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robbed of terrors.
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Railroad Travel Made Safer Through
MccSmical Appliances.
Tear’s Terrible Record—Late In
ventions and ineir Uses Interest
edly Described—Rai.roadin* Sim
plified.
i- rom the Washington Star
When Father Time's train left block
vo •<'3, and rolled into block No. 1594.
the sighs of relief that were uttered by
the railroad presidents arid their assist
ants of the entire country must have de
veloped. at their conjunction, into a
prayer of thanksgiving. The year 1893
will go into railroad history as the most
disastrous on record, when the loss of life
and destruction of rolling stock is taken
into consideration. Sheer luck .will be
blamed by the managers of the eastern
leads for the misfortunes they have suf
fered, while the western roads, through
their officials, simply attribute their
losses to the immense traffic that swept
down upon them in the later days of the
world's fair.
It is a peculiar coincidence that the
month of March, 1593, was ilieonly month
of the year that escaped without a black
mark in'the shape of a fatal accident to
its credit. For many decades the month
of March has been considered the worst
month in the year for fatal railroad acci
dents aud reliable records will show that
she has well earned this reputation. This
state of things was. no doubt, brought
about principally through the season of
tjie year and its effect upon newly ouilt
roaas. Frost would be leaving the ground
about that time of the year and roads
completed and operated the fall previously
woald be called upob by Mother Nature
rp stand a strain that hastily constructed
road: eds were not equal to. Hence cave
ins and washouts fell to the record of
March
Xhe year 18S3 had hardly begun opera
tions bdfore the great wreck on the 3ig
Four, Jan. 21. occurred. I,n that wreck,
it will t>e remembered, thirty-two were
killed and thircy-six injured. With this
appalling inauguration of accidents the
record of disasters was kept up through
out the entire year with such persistency
rjiat the believers in bad luck caine to be
lieve the figures 1898 were ill-omened.
past year's terrible record.
The record of the year recalls the worst
davsof Mississippi s team boating, when
lives were recklessly sacrificed to speed,
and the time when the wrecks of the frail
sidewheel steamers on the Atlantic ocean
brought death to hundreds. Since Jan. 1,
1803. until Dec. 31 of the same year,
twenty-eight severe disasters have oc
curred on ihe railroads of the country.
This is by no means all the collisions and
derailments from which death and injury
have resulted, hut it includes the princi
pal ones Adding up the tomls of deaths
and injuries we find that 232 people were
killed and til’ injured. This is an appall
ing record. and may well excite a painful
interest in the traveling public’s mind.
In a conversation recently with a well
known railroad official an Evening Star
reporter broached the subject of the dis
astrous record of 1893 as regards railroad
travel. The official said:
• The year's record was undoubtedly
the worst iu my memory, but I know it
wili result in great good. Many things
were brought out through the misfor
tunes and where they can be prevented
iu the future preparations looking to that
■ad have already been inaugurated.
Many of the disasters occurred to world's
fair trains, but the fact that this class
of travel was seriously affected is no ad
equate reason why it should be so. On
most of the railroads where extra ser
vice was necessary by the travel to Chi
cago trains were not so frequent that the
doubling or trebling of them neyd have
resulted in crowding. The cause, in my
mind, for the great list of accidents can
be traced to the parsimony of a majority
o' the western roa is. The overworking
of employes from the lack of train service
is one result of economy, but a more
weighty result was the incompetence of
those employed. The desire to cut
down expenses ied to the emp.ayment of
men lacking in the training necessary to
rightly understand aud execute orders,
and who were hired simply because they
could be hired cheaply. It is an undenia
ble fact that two of the most prominent
'•oads in the east, roads that have always
had the least trouble with their employes
on auount of wages were the least suf
ferers in the wa.yof wrecks last year.
THE BATTLE CREEK HORROR.
‘ Let me cite the horrible Battle Creek,
'Mich i accident as the natural result of
hiring incompetent employes. The en
gineer and conductor did not scent to un
derstand the orders giver them and were
totally unfit to caray them out. Fancy
■} n y of °ur old engineers pulling away
run a station when they didn't under
stand an order. They would have stayed
there a week under the- same circum
stances. The lack of system on many
roads is also accountable for some of the
.■ear s horrors. Fast immunity from
criminal prosecution has made' several
companies careless.. They know they can
be mulcted in damages to a certain amount
tor every person tney kill or Injure, but
beyond that they are safe from danger.
