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charge Of eight to ten pounds Of black
powder, was adopted, and In 1881 the
forty.two FOUNDER, with a caliber Of
seven inches and using ten 10 fourteen
pounds of black powder, came into use
In 1874 the eight and ten inch Colum-
biads fred shot weighing sixty FIVE
pounds and used charge Of ten to If
teen pounds Of black powder. The ten
inch shot weighed 126 pounds, and the
powder charge was eighteen and twen-
~ pounds.
In 1861 the first fifteen-inch Rodman
gun was cast. These guns were
smoothbores of cast iron. The process
of manufacture was evolved by Cen
eral Rodman, who, to prevent injurl.
Gus strains produced by cooling cast.
ings from the exterior, cast these guns
on hollow core and cooled by a
stream of water or air passing through
the core. Rodman's fifteen-inch gun
fred shot weighing 42S pounds with
a charge of forty pounds of black pow.
der and was the tirst great gun intro
duced in modern times In any service.
Just before the Civil War rifled mus.
kets and guns began to displace
smoothbores. Captain Parrott's rifles
were the first ones of large calIber used
In the United States service. The lar.
gest Of these had an eight and ten
inch bore and were cast hollow and
cooled from the interior on the Rod
man plan. They were strengthened by
shrinking a coiled band of wrought
iron over that portion Of the gun which
surrounds the powder charge. The
eight-inch Parrott rifle fired an elon.
gated projectile weighing $50 pounds
with n charge Of sixteen pounds OF
black powder. The ten-inch rife fired
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:.
GREAT GUNS AT
PAN=AMERICAN
Uncle Sam Will Show Mammoth
Coast Defenders at the
Buffalo Exposition.

make an intelligent comparison of the
mounts Of our seacoast guns Captain
Harris has caused to be placed by the
side of the great tweive-inch gun ten
inch rifle on barbette carriage. In a
barbette carriage the rifle is at all
times exposed above the parapet. The
reader may remember the discussion on
the subject between General Miles and
the Ordnance Board, the general not
favoring the disappearing device, chief
ly on account of it's complicated mecha-
nism and its liability to get out of Or
der. Each carriage appears to have it,
particular use. On elevated sites the
parapet furnishes all the protection re-
quired, but on fiat coast the disap-
pearing would seem to possess very
great advantage. 1t is thought that on
low sites the rifle must be mounted
either on a disappearing carriage or in
turret. The expense of turret is es-
timated at about four and half times
the cost Of the disappearing carriage
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CANTON
MARKETS
Wide Variation In Prices
on Early Vegetables.
THE POULTRY TRADE
u Confined TO Old Stock
Broileps Are Shipped
to the Larger
Cities.

