—— Non who LEXOW COMMITTEE QUITS THE INVESTIGATION OF NEW YORK'S POLICE ENDS, Fhe Sensational Closing Session Su perintendent Byrnes On the Stand Sends His Resignation to the Mayor—The Sources of His Fore tune-—Adjournment Sine Die. . The Lexow Senatorial Committee hans plosod its {nvestigation of the Police De- bartment of New York City, Pollea Super intendent Byrnes, the head of the Depart- ment, wagthe chief witness of the last day, and, as the climax of his testimony, the fol- towing letter was made public; it came as an nbsolute surprise to the Senators, to Mr, Goff and to the audience that packed the court room to Its utmost capacity : » Povricr HEADQUARTERS, | 300 Mulberry street, > New Yorg Crry, December 13, 1804. Colonel W, L. Strong: Dear Sin—1 appreciate as fully as any man pan the tremendous responsibility that will fome upon vou whon you assume the duties of Mayor and undertake the reform of the various departments of the city government, I desire not to bs an obstascls or an embar- rasssment to you in anything that you may Propose to with the Police Department, Da the contrary, I wish to aid you in any way that I can. I assume that you are now considering what action you ought to take at the outset M your adn stration and what legislation will be required to make such action practi- sal. I therefore now place In you hands my re- uest to be retired frum the post of Superin- endent, to used by you or not at any time after the 1st of January, as you see fit, me further say that you may be command my services, ¢ rmation at [the Police Jyrnes in his testin it condition of is resigning lly three-fift Jortuptic n orded, H Amounts to & show that bh dishonestly, o Inspector Alex. the stand BR ALEXANDER 8 WILLIAMS, 1 preceded the day 8 was less frank, ‘ red a general denial, yr William G. MeLaughlia or : Sout aden for his yosseasion it #100,.- 00. He trae ym t icky real estate speculat! still more of it to his wife, business, whose nature lines to reveal unless advised to do so by counsel, Assistant Unitad States District-Attorney John O, Mott before the committee seeking vindication A chance was offered tohim to d nts made by Louis 8. Streep, m the hearsay testimony of A green goods rator, accused Mr, Mott of offielal wrong Mr. Mott's feelings overpowered him and swept him into an ora- torical outbreak, Thereby he lost his oppor. tunity. At the n Pyrnes’'s examination the Poliee Depart was ended. Senator Lexow introduced a resolution complimenting Clerk Boese, of the Superior Court, and all the attaches and sergeants nt-arms for their services The Senators had previously Mr, B some gold-headed cane, tion of Mr, Goff the name of y Gann was added tothe resolu. tion. De Gann has been on duty at the door of the committes Mr. Goff compii- mented him belr the first policeman with the courage to forward to the witness ahalr » tell the whole truth, Senator Lexow sald that formal resolu. tions thanking counsel had not yet been framed by the nmittee, but that they would be adopted at the prope time, He thanked Mr. Goff and his associates for their services, and also referred to the the statom MOE. lusion of Superintendent the Investigation of sente ess a hande come trict-Attorney, Mr. Goff sald that he and his associates wished to Join In the recognition of the Dis- triot-Attorney. Benator Lexow announced that the ma Jority of the Doard requested the Polios | Commissioners to grant Captain Creeden's application for retirement, Senator O'Cone por moved a complimentary resolution to | the press, and then made way for Mr, Gof, who took the floor, and In Impressive style addressed the committees, making his formal | closing address, When Mr. Go ff sat down there were cheers, and Senator Bradley, in the commotion, made a motion to present the witness ohalr | Parkhurst as » | of the court room *~ De, memento, When everybody Inughed HSena- tor Bradley jolusd in, and the motion was overlooked, Then Senator Lexow got up to makes the closing address, which was short, He thanked Mr. Goff aud Mr, Moss, “You have done a service as counsel to this committees.” he sald, “thelike of which has never before beens done Ly any sounsel to any commitiee appointed by any State in this Unlon, or any country in tha world, You have done it nobly, and you have the hearty thesks of this committee, as you have the thanks of the people of this city and this State, What has been done by you has been dons with the full ae cord of this committes, Hhould any one blame you for what you have done, he must merchant, | who are alm | women, fare | vices rendered to the committees by the Dis | also blame this committee, for your