A BIG SHIP BLOWN
UP BY A TORPEDO
Warlike Experiment of the Monitor
Florida,
DAMAGE SERIOUS, BUT NOT VITAL
A Whitehead Torpedo, Carrying a
Charge of Guncotton and Fired ata
Distance of Four Hundred Feet, Tears
a Big Hole in the Florida's Side and
Does Other Minor Damage.
Fort Monroe,
Pierced with an
head torpedo carrying a charge of |
gun cotton which tore a big hole in
her side,
Florida new rests in the dry dock at]
the Norfolk Navy Yard, a victim of]
a naval experiment to test the vul-
rerability from torpedo attack
water tight bulkheads. The water
in the vessel's hold gives her a list]
of 17 inches to starboard.
The test took place off Pine Beach,
near the Jamestown Exposition |
grounds, where the monitor was
anchored in 15 feet of water.
paval officials, while admitting that
the damage done to the vessel is
serious, declare that it is not vital
and say that the test is satisfactory.
They assert that a battleship equip- |
ped with bulkheads similar to that
tested could continue
jured to the same extent, unless sev-
eral compartments on the same side
were similarly punctured and the
weather conditions were bad. Thor-
ough investigation will be necessary
before all the actual damage to the
bulkhead and collateral injuries suf-
{ered can be ascertained and the ef-
fect of the torpedo charge properly
measured.
The test was witnessed by a num-
ber of officials, including Secretaries
Metcalf and Taft, Postmaster General
Meyer and ordnance officers of the
Navy and Army. The cabinet officers
went to the navy yard after the test.
Messrs. Metcalf and Meyer
inspection of the yard and Secretary
Taft awaited them on the yacht May-
flower,
The arrangements for the tests
were carried out in detail without an
apparent hitch. Admiral Mason and
other officials from Washington
bearded the Florida before 8 o'clock
and gave the final orders for conduct-
ing the test. Aboard the float
chored 400 feet away, from
the torpedo was dispatched,
was ready for thelr work.
Directions to fire were given
the monitor about 8.20 o'clock,
five minutes later Lieutenant
cock, aboard the float, touched
lever which sent the torpedo whizzing
Bix below the water on its mis-
gion destruction. A roar
panied the explosion
The spectacle which followed was
grand The great mass water
thrown into the air cast shadows for
some distance around. The column
exceeded in height the high mast of
the Florida 10st simultaneously |
thete was a gh er of
fragments of broken torpedo, accom.
panied by fine dust, which scattered
for fully third a mile around
There
persons
the vicinity
A dummy
erected
Va. (Special).
from
feet
of
of
a of
was a
on half a
dozen veage
a man had been
of the Florida, |
and, although it was feet from
the point «f torpedo impact, the
shock kn d it over he dozen |
Or more « ‘jals and crew inside the
superstructure of the vessel waited
for a few moments before veturing
out on the deck to ascertain the dam.
age.
They found
figure of
bridge
aon
50
that and above the
deck the age done was confined
to ‘bending some of the fameworks
which supported the booms holding
the torpedo nets, the cracking of sev-
eral plates, the breaking of
on
dam
from their fastenings,
used for prolecting the afterpart of |
the hull drop into the sea. When
she was struck the Florida had about |
four feet of frecboard, and was
chored in about 15 feet of water,
A collision mat put against
hole made by the torpedo kept
water out while the pumps
working. By direction of Secretary
Metealf, visiting newspaper
were allowed on board
after the test and were taken
in the boiler and engine room, just
aft of the compartment into which
the torpedo was sent In that por-
tion of the ship there appeared to
be no damage.
largely to the compartment fired into
and also just forward of that
partment. It wae estimated that the
change penetrated six or eight feet
During the test steam was kept
reason
None of |
apparent
suffered in-
sel, but for precautionary
was shut off in the pipes
the pipes, so far as was
from hasty examination,
jury.
The 12-inch turret so badly
tered two weeks ago by a
shell had been covered with
to hide the damage.
shat.
testing
canvas
Chains Train To Track.