Thursday's markets are without
change in any of the staples. In veg
etables and green stuffs generally each
dealer fixes his own price and 1t is diff
ficult to give comprehensive quotations
The quality and condition Of early
fruits has all to do with the price asked.
Dealers find it difficult to find poultry
enough to supply the demand. Those
who have young chickens large enough
for broilers ship them to the larger
markets where the prices are higher,
and as a result. while the metropolitan
cities have been dining on spring chick
ems for some time, the citizens Of Can
ton have been compelled to forego the
deIicacy.
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II ndb sometimes Ueeu baIO Dy uu-
thinking people that the seacoast cities
Of the United States are not well de-
Tended. A flood OF new light will be let
into such gloomy minds by the Ord
nance exhibit Of the War Department
at the Pan-American Exposition. When
the Exposition opens for its six months
season at Buffalo on May I Of this
year, the early visitor will find the
largest and most powerful guardians
Of our seacoasts ever exhibited by the
United States Government Even the
smaller Of the two great new guns in
the Government exhibit at the Exposi-
ton will be larger than any ever before
displa yed by our Uncle Samuel.
Captain Peter G. Harris, who repre-
sents the War Department, In charge
Of the entire war exhibit, has been en-
gagged actively for months upon his
great work Of collecting the newest dis
play of the kind ever made in this
| country. 1t was an absurd question
perhaps that l asked when inquired
II bis exhibits would be ready on May
], rs though there were any other al
tentative for a soldier. The Captain
looked reprovingly at me!
But Of the guns-great guns, indeed;
big around as locomotive boiler, thlr-
ty odd feet long. with a more savage
muzzle than ever coughed destruction
upon any hostile feet; built with the
accuracy OF a watch; SO delicate In ad-
justment that little finger may trav-
erse the gun, thus moving n weight Of
nearly half million pounds, yet n ma
chine to spout a volcano blast and to
create an earthquake at the will Of
mani
The big gun Of which speak is n
United States Army twelve inch
breechloading rife, model Of 1895.
mounted upon disappearing carriage.
Its weight, stripped Of everything,
even the breech block, is 115,O00
pounds. Its total length Is SO $500
feet The maximum diameter at the
breech Is 44.5 inches. 1t throws an
armor piercing shot weighing 1000
pounds. the length of which is three
and one half feet. 1t also throws a pro-
jectile. an armor piercing shell weighing
1000 pounds, four feet long, carrying a
bursting charge Of 1914 pounds Of gun
cotton. The charge Of powder Is 240
pounds of smokeless or 490 pounds of
brown prismatic powder. The muzzle
velocity Of the projectiles under the
above conditions Is 2,30O feet per sec
ond. with a maximum pressure per
square inch Of $1,000 pounds The
muzzle energy Is 36,671 foot tons The
power of penetration In steel at the
muzzle is 800 inches, at 1000 yards
2S.5 inches, at $500 yards 25.5 inches
and at $500 yards 23-5 inches. The
total weight OF the gun and carriage is
All. $50 pounds. The carriage is TWEEN
ty-five feet In diameter at the base,
and the gun when In firing position is
seventeen feet above the base Of the
carriage. When the shot is fred. the
recoil causes the mechanism to lower
the gun seven and one-haR feet, be-
hind the parapet The gun has an ac-
curacy of aim for about eight miles,
and the extreme range il about double
that distance.
As l have said, guns Of this type
have never before been exhibited by
the United States Government and
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The Endicott Board on Ordnance ana
Fortifications a number of years ago
decided In favor of the disappearing
carriage. and the department has been
laboring to obtain a satisfactory one.
The one shown at the Pan-American
Exposition is considered the most per
feet In the world.
The ten-inch breechloading rife Is
from the model of 1895 and weighs Co.
7C0 pounds. Its total length Is 30.76
feet, and the diameter Of the breech Is
thirty-seven inches. The projectile is
an armor piercing shot or she'll The
shell carries a bursting charge Of IA
pounds OF gun cotton and weighs SIS
pounds. having length of four feet
The solid shot Is three and one-half
feet long. The powder charge is 40
pounds Of smokeless powder. and the
muzzle velocity OF the prOjectile Ii
$500 feet In q second. The maximum
pressure per square inch IL $1,000
pounds. The muzxle energy with the
charge Of smokeless powder 10 2l.0S6
foot tons. The gun has q penetrating
power Of twenty inches In steel at
1900 yarda
At the right Of the ten-inch gun a
twelve-inch mortar has been mounted,
and II Is no small affair. Farther to the
right is q dve-inch rapid fire gun All
are mounted behind sections of para
pet, and the four pieces represent one
gun of each type used In seacoast forti-
fications.
To the left of the great twelye-incb
disappearing gun will be exhibited the
old seacoast ordnance of the United
States, arranged In a historical series.
the twelve-inch gun itself representing
the climax. Near the small building
specially constructed for this purpose
will be displayed the mountain. field
and siege guns Of the present day. to-
gether with types Of old guns used In
the differens wars In which the United
States have been engaged
The Ordnance exhibit will show the
historical development OF ordnance In
the United States, a gun representing
every type adopted by the United
States and showing the evolution of
guns. mortars and howitzers- Among
the howitzers will be one made In lT93.
There will also be thirty or forty tro-
ply guns. displayed according to peri
cd OF capture. A novel feature will be q
trophy fountain. representing a burst
ing shell. with water spouting from Its
creviccs- This will be mounted on a
pile OF projectiles. surrounded by tro-
ply guns.
The largest guns mounted In any OF
our seacoast batteries during the war
OF 1872 were twenty -four Founders. the
diameter OF bore being less than six
inches and :he weight OF guns 5.5Oc
pounds. They were little over ten
feet long. and the powder charge was
ak aud eight pounds OF black powder.
They were mounted upon wooden car.
r,ases- tu iS.S the thirty.two Youuder
With caliber OF 0<i incheA using .
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a go pound elongated projectile with
twenty-five pounds of powder.
Inside of the main Government build
Ing will be exhibited the machine guns
of all kinds. including the automatic
gun now being used by the United
States Army In the Philippines and
China; also several hundred small
arms, showing the development of
these arms from the match lock. wheel
lock, flint lock and percussion cap lock
to the breechloading magazine small
arms Of today.
In the Engineering section Of the
War Department will be exhibited
models Of engineering work. both mil
itary and those constructed by our
Engineer Corps In the river and harbor
work. Among the latter will be mod
els Of the breakwater being construct
ed in Buffalo harbor. A very inter-
esting collection of models of engineer.
ing work on the Mississippi River will
also be displayed. Two Of the Missls-
sippi models-the Hydraulic Dredging
Plant and Hydraulic Grader-were
given the grand prize in the recent
Paris exposition.
In the Signal section Of the War De-
partment exhibit will be displayed all
instruments and appliances used In
communication by fiag. heliograph,
wire, telegraph, cable and by wireless
telegraphy. Wireless telegraphy will
be I'm operation at all times during the
Exposition, one station being located
at the Government building on the
grounds and the other station some
miles away, probably at Fort Porter.
The Military Academy at West Point
has never been represented at any pre-
vious exposition. A very complete and
interesting exhibit, showing history,
curriculum. plant of the Academy, its
work and workings, will constitute a
part OF the War Department exhibit.
The Enclosure Of the West Point ex-
hibit will have the form and appear
ance of regular cadet barracks, the
| top Of the partition showing battle
ments, with a tower at each corner. A
committee of professors of the Military
Academy has been appointed by the
superintendent OF the Academy to pre-
pare this exhibit G. W. Larned. FRO
fessor Of Drawing. who Is a member Of
the committee. has recently sent Cap
tain Harris plan of this feature.
In the Quartermaster's section will
be shown paintings. photographs and
drawings illustrating the Army Trans
port service. Uniforms OF the army at
different periods from the Revolution
to the present day will be exhibited on
about forty lay figures.
The entire exhibit of the War Dc
partment under Captain Harris will be
Z OF most entertaining character. as
the Captain has visited all the arsenals
Of the country. gathering such things
as to him seemed OF public interest
aud value In order TO make an entirely
new and attractive exhibit
Mark BESSrrr.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-05-31

