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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-02-09
AMATEUR ATHLETIC CARNIVAL
Arrangements for a Great Tournament at
Tattersalps in Chicago.

Arrangements for Great Tournament at
Tattersalrs in Chicago.
CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-The first amateur
com mbination gymnastic and athletic
carnival ever held in the United States
will take place at Tattersall's, March o.
Nominally the affair will be under the
direction of the Western Intercolle-
giate Athletic association, but in reality
it is to be conducted by the University
of Chicago, which will expend $4,000
towards it's success. The deal between
the Tattersall management and Profess
sor Stagg has been closed. Two teams
composed of 10 men each from each OF
the following institutions will COM
pete: University Of Illinois, University
of Minnesota, University of Michigan,
University of Chicago, Northwestern
university.
The building is peculiarly well adapt
ed for the purposes, being 1l0x200 feet
in the clear, and will permit of an SLAP
track, and 7O-yard straight-away
course.
The principal contests will take place
during the evening The programme
will consist of track events and gym
nastic exercises. The prizes will be
handsome banner to the winning teams
in both gymnastic and athletic events.
The judges will be selected from col
leges outside of the city.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-02-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.


A naval board has recommended the
use of petroleum for fuel on small ves-
sells.
All attempts made in the house to in.
crease the Notifications appropriations
failed.
The senate has confirmed Colonel s.
T. Gushing, nominated for commissary
general.
The president promoted Commodore
Charles 8. Norton to the rank of rear
admiral.
The senate amended the agricultural
appropriation bill and passed it. It
carries 9S,527, 202.
The senate committee on claims re-
ported an omnibus bin, carrying claims
Aggregating $9,766, 1858.
A bill submitted by Secretary Bliss
provides that 5000 square miles be
added to Yellowstone Park.
The bill making an appropriation to
survey Southwest Pass passed the
house. It viii go through the senate.
There is said to be scheme on foot
In congress to combine the Hawaiian
and Cuban questions and force consid-
Grafton.
1t is stated that change is likely to
be made soon in the Office of the super
intendent of Indian schools now filled
by William N. Hailmann.
Union Pacific committeeman con-
ferred with the president regarding the
Kansas Pacific sale. The conclusion
reached has not been given out.
The government has decided to pay
off the first lien holders Of the Kansas
Pacific, and to ask postponement OF
the sale to date to be fixed later.
The United States minister to Russia
has been raised to the rank of ambas-
sador, in response to similar advance
ment of the Russian minister here.
Congressman Dockery is preparing
a bill allowing to department employees
six years tenure of office, with reap
pointment if they then pass new exam
nations
The senate committee on territories
has made favorable report on the
house bill permanently locating the
capital of the territory of New Mexico
at Santa Fe.
The state department and Minister
Hoshi have agreed that japanese i'll
Hawaii shall have the same rights as
japanese in the United States, if the
islands are annexed.
a recount Of the treasury cash, just
completed, shows shortage of 1859,
which will be made good by the retir-
ing treasurer. Since July / about
$797, 200, 900 in cash has been counted.
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DISGUSTED KLONDIKERS.

Party of Twenty-Five Pilgrims Return on
Board the Noyo.
VICTORIA, B. O., Feb. "A report
from Nanimo states that the steamer
Noyo has arrived there from Skaguay.
She had 25 disgusted passengers aboard,
tired of the country, after their first ex-
perience, and severely denouncing the
Klondike rush. The treasure on board
was $4,000. One of the passengers
said that 200 men could do all the work
offered at Skaguay, and that there were
at least 500 men there who had nothing
to do but drink and gamble. When
the Noyo passed, the position of the
Corona was more critical than hereto
fore reported. The Noyo had no com.
munication with the wrecked passen-
gers on Lewis island.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-02-09
FoRE1GN NEWS.

