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Show THE ILLINOIS AFLOAT American Fork World W, K. SMITH, MOST POWERFUL BATTLESHIP IN THE AMERICAN NAVY. rabllaha. AMERICAN FORK, UTAH. Is lsrM Thsa tha lows and Heavier Tima tha Orafna Forty Thousand raupla Wltaasstha Iauachlu(. UTAH NEWS. Lehl celebrated The citizens on laL the Pewe day" The recent ruins hare put an end to the water famine in Salt Lake City. The contract haa been let for a modern water wofka ayatem at Fort Douglas. Private Adame lian been honorably discharged from the Ltah Cavalry troop. Five hundred and nineteen atudenta are now enrolled at the State University. Cbarlea A Lambourne haa been promoted from 1730 to 950 as a carrier at Salt Lake City. t A party of about 100 cditora from Georgia were in Salt Lake City the fore part of the week. Governor Welle returned home Oct. 3 from a three weeks' trip to through the Yellowatone park. The quarterly salaries of the forty-fou- r state ofliciais, clerks and deputies amounts to 910,520.15. Citizens of Mercur have organized a brass band which they intend to make one of the finest in the state. The augar beet crop this season is above the average, some farmers raising an average of 23J tons to the acre. of George L. Nye, of Salt Lake, haa been appointed supreme court reporter to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John M. Tanner. There are about 500 poll tax delinquents in Salt Lake, and the clerk of the street department is preparing to sue them for the amounts due. The Newsboy's Union of Salt Lake, are making an effort to found a home for the ' homeless newsboys. The eiti-zeare materially assisting them. In the Poulsen patricide case the jury rendered a verdict of not guilty. Young Poulsen killed his father while the two men were engaged in a fight. The Utah Sugar company has paid its eighth dividend to its stockholders. The amount was 5 per cent and hereafter dividends of 2 per cent will be sent out each three months. Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Tropie Mercantile & Manufacturing Institution, The place'of business is Tropic, Garfield county, and the capital 910.000. That prosperity has struck the camp , of Eureka is evidenced by the number of new buildings that are going up, and the improvements being made in the way of painting, repairing, etc. William Brodie, the Eureka merchant accused of raising a check from 910 to 91,000, has been bound over to await the action of the district court Brodie's store is in the hands of the ns sheriff. Lieutenant Briant II. Wells has been ordered to Manila, where he will join his regiment For the past two months Lieutenant Wells has been instructing the members of the Utah National Guard in military tactics. Anetta Jensen, an aged Sandy woman, haa been declared insane and sent to Provo for treatment She was discovered walking about the streets one day last week with no clothing on except an apron and a sun bonnet The origin of the firs at Beck's Ilot Springs still remains a mystery. The officers who are working on the case state that there was no doubt that the fire was started by incendiaries, but who they were and what motive led them to set the fire are questions yet Newport News, Va., Oct. 5. One more jwwerful battleship was added to the American navy when the battleship Illinois slid into the water at this . The launch was a brilliant sucphu-ecess in every particular, fully 40,fHJ0 enthusiastic people being in attendance. The sponsor of the vessel. Miss Daisy loiter of Chicago, was accompanied by Governor Tanner of Illinois and his staff, in full uniform, and a crowd of prominent Chicagoans. Notable among the vessels in the harbor was the United States dispatch boat Dolphin, having on board Assistant Secretary of the Navy Allen and a party of Washingtonians. Among the distinguished spectators were: Governor John U. Tunner of Illinois; Governor Taylor of Virginia; Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago, Aasiatant Secretary of the Navy Allen, Mrs. Joliu A. Logan, Naval Constructor Hlchborn, designer of the vessel; Assistant Secretary of WarMeiklcjohu, Captain Paget, British naval attache; General Mestrago, liussian naval attache; Mr. Kenedy, Italian naval at tache, and M. Bonfre, French naval attache. The Illinois will be the biggest, most powerful and probably the most generally effective battleship in the United States navy, Larger than the Iowa and heaver than the Oregon, the Illinois is still so designed that she will be able to enter any harbor open to the smaller battleships, while In the matter of speed she will rank with any of them. The moat striking difference between the Illinois and the battleships now in service is the high freeboard of the former, enabling her to fire her gnus from their great elevation above the water in seas so heavy that the guns of the lower vessel would he submerged and useless. Spendid seagoing powers are also expected to result from this increased freeboard, by which is meant the height of the hull above the water line. The dimensions of the Illinois are as follows: Length on load water line, 