooms. %
Slanting decks, running from the top
Of the heavy athwartship bulkheads
to the stem and stern. will form the
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arisen. as he believes. out Of the for
ward" policy recently adopted along
the frontier. To that policy, the bril-
liant officer referred to above, and
some of the men best acquainted with
the country and the people between
India and Afghanistan, are strongly
opposed. Military posts, unaccom-
panied by civil administration, have
been established in the territories be-
longing to independent tribes, and the
result. instead of inducing the tribes
men to become friendly toward the
British, has had an opposite effect.
The forward policy has also re-
suited in increasing the discomfort felt
toward US by the ameer. When the
question of the Mohmand country was
being settled, Abdur Rahman wanted
to include the whole of it within the
Afghan border. The Indian govern
ment refused to allow this, and divid-
ed the district occupied by the tribe in
half, one portion going to Afghanistan,
the other being included in the Indian
empire. This highly incensed the
ameer and the tribesmen who wished
to become Afghan subjects, and they
are now taking advantage of the dis
turbance at other points Of the frontier
to join the enemies of the British do
minion.
One informant, who is personally ac-
quainted with the ameer, has a very
high opinion of that ruler who is one
of the ablest and most astute men in
Asia. He would, no doubt, like to be
entirely free from the British suzer-
ainty, but he is, at the same time,
keenly aware that he cannot do with
out British help. While it is quite
likely he is very much pleased at the
turn Of affairs have taken and would
dcubtlessly, secretly encourage them
he is far too clever to openly defy the
British power without which he could
not remain on the throne.
There is, therefore. a CLEAN of light
in what is otherwise very gloomy
prospect. At the same time. it is I'M
possible to foresee what an Oriental
potentate may do especially when his
pride is suffering under what he con-
siders two very severe rebuffs.
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Special Correspondence of the Globe.
GRAND DISCHARGE, Que.,. Sept.
16-The American tourist shoots
through this place as though he were
propelled from gun. At II o'clock
in the morning the steamboat Rober-
val arrives with it's load of ten or
twenty travellers. They stop at the no
tel on the island long enough to eat
luncheon. Then they go on their ca
noes, running in single file through
the rapids which mark the opening of
Lake st. John at the head of the
Saguenay river. The next day they
are at Chicoutimi, and the following
morning they take boat for the trip
down the Saguenay river and up the
st. Lawrence to Quebec. When 1 say
they travel like bullet, am not so
far from the literal truth as you may
think, for there are places in the rap
ids where you travel at the rate of
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has been simply another instance Of
that care and thoughtfulness which
have a characterized that statesmans
actions 1t was believed that the In
dian rebellion would be godsend to
the Liberals, in that it would enable
them to put forth rallying cry which
would draw many followers from the
circle about the Conservative standard,
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arms they force the little craft up the
stream against swift current.
The birch bark canoes used in these
waters are made by the Montagnais
Indians. They look cheap and f1imsy,
but the guides have to pay $40 or more
for them, and they last only three or
four years. The guide, in exercising
his trained eye to take you safely
through the rapids, is thinking quite
as much, no doubt, of the safety of his
canoe. A new canoe might represent
the profits of a season.
The Indian canoe makers belong to
tribe which camp through the summer
months three and half miles above
Roberval. There are about 100 families
and they live for the most part in
tents. Their only occupation in sum-
mer is the making of canoes and moe
casins, guiding hunting parties and
fishing in the lake. They are dirty,
degenerate and lazy, like most of the
American Indians, and their camp
swarms with dogs, many of them Eski-
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pnuch bloodshed must be endured but
in the end the Afridis, even though
they may be backed by the ameer of
,Afghanstan, must retire and again
live under the supremacy of the lion
and the unicorn.
The British people are very slow in
forming an opinion In fact, they are
as slow to decide on a question like this
as they are quick to rise in defense of
national honor. Many people think
Lord Salisbury's colonial policy puer-
ole, but investigation proves that this
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clined to be received with favor, and
is not in line with the prudent, sane
and practical feeling of the Briton
which is as far removed from agrees
sive jingoism as is light from darkness.
In regard to the purely military as
pect of the question, it is thought that
if the Amer Of Afghanistan enters
actively on the scene. England will
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admitted, and this more than all other
facts is what makes the outlook for
England lack brilliancy. One thing,
too, we must admit, and that is that
the policy most recently adopted has
been pursued in direct defiance to the
counsels and warnings of high and
experienced officials in England as we'll
as in India.
This departure from old school meth
DDS, even though in that cautious
fashion of the Conservatives, is not in
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4 British VieU of India.
General Opinion That
English Will Eventu-
ally Triumph.

but now the situation is entirely differ
ent
The general trend of thought seems
to be in the direction of the position
of the Ameer of Afghanistan. That he
has been ruf11ed by the turn which
matters have taken on the frontier is
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LONDON, Sept 1S.-British opinion
regarding the Indian rebellion is to the
effect that eventually British arms
must triumph. How long. a task this
will be, no one pretends to say def
nitely, and it is also admitted that
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It's Doors Closed as the Result o.
Speculation.