work has its entire sympathy and support,” He then olosed the session by ane nouncing the adjournment of the committee without day, When the Chairman's gavel fell for thoelast | ttme a blg cheer went through the court | room. Then an excited individual, who had been nwaiting the opportunity, yelled : “God bless John Goff and the Lexow Committee I" a a — THE LABOR WORLD. Exaraxp has Chinese house servants, Ouvn woolen mills employ 219,000 persons. Tue Carnogle Steel €ompany will erect a plant at Lorain, Ohfo, A nia increase of membership is reported by the Coachmen's organizations, IN Malagn and other claimed, Tue St, Bartholomew Loan Bureau, of Now earners, door workmen, Tiere are no idle clgar makers now in Koy West, Fla., and all the factories are | | erowded with orders. Ix the Pawtucket Valley (R. 1.) mills 15,- I 000 people struck Leecause they were ordered | | to work on New Year's Day. James Sivrson, a New York dry goods died shortly after distributing $15,000 among his employes, Propuveriox of pig fron throughout the eountry is at the rate of about 9,000,000 tons | a yoar, nearly at the highest point, Tue operators in the Massillon (Ohio) eon) district have deelded to stand by the arbitra- tors’ award, and another strike will result, Lerrer-cangiens are in Juek just The Court of Claims is allowing them for time worked in exoess of day, Tae striking cloakmakers of New York, wt starving, are receiving food committee representing other now, pay eight hours a from a relief trade organizations. A nzronr Irom Pittsburg says that owing to a twenty per the price of plate glass there will be a war that will cause a shut down of all small Tax Junior Order of Un nis decided to « ant. cut in factories, tad American Me- reet a National or ae 10 select the enn, in tapestry Is be- boys at a fac. They are learn this o Delta at Nita aken to fiver int ' W Trax Empress of China, has started a vast | silk weaving department, in which employ | ment will b6 given" to (hotSnnde of girls aad The Industry will be carried on in | nde, which Her Majesty, by | the palace grou Chin iden 10 leave, : forbi nt III ss SAILORMEN PERISH. The British Bark Osseo Wrecked and the Crew Lost nat fp " G0 SOUTH. Master Workman Sovereign's Advice to Laboring Men. J.R Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, has made a careful study of the advantages of the South for the labor. sovereign, ing man and the man of limited moans, and, in a published letter, writes “I am more favorably impressed with the South than any other portion of our country, not alone as the most promising place for the location of co-operative colonies, but for the establishment of individual enterprises kinds, The climate and natural re. sources are such as to especially invite those of limited means, The South is the ming Eden of Amarion, It is a generally admitted fact that our large Northern olties are fast becoming overcrowded, It, there. fore, seems to me that owing to the great inducements now offered by the Bouth, the overcrowding urban population of the North should avail itself of the privilege and o South, where human life, coupled with a fittio Northern enterprise, oan be sustained better with less capital and less effort than any other place on the globe.” I — FIFTY-THIRD OONGRESS, In the Senate, 140 Day. The seats of Senators now be. fore their State Legislatures for re-election wore nearly all vacant when the roll was eallod after the holiday recess «After the routine business Mr. Allen took the floor and made a speech against the “gold tea" In the restaurant, The report on the Bluefields complieation was recalved, we The President sent In a large batoh of nominations, Mr. Morgan spoke in favor of the Nicaragua Canal bill, of all In the House. «fom than 100 members were sonts when the last session of the Fifty<third Congress was ro. sumed after the holiday recess, «On the calling of the committes for reports Mr. Springer made his customary motion, which was agreed to, that the House go into Committee of the Whole for the purpose of further considering the Currency bill, and Mr. Rlohardson took the otalr. Debate on this measure consumed the day, 18m Day in their Mus, Kerumn, of English, Ind, in burn. ing somo old letters, destroyed $2400, th told proceeds of the salut har Doth dyin Adalusian oltles | | Africans are crowding out white labor, it is | sale of | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Gronan (0, Cravsex, President of the Park Board, and Excise Commissioner Bushe sent their resignations to Mayor Strong, of New York City, Two young children of John Glover were burned to death in a canalboat in