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DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD.
Motto: All The News When 1 1 Is News.
VOL. 22.
DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1014.
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EXECUTE 4 GUNMEN
SLAYERS OF ROSENTHAL PAV
PENALTY FOR CRIME IN
SING SING PRISON.
LAST PLEA DENIED BY GOFF
Murderers Are Led to Instrument ol
Death One at a Time, "Dago Frank"
Being the First One to Be Elec
trocuted. I Osslning, N. Y,, April 14. Without
making auy confession, tho four young
Now York "gunmen," condemned for
tho murder of Herman Rosenthal,
were electrocuted In Sing Sing prison
Monday morning.
1 Tho victims' and tho time, of their
(execution wore.as follows:
Frank Clroflcl, alias "Dago Frank,"
6:38 to 5:44.
Jacob Seldenschner, alias "Frank
'Mullor" and "Whltey Lewis," 5:48 to
5:53.
Harry Horowitz, alias "Gyp tho
Blood," 5:57 to 6:02.
Louis Rosenberg, alias "Lefty
Louie," 6:08 to 6:17.
Seldenschner was tho only member
of tho quartet to make a statement
'After bolng strapped In tho death
chair ho began to deny his guilt but
tho electric current was turned on In
tho middle of his speech and he died
"with the words upon his lips.
Tho quadruple execution passed off
without a hitch, all the condemned
men being buoyed up with the spir
itual consolation which was adminis
tered continually during the closing
hours of their lives. Clroflcl wont
to tho chair with a cruclflc In each
land shouting prayers, and chanting
over and over again: "God have
mercy!"
Rosenborg and Horowitz prayed In
Jewish and oven as tho current was
turned Into their bodies their lips
moved In their final petition.
Mrs. Mary Clroflcl, mother of "Dago
Frank," who has led tho fight in be
Tialf of her son and tho other con
demned man, arrived at the prison a
few hours before tho executions,
after having made a final but futile
Tlea to Governor Glynn at Albany for
oxecutlve clemency.
New York, April 14. The last hope
of the four gunmen was blasted Sat
urday. Supreme Court Jubtlce Jdhn
"W. Goff, to whom a final appeal for
-a new trial had been made, declined
to reopen the case.
At a prolonged hearing Justice Goff.
who was the presiding Judgo at the
trial of the gunmen, listened to tho
testimony of new witnesses produced
t tho last moment by counsel for the
doomed men.
District Attorney Whitman, who ar
Tlved from Chicago a short time be
fore tho hearing, was amply prepared
with witnesses to meet the testimony
offered. His cross examination appar
ently riddled much of tho evidence,
destroyed Its valuo where It did not
-put the witness himself on the de
fensive. The four products- of the Manhattan
East side, who paid tho penalty of
their crime Mondav. wero convicted
on November 19, 1912, of firing tho
shots which killed Herman Rosenthal
as he stepped from the Hotel Metro
polo Into Forty-third street, just off
Brondwny.
Rosenthal had caused the gambling
-world of the Metropolis to quake with
terror by his conference with the dis
trict attorney, Charles S. Whitman.
His promised confessions were a
sequel to a gambling war, In which
tho other underworld Interests had
tried to drive him from tho fat field
of tho upper tenderloin. Bomb out--rages,
slaying and assaults had
marked this conflict. Believing ho
-waB to bo deserted by Charles Becker,
pollco lieutenant In charge of a
"strong arm squad" and a partner In
the Rosenthal gambling house, the
desperate man was now about to ex
pose the wholo Illegal conspiracy of
pollco and crime.
The gambler was sitting In the Mot
Topole about 2 o'clock In tho morning
of July 16, 1912. A man entored and
asked him to come outsldo. Lurking In
tho shadows were "Hrldgey" Weber,
"Bald Jack" Rose and Harry Vallon.
Near by stood a motor car with en-
sine running. The policemen sup
posed to be on station near by had
"been lured away.
In tho glare of bright lights nnd
,-withln 100 feet of Times square four
young men shot Rosenthal to death
and leaped Into tho motor car. A fifth
man also entered, It Is said by some,
and urged tho driver onward by hold
ing a revolver to his head and strik
ing him. Tho car disappeared In the
dlroctlon of Fifth avonuo.
Speaker Clark to Lecture.
Washington, April 13. Speaker
Champ Clark left Washington for At
lantic City to deliver n lecture at the
seaside town. He plans to observe
the boardwalk parade.