Investigations generally end innothing.or,
i. a verdict is brought in, a prosecution in
the courts of the employes or of the offi
cials of the companies rarely or never
takes place. The trust of tqo great a ina
onty of the railroads is that public in
oignation will soon blow over, and gen
c.'u.i,, they calculate correctly. This is a
resu.t broughtiatout by the general-belief
pat aciidents will and must happen, but
ne extreme to which this idea may be
1 a , ri 'i e and is not taken into consideration.--
' iou very well know that the railroad
Passenger business of the country is
apidl.v Picking up. The enlargement of
a tremendous depot, that is, it was so con
sidered five years ago, in a neighboring
'ey substantiates this assertion, afid the
a.,mads that have an entrance into, the
1 •:;> of ,\ew York or reach nearby water
routs are simply swamped by their pas
ppuger traffic. The year 1803 will show
nut there were 7oO.iXXJ.OOO passengers
ransported, and of these one in each
- *uu.ouo was killed, and one in each 100,-
Jy "; ls upured. This is a comparatively
...a., number, it is true, but' the fact re
mains that is an increase over 1802 and
Tut' U s,lou iti not have been so iarge.
a ®f® are thousands of competent, hard
men etni loyed by the railroads
no are conscientiously trying to do their
moM !t ls a Pity that the effort they are
aumg to elevate their calling ana win
P..?,!:u ri v lacm ' e °E the public should be de
.“l the parsimony of some of the
...' tPanics and by ihe lack of system with
' rDK ' h many roads are run.
TO PREVENT DISASTERS.
thor l * recent meeting in New York of
i, „. officials connected with the American
*- v AMOD&tiott to discuss the best
M-'t; . Preventing disasters that re
m the loss of life and limb on liye rail
In-at l * lat theowarning given by the
l-v‘a?J Jniber °f casualties occurring in
i j not pass unheeded, and that the
L *5 haie at least satisfaction in know
omti .'heir intervals were discussed
j. ''ith the companies represented. I
, , that meeting, and although I
leasT le i ta^es out °f school, i can at
warn, . ’ tbat there were several very
th-... ’beeches made and refieetions cast
l , ause< i several of the western repre
■ atn.es to squirm in their seats. There
tracu 1 10a(ls - operating 131.000 miles of
wa , r , B ' ,r lstated at the meeting, and it
tb-rr-u,',’, I** 1 ** ° nt that the action we took
hu,, *1 have an important bearing
the security from danger of the
500,000 passengers carried annually by
the railroads of this country.
“The block and signal system, which,
when they work correctly, prevent a
train from entering a section of the road
UDtil the track for that section is clear,
are great advances upon the old method
of telegraphic orders between stations, as
that was an advance upon the haphazard
methods of forty years ago. But ex
perience has shown that these systems
are far from perfect, and as you have al
ready told The Star, my road, for one, is
trying very hard to better that later sys
tem. The block system depends upon the
giving of correct signals to engineer and
his seeing and obeying these signals. If
any part of the apparatus gets out of
order and fails to give the right signal, or
any signal, or if the engineer through
some inadvertence fails to catch the
meaning of the signal, disaster is only
avoided by lucky chance and the public
being startled by a long list of killed and
injured. v
“Automatic devices to supplement hu
man skill and foresight are being intro*
duced on our best roads, and soon will be
as common and recognized as necessary
ou all roads as the air brake. It is proba
ble that the extension of electrical appli
ances to railroads will, in the near future,
make traveling on the rail safer than it is
to stay at home. That is an old and
broad assertion, but notwithstanding the
re. ord of 1893 I think we shall soon see
those conditions fulfilled. Some inven
tions looking to this end are being tested
now. It appears fanciful to claim that
an electrical apparatus can be arranged
which will stop a train at points of dan
ger independent of the engineer, that
will warn the engineer of an accident
happening to the device itself and its
failure to work correctly, and which will
enable every moving train, switch and
drawbridge to operate its own signals.
HELP FROM ELECTRICITT.
“But that is what we now propose to
do, and those with me who have wit
nessed the marvelous things done by elec
tricity, will back up my assertion. "These
devices will warn an engineer in ample
time to stop his traio when a train is ap
proaching him on the same track, tell
him when a draw-Dridge is open ahead of
him,whether an accident has happened to
any wheel on his train of cars,and whether
a trestle bridge has sagged or fallen
down or burned up. These devices will
eliminate, as far as human genius can ap
parently go, every element of uncertainty
and leave nothing to human fallibility or
negligence. They will do everything but
talk, and for that they- will substitute the
sharp and continuous ringing of gongs
that will speak as plain as words.