Newark, N. J, where they had been locked in a cabin by their parents, who had gone to o watch meeting, A maxX named Bargeon, his son and daugh- tor, wore killed at Keene, N, H,, while trying to cross the track In front of a train, They had been slelghing. Ax eastbound passenger train struck a sleigh a half mile east of Willard, N. Y., con- taining Mrs, Hughes, hor son and Miss Lar- kin, of Ovid, All three were killed, Rev, Du, Cuanves H, Panxnonrst issued a { statement in Now York Clty scoring SBuperin- { tendent Byrnes and York City, has lent £105,000 to poor wage- | charging tho Lexow Committee with having entered into a deal { with the Buperintendent whereby the latter Ix the northern portion of Florida, around | | Baldwin, mosquito masks are worn by out. | would be protected hy the committees when he appeared before them as a witness, Presi. dent Martin, of the Polles Board, announced his intention of sending in his resignation to Mayor Strong. Govenrxon Monrox's flrst mossage read in both Houses of the New York Legls- Inture at Albany. Senator Lexow intro- duced the blll for consolidation of contigu- ous territory into a Greater New York, Hamilton Fish was elected Speaker of the Assembly, and Senator O'Connor President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Wonrgmex began to tear down the groat walls of the Delavan ruins, Albany, N. Y.,pre- | paratory to bodies of the perished, beginning a searcn for the fifteen hotel employes who Cranes W. Mownaay, the English Anaroh- ist, arrested in Philadelphia for an incen. diary speech, had his caso indefinitely co tinued, Jomx BE. Russerr was nominated for the United States Sonate at ao caucus in of the Democratic representatives of thusetts, Massa Tae Chamber of C City adopted a rep tinuance of the Lex yostigating Com ynmeres of New ¥Y rt asking for the yw Senatorial Polles mittee for another year. In- South and West, kad th New York, an Trust, issued ot Hogs, of Texas, 3. 1894, © - Fn was | chosen | Boston | SOUTHERN PROGRESS, Nearly "600 More New Enterprises Established Than in 1598, In its annual review of Bouthern tions, the Manufacturers’ Record suys that the industrial situation in the Bouth during the last year was characterized by a steady ro-ostabMshment of confidence, and n slow but solid upbuilding of manufacturing in- tarests, Nearly 600 more enterprises were estab- lished in the Bouth in 1504 than In the pre- oeding year, the total number being 2529, as agninst 2200 for 1899. A pronounced feature in the butlding of new factories during the yoar has been the aim to establish a class of industries which would retain at home trade heretofore supplied from dis- tant points, These new industries have also been characterized by the adoption of modern machinery and the employment of skilled labor and im- proved methods, The alm has been not only successfully to provide for the home and neighboring Vd oy but to invade distunt mar- kots for thelr patronage. HSouthern made machinery is now found in many Northern and Western fnctories, and figures to some extent in in- ternational trade, Bouthern flour is ex- yorted to Europe In large consignments, and 8 winning extended popularity at home, The products of the South's stove foundries, canning factories, carriage and woodwork- lng shops, ete,, are also making reputations at home and abroad, Comparing the yoar just closed with 1880, the statistics show the following increases : Railroad mileage, from 20,612 miles fn 1830 to 46,900 in 1804 ;: annual yleld of sotton, 5,- 755,000 to 0.500.000 bales ; annual yleld of grain, 431,000,000 to 600,000000 bushels ; coal condi mined annually, 6,049,000 to 30,000,000 tons ; | annual pig iron productibn, 397,.801to 1,5660,- 000 tons ; number of cotton mills in operu- tion, 161 to 425: number of spindles, 667.000 to 8,000,000; number of looms, 14,- 828 to 68,000; capital ‘nvested in cotton mills, $21,088,712 to #107.900,000 ; namber of cotton ofl mills, 40 to 8300; capital invested in the same, 88,504,000 to £30,000,000 ; lum- ber, dre , $44,985,100 to $114,746,674, sapital in ‘ 02,644 to 802,604,375; farm assets, $2.9 L000 to £3, 182,000,000 § value of #666.000,000 to ital inwe manufactur. in 244.561 to 80 | value of ma ue 7 o $l,- 00,000, ce — . PERISHED IN A FIRE. Three Idves Lost In a Tenement House Blaze, thy nf MITA *» is #2 - : ay - ONE RUSDRED AND SEVEXNTY-FIVE THOUSAND | DOLLARS has Deen received by President Harper, of the Chicago University, John D, Rookafelier, the Standard Oll mag nate as a Now Washington. nd navy Justio sded the Pr od the New York stolen, It ids an (noreased allowanoe of §70.