The Weekly Republican from Newton, Kansas • 4

THE NEWTON WEEKLY REPUBLICAN FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1891. THE ST. CLAIR TUNNEL It looks as though the Hon. Hoger ASOTttEB LIE SPIKED. "An oDinion prevails in some quar The Republican.

center, placed the segments in posftiow by a vise at one end and a counterbaW ance weight at the other. Thirteen seg-J ments and a key formed the circle of section of the tunneL When the tunneling reached the! of the Greatest Engineering Mills of Texas is to be Speaker of the next House. He is the statesman and patriot who announced before the One ters," says the Meade Feats of the Century. ISO OSE BELIEVES IT. It seems strange that the naval officers should be so worked up by Mr.

Ingalls' attack upon the navy as to make a long and specific reply to bis ill founded There may be steals in appropriations for the navy, Alliance speakers take special pains to convey the impression, that the fore BY THE NEWTON PUBLISHING CO T. J. NO RTON, Editor. river's bed quicksand and water cai Fifty-first Congress sat that the Democratic minority was strong enough to control legislation and that it purposed Canada and the United States Joined by closures in western Kansas mean eviction of tenants. Nothing could be much trouble, and would have foi the work to stop if compressed air WEEKLY EDITION.

further frnm thn fact. There has not On eiuih side of the to do so. We hope that the future now before Mr. Mills will deal with him rerlfear. $1.60 an Underground Highway How the Work Waa Done A Triumph of Intellect Over Hatter.

Special This tunnel soon to be opened for but there is no reason why there should be, any more than they are necessary in appropriations for pensions. Six Months. .75 been a foreclosure to our knowledge in Meade county of a mortgage upon more kindly than did the future into which he looked two years ago. Ktered for traftmLsniort t.hmnirh the United To argue that we do not need to use money every year to sustain ships for 'States Mail as second-class matter, at the occupied land. Instead of the loan companies being the parties profiting traffic of the Grand Trunk and other ItafltffiCfi in Kpwtjin.

TTnrvnv Pnuniv. ITanfiftn It has become necessary again for defense is as absurd as it would be to railways under the St. Clair river, between Port Huron, and Sarnia, the people to show to the great American iurv what some of its duties are. say that householdor who pays for by the orclosures it is the parties wno secured the loans on the land, and who intonoH at tha timn theV did SO tO This Date in History-March 20. is a noteworthy achievement.

river bulkheads of brick and cement! were made for air-locks. Each set ofj bulkheads had two air-chanrlera. The workmen entered he air chamber; tne; outer door was closed and the air-valve, opened until the pressure in the chanv-j ber equaled that in the inner section of the tunneL The inner door could then! be opened. It took about five minutes to accustom the men to the change of air-pressure. Great precautions were taken, for letting the air on or off tooj suddenly caused serious illness.

The men worked at least under an artificial! having the locks on his doors repairea is sauanderine money. No burglar may It was a terrible lesson that was ad The railway has made a detour of several miles and used ferries for trans minintArad rat iNew Orleans, but it ever go near his house, but he is per will be salutary in its effects. When let the land go to the companies. All this cry. against the companies is absolute bosh and political claptrap, and the speakers and writers know it.

fects willing, indeed anxious, to pay ferring its passengers and freight between Canada and the United States. The river's current is swift and bears a league of assassins grows so strong as openly to defy for being on the safe side, it worm "1727 Death of Sir Isaac Newton; born 1613. IT31 Death of Prince Frederick Louis, son of George II and father of George HI. Death of Chief Justice Mansfield; born 1705. 1810 John McCloskey, cardinal, born in Brooklyn, N.

died in New York city Oct. 10, 1885. 1811 Birth of the king of Rome Is araat dnai- to find you are leeallv constituted authority, as the the most commerce of any stream in the world. The vesselmen would not listen to having a bridge. A tunnel secure when a contingency arises, lbe Such statements sound big me eaai.

where the facts are not known, but show the demagogy ot those who Mafia had done at New Orleans, it distinguished Kansan confutes his own must expect to feel sooner or later the was a necessity, but there were great argument when he mentions the burn- use them to influence public sentiment difficulties to be encountered from weiehtof that avenging nana wmcu (since styled Napoleon II) in of the defenceless city 01 asum- where the truth is known, mere is has at various times done bo much an(J CARDINAL CLOS- ton in the war of 1812, a calamity 1828 Henrik Ibsen, poet dramatist, born. ttJSX. not a loan company doing business in good in different parts of the United which a fleet might have prevented. States. The general public is running "1839 The Anti-Corn Lav league formed.