Jacksonville, Fila. (Special), —-
Chaining a passenger train of the Val-
dosta Southern Railroad to the track
and standing guard over it with a
shotgun, Deputy Sheriff 1. C.
of Ponett, Fla, ran amuck with the
postal laws of the United States by
delaying the mails according to an
indictment returned by the federal
grand jury. Hunter was brought be-
fore Commissioner Locke and held
under bond for his appearance in the
December term of the court,
—-—
Blinded By Swimming.
Chester, Pa, (Special). William
Kennedy, nine yeas of age, Is in the
Crozer Hospital totally blind, Phy-
sicians say that bathing in too cold
water is the cause of the lad's mis:
fortune, Willlam was In bathing in
Chester Creek when he began to
scream. Companions swam to his
assistance, and wn he was brough'
ashore he coull .t see, Specialists
have been summoned from Philadel-
phia, and efforts will be made to re-
store the boy's sight.
FOUND SEVEN
DEAD IN HOUSE
OA
Bloody Crimes of An Insane Wife
and Mother,
Cadillac, Mich. (Special).—Seven
persons, all of the family of Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel Cooper, were murdered
gometime Friday night, probably by
the wife and mother, who has been
insane,
Fred Cooper, a son, aged 17, is
ithe only one of the family now alive,
is dying at the Mercy Hos-
pital, unable to give any account of
he tragedy.
In every instance the victims were
led with a bullet through the head
dead are Daniel Cooper, 458
old: Mrs. Cooper, 40 years;
| Harry, aged 14; Inez, aged 11; Sam“
| kil
The
Years
{ uel, aged 10; Georglanna, aged 5,
and Florence, aged 13% years,
| When Mrs. Cooper's mother and |
other helguliors entered the home, |
ton Chapin Street, about which there |
Was no pon of life, bodies of the
ivictims were scattereed all about.
{Some were in their beds and others
the floor. Mrs. Cooper lay across
{the body of the baby on a bed with |
lan e mptied revolver beside her,
believed Mrs. Cooper
the murders and then
herself. She was once confined in|
an insane asvium, and for sometime
the fact that
was out of work. A few days |
ago she is reported to have sald she |
would “end it all.”
Until a short time before he died
Fred Cooper insisted he was all right
except for a hard cold and the meas-
les Just as he was about to pass
away, however, he sald “Mother
did it.” Developments indicate that
the crazed mother first chloroformed
the members the family before
them There were no signs
» in any instance. Neither
powder marks, which in-
that the woman stood some
away in firing the shots A
chloroform le was
found in one of the rooms
It has also developed
woman had mentally
gi the birth of her youngest
months ago. She
and during
brooded over her
St requently
presence
nun, of
Johnst
the fear of such a
com-
killed
is
of
shooting
of a struggle
there
dicates
four-ounce bot!
the
unsound
that
heen
iorence, 158
intervals,
nents
ion
y, even in
Dr. Johnst
Sore h Ta
mental cond 1e
ursed the
ef the
in
Maternal “Instinct.”
Wy
four-year
Powers wande! I
Camp. 40 miles
half a dozen
country 48 hours {1
wilted r
Then the
gnated as
frantic mo
When
Mrs. J
Sheep
the
the
the
trailers tot
footprints
somet thing desi
develope d in the
walked six miles st
hills, where the bab}
Ridinghood, lay
lump, watche
Otes, oD
wonder{
instinct
ther. She
into the
tiny
184
raight
sage
hungry
tack the child
Ww ASHINGTON |
The
rowardly
COYy
of an apart-
with two
President
recent collapse
house in this city,
fatalities regarding which
Roosevelt wrote a letter directing
prosecution to the limit of the law
was followed by the suspension from
office of Snowden Ashford, the dis
inspector of buildings, pending
Another radical change in the pos
tal relations of the United States with
Great Britain and Ireland has been
effected by Postmaster General
Meyer, increasing the weight limit on
| parcel post packages to these coun-
tries from four pounds and six ounces!
to 11 pounds. taking effect July 1
President Roosevelt has affirmed!
the verdict finding Assistant Surgeon |
guilty of forgery,|
sentence to one
Spear, of the Navy,
but reduced the
year's imprisonment.