( Paesipexr CLeveraxd nominated these Commissioners fF 1 {gration Ww. Stradley, igen William H. Ruby, at Balti Thomas F, Dele hanty, at Host Joseph H., Benner, at Now York ; John J. Rodgers, at Philadelphia, Tux President made the instfons: § x Collins, Surveyor of Customs at Springfield, Mass. ; Herbert Wol pott Bowen, of New Consul General at Barcelona, Spain ; Andrew J, of Tennessee, Consul at Demerara, British Guinea; Colonel G, Norman Lieber, to be Judge Advoeate General of the Army with the rank of Drigadier-General. Tun first state dinner of the season was given at the White House by the President and Mrs, Cleveland in honor of the Cabinet, to which a pumber of Senators and Bepre- sentatives and their wives wore invited, Among those present was Senator David B, Hill, of New York, mn n, following nom. ork, Forelgn., Taz body of 8ir John Thompson, the late Premier of Canada who died in England, ar rived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the British cratser Blonhelm Tur Turkish Governor of assassinated by an Armenian Tux Japanese en nstruoted to watoh the chances at ropean prinoosses to get a bride forthe Mi kado's heir, Failing to find a princess, they should seek a nobleman's daughter Ameriean helresa, Tue funeral of Bitlis Sir John Thomson took pince at 8t. Mary's Cathedral, Halifax, with | the most solemnly impressive services ever soon or heard In Canada, BLUEFIELDS REPORT, dreat Britaln Recognizes the Sov. erelgnty of Nlearagus, The President sent to the Sonate a lull ro- port of the Dinefialds affair with all the cor. pespondence relating thereto, 6 correspondence Includes a ocony of a ponvention concladed on the 20th of Novem. ber Inst, by which it fs declared that the | Mosquito Indians agrees wholly to submit to | the Inws and authorities of Nicaragua, “Great Britain,” Seorsmtary Gresham adds, “has given this Goverament the most posi. tive assurance that Asserts no right of poversignty or protection over the territory, but, on the contrary, respects the Jul and paramount sovereignty of the Government of Nisamgua,' Thus is settled an international fifty years’ standing she dispute of Tur royal baron of beet for Queen Vie. torin's Christmas dinner party at Oshorne wos cut from a fine West Highland bullock bred and fod at Windsor Park. The baron was roasted at the great kitohen fire In the onntla fad When So WAS sent R 3° Osborne, y t's head a ° it adorned the royal sideboard, Sune pla, from | Patterson, | has been | voys In Europe have been | mg Ea. | or abn Obligations Swell and the Gold Re serve Dwindles, oral on, ota, against, Habliities 579, of which Advices 10 b-Treasary state ‘ rosary with YO alrmad was irawn v SON . rue amount reserve $58,004, 445 EE TREASURY FINANCES, Anticipated Recelpts From the New Tarif! and the Income Tax, The first six n { the year, 1 nthe « urrent flseal ur months of which have come un- der the operation of the new Tariff law, give some indieations of what may re expected In the Tarify muitite AW | six mont} y rregated $159 the expenditar 8 186 000, 000 an 500,000 and have been penditures over receipts of $28 500 ( the corresponds ing period of the iam | . rd ox rons of expen Illures over re ipts was $88,000 000 An annual revenue It Is anticipated, will from theses two sour a, yf 853.000.0000 0r n “yen ore, ally bo derived will bring the receipts for the balance of the flseal year up to Becretary Carlisle's estimate as submit to Congress. The December receipts show an inerease over November of $2,500,000 and November showed a slight inereass over Oo tober, Indionting that business is adjusting itself to settled tariff rates, Of the receipts for December $11,250,004 cams from sustoms duties, an increase of 1,000,000 over the November receipts from this source, The expenditures for Decsm. ber were $8,000,000 loss than for November Aguninst this gratifying exhibit is 10 be set off the fact that the gold reserve continues to deaiine, wot a——— ————— EIGHT BURNED. A Fatal Fire In a Large London Laundry. Fire broke out in a laundry on the Edge ware Road, London, England, at an early hour in the morning, The flames spread so rapidly that when the bullding was consumed the charred re. mains of its eight inmates were found among the ruins, A emanon of dynamite set off for the amusement of visitors to the Chisago drain. ago canal the other day throw a big bowlder which killed one of them, I —— Y Faaxx Davis, of Fort Jackson, N. Y., has been keeping a pat deer for three years, He wont to the barn to feed the animal the other day, and it killed him, { Mra, ( | tie Williams and ehild, W, | ehlld, Frank Ross, FATAL FIRES, Lives Lost in Oregon, New York and Loulsville, Word has