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Show THE PAYSON GLOBE VOL. VI. PAYSON,-UTAH- f Marine Tragedies 1 nd FAMOUS VESSELS Their Secrets BLOWN IT.' 3 6 Fate of the Maine Recalls Other Disasters of the Deep, J Equally Horrible and Equally Mysterious. THE TORrEDO IN MODERN WARFARE. 3 No navy li free from sad stories of explosions 1b lta powder and ammunition magazine!, and alnee the beginning of our civil war the number of easels destroyed by torpedoea In eome form, or by aubmarlna mlnea, makea a grewaome Hat. Ia it generally known, for example, that In the civil war aeven monitor! and eleven wooden veeaela of war were totally Had by aubmarlne mlnea? the Confederatca poiaeased the aame knowledge at the beginning of the war the atruggle would have been, at the leant, much prolonged, and the dlaaater to life and tonnage been Increased.-- . greatly During our early atrugglea aeveral veaaela were blown up, notably the Randolph, of Immortal memory, but the moat memorable caae, and aurely one of the moat pathetic, waa tbe of the Intrepid, commanded by the gallant Somera. She waa fitted out aa a floating mine, and on the night of September 4, 1804, atarted from off ahore under aall for the Inner harbor of Tripoli. Anxloua eyea watched her from tbe blockading fleet, and at ten oclock a thunderoua report waa heard, a column of flame waa aeen vibrating In the aklea, and then tbe roar of hundreda of guna mounted ashore. No one came back to tell the atory, but It ia believed that Somora kept hla word not to be taken alive by the enemy, and blew up the ahlp to eacape capture. It waa learned that the Intrepid had grounded on the north ledge of the barhor, and that ahe had been attacked by three gunboats. It waa aurmlaed, but never known, that, to prevent the valuable aupply of ammunition falling Into the handa of the enemy, Somera fired her, deetroy-In- g hla own people and the Tripolltana awarmlng out of their boata Ipto the In June, hapleaa American tender. 1829, the wooden ahlp Fulton, then stationed aa the receiving ahlp off Brooklyn, blew up from cauaee never revealed. Seventy-liv- e pereons were mile around the ship was littered with debris. Boata put off from the ahore, and out of the whole ships company of over 150 souls only eight were saved. Fenian plots were held to be the cause of tbe dlaaater, and South America and Australia were the scenea of police Inquiry for months. It la now believed that the explosion was due to the spontaneous Ignition of a paint then used In the British navy. This, under deterioration or when expoeed to heat, waa found to give off a highly Inflammable gas, and aa the first explosion occurred In the neighborhood of the paint locker, thla plausible theory la now accepted. During the last twenty years two oth- SAT UK DAY, MAItCH 5, lOM. , eired m ament. They proved to be dangerous, however, and all effort wae thereafter directed to the dirigible, or the automobile, torpedo. Generally described tbe dirigible torpedo Is ons that contains Its own propelling and firing mechanisms, and la pllotad from the ahore by means of electric cablet, which fuartlon the machinery. The automobile torpedo la a weapon that la ahot from a tuba, generally called a torpedo gun, and takes up its line of progress by machinery contained In lie body. There are many forma of these, like the Howell and the Whitehead, for example, and eome extraordinary results have bean obtained with both. The Whitehead la discharged from the tube by steam or powder, and Just ae It leaves ths mus-s- la a lock automatically opened re seaport CoL flamuel Colt, the Inventor of tho American revolver, first demonstrated tbe practicability of blowing up vessels by aubmarlne mines flrad by electricity. In 1841 he blew np the old gunboat Boxer, and In 1148 ha destroyed a brig in the Potomac river, while thq veasel wae under way, sailing at tha yata of five miles an hour, Many forma ef mines were used hers and abroad, and they were succeee us In the civil fully omployeft'-akalnswar. Every system of coast defense ooncerna itselfjwltk their distribution and use, and every harbor of tho world Iq at this day so mapped out that the blunting of these mines may lb done on a plan which promises tho mutest Utility. Bom .of these mlnea that is, are bonatnnt-deptV) t well-kno- h V.nl . THE JUNIOR OFFICERS OF THE MAINE. Engineer Proctor, (2) Engineer French, (3) Gherardl, (4) Wodhami, (5) Dr. Richards, (8) Ward, (7) Engineer Mansfield, (8) Ramsey, (10) Butler, (11) Watson. (1) leases the compressed air carried In a flask and seta in motion the machinery. Three things must be done by It It must go through the water at a high speed, preserving Its linear direction; It must float at a constant depth, and on striking It must explode. Ths Ingenuity and simplicity of the mechanism which effects these three things are really marvelous. The Howell torpedo la based upon principle