The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-09-28
GOOD HEApWAY
Made with the War Vessels Under Construe-
tion, with the Exception of the Four Tor
pedO Boats Last Ordered.

Made with the War Vessels Under Construe-
ton, with the Exception of the Four Tor
pedo Boats Last Ordered.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-According TO
reports received at the navy depart
ment from the various ship yards
where naval work is in progress, with
the exception of four torpedo boats
last ordered, good Roadway is being
made with the ships under construc-
ton. These four boats are distributed
among the Herreschoff's, Harlan &
Hollingsworth, Wolff & Zwicker, and
the Gas Engine and Power company,
and while the acutal work of construc-
ton upon them has not begun,
much has been done in the gathering
Of material to start the work. OF the
big ships the battleships Kearsarge
and Kentucky, at Newport News, are
Al per cent. advanced towards COM
pletion.> The battleships Illinois, Ala
bama and Wisconsin were ordered
later and they are not so well along,
the figures being 20 per cent for the
Illinois at Newport News; 81 per cent
for the Alabama at Cramps and ID per
cent. for the Wisconsin at the Union
iron works.
One gunboat is now being built,
namely, the Princeton, at Dialogues,
in Camden, and this is 80 per cent. adj
vanced toward the end. The queer
submarine boat, the Plunger, built at
the Columbian iron works, is going ON
slowly, probably because the plans are
ENTIRELY novel and the work is more or
less experimental The state of work
on the torpedo boats is as follows:
Rodgers, SO per cent; Winslow, 81
per cent; Rowan, 80 per cent; Dahl
gren, per cent; Craven, per cent;
Farragut, 6 per cent; Davis, 50 per
cent; Fox, 45 per cent; Talbot, 40 per
cent; Gwin, 40 per cent; Mackenzie, 46
per cent; Mckee, IS per cent.
A cablegram received at the state de-
partment from United States Minister
Stuart at Montevideo announces the
proclamation of peace there. He had
previously reported that all arrange
ments had been made looking to peace,
but that the plan required the ratifca-
ton of congress. 1t is assumed that
this has now been given and that the
instruction is at an end.
A final decision has been reached by
the arbitrators who are to determine
the British Guinea Venezuelan bound
airy line, as to the fifth arbitrator or
umpire, who is to act with them. His
name is for the present withheld. 1t
is not Baron Courcell, whose name has
been mentioned in this connection, nor
King Oscar of Sweden, who was to name
the umpire only in case the arbitra-
tors failed to agree. An agreement
was reached without the necessity of
calling on the Swedish sovereign. The
umpire is an European, but this is said
to be without significance since no
question involving the Monroe doctrine
is to be submitted to the tribunal.
The arbitrators in behalf of Venezuela
Brewer, of the United States supreme
court.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-The depart
ment of the interior has accepted the
bid of Frederick L. Gilbert for all the
timber on Red Cliff Chippewa Indian
reservation in Wisconsin 1t is esti-
mated that the timber amounts to
100, 900. 900 feet, and Mr.. Gilbert's bid is
S416,000. The conditions of the sale
provide that Mr.. Gilbert shall estab-
lish mills on the reservation and man.
ufacture there the lumber to be made
from the timber; that he shall cut not
less than 10000, 900 feet nor more than
$1,000, 600 feet year, and that he shall
employ Indian labor when practicable
to do so