| Show giro mickal HI NEWS washington feb 2 27 the working model of a torne torpedo eto boat of novel dovel design was exhibited exhibit d to lo the members of the house naval committee 5 3 esterday by the inventor general berdan the boat is intended intended for effective service in cases where other forms of torpedo have failed that is where the craft attacked is protected by a net work of chains suspended beyond the hull bull by spars the model is that of a vessel feet in length 20 teet feet in breadth and sixteen feet in depth and is in intend etl to attain r a speed of 2406 knots an hour the feature of this craft consists of a pair of brass tubes arranged vertically on the sides and opening dovi downward award capable i f tiring firing torpedoes containing two hundred pounds of dynamite or other high explosive louisville feb 26 early saturday evening the wind commenced to blaw here heavily coming asom the northwest it continued to blow a perfect hurricane at intervals until about six this thia morning many accidents are reported pally minor ones though thong h considerable damage has been done the stern wheel steamer reindeer lying at the city wharf was so roughly treated by the waves that she sprang a leak a id A sunk in four feet of water after the reindeer had settled upon the bottom a much larger boat the hibernia which was towed to the tae wharf a few yards above was seized by a whirlwind her three large cables were snapped asunder as so much twine and she was cast against the sunken vessel the latter was vety very badly smashed up ibe fhe hibernia recovered her mooring wita her side stove in the river is rising at the rate of two inches an hour and it if the heavy r rains 1 I 1 a s of last week continue much ion longer aa e r much suffering will follow ane water has already rea reached clied many houses the hurricane today to day also smashed in about leet feet of the western wall of the southern aou thern exposition buildings PARIS feb 27 A dispatch from ajaccio agaccio Aj accio corsica comical says two companies ot troops have started for bartene Sar tene where the leandri who became an outlaw af after ter a quarrel with tae authorities has appeared at the head of partisans intending to address a final summons to the authorities BOSTON feb 27 gen paine owner of the mayflower has placed her in the hands bands ot 01 architect burgess her it is the batters lat intention to send her to england to compete with the arrow lor for the queens cup the yacht will probably sail about the first of june feb ST the heartrending details of the disaster caused by the earthquakes continue to arrive at diano marino today to day a child twelve years and alid her father were extricated irom from the debris when the latter expired upon the spot the survivors at diano marino say that the majority of the victims were killed by the second shock the people having reentered re entered their houses to procure clothing the sum of has been found in the ruins there bodies wrapped in shrouds lie in the middle of the streets the panic was renewed at genoa today to day on the false report that father denza had predicted ANOTHER SHOCK both re and at barone the peaple refuse to yeturu to their houses they sleep in improvised places of shelter slight oscillations were jelt felt today to day at t porto maurcio Maur zio relief committees are being organized throughout ape country but it is impossible to supply the numerous wants A bill will be introduced in parliament tor for a cre credit dit of tor for relief purposes rome KOME feb 26 troops have been compelled to keep back at the point of the bayonet the crowds of despairing men and women who were impeding the work of excavation in their efforts to find missing relatives the bodies of victims of the disaster are TERRIBLY disfigured the Thes sufferings uffe ring of the survivors are great the I supply aply of provisions and drugs and ambulance apparatus being painfully inadequate I 1 the work of the tie rescuer sis Wis attended with much danger in some cases int y have been obliged to flee from t hc tottering walls although they could hear the groans ot of victims buried beneath tile the debris all the members bf the family of the mayor of balardo were killed of another family con twenty two persons named maestri only a single member half hall demented is left clothed people are wandering on the seashore exposed to inclement weather at Mano marina a woman and child were taken out alive alter being entombed THREE DAYS groans can still be heard in the ruins especially in the via garibaldi the lost oil was valued at the lossis losses on other P property are heavy is threatened with a storm of rain or snow which will cause tearful dis distress although clothing and supplies ot of all kinds are beginning ginning De to arrive in ample quantities from genoa tents for the refugees are being erected and volunteers for search parties are plentiful I 1 he activity of genorese Genoa ese doctors is probe entombed three days u who was e was f RESCUED UNHURT in bed nobody enters eaters a house who la Is able to obtain shelter elsewhere only new and well built houses are hal habitable bitable M lockry minister of public works says that the sewers in the shaken di districts are so damaged that the soil will become infiltrated with sewage and be a source of contagion as soon as hot weather lier comes the government will send engineers and specialists to do everything possible to avert such disease it is stated that british travelers continue to arrive at calais en route to the south M X FLAM MARION laas has written an article in which he says atiat a continuance of minor shocks is likely A chasm has opened in the ground near nice from which a stream of hot muddy water up portions ot of the coast have sunk and other portions have risen A stiff AM wind is blowing at Men mentone toDe making it dangerous to walk about yet hundreds of visitors trona a distance have arrived there being impelled by curiosity VIENNA eeb 27 tabb predicts that the earthquakes will continue and be accompanied by terr tc itic storms he march ath and april uh and ath and the middle middie ot of september and october as the dates upon which the worst shocks may be