FOR SALE-An eight room house and
good barn with all modern conve-
niences, on Housed street, at a bargain
Five room house and barn on Henry
avenue. large lot, nice shade trees
good well.
Five room 1ouse on Marion street,
near Cedar. very cheap.
Several good building lots on Dueber
avenue, Franklin street, Smith ave-
nue. and Crystal Park, at speculation
prices. Attorney A. U. Bordner, 21
SChaefer block. 3-tf
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wANTED--Continueu.
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT--A modern ten room dwell.
ing on West Tuscarawas street, within
three minutes walk from court house,
$500.
Seven room house, 1880 South Mar
ket street, furnace, gas, bath, city
water, etc. S22.
Five rooms 1929 E. Tuscarawas St.,
$1,000.
Five rooms 1891 Z. Tuscarawas St.,
$1,000.
Nine room house, 1886 Lawrence ave-
nue.. all conveniences, large lawn.
Three rooms, COS South Cleveland
avenue, all conveniences, heat fur
nished.
Large barn near Tuscarawas and
High streets. city water.
Store room 1925 West Tuscarawas
street, steam heat. city water etc. G.
A. Dougherty & Co., II Erwin block.
IS 81
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-05-31

FOR SALE-My addition of Is lots en-
West Tuscarawas and Schroyer streets.
opposite street car barn. No better ad-
dition in the city for nice homes for
shop men. street car men and others
Lots on the east end. Acre lots in the
north and west ends, and homes in all
parts of city. Prices $500 to $1,000.
Terms to suit purchasers. j. P. Faw.
cett, "a SEaffer block. 22-I2S
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FOR SALE-Two desirable lots on N.
Cleveland avenue, 120 feet frontage.
Will be sold cheap and on easy terms.
Call on or address William Simpson.
41G Folwell block. S-tf
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ts1pesinfenoent of Orcnsnre Ezhiotf q Pan- Am5-
ican Espoati0al
they are designed for use In secret
fortifcations. TO which no visitors are
admitted under any circumstances The
gun was manufactured at watervliet
Arsenal. near Troy. N. Y. The car
rage was made nj the WATERFOWL Ar
senal, near Boston The disappearing
carriage was designed several years
ago by Captain Burlington. now Briga-
di=r GeLerai and Chief OF Ordnance.
and improved and adapted to modern
steel rides by Captain William Crozier.
Orfnxnce Corps. United States Army.
II is known as the Burlington Croxier
carriage. The mounting OF these man.
moth pieces OF ordnance has been In
the Immediate Charge OF Lieutenant
r H. @ kelion snd . small detail OF
arsillsryussn-
! - saahae the Observer veadily %
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-05-31

FOR SALE--I have a good horse power
drilling machine which | will sell cheap
or exchange for a good horse. Box Co.
Sandyville, o. 30-3-
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ELECTRIC X. X,
Inter-Urban Division.