J. Martin Miller, former
States consul at Rheims,
fidavit that a statement presented
iby Mae Wood in recent Wood-
Platt suit in New York, signed by
him, was a forgery
The President insists
ough investigation to fix
gibility for the collapse
| ment house
The cruiger Tennessee won the |
| trophy for the best record made by |
turret guns alone
{ The bulletin of the crop reporting
| ta oard shows an increase in the vege- |
i
United
makes af- |
s
the
upon a thor
the respon
of an apart-
table crop.
The Liberian envoys had another |
| conference with Secretary Root.
| Becretary Straus has arranged for
{ a thorough investigation of the opera. |
| tions of the telegraph companies of
the country.
Joseph Leiter was married to Miss
Juliette Williams, daughter of Colo-
nel and Mr, John R. Williams,
Two persons were killed, two oth-
ers seriously injured and a number
of other persons sustained slight in-
juries as the result of the collapse
of an apartment house,
The Navy Department has asked
for bids for the construction of the
big concrete and ganite dry dock at
the Puget Sound Navy Yard.
The new battleship South Caro-
lina will be launched on July 11 at
the yards of her builders, William
Cramp & Sons, at Philadelphia.
The Secretary of the Navy an-
nounced the appointment of Capt. J.
K. Barton to be chief of the Bureau
of Steam Engineering.
The District Court of Appeals re-
fused to dismiss John A. Denson on
trial for complicity in land frauds.
At the triennial convention of
Good Templars officers were elected
to serve for the next three years.
Secretary Metcalf announced that
the two new battleships will be
named Florida and Utah,
Preparations are being made to
carry the new Cutveney Law into
fect.
DEGRADATION OF
A NAVAL TRAITOR
Ensign Utmo, of France, Convicted
as a Spy.
EXCURSIONS RUN INTO TOULON.
Attempted to Sell Naval Secrets to a
Foreign Power—In a Public Square,
in the Presence of Many Thousands of
Hooting People, He Is Degraded, Then
Sentenced to Devils Island for Life.
Cable), A
degradation
B. Ullmo,
occurred
(By
the
pitiable
the
formerly
Roch
of an
imo was
October
An ex-
wed him
valuable
Toulon
spectacle of
traitor, Charles
a naval officer a: 3t
Square here in the presey e
enormous crowd. Ensign
arrested at Toulon last
charged with being Spy
of his sho
in possession of many
i
effects
to be
he was
fal of at-
8 10 a}
to life |
to be
Februar:
irt-manr
aval sec:et
sentencod
tress nd
documents Last
found guilty by a ¢«
to sell n
power and
in a
in rank
excursions were
and thousands
surrounding country
ceremony, They
alks and covered |
roofs, walls and ram-
pressure of the crowds |
that it threatened to!
lines of soldiers and |
ound the square.
had been rein
regiments, a |
two squad-
wearing his |
ied into the
commandant |
Ullmo had be
and was not
uniform Two
{or
5
initio
run
of
Train
people |
rom the came
0 %
packed the
adjacent
The
was great
sweep away the
sallors drawn
After the
forced with
battery of
rons cavalry
uniform and sword,
rectangle where
read the order that
trayed his country
worthy to wear (is
subalterns th took off his sword
and stripped him of his chevrons and
buttons One of the suballerns
broke the sword across his knee and
threw broken 1 at Ullmo a
feet imo was
head
the
Peers
his bare |
and his
in fre of him
were sire down his face
thot isan recruits who
im jiatiog were
sprensed ceremony
be dep Devils |
"reach Guiana
was confined
itness the
sidew
80
up ar
LYoops
two line
artillery and
imo,
Was
the
of
&n
the ide
in this plight 1
»d to march
uad of soldiers aro
angle amid the bh
the crowd He
head sunk upon
» taring straight
Ha
com-
of a
rech-
of |
4
O08
walked with
his breast
fo int
*A in ‘ng
he coast
Major Dreyfus
1884 to 158%
INSTEAD.
