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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1909
Page
7
Fort Madison officers face a hostile crowd as they move the prisoner John Junken to a Burlington train bound for the penitentiary. A baggage car transfer and rocks hurled at the cars heightened the tense departure amid fears of lynching. Night officers and two sheriffs protected Junken until he escaped the city limits.
Washington D C At the Republican caucus Representative Dwight of the thirtieth New York district probably will be elected Republican whip of the Sixty first congress. Representative Burke of Pennsylvania who has been assistant whip during the Sixty first congress may consent to serve again. Mr. Dwight has served in the house eight years.
Chicago detective John Ridley was fined five dollars and costs for annoying a young woman. The sentence was suspended pending appeal to higher courts. Ridley was arrested while surveying concert halls for Proge etitor Hunt.
Norman C. Kenan, millionaire and president of Union Gas and Electric, testified before the grand jury in Cincinnati. Prosecutor Hunt led an inquiry into the gas company tax returns stock ownership and stock transfers to uncover facts.
A territorial legislative assembly bill requires Japanese doctors to pass an English language examination set by territorial medical examiners. The measure has backing from the Hawaiian Medical Society.
At a meeting of the directors of the Colorado and Southern railway Joe Stewart Mackey resigned as secretary and treasurer of the company. T C Nichols, third vice president and secretary of the Great Northern, was elected to succeed him.
Hazel Young, oldest member of the Bellhart Spirit Fruit colony, died at 88. A Lisbon, Ohio native who moved to Grays Lake four years ago leaves a 69 year old widow. Ten funeral services were held, contrary to colony tenets.
In Havana Cuba the wife of a poor cigar maker has delivered quadruplets two boys and two girls. President Gomez sent congratulations calling her a worthy mother of the republic and offered substantial aid.
Pittsburg reports no shortage after state board president William J. Diebl states investors note a $26,000 discrepancy at the Western Penitentiary was caused by an error in the engineering department books.
A man connected with a local foundry intimidation case during a recent strike was held in New Haven. The incident involved threats toward union members, with authorities pursuing charges related to intimidation.
Gildemeester, chief engineer of the Cape Town Cairo railway syndicate, says 2,500 miles remain to complete the world’s longest rail line from Khartoum to Broken Hill. It may cost about £200,000,000, enabling Berlin to Cape Town journeys in 11 days and opening Africa’s mineral wealth.
Philip B Taft of Stebbins Place invents a motor iceboat at Watershops pondnear Springfield Massachusetts. The machine has reached speeds of 80 miles per hour and Taft hopes to reach 40 miles more before winter ends.
A British sloop of war sunk in Lake Champlain near Fort Ticonderoga has been raised. The vessel, 90 feet long, was captured by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys in 1775. It lies largely intact with two large cannon balls visible in the bow and the gun still believed to remain at the bottom nearby.
Fred Gerike known as Count for solving hard legal questions for justice courts in St. Louis and for his vast diary and 10,000 clippings is found dead from a gas leak in a rear room of Justice Moore's Chestnut street office. He was about 65, lifelong reader and historian with a dual past in law and medicine and a notorious fondness for drink.
A reader is shown two concentric squares made of matches with a one-match gap between them. Two extra matches serve as planks. The challenge asks how to span the lake from shore to island when the planks are exactly the shore to shore distance but cannot join. The solution appears in Fig. 2.
A detailed vintage technique explains converting a flexible sled into a motor sled by using a hand car for propulsion. It describes removing rear wheels, adding traction wheels, bending runners, mounting standards and rails, and using a crankshaft and steering lever. Traction wheels combine wooden disks with iron buckets as effective treads.
Eleven years ago an Italian engineer created a boat of artificial stone or cement. The hull used a frame of iron rods covered with cement and trellis, proving highly resistant to shocks. Gabel dni then built many more stone boats including a 54 by 17 to 18 foot barge used to carry coal in Genoa harbor. He also makes stone pontoons used to replace wooden ones on the Po. The material lasts better than iron and resists salt water.
A reader recalls a hydraulic boiler test amid a cold snap using no extra equipment. Filled the boiler with water and heated, watching pressure rise to 100 pounds. On reaching the target, a small amount of water was released through a try cock to relieve pressure before finishing with steam.
Augar Free Milk and J Bouma with 8S Berond disclose a co free snack prep. They precipitate a Poanatn with carbon dioxide in the presence of monosodium phosphate. The salt shows acid base behavior and the product is amphoteric in nature by precipitation.
A historical note describes making a hole in iron when tools are unavailable. Shape sulphur to the desired hole size, heat the iron to white heat, press the sulphur against the metal, and form iron sulphurette to bore through the plate.
The eighth moon of Jupiter, discovered recently, has been photographed at the Greenwich Observatory. The satellite has been imaged only a few times since discovery, and its position now agrees with earlier astronomical calculations.
A fragment describes mixing parts of freshly burned plaster with brick dust and other components to create a weather resistant mortar. The text is incomplete but conveys preparation steps and material ratios for durable plaster mortar.
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