Reserve Clause Is Killed.
Grand Rapids, Mich., April 13.!
The U. 8. District court denied tho
Federal league club an Injunction eni
Joining Catcher W. Kllllfer, Jr., from
playing with tho Philadelphia club
The reserve clauso Is held not valid.
Lost Boy Found Dead.
Bristol, Pa., April 13. Tho body of
William English, fourteen years old,
-who disappeared In the blizzard of
March 1, was found In a field near herr
00 fppt from his heme It It. In hever
General Villa's cavalry photographed outside Torreon as thoy wero starting in pursuit of tho survivors of tho
Federal garrison after tho capture of thnt city.
RULER'S WIDOW DIES
DOWAGER EMPRESS OF JAPAN
PA8SES AWAY AT TOKYO.
Coronation of New Emperor May Be
Postponed and All Theaters
Have Been Closed.
Tokyo, Japan, April 11. Following
a long lllnees, the dowager empress of
Japan died at her palace at Nazuma
on Thursday.
The emperor nnd empress and ether
members of the royal family had been
summoned to the bedside. Tho dow
ager empress had been 111 for eonio
time. She was born In 1850.
All the theaters have been closed
and It Is probable that the emperor's
coronation, i which had been arranged
for November 10, will be postponed.
Court officials began to make arrange
ments for the state funeral. Bright'e
disease was tho direct cause of death.
Emperor Musuhlto, husband of the
dowager empress, died on July 30,
1912.
The Dowager Empress Haruko Is
not tho mother of the present Em
peror Yoshlhito, although she Is tho
first wife In rank of his father, tho
lato Emperor Mutsuhlto. To the lat
ter were allowed 12 wives, according
to the old Jnpanese law, no longer in
force. The present emperor 1b the son
of one of the secondary wives of Mut
suhlto. Empress Haruko had ono Bon,
who died at birth, but he was devoted
to the other children of the emperor
and gave them all the attention of a
real mother.
ROBERT HIGGINS ADMITS DEED
Life Sentence May Bo Given llllnolsan
Who Killed Spouse to Wed
Her Daughter.
Galesburg. 111., April 13, Robert
Hlgglns. who last January shot and
killed his wife at North Henderson,
111., becauso of his Infatuation for
his sixteen-year-old stepdaughter,
Julia Flake, author of the "come over
and kill mamma" lotters, pleaded
guilty to the crime at Alodo on Friday
before Judgo Olmstead anil threw him
self upon the mercy of the court It
is expected that be will bo glvon a
life sentence.
Judge Olmstead bas taken Hlgglns'
case under advisement and announces
that ho will pass sentenco Tuesday.
Evidence was offered by tho state In
support of Hlgglns plea of guilty. Hlg
glns sat with his face hidden in his
hands during tho reading of tho depo
sition of Julia Flako concerning her
relations with Higgins.
FAILED BANK WILL REOPEN
First-Second National of Pittsburgh to
Resume Operations In the
Smoky City.
Pittsburgh, Pa., April 10. The
First-Second National bank, whoso
failure laBt summer was one of the
largest in the history of Amorlcan
banking, will reopen within a week.
This was mado certain when It be
came known that tho Pittsburgh
Clearing House association, In spe
cial session, had voted to reinstate
the bank to membership. The treas
ury department at Washington sev
eral weeks ago formally approved tho
asBets of the bank and Bald It would
grant a certificate to resume as soon
as certain matters had been com
piled with.
Porter Killed In Train Holdup.
New Orloana, April 14 Two
masked bandits held up the Illinois
Central north-bound train No. 34 be
tween Tangipahoa and Flunker, killing
a negro porter and wounding a pas
senger. The bandits took to the woods.
Surgical Body Names Officers.
New York, April 14. Dr. George
Arsstrong of Montreal was elected
president of tho American Surgical as
coclatlon and Dr. L. 8 Plleher of
Brooklyn nnd pr F K Hunt ' ( !
VILLA'S CAVALRY PURSUING THE
HUERTABOWSTOU.S.
AGREES TO DEMAND THAT SA
LUTE BE FIRED AS REPARA
TION FOR INSULT.
TRANSPORT GOES TO TAMPIC0
American Vessel Sent to Battle Scene
as Carranza Establishes Capital at
Chihuahua Llnd to Report to Pres
ident Wilson.