KILLED HERSELF
A Woman WI} Had Been Ordered
To Kill The
0
Czar,
it was
:
Express, ac
© 84 aped assassination
I of the
woman appoint
deed
fA
FO
al
revo.
after.
ACLIY work
organization
a
the
©
tion the
with
+ revolutionists
that nobody would
the station at Reval
f the Czar's arrival
school children and teachers
upon the aforesaid school
prove her loyally the
asgassinating the Czar wi a bomb
Rather than comply she committed
by throwing herself in front |
of a train two days before the Crar's
arrival She was buried at Reval
in the presence of hundreds of school
children, with whom she was popu-
jar. and a few teachers and towns- |
i
however,
{i be admitied
the occa-
except
called
misl ress
to on
gion ©
cause LY
to to
hy
an
PROBABLE SUICIDE PACT. |
The Bodies Of A Man And Woman |
Found In A Field.
{ Special). —The
of Frank Ferraco, a barber
Margaret Litz, both
of this place, were
field club property,
part of the town
The police believe that they
a result of a suicide pact
they say, was shot
head by Ferraco, who then
pistol to his own face and
trigger.
Ferraco and Mra. Litz
married, but they became
Morristown, N. J.
bodies
resi-
found |
in the
dents
the
southern
on
died
The |
in the!
put the
pulled the
as
were both |
infatuated |
A RICH MAIL
SACK 15 MISGiNG
Registered Pouch Disappears
Kansas City.
Los Angeles, Cal.
luctant admissions made by
ficers of three cities confirm to some
extent belief that
ance of a registered mall
where within the juris ai
Kansas City postoffice |
night will prove to
largest losses in the
Postoflice Department
ate sources, it was
package of at least
rency
pouch, which carried
unusually large
packages containing money : nd
valuables The amount can only
conjectured, but {t may reach a t
of $100,000,
The pouch was in transit fre
Angeles to New York, and it
who have had the
for 48 hours, fu
of the manner
lost to sight. Ths
has disappeared
the Department
Postmaster M
and by Ins
attached to the
postoffice, who appears
case for investigtaion
The fact that the mail
of transfer at the Union Station
Kansas City, {8 handled in a tempor-
ary substation, since the destruction
regular branch office by fire
months ago, supports the
that advantage was taken of
conditions presumed be more lax
than ordinarily
There is reason
package
made by
its New Yori
Flint, of
at it would
officer of the
in
Re-
postal of-
(Hpec tai).
the the disappear-
| pouch some.
ction of the
ast Saturday
be one of the
history of the
From priv-
learned that a
$50,000 in cur-
in addition
otal
Los
poE-
CAs
any
which
1 pouch
in charge
it became
by
ton, hy
in process
several
to
to believe that the
CUTTONCY Was a
a Los Angeles
correspondent
Los Angeles,
be impossible
department to
contents of the
until the holders of
on the day ship-
its the
Cashier Charles
Farmers Mer-
lank, tonight said
“According to our information
mail pouch made up here on June
and leaving for New York on the fol.
lowing morning has disappeared A
conservative valuation of the cur-
rency contents, furnished by this and
other banks of this city, will be $5
0060 The total amount is made
between and 50 packages
correspondent at New York is
Chemical National Bank, to whom
our portion of the shipm was
signed.’
The
of
shipment
bank to
tated 1}
for any
estimate
nissing
receipts issued
ment had made
valuables mailed
Seyler the
onal
the
ch
total
pon
of
sffidavy as to
Of
chants’ Nati
and
a
.
a0
registered pou
the Atchisc
Fe Railroad
4 and was
Saturday
Santa
June
on
BLAZE IN NEW ORLEANS.