USS Publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" the state that would not be glad to have the parties obtaining the loans by Mr. Ingalls is also wrong in his as- this country yet. sumption that the English are a nation Mrs. Stowe. 11.00 1 political prisoners liberated in Paris.

USOfrvi'i). j. i remain on the land and cultivate n. Anv man who will can come to Meade of cowards; and when he calls up his- As we have remarKed Deiore, tue pressure of 22 pounds per square inch; or a total atmospheric pressure of 8T pounds per square inch. The pressure of the air was so great that it formed a sort of defense against the quicksand and water.

When the tunnel was completed the air-locks were removed. This restored the air to its normal The tunnel is well ventilated. Chief Engineer Hobson was the first man through the tunneL The work-; men then passed through. The tunnelj had to be cleaned. The tramway's bed of clay was removed.

The tunnel's in-, side was painted with an anti-rust com-) pound. Bolts were tightened. Brick and concrete were laid in the lower half; of the tunneL Creosoted pine ties were vI8n The Bank of France saved by the courage of the governor, Marquis da Ploenc, and by tnr-a t-n sustain his view he betrays 8 PLAN OF THE TUNNEL. Level of water 340 feet above Lake Ontario. chief end and aim of the Irish "linen- county and get all the land he can put the forbearance of Citizen Beslay.

bad case of prejudice. How any one ators" is to get their breadhooks on the 1876 Triumphal entry of Alfonso XII into Madrid. in. rent free. We know or Beverai in- 188915 uvea lost by foundering ot a Frencn tor can read the records, even casually, good money of the United States arances where parties have been given quicksand, etc.

But the nearly 5,000 miles of roads in the Grand Trunk system pedo boat off Cherbourg. and then deny that the Englishman is Parnell, who squandered on a mistress the crop and paid in addition to tend a fighter from the ground up is some- rha mnnr of the Culllble While hlS required something to be done to relieve the delays at the ferries. Surveys the land. In many cases tne mortgag and a half of ornaments and thing that passes the understanding of motner wa8 want, and whose selfish ors deed the land to the companies to Ik India a billion 'wealth is hoarded in Jewels. common people.

course has practically eliminated the avoid an after judgement, and where thfi companies can secure deeds they On the whole the article is ot Irish question from Englsh A i that only The man who made the first ship do so to save the expenses of foreclos were made in 1884, the location decided upon and character of the ground ascertained. The St Clair Tunnel Co. was organized in 1886. That autumn test shafts were sunk on each side of the river; the Canadian 98 feet deep, the American 93 kind which benefit their author when they are not published. ment of grain to Chicago hasi us died issued a "patriotic appear' ior American money; while the party that ure.

Peffer, Simpson and others are nni'intinorthe number of foreclosures In that city. opposes him has published a manifesto Henky Watterson, the aged and andholdinz up their hands in holy of a like sort. It is pleasant to observe By the new districting Harvey and distinguished editor of the Louisville that organizations in this country are horror at the terrible removal or larm- HcPherson counties are to have a sena ers from their homes, when in fact tne tor together, as they have at present. sending back word that the patriots can get no more mtney till they get to- Courier-Journal, does not seem to be satisfied with the work of his life "It is a wearing, tearing business. You lands have been vacated, in some cases three vears.

and the interest and taxes Germany claims that the American trnttiBr. The azitators are a tiresome ioe is excluded fiom that country be set. feet. The drifts from these under the river were soon stopped by water and gas. These shafts were abandoned, in 1887.

It was decided to recommence farther from the river. Large shafts were begun in 1888. The American was stopped at 58 feet, and is used as a ventilator. The Canadian was abandoned at a depth of 98 feet. Large tunnel "plants" were erected over a quarter of a mile back from the river on either side.

