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Show rV 1 1 COAL MEN INDICTED S3 Dealers and Corporations Drought to Book by Chicago Special Grand Jury. JFifty-Fo- ur DIE AT THEIR P0ST5 POPULAR SCIENCE Sawmill Log Rcflettof- In the operation of a sawmill tho sawyer customarily take hi atand near the saw, from which position ta is able to reach all the lever which control the carriage, and saw and to adjust the logs in position for cutting. It is important that the sawyer should know, with the least possible loss of Explosion Kills of these line nebu'ae examined is constant this fact it is fair to concluds that bold Hues are produced by a siDii subMacce The ratio of the brktno of the hydrogen line (lins 3) t that of line 1 has been measured Itt hue of the brightest nebulae, and tbiii nuo is fouuu to vary by large aSnts from nebula to nebula. It ia, the afore, fair to com-lndthat the hydfegeu in the different nebulae exists eltacr In different phJIctl conditions in the different cast or else in different quantities. Theflrst measurements of the sort werf made at the Lick Observatory by leeier. the Most Economical Cuttings. time whether there are splits or cracks in the ends of the log. and part of th value of a skillful mill sawyer lies In his ability to judge the logs under hi to cutting them All these concerns had offices in the band with reference advantage. best to the possible up city of Chicago. Heretofore It has been necessary for In the second indictment officers of: .y the v:' entire leugtn at the him to walk the Retail Dealer association of the opposite end bescrutinize to log nois and Wisconsin are named. They but with the fore begins, the lowing are as follows: on the market by Invention Just placed W. M. Sanford, Freeport, 111., presiWilliam T. S. Diggins of Centralis, 1 1111-- 1 -- dent. for him to lac, Wis., vice leave his Btatlon beside the saw. The president. consists of a glass reflector, Frank E. Lukens, Chicago, secre- device divided by cords to indicate the line tary. the saw will take In cutting the log. Gus Aucutt, Aurora, 111 . treasurer, has only to adjust the reE. H. Keeler, Rockford, 111 , director. The sawyer by a simple mechanism within Frank Me Grew, Kankakee, Ilk, di- flectorsreach and both ends of the log easy rector. are shown in conjunction with the InMdiF. Durkee, Lake Geneva, 111., dicating lines, enabling him to turn rector. the log to cut to the best advantage. . C, I,. Marston, Appleton, Wls., diThe picture shows the rear end of rector. the carriage, with the log In place, and R. E. Brown, Oshkosh, Wis., directalso the mirror and log reflected there- or. in. indicating several split or checks The third Indictment is against the similar to those which are found in combination which the jurors found to large logs. exist between W. S. Bogle and certain mine operators in Indiana. The deMunicipal Control of Ttlephones. fendants: An old contention which seems to be Walter S. Bogle, president of the says the Electrical ReCrescent Coal and Mining company. c losing laground, the agltatkm which has for a view, Hugh Shifkie, president of the Brull-lett- s time been working toward the long Creek Coal and Mining company control' of telephone exand the Kevins Coal and Mining com- municipal In a number of instances changes. pany; several exchanges which started unJ. W. Higgins, secretary and gener- der municipal management with the al manager of the Oak Hill Coal and fairest conditions back of them have, Mining company. within a short time, given up the J. Smith Talley, president of the either been ghost, and their line Coal Bluff Mtnlng company. company the competing up by. bought Edward Shirkie, president of the In- or have lapsed into disuse. Not only . diana Fuel company.-Hin the United States has this been the R. McClellan, president of Mc- case, but only recently have we been Clellan. Sons & Co. Coal company, confronted by the spectacle of the John Shlrkle, who signed an agreeWells corporation selUng ment for his wife, dean Shirkie, of the Tunbridge out to the National Telephone comBrullletts company. of London, England. It is being Brullletts Creek coal and Mining pany than ever berealized more company. fore that it requires a combination of Oak Hill Coal and Mining company. minds to effect a profitable plan for Star Coal company, Streator, I1L, the working out of a system of telebranch of the Big Four Wilmington phone service. Capital requires th Coal company; H. N, Taylor, general aid of technical knowledge, and techmanager. nical knowledge requires the assistLa Satie County Carbon tlaal com- ance of practical mechanics. The pracpany; F. O. Wyatt, general manager, tical mechanic, the technician and the Chicago. capitalist place their combined faciliWilmington Coal Mining company: ties at the disposal of good business James Dalzell, treasurer, Chicago. sense, and ttji combination Is ons n Acme Coal company; R. G. that, although always available, I general mai.aKi.tv Streator, 111. rarely foumHn- - a department of muniWenona Coal company; C. E. Mon- cipal control, ger, president and general manager, Wenona, Ilk Ornithology. Oglesby Coal company; E. T. Bent, Some very interesting observation