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VUH MKXXIX_LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA THURSDAY , MARCH 23, 19lT NL'MbER 2t>.
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> Xa'jotiai and Ante—, an 1 s*rrpantos
»" *- to ' -■ r -as - des; 'e threat*
and eatmaktos at a uctos official
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F *«•• in tse piant of the ast-sota
Billiard TaMe fTjnpjtt' at Milwaukee
•juTead »o ra; idly that • o employee
»»t» * tred to leap from tfce second
anl t • . • * indoa * ftae person
I# miming as amd-s'if.ed man's body
»i» t..s *x !*tas the ruin*, -ieveo per
tots are .n The Emergen* j hospital
The financial loss is f •«• e*o
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Th**-e toe* *f luha *«ailaa*. a miner
»er : iraed to de.tb is a fir- that cie
«tr --ec The Gallant home at Mosey
broaft Fa
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% -hoo'ltig affair (tiiasilg a fc:a*l
la an Italian boordtng house at Pen
amcTcm N -T . diiec n the death ot
*fce - - ■ . ■ rx and ii » »:fe md the s*
is : ■ • fatal » ii-ilng ci* th*-*-*
tf the harder*
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Tt- *n; ubc of fana.ng in this
r- atry to to be e*’a: Hehed a* Pratt
ins: time Bwntya. \ V under
*•- , ie»! ’he NV y Tanners
as* - ratio* of the I'nited S'a’e*
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X' : e r e* proMtocot among whom
»~ • Albert C Pro's, promo*<-r and
t . d* f rue Chicago a Milwaukee
£3*t*r railroad an f promoter and
pr* » >r of the Alaska Central rail
tt ad w~-e ;r.d»cted tn Chicago by a fed
era grand ;.ry charged with consplr
!*-g ’ .-fraud the Veiled Sate* gov
* it .et♦ out of 14 <H4 acre* of coa.
m g rroperty n Alaska valued at
f
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ts S result of • . gale Which swept
I-ake Erie *fce • g Stiver Spray td Erie
operates by the Booth Fisheries <-otn
psny. went down ,ff Cleveland Larb r
The re*, ctwtsirl1 eg of six men and a
hoy 'uofc *o 'he * .g"* lifeboat and
rowed ftir the- shore, but Were dashed
on the breakwater und drowned
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The iury as Albany X T . in the as*
of Mr- r :tth Mr trer. charged with the
m ;r«. r of her tour-year-old son lari
January brought n a verdict of mur
3er in the rew-hd degree and sentenced
her 'o no’ !e*« ’ban twenty )ears of
work at Auburn prison
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Nevada d:t --e - andum: ■ have be*n
throw* *»<je op** by a bill requiring
a pt i».ca re*:dec«e at only s.x
mefb* with the privilege at leaving
the state when aemgarjr. which
pa***d bath bouses of the leg.slarurc
lest night.
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B* 'he terms of a Judgment entered
by *be superior co«rt at Tacoma
Wash. Mrs Anna V Vilas, widow ol
Senator William F Vilas of Madison
W!s . to awarded a oae-flfth interest
t* the pn-eeds of proper-y in Wash
lagtu* valued at til9,904.
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Ac American believed to have been
Professor fie Cou. formerly of Ann
Arbor. Mkh. w ho was a member o*
a* arrhaeologicnl expedition to tfc*
site f* tbs ■srlawt dtp of Cyrean. At
Afwas sunt and killed by az
Arab w orkman.
Ten Thousand women. It Is estimated
registered in Milwaukee for the
-- ni board election on April 4. The
uneipe. tedly large :egist ration is at
tributed to the energy displayed by
clubwomen.
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Sat Francisco's telephone service
was partly demoralized when 30 girl
operators were seized with an attack
of ptomaine poisoning following
luncheon in the company's cafe. •
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At Oconto. Wis . the city council has
passed an ordinance imposing a tax of
-:x dollars upon all unmarried men be
«een the ages of twenty-one and fifty
rear? The money raised in this man
tier ts to be used for the support of or
pbats or other needy children
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After suspending traffic for nearly
two weeks because of landslides in
the Feather rive*- and Niles canyons*
the Western Pacific railroad succeed
ed :r opening The line for freight
service
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The movement for a sane Fourth"
has put the largest manufacturer of
flr-wo-k- out «.f business The Pain
Manufacturing company, a $.".0,000
ortoration of New York, applied* to
Supreme four Justice Guy for leave
o dissolve and assigned this reason
cause for the proposal
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In the crop growing pennant race
r I:-: Iowa wrested from Illinois
Ice ,n the production of oats
.. t'ornta *ook from Minnesota the
| aors for the production of barley.
