The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-10

once scraped off and the doors restored to
their pristine state.
Motor carriage and motor bicycles
have already attracted the attention of
European tax LEVERS ard in Antwerp
these vehicles are doubly taxed, first by
che province to the extent of so francs on
motor carriages and 20 francs on motor
| bicycles, and second by a municipal tax
| of 100 francs on the former and 80 francs
on the latter.
| Missouri apples that have been kept
| in cold storage since early last fall have
been repacked and shipped In refrigerator
| cars to New York. There the fruit goes
| into the cold storage end of a steamer
1t is supposed that cold storage viii keep
the apples until they are wanted at the
| Paris Exposition. Missouri is cultivating
European trade for its apples.
| The plans of a new aerostat, designed
by Capt. Dubureau. have been submitted
for examination to the French Academy of
! sciences. Capt. Dubureau claims that
a very long journey can be accomplished
| by means of his aerostat and proposes to
attempt to cross Africa with it when the
machine is completed. The plans were
referred to committee for consideration.
The Paul Coke Works Of Connelsville.
Pa, are now installing an electric charging
| and discharging system for their coke
! ovens, which is attracting considerable at
! tention by reason of its novelty. A troll
ley line VIII be constructed along a row of
| 500 coke ovens, and instead of mules to
haul the cars, as at present, electric moor
cars Will be used. It is expected that the
! electrical system will effect a considera-
BILE saving in time and prove more econom-
ical TO operate.
| Concrete as a building material for
walls of high structures is to have a test
in Washington. The permit, recently is
| sued, is for seven-story structure, with
both the inside and outside walls of con-
crete. Twisted iron rods are to be used in
connection with the concrete, and the
thickness of the outside walls is to be
| twelve inches. The walls are of sufficient
strength, as calcula ted, to resist all COM
| pressive strains without taking into ac-
count the Strengthening effect of the twist
| ed iron.
One of the most recent of the many
vexatious questions existing between Ja-
pan and Russia is that in relation to the
fisheries in Saghalien waters. The Japa-
nese have been pursuing this industry I'M
obstructed for forty years. Their fishing
stations in those waters number $50 or
more and 5000 men are employed. AL
though practically trespassers, they have
been allowed to fish for so many years
| without interference that they had cone to
believe that they had as much right to do
so as the Russians themselves
West Point Military Academy is 100
years old. 1t was opened as a United
States training school for army officers on
May l. 1900. There were but two cadets
| Joseph G. Swift of Massachusetts and ST.
mon NJ. Levy of South Carolina. The third
cadet and the first Virginia to enter West
Point was Walter Keith Armistead of Up
perville, who was graduated in 1904. He
became famous engineer officer and colo
mel of artillery and it is stated that no
place either he or Gen. Swift fortified was
ever taken by the English in 1S12-15.
Mrs. Bagey mother of Worth Bagley,
who was ensign on the torpedo-boat Wins
low and killed off Cardenas, Cuba, during
the Spanish war, has sent to the Bath Iron
Works plans for a handsome memorial
tablet, which will be placed on the tor
pedo boat now under construction at the
Bath Iron Works in his honor. The tablet
will be of bronze in the shape of shield
The border will represent cannon balls,
and on 1t will be the name Worth Bagley.
On the lower part will be an eagle sur
mounting a shield and sword, while in the
center will be the dates of his birth and
death. 1t will be placed on the coming
tower of the boat.
The rector of st. Mary-at-Hill Church
London, Rev. w. Garlic. who first intro
duced the electrophone at the public Sun
| day service in his charge, has now INSTALL
ed a large gramophone to be used at all
daily functions in the church. By means
of the gramophone the congregation will
hear brief addresses from the leading dig
nitaries of the church and from a number
of prominent laymen. Through the me-
dunn of the electrophone, which is at
tached to the pulpit, the rectors topical
! Sunday evening discourses can be listen
ed to by all telephone subscribers, who
can quietly smoke their pipe, sip their
tea or quaff other liquids ad libitum with
: out giving offense to either shepherd OF
fold.
, The Berliner Boersen Courier reports
z The strange but significant fact that the
, anti-Semitic party of Roumania recently
, addressed the authorities of Madrid
! Spain, with the request to place at theil
: disposal some of the old DEGREES by which
l the government in the days of the inquisi
3 lion managed to clear the country of the
l Jews 1t would appear that the answer Of
: the Madrid officials, who seem to some ex-
tent to have been both amused and cha
) grined by the act of the Roumanian agi
5 tators. could scarcely have satisfied the
2 inQulring party. II ran thus: I'VE have nc
time to unearth the dead past. STILL if il
2 is not too much trouble for you to sug
geSt effective means by winch we coulo
! induce the Jews to return to Spain We
! should be greatly obliged to you; fol
things in Spain have NOT materially i'm
proved since their expulsion
in the Revue DIES Revues of Paris
Aguinaldo contributes an article on the
war in the Philippines, which, after Civ
ing details of numerous excesses alleged
to have been committed by Gen. Otis
army concludes as follows: eyes the wal
is frightful. The unfortunate Fiipinos arr
suocumbing to the incessant fighting, leav.
ing behind/ them mothers, widows and
children. America may be Indifferent t
all the calamities with which she is over
whelmng us, but she cannot wish to 60
on sacrificing her own sons, to spread
horror and anguish in the hearts of moth
ers, widows and children of American:
= for the sake of carrying on a war con
trary to all the traditions left by Washing
ton and Jefferson. l affirm the absolut,
truth of the facts here set forth. 1 ad
dress these pages to the civilized world