been received of Bllver Lake, Lake County by the overturning of a lamp at a gathering on Christruns Eve, in which an necldent at , Oregon, caused forty-one lives wero lost, and sixteen persons badly injured, five fatally, it was thought, The gathering had assembled at the hall above Chrisman Brothers’ sore, and consisted of children, who, with their parents sand relatives, were enjoying what Banta Claus had brought them, The Lakeview Examiner says: “S8ome one |! | They went forth in His name and wrought attempted to get where he could see and hear Letter by jumping unon a bench in the middle of the hall, In doing so his head struck a lamp hanging from the ceil Ing, causing the oil to run out, This imme diately caught fire, While trying to take the lamp down It was Hippel #0 that the ofl ran out on the floor. From that time onthe scene was terrible, Bome one sald, the door and keep quiet and ft put out,’ while others yelled, The lamp was finally taken down, but it fell to the floor, In their attempts to get it outside it was kicked to the floor, where it lay unmolested, as it could not be toushed on account of the intense heat, People were compelled to get through the flames in order to reach the door and frantically rushed to their doom.” The killed are: Mrs. John Buck, Freddie and baby ; Mrs, Owsley, Lillie and Bruce; J. J. Buck and daughter, and Mrs, Saelling ; Mrs, Howard and two ehildren, Wood Hearst, wife and show ; Frank West, wile and two children ; BEd. Bowen and Miss McCauley, 1 Labrie and child, Mrs, War Mrs. U. F. Abshes and Herning, Mm. Payne, Mrs, Net. Clay Martin and Ella Ward and and sister; Roy Hamilton, Mrs. Gus ‘shut oan be screamed and Snell, Mrs, mother Ira wife, Robert child and Ward ; and chill Fire Heroes Killed, f the New York Fire it, | ' an Chief J 1. Bres- nan and Assistan the last named nl, WY ke and nearer the acknoey, of Engine stairway which had i they squeezed ‘ : wrehod and battered, T through the but alive, i a ——— a — a. — Firemen Hurt in Loulsville, A fire which starte: on West Main stroet the fourstory buliding occupied by ; t { i sville, Ry., fon key. B , hief Hug! wil TY 4 er Trey Many wounde Bxrriens were reduced to eating } fleah in the recent drought in the wester part of North Dakota, Pave Fiempaonen, a German boy, has in. vented a raliroad tie and has been offered 850.0 0 for the Invention Tre Nlinols Legislature will be asked to amend the school law so as to admit of the establishment of kindergartens, Tur German Government has modifiad its prohibitory decree against American meats 80 as to admit canned meats, Ir took fourteen hounds and 200 horse. men two hours and forty minutes to kill a ten-pound fox at Batavia, Ohio, the other day, Tue annual reports of the Superintendents of the Indian schools show that great good Is accomplished by educating Government wards, FPanwzne in Pennsylvania are feeding ohestnuts to hogs, It 1s sald that the erop is immense and the picking of them hardly profitable, Tue Atlanta Exposition is booming, They are going to outdo Chloago in the matter of A “Midway,” which has been named “The Terraces,” YEanaxnp tlokets™ messengers is the latest Edinburgh tramway system, conte two sents, Oy 161 persons reported missing to the polies in New York Oty during the year there are fifty-five who have not been found or accounted for, A soann of survey has been inspesting the old frigate Constitution to see what it would cost to make her Ot for sea service, They fix the cost ar $235,000, ran at reduced fares for ‘srolorm™ 1a the A round trip | avery | evangelists, i—— SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOH JANUARY 13. Lesson Text “Feeding the Five Thousand,” Mark vi, 30-44 Golden Text: Lukel., 53 Commentary. 80. The apostles, having heen sent forthto heal the sick and to preach the gospel, re- | turned and told Jesus all things, both what they had done and what they had taught, and taught in His name and returned and reported to Him, This is just the thine for worker to do—go forth from Him, work and speak in His name, and then tell Him all and leave it with Him, 81. No leisure even to eat, What scription of the life of Him who went about doing good! Truly He pleased not Himself (Rom, xv., 8). He lived wholly unto dod and sought to lend weary ones into Hla own’ rest and peace, even to rest in God and in His pleasure, No leisure for Himself, but every moment for others and thelr good. Though He considered not Himself, He did oonsider His apostles and thelr comfort; henes His invitation to come asids and rest awhile 82. They went by ship, and He went inthe ship with them, They wersa little company, yot one