SSun0aye excepted
s"7:1o p. IN. at Ma ssillon-
For special service. rates and informa-
ton, apply TO L. O'Toole, assistant super
intendent. Canton. Ohio, or r. II. Kiilin-
ger, general agent. Mass!ilon. Ohio.
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FOR SALE-Three Justice of the peace
civil dockets, leather bound. Will bs
sold at a low price. Inquire at News.
Democrat counting room. lz-I
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FOR SALE-Cheap. a gasoline stove.
Inquire $50 South Market. 2S ct
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RUBBER STAMPS. steel dies, brass
stencils. seals, check protectors, ink
pads and ink, rubber type, Coor num-
bers, self-inking stamps, Fred Talbot,
210 East Tuscarawas street. third floor.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTlCE-Have you tried the high
grade stogie, The Canton, 3 for &c.
Manufactured by w. F. Bolon, 116 s.
Market street. 25.3>
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PENNSYLVANIA LINES

c. T. & V. North South
Canton & Cleveland. '5:4o a M $40 p m
Valley June. IL Clev..s S:lJ a M 5:4I p n,
Valley juno. Clev."l2:0l M 1:S m
Valley juno. & Clev..' 4:l9 p m..' 9:4l IN
Va lev 'nr. Il Cl-y... 7:iO y m...++ l:lj a M
To Valley Junction. op................6:20 a m
Trains arriving in Canton at SAG p N
and l:I5a m. lay over here.
Pullman sleeping cars from Akron TO CHI
cago, Ptttsburg. Washington, Baltimore,
Phtlade pIia and New York via Il. & q.
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FOR RENT-Part of fourth floor of the
News-Democrat building. Suitable for
a bindery or engraver. Apply to busi-
ness office of the News Democrat.
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FOR SALE

FOR SALE-A handsome, modern fold.
ing bed. in as good condition as new.
at moderate price. Inquire room 70,
City National Bank building. Tele.
phone 12711. 2g-Jts
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LOST.
RAILROAD TIMETABLES.

Arrival and departure OF trains on the
various railroads entering Canton. Trains
run on central standard time. Trains
marked 'daily. Trains marked ssdaily
except Sunday.
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PEOPLES WANT COLUMN.
The News-Democraes Want Ad. Service, /,
asSeaD and effective m leans Of reaching
ths veopie Of Canton and vicinity,
Read by Thousands Daily.

TERMS;-Not exceeding 80 Words, 3 In
sertions, 20 Cents. Cash with order. 9th
erwise We will charge double price to cove
cost of bookkeeping and collecting.
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WANTED.

WANTED-Boy about 16 years of age
Call at zoo Jackson street. 2S 81
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-04-02
GRANTED new TRIALS.
Men Sentenced In Connection With Goebe1
Assassination to BE allowed
Another Hearing.

Frankfort, KY, March 29-The court
of ap"eals yesterday rendered deci-
sions granting new trials in the case of
eX-Secretaly of State Caleb Powers,
sentenced to life imprisonment, and
James Howard, sentenced to hang, as
alleged accessory and principal re-
spectively, in the assassination of Will
lam Goebel. In the decision on the
Powers case the court was divided
on political lines. The four Republican
judges united in an opinion which was
written by Judge Durelle and the
three Democratic judges In a dissent
by Judge White. All of the opinions
concurred in holding the indictments
sufficient and also in holding void the
pardon issued TO Powers by former
Governor Taylor, after the latter had
been ousted from Office.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-04-02
REESE NOT GUILTY.
Judge Adams Afirms Release of Mine
Workers Official, Charged With yio-
lating Restraining Order.