: d New York se< ured the hay grow
i-C title from Iowa according to an
innouncement made by the depart
nent of agriculture
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4t the t'arnegie Trust company in
tiefore *fce grand jury in New
York tv it was stated that Andrew
'arnegie would lose SSOO.rto*. by the
-rcery of an official in the wrecked
bank
>• :e- F'ank German of the court
* >r noi. plea- at Cincinnati His
s'- the ontempt charges against
.eorge B Cox banker and political
ead-*r He d« la red the utterance.
by Cox which were published after
: • ;■<.<; ' :.n'- iictment for perjury,
went insolent and false ”
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A ga,e ,au.-«*d the collapse of the
wa.'.s ot The burned .1 H Fall l- jjd
r.t Nasi vi’le. Tenn . burying be
wail: a tarload of debris insurance
ne:.. ot.th.'.o - and laliorers to the
■HUBber of 38, and of this number 12
lead were taken out and as many
-note injured
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Miss Helen Zander, daughter cf a
Kalamazoo Mich » resident. lies at
'.ter home n a serious condition as the
■ - " of ::.;unes received in being
nr.at,-i nto the Gamma Delta Tau
sorority
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Sporting
Lightwcig: • Champion Ad VYolgast
,e\er scored an easier victory than
he did when he had George Memsir
pra really out in tine rounds of mill
.cg before a big audience at the
Vernon arena. Los Angeles. Cal In
he ninth round i- was so evident that
Mems;. was all through that Referee
E ton s-opiwd the fight and the vic
ory will go down in rir.g annals as
-wing a technical knockout.
Personal
tames 5 Culver, retired brigadier
: *-ral r>f "he Illinois National Guard
J;--d af bis home at Springfield, after
in illness of three days. General
'u«ver ommanded the Fifth infantry
hiring the Spanish-American war.
ml was retired a few years ago
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Mr and Mr* William J. Bryan an
loun e the engagement of their
laughter. Grate Dexter Bryan, to
Kb hard Lewis Hargreaves of Lin
oln. Neb The marriage will be cele
crated early In June.
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Columbia university has voted a
nemberwbip In the Sigma Xi society.
* high scientific honor, to Chung Yu
Wen a Chinese student in metal*
1 urgy
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Mrs Carrie Nation, the militant
Kansas temperance worker, who is at
, i sam arium in Leavenworth. Kan., is
gradually growing weaker. Her con
ifion. du° tc a general breakdown, is
regarded a* serious.
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John B McDonald, the eminent en
•uneer. who h*» been critically ill for
week*, died at his residence In New
York city
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Foreign
Tfc“ -nd of the revolution In Mexico
* forecast by the understanding that
revails here jha: Senor Limantour.
mulster of finance has perfected a ten*
ative pian for reforms agreeable to the
liar government, which will satisfy
he leading insurrectos. This is be*
teved to explain the sudden departure
if Senor Limantour from New York
:ity.
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An attempt w as made to blow up the
arracks at Juarez. Mexico Two heavy
•barges of nitroglycerin were placed
_nder *be place and exploded, tearing
jut parts of the building occupied by
he Mexican troop* Two of a small
aacd of insurrectos who secretly had
-ntered the tow n were wounded and
-aptured
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Archduchess Stephanie. Countess
ixioyay. the second daughter of King
Leopold of Belgium and widow of
'row* Prince Rudolph of Austria, is
i seriously ill at Zurich. Switzerland.
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FORMER RESIDENT OF FREMONT
SUFFERS LOSS OF MEMORY.
HAPPENINGS OVER THE STATE
What is Going on Here and There
That is of Interest to the Read
ers Throughout Nebraska
and Vicinity.
Fremont.—A letter from New Ulm,
Bavaria, says that Joseph Wen. tor
meriy of Fremont, through a strange
lapse of memory, has forgotten the
English language which he learned to
speak in this country. Wertz returned
to Germany several years ago. Now
U is said he is unable to s|>eak a
single word of English, that iKirtion
of his memory having been lost.
Gas In Shale Near Fairbury.
Fairbury.—As a result of an inves
tigation made under the direction oi
the state conservation congress, Ur.