of the gyroand surety of dlreo- Its speed scope. t the well-kno- , such as will float always at a certain depth below tbe surface, no matter what may be the state of the tide; eome are fitted to explode on contact, and moot are ao arranged that they may be exploded at will by observers stationed at points of refuge, in bomb proof and lookout stations ashore. Is the harbor of Havana so guarded and so protected, and could the Maine have been anchored close to one of these submerged volcanoes, operated o easily by tip simple twist of a hostile',hand ashekpt - ; Aa Cathlaklng Moths. In n dry goods store a little boy yet In dresses disturbed the pence of hundred of shoppers, mainly, though, because there seemed to be nothing they could do for him. Hie mother, a well meaning woman of email Judgment and experience, wae buying n bat. Suddenly tbe lad by her side began to shriek as If in severe pain or fright The woman tried to soothe him, but ha screamed more fiercely, upon whleh ahe apanked him. A crowd gathered and an attendant picked up tbe then thoroughly unnerved youngster and carried him kicking and yelling Into an anteroom. There he struggled and gasped until a woman put some pink candy In hie bands. For a moment It attracted him. Then he crumbled It fiercely and cried hysterically again. A peppermint from a third woman Impressed him slightly, but he did not gain self control until his mother naked him If he wanted to go out of doors. Like a stifling animal ha shrieked. killed and about thirty were wounded. Tradition haa woven many a romantic, many an Impossible atory One yarn told about this disaster. creeplngly how a gunner's mate had been punished aa he thought unjustly, and In revenge destroyed the ahlp. In ao doing he lost hla own life, but failed in killing the object of hla hatred, an officer, who had left the ship quietly a ahort time before the commission of the crime. The real atory seems to be that a fuddled gunner's mate by some error made hla way Into the magazine with an exposed lighted candle, stumbled Into the powder barrel of the period and thus blew the ahlp skyward. Thi Aaphloa'a DcatrnetUm. In the English service there have been a number of notable caaea of exOne plosion, but mainly in action. well known In time of peace waa the deatruetlon of the frigate Amphlon, Capt. Israel Pellew commanding, off Plymouth, England. Here, too, a gunners mate appears aa the god In the machine for, apocryphal or not, It la believed to thla day that the seaman In question went with a lighted lamp Into the magazlre to steal powder, which then had a re.idy market. Several hundred people were destroyed, among tbem prominent officials and citlaena of the town who were dining on board. Among other crimes laid ao unjuatly to Iriah sympathizers by the English press and people waa the destruction of the Brltlah gunboat Dotterel In the Straits of Ungellan. She arrived off Punta Arenas about nine a. m. on April 28. 1881. The captain went ashore soon after to pay hia official call, and about ten a. m. two terrible explosions were heard, and an Immense cloud of smoke waa aeen hovering over the ahlp in the perfect calm of the morning. Projectiles of all kinds, masses of human beings, of ahlp equipage and of general wreckage were dlecovcnd flying through the air, and the water far a quarter of a tlon are given by the functioning of an Inner wheel, which la relatively very heavy on the periphery, and reThe Confederate Torpedoes. Submarine boata had been generally volve with such velocity and In such employed In all experiments up to the a constant plane that high speed and beginning of the civil war, and It was great atralghtnesa of trajectory are really not until 1883 that movable or secured. There are many other forme, fixed Isolated torpedoea were brought but these two are employed In our serInto general use. The confederate vice, and the Whitehead Is used by nearly all the navies of the world . torpedoea ware uaually made of copSubmarine Hlnua. per and filled with powder, varying The term "submarine mine la apin weights, according to clrcumatances from fifty to one plied to defensive mines or to those of employment, These which would be used to obstruct tbe hundred and fifty pounds. were carried on a para attached to channel of a river or estuary, or the ships or boats, were anchored on the approaches to a fortified or unprotect bottom, or were sent drifting singly or in pairs, connected by long lines, down tide streafts. The fuses were generally of the percussion type, and fulminate of mercury entered largely Into their composition. Tbe Ilouaatonlc was destroyed by a submarine boat, but the Albemarle was blown up by Cushing with a torpedo carried on the rnd of a spar. This torpedo was made of a stout cylindrical copper case, filled with powder and fitted with a hollow tube, which carried at its bottom a fulminate rap. A small sized grape