The buildings contained a great long since remain unpaid. It is the companies and not the land owners in get nothing out of a newspaper excepting what you take from it. I am bent on it that neither of my sons shall go -aatiRO he is Doorlv packed and in bad Emporia Republican: Since the this case that have teen imposed upon shape otherwise. into journalism. The eldest is prao and deserve the public sympathy." passage of the McKinley bill, less than six months ago.there have been started Sir John Macdonald, the Canadian in the United States 158 new manuf ac- premier, is said to have in his features tlcing medicine and the other two are still boys.

There is nothing in it tor a man in comparison with almost any other profession." In connection with tnrine establishments, to-wit: Cotton the blended likenesses of Ueecner A PATHETIC PICTURE. Nothing could better show what i heavy hand is that of fate than the re Washington. Disraeli and Edwin -Booth. mills, seventy-eight; woolen mills forty-one; knitting and hosiery mills twenty; worsted mills, six; silk mills this it mav be mentioned, just to show deal of machinery for the tunnel work. The great cuttings were begun in January, 1889.

Each had to be over fifty feet deep at the tunnel entrance, slope back for about, or over, half a cent visit of the ex-Empress Eugenie to Paris, the city of which she was in how common the feeling of dissatisfac Abetter biographical sketch and five: linen mills, two; carpet factory every sense the queen for sixteen years At, 1 personal tribute than the one which Nohle L. Prentis wrote for the Kansas mile, and be about two hundred leet and over which she once sustained tion is, and how great minds are prone to differ, that a short time ago William M. Evarts. one of the most celebrated one; tin piate woras, six. ah ui tucoc new industries but seven, it will be resencywith the hand of a master Citv Star imon the late Col.

Goss, the When she who had been the beauty at the broadest portion. In September, 1890, steam shovels began work in these cuttings. As soon as they are ready, the tunnel will be opened. lawyers in the world, who has won al remember to ornithologist, we do not Save ever seen. and attraction of Europe was helped noticed, are for the manufacture of articles of clothing.

Seventy-eight are located, in the south and west. It is estimated that steady employment, will most everything lying in the way ot that profession, having been a member As soon as the cuttmgs were deep the next Senate the Republican nf th npnnva Award Commission, a enough the shields were started. These be given to 85,000 persons. shields were steel barrels vitnout Secretary of State, a Senator from New VIEW OP ST. CLATB BIYEB.

laid. Extra heavy rails were laid for, the standard guage railway track. There were guard rails placed on each side of the T-rails. The bottom of the tunnel was planked and otherwise tim-j bered with creosoted pine. The surface water is taken care of at the portals.

The tunnel proper foams itself into a pump shaft on the Canadian side. This shaft holds two pumps and is one hundred and twelve feet deep, or, down to the rock. The tunnel is kept brilliantly lighted by electricity. The portals are massive, built of limestone, and are 148 feet long, 86 feet high and 10 feet thick in the middle. Over each tunnel entrance is "St.

ClairJ 1 30." From the portals stone retain-! ing walls extend the length of the greafc cuttings. Coke engines will be used for the tun- nel, each capable of drawing twenty-! five loaded cars. Two engines will be Col. F. A.

Agnew, who is an anima York, and counsel in world-famous cases, said that if he were' to live his life again he would enter journalism, jarty will have a majority of ten members. There will b3 what we may call two Alliance Republicans, Peffer, and Kyle of South Dakotah, and there will fee one Alliance Democrat, Irby of Carolina. ted cyclopedia of politics and hand book of general information corrects The Republican's statement that the greatest ot all professions. John M. Palmer is the only Democratic senator Illinois has had since the The last act of the "reform" House was to defeat the World's Fair bill.

from the train the decrepit form and deep-lined face, on which time and care had done their irrevocable work, excited the wonder of the young who were standing by and the anger of the old. A mob gathered about her carriage, as mobs had often done before, and for an instant she seemed to be pleased with the hostile reminder of days of pomp and power; but when coarse voices mocked her with her fall the pale face grew livid ard the attendants hurried her away. The weakness of this scion of many ancient houses suggested an analogy with the fortunes of royalty in France; yea, with the fortunes of royalty throughout the world. The prospects of the Bonapartists are gone as time of Stephen A. Douglas.