Costa Rica and Nicaragua each have
rebellions on hand.
Korea is being coerced by Japan in
the matter of desired railroad.
DR.. Hepworth says Armenian revolu-
tionists were responsible for the massa-
cres in Armenia.
It is reported there are go, 900 Russian
soldiers at Vladivostock ready to take
the field at moments notice.
A wave of Indignation is sweeping
over England, owing to the govern.
ment's alleged backdown in China
Emperor William is said not to be
pleased with Prince George for gov
ernor of Crete and has so informed the
sultan.
The sugar bounty conference, which
was announced to begin on Feb. Is at
Brussels, is now indefinitely postponed,
France having renewed her objections,
1t is now charged that the German
governments hostile action regarding
American products was taken to win
support of the Agrarians for the naval
bill.
Sir Charles Upper, in the Canadian
parliament at Ottawa, attacked the
governments Klondike policy and ad-
vocated preventing Americans from
holding claims in the Yukon.
The Spanish premier has again de.
clined the friendly mediation OF the
United States in Cuba. The action has
caused very depressed feeling on the
Madrid and Barcelona bourses.
he Prussian minister of finance, DIR.
Miguel, issued a decree prohibiting the
importation of every kind of American
fresh fruit. It was later modified to
exclude only ''infected" packages.
An Athens dispatch says sanguinary
conflicts continue between the Turkish
troops and the peasants in Thessaly. Il
is reported that the Turks have occu-
pied several villages and that 100 per-
sons have been killed.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-02-09
BOATS CROWDING NORTH.
Steamers Thistle and Danube Sail From
Vancouver.

Steamers Thistle and Danube Sail From
Vancouver.
VANCOUVER, B. c., Feb. 9.-Boats
are crowding north to Dyea, Skaguay
and Wrangel crowded with Klondikers.
The Thistle and the Danube left dur
ing the day. The Thistle carried a
party going in by Stickeen river to
place steamers on Teslin lake. The
Danube took up sawmin to be erected
at Lake LeBarge. She had to refuse
200 tons of freight. including three
carloads of bacon from Omaha for the
United States relief expedition.
An average of 100 men are arriving
here daily to outfit for the Yukon. FIT.
teen hundred passengers bound for the
Klondike landed in Skaguay on Feb l.
The trails are in splendid condition and
men are making good progress over
them.
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QUEEN FAVORs ANNEXATION.

Provided She Can Secure Pay for Conf1s-
Gated Lands.
WASHINGTON, Feb "a Minnesota
newspaper woman has interviewed
Queen Liliuokalani on the question of
annexation. From her statements it
appears that the former ru or of the
Sandwich islands is in favor Of annex
alton, provided she receives pay for the
crown lands which have been confis-
Gated. A proposition to pension or pay
the deposed queen an annuity for life is
said to be one of the objects of Presi-
dent Dole's visit to Washington.
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ARMED TROOPS BARRED.

Cannot Accompany the Relief Expedition
Through Canadian Territory.
OTTAWA, Ont, Feb. 9.-An official
announcement was made in the Do
minion house of commons that armed
troops of the United States would not
be permitted to accompany the Amer
ican relief expedition to Dawson City.
The government also stated that the
question of allowing United States
troops not under arms to do so was now
under consideration by the cabinet and
was also the subject of negotiation
with the Washington authorities.
It is generally conceded that an un-
armed body of American troops will be
permitted to accompany the relief ex-
pedition over Canadian territory.
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Cabinet Meeting Decides Soldiers
Are Necessary to Preserve Or
der in Alaska.
Great Many LawlesS People Go
ing Into That Country With
Gold Seekers.
Drinking and Gambling Principal
Occupation at Dyea and
Skaguay.

WASHINGTON. Feb. AT the cabi-
net meeting it was decided to send two
companies Of troops to Dyea and Skag-
uay, Alaska, Immediately, for the pur-
pose of preserving order and protecting
life and property. Advioes to the gov
ernment state that the rush to the gold
fields has attracted hundreds of the
lawless element, and that troops are
necessary at once to prevent trouble.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-02-09
Chicago Bank Consolidation.

CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-It is announced
that the Continental National bank
will absorb the International, one of
the oldest state banks in Chicago, about
Feb. 81. The Continental has capital
Of $4,000, 900 with deposits of $t5,O0O,-
600 according to its last report, while
the International, with a capital of
$500. 600. had deposits Of 81, 100000
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-02-09
BRULES WILL MOVE.
Intend to Join the Rosebud Indians on
the Latter's Reservation.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The delega-
tions OF Lower Brule and Rosebud In
dians from South Dakota, which have
been i'll the city for 10 days, have about
reached an agreement whereby $50 of
the former tribe will locate on the res
ervation OF the latter The proposition
meets with the approval of the Indian
office. A sufficient amount Of acres of
the Lower Brule reservation will be
sold with which to purchase the neces-
sary land from the Rosebuds on which
to locate the lower Brules and the two
will be merged.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-02-09
Landed Marines in Nicaragua.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. Capt. Leutz,
in command Of the Alert, has cabled
the navy department that he has landed
marines at San Juan del Sur, Mica.
ragua, for the protection of the Ameri-
can consulate, owing to the fact that a
revolution has broken out.
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with a stsam SNOW Sled.

SEATTLE, Wash, Feb "A party of
"a from Stamford, Conn.,, have arrived
here and have purchased the schooner
Moonlight, on which they will sail
next Thursday for the mouth Of the
Copper river. They have with them q
snow sled with 20-horse power
engine. The sled weighs about 10 tons
and is propelled by a stern wheel fitted
with spikes to catch in the Ice, with
paddles for snow.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-02-09

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Secretary Al
gers progress towards recovery has
been SO prom ounced during the past
few days that his physician allowed
him to take short carriage ride dur.
ing the day.
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syndicate Buys Cleveland Breweries.

CLEVELAND, Feb. 9.-According to-
an afternoon newspaper big deal by
which every brewery in Cleveland will
pass into the hands Of syndicate of
Eastern capitalists has just been com.
pleted in New York. About $5 1000, 600
in cash, it is said, will be paid to Cleve-
land brewers within the next few
weeks.
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INDIANS GREATLY EXCITED.
Size of the Sherif's Posse Prevents an
Attack, However.

~ASSepSAS
GORDON, Wis, Feb. 9.--Charles
Beauregard, quarterbreed Indian,
who murdered Joseph Blackburn last
September, was captured at Eau Claire
Lakes, about 10 miles from Gordon,
and taken to Spooner. Blackburn was
an old trader who had lived near Cor
don for many years. The murder was
committed because Blackburn refused
Beauregard whisky. The Indians are
greatly excited and large crowd of
them followed the officers to Gordon
but the sheriff's force was too large for
them to attempt to release the prisoner.
The executive committee of the Lon
don engineers has issued circular adj
vising the men to accept the employers
terms.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-02-09
UPRISING OF MoONsHINERs.
United States Authorities Asked to Pro-
tect Law-Abiding Citizens.

tect Law Abiding Citizens.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Feb. 9.-An up
rising OF moonshiners is threatened in
the mountain distr ct of Cleburn
county, and the United States authori-
ties have been appealed to for assist
ance to protect the law-abiding citizens
of the locality. The trouble is caused
by lawless element whose chief occu.
patton is the unlawful manufacture of
whisky and was brought about by a
raid made last week by deputy United
States marshals.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-02-09

DUBUQUE, Ia., Feb. 9.-The Lee
party of 10 men have left here for
Klondike. This is the fourth party to
leave here for the gold fields.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-02-09
FOUGHT OVER A WOMAN.
Duel of Iowa Men Results in Serious
Wounds to Both.

MASON CITY, Ia, Feb. 9.-In duel
near Sexton, Kossuth county, between
Albery Rahm and Herman Necker,
both men were shot Necker through
the abdomen and Rahm through the
region of the heart. Both men are in
precarioas condition. The fight was
witnessed only by the seconds of the
men, who had quarreled over woman.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-02-09

PEK1N, Feb. 9.-The tsung Ii yamen
has Instructed the vieeroy OF Marking
to receive Prince Henry of Prussia
upon the latter's arrival at Shanghai
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-02-09

The Austrian government has closed
all the colleges until March 81, when,
before readmission, students will be
compelled TO sign an agreement to OBJ
serve disciplinary regulations This is
the severest measure of It's kind put
into application since 1848.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-02-09
BROOKLYN WoMAN's DEED.
Kills Her Step. Daughter and Seriously
3 Injures Her Husband aud Herself.

