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turned into five drill holes, and the
result was said to navo boon quite
as effectivo ns dynamite in many re
spects, Uio principal falling Doing
that it did not clear the ledges aa
well. An advantago claimed for the
oxplosivo is that It makes but little
noise."
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Depositions have been taken at
Omaha in a case involving the Ne
braska Grain trust. . Interesting
stories are tojd by witnesses concern
ing the methods employed by this
trust in driving out of business in
dependent dealers.-
The board of directors of the Peo
ple's United States bank, otherwise
known as the Lewis bank at St. Louis
have voted to liquidate. The directors
say that the fraud order issued against
the bank prevents its operation,
though it is solvent and sound in all
respects. It is. estimated that the
stock will pay out not less that 80
cents on the dollar.
Claims aggregating more than 605,
000,000 francs have been allowed
against Venezuela and in favor of
the French government. This allow
ance was made by. Referee Frank
Plumley.
John Henry Stuessel of St. Louis, a
veteran of two wars, and wearer of
the iron cross of the German empire,
died recently.
John Hyde, .former statistician of
the department of agriculture, who
is sojourning in England, writes that
he will return "as soon as possible."
This is interpreted to mean that Hyde
will return as soon as Hyde "gets
ready."
the engineer, had been killed while
leaning from the cab window, and
his fireman, not knowing it, piled on
coal to keep up steam. Suddenly he
noticed the red lights streaming by,
and in a frightened voice he shouted
into the cab: "For God's sake, slow
up, Dan; you've -run by two red sig
nals." Ho received no answer, and,
crawling in to the cab saw the body
hanging from the edge of the window.
The fireman immediately took his
place and brought the train to a stand
still just at the entrance of the net
work of switches north of Philadel
phia. The passengers gave the plucky
fireman a cheer as they left the train
at West Philadelphia. Mahoney's
wife was killed in a trolley accident
near Newark a year ago.
American surgeons at Manila de
clare they have discovered a positive
cure for leprosy. The method used
is a system of x-ray.
The Standard Oil .trust declared a
dividend of six dollars a share on
August 15. The total distribution
amounts to $6,000,000, of which John
D. Rockefeller receives $2,400,000.
Rockefeller's Standard Oil dividends
for the entire year of 1905 are esti
mated at $16,000,000. New York pa
pers claim that his total income
amounts to $26,000,00 per year.
Ashcroft, an Indian village with a
population; 6t 500, "situated in the
northwestern portion of Yale district,
British Columbia, was destroyed by a
landslide.
Judge Alton B. Parker has become
a member of the law firm of Parker,
Sheehan and Hatch.
Statistics compiler bSjgJhe bureau
of statistics of the department of
commerce and labor show that the
exports of manufactures in the fiscal
year just ended amounted to $543,-
620,297, as against $425,415,921 in the
preceding year. The exports for the
past fiscal year were: "Not only the
largest on record, but are in excess
of the combined exports of all articles
in the centennial year, 1876, and near
ly 140 million dollars more than the
total imports and exports of the
country at the close of the civil
war."
A prize fight took place on board
the cruiser "Yankee," of the United
States navy, resulting in the death
of Marine Raphael Cohen. The pay
master of the Yankee acted as time
keeper.
President Roosevelt has modified
his proclamation of August 5 with
drawing from entry certain lands in
the Indian reservation, and has re
stored to entry about 85,000 acres.
'Hugo Lieber predicts that within
one year radium will be used in all
hospitals that fight cancer in all its
lorms.
Hong Kong authorities have for
bidden the Chinese to hold meetings
to further agitate American boycott.
A New Orleans dispatch to the
Denver News says: Dr. R. 13. Leacn
of St. Paul is having a hard time get
ting that infected mosquito which he
wants to bite him in order that he
may test his arsenization theory. The
local physicians have united to pre
vent the experiment, and some have
gone so far as to request the mayor
to have Dr. Leach leave the city, for
fear that he might be Ditten by some
mosquito. Dr. Leach says that he is
determined to be bitten, and is re
maining at the St. Charles hotel, and
is taking his little arsenic pills regu
larly, as are also about a third of the
people of New Qrleans. Leach is be
ing denounced by the physicians of
the city at all the public meetings
which are being held.