The "Little Giant" died in office and Governor Yates, in the recess of the legist Kansas, which won so much of lasting benefit at the Centennial Exposition, and later at the Paris Exposition, is to have no place in the coming exhibits of ture, appointed O. H. Browning, a Re Clifton Review: The Newton Republican deserves the palm for answering the Portland Oregonian in a most suitable manner. No Oregon journalists will want to tackle Kansas oon again if they see The Republi-an's article. "'The Italian Chamber of Deputies i- iresembles a western legislature.

During a wordy altercation the other day Stenor Crispi, recently prime minister, publican, to succeed him. The elec tions changed the complexion of things the nations. This last act was in keeping with the policy of damage which so that the next legislature was Demo had heen pursued by the reformers cratic, and when it convened William fmm first, dav of their sittings. It section of completed tunnel. A.

Richardson was elected to serve out was necessary in order that the people IbqhIv ns is the vonth of Eugenie. The neads, similar to what have been used mav come to realize folly what seeds ol the unexpired term of Douglas. Some naval cadet, presumably, un dertakes to "answer" the letter of ex- caricaturist could not design a more kept in constant duty, and one, steamed up, held in reserve for any Danger need not be apprehended by the passenger. In fact, hundreds of people will go through the tunnel in the night and never notice it. Immense freight yards have been graded on eachj side of the river.

The enormous and, increasing traffic can be rapidly handled. On the Canadian side a very large ice house has been erected for the use of meat cars. The workmen on the tunnel were unusually intelligent, and made several valuable suggestions to the tunnel management The cost of the tunnel waa estimated at $2,500,000, and this esti- lasting injury have been Bownby the representatives of th6 "people." A stinging illustration of the end await with great success in other tunnels. The body of the shield was a protection for the workmen inside. The front end was fitted with sharp edges to cut Senator Ingalls in reference to the said that he had a pistol in his pocket and that it would be wisdom for a certain abusive membertobeware.

The reform members of the late leg- tn4-t1k TIT! New England investor who' was here ing monarchy than would be contained in a portrait of the gray and wrecked Into the soiL Towards the rear end recently to arrange for the collection of the monev he had placed in mort building of a navy, and in some unaccountable way succeeds in getting his effusion into the papers. Should Blaine or Carlisle, or Gladstone undertake to was a set of hydraulio jacks, to push the shield ahead. Inside the cylinder gages made what is probably a reason were shelves and braces. These shields ex-Empres3. But it pernaps necessary that such things come, and it Is surely sweet to think that imperialism has had its day; and yet when one remembers the counterfeit glories of refute Mr.

Installs' argument there would be some reason in sending out able estimate of what has been done in this direction. When asked when that their regime was economic. This will put them in the position occupied by the egg when some over-zealous person protests that it is wholesome no one can be made believe that it is sound. the letter. Lawrence Jounial.

were made on the bank above and rolled into position. Each weighed 80 tons, was 21 feet and 6 inches in outside diameter, 16 feet long, and made of plate Mr. Ingalls used no "argument" at all. His article was a series of naked Eugenie's France, and the awful war by which they were swept away, he cannot deny compassion. Her case calls up the injunction of the deposed steel an inch thick.

A force of, sometimes, 1,700 pounds per square inch was statements, and the "cadet" answered them most fully. The idea that a "big would the distrust of the Kansas debtor that is now harbored in the east give way to confidence he replied, "Not during this generation." The evil that "statesmen" lives after them, and it requires time to appreciate the real magnitude of the damage done. gun" must reply to a big gun is not crood one: it is the rat-tail file that is Richard to his banished qaeen, that or nights she should listen to old folks' tales '-of woeful ages long ago betid," used to spike the cannon. Andrew D. White says that "with few exceptions the city governm mts in the United States are the worst in "Christendom the most expensive, the most inefficient, and the most corrupt." This is cjrrect, and it i3 charzeable to the fact that "with few exceptions" they are merely saloon authority.

and then It is easier to break a promise than a horse a resolution than a bank. The to quit their grief, Tell thorn the lamentable fall of me. And send the hearers weeping to tUoir beds. applied to a shield. This pressure ol 960 tons, supplied by compressed air, forced the shield easily ahead.