shot, secured with a pin, was held at the top, and by releasing this at the eventful moment Cushing destroyed the Albemarle and hla own boat at the same time, and then made one of the most daring and romantic escapes in the annals of naval history. Many Improved systems were employed and murh ingenuity was displayed, the most Inventive of all expetlmentera being a con fulcra' e officer, who previous to the war bud been a dancing master. barbarous caused, however, Its practical abandonment for many years. Yes! The woman told me that she It at all. Hs could not understand never had such an attack before: Not by way of explanation, but incidentally, ahe added that she and the boy had Just landed from the Teutonic the day before. He had been sick In hie berth for six days. Poor child! Poorer mother! Not to see any connection between six days of sickness In a closed cabin nd a nervous fit In a close store on the seventh! She never knew, ehe said, he had euch n tamper. Grace E. Drew in New York Press. A VlmndmUBdlnfi I understand. American Tourist Marquis, that you fell In love with n distinguished American lady on account of her pretty foot? Marqule Dat is It. Da pretty vsy the foots de hills. New York Weekly. N The enow Is disappearing very slowly In tha desert, which will mean a great loan to sheepmen unless warm weather oornes soon. Mrs. Catherine Cummings, aged 63, one of the early pioneers, died in Malt Lake City last week. Sho came to Utah when a child. The telephone line from Thompson's Springe to Moab haa been completed and the citizens of Moab are highly elated over the fact. The temperance people of Logan are pushing their fight against tbe aaloona and have a monster petition asking for legislation in the matter. Kephi Jensen of Hyrum, who pleaded guilty to stealing slieep from J. 1L Oakey, haa been sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Harriet Evans Richards, mother of State Auditor Morgan L. Richards la dead. She waa 78 years of age and came to Utah in 1854. ordinSince the ance haa beuome a law In Salt Lake City the sidewalks look a great deal better. Tbe law will be rigidly en- Salluul Aildrwn ir- -- MM s Boise, Ida., March 1. The leaders of the sliver Republicans of thU state held a conference here at which about fifty were present. A resolution waa adopted endorsing the nahlresse recently leaned by the national chairman of the silver Republican, Democratic sad Populist parties and recommending a union of all the silver faircae of tbe state to the state silver Republican committee. Lyttleton Price, who was one of the bolting delegates at the Republican sootontiou In St. Ixiuis in 18U6, and who at that time maale tha declaration that McKinley would not get 2511 votes in Idaho, opposed the fusion recommendation. In a speech before Urn conference, Price said he did not believe this a proper time for the discussion of issues. He said the country wae on the eve of a great crUia which might completely change the political iasuea, a ml if war were to be declared, he believed loyalty to the president was paramount lai all other questions now before the public. GOLD POWDER Absolutely Pure ana wnM nwi co., m waa. DOOS. HYDROPHOBIA-PROO- F Opetatloa ravteraad hy aa OU Blwballh old man, has "My tether, who Is always baas food of don aod he haa always perform ad an operation oa all the animals he haa owned to proven them from having the rabies, said a gentleman to a writar la tho Ba Ml mars Bun. "He has had but oat animal sad in this cam hs tall ad to take the prtojuitkm ha hod done wtth tha other dogs. When he waa IT years of aga ha kntw a donnas htenhnmtth who owned two puppies. Re salted iny tathar one day and mid: T wQI show you something whleh will ahrayn ba ef mo to jw- - Taking one of the doga, tho blarhomith placed It on a boot top, and. pulling Ms mouth open, united tha animal's tongas out. Hun ho took a sharp knlft and mada a aMI uadar he dog's tongue, than took an awl and forced out a amall worts. Whoa ho had completed tho operation the blacksmith askad father to try his hand on ths other animal, whleh ho did. Tho blacksmith than said: 'Thaos havt Uw hydrophodrgs will bia. If they art bHten by a mod dog their jaws will Jock and they will not bo ahlo to open them.' Tho ipsnkae aid hla tathar hot takas tho proaan-tkto follow tho blaeksmitfc'o advten One of tho dogs which had boon trash-obp this procaaa wax blttan by n dog which waa mad and la a taw days toe mouth of tho deg booaino locked and the awhnal died without lndleOn any Injury to any oaa. Tha gmtlemaa wM the theory taya hs would Ilka to havt owns of tho medical fraternity ax pertinent with two dogs, taking the worm from tho tougua of one and tearing ft In the tongue of the other, than toon utettng both with tho virtu from dog known to hava bean affected with tho mhtee. A Staph n FOR PAPER CURRENCY. The authorities of Springvllle are Kareat Ordar of the Tmusif Ueiaarilnwat K. 1. 