IT'S UOOrS CIOSeU as tHe iNeSuft UT
Speculation.
BENTON HARBOR, Mich, Sept Is.
The First National bank of this city
did not open for business today, and
National Bank Examiner George B.
Caldwell, of Detroit, is in charge.
About $4,000 is due depositors and it
is generally believed rs per cent will be
realized The suspension was not
wholly a surprise Depositors have
decreased about $4,000 the past three
months The banks capital stock was
$50 900, with surplus of $4,000. James
Bailey, the ex-cashier, makes no state
ment, excepting that in his opinion de-
positors will be paid in full. DEPOSIT
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-19
FACIAL BE-ENRESHES

quickly disappear when Woodburys Grand
Toilet Combination is applied daily. 1t will
render rough skin smooth and protect
good complexion A sample of each of Wood
bury's Facial Soap, Facial Cream Facial
Powder and Dental Cream and Beauty book
mailed on receipt of zoe. The regular size
sold everywhere 25c. each. JOHN H. WOOD
BURY. Dermatologist, 12 West AID St., N. z.
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tors attribute the banks embarrass-
ment chiefly to bad loans.
Bank Examiner Caldwell says that
the failure was due to the speculations
of ex-Cashier James Bailey, whose
urwise investments and dangerous
speculative tendencies led to his re-
moval last June" The bank is also
burdened with a large amount Of real
estate taken as security, which is not
available for paying depositors. A
thorough investigation will be made.
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Too Valuable for the Genuine.
Glow do you know that silver dollar is a
There's so much alloy in it that it's worth
Il cents more than genuine silver dollar"
Cleveland Leader.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-19
BENTON HARBoR BANK.

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The perfection of Matchmaking The
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The San Francisco call., 1897-08-08
ASSAULTED IN a CARRIAGE
Night Episode on a Louisville BOUie-
yard With Fashionable Young
Couple as Principals.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. Z. 7. F.
Liebke OF st. Louis assaulted MISS Amelia
Bayliss, also OF ST. Louis, while driving
out on Third street, fashionable boule-
ward of Louisville. last night, and he was
arrested A relative of Miss Bayliss en-
deavored to-day to have the case hushed
up and Liebke released in order to escape
notoriety, but City Judge Thompson re-
fused and Liebke was held under $1,000
bonds.
Miss Bayliss moves in the best society
of Louisville and st. Louis. She came
here on visit and Liebke came with her.
Liebke gave dinner to her young friends
of the swell set at the Gait House on
Monday night, where good deal OF
champagne was drunk. There an engage
ment was made for call last evening on
a mutual friend.
A short distance out on the boulevard,
while the carriage was going fast, Miss
Bayliss began screaming for help and sew
eral young men started to the rescue on
bicycles. Just before they reached her
the door of the carriage was thrown omen
and she jumped out, still screaming
while Liebke ordered the driver to go on.
The young men knew Miss Bayliss and
she was helped home, after which they
started to find Liebke, threatening to
lynch him.
Llebke was not discovered until o clock
this morning, when he returned to the
Gait House. He virtually admitted the
assault, but said he was drunk. He said
he had been engaged to the girl. He sue
ceeded in giving bond tonight and was
released.
W. n. Bayliss, father of the girl, left St.
Louis for this city this afternoon, vowing
to kill Lie BIKE, who is-a son of the presi-
dent of the Liebke Hardwood Lumb ber
and Milling Company.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-08
MORE EXPLOITERS.
Latest Local Companies to Assail
the Resources of the Yukon.

the Resources of the Yukon.
Corporations to do business in the Klon-
dixie country are being incorporated
nearly every day. The latest enterprises
organized are as follows:
Klond Ike Prince Mining Company, to
carry on the mining and milling OF placer
and quartz properties; capital, $1,000 600,
OF which the incorporators, Louis c. Hv-
ner, NJ. D. Young. c. ]. Bicker, II. B.
benson and +. l.. Owen, have subscribed
for $400 each.
Klondike, Yukon and British Colum-
bia Gold Mining and Developing Com
pany, to conduct general mining and
commercial business in the Northwes;
Territory and Alaska; Capital, $3.50, 600;
incorporators. f. F. Lord, +. w. Reade,
J. E. Slinkey, Roderick d. Daniels, Fred.
erick Broderick.
KlonGike and Yukon Dredging Com
pany. to dredge the Klondike, Yukon
and other streams of Alaska for precious
metals and 10 do a general mining ousi-
ness; ca pital stock, $500, 900, subscriptions
OF which have been made as follows: +.
Ii. Wakeman, ]. A. Magee Jr.. J. W. Nc
Donald. II. Olcovich and Z. Hinsberg.
$40 00O each; John S. Hume and l.. Peter
son, $z5, 600 each.
Yukon Exploitation and Trading Com
pany, to do general trading, transporta-
ton and mining business in Alaska and
the Canadian North Invest country; capital
$500, ,000 OF which 5000. 500 is alleged to have
been subscribed as follows: Burnette q.
Haskell and NJ. J. HI. Woolf. $100, 900 each
(they might just as we'll have made 1t q
million while thew were about itl; Oliver
Olsen, w. T. Forsman, Matthias H.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-08
DESERVING CREWS.
The Water Front Short on Labor,
Wharfroom and Vessels.