: Injures Her Husband aud Herself
New YoRR, Feb. 9.-The wife of
William w. Place. Brooklyn insur.
ance adjuster, killed her step-daugh.
ter, Miss Ida Place. by burning her
face and body with acids, attacked her
husband with hatchet and cut him SO
badly about the head that he may die,
and then locked herself in room and
turned on two gas jets. When found
by an ambulance she was unconscious
but it is believed that she will recover.
jealousy was the cause.
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-16

lected as the United States service ex-
plosive. Experiments with gun cotton
were begun by Professor Hin at the
United states torpedo station in 1872.
Eleven years ago the first gun cotton
torpedo outfit was issued to the United
States ship Trenton, the gun cotton
being supplied in cylindrical disks three
inches in diameter and two inches high.
The manufacture of gun cotton, and
of nearly all nitro compounds, consists
of immersing the cotton, glycerine or
other material in a mixture of nitric
and sulphuric acid for a long time.
The explosive body is then removed
from the spent acid. washed and treat
ed with alkalies till all trace of acidity
is lost, If a trace of acid remains
spontaneous decomposition and often
explosion occurs. Care must be taken
that the cotton is perfectly pure. In
the chemical reaction water in the cell
lulose is replaced by nitric acid, or
hydrogen by the nitro groups. Gun
cotton has a much more powerful ef-
feet than black powder and burns
without leaving any residue. In out
ward appearance it differs only slightly
from the ordinary cotton, but is some-
what darker, is harsher to the touch
and CRATES slightly i'm squeezing. IT is
also heavier than cotton. 1t is safer
to handle than dynamite, and one
pound gives in combustion about 22,-
165 inches of gas and produces the ef-
feet of from four to six pounds OF gum
powder. Its preparation for service is
a complicated process, and it is made
in various shapes for various uses. In
torpedoes gun cotton is detonated by
illuminate of mercury, which when
ignited by blow expands to about o.
500 times its own size. This sudden ex-
pansion gives a severe blow to the gun
cotton and detonates 1t. Fulminate of
mercury is the chemical combination
Of mercury with alcohol and nitric acid.
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furious to guns or inhalation. There
are none that comply with all these
conditions. The combustion of smoke
less powder is usually complete, the
resulting gases being chiefly carLonic
acid and steam.
The above uses of the new explosives
are to weapons-Greatly improved, 1t
is true-which in some form have beer
in use for many centuries. But the
revolution wrought by gun cotton and
nitroglycerln in warfare has also
brought into a high degree of efficiency
new and terrible devices Of destruction.
Mines and tOrpedocs were only germs
during the regime of black gunpowder.
They are now most valuable adjuncts,
especially in naval warfare. and, in the
opinion of some experts, have super
seeded, or viii soon supersede, gunnery
in relative Importance.
Both torpedoes and mines were first
used in naval operations in the war OF
the rebellior, during which struggle
wenty~eight vessels were blown up by
mines and six by torpedoes. These de-
vices, deadly as they were at times.
were usually of the Crudest descrip-
ton, The mines were often merely
wooden barrels filled with gunpowder
and fired by slow-burning fuses. No
braver or more daring naval deed in re-
lation to mines was performed tnan
the passage of Admiral Farraguts fleet
through a channel in the Mississippi
river known TO be alive with mines.
One ship, the TeCumsch, was struck.
but though desperate odds were
against him, the admiral ran the gaunt-
let fortunately without further loss
The cases of the torpedoes scraped
against the copper bottoms of the ships,
and in several instances the primers
snapped audibly. but no more torpedoes
exploded.
During the FRANC war the
French fleets did not enter Prussian
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he called xylodine, when heated with
concentrated nitric acid. But no prac-
teal results followed these and other
discoveries, because neither uniform
effect nor stability We're secured.
DISCOVERY OF GUN COTTON.
In lS45 Schobein of Bale discovered
that cotton could be converted into
a highly explosive body without alter
ing it's structure, by treating it with
nitric acid. The same discovery was
made independently the year follow
ing b, Bottger of Frankfort-on-the-