307 feet; beam, extreme, 73 feet 2tf inches; draft or normal displacement of 11,525 tons, 33 feet 7 inches; maximum displacement, all ammunition and stores on board, 12,334 tons; maximum indicated horse power (estimated), 10, 000; probable speed, 10) knots; normal coal supply, 800 tons; coal supply, loose storage, 1,200 tons, full bunker capacity, 1,400 to 1,500 tons; complement, of officers, 40; seamen, marines, etc., 440. The main battery will consist of four g rifles in balanced turrets, oval in shape, and placed in the center line of the h rapid-fir- e vessel, and 14 guns. The secondary battery will consist of 10 rapid-fir- e guns, four rapid-fir- e guns, two Colt guns and two field guns. She will carry four torpedo tuliee. There will be two rets of triple expansion, engines, each in its own separate water-tigh- t compartment The collective indicated horse power will bit about 10,000, with 120 revolutions per minute, stroke four breech-loadin- 13-in- Hk-h-bor- n six-inc- er one-pound- er twin-scre- w feet The first keel plate of this vessel waa laid February 10, 1807, not quite twenty months past, and the percentage of work completed to this date, baaed on the vessel fitted out and ready for sea, e is now reported between and fifty-foper cent The contract price was 82..V.t;,iMio, and the date of completion is stated to be October 5, fifty-thre- ur 1899. . HAYWOOD RELEASED. One of the Quay Offenders Will Go unanswered. lloiue. Nepbi Packard, the Springville nurOmaha, Oct & Benjamin J. Hayseryman, is exhibiting a peach which wood, of the state of measures 11 inches lu circumference was who arrested here Pennsylvania, and weighs 11 ounces. It is a new on Philadeladvices from telegraphic variety which he has originated after phia. has been released from custody. several years of experimenting. He State Attorney Graham of Philadelhe has given it the name of Utah phia haring telegraphed as follows: Ueleasu Haywood and let him come Queen." home at once." After his release, Mr. Major General F. V. Greene, in his Haywood intimated that he would not report of the battle at Manila says: leaveia for several days. He insists that in no manner involved in the The Utah gun on the road fired 14 he bank scandal. People's shots at block house 14, with good efA Nw York Hank In Trouble. fect, as was subsequently ascertained New York, Oct 5. The Tradesmen's upon inspection of the work. Lieutenant Grow and the detachment deserve National bank of 2H0 West Broadway great credit for the commendable man- did not clear through the clearing ner in which the piece waa served and house, of which it ia a member, yesterpulled through the mud, without the day. This fact led to an investigation, and it developed that the bank is in assistance of horses." Edmund Le Grand, of Salt Lake, serious trouble. The clearing house committed suicide atChicago Junction, committee visited the bank, and, after careful examination of its securities, O., by shooting himself through the head. He had been a resident of Salt found its capital Impaired and advised Lake for six years and waa enronte to an early liquidation. W. II. Kimball, France on a pleasure trip. No cause hank examiner at New York, has been placed in charge Is known for the deed. EISTEDDFOD OPENS. Crest Feast for the Literary end World. Huhsl Salt Lake City, Utah. Oct. 5. The third graud national Eisteddfod convened at the tabernacle at 2 oclock this afternoon, and from all indications it will lie the greatest event of this hind ever recorded in history. Some conception of the magnitude of the affair may be had when the fact is considered that the contestants for prizes number over 1,500 people, many crossing tiie continent to participate As a musical event it will be one of the greatest gatherings ever held in this country as to size, and from a critic's standpoint it will not fall behind in its artistic features. Musical people from across the ocean will he here and hundreds from other states will pour In with every approaching train today. This being children's day at the great festival the schools closed at noon, to give ihe little ones an opportunity to attend, a special admission fee of 15 cents having been arranged. At 1 o'clock the bands and musical organizations formed at the head of Main street and paraded through the business section of the city, the band playing Men of Harlech." Arthur L. Thomas, C&mbrain society, preof the president sided at the opening session and Governor Wells will preside this evening. QUAY UUUEIl ARREST. WILL KEEP THE PHILIPPINES. lianua Think Thai Will be (lie Result of l'eare Krgutlatluu. Washington. Oct 1. In a receut Interview. Mark llapna is quoted as say I do not know what the in in?: structions given to our peace commit sioners are, blit so far as concerns the negotiations which will be instituted in Paris, can see no other result than that Spain will have to relinquish her sovereignty over not only Luzon island, but the entire Philippine archipelago. Spain has no reason to expect io lie aide to retain any portion of the group. She went into the wai and lost, and how ought to be