Show I ABOUT SHIPS AND SAILORS The Hartford and the Scorpion will I waMi over American interests In Venezuela Vene-zuela II battleship Alabama Is expected at let ttcela January 11th lo join the I I other vessels o the North Atlantic squadron squad-ron a ronIn In England the Admiralty continues to oppose submarine boats and Is making no experiments though It Is I reported lhat I some are contemplated The training ship Buffalo which left A GUar Saturday has arrived at Sapta Lucia and will proceed on to Ma nlja by way of Cape of Good HOle The United States transport Ingalls from San Juan Port Rico December 27lh and Havana January Jsl reached New York yesterday after a very tern pesluoUB voyage i Moran Bros of Seattle have told Secretary Secre-tary Loner that they will undertake to I construct n battleship for J36UfOX > with I 4 per cent added under tho law allowing that bonus on Pacific coast construction I At Cherbur Important trials oC submarine l sub-marine boats took place yesterday Tho submarine boat tests concerned new electric I elec-tric accumulator Invented by D French t I naval Lieutenant The trials resulted satisfactorily I NotwllhsLadlnG tho adverse report made by the board of construction auvo I catcs of tho Holland uuhmarlno boat I will mako n strong effort to attach a j I amendment lo the naval appropriation bill I authorizing twenty uddllional vessels of I this type I The little Spanish steamship San Au Htn ham been wrecked on n Rmnl Jslctj I 1 in Smith channel Straits of Magellan The British steamship Coya saved tho pas I sensors and crew 103 In number from attack 1 at-tack by time pirates of the coast and landed allhands in Punta Arena 1 L |