When it had gone the length of the pistons of the hydraulic rams the pistons were drawn back, ready for another shove ahead, after a layer of the tunnel had been put in and the blue clay taken from the front of the shield, out through the cylinder and loaded upon cars. By regulating the pressure on each ram by means of a valve the direction of the shields was under complete control. So accurate were the easiest of all things to break is silence, Emporia Republican. The authorities of Denver are making their annual at empt to enl'o ce high license in that wicked town, and espeiially to close the saloons on Sundays. They have never yet been able to accomplish this; for the saloon owns They undertook to have a little non- What about that embarrassing silence which often springs up between Instead of writing in the interest of "Mr.

Cleveland letters which never go, the Hon. Henry Watterson should have partizan love feast the Kansas House the other evening and the merry jest and more or less ancient joke went him and her, andthaf'painful silence which may come to anv company and and controls the government of that city as it does that of every other mu Star-Eyed Goddess of Reform exert Jieriafluence on the Terpsichore of which even a rem ark about the weather gaily round until Heber of Meade was p.aiirt imon to sneak in meetin'. Ileoer Keutuckv. When sixjmen are shot at does not break? engineers' calculations that, after over a mile of boring, the two shields ex nicipality in wmcn it nas a iuuuiom. Absolutely at tne mercy of dramshops is one of the many men in Kansas single dance it is time for politics to ENTRANCE to the tunnel.

actly met each other under the river, HncKlcii'K Arnica. Mwive. whose money is all out in worthless mortgages and far beyond the possi abandoned in the interest of Ion The best Salve in the world for cuts mate about covered it. Another tunnel will sometime be built near this one. It was a triumph of intellect over matter.

The Canadian shield was started September 21, 1889; the American, July bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever and bad houses as that Rreat citj is, its papers yet have the effrontry to say that a prohibitory law is undesirable because it "cannot be enforced." it would be both undesirable and useless sores, teeter, cnapped nanas, cnu bility of ever being seen auain; and as he cast his eyes over the assembled representatives of reform The election of John M. Paltner of IlliEOis to the Senate of the United 11. 1889. Thev met August 80, 1890, The largest mortgage ever recorded in Michigan was executed by this St. Clair The former bored 2,688.10 feet; the blains, corns and all skin eruptions and positively cures piles or no pay re quired.

It. is puarauteed to give per States is additional evidence that there Tunnel Company. latter. 8.313.85 feet; total, 5,909.95 feet. if it could not be enforced any better than are the license laws of Denver The greatest depth of water over the ace but two parties in this country fect satistaction or money reiunaea.

From the Canadian portal, which is and repudiation he must have bethought him of his ducats, tor be "sailed in" with the vengeance of one who is conscious that he has noth The "independents," when it comes to 60 feet below the level of the ground, tunnel was nearly 48 feet. Between the tunnel and the water the thinnest) and of other cities of its kind. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by J. B.

Dickey a pinch, return to their old trenches the timnel slopes 1 foot in 50 feet for 1,994 feet to the water's edge; then comes an up grade of 1 foot in 1,000 place was about 9 feet of clay. The" outside diameter of the tunnel lining! The independent farmers who held an kev to the deadlock in Illinois Senator Hale of Minnesota has Something Xew In Llteratnre. Republican. A number of exchanges are announc Was 21 feet; the inside, 20 leet. introduced into the legislature a bill feet for 2,290 feet under the river; under ing more to lose and drew his knife repeatedly and with startling effect across the abdomen of the People's party.

Thi temperature of the House opened the door to Democracy. the American bank the grade rises making it a misdemeanor for any "fe ing that Ed Howe is soon to start a foot in 50 feet for 1.716 feet to the male person" to "expose her nether on the When the tunnel is in working orderj a fitting celebration will he held. Prominent officials of Canada and the United States will be present, and it will be an event of international impor- fell instantly and there was Just about American portal, which is 52 feet deep, The stallion in the portrait front page of this week's "quarterly periodical, to De issued every three months." A quarterly limb or limbs dressed In tights, so Kansas The Canadian great cutting is 3,192 feet called, or in any manner whatever so as much of the spirit of amicability left as one would expect to find in the Farmer has a docked tail, which is al which comes out every three months must be something unique. loner, with an up grade of 1 foot in 50 George Qmsted. that the shape and Iform of her nether tance.

feet; the American great cutting nas limb or limbs are plainly visible." toother too aristocratic for this reform period. Senator Peffer and his organ should beware lest they drift or be led the same grade and is 2,533 feet long. Plenty of Exits. midst of a bag ol cats. It looked for a time as though the cuBpidor would go around with the epithet, but some one Notbintr does a druggist so much Mr.