“Next to the electrical appliances are
the mechanical designs, which are al
most, if not equally, as effective in pre
venting accidents. One of these is the
derailment stop, which consists of a lever
inside the driving wheels of the locomo
tive and within the trucks of the cars,
whose lower end depends within a few
inches of the top surface of the rail. It is
pivoted so as to permit of a movement
longitudinally of the train, and its upper
free end, which extends beyond the pivot,
is connected to a link or arm, which in
turn is connected with the handle of a
cock situated in the main train pipe of
the train’s airbrake system. When de
railment takes place the lower end is
brought in contact with the ground
either by the wheels cutting into the
earth or by a sufficiency of the periphery
of the wheel descending between two
cross ties. .By the forward motion of the
train the lower end of the lever is
vibrated rearwardly, the upper end mov
ing forward from the pivot aud by this
forward motion exerting a pull upon the
link connecting with the handle of the
main train airbrake lever, opening the
same and causing the air to escape, thus
applying the brakes.
“Co-operating with this ingenious de
vice is the drawbridge mechanism, which
consists of a sliding rod lying at and
across the laud end of the bridge termi
nal, and projecting out sufficiently to be
engaged by a bracket or arm fastened to
the bridge and moving with it. This slid
ing rod has coiled upon it a spring, so ar
ranged that wiien relieved from the
pressure of the strut or plate it springs
out, and upon the return of the bridge it
is pushed back and the spring com
pressed. Pivoted to the crossties is a
bell crank whose ends are engaged re
spectively by the sliding transverse rod
and a line of gas pipe lever running par
ellel with the track. This is carried back
a sufficient distance and there connected
to a crank arm, which in turn is connec
ted to a rock shaft, lying transversely of
the tracks, and to which are connected at
suitable places sector-shaped trip pieces,
which are raised and lowered by the rota
tion of the tranverse rock shaft as the
bridge is opened and closed through the
means of the mechanism I have spoken
of beiore. These trips, when in operation
or in a raised position, which is the posi
tion they occupy when the bridge is
opened, engage the levers of the air brake
System, and by turning them back apply
the brakes and stop the train. Upon the
closing of the bridge they are. of course,
turned down and out of their working
position,
■An engineer approaching an open
drawbridge first passes a signal warning
him to stop, and failing to obey it for any
reason, his levers are struck and turned
back by the stops and he comes to a stand
still upon the rails whether he wants to
or not.
A PROTECTION FENCE.
“The other device I have hinted at in
the first part of our conversation is a pro
tection fence to be placed on trestles. It
is a marvel of simplicity and ingenuity.
Lying across the trestle is a series of
jointed levers, whose joints are connected
by fusible plugs. Just outside of the
structure is a spring coiled upon a rod,
exerting a continual pressure away from
the structure, yet coiled so that it can it
self be compressed. A line of gas pipe
lever connects with the jointed levers and
runs back a proper distance, where it is
connected to a crank arm. which is at
tached to a rock shaft, at right angles,
and this rock shaft runs transversely
of the tracks and terminates in a
box having fastened to it a cres
cent-shaped lifter, upon which rests a
trip having its lower surface formed like
a cam.
With the apparatus in operation, should
a bridge burn, one or more of the fusible
plugs would be melted, and the gas pipe
lever, under the influence of the spring,
would move down and back, throwing
down the crank arm, rotating the rook
shaft and raising the trip up out of the
box by the pressure of the crescefit
shaped lifter a gaiust its under or cam
side.
“Should the bridge be washed away by
a flood or fall through weakn ss, the con
nections would be snapped, and the same
thing would occur, but if the bridge sinks
through weakness insufficiently to part
any of the couplings, the reverse move
ment is imparted, as the connections,
having to cover the form of an inverted
arc, would be drawn toward the bridge,
and move the crank arm down in the re
verse or bridge direction, aud cause the
trip to rise by the pressure, of the other
lifter against its under surface, thus pro
viding for two distinctly different move
ments in a way that is at once simple,
practical and cheap of construction.