president, Chicagb. from balloons have been made relatMurphy, Keenan ft Co., Braid wood, ing to ornithology," says the AeronauIlk tical World. Inquiry resulted In the Joseph Martin, superintendent of assumption that 401 metres (1315 Parke CountyCoal company. was-th- e ditnit towhtch birdr-risGlen Oak Coal and Mining company. feet) above the surface of the earth, and Nev ins Coal company; that there was, therefore, no ground Indiana Fuel company. for the assertion of a well known & Co. Sons McClellan zoologist that there were birds which Crescent Coal and kilning company. raised themselves 8,000 meires (26,-24- 0 If the action of the grand jury la surface of the feet) above-t- he sustained by the courts the effect, it is earth. The lowest limits of the clouds conceded, will be found more seem to he the highest of bird flight than the most inexorable More comprehensive observations are foes of financial or Industrial comin countries necessary, especially yet binations' within reach If -- the coal where mafly birds,, of passage cross, on based are mens indictments good as, for example, Italy." law. These combinations, it ia admitted, Comprehend nearly every branch A Gaa Jet Flatiron, of trad from the . greatest down to Tbe cut from the accompanying those of the comparatively InconseIroh Age, represents a gas jet flatiron, class. quential wbich can be heated by slipping it over an ordinary gas burner. . 4t Is a Senator Warren Fighter, Senator Warren of Wyoming towers a giant among men. One of his hands was badly Injured years ago while he was president of the senate in the state named. One day a fight started between two members and the, sergeant at arm was unable to slop It Warren moved down from bis desk and threw both of the fighting legislators out of the hall. But before be had accomplished that one of the warrior in trying to hit his combatant with a heavy ruler struck Warren on the hand. Several bones were broken and the hand has been disabled ever since. W. Va., it is unnecessary P. F. Lusk, Fon du - j&wirs zcwTwjz Three of the Men Under Indictment coal men and corporations were indicted by the special grand jury at Chicago. Conspiracy in restraint of trade and combination to regulate and fix prices of coal in violation of the antitrust law are charged. The penalty for conspiracy is imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding five years, or a fine not exceeding $2,000, or both. For violation of the anti trust law the pen- -' alty Is a One of $500 to $2,000 for corporations, and for Individuals a fine of $200 to $1,000, or Imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or Forty-fou- r both. . In addition to the true bills returned to the court the Jury originally voted indictments for violation of the anti trust law against the officers of eighteen coal concerns, members of the Northern Illinois Soft Coal aasoci ation, sending the grand total of those caught In the net tip near the hundred mark. By arrangement with these concerns, however, the names of the individuals were striken out and the Indictments were directed only against the corporations on condition that they would go into court at once to t law. This was done test the In response to an urgent appeal by these coal men that they be spared the humiliation of a criminal Indictments, at least until a test was made of tue new iaw. The grand jury supplemented its ac- tion by the presentation of a report of Its investigation into the causes of the coal famine. This report dealt w ah the unprecedented advance in prices, the crippling of industries and the suffering of individuals, and attributed the shortage primarily to natural of which was the an causes, thracite strike. The big increase in the dtmaid for' doal also was taken The railroads ..into consideration. were exonerated from blame. As a result of the action of the grand jury Attorney Hamlin announced at Springfield that he would recommend special legislation 'In regard to the coal situation. Of the men connected with the In- diana interests' named- - in the Indictment, Hugh Shlrkle is president of the .Brullletts Creek Coal company and the Kevins Coal company; Joseph Martin, superintendent of the Parke County Edward Coal Shlrkle, eompany; president of the Indiana Fuel company; H. R. McClellan, president McClellan Sons ft Co.; Walter 8. Bbfie, president of the Glen Oak Coal Mining company of the Clinton district of Indiana, as well as of the Crescent Coal and Mining' company of Chicago, which acted as agent for the entire -output of thie district; John Shlrkle signed the combine agreement for Mrs. Jean Shirkie. The flrst.lndlctment names the companies which are members of the Northern Illinois Soft Coal association. --They are as follows: Chicago, Wilmington and Vermillion Coal company, A. L. Sweet, president; T. A. Lemmon, secretary. Big Four Wilmington Coal company, H. N. Taylor, secretary. n Coat company, anti-trus- - - - a -- Indian Fighter, bad men of the northwest Is a member of the South S. D. May, president Wilmington Star Mining company, Dakota legislator this winter. Dressed In a long gray frock coat woolen shirt, U. D. Buchanan, president ; waistcoat and broad, whit Bell ft