1ayaitantai making it hot for one O. L. lhrlg, who la charged with keeping a gambling Washington, March 1. On account of increased revenues and tha aupply house. Tli authorities are determinof paper currency being sufficient for ed to enforce the law. The Christian Scientists of Salt Lake all apparent needs, at least for the have decided to build a church and present, the order stopping the reat have purchased grounds for that pur- ceipt of gold at the New York for shipments of currency pose. The building will ha e band-som- e and telegraphic transfers from anb-- t and substantial one. re saury offices hut been so modified aa George Buckner, who resides in Provo to allow tbe assistant treasurer at and who has been In jail in Salt lake New Yoak to receive gold In exchange City on a charge of tending nlieneno for to he shipped from currency pajier rebeen haa matter throngh the mails, the treasury in Washington. Tha shipleased upon a 1750 cash bond pending ment of currency will be made at the trial. cost of the consignee to he deducted Articles of Incorporation of the Jen- from the remittance. sen Brothers' Milling company have For the present no further withbeen filed with tbe eecrctary of state. drawals of the balances held by speThe eapltal stock is fixed atllS.OOO and cial depository banka on account of tbe principal place of business la Moro- Union lncI0c deposits will lie made. ni, Sanpete county. It la expected, however, that payGrand county at present boasts of ments for the Kansaa Pacific roads having 40,000 transient sheep, besides will be made by installments, cover50,000 owned by borne partial, which ing sevei al weeks. will make a great deal of work during DEATHS IN BKAGUAY. the shearing season, which will commence about April 1. Sweatees Give tbe Whilst la Oaa Dag Knriu Itaaae. Christina Swenaen ha been awarded Nanaimo, 1L C., March J The steama divorce from her husband, N. P. er Oregon arrived here this afternoon Swenaen, the Logan man who waa acfrom Hkagnay and Dyes, Alaska. Bhe cused of doling out a weekly pittance to hla wife for tbe support of herself bad a number of passenger who are home disgusted with Alaska. and children and then beating her if returning Before the Oregon left Bksgnay, sevhe exceeded the allowance, which waa enteen deaths frum csrebro spinal much to amall for her needs. were reported in twenty-fou- r meningitis Patriarch John Lyman Smith, coushours. in to Joseph Smith I dead, lie waa Dr. O. Ib Bate of Astoria, who waa one of the early pioneer of St. a on the Oregon, predicts passenger He George and waa 70 years of age. that the n amber of deaths will soon crossed the plains in 1847 and entered run into the hundreds. Balt Lake valley on September 25, '47. The steamer Mamie reports that a He waa a man widely known in Utah steamship caught on fire la Neymour and a host of friends will learn with narrows. Her name was not obtains-able- , regret of hla death. hut it ia thought that she was Phillip Jones of South Jordan and from Vancouver, B. C. The fire was another man were rescued from almost extinguished and the steamer procertain death on the desert last week ceeded north. by Robert Carles and David Harman, TRICKS OF SMUGGLERS. tw well known miners who were en route from FJah Springs to Salt Lska One Hid His Heady la a HtaanuMpi Has City. Jones waa mounted on a bony frlneralen. horse, whose hoofs had worn down New York, March 1. Roliert Little, until they bled. Tbe other man was 54 years of age. engineer in charge of ou foot and had given np and waa urgthe two refrigerating plants on the ing hie companion to push on for help, American liner l'arls, was arrested by bnt this was out of the question. The a secret service officer, charged with men were entirely without food or Hia reported the arrest smuggling. for themselves or the horse. will lead to disclosures of an enormous Jones was coming across from hla Ne- smuggling operation on which the sevada mlnea and might have gotten cret service agents have been working through. The other man would surely for a long time. The case contains a have perished. mysterious load of lacc, said to be H. Palmer, alias T. C. Clemmene, valued at $15o,KNl, which was delivered who is in the connty jail in Salt to a Broadway dealer. It is undet-stoo- d that the lacc was smuggled, but City, attempted suicide Sunday morning by tahing sixteen grains of mor- whether all at once, or in small lots, phine. He would undoubtedly hava could not be learned. succeeded in hia intentions had not the Inveatigation may develop some dose been so large. The dose he took startling results and more arrests will simply acted aa an emetic and was ex- follow. pelled from his stomach. He was found FEELINO IN MEXICO. on tbe floor of his cell hy the jailor and medical attendance summoned and waa Americana Invited Hy Hamate Brothers ta oon pronounced out of danger. Pala Main mer was