“These devices form the principal im
provements iu railroad safeguards con
templated for the coming year. Like all
devices, they have defects, but these de
fects are reduced to a very small percent
age. In the matter of electrical signals,
snow and sleet are the most formidable
foes to overcome, while in the case of the
two mechanical safeguards villainous
tampering, such as likely to come from
tramps, is the only drawback. It takes a
case-hardened scoundrel to wreck a train,
and while there are many tramps that
will commit petty crimes, the class of
murderers is comparatively small. Con
sidering this circumstance, the median- j
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JANUARY 23. 1894.
leal appliances will surely prove a sub
stantial benefit.
“To sum up the outlook for 1894, my
opinion, as a railroad man, is that the per
centage of wrecks will show a decided de
crease under the record of 1898, and that
the traveling public's interests are being
looked after with greater persistency
an ever before.”
ENJOYING STOLEN CASH.
Two Boys Have a Good Time at a
Grandfather's Expense.
Waycross, Ga., Jan. 22.—A little grand
son of Dr. E. B. Goodrich was found en
tertaining three young associates in a
royal manner this morning, with a part
of 834 which had been stolen from his
grandfather's room. The boys hired a
2-horse buggy, provided themselves with
fruits and candies and went on a pleasant
ride to the Satilla river. On their return
the discovery of the stolen money was
made. It is not yet known who committed
the theft.
RETRENCHMENT ON THE RAILS.
The Norfolk and Western Cuts the
Pay of All its Employes.
Philadelphia, Jan. 22.—Owing to the
business depression and the consequent
falling off in the railway traffic there
will be a general reduction of wages on
the Norfolk and Western railroad on Feb.
1. The employes will not alone be the
sufferers, as the officers had their sal
aries reduced on the first of the year
The reduction will result in a saving of
about 8300,000 annually.
A Passenger Train Wrecked.
Montgomery. Ala., Jan 23.—Pas
senger train No. 5 on the Central rail
road, due here at 7.55 o’clock last night,
was thrown off the track- near Fitz
patrick last night by a cow. The engine,
express and baggage car were derailed.
Engineer Williams and Fireman Kimball,
of Macon, were badly scalded. No other
causalties occurred.
WHY OIL STILLS THE WAVES.
The Wind Passea Along the Oily Sur
face With Reduced Power.
From the Chicago Herald.
A great deal has been written about the
influence of oil on waves at sea. and of the
practically useful action of oil in many
cases there is abundant testimony, but
little has been beard of the reason for the
results obtained. W. J. Millar has found,
from experiments made in shallow, bro
ken water on the coast, where the wind
and tide conflicted, that little or no ad
vantages can be traced from the use of
oil under such conditions; that is to say,
the wave fhotion being disturbed and un
der forces not who.ly those of wind ac
tion, the oily film becomes broken up In
deep water, however, where the waves
may be considered as wholly formed
by the wind, their forms are more
regular, and it is in such circum
stauces that the recorded examples
show to the best effect. These effects
suggest the real aetion of the oil, Accord
ing to some theories the oil acts as it does
when applied to bearings in machinery,
and thus the wind glides more easily over
the oiled surface than it dobs over the
water surface. It is difficult to see, how
ever, that the frictional resistance be
tween air aud oil should be less than be
tween air and water, as the oil is a less
mobile fluid than the water. Again,
when we consider the surface tension of
fluids, and can often observe their re
straining action on ascending air hubbies
or small floating objects in glasses of
water, we might suppose that by the ad
dition of.the film of oil sufficient resis
tance was offered to the uprise of the
upper part of the wave, and thus the ten
dency to break would be restrained. Mr.
Millar comes to the conclusion that the
action of the film of oil is one of separa
tion. His view is that when we consider
the tendency of air to become satuated
with watery vapor due to evaporation
aud of water to retain air
by absorption. we may read
ily conceive that the impact of
air on a watery surface will tend to cause
a commingling at the surface of air and
water, which will thus offer sufficient re
sistance to the motion of the wind to
throw the water aud mixture into an un
dulator.v movement, and, therefore, when
this forward movement has exceeded the
speed due to the periodic motion in the
wave itself, the upper part in 'falling
forward from the effects of the push of
air from behind shows a foaming rush of
broken water; that is, the air incorpor
ated with the water and the water itself.
Arguing on this basis Mr Millar sees no
difficulty in accenting the theory that the
film of oil spread over the surface of the
water effectually prevents the formation
of broken water; as the air and water are
kept separate the tendency to mutual
absorption at the surface is checked and
the wind passes along the oily surface
with reduced power of wave making.