Condra of theetao
Cor.dra believes that gas of conmiet'
eial value has been found in a shale
formation south of Fairbury. It is bo
lieved that the shale will y ield about
6.000 feet of gas to the ton and tha
the solid nia’ter may be used in mak
ing Portland cement.
Will Celebrate Anniversary.
North Platte—The forty-ninth anni
versary of the wedding of Colonel and
Mrs. \V. F. tody was celebrated a?
the home of their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Garlow. in
this city Monday. W F. Cody, later
known as Buffalo Bill the world over,
and Miss Louise Frederici were mar
ried March 0. 1 StitJ. Mr. Cody was
then bo twenty years of ace.
Poisoned by Canned Goods.
Nebraska City.—The family of Frod
Kerns were poisoned by eating can
ned sweet potatoes. They were
served for supper ar.d in a short time
all of the family were taken seriously
ill ana when a physician was called
he pronounced it ptomaine poison.
Fremont.—Harry Kerlin. a young
Northwestern fireman, lie s painfully
burtrt-d at his home here, as a result
of a •team pipe bursting in a freight
engine at Loretto. Kerlin was blown ;
out of the engine cab and fell beside j
a feme at tbe border of the railroad
right-of-way.
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l>eshler w ill ..oid a corn show and
•ales day Friday, March :14.
Stewart Limbeck, for forty years a
resident of Gage county, dropped deaci j
Sunday morning at his home, twelve)
miles south of Keatrice.
The toters of the city of Stanton!
will vote upon the proposition of
sewer bonds in the sum of $10 000 at'
the election to be held April 4.
The Fremont Commercial club Is I
getting out a booklet to advertise j
Fhemont manufactures and jobbing in
terests.
Kearney wants to invoke the initia
five and referendum in deciding at the j
spring election whether or not license
to saloons shall be granted.
Fourteen horses lost their lives in ]
a fire which destroyed the livery barn
of J. \V. McCullough at Iflue Springs.1
Ceorge Helmstedtler. the 16-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. William Helm
stedtler of West Beatrice was acci
dentally shot and killed near DeWitt
Wednesday evening.
E. S. Davis has been commissioned !
postmaster at North Platte.
The Jacout grain elevator at Ansel
mo was totally destroyed by fire Sat
urday.
A leak in the Tecumseh water main
amounting to several thousand gal
lons an hour, has caused the depart
ment some trouble.
The controversy between the city of
Alliance and the Electric Eight &
Power company has been settled by
the city taking over the plant for $55 -
000.
Nebraska newspapers are coming
strongly to the support of the bill to
appropriate $25,000 for publicity, and to
create a state bureau of publicity and
immigration.
David Bowden, fifty years of age,
fell from a wagon load of oats at Clay
Center Saturday, one w-heel passing
over him. His neck was broken. He
lived about one hour after the acci
dent.
Four convicts of the state peniten
tiary escaped between 4:30 and 5
o’clock Sunday- morning through a hole
at a north window- where three of the
iron bars had been sawed off. It is
thought the men received help from
the outside.
Clay Center, which has been under
village government hertofore. has
been declared a city of the second
class. The city was divided into two
wards, and the clerk instructed to cal]
an election for city officers at the
next regular election.
Miss Hazel Robinson and Miss Mae
Brennan of Hastings were run into by
an automobile and knocked down.
The car passed over Miss Robinson
and severely injured her, the rear
wheel striking the side of her head,
almost tearing the ear off.
Niobrara has organized a fire de
partment
Gandy’s Bill Considered.
Gandy's bill regulating the prac
tice of medicine in the state was rec
ommended for passage by the commit
tee. The measure provides that “any
person of good moral character over
twenty-one years of age, having com
pleted a two years course of study in
regularly incorporated and recognized
schools of suggestive therapeutics,
chipropractic. mental or magnetic
healing or who has been engaged in
said practice for a period of two years
shall t»e competent to receive certifi
cates front the state board of these
sciences, same to be appointed by the
governor from the ranks of practition
ers of said kinds of healing.”
WES. PICKINS
Powell. Nebraska
Senator Twenty-third District.
Governor’s Maintenance.
The house started pla\ a little
politics when the genera, maintenance
bill was up for consideration and the
iter”, for Tbe i -d of s» .erect ? ser
vants and immediate fumi!> was being
discussed. Ten democrats voted with
the republicans to retain the item in
the bill, although this is the first time
such an item has ever appeared in a
general maintenance bill.
Plenty of Work Left.