Zoller Coal company, Herbert low-cu- t sombrero, Ellis T. Pierce, or "Bear X. Bell, president Cardiff Coal company, Glenn W. Tracks," as the Indians once knew him Js a picturesque figure about th Traer, president Devlin Coal company, Charles J. hotel lobbies In Pierre. .Pierce was s contemporary of Will BUI Hickok and Devlin, president Spring Valley Coal company, 8. M, his slayer. Jack McCook and is brimful of reminiscence of the old days. Dalzell, manager. Marquette Third Vein Coal company, New Branch of Daughters. Everett H. Tripp, sales agent. A branch of the Daughters of the Coal company. Bracevllle War of 1813 has been formed at WilIllinois Third Vein Coal company, mington, Dei.,- - - At Dalzell, president Gardner-WUmlngto- a f new insects are Lamed annually, It it aot surprising that our kuowi-edfSo- f these forms of life must have lncraged very greatly since the issue v. of U ninth edition of the Eticyclopes-diBritannic, in the supplemen-taryvolume- a Dr Sharpe in hla article presents a summary of re- cent progress in entomology. It is estiuted by some authors that the entik Insect world numbers some thi Hke 10,000,000 forms, of wbich The Battleship maiy are still unknown to science. As a bilge number of species must be in Five men sere killed and, four in pro ess of extinction. Dr. Sharpe conJurod Jan. 17 in an explosion on the duits that it is probable that a Massachusetts off Culebra proportion of the species of battleship Island. Insoets now existing will have disap The Navy Department at Washingpcafed from the face of the earth befoe specimens of them have been ton received the news In a dispatch eitlt- discovered or preserved. It la from San Juan. An eight-inc- h charge intetstlng to reflect that science, exploded In a gun In one of the- forMassachusetts. of the omifeorous and ward turrets may be The men on the Massachusetts were dislticed In the mere attempt to vatabgue the inhabitants of a very engaged In target practice at the houii earth. time. i The name of the dead and injured, i A Convenient Hose Rack. a given out by the department, are A simple and convenient rack for a follow;, garfcn hose Just put upon the market Dead Is Ifere illustrated, the picture "being J FELIX HERBERT LOESSER, New takfi from the' Iron A'ge. It ia made York, enttely of heavy galvanized Iron, simSTEPHEN FRANK MALINOWSKI. ple n constructiop and strong. It la Chicago. detuned to keep the hose In good con- ANDREW HENDRICKSON, Christ land, Norway. KENNETH JOSEPH PLATT. Troy, spe-cies- Old-Tim- e One of the old-tim- e constructed On the Bunsen burner principle, the air being furnished by a hole In the branch of the handle leading to the flame chamber. The handle does not get hot. and two or three minutes suffices to beat the Iron. The 8pectra of the Nebulae. The spectrum of a nebula contains three principal lines, all In the green or bine regions of the spectrum, on of which, the third, nearest the bine end, carresponds to hydrogen. The substance that gives rise to the other two is, as yet, unknown. Measurements of the relative brilliancy of tinea 1 and 2, at Potsdam, show that f WLaLd G g In-ve- (e n. y. ROBERT RULE, Mount Washington, Hamilton County, Ohio. Injured Alexander Newton Dossett, Durham, P"rM Rjp1 i "isprfe-s- 441 y A n. If J Immediate use. , flinched, near the i The rack sill cock, to HFfubeTIn the stable or cellar, or wbeteer most convenient to keep the hlch is colled and hung on the hose, rack.'f " Mo. '1 out of the way, but always rem rnp ; a James Garfield Patterson, Pittsburg, Pa. Albert Stephen Taeke, St Louis, to-da- y Fair-Lhair- on United States fjSC, Insects. I Ai about eight thousand indicates and Wounds Gunners Battleship Massachusetts, ih in Ere Massachusetts, dlatclyshown . the of, battle-ship- by the officers and crev Capt. Harry Lee, commanding the marine guard of the restek and Ensign Clarence Abele imwith mediately flooded the turret water, and Lieut. Charles F. Hughes and Gunner Kuhlwetn went below to the magazine, picking up powder charges, and prevented further explosions, while IJeuk William CJTVle and Gun. Captain Soueman entered the turret and withdrew the charge from the other gun, whose breech was open. The survivors of the guns crew when rescued were burned, mutilated, and nearly dead. One man, whoss clothing was on firs, Jumped overboard. In less than a minute after the explosion three stream of water were pouring into the turret, preventing the charge In the other eight Inch gun from exploding. , , - The-me- n met their death heroically, and the wounded men who were horribly burned about the body walked, without assistance to the hospital the clothes they wore at the time the accident. They were heartily (beered by their companions. . t A funeral service for the men who met their death in the explosion was laid next day on board the Ma"-achuffi iatlug. 