A Tax Upon Rentals.
The Russian government, which aban
doned the idea of an income tax some
time ago, has now determined to impose a
tax upon the rental of occupied houses,
to be paid by the tenants, says the New
Yoik Host. This impost will be levied
for the present only in 220 of the chief
towns in the empire, which will be di
vided into four classes, according to the
estimated value of theft- house property.
The first class comprises the two capitals,
Moscow and St, Petersburg The second
includes ten towns, namely: Warsaw,
Wilna, Kazan, Kiev, Kishinev, Odessa,
Riga, Rostov-on-the-Don, Saratov, and
Kharkov. There sixty-seven towns in
the third class, and 141 in the fourth.
All of them are situated in
Huropean Russia and Poland, but
the tax will- be extended hereaf
ter to other parts of the empire. The ag
gregatepopulation of these 220 towns is
about 8,500,600, but the rating is arranged
so as to spare the poorer classes. Thus,
the lowest annual rental subject to the
tax is 300 rubles ($150) in the capitals,
and in the other three classes 225, 150,
and 130 rubles respectively. Arrange
ments have been made for a fifth class, in
which the lowest taxable rental will be
60 rubles, hut, as yet no towns have been
selected for it. Besides the privileged
official and ecclesiastical classes, schools,
hospitals, and places of business (which
last are already subject to
a similar impost), the following
houses are specially exempted:
Workmen's barracks at manufactories,
etc., and the lodging places of the poor,
small inns, night houses, etc. Moreover,
any occupier ehaugiug his abode for one
at a lower rental will'be taxed as for the
latter, if the change be made during the
first quarter of the the year. The tax is
calculated on a rising scale, iieginning at
about per cent, on the lowest taxable
rental, and reaching a maximum of 10
per cent, on rentals above 6,000 rubles
($3,000); 4.500, 8,00), 2.400. and 1.200 rubles
lespectively in the five classes. It has
been estimated unofficially that this will
produce a revenue of about 4,500,000
rubles £475,000), two millions, or nearly
half, of which will be paid by the two
capitals.
A Bug Gnawed His Heart.
Muucie, Ind., Jan. 19.—A remarkable
rase of a boy being killed by a bug that
gnawed his heart deeply interests local
physicians. Samuel Lennox, 7 years old,
died a tew days ago with very peculiar
symptoms. The boy had been sick for
some time; hut his case was different
from any other. A post-mortem examina
tion revealed that part of the heart had
been eaten away by an insect, causing
death. Nearly a year ago the boy drank
water from a brook and swallowed a
water bug. The insect ate its way through
the boy's stomach and then began de
vouring the heart, the boy bleeding to
death.
MELLO TO BE HEMMED IN.
The Niotheroy and Other Vessels Sail
South From Pernambuco.
Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 22.—The dynamite
cruiser Nictheroy, the torpedo boat
Aurora, and the Brazilian government
warship Parnahyba, left Pernambuco
for the south on Saturday. The govern
ment war vessels will follow soon, and it
is expected that the rebellion will soon
end.
All sorts of rumors are in circulation as
to the destination of the Brazilian gov
ernment fleet, but nothing is definitely
known. The general opinion seems to be
that the government warships will bio -k
--ade the entrance of Rio bay and so pre
vent any further supplies from reaching
the insurgents.
It is impossible for vessels to discharge
their cargoes at this port owing to the
yellow fever epidemic Tne deaths from
this disease average Oleven daily.
WALTHALL’S RESIGNATION.
The Democratic Caucus of Mississ
ippi Indorses His Action.
Jackson, Miss., Jan. 22.—The demo
cratic members of the legislature met in
caucus to-night to consider the matter of
the election of a United States senator to
succeed Senator Walthall.
A resolution was adopted indorsing
Senator Walthall's course as senator, and
expressing regret at his illness, and the
hope that he will resume his place in the
senate on the beginning of his next term
A resolution was adopted fixing Thurs
day. the 35th inst., as the time for ballot
ing in caucus for candidates for senator.
The action of the caucus is construed to
be m victory for the silver man.
A PANIC IN INDIA.
Fears That Any Rate May Bs Accepted
at the Next Sale of Bills.