Just what will be done about a sift
ing committee in the house is a matter
of conjecture. Most of the members
who have been heard to express them
selves about it believe it is .still toe
early to begin operation under the con
trol of this committee. In fact, a sift
ing committee will not be appointed
until it is absolutely necessary, or un
til a majority of members give up
hopes of reaching their bills in the
general order of business.
The White Slave Bill.
Without indulging in debate and
without the slightest opposition the
senate recommended for third read
ing Senator Horton's bill prohibiting
and providing severe penalties for en
gaging in the white slave” traffic. A
procurer, under this bill Is liable on
a first conviction for a county jail sen
tence from six months to a year or a
fine up to $1,000. and on a second of
fense a penitentiary sentence of from
three to ten years is provided.
Only Bill Recommended.
The Smith bill, the one that so far
has met with the approval of the
standing committee of the house, elim
inates entirely the ten year provisions
of the present county seat law. Other
wise there is no change between it
and the present statute. It meets the
exigencies of the occasion by leaving
the relocation open to all the towns
in a county without favoring county
seats which now have the advantage
of the ten year clause.
Democratic Joint Caucus.
A short joint caucus of the house
and senate democrats was held at the
Lincoln hotel. Reapportionment was
the main subject under discussion al
though other party pledges were
talked over informally. The possibili
ty of instilling more harmony into the
rest of the legislative session was
touched upon in a casual way. none of
the speakers however evincing a de
sire to go at the matter.
Talcott’s Ventilation Bill.
Chief in importance among the bills
so far passed by the senate was Tal
cott's bill providing for the proper san
itation and ventilation of factories.
The bill also provides for guarding
fiangerous machinery.
Protects Poo Drinkers.
Bodison of Kearney made his Ini
tial speech by moving that S. F. 285
be ordered engrossed for third read
ing. He introduced the bill, and it
rpeaks for itself. It declares it to be
n misdemeanor for any manufacturer
lo sell pop or other non-alcoholic
drinks containing saccharine or coal
tar sweeteners.
Talcott explained that the bill
would hit some manufacturers who are
underselling others by using a cheap
er sweetener. It was ordered en
grossed for third reading.
OUTLOOK ran PEKOE
MEXICANS THINK IT WILL COME
IN A SHORT TIME.
MINISTER LIMANTOUR ARRIVES
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Hi* Coming at This Time Hailed as
a Harbinger for Settlement of
the Strife.
—
Sun Luis Potosi, Mexico.—To a rep
resentative of the Mexican Herald,
Minister Limantour said:
"1 expect the prompt termination
of the present revolt against the gov
ernment." his first comment for publi
cation since he left New York. His
arrival was heralded by the national
hymn, rendered by one of the regi
mental bands stationed here. While
the train waited Minister Limantour
received several official and private
persons.
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Mexico City.—Jose Yves Limantour,
on his private ear. moving as a spe
cial. will arrive here some time be
fore noon Monday, barring unfore
seen delays, according to the best
information obtainable.
The car was dropped from the reg
itlar southbound train from Laredo
at Monterey late Sunday night and
leu that city at 7:3b a. m. Monday,
thus avoiding a night run through the
mountains to the south. News of the
breaking of the journev reached here
t in delayed dispatches.
The reason given was the illness ol
Mrs. Limantour. which at the same
j time was said to be not serious. Her
i health, which was one of the reasons
for the finance minister's long stay in
France, not having been fully restored
was said not to have been equal to the
-train of the continuous run from New
| York
Belief n the wisdom of precaution
..ry measures was also thought ic
have had some weight in bringing
about the stopover. The night run
! south would have been through a
mountainous district well suited tc
1 the plans of an irresponsible, who
1 might hnv felt called on to hinder the
progress of the spei ial car party. By
leaving ia the morning many miles
were put between the travelers and
.-.nv district in which disturbance*
i have occurred before nightfall.
No information regarding the move
ments of the minister and his party
was forthcoming from official sources
in some quarters, usually worthy of
consideration, it was advanced as a
reason of the delay in the northern
, city to a desire on the part of Senor
Limantour to shun the demonstration
which had been prepared for him.
His coming was to have been the
occasion of an elaborate tribute to his
popularity in which all elements of
the capital's society were to have tak
en part. Committees of government
officials, students and nearly every
branch of professional and industrial
life were to have given the returning
traveler a spectacular ovation at the
railway station.
THE COMING EXTRA SESSION.
President Will Confine His Mersage
to Reciprocity.