The interstate commerce commission
has undertaken an Investigation of
the relations between the railroad
companies and the private street car
lines.
Shanghai cablegrams report that
the anti-American boycott may result
m a new ijoxer uprising.
The Venezuelan government has en
tered into a one-mill Ion-dollar contract
for guns and ammunition.
A New York dispatch to the Denver
News, follows: Death rode in the lo
comotive cab of the "Fast Flying
vjrginian" on the main line of the
Pennsylvania rallrnn.fi trwlav nri fnr
miles the crowded train flashed past
uunger signals at nearly seventy
miles an hour with, a headless en
gineer at the throttle. Dan Mahoney,
Work on the Panama canal has
been temporarily suspended pending
sanitary work.
.Tiulee George H. Gould of Palestine,
Texas, died suddenly at his home.
The re-canvass of thirty-one wards
of Philadelphia indicate a total of
more than 60,00 illegal names on the
assessor's list.
An Alton, 111., dispatch to the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat says: "Alton
quarry owners have been experiment
ing for the last few days with an
explosive said to be composed of about
70 per cent of granulated' sugar.
Twenty-eight pounds of sugar were
mixed with other chemicals anu
The following strange story is
printed in the New York World:
The Rev. Emil A. Meury, pastor of
the Second Reformed church, one of
the best beloved clergymen in Jorsoy
City, a man of sound sense and cool
judgment, made this astonishing
statement yesterday: That to him
and five others a murderer proved,
while being executed on the gallows,
that he retained consciousness, mem
ory and the power of voluntary mo
tion after his neck was broken. The
Rev. Mr. Meury has many chosen to
serve on the sheriff's jury at the
hanging of Edward F. Tapelcy in
tho Hudson county jail, and haa been
disked to minister religiously to tho
doomed man. Like a good citizen,
ho will serve on tho jury, although
he is strongly opposed to capital pun
ishment. He said last night: "I have
seen seven unfortunates hanged. One
was Paul Genz, who was executed in
the Hudson county jail April 13, 1897,
for tho murder of Clara Arnim. In
the fight I shall make to abolish
capital punishment in New Jersey I
shall argue that sometimes a man is
conscious after his neck is broken.
Paul Genz was in my charge; he and
I discussed the question whether a
man's brain might be active after
his cervical vertebrae were broken.
Genz was certain he would be con
scious after his neck was broken.
Ho said to me: 'Watch me closely.
After my body is jerked upward and
I fall to the rope's end, and my neck
u'te; then I will close my hands twice,
then pnee, then twice again. I ar
range this signal now so that none
of the doubters who may be look
ing at me can say that my move
ments are only involuntary twitch
ings.' " The clergyman continued
solemnly: "When Genz fell, after be
ing jerked into the air by the fall of
the weight, his body stiffened. About
three-quarters of a minute passed.
Then Genz clinched his hands twice,
opened them again, closed them once,
then twice again. I distinctly saw
his pinioned hands make the signals
he said he would give me. So did
six other men to whom I had told
Genz's promise of what he would do.
The horror of it was almost over
whelming." So greatly did Genz
dread death on the gallows, despite
the. Rev. Mr. Meury's soothing min
istrations, that he tossed oh his cot
for only an hour during the night be
fore his execution. In the morning,
when only he and the clergyman
were in his cell, Genz tried to commit
suicide by plunging a pen and its
holder Into his brain through his eye
ball. The Rev. Mr. Meury seized
and held him until keepers over
powered him. The then Sheriff
Heller, of Hudson county and Dr.
Schnieder, of this city, were as posi
tive as Mr. Meury that Genz made the
prearranged signal.
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A Chicago dispatch follows: An
organization in Chicago is to fight
the age limit of forty-five years used
against workingmen. It will try to
stop age heing a ban, irrespective of
Other qualifications. The Anti-Age
Limit league will welcome to member
ship all workmen more than forty-five
years old, or other persons interested
in abolishing the ban. It is planned
to ask congress to act in some man
ner to relieve and restore the rights
of olden citizens. "Of all the ob
structions to a man's right to earn a
living, the ban placed upon labor
by the forty-five-year age limit is the
most cruel, obnoxious and absurd,"
says the appeal issued by the league.
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