Washington, April 14. Tho Huerta
government agreed on Sunday to the
demand of tho United States that a sa
lute to tho Stars and Stripes shall be
fired as reparation for the Insult to
this government through tho action of
a federal colonel at Tairfplco In parad
ing a paymaster and equad of marines
from the gunboat Dolphin through tho
streets of that city aB prisoners last
w eek.
New Orleans, April 14. Tho United
States transport Hancock received im
perative orders from Washington on
Monday to proceed Immediately to
Tamplco. It Is understood here thnt
tho vesBel will take aboard refugees
from the battleswept City of Tamplco,
where heavy fighting between Mexi
can constitutionalists and federals has
been reported. Tho Hancock sailed
today.
Roar Admiral Mayo, commanding
the American squadron at Tamplco,
asked several days ago that an army
transport be stmt to the besieged poit
to take care of refugees who havo
been flocking aboard the foreign war
ships to save themselves from tho
sheila and bullets of tho federals and
constitutionalists.
Chihuahua, Mex., April 14. Thio
city celebratod the arrival of Gonoral
Carranza on Sunday. Chihuahua now
Is the now constitutionalists' capital.
There was n report here on Sun
Sunday that General Villa, thinking
that the pursuit of the federals was not
being pressed with sufficient vigor, loft
Torreon for Parras, where Velasco's
army, or at least his rear guard, is
Bald to have been tarrying on Its way
to Saltillo, 100 miles distant. Fifty
miles of this Is a waterless desort.
There was no news of fighting.
Washington, April 14. Washington
officials and diplomats are speculating
upon tho outcome of two conferences
to be held during the coming week,
one In this city between President
Wilson and his personal representa
tive In Mexico, John Llnd, and the
other at battle-torn Torreon between
General Carranza, first chief of the
constitutionalists, and Ooneral Villa,
victorious leader of the Mexican rebels
in the field.
President Wilson returned to the
capital today from his weok-end trip to
West Virginia. Mr. Llnd Is coming up
the coast from Vera Cruz aboard tho
yacht Mayflower, and though no word
has been received from tho yacht since
sho left Mexican waters, ho Is expect
ed to reach here Tuesday.
About the tome Mr. Llnd Is making
his report to tho president, the Mexi
can rebel leaders will bo meeting for
the first ttmo since the days of the
Madero revolution, and upon this con
ference much is believed to dopend.
Flees Prison.
Fort Madison, la, April 13. James
Hogan, a "trusty" at tho penitentiary,
Serving a ten-year term for burglary
from Dickinson county, escaped from
that institution.
Mother Kills Children and Self.
New York, Aprl 14. Suffering from
melancholia, Mfs. Elizabeth Diamond,
aged thirty-two, living In Brooklyn,
took her own life and tho lives of her
two children, Morris, aged five, and
Dorothy, four, by gas poisoning,
$26,000 Bond for Banker Ralne.
Memphis, Tenn., April 14. C. hunt
er Ralne, former president defunct
Mercnntllo bank, will be rolenaed on
$25,000 bond Ralne's defalcation
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FEDERALS
HITS RADIUM "CURE"
EXPERTS A8SERT KNIFE IS BEST
FOR CANCER.
Dr. William H. Mayo Addresses Fore
most Surgeons of the Coun
try at New York.
New York, April 14. All hopo of
curing cancer by radium has been
abandoned by somo of tho foremoBt
surgeons and research workers of the
country, who declared at the meeting
of the American Society for tho Con
trol of Cancer that tho failures of
radium outnumber tho cures 100 to 1.
That nothing Is of avail against tho
most dreaded disease but the speedy
use of tho knlfo was tho opinion ad
vanced by Dr. William H. Mayo of
Rochester, Minn.
Oporation is the only cure, but re
dlum or ray treatment is in order as
a temporary palllutlve where opera
tion is impossibles, according to Dr.
Francis G. Wood, director of cancer
research at. Columbia universJiy. Fall
urea from radium outnumber tho' cures
100 to 1, ho stated. Another genera
tion will be required to furnish knowl
edge on the real cause and actual na
ture of cancer, ho said. Experiments
for 35 centuries show that heredity
plays a small part. If any at all, In its
appearance.
It was expected that the members
of tho Boclety would havo something
hopeful to report. Instead tboy admit
ted no progress and held out little
hope. They united In saying thoy
had discovered neither tho causa nor
the nature of cancer. Then thoy
proved by statistics that cancer is on
tho Increase.