Render Five
Homeless,
Fires Hundred
New Orleans (Special
are bh
rded
$200 G00 h
a
people ome less
been red and a
ayer as
about as result of
ed sever
dences
Orieans
The fire desiroyed a sco
residences and several
neighborhood of Beri
arine Streets John
owned one of the furniture stores
stroved, went! back his stable 1
an effort suave his horses A gust
of wind swept the flames over
barn Jung's charred body
found
The
6 POY al 3
¥
resi in different
Pah £59
of
the
glLOTe
r
1
n and
jung, wh
i
10
10
the
Was
second fire, Delachaise
Street and Louisiana Avenue, de
stroyed 20 cottages, occupied princi
pally by negroes
al
Dreams Way Out Of Mine,
Pottsville, Pa. (Special).
by a fall of
While
coal at the
asleep and dreamed he
manhole by which he could
the suface,
succeeded in
Baw
When he awoke
finding the
it
efforts were
him
made
the
being
he surprised
fo rescue
rescuers by
Born Amidst Flames,
Springfield, Mass. (Special). -
With sparks dropping through an
been frequently together.
FOR THE FOU RTH BRIDGE.
East River Spanned For The New
Structure Across It.
New York (Special). — The East
River, which seperates the borough
of Manhattan from Brooklyn, was
spanned by its fourth bridge, when
cables were pul across it for the new
Manhattan bridge. This structure is
near the old Brooklyn Bridge, and
between it and the new Williamsburg
Bridge.
Four five-inch cables were laid
across the river, a barge carrying the
four reels being towed from the Man-
hattan to the Brooklyn towers.
These will supvort a temporary foot
bridge, upon which workmen will lay
the big cables which will support the
great structure When completed.
A Battle With Bandits.
Mexico City (Special).--A special
dispatch from Durango received here,
says that in a fight between bandits
and Rurales on the San Ingnacio
Ranch, near Narnar, Chief Merets,
of the Rurales, and two of his men
were killed. Two other soldiers were
wounded, «One of the bandits was
killed and the others escaped. This
band recently killed H, 8. Jones, an
American, and the soldiers were rr
pursuit of them {>r that erime
outlaws are still pursued, :
the height of a fire,
Sharon Street tenements were in
flames. When the bed caught fire
mother and babe were removed to a
neighbor's. The attending physician
was severly burned.
~ FINANCIAL
The Girard Trust Commun. Phila.
delphia, declared a half-yearly divi.
dend of 12 per cent.
There was considerabie trading in
new Union Pacific bonds at from
#5 to 96.
In the first third of 190% Northern
Central's net earnings decreased only
$24,000.
The Bank of Engiana has reiained
fta 2% per cent. discount rate for
in which seven
Contrary to previous reports, it is
unuerstoou that Union Pacific still
holde a large block of the Hill rail
road stocks.
“No significance in my admission
to the practice of law in New York
State,” sald Chhirman BE. H. Gary,
of United States Steel.
Thirty-nine raliroads have now re-
ported gross earnings for the last
week of May. They show an average
decrease of 38 4 per cent.
Pennsylvania a coal hipments on
lines so year ag-
79 . 25,04
IRAMATIC FIGHT WON
BY GOVERNOR HUGHES
Ends Ganibling at Racetracks By
Vote of 26 to 25.
MR. FOELKER LEAVES SICK BED.
Travels 60 Miles to Break a Tie
Jubilation Gver Rumors of the Sens.
ter's Collapse Turns to Consternation
N
the
Y
prec 160
Albany,
a struggle
man in or abou!
famous Agnew-Hart
Gambling Bills ar
State New York
by gignature
4.35 P
tory 1}
the
track
of the
Ht ighes
now
Over
affixed
of
his
nor
ed a legislative vic
of which, equaled
expectedness is conceded
those who fought him
the last and be
The
State
if
only {
to ditch
{f legisiati
hed
annals
may be are
like this The
passed the bills
Otto G. F
Fourth Senate district
who crawled from
a 60-mile irn
, B80 weak and distressed in
body that he seemed
verge of utter collapse, and by
senator, Willlam C. Wallace, of
ara Falls, who was elect
ial election
ing which
toured the
half of his el fon
Senator Foeiker, whe
an operation May 10 for
and whose condition for
intervening time was
up from Staatsburg, the
60 miles being a severe tax
strength He was s«
and was taken
ber Just a the
0
se in
Aeris
Ges
were
of
OeiRker
of Brookliyr
BICH hed
lt A 404
railroad oO
a
do it
and on
u a new
ag
the
ue
apper
much
critical
er.
chan
dilatory
He was
ness,
name
ble.