Columbia. S. C.—President Taft, ac
cording t6 present plans, will coniine
his message to the extra session of
congress to l>e convened on April 4 to
Canadian reciprocity and to the estab
lishment of a permanent tariff board.
He is convinced the country desires,
and onght to desire, a further revision
of several schedules of the Payne
Udrich act. He* feels the woolen
schedule, schedule K. is particularly
indefensible, it is said, and is anxious
It shall be revised soon.
The president is equally convinced
that the country desires that provi
sions of the tariff shall be made in
the light of scientific information
which it is the duty of the tariff board
to collect.
DAVID H. MOFFATT DEAD.
Noted Banker and Railroad Man
Passes Away.
New York.—David H. Moffatt. the
“sliver king," of Colorado, died Sat
urday in the Hotel Belmont. Al
though Mr. Moffatt had been confin
ed to his room for ten daVs or so with
an attack of grippe, bordering on
pneumonia, death came from heart
failure. He never before had had
trouble with his heart. Mr. Moffatt
came to New York from Denver in
January, with William G. Evans, a !
former governor of Colorado.
Sagamore Hill Keeper Dead.
Oyster Bay.—Xoah Seeman. who
for 23 years was employed as super- j
intendent of Sagamore Hill, the es
tate of former President Roosevelt, 1
in the outskirts of the village, died ;
Sunday after an illness of three
months, due to paralysis.
LAWLESS ELEMENT ACTIVE.
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Thousands Flee Country to Prevent
Being Robbed.
El Paso. Tex.—According to'reports
received here on Sunday from what
are considered unquestionable sources,
vandalism, the commandeering of
food supplies by lawless persons and
Interference with the free activity of
business people are growing in north
ern Mexico to such an extent that
thousands of non-combatants, includ
ing many Americans, are leaving th6
country.
NOT A CRIME TO ROB
HER HUSBAND’S PANTS
WIFE HASN'T MORAL RIGHT TO
DO SO BUT SHE CAN'T BE
PUNISHED.
Toledo. Ohio.—Without being re
quired to offer any defense to a charge
of stealing $760 from her husband.
Mrs. Florence Phillips of Maumee, was
acquitted by a jury In common pleas
court here. The indictment charged
grand larceny The court held she had
co moral right to take the money from
her husband’s trousers pockets, but
that she could not be punished under
the law.
Report also comes of a Philadelphia I
judge who recently made a similar de
cision when William McCaffery ap
peared as complainant against his
wife. Nellie McCaffery. whom he had
This is Declared No Crime.
iccused of going through his pockets (
*hi!e be slept and abstracting $3. In I
making his complaint McCaffery an
nounced :
“It is not that I object to losing the
{3. Judge, but this thing occurs three
or four times a week, and I would like
:o know some manner in which I may j
stop the pilfering."
Judge Belcher, & married man him 1
self and father of a large family, told
McCaffery that there was but one :
thing for him to do, to discharge the
woman, as the money in a husband's
pocket belonged as much to the wife
is to the husband.
"Then, judge.” asked McCaffery. '1 ;
have a perfect right to her purse and
abstract her household money?"
"Oh. no; she could have you arrest ,
?d if you did that." said Judge Belcher,
but there are several ways of stop
ping the difficulty You see." the Judge
continued. “I have had some experi
ence myself—now yon mustn't take
that literally, but I have solved the j
problem. There are several ways. In j
•.he first place you might hide your ;
:rousers when you go to-bed. Of course
Four wife might find them. Again j
Fou might go to bed wearing your
irousers. then again each night yon j
might leave your money in the keeping
af some friend before you return
Some. You might purchase a safe for
Four home and refuse to let your wife
snow the combination.
“But the safest and surest way tc 1
save your money w hen you get up In ,
be morning is to sew it to the inside
if your pajamas each night. Sew it on j
be back of your night clothes and I
ben always sleep on your back.”
McCafferty left the court room with
be avowed intention of purchasing a ,
strong box. declaring that he could not !
tccept the more economical solution
if the magistrate as he "never slept on
Ms back."
SHARKS STOP A STEAMSHIP
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Sailors Held Man-Eaters With Knives
but They Could Not Drive
Them Away.
Port Limon, Costa Rica.—Sharks ;
delayed the progress of the Royal
Mail steamship Marima. which ar
rived here, and for three days it drift
ed idle and helpless because of a
school of about 20 man-eaters that j
hovered about her stern.