That a change In the habits and
customs may reduce the disease to
some extent was a ray of hope held
out by Dr. Mayo, who also said any
cancer could be cured If operated
upon In Its oarly stages.
"If wo could only tell how to avoid
it I would bo glad, because I am frank
to admit that we do not know," he
declared. He said the statement that
the uso of meat was one of tho habits
to bo avoided in connection with can
cer prevention had been wrongly at
tributed to him.
I IMPORTANT NEWS f
& ITEMS
New Tork, April 10. Bench war
rants for tho arrest of Henry Slegel
and Frank S. Vogel, heads of tho bank
rupt Slegel enterprises, wero Issued
on Wednesday. Slegel and Vogel ap
peared In court to plead to Indict
ments charging grand larceny and
violation of tho stato banking laws.
Tho two defendants entered a plea of
not guilty.
Sioux City, la., April 10. Isaac Mc
Kanloy, a Winnebago Indian chief,
who shot himself after he had choked
to death Homy Warner, another In
dlan, is dying In a hospital hero.
Kansas City, Mo., April 13. Vic
Guerlnger, convicted a week ago of
participating with five, other men in
attack upon Mrs. Gertrude Shldler,
was sentenced to bo hanjod May 28,
next.
Aahland, Wis., April 13, Adani
Stenz, a prominent business man,
while watching a lire In the Lake Su
perior Iron and Chemical company's
plant, fell from a blcyclo, broko his
neck and died.
Order Affects 64,000 Men.
Philadelphia, April 14. Orders to
shut down at onco practically all tho
soft coal niliieB In central Pennsyl
vania, employing about 04,000 men,
wero telegraphed by tho Bituminous
Coal Operators' association.
Aviator Loops Loop 21 Times.
Bonneinouth, England, April 14.
One of tho most thrilling exhibitions
evor given In England was seen hero
Mon Aviator Gustnv Ilamel, whilt at
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TO OBSERVE FIRE
PREVENTION DAY
SUGGESTS SUITABLE OQSERV.
ANCE OF FIRE PREVEN.
TION DAY.
GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL
Items of Interest Gathered from Re
liable Sources and Presented In
Condensed Form to Our
Reader.
Western Newspaper Union Nnws Sorvlo.
A few years ago our legislature cro
ated tho ofllccof flro commissioner In
order that tho great loss annually sus
tained by flro might be reduced to tho
minimum. It hnB been tho custom,
since tho creation of this otnee, to
designate two days each spring as flro
prevention "clean-up days" and In
accordance with thlB custom I so des
ignate April 17 nnd 18, 1914.
I request all the citizens of tho stnto
to co operate with the flro commis
sioner In his efforts to reduce tho Iobs
of property and tho danger to life, by
having removed from their premises
all trash and useless Inflammable ma
terial. I also suggest that the teach
ers in our schools have some suttablo
'exercises on those days and that thoy
lend hearty aid and assistance to tho
commissioner.
Glvonjunder my hand and the grcnt
seal of tho state of Nebraska, this sec
ond day of April, 1914.
JOHN H. MOREHEAD,
Governor.
Tax Levy Higher than Previous Year.
Taxes for all purposes In Nobraska
averaged about 40 mills for the year
1913, according to a compilation mado
by Secretary GaddlB of tho state tax
commission, and this was 2 mills
more thnn In the previous year. Tho
state tax levy Is blamed for the differ
ence, having been boosted In 1913
from 5.2 mills to 7.8 mills, as a result
of special levies voted by tho legisla
ture. The tax commission has figures
from twenty-five counties giving tho
1913 county tax, tho highest lovy in
any city, and tho total for all purposes
In such cities. The gross tax In theao
cltleo ranges from 41.3 to 94.5 mills,
the latter being a very extreme figure
for Furnas county. Estimating the
nverago tax for all communities, rural
as well as urban, tho tax commission
thinks 40 mills to bo about right.
Time to Sow Alfalfa.
This month or next Is tho time for
the spring seeding of alfalfa, either
In tho eastern or western part of tho
state, nccordlng to tho Nebraska Col
logo of Agriculture. Tho ndvantago
of planting now la that tho plants may
bo given an early stait on account of
tho spring rains. However, care must
be taken to see that the alfalfa does
not havo to contend with a large crop
of wecdB, or it will be choked. Tho
safest way to' prevent a growth of
weeds Is to clean the ground by previ
ous cultivation. If the field that will
be used for alfalfa was plowed In tho
fall, It should bo disked as soon as It
can bo worked and kept disked nnd
harrowed until seeding. This will not
only destroy the weeds, but conserve
the moisture.