London, Jan. 23.—The Calcutta cor
respondent of the Times says: “The
money market to-day was almost in a
panic. It is feared that the earl of Kim
berly may accept any rate offered at the
naxt sale of bills. It is virtually certain
that he ean command fair rates, if he
holds out a week or so longer.”
A dispatch to the Times, from Hong
Kong, says that the last phase of the
silver crisis has had a deplorable effect
upon business there. Both in Hong
Kong and Shanghai trade has been
paralyzed.
COTTON MILLS TO RUN CLOSE.
Four Days Per Week to Be the Time
Limit After This Month.
Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 22.—Notice has
been posted in the Conestoga cotton mills
Nos. 1 and 2, owned by John Faruum &
Cos., and employing over 2.000 hands, that
on and after Feb. 1 the mills will be oper
ated four days a week.
The notice concludes with the an
nouncement that unless the trade bright
ens. a reduction and readjustment of
wages will take place. For the past sev
eral months, the mills have been running
only on half time.
O’FERRALL AND THE FIGHTERS.
The Governor Declines to Talk About
the Indictments.
Richmond, Va., Jan. 22.—Gov. O'Fer
rall was not inclined to discuss the Nor
folk county prize fight indictments when
seen at the executive mansion to-night,
as the county authorities have the cases
in hand and are investigating
them Attorney General Scott will
go to the county to-morrow to look into
some phases of the matter. Tlvegovormu
is pronounced in his opposition to the
brutal sport and says it is disgraceful to
allow such meetings on Virginia soil.
DEATH IN A BROTHEL.
A Woman Shot Through a Partition
While Sick in Bed.
Pensacola, Fla., Jan. 22.—Mamie Hall,
an inmate of a bawdy house known as No.
18, was to-night shot by Mamie Harring
ton, another inmate of the house. The
Hall woman was lying in her bed sick at
the time. The bullet which caused her
death came from an adjoining room
through a partition. Capt. Francisco
Domingo Veria, of the Portuguese bark
Julia, has been arrested as an accomplice,
he having been in the room at the time.
The coroner’s jury has not yet rendered a
verdics.
Alexander Not Assassinated.
Belgrade, Jan. 22.—The report that
King Alexander had been assassinated
was without foundation. He is actively
employed in seeking to end the crisis now
prevailing here. Acting under the advice
of his father, he is endeavoring to obtain
a coalition ministry.
Prance’s Bond Deal.
Paris, Jan. 22.—Officials in charge of
the 450 offices opened to receive 4 : , per
cent, bonds for conversion according to
the new law just passed report that they
have neither received bonds for conver
sion nor applications for repayment.
Mr. Childs a Trifle Better.
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 22.—George W.
Childs’ physicians reported this after
noon that he was a trifle better. It was
stated authoritatively, however, that his
condition is serious and that one of the
doctors is constantly in attendance.
Late Shipping News.
For other marine n ws see 7 page.
Wilmington, Jan 22—Arrived, schr Seth M
Tood, Johnson, Cuba.
Darien, Jan v.o—Arrived, schrs M Snow,
Henklay. Norfolk; J B Atkinson, Quenin,
Philaaelpbia.
Charleston, Jan 22—Arrived, steamer Semi
nole Chichester. New York, proceeded to
Jacksonville; schrs Maggie M Keough, 411-
ton. Newport Nov.s; Edward G Htght, Rich
erds. Baltimore.
Cleared, schrs John M Moore. Norton, Phil
adelphia; Richard S Spofford, Haes. New
York.
Sailed, schrs E A Baizley, Townsend; Anna
Chase, New York.
West Point, Va., Jan. 22.—Arrived, steam
ships Danville. Murphy, Baltimore. Dor
chester, Parker. Baltimore. Richmond. Dole,
New York.
Sailed, steamships Dorchester, Parker,
Boston, via Norfolk: R! htnond, Dole, via
Newport News; Danville, Murpbv, Baltimore.
Newport News, Va., Jan. 22.—Arrived, Brit
ish steamships Acme. Galveston; Aspatia.
shields; Camden Matousas: schooners, E. C
Alien. True. N. Y.: a'rundv, New York. Z.
Sherman, Providence; B. H. Jackson. Jr.. Bos
ton. J. H. Jackson. Boston.
Sailed, British steamships Rappahannock.
Liverpool; Acme. Galveston; Camden. Liv
erpool; Castlemoor, Hamburg.