prepared to suffer the consequences which such s defeat implies. regard the lhilippines as lost to Spain, and that being a foregone conclusion, in my opinion, the problem which next confronts ns relates to the form of government which we will give the islands. Regarding the reports which cornea from Paris that one of Spain's propositions to our commissioners will be that the United States pay her 0 for the relinquishment of tha Philippine!, Senator Hanna said significantly: Weare not paying money for or buying territory which we now control." This statement la regarded as representing the views of 'President McMark SENATOR FROM PENNSYLVANIA CHARGED WITH A FELONY. Claimed by Ills Friends That the Charge Was Preferred Against Ulus for Political Effect. Philadelphia, Oct. 4. Warrants were issued yesterday for the arrest of Matthew Stanley Quay, liis son, Richard R. Treasurer Benjamin J. Quay, Haywood and Charles II. McKee of Pittsburg, law partner of Lieut. Gov. Lyon. They are accused of conspiracy with John Hopkins, formerly cashier of the Peoples hank, to use public moueys for their own use. Hopkins killed himself last March, shortly beex-Sta- te fore the hank failure. QSeuator Quay and his sons came up from Atlantic City as soon as they heard of their intended arresL They promptly surrendered themselves, and Magistrate Jermon held them in 95,000 bail each for preliminary hearing, David II. Lane, the Republican leader, TO WORK FOR SILVER. Allied Forres Join Ilentli for tho Campaign-Coin Harvey, General Manager. Chicago, Oct. 5. The lion. James K. Jones of Arkansas, chairman of the National Democratic committee, has apWilliam J. Stone pointed of Missouri, Ex;Governor John P. Altgeld of Illinois, Senator William V. Allen of Nebraska, and Senator Henry M. Teller of Colorado to act in conbecame their bondsmen, and they rejunction with himself as a committee turned to the seashore. By advice of on ways and means. This committee to disdeclined their attorney, they addressed the following letter to Mr. cuss case. come the back will They William 11. Harvey (Coin) of Chicago: to the cily in time for the hearing. Mr. W. II. Harvey, Chicago, Ills: Mr. Haywood is in Montana and Mr. Dear Sir The undersigned committee McKee is in New York. on ways and means to further the cause The Peoples hank suspended busiof , bime talism and the overthrow of corrupt domination in this country ness on March 34 last, and it presently tenders you the position of general that Cashier Hopkins had manager of its work. Yon will ob- developed committed suicide. At this time the serve that the committee represents not only the Democratic party, bnt the state had on deposite in the bank 9505,-00- 0 allied forces that are working with it and the 952,000, hut the instifor the protection of the republic and tution was city insolvent. Mr, McManes free institutions, and it is in a spirit of amount of make to the agreed good trne we and harmony patriotism that liabilites and most of it has since been desire your assistance. James K. Jones, (Signed) paid. William J. Stone, Senator Qnay'a friends claim the John P. Ai.tgkld, charge waa preferred against him for William V. Ai.len, Henry M. Teller." political effect Mr. Harvey has notified the commitDEMAND UPON SPAIN. tee of his acceptance of the position and has opened an office in the Unity Peace Negotiation Have Beached aa Important Phase. building in this city. He has given np 4. The session of the Oct Paris, the editorship of the Patriots' Bulletin, commissioners lasted until 4 the official organ of the Patriots peace commissionwhich the hour at o'clock, of America, which organization he 3 o'clock next ers meet to at founded after the campaign of 1890. adjourned, interval such afternoon, ia being Friday understood that the subscriptions It of the Bulletin arc to be transferred to desirable and necessary to allow separate consideration by each commission the New Time. of matters before the joint commission. The interval will be thus filled with A New Sugar Plant. La Grande, Ore., Oct. 5. The ma- work by each commission, the ultimate chinery of the Oregon Sugar company's results being bo facilitated. The secplant, the first beet sugar factory in retary of the Spanish commission will the northwest was set in motion here arrive tonight and the interval will yesterday. Not an accident marred also be employed by the secretaries the opening and every part of the ma- jointly in maturing plans for the work procedure. chinery worked perfectly. For several of The opinion is now held that the, days the farmers have been delivering of work the commissions may be finbeets from various parts of the Grande a month from the present ished within Rhode valley. It is estimated that time. this years crop, which experts say is While it is the general impression the best first crop ever produced, will the meeting was again devoted to that keep the factory busy for 100 days and work and that the adnights, and the product will amount preliminaryto Friday waa taken only to journment to 30,000 tons of sugar. enable the secretaries to draw up a schedule of work, the