To Advertise Nebraska Resources.
Sweoplng campaigns lor collection
of a fund to advertise Nebraska's re
sources at the Panama-Pacific exposi
tion are to begin at once. Tho com
mittee named to Initiate the- move
ment met and organized by electing
Peter Jensen of Beatrice, chairman;
John L. McCague of Omaha, vice-chairman,
and George Wolz of Fremont,
treasurer. Tho soven executive Btato
officials are to serve on the committee
as members ex-offlclo.
County Days Popular at University.
County visiting days aio becoming
popular at the Nobraska College or
Agriculture. A few days ago 300 farm
ers and Bohool students from Saunders
county visited the different buildings,
experimental plats and stockyards and
listened to talks by University Farm
officials Last fall Gago county sont a
large delegation, and a year ago lattt
fall York county sent 200 visitors.
Voters and candidates In Nebraska
were relieved of tho necessity of go
lug through a political campaign luat
fall and for tho first time in the his
tory of tho year wore able to rest two
years between stato and county elec
tions. This was brought about by tho
adoption of the biennial election
amendment to tho constitution In 1912.
An off-set to this comes this year In
the complicated ballot that will faco
each voter both at tho primary on Au
gust IS nnd at the general election In
November. It will bo of staggering
proportions.
Skimming Loses Tenth of Cream
From 10 to 25 per cunt of tho cream
Ih left in tho milk nfter skimming,
says the dairy department of tho Ne
braska College of Agriculture. At tho
prevailing price of cream, butter fat
makes pretty expensive hog feed. A
separator removed practically all tho
cream fiom tho inHk.
Chairman E. M. Potlnrd of thq nntl
removal organization of tho stnto, r
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SUPPLY PF ELECTRIC POWER
Peat In Northeastern Germany Made
Use of by Electrical Company
to Furnish Light
An object lesson In tho utilization
of peat boga hns for tho last few years
boon carried on In northeastern Ger
many, says tho London Globe. Some
sixteen thousand acres of moorland,
known as tho Frlodburg bogs, are bo
ing reclaimed and tho peat used for
tho supply of eloctrlo pdwor. Tho
land is cultivated by settlors, who at
tho Bomo ttmo cut peat and sell it to
tho olectrlcal supply company, with
works on an island In tho mlddlo of
tho bog. It Is expected that this cen
tral power station will supply elec
tricity for light nnd powor for a re
gion of 30 miles radius. Already It
supplies electric light at Emden Wll
helmhavon and sovoral othar large
towns and cities.
As by-products of tho conversion of
tho onorgy of tho peat into electricity,
largo quantities of ammonia and hy
drogen sulphldo are mado and sold.
As port of tho work, 3S miles of new
canals are to bo mado, and In order
to accomplish this about six hundred
nnd fifty acres havo to bo strlppod of
their poat Thus In tho making of
tho canals 250,000,000 cublo foot of
peat would bo supplied for tho central
powor station. And this, It Is reck
oned, would keep It going at Its pros
out rato of tho production of energy
for 6C years.
SAND GLASS FOR TELEPHONE
Instrument Is Made Use of In Paris
Where Time Limit la Short Ar-
guments Are Avoided.
Thla small Instrument la In uoo In
tho telephone booths of Paris, -where
tho time limit for conversation is
usually thrco minutes, but where a
higher rato Is charged for six and
, Telephono Time Indicator.
nlno-mlnuto conversations. Tho throe
Band glasses, designed and run out
In nino, bIx and threo nilnutoa, re
spectively, are a convenient means
of avoiding arguments botwoon oper
ator and subscriber as to tho flight of
time, which alwaya seems extra rapid
when tlmo is money.
HEATING OF MOLTEN METAL
Pennsylvania Inventor Has Secured
Patent on Method of Using Cur
rent of Electricity.
Taking advantage of tho fact that
refractory linings of ladles or molting
pots, used In foundries, becomo good
conductors of eloctrlclty at high tem
peratures, a Pennsylvania Inventor has
secured a patent on a method of super
heating molten metal by passing a
current of electricity through It while
bolng poured. Two pots or ladles are
mado tho terminals of tho circuit, the
metal In ono being fluid. When the
Superheating Molten Metal.
contentB are poured Into tho other, an
electric circuit is established through
tho restricted stream, tho passago of
tho current raising tho touipcraturo as
required. Tho method Is adapted to
tho treatment of platinum or othor
metals where very high temperatures
are necessary.