Main. Both inventors tried to sell the
secret to the German union, but the
union would make the purchase only
on condition that the new explosive
possessed an advantage over gun
powuer. Other nations heard of it, and
throughout Europe many experiments
were made with a view of substituting
gun cotton for gunpowder
NitroElycerine was discovered in 1916
by Sobrero, professor of chemistry at
Turin. but the discovery remained un-
developed for many years. In 1853 AL
fred Nobel, the noted Swedish chemist,
invented dynamite by mixing liquid
nitrogiycerine with a highly porous in
fusiCna! earth. He also, in 1878, in
vented gelatin and other explosives for
blasting purposes. Dynamite is used
for civil and gun cotton for military
operations. Numerous other explosives
have appeared In recent years, but
most of them have disappeared after
a brief and unsuccessful trial. Picric
acid has been known for many years.
In 1867 DOtaSSium Dicrate WAS used I'm
America and in England as a charge
for bombs. In 1887 the French govern
ment introduced picric acid as melin-
lie.
Austria was the first country to en-
gese elaborately in the attempted sub
stitution of gun cotton for gunpowder.
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A factory was erected at Hirtenberg in
1So2 and the explosive was introduced
in some special artillery. But it was
found that the guns were attacked by
tie gases and that the high pressures
cided to use the new explosive only in
filing shells and in torpedoes. There
We're two terrific explosions in the Hir-
tenberg magazines in 1862 and 1865, and
after the second disaster the manufac-
ture of gun cotton ceased in Austria
until 1875.
REVOLUTIONIZED WARFARE.
Between the years 1864 and 1886 the
initial stages were completed which
were destined to revolutionize modern
warfare. In the former year f. Schultze
of POtsdam began the manufacture of
gunpowder from ntrated wood. In
1865 Sir Frederick Abel, chemist of the
British war department, patented
process for purifying gun cotton, re-
ducing it to a fine powder by beating
machines and then pressing it. That
process is now generally used. In 1886
Vielle, the celebrated chemist of the
French gunpowder works, discovered a
means of making smokeless gunpowder
from gun cotton dissolved in sulphuric
ether mixed with picrlc acid.
SHOKELESS POWDER.
Sir Frederick Abel and Professor
James Dewar, members of the English
committee on explosives, invented
smokeless powder consisting of a COM
bination of the highest nitrated cellu-
lose with nitroglycerin by dissolving
both i'm acetone. 1t was introduced in
to the English service as cordite. for
use with small arms and guns of all
calibres, 1t is now composed of nit
roglycerin, fifty-eight parts; gun cot
ton, thirty-seven parts and mineral
jelly, five parts, Cordite proves stable
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under extreme conditions varying from
the arctic cold of Canada to the trop-
ical heat of India, and resists exposure
to moisture of all kinds. Its effects
on the bore Of guns is serious diff
Guilty. 1t erodeS the gun to such an #,
extent as to suggest it's abandonment.
The United States naval smokeless
powder is nitro CellulOsc powder con-
ssting of a mixture of insOluble and
soluble nitro Cellulose, to which is ad
ded the nitrates of barium and pOtass-
ium and a small percentage of cal
Cium carbonate. The proportions for
6-inCh rapid-fre guns are mixed nitro
cellulose, eight parts; barium nitrate
fifteen parts; potassium nitrate, four
parts, and calcium carbonate, one part.
The United states war department has
been experimenting with various types
of smOkeless gunpowder, varying from
an entire composition of gun cotton
and no nitroGlycerin to about 40 per
cent nitroglycerin. The IVA" pow
der, proposed for service in the United
States for the use of guns both i'm the
army and navy, consists of insoluble
gun cotton and nitrOglycerin, with an
organic substance as a deterrent or re-
gulator. Like all smokeless gunpowder
1t eXerts a deleterious effect upon the
bore of guns.
IWO GENERA HASSES.
Ir general, present s".-~plcss pow
ders are of two genera. ciIsses: First,
insoluble gun cotton or soluble nitro
cotton, alone or mixed with each other
or with regulative substances, and,
Second tho nboVn with DitrO- plVpariO
added. Smokele5s powders derived
from picric acid and other substances
have been discarded.
Among the essentials of smokeless
powders are smokelessness, stability
under varying conditions, safety In
handling and freedom from gases in