Joseph Hobson, chief engineer ol get Official How could, the people Falling 10,000 Feet. the Grand. Trunk railway, decided that good as to have a medicine that he can guarantee every bottle to give satisfaction. Beggs' Family Medicines are made a motion to adjourn and the good into the ways of the arrogant and mnaittiv. Pride sroeth before a fall Sailine upward ten thousand feet in the walls of this a balloon, stepping out and railing to opportunity thus offered for the maintenance of peace was quickly improved tunnel should be of cast iron seg the earth as eeatly as falls the sno fully guaranteed, so you cannot fail to get satisfaction when you call fortnem.

wst as certainly as the tail followeth $Iss horse. flake, is considered a remarkable feat. Sold by limine. ments. Each segment was 4 feet but to cure what for centuries tias Deen (vinairinrnrt an incurable disease is an 10 inches long, Great Facts Tersely Stated.

I Wichita EairlG.l A new constitution submitted to infinitely greater feat. That ancient terror of the race Consumption- 18 inches wide, Hlow Time on the Santa Fe. K.C.Btar.l In Kansas it takes a good man Here is a paragraph from a metropolitan journal which we commend to Xtua memory of young men who are upon life: "One of the jolliest of JErra-town business men celebrated inches thick, and out of this theater in case of fire? Lesspe They could step right out in every direction, "There are no doors." "No; but this old building couldn't burn more than five minutes before tha walls would tumble out." N. Y. Weekly.

Sha Waa Busy. "My socks are not darned," complained Mr. Cutnso on Sunday morning, "I had no time'to darn them," re plied his wife. "It took me all day yee terday tor write that article on 'How Make Home Attractive to Your Hue bancT for the Woman's Whirld." Jodge forced to vield to the curative agency story from vote of the people practically resubmits everyquestion involved, including pro inside flanges of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov just about two days to travel Inches deep and Wyandotte to coondge.

hibition. JvansaB uiiy uazeue. ery, if it taken in time and given a fair trial. The hacking cough, hectic 1 inches thick. Yes, and death pttctically solves the Mstblrd aniversary as a 'teetotaler IRON segment.

Each segment A Fair (Shake. problems of eternity. flush, hurried breathing, ana otner pre-mnnitnrv svmptoms Bhould be heeded (dmririg business hours' yesterday. In -asneakiiig of the occasion to his friends had 83 holes, 12 in each side flange and If you are in arrears on subscription before it is toe late. By the ubo of "nnirinn Medical Discovery" every Catarrh is a common disease, so com i in each end.

These holes were ocou-tried bv steel bolts of an inch in diam that three years ago he became fimctinnof the systtm is roused to mon that snufling and "nawmng-reacn inn at. Bvurv tnrn. Your fOOt SUDS in come and catch up with the procession if you are able to do so; if not, that any man wno annKs into hnnithv action, the blood is purified its nasty discharge, in the omnibus or CTXasw liquors of any kind in business riiiroatfnn and nutrition improved, the there will be no kicking done. nt rncrih and flesh built up and all the in cnuruu, auu i dijii uioB.o -rhn lAflt.nm or concert. The nroprie- eter.

The tunnel's cast iron lining weighed 27,000 tons, and 828,150 steel bolts were required to fasten the Jolnta together. Each segment was heated and dipped in coal tar. A circular crane, revolving on a spindle at the shield' haftca i too heavily handicapped to smeceed. The competition in all lines (lwi8lne88 clear, cool Ho 'Wonder Km "What is the right end of a check Indorse, anyhow?" "The.left endrPack. tnra nt Tr.

Safe's Catarrh Remedy distressing forerunners of Cons'imp-tinn disappear. It is guaranteed to All we want Is a "fair shake." As good a paper as The 1 Republican is benefit or cure is taken in time, ormon offer $500 reward for a case of Catarrh which they cannot cure. Remedy sold are irr such demand, that absolute cannot be made on any other basis. ey paid for It win ne retunueu. by druggists, at 50 cents.

vBaanrance is essential." A.