ST. Louis, March 29.-In the United
States court of appeals yesterday, de-
cision was handed down, sustaining
the position of the United States court
in the case Of John r. Reese, a mem
Der of the executive committee of the
United Mine Workers of America, who
was imprisoned for alleged contempt
of an injunction restraining striking
miners and others in Kansas from
interfering with the operations Of
mines there, and subsequently released
ON !; writ of habeas corpus. The de-
cision, which was written by Judge
Adams, deals deliberately with the
rights of courts to punish for the VIC
lation of restraining orders. He holds
the defendant innocent of the charge
of conspiring against the Western
Coal and Mining company.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-04-02
ILLINOIS TO HoNoRLINcoLN

Frojee. for Mausoleum to Outshine
Grants Tomb.
Springfield, Ills, March 2O.-An Alb
raham Lincoln mausoleum that will
outshine the Grant tomb on the banks
of the Hudson is the project for which
Representative d. E. Sullivan of Chi
cago will Introduce a bill today. The
total cost of the memorial il: view
should be, it is estimated, anywhere
from 81, 100000 to 81, 100000.
Mr.. Sullivan's bill will propose that
the state of Illinois shall make pro-
vision for devoting 100000 to this
purpose, although it is not necessary
that the full sum shall be taken from
the public funds this year. This is
light enough, be thinks, to be devoted
to honoring the memory of Lincoln by
the state which gave him to the ma
ton.
A bill for $5OO,0oO appropriation to
erect monument to Lincoln was be-
fore the legislature two years ago, in
troduced by Samuel Alschuler. The
! house was overwhelmingly for it, but
Governor Tanner had it killed in favor
of bill laying out 100000 to repair
the old Lincoln monument located
i here
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-04-02
Reducing Federal Expenses.

Des MoineS. March 29-The collector
of internal revenue for the southern
Iowa district has received al order
to reduce expenses OH and after April
l to the amount of $4,000 a year and
to effect this saving he has dismissed
the travelling deputy, one local deputy
in the collectors office and the stamp
sellers at Ottumwa. Creston, Keokuk
and Muscatine. The stamp deputies
at Des Moines and Burlington remain
for the present. Complaint has been
made frequently that the service was
crippled because of insufficient hell
and this reduction makes the situation
still worse. a similar reduction is Il
take place in the northern district.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-04-02
TELEGRAPHlC BRIEFS.

Eight thousand people died of the
plague last week in Bengal alone, in
Guiding Calcutta. Whole towns are
being deserted.
A benefit for Billy" Rice, the vet
eran minstrel, who is i'll in Chicago,
will be given ut the Grand opera
house Thursday
Rivers and lesser streams in the Gen
esee valley, New York, are greatly
swollen and considerable damage by
overfiows is reported.
A dispatch from Salonica ANNOUNCES
that nine men were scalded to deatl
by the bursting of Il steam pipe on the
Turkish torpedo boat Shehab.
While the German agrarlans arc
viewing With alarm the adoption OF
American food products in the empire
and are striving for an increase il
the tariff on American grain, there
is strong feeling in favor of th'
cheapening of food products through
| out Germany.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-04-02
HINTS Al REVOLUTION.
Kaiser's est Utterances Causing Sem
s.tion In Germany.

Kaiser's a est Utterances Causing Sem
s.tion In Germany.
Berlin, March Enhancement is
everywhere expressed at Emperor
Williams strong hints of possible
revolutionary rising and of street fight
ing with the troops in his address to
the Alexander regiment. Well in
formed circles see in his majesty's de-
liverances further proof that the at
tack. upon him by Weiland at Bremen
has very seriously affected his views
and attitude toward the German peo-
pie. The versions of the speech differ
widely. The Lokal Anzeiger's ver-
sion. which is the longest, makes the
emperor say some very extreme things.
The Boersen Courier prints another
version. still more strongly empha-
sizing the emperors wish that the new
barracks should serve as fortress fol
the protection of the castle.
The Freissinnige Zeitung says
emperor William had no reason tc
talk about revolution and the like be
cause Weiland's deed was the act Of
an irresponsible epileptic. The revolu
ton of 1913 was part of general up
rising throughout the whole of Ger
| many"
| This paper criticises the reply of thu
regimental commander, who called thu
Bremen attempt a ''bestial crime
| Today's press comment Throughout
/ Germany will intensity the sensation
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-04-02
Life Convict Commits Suicide.

Leavenworth, March 29.-Taylor
Cook. Il life prisoner from Osborne
county. committed suicide in his cell
i'll the penitentiary at Lansing yester-
day. Taylor used the wire employed
to tie up his bed and a sheet, fasten-
ing them to a hook in the ceiling and
kicking a stool from under him. Since
his Incarceration in 1899 Cook has inn
portuned every governor to sign his
death warrant, but all refused. At
one time he was an inmate of the in
sane ASYLUM.