Richmond, Va. Jan. 22.—Arrived steamship
Old Dominion. Couch, N. Y.
Norfolk. Va. Jan 22.—Arrived, steamer
Glendevon. (Br. i Hodge, Port Tampa to Glas
gow, coaled and sailed; steamer Cedar
Branch. (Hr.) Pitchers. New Orleans to
Rouen, coaled and sailed; stoamor Ahoraea
(Bri McGregor,Galveston to Havre,ooaled and
sailed: steamer Cain row. (Br.) Steward. Gal
veston to Havre, coaled aud sailed: steam**r
Etheluurgu. !Br.) Winder. New Orleans to
Prederlckshaven, coaled and sailed; steamer
Dunedin. (Br.) Wigell. Savannah to Liver
pool, coaled and sailcl: steamer Federation
(Br.i Clutter. Charleston to Liverpool.coaled
and sailed.: steamer Waltachie .Br.) Meiters,
Galveston to Havre, coaled and sailed;
steamer Lampasas American. Buno.vs,
Ga.veston to New York, coaled and sailed;
schrs F'ranU O. Dame. James Boyce. .Smiiv
Bird-tall. New York; Elwood H. Smith. New
Yorx; Margaret B. Roper. Bridgeport; James
H. Hargrave and 'ibornas T. Btrann Balti
more; IT. L. James. Baltimore.
Cleared, steamer Donau. tGer.i Siegel.
Hamburg; schrs. J. Howell. Leeds. New
York; Wilson and Hunting. New York; C. C.
Wehrura, Now York, Game Cook, Baltimore
ENGLAND'S DEFENSES.
Balfour Urges Preparations to Resist
France and Russia.
London, Jan. 22.—Arthur J. Balfour,
leader of the unionists in the House of
Commons, spoke at length this evening
before a meeting in Manchester on the
subject of the imperial defense. This, he
said, was at present of paramount
interest. Any nation or combina
tion of nations which was able
to wrest from Great Britain
her supremacy of the seas could bring
her to her knee without landing
a singie soldier on English soil. He did
not believe any government was justified
in accepting a long era of peace. The
French and Russian governments were
pushing forward with all speed the work
is their dock yards. Certaiu movements
made of late years in Asia were only too
obviously directed against England.
While there were indications
that France and Russia were
earnestly bent upon peace, their main ar
rangements evidently were prompted by
the assumption of conflict with England,
sooner or later, singly or combined. He
believed that the English people were
amicably disposed toward France, hut
must admit, with the deepest regret, the
conviction that the French were hostile
to England.
Finally. Mr. Balfour appealed to tfie
electors to influence their representatives
in parliament hy all possible means to
assist in quickly and efficiently strength
ening the country's defenses. He could
pledge the opposition, he said, to co-oper
ate cordially with the government iu its
every effort to increase England’s naval
and military power
BLOWS OUT HIS BRAINS.
A Cotton Broker of New Orleans
Driven to Death By Debt.
New Orleans, Jan. 22.—Simon E. Marx,
a prominent cotton broker, went to Au
dubon park this afternoon and placing
the muzzle of a revolver in his mouth,
blew the top of his head off. He had
several large notes to meet and being
unable to raise the cash, grew
despondent, and left his home this morn
ing with the avowed intention of killing
himself. His family becoming alarmed, had
informed the police, who hunted for him
until the sensational manner of his sui
cide was telephoned to headquarters.
MEDICAL.
3EWAREmGfUP
Dr. Edson fears another epidemic,
and sounds the alarm.
In lung and chest pains, coughs, colds,
hoarseness and pneumonia, no other
external remedy affords prompt preven
tion and quicker cure than
BENSON’S POROUS PUSTER.
| Indorsed by over 5,000 Physicians and
Chemists, De sure to got the genuine
Benson’s, may be had from all druggists.
SEABURY & JOHNSON, Chemists. N. Y. City.
DRY GOODS.
9 DAYS
jr ' .
—: OF
SLAUGHTER.
We take our Annual:
Inventorij the first of:
February and in clear-:
ino up our stock, offer•
enormous bargains in:
every department. The;
economical will take;
advantage of this op-:
port unity by calling :
early and getting a se
lection away below:
cost. ;
We have just NINE•
DATS. In which we j
wijl absolutely j
SLAUGHTER j
winter goods, :
Come! Help us out:
by carrying them off, :
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w . BICYCLES.