Gold Medal for Farmer.
A French society for thq encour
agement of national Industries recent
ly nwardod a gold medal to a farmer
who established' a sauerkraut factory
In which all tho machinery was elec
trically driven.
Makes Pictures Rapidly.
A new motlon-plcturo earner, using
eloctrlo sparks Instead of shutters,
Is capablo of making 100,000 pictures
a second and haa mado 73 pictures of
a bullet fired from a rovolvor passing
through a spaco of ten Inches.
Many Telephones.
A single tolephono company servea
about 70.000 coBouiunlthm In tho
United States, i co n pared with
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HEATER FOR WMMING A BEDf
Two to Four Candle-Power Lamp Will
Give Sufficient Heat Danger of
Fire Eliminated.
As moat people nro awarcU Is dan
gcrous to uso an Incandescent lamp as
a bed warmer owing to tho fact that n
considerable amount of heat Is given
off by a comparatively small body
tho lamp, writes Wilbur It. Simpson In
Popular Electricity. This heat is
confined nnd not nllowed to radlato be
cause tho bedclothes vack tightly
around tho lamp. More than onco Area
havo been started from this cause. But
I havo found that no harm is dono If
tho lamp Is inclosed In a fruit Jar as
Lamp In a Glass Jar as a Bed Warmer.
shown In the sketch. I solder an ordi
nary lamp socket Into tho, metal top
of tho jar and a two to four candle
power lamp wilt glvo sufficient heat.
Tho slzo of tho Jar prevents packing oC
tho covers too closely around tho lamp
and permits radiation of tho heat fast
onough to keep tho temperature down
to a safo point
NOVEL USE OF ELECTRICITY
English Railroads Sort Freight by
Merely Pressing Button May
Cause Wide Reform.
Hull, which has Just secured ltB
own tolephono system, Is to bo the
contor of, an' experiment that may
cause wldo reform Id tho methods of
handling freight on tho English rail
ways. Tho system practically means
tho sorting of goods In warehouse by
simply pressing a button. Electrical
machinery has been invented by a
company with which Mr. Marconi Is
associated for dividing tho warohouBO
Into a series of alphabetical soctiono.
Traveling trays under electrical con
trol dlstrlbuto tho goods according to
tho index letter of their destination
B for Bradford? L for Livofpqol, and
bo forth In n manner similar to that
by which letters are sorted In tho
post office. A French, an American
and two EngllBh railway companies
are now negotiating for tho adoption
of tho ByBtom. .
Test Electric Blasting.
Gold mining companies of tho Rand
field, South Africa, havo been ex
perimenting with electric blasting
with a view to reducing tho dangor
of minor's phthalsls, a disease aBcrlbed
to the fine dust that results from blast
ing. By uolng electric systems tho
firing can bo dono from the surfaco.
and tho air can bo cleared of the fine
dust boforo tho miners need to enter
tho mine.
Berlin's street railway is to be elec
trified at n cost of $6,000,000.
New York has more telephones
than London, Paris and Berlin to
gether. Tho richest and probably tho larg
est lron-oro mlno In tho world, which
Is In Lnpland, Is being equipped with
olectrlcal machinery,
The city of Lob Angeles has illum
inated BlgiiB Indicating the names of
tho streetB, which are turned on and
off by clock-work mcdianUm,
With a four-horsepower englno, a
motor driven plow Invented in Eng
land cuts a six-Inch furrow at a speed
In excess of threo miles an hour.
More than 2,000,000 American farm
ers aro now using telephones In their
homos, moro than 100,000 having In
stalled Instruments within a year.
Two-thirds of the telephones used
in the world aro In the United States,
or a total of over 8.362,000. T,o oper
ato them requires more than 18,000,
000 miles of wire.
An electric flat-iron invented by a
Colorado man 1b propelled, by a motor
driven roller, an operator having only
to guide It and control the'eurrent by
a switch in the handle.
Electric mechanism similar to that
of automatic telephones has been In
vented to enable a restaurant pat ton
to order a meal by numbers from
an Indexed bill of faro. v
At ho time of tho last accurate re
port there were 375 public coast wire
less Matlono In tho world, of which
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