Show r PENSION RERATING Secretary Noble Appoints 3 Commission Com-mission to Investigate fiDISON OX ELECTRIC EXECUTIONS vospiriiii Against Treasury Department ihe BoulangiBtsThe W C T UA Maritime Mar-itime Conference Hen Grenfell WASHINGTON July Secretary Noble Dr George bus issued an order directing Wing ana H D Bruce of the board ot pension appeals and Judge Frank LCamp hell of the assistant attorneygenerals of lice of tho interior department as a com I inittce to forthwith enter upon an invest ton of all re ratings of pensions made t by the pension bureau during the last twelve months and especially those of pen ioners in the government service with a view of ascertaining whether any such re ratings have been made in violatioL of the hw Kxecntion by Eletrieity 2fiw YOIIK July 3In the hearing before be-fore the referee of the Kemmlcr electrical execution case today Thomas A Edison was put on the stand as a witness He t said that if his testimony were to decide the fate of Kemmler the murderer would surely meet his fate in the electrical chair The witness had no doubt whatever of the r power of au alternating current to kill a inaa instantaneously and painlessly He iras sure it could be done without burning The case of Smith was spoken of who was said to have received a shock of 150C volts without serious injury Edison said w ho would pay Smith IO if he would como over to his laboratory and successfully withstand a shock of one hundred volts 1 On cross eniminatton the witness said the < resistance of all men was very close between be-tween six i hundred and eighteen hundred ohms The obtaining of the resistance of he human body by the Wheatston bridge vas not simply matter of late experiment The witness had measured human resistance resist-ance by it before the question of electrical execution was brought up He considered she bridge an accurate means of measure ment A man could be completely carbonized carbon-ized by an electric current but it would ake 1500 horse power to do it I you took the W estiughouse current of 103C volts and kept it applied to the hUnan bode bod-e or six minutes it would not be carbonized carbon-ized but mummified This would be be ause of the water in the body being gradually grad-ually absorbed A Conspiracy to Defraud the Public WASHINGTON July 2 The Star will publish an article declaring that the officers of the treasury have made a startling discovery dis-covery showing that a conspiracy has been in operation among those who print the d government securities by which a large r amount of fraudulent government money has been printed and issued Investigation Investiga-tion it is alleged disclosed the fact that the employees of the bureau of engraving and printing printer government notes from the plates and dies in the bureau and iave put counterfeit money in circulation Prom the nature of the case the bad money caunot be distinguished from the genuine and authorized issues I is impossible to state bow much has been put in circulation circula-tion that it runs up to quite a lar e amount is certain Inquiry made by an associated Press reporter ot several officers cers of tho treasury department elicited the statement that they knew nothing whatever what-ever of the matter Bonlan ° Ists to be Deprived oflolltical Rights PAIUIS July 23 FhaIlc > ubUquclrancaisc says A committee of the senate court will issueanorderdepriving General Boulangcr Count Dillon and Henri Rochefort of all ciril and political rights This action is ten on the ground that they have refused t comply with the summons to appear for I trial Tne decision will render them ineligible ineli-gible to election to any office in France and make any property they own in France liable to seizure Germany and Switzerland BKULIN July 23 Germany has notified I 1 Switzerland that the treaty between the I two governments regulating the settlement I i of foreigners in Switzerland will not bee be-e ooIBWomans renewed The treaty will expire at the end |