The exodus for the "land of ice and
snow" has had material effect on the
labor question in the LAND of sunshine,
fruit and flowers" At the present time
there are three vessels lying in the stream
unable to obtain crews, while half dozen
others are patiently awaiting the com ple-
ton of their loading. The seawall is
gorged with freight and there is so much
on the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company's wharf that the Colum bia will
have to seek another wharf on whi ch the
freight and passengers from Portland can
be landed. Steamers in the coastwise
trade are all the way from two TO five
hours late, owing 10 the fact that so many
vessels have been Withdrawn from the
regular traffic and put in "the rush to
Klondike."
In order 10 relieve the pressure on their
lines Goodall, Perkins & Co. have been
compelled 10 haul the big steamer Oregon
out of retirement and place her on the
run 10 Astoria as a freightboat. She will
carry no passengers, but will simply as
sst the State of California and the Colum-
b,a in carrying W eat and merchandise.
Had the George w. Elder and the recently
chartered Willamette not been on their
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-08
UAPRoVokED w1FE-MURDER.
SeOeTaL Posses Hunting the CUlprit
Gent on Lvn ching.

Se0erdL Posses Hunting the CUlprit,
Bent on Lynchin0.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Aug. Warren
Widrig, a worthless wife beating resident
of Springville, Erie County, shot and in
stantlY killed his wife at IL 80 last night.
The crime was com mitted in the presen ce
of Miss Eta Ware, who had called at the
Wildrig farm house to see her pet dog,
which Mrs. Wilcrig was keeping. After
numbering his wife Widrig fired a parting
shot at Miss Ware and escaped. The
bullet grazed the young woman's wrist.
Miss Crandall, who was in a buggy out
size, drove 10 the village and raised an
alarm. Physicians found the dead body
ina pool CT blood on the kitchen floor
News of the crime spread rapidly and
soon the house was surrounded by hun
dreds of citizens, who formed into armed
posses and began a systematic search of
all the roads.
The Deputy Sheriff swore in all the men
ne could and armed them 10 prevent
lynching, which the mob declared would
be done if Widrig fell into their hands.
All night and through the day posses
havefollowed each trail. Tonight it was
reported that Widrig had been located in
the timber land seven miles from Spring
vile and that armed men have sur
rounded the woods. Sheriff Lamy will
have hard time to keep the murderer
from a quick death if the enraged men of
-SpringvilIe catch him first.
Widrig's crime was unp-ovoked. Mrs.
Wldrig was respected by all the villagers,
while he was detested for his many crimes
he has confessed to arson, assault, larceny
and burglary.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-08

C ok, and to all appearances the business
was profita BILE one. 1t seems. however,
that there was an indebte lness of $4,000 on
the stock which the Adcocks could not
manage 10 pay.
The son, in whose name the business
had been cond ucted, short time ago as
signed the stock to Mrs. M. E. Desmond, +,
one of the employees. Mr.. Adcock sold
the property in which the family resided
at Berkeley for $5000, and the family
started for the north to join in the search
for gold.
The creditors of whom Butler d Schutze
and Holm & Nathan are the principal
ones. were not satisfied with the assign
ment to Mrs. Desmond, so neld meeting.
and it was arranged that Mrs. Desm ond
should reassign the stock to them. The
store is in their hands, and now they are
carrying on the business.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-08

1900 pounds of provisions. The trip up
the river is 10 b. made in the tug boa t
Governor Stoneman and the steam launch
Esperanto which were hoisted aboard
yesterday. She was supplied with coal,
and with the crowd, the getting of sup
plies aboard and so on, the scene at Mis-
sion-street pier, where she lies, was busy
one.
The big steamer Humboldt will leave
tomorrow with big crowd for st. Michael
and will stop at Seattle for another gang.
The steam schooner Scotia, which will
depart during the week, went to the Mer-
chants drydock yesterday.
The gasoline schooner Chetco is expected
to sail on Wednesday with about ten
people and 125 tons of merchandise, OF
which fifty will be left at ST. Michaels.
Though the schooner draws five feet of
water. it is planned to attempt the trip up
the river clear to Dawson in her.
There is going 10 be some trouble over
the charter OF the steam schooner Caspar.
When she was secured by parties for trip
TO Kiondike they put up deposit of $4,000
The owners of the vessel went to work and
fitted her out in hrst-class style. When
the charterers abandoned the trip they
wanted some of their deposit back, anu
The owners refused to yield up a cent.
Hence the trouble.