report is current The Strike le Still (In. the session was highly important Pana, 111., Get. 5. The sheriff of that the Americans have made a and that Shelby county arrived today and is demand of such a character that the working on the holdup of last Friday. to ask for an It is probable arrests will 'follow. A Spanish find it necessary enable them to order in number of shots were fired by deputies adjournment the with government at at Iana Coal company last nighL The to consult Madrid. inalitia commander. Captain Craig, It is believed that the question conimmediately dispatched 50' men to the cerns the Philippines, and it ia known mines. The soldiers went on a run. Americans are highly pleased the that On arriving the deputies said the mine so soon reached what they bad been attacked by strikers with at having a consider very important phase of tho stones. The militia divided in squads and consider the two sesnegotiations, and patrolled the neighborhood, but far held as very satisfacno strikers were apprehended and no sions thus A tory to merica. The fact that a memarms found. ber of the commission expressed the belief that work wonld be completed Troops After Ilsur Island Indians. SL lsul, Minn., OoL 5. General Ba- within a month Indicates a happy con, commander of the department of frame of mind. In the Spanish camp great hopes are Dakota, with Captain Wilkinson and on what they believe General built eighty soldiers, have left for Walker, will advise, namely, that the Merritt Minn., to look after the Loch Lake Indian troubles. The soldiers are taken Filippinos are incapable of and that the whole situation along as a precautionary measure, for warrant America in taking not does General Bacon, who has had much exfor the entire Philipperience with the Indians, hopes to lie the responsibility commissioners are able to secure a peaceable solution of pines. The Spanish America whatever to give the trouble, The soldiers took tents quite ready and supplies and are prepared to remain aska in the way of coaling stations, but will resist more, to the verge of a for some time if considered advisable. renewal of hostilities. 9400,-000,00- Kinley. COMMISSONERS AT WORK. Preparation For Peace Negotiation Part. at Paris, Oct. 1. The United States commission has taken possession peace of its working quarters, a suite of seven rooms on the ground floor of the Hotel Continental, at the corner of Rue de Rivoli and the Rne Royal, com- manding the Tuileries gardens, and Euformerly used by the genie. American flags drape the entrance of the peace commissions apartments. The clerical force of the commission has been systematized and ia now working busily. The spirit of the Paris press ia daily rendered into English for the information of the commissioners, and the same thing is done with the newspapers of Madrid. The commissioners are crystalizing their plans and arranging all the details of the work which will he taken np when the commissions begin their joint sessions. sa STORMS IN JAPAN. two Hundred nnd Fifty Lie Lost and Much Property Destroyed. San Francisco, Sept 30. The Steamer Gaelic, from China and Japan, brings news of a terrific storm which swept over Japan on Sept. 0, which before it blew itself out, almost reached typhoon proportions. The blow did a great deal of damage to shipping, several vessels dragging their anchors and being blown into collision, and one or two small vessels were blown ashore. A summary of the loss of life and property follows: Deaths, 350; houses swept away, 164; bouses overthrown, 1,195; partially wrecked, 1,460; houses inundated, river banks broken, 78. 15,-57- Twenty-Foart- h Return non. Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct 1. The gallant Twenty-fourt- h regiment, the heroes of Santiago, arrived in thiB city last night at 10:30, and were greeted by fully 30,000 people. The soldiers remained on the cars during the night, and at 9:30 this morning marched through the streets of the city to the fort Thousands of people cheered them along as they marched through the streets, while the business houses were all gaily decorated and the employees given a half holiday. The enlisted men number 484, and are in eight companies. The other four companies of the regiment were left at Cheyenne to garrison Fort Rn sell Agnlnnldo Change III Title. Washington, Oct. 1. Sgnor Agon-cill- o, the Philippine representative, who has come to Washington to ask that the insurgents be heard by the commissioners at Paris, has made public a translation of the Philippine constitution which Aguinaldo waa to have proclaimed at Maloloa. By this constitution Aguinaldo formerly renounces the title of dictator and assume that of president of the revolutionary government of the Philippines. He provides for four secretaries the secretary of state, marine and commerce; the secretary of war and public works, the secretary of police, interior, of justice, police instrnctions and health, and the secretary of finance, agriculture and industry. A congress la provided for, to be composed of representatives of all the provinces of the archipelago. |