'right setts, J''. After v o a j - J u w . shore 'and yuoi ci meUry of Poi lo lino, w hei , u,e Interment took plaic. The regimental blind of the sarrmon of Porto Rh'O took pait in the cere-- . -, Walter William August Eehert, , Cleveland, u Details of the explosion were obtained when the Massachusetts arrived at San Juan, Porto Rico. The explosion occurred in the starboard turret, and was due to the after-elgbt-lnc-b f Electricity in Mines. on the various methods of to the interior of trices fas read before the Glasgow Engineering Society by Mr. T. I Galloway, The author considered that tbs electrical method of power distribution would be most serviceable In tbe future and pointed out that th danger of explosion from sparks could be avoided by the use of the alternating current system. He also pointed out that the alterriRting current motor was more suitable for rough handling tfan ihe continuous current motor. Compressed air, he said,' had many advantages, especially for percussive drills; but Ice was liable to collect on compressed air motors, and the method which workers had adopted for removing this had occasionally been tb cause of fires. er transmit ting power Diagram Showing Effect of ExplotlOv accidental discharge of a percussion niony. Admiral Wi.,f;irafjn and the of tbe Maosacbusetts were at primer while the breech of the gun where n tlharj honors tho gTsrvetiiie, exploded wariipenrThefaR charge the turret and killed or injured all and also Masonic hoiae for one- of" the la Enlith Summer Weather 1902. the crew of the gun, numbering cine di ad wag rendered. A note in the Observatory on th A board of inquiry, conristing of men. Ensign Ward K. Wortman, who meteorology of th Epgllsh summer waa In charge of the turret escaped Capt Converse of the Illinois, of 1902 shows that Tt was remarkably Smith and Licit Pratt, has Id jury, though be was standing near cold and sunless. The total number the scene of the expTbsion. been spiliirled to investigate and reof hours of sunshine recorded at the matter. Magnificent discipline was Irame- port on the Rmal Observatory at Greenwich for five months, May to September, was HOUR GLASS ON MEN but 812, which is 207 hours less than HIGH IN CHURCH C0UNCIU8. '"'I1 . th average for the years . m and 238 less than the number of hoar Cardinal Vannutelli Appointed to Suc- Universally Used on Ship of the Britrj Ish Navy. for 1901. On only nine days did the ceed Cardinal Parrochl. temperature rise abotffi 80 degrees who Among things not generally known 'Seraflno Vannatelfl, Fahrenheit. The highest recorded Is the fact that the heur glass la uni- Carto successor has been appointed temperature waa 86.1 degrees on July dinal Parrochl in the vice chancellorversally used on board British ship 14. On May 14 the thermometer fell when the log is braved at night was cbnrch, Roman of the holy. at night to 22.6 degrees. The total ship 14, 1887, Every hour the boats nln. or one of March a cardinal on rainfall for the five months waa created was serving a papal nuncio the boatswains mates, blows on b(s he while twelve Inches one inch greater than to Vienna. He hold tbe rank of a whistle a peculiar shrill note called the usual rainfall during the sumcardinal bishop and preside over tne the reek Tbe person In the watch to mer season. see of Frascati. On of hia offices Is whom this duty Is assigned then heaves tbe log, a small piece of wood TreJ 'Trunks With Mastodon Remains. with a sinker fitted In it and at that The bones of a mastodon were ex- - j moment the glass Is turned. Though burned near Newburgh, N. Y., in Octotermed an hour glass generally, it la ber last and along with them were only a 14 second glass really. found a number of tree trunks that As the last grain runs out the log bad been buried In the mack and marl line is stopped with a jerk, which also loosens the lead sinker. The log floats surrounding and below tbe remains. Is many Instances the trunks fend the bp to the surface of the sea, the line bones were touching. One of the tree is hauled in, and an entry made lit was of polygonal cross-sectiothe the book, which, from ita containing polygon having from fourteen to sixthis among other Items of tbe daily teen sides, and tbe trunk was nln and nightly events of tbe voyage, to Inches in diameter. Other tree trunks called the log book. Country Life, were easily recognized as spruce and London. red cedar and some of them showed the marks of the teeth of animals Woes of a Wins Agent. probably of beavers. Hector. D. Mackenzie, agent of fe wine company in New York, was sued Protected from Dust on a judgment for $258. He acknowlAn automobile teen near Kostya, edged that he received $12,000 a year Long Island,, recently by a reporter salary, but declared that he had to for the MStofP Wbrld was equipped j spend most of it In pushing the busia canvaa' frame, being virtually ness of the company he represented. as extension of the rear portion of the In fact, he said, I am practically a tonneau body. It waa carried up to a tank into which I pour the wine In orheight of probably thirty Inches, and the der to earn a living. Why, i know a of while It cut off any rear view. It also that of grand penitentiary 1834 at wine agent who gels $40,000 a year. In born was church. He protected the occupant of th tonat toe Jesuits Between pushing the business and pay- educated was neau two women from toe swirling b tng household expenses I haven t college In Rome, and from youth clouds of dust been a distinguished diplomat. rs -- Com-tnaed- er OF-WA- 1897-190- |