was an unbellever, but He loved them all and sought their welfare, Therears about 1200 souls on this ship, and He loves them all, and many of them love Him, but there are many unbelievers, We can tell them as far as possible of His love and leave ts to Him, a do and ran afoot and outwent them and oame anto Him, Would not multitudes oome une to Him to-day {f He were kept before them in somewhat of His loveliness by the doing and teaching of His followers? Mauititudes in beathendom would some to Him if they only knew of Him aud His love for them ; wns neither angry nor grieved h although He brought His 4 os apart to rest, but He had com , was sorry they had no shepherd and began to 1eed souls, In Ezek, xxxiv herds who ! tudes passio passion ha resting time as il the day began fo them away. nen same not to be nister and to give Math, xx, 29), at th e them {0 is manifest in the hn says that Josus, Him whence the ad this multitudé, suggested that 200 pennyworth very one a little. Thus vain calculations and : fond a lad has five but thinks the Jolin vi, 8, reatures of sight that we » believe that the thing can be eas we soe the wherewithal Mose this matter when he asked if al # and herds should be slain to give the people the ment the Lord promised Num. xi, 21, 25), Sarah falled when she ; Ar edpromise Loo Evil 18, 14). Let us walk by faith, not by sigh and let our hearts ery out, “Ab, there is nothing too hard for xxxil 17 88. He now begins to work, they having ealeu and looked around, apparently ia vain, and OOH thelr wits’ end, but everything mu ione in order; henos t down in ocom~ r viotory by aly by looks be waited the green on last ngs ba e fromthe ad's hand to the } ! us The lad ives then i unreservedly up. Be Jesus acknowledges the Father by looking up to heaven for a bLiessing upod them, after which He passes the {ood to the disciples to be passed on to the people. All pan see that the disciples are not doing this, but are simply the messengers or walters, an Jesus acknowledges that te is not doing It, but the Father in heaven, even as He sald in Joha xiv, 10, 42. “And they did all eat and were filled." Not each one a little, as Phillip had suggeste ed, but each as much as they would (John wi, 11 It is not the Losd's way to give little, but rather to fill fail ‘Be filled wit the spirit,” “Let the Lord awell in you richly,” “Drink abundantly, O beloved I are some of His words which indicate His pleasure, He would have as full of joy and peace (Rom. xv., 18) to our good and to His great glory—-no oares nor anxieties nor lans nor worries, but the quietness and Joriness of ehlidren 43. He will have nothing of His lost (John vi, 12), and if s0 © and w much mores His redeomed ones bought by His precious bloo Yot there are saved ones who cannot seem to trust Him to keep that which He has re deemed with so great a price | suah consider thelr own carefuiness of precious things and ask if they are better than He, Lot them eat and rest on John x., 28 20; 1 Tim. L.. 12 44. Toho number fod and men, ides women and eo xiv., 21), but it was not wond who for forty years had fed nlously. He is the very same Josus still and ean use you, dear reader, 10 and bless hungry thousands {f you will only put your. self as unreservedly in His hands as the jad oaves filled was 5000 fren (Math erful to Him, Wms miracs toma fend | put his loaves, and be willing to live wholly and only for His pleasure, This seems to be the only miracle recor lod by each of the four May ft not be to teach us that the great mission of every bsliever Is to have compassion upon and save and leed the por. Lhing 7? Lesson Halper Ce —— A Magnet Resists a Big Strain, The greatest test to which the big magnst standing at the top of the fort at Wiliet's Point, Long Inland, with which the inven. tor, Colonel W, R. King, Commander of the United States Engineer Corps, and a force of men have been experimenting, has been subjected, was made a few days ago, The magnet is composed of a large oan non, around the muszie of which are wound about thirteen miles of insuinted wire, Three jarge iron slabs, weigalng soveral ons, wore blocked up opposite the mussie of the gun, sid a current (rom two large dynamos was turned on, The fron was immediately attracted, Around It was fastened a chain, A rops ate tached to the chain was resved through a large double block, and fourteen staiwart engineers manned the handies of a capstan and applied a strain of 45,000 pounds, The chain broke, The iron hat not budged. The greatest strain applied at previous tests was 24.500 pounds, t there was a similar res sult,
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