Up
opposit
hope that the
Rumors flew
Foelker had collag
other senate who formerly
the hills had been
‘switch There was
nart of an
por Of an
motion was
plainly sufNering
and his
was reached
respons
Wis ¢
to the
very
the i
measure
ick
seed)
ion to
th
1
¢
A %
g hic
rose cis
of
on 2
r could
another
exeitersont amid
was cast He said
and nervousness h
doubtedly had retarded
but admitted that
expressed the belief
ordeal had been ver)
Foelker had heen
injured by his experiens
whi
he was bet
that, whil
trying
rican
not ee
BRIDE RETURNS TO PARENTS.
Daughter Of Governor Cutler, Of
Utah, Had Eloped.
1T'tals
has in
who eloped anc
Butl«
return
{ Special)
Salt Lake City,
Governor Cutler
daughter, Mabel,
married to Thomas E
last Tuesday, to
uf
Tr in
The groom assertg that his wile is
vigil 10 her pai
Governor Cutler, however
“Yes, my daughtr is at
and will remain with
nently.”
a
said
her home
perma-
us
Canoe Capsizes, Three Drown,
Worcester, Mass (Special)
Frank H. Farwell, aged 17, and two
girl companions, were drowned
through the overturning of a canoe
on Lake Quinsigamond. A fourth
member of the party, Allison D.
trous, the 13-year-old son of a
physician, clung to the craft
local
until
quaintances of the boys, and
identities have not been established.
Spanish Warship At Havana.
Havana (Special). —The Spanish
schoolship Nautilus, the first Spanish
warship to visit Havana since the
war, arrived off Moro. Elaborate
preparations have been made by the
Spanish colony for the reception of
the ship and the entertainment of
the officers.
Historian Stone Dead.
Mount Vernon, N. Y. (Special) —
Colonel William Leete Stone, a well.
known author of historical works,
died at his home here after a three.
week illness. Colonel Stone, who
was 73 years old, was a member of
numerous historical societiesthrough-
out the country. Most of his his
torical work dealt with revolution.
ul
Bargovnes campaigns In and aroun
WILL STRAIGHTEN OUT
OLD WORLD TANGLES
Great Things Expected of Czar and
the Knr.
London (By Cable}
'®
of Comn
retary
Houpe
Lions
tiated
Grey announceme
ons that
for new treat
during King
put
the talk ¢
an
het w
Ari desirous
| tween these
Hilo:
aipioma
ons that
vention
recrimination
Brita
whic?
Great
Pe
ood eWoets
been
Hane
ding of
RII «
BREAK: OUGHI
ING
With
Lontracts
Wh
fis
Nie Lh
And
Kisses
¥
Batticship Fleet
th of Jul:
Of Wate
(|<
Sale
Chestertown
ed by
town
purel
works from the presor
and make
took place Friday aftern
cessful bidders were Bod
Co., and Hamilton &
i more, in a combined
chased the entire lot
$25,125.60, a premium
60. The bonds bear 4
terest and are redeemable
year for 28 years
*
0 needed
Telegraph Companies’ Valuation,
Guthrie (Special) —8tate Auditor
{M. E. Trapp announced the assessed
valuation of the property of the
Western Union and the Posigl Tele
graph Companies fixed by State
board of equalization. The estimate
submitted by the Western Union
Company, of slightly in excess of
$300,000, was increassd to $1.8507,-
20, while the vaiuation of the Post.
tal Company was fixed ai $48,240
about double the COMPANY'S figures.
Kills Woman And Self.
Birmingham, Ala. (Special) —T.
Luther Birchfield, a young electri
clan, shot Mrs. W. A. Van Hooser
and then shot himself, both dying
shortly afterward. The tragedy oo.
curred at the home of Nre Van
Hooser, 712 South Twentieth Street,
1t is said that Birchfield had formed
an attachment for Mire, Van Hooser
1 {and that she repulsed hiz advances,
Later he went to the house, called
{her to the began shooting.
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