expected GALVESTON texas feb 27 A special to thi the news f rom saye the southern pacific company is ia about to remove its track from indianola to port lavaca a small village ten mues atOe above on ou matagorda Mata bay this means the total abandon me at ol of indianola on account of the disastrous storms which have swept over the town during the past twelve years during that period persons were drowned and enormous damage has been done to property ST PAUL feb 28 Bi bismarck special to the pioneer press representative ely of the committee which went to montana to confer about ane pneumonia monia says tue cattle losses between miles city and billings ings will be at the rate of 25 per beut east cast of billings 50 to 75 per cent the losses around fort benton are very heavy west of miles city the hills are bare but east cast of there the snow is still heavy and a chanock is badly needed ODESSA february 27 two iwo assas ansas sins sina were arrested arres iea nere here to lo day aay about to sail for turkey tile the men were nihilists nihilisms lists they murdered their employer a rich landlord named Goros zelo and his wife and eight chil ren and several relatives aud then de camped with the spoils amounting to eight hundred thousand roubles coubles rou bles YORK feb 28 two lighters filled with cotton and the steamer lone star of the morgan steamship line burned at the toot foot ot chariton street north river this morning the steamer and lighters were towed in midstream to save other shipping near by it is reported that one man was burned to death on the steamer several other sailors jumped ID the river to save themselves the lone star is the steamer which ran into and sank the british steamer wells city gity a few weeks ago the lone star atar was damaged about and was beached on jersey shore the loss on the pier was about there were about four thousand bales of cotton stored there some of this was saved the loss on cotton was about ST petersburg feb ments meats with a new explosive which has been made under tile the supervision of the government have been attended with greit great success the explosive possesses fifteen times greater destructive tive power than gunpowder it does not produce any smoke N Y feb 28 roxalana druce who murdered her h husband us george druce in december Dec euber 1884 was hanged banged for the crime at noon today to day after the services last evening mrs pruce remained up until about 1130 pam nion with I 1 mr i and mrs waterman the abath death watch induced her to lie down and she had bad about an hours quiet sleep she awakened with a start and upon arising began to write letters as calmly as she had at anytime any time durin during I 1 her incarceration in one of these ste she thanked the sheriff for his kindness to her and asked that her body might be given to her pastor for christian christia n burial after writing she laid down again and tell fell into a dose she was AIr rAcKED WITH HYSTERICS in a violent form and it required considerable sid old erable effort on the part of the watchers to arouse and calm calm her during the inight she ate one of the heartiest meals she had eaten ainee she was a prisoner she had about two hours rest after 4 aam am but she did not sleep soundly at any time one of her first visitors this morning was supt bupt irv ing Terry of the onondaga penitentiary who brought a farewell from her daughter mary who is like the prisoner this visit had had a most exciting effect upon mrs druce drace rev bev dr powell visited mrs druce drace about nine and did all in his bis power to calm her and prepare her for the awful moment every road leading into the town was dotted with sleighs crowded with fur far coated men and not a few women the crowd in ia the village increased on the arrival of every train and in spite of the extreme cold men women and children stood about the streets surrounding the jail the execution was waa witnessed bo by twenty I 1 ave persons including the officials at 1142 mrs druse and dr powel knelt on the floor of the scaffold under the rope mrs druso druse held her hei daughters bonnet in her hand band and closed her eyes eves while dr powell offered prayer mrs druse was dressed in black cashmere wita laced neck and sleeves she wore a small shawl over her shoulders shou she maintained her composure on the scaffold until the cap was drawn over her face when she bern began to moan and finally anally GAN TO sa so loud that she could be heard lp in the treet street adjoining the jail the trap was sprung and alter she feu she be made but one convulsive conval sive movement yesterday morning mrs ars druse made a confession to dr rowell powell her spiritual adviser in which she declared that charles gates nad instigated her to commie the murder and says that he provided I 1 her biti a revolver she declared that after af ter she tired fired the first shot gates tired three succeeding shots from the window biado w she confessed to having cut 1 up her husbands bouy bony and that gates gated took the body away and burned it she related anat she killed druce because he be had treated her cruelly and brutally just before going goin to the scaffold mrs druse made an affidavit declaring that her daughter mary now confined in On oudaRa penitentiary had nothing whatever to do with the killing of her father ST feb 28 diggers Di giers foreign fore a minister in an interview with the turkish ambassador expressed the opinion that the european equilibrium would soon be restored and that there would be no war washington war is brewing between the two houses of congress the members of the senate committee on appropriations who are usually very guarded in their utterances make no concealment of kneir opinion that an extra session is now almost inevitable nor do they hesitate to place the blame where they think thick it belong ter two or three conferences on the sundry civil bill last week which were almost nullified by the early withdrawal of the house conferees a meeting was secured at ten yesterday morning which was intended by the senate members to last through the day and through last la st night as well if necessary to complete the bill and clear the desk for the remaining appropriation bills |