During a storm a quantity of rope j
hf the afterdeck was washed over
board and became hopelessly tangled
n the propeller. Sailors were let
hverboard and with knives they pre
pared to cut away the knotted mass.
They were surrounded by sharks in
in instant and soon the water was I
*ed with the blood of the fish, the
nen defending themselves with the
aatchets.
The sailors refused to make further
ittempts after being hauled up from
heir first experience. At the end of
hree days, deprived of food, the
sharks departed and the propeller
was freed.
Two-Ton Magnet Saves Sight.
Terre Haute, Ind.—A two-ton mag
aet at Rose Polytechnic Institute was
ised to extract a steel splinter from a
man's eye after an oculist had tried
n vain to remove It by a surgical op
eration and at the same time save the
fight. The patient was placed stand
ng near the magnet, and his head
was turned so that the direct drawing
orce would be applied to the eyeball,
rhe splinter flew' quickly to the sur
'ace of the magnet.
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TWO MEN SAVE 18 AFTER BARKEN.
TINE STRANDS AND STORM
FOILS LIFE SAVERS.
ONE MAN LIFTS 4 INTO BOA
But for the Heroism of the Two Sal
ors Not Only the Vessel's Crew bu
the Life Saving Force Would Hav
Been Lost.
Wood's Hole, Mass.—Of all the re»
cues in these parts for years the great
est was made the other night whei
Capt. Sint Jackson and Frank Veedev
brought IS men to Cutty hunk island in
a dory and yawl after pounding seas
bad put the life saving outfit out ol
business. But for the heroism of these
two men the entire force of the Cutty
hunk station would have gone down
together with the crew of the new
barkentine Stephen G. Hart, bound
from Gulfport. Miss., to Boston, with
lumber and driven by storm and cross
currents on a reef off the island. |
The barkentine stranded in a fodj
and was not spied by the station lookj.
out until she had tossed on her jagged
bed for several hours. Her signals
told that she was fast filling and that
help must come quickly to be of any
use. Not knowing how many lives
might depend on their getting to the
wreck in a hurry, all the men at the
station turned out and to make sure ot
room fori everybody, they towed the
surf boat behind the big power craft.
Two of the island fishermen named
Cornell volunteered for the trip with
them.
When they climbed on board the
Hart part of her keel had settled on
the reef with the receding tide, which
steadied her a bit. but made haul
ing her off out of the question. Captain
and crew were willing enough to leave
her to herself for the night, for the
leakage had displaced her cargo and
threatened to immerse her. and the
wind shrieked warnings of a stormy
night.
The seas that broke over her parteo
the line to the station power boat an.
set her adrift. That left only the yaw'
for the men who needed 10 gt
r shore. Meanwhile Capt. Sam. with *
Rescuing a Stranded Crew.
power dory, and Veeder. with a small
yawl and dory that he had in some way
managed to pilot unaided through the
heaving waters, reached the scene and
stood by to lend a hand if wanted.
Eighteen would have crowded the
station surfboat in smooth weather
The tempest then thundering set her
crazy. Overboard went the dunnage
of the ship's crew, but the boat be
haved no better. She lurched and
plunged and took flying leaps across
the tops of the waves without making
headway and then turned somersault,
sprawling the 18 into the sea.
Fourteen regained the surfboat and
clung to its upturned keel. Capt. Sam
made for them. The swift and violent
sec-saw of the water hurled his dory
on the turtle back to which the crew
were clinging and shoved a streak of
daylight through the dory’s hull. The
14 pulled themselves aboard, however,
and she headed top speed for shore,
the rescued crew stufling their cloth
ing into the cracks in her bottom to ~
keep down the leak.
Veeder jumped into his dory when
the surfboat upset, and. letting his
yawl take its chances adrift, went to
the rescue of the four of the eighteen
who had nothing to cling to except the
boiling waves. They were so nearly
gone when he reached them that they
could give him no help in hauling them
in. The dory kept its balance while he
lifted them from the water by dead
weight and dumped them one by one in
safe places. By the time he rescued
his drifting yawl the four were able
to help him row her to the island.
Many Illegally Wed.
Albany, N. Y.—That there are up
ward of 100 couples in the village of
Port Chester and surrounding coun
try holding marriage certificates to
which they are not entitled is the
declaration made by Senator Wain
wright, of Westchester, In an efTort to
have a bill nassed legalizing the
unions. The certificates were issued
by Police Justices of Port Chester,
who have do such authority.