| Show I MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD j Vaele 83ms New Gun Tested at Indian Head Grounds WIUlOX y A KEMAIIKABLE or 79 ror eon III Plactolst Jacrealaila r Inlt 10 flow Ito 10 IV 4Inch UIIII Tit u York July 12A dispatch lo the IItrl l from ashlngton Mayo TH at the Indian Hired pruning ground of a 4Inch gun representing the latest advance In naval ordnance contacts net hate demonstrated thai Is In the United States government powspiaft of the most formidable JrMj In of the I kind In I the world The run IMUI designated < by the bureau of wlnante and hire a chamber term I 0 enough lo accommodate the charger or charge-r n ier carried by the old I Ih An IVth it charge < IIf 17 Pounds Or Ir rOrl1 grain navy smokeless Powder rhumaxle Velocity of UI feet freaccards N Am bllnd with that muzzle energy 01 COO fool Ion and lIh chamber preoure or PLO loan Ir collateral inch with a charge or ill pound a mu tie 1 YlocItY of UI rout seconds was obi cut d with a muzzle energy of Le12 tnif taur The metals energy of the sun to I i 1 Per cent srra lrr thin that of the old Am w type et mount for the heavy I Inih gun was also tested and worked In a thoroughly satisfactory manner In addition to their IMnch turret runs the new monitor will each hate an auxiliary balttry of four of the ne Such SSS ttsal a llurglrVsnleoed Pin Francisco July 2IThe i Neva la authorities are endeatorlng to Induce < v uare of California to pardon John 11 ianll who In I carrying a tranyear mento e for burglary Hancock Is I or CUOMI4 n urderlng Iwo men In Novd tat i laars 0nllll I Is bellevrd enough allatace has been secured to convict 1lm lit murder V Mn Meyers now Mrs Occur who la OJ lived wllh Hancock testified I before u r and jury thai two irepro ago Han rxk and she started from Orange runt Cal to go east by wagon IV hlle crossing the Net ada desert they r1 Ia m nm1 Idundn end Zo 11 1 oleke who had a belter outfit Hank Han-k murdered these men and took th Ir learn and wagon burning his own outfit He went aa far aa Ogden thereJie soil the horse and returned I Orange county The sheriff of Lincoln I county Nov Invest u galeal Mrs Mryen story Ana fund the rolllln of 10 men Alto lid evidently been murdered Mn Mayor did not tell her story until IleAlearink bladaLam all r Hancock had been sentenced for burglar Jails octal Chinese Flelit Irhn Wash July 2IWor brute out last night between nllY Jop ann on the one side and 260 Chinese on the other The fight raged Inter nuttintly all night and today knives r > I lId Iron bars being the weaK > ns UMd The total list or casualties this rr ton Clalricamen and one Jp 118 wound The cumhallIl are arniPloYar 01 the I44lmoll certainty intro and She tight Is I the result ot a drunken debauch tUlllonI > olunltr linirer Wsihltgton July tlThe following i J Un mil appointments to the tolun to r army are announced To be CaptainsJames M Burroughs fml i riy Hint lieutenant and adjutant frll x15 call Uodfrnl II Fow I MUln Third Texas Frank I rrh laptaln Third Wisconsin < r ti rl s I Ireen flln Second Wis i c nun John A fiction lieutenant con l I First Texas cavalry fhrlsto Port J Itollls captain Fourth WIn in Frank A Hullltan tint fill art First Wisconsin Clark M Carr Ill r and assistant paymaster U H V laitoel colonel I First West Vlr llnl > Robert Calterty major Second tII J Hlales cavalry Charles II Me Goal csptaln Third Mlnlulppl I Chas f I N Iarry l capntln Fourth United fill 4 tilunlcers i II Newberr MI f Un Thirtysecond Michigan U ll I F S nlon captain Thlrtyntth Mlchl Ft II < Harms cat Kin First Trn inflation i i tulunleeni sirgeunl i major Harry First hadulck Ohloi txnurd Iiellrlck first lieutenant Hee on I United Htatca cavalry llobert I < Illitd lint lieutenant First Ken 141ILY It P llrnngcr captain Thirty flo Ml hlgan Stoat McMillan New Tork liinteen John U Mcllrlde Jr neatenint Thlrlysecon I Michigan 1 JX t Micsbe captain Thirty nfih Mich Uran Daniel Wells private Hint New York To lie First IJeulenanlsWltllam H Cunningham next lieutenant Fourth Vias John V clreene private Second Wisconsin I Charles J flelshbush captain cap-tain Fourth 1 Wisconsin lleorge R 1 lllb son captain Fifteenth Mlnne ota Jessie Jes-sie 1 I Hall captain First United States rate tolunleer Unit Infantry District of IIIIam Columbia Lowe Alfred prl H Morgan captain Thirteenth Minnesota Minne-sota Hilary Newton captain Third liconln culhmsn A Hlcr nrst Bell tenant Fifteenth Minnesota Arthur II Schaefer first lieutenant Twenty see and Kansas Dean Tompkins lint lieu I 0 front Klnt Arkansss George Will rich captain First Towns Thaddeus Wild lieutenant First lsconsln To be Hecand Lleutinantsllobert W Collins fleet lieutenant In Cal Rays Collins now r 1r Nineteenth fn fantry1Da7d I N cM Oresw Jr private lloternora troop Pcnnsyltanla cavalry If roe H Armltage sergeanl Fifth Iowa U i nullok corporal First Ohio A Jeunell United States volunteer signal 1 sig-nal corps stalk Dr the Pen Crafre The Hague July 31 Ilaron lx BUsI presided at the plenary session of Ihe International peace 1 conference today to place the final seal 1 upon the laliors of tire first committee The first point of M Karnebecka ports deajlng with prohibition ofdrupplng explosltea from balloon was unanmlously agreed to The second point prohibiting use of asphyxiating projectiles wait agreed toby to-by all except the United Htalea and llreat Urltaln whosv abstention num flee the agreement of the other The third point which relate I to ex pandlng bull Safe OMUI led I the major tart of the silting owing lo the aues htU Ion t of dumdum bullets I used bit the llrlllsh army Sir Julian Piuncefote expressed regret that the plenary session ses-sion had welt scar suddenly summoned aa the llrlllsh I t government had Intended to make a statement regarding the dumdum bullets The conference agreed to leate I the minute of the session upon for the Insertion ot the llrlllsh statement state-ment mentApt Cap Croiler the military member of the United mates delegation proposed pro-posed as a substitute Ills following The use of bullets should be prohibited which Innict unncceoaary cruel woundo such at an explosive bullet and In ffenern e err kind of bullet ex credlng < the limits necessary to put a man Immedlstely I bora du combat A long discussion ensued us to whether wheth-er a Vote should be taken upon the original proposal of Capl Crosier The latter waa finally chosen to be voted upon Mir Julian Pauncefoie l announced 1 i that he would accept Capt Crofters proposal but u was rejected by a veto ofl1lol 00 000 Cstlle to cullau Washington July 21ln accordance with the terms of the recent order for tree admission of 10 000 head of cattle Inlo Cuba within the next year the secretary of agriculture has Inuo l regulations rorlllll their Admiration Tits ttilultallona provide that 10 occur tire ndv4ntaueg of tile orlor raltl must be shlp ed eIther from Han hall Mobile NfW Orleans or lIhIn alld OItIroor evidence must be I scup 1lIod that they are nol from the feve dlalI1 All oulllnod by the dlIIrlmtnl atilt are free from d1senlarol The Rot ml III Sale Inaperted by nn 1111010 lit the uIUllu1 department at the Port I of shipment |