THE CENTRAL
The Ben" Hut
Will be Leaders
IN SAVANNAH
IN 1894.
Write for our elegant descriptive catalogue
CENTRAL CYCLE MANUFACTURES CO.,
JNP4A;<AFOU£. INU.
fuyniture and carpets.
THE BUND CAN’T SEE,
But they realize the value of our Furniture In using It. Don’t let the
merits of our Furniture be Invisible to you. Tired mothers exolte our
sympathy. They have worked hard for us. We’ll relieve them. Cot
your better half one of our famous easy chairs. A life’s luxury. How
happy she’ll be! You wouldn't have believed It. Really they are good
enough to take a night’s rest in. Excellent for emergencies. Sitting up
in the wee small hours, for Instance, with a sick loved one. The prloa.
we know, will suit.
E/VYIL /\ . SGH lA/ /\ RZ *
J>RY jjOODS. -
&'(ll//ta4l% BROUGHTON STREET.
REMOVAL SALE.
We have secured a larger store and will move about
March 15th, and, as we want to open with an entire new
stock, we have marked down our goods to prices that
will make them move quickly. We mention the prices of
a few articles of the many we have:
Ladles’ Capes, $2 50; sold formerly at $4 00.
Ladles' Cloaks, $6 50; regular price SIO 00.
Trimming Silks at SI 12; were SI 85.
Black and Fancy Veiling, formerly 40c, now 250 a yard.
Trimming Braids at 5, 10, 15, 25 and 3Bc a yard.
All Wool Black Hopsacking, 35c; former price 50c.
Priestley’s Silk Warp Black Henriettas, now $1 12; was $1 50.
Ladles' and Children’s Hermsdorf Dye Black Hose at 21c.
SALE COMMENCES MONDAY MORNINC AT 9 O’CLOCK.
HOUSfcJOIRN, SWINGS.
We have a few wheels left over from ’93, which we
are going to close out at the following prices:
$5O Pneumatic Tires $36.
$35 Cushion Tires $25.
$25 Cushion Tires $lB.
These are all first-class in every particular. Come
and get a bargain while they last, at
LINDSAY & MORGAN’S.
NOVELTY IRON WORKS.
/CJX * JOHN KOUKKE & SON,
LMmfiffim Novelty Iron Works,
Iron nd Brnas Poundera and ..<
Mnchlnlmn, Blnckamllli* A llollurrnakvra.
THE SAMSON SUGAR MILLS AND PANS.
DEALERSIN
STEAM ENGINES, INJECTORS, STEAM AND WATER FITTING*
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED—ESTIMATES GIVEN.
8, 4 and O Bay and I, 2,3, 4, 8 and 8 Rlvar 6tijct*
EftVrtNNrtH, QH.
IRONJFOUNDERS.
McDonough & ball antyNe,
IRON FOUNDERS,
Machinists, Blacksmiths & Boiler Makers.
Also manufacturers of Stationary and Portable Engines, Vertical and Top-runalng Cora
Mills. Sugar Milts and Pans Hayo also on hand and for sale cheap one 10 horsepower
Portable . ntlne: also, one SO, one 40 snd one luo horse Power nt- tlonary Engine. All orders
promptly attend) and to
__ hotej^s.
HOTEL PONCE DE LEON,
ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA.,
Casino, Russian and Turkish Baths now open.
o. D SEAVEY, Manager.
MACHINERY, CASTINGS ETC.
KEHOE’S Hi N~WORKsi
IRON AND BRASS POUNDERS, MACHINISTS, BLACKSMITHS AND BOILERMAK
ERS, ENGINES, BOILERS AND MACHINERY, SHAFTING, PULLEYS, ETC.
Special attention to Repair Work. Estimates promptly furnished. Brouahton stroo*
from Reynolds to Randolph streets. Telephone 268.
HARDWARE.
HARDWARE,
Bar, Band and Hoop Iron,
WAGON MATERIAL.
Navaf Stores SuoDfies.
FOP SALE HV
EDWARD LOVELL’S SONS
. JP imvaKCOK MP W-MA&Ma am-'
PEAS.
SEED POTATOES.
Virginia Second Crop,
Aroostook and
Houlton Rose.
All carefully selected for seed.
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES, HAY, GRAIN
AMD FEED.
W. D. SIMKIN3,
173 and 17S RAY STREET.
OLD NEWSPAPERS, 200 for 2ft coats, a*
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