in jail awaiting trial on a Mexico City, March 1 The Mexican, charge of forgery and seemed to have German and Spanish lodges of the city suffered ao keenly from the disgrace of have spontaneously invited their the charge that he procured the mor- American brethren to a niieclal lodge phine from a fellow prisoner with the ef sorrow, to be held on the 3d of intention of ending hie earthly career. .March, in mumory of the Masons who On Sunday night Palmer again made perished in the Maine disaster, and aa two unsuccessful attempts on his life, a mark of sympathy for the loss susonce by banging and later by unscrew- tained by the order and the United ing a gas jet, but he wae detected In States. It ia a noteworthy fact that each instance in time to prevent hla the Initiative was taken In thi matter death. by Grand Orator Carlos Uouinagnie, a About fifty residents of Minneapolis native-liorNpauiard of Maalrid, who visited sunny Utah last week on an ex- supported the movement In a speech cursion under the direction of the full of feeling. There ia no ill fueling between AmerMinneapolis Journal. When they arrive home and find two feet of snow icans and the belter class of Spaniards thaw will he better able to appreciate here. Utah's climate. geinluolcs Were Innaaeeat. Ransom D. L. Mitchell, of Junction Guthrie, Ok., March 1. Fiver since who look flight to evade a tender from Uis burning of the two Indian for the the promoters of an irrigating canal nurder of Mrs. Laird at Mamie, I. T., who desired a right of way across his R has been asserted that Lincoln lie refused land, has been captured. the younger of the two, was tbe offer made and condemnation proand all oi the evidence at the ceedings will lie Instituted. hearing corroborates this assertion. It old son of Is now learned that special agents of Lloyd Mount, the. 8. F. Mount of Rich Held, was just the government hare secured evidence starting with a loaded wagon for Mnn-ro- establishing complete al:,bi for Sampwhen it tipped over and dialled son, the other vielim. proving that he him to the ground, breaking his right was forty miles from tin! Laird home hip. HU injuries wore promptly at- at the time of Hie murder. tended to and be will recover. mw m d Waters Verbid-le- a Britain has Just hasten bask a (ter-maInvasion. Tha Alator, a Oormag trawler, not only caught fish within thi forbidden waters of Moray Frith, bnt undertook to land Ha catch at Abac-deafrom a BritFifteen n n. blue-jacke- ts had to uae force f hack the German flahanne and throwing tfaolr fish back Into that! boat. ish pushing man-of-w- R. 6. WImmer, NOTARY PUBLIC. Oltloo In Bank. Pnyson City. 4. F. HOLLADAY A pro-vend- r, Haudllea TnrprdoM. hntist. Over Douglass' hardware store. Es orythiug pertaining to high art dent-ixtrBadly deoayed teeth made for life by the adjustment of gold amalgam or porcelain crowns. Teeth Best Sets of I prices wllcin the reach of all Wheels, Too! QaaStj tee Bate. TVLEOI Lsdkf. fiertloca's k lutea. Tho UtMart Btumlnt Wheels oa Earth. THE EIB3EB8E wnAMAms THE BEL11H1E, tot Fc1a sateays Neds Why Stoutest KzcMsaet at Kate Oeed Wheels I e, laaaaaa.aaaaiaaaaaaaaaaaaavBalaaaaHaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaaaaaaaaalaaaHaa THE MID3IHI' SECTION OF THE MAINE-THO- M THE DAY AFTER THE DloAaTnR. Raya! aukaa tha hod fan, whelwawe aa BepaMksuw Kiuione the Beeaat n well-kno- For a sea sm totting torpedoes were in great favor. Theae were handled from the ship, and liy rrrtain dextrous shlftir.gs i f the rnniiwnq lines were carried off each quarter at a safe angle, and made to dive at the de- - FUSION IN IDAHO. NEWS. forced. er caaea have occurred one, when In 1880 Sr Spanlah gunboat was blown up in the harbor of Santiago do Cuba, and the other in 1893, when a moat damaging and distressing explosion occurred on board of the German armored ship Baden, then at anchor off Kiel. Of the war Inventions employed to destroy ships by submarine or aerial projectllea or by mines the number la legion. We were among the earliest to employ these, and our contributions to the history of torpedo warfare have been very many and very notable. The famous Battle of the Kegs has been sung In mock heroic verse, and the Philadelphians of 1777 had many a merry jest over the valorous attack made by the Brltidh grenadiers upon these Innocuous barrels. Capt. David Bushnell of Connecticut was one qf the earliest experimenters with torpedoes, though Robert Fulton was tbe first to call a magazine of powder Intended for use under Thla great inwater by thla name. ventor made many experiments, and the partisans and opponents of the new system filled the Journals of that day with acrimonioua d la suasions. The failure of torpedoes In the war of 1812 and the general feeling against thla mode of warfare as Inhuman and UTAH ed NO. 5. I'lIOTO ' TA National Sowing Machine Co., My Dreadway, New Yeffc. Fectaryt BdvIdaM, Hla. I j |