Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-12-11
It is significant fact, established up.

1t is significant fact, established up
on good authority, that the consumption OF
fuel in twenty-five heavy engines on the Utica
and Schenectady division of the New York
Central Railroad, is now less than in the ten
small engines used upon the same road in
1912. The weight and speed of the trains
have nearly doubled, and the number of en-
gines nearly trebled, and yet the number of
cords of wood used for locomotive fuel on the
above portion of the road, is luss than in
1912!
Mr.. William Trask, of Keene, N. H.,
while employed i'll cutting wood, broke his
leg by the recoil of falling tree. Being alone,
he was obliged to crawl about mile through
the snow, freezing both feet. At length he
was discovered and conveyed to his home. His
broken leg was so much swollen as to render
it impossible to determine by surgical examin-
alton which side OF the knee the fracture ex-
listed.
In Chicago, few days since, a man
was found hanging by the heels to the top of
fence. His face had turned black and he
was dead While climbing over the fence he
had slipped and caught his foot between two
of the pickets In his struggles to free him.
self, he had torn off his coat and vest. The
very great. He had probably hung there sew
eral hours.
A rather singular marriage contract
was few days since entered into in Tennes-
see. The wife is worth a coil fifty thousand.
The husband is the rightful owner of a mag
niicent goatee. The contract provided that
the husband is to have no interest in his wife's
estate, shall collect none of her debts and
chastise none of her servants, and that he
shall pay her one hundred and fifty dollars
per annum for board.
The commercial centre of the Missis-
sippi Valley has long been the designation of
st. Louis, but the Iowa papers tell us that
she has ceased to command the trade of that
State-three- fourths of it, as well as that of
Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois, being now
done with Chicago. So much for railroads
and other channels of communication, for
opening new markets and unfolding the com.
mercial resources of State.
According to the census of the Cana
das, 30 persons are reported to be upwards of
100 years old, and about 400 are found be.
tween the ages of 80 and 100. The Indians,
those ancient or aboriginal lords of the soil,
still number 520S i'll Upper, and 1920 in Lower
Canada. Colored persons amount tn nearly
$500. more than fve-sixths of whom are in
Canada West.
A man was arrested in Ohio recently
for getting drunk. He pleaded that he had
not been guilty of violation of the new law,
and claimed the right OF being tried by the old,
ON the ground that he got drunk under the
old law and hadn't been sober since. The
judge was puzzled and held the case over for
advisement
A paper published in New iberia,
Louisiana, announces the decease at that place
of Mrs. Sarah Candy, at the age of one hun
dred and seven years Mrs. Candy was born
in New York-and some time previous to
1900, became a resident of Norfolk, where
she remained until 1910, when she removed
to New Orleans.
The city of Memphis has sent dele
gate to Washington, for the purpose of en-
deavoring to induce Congress to continue the
navy yard, established there some years ago,
and coded at the last session to the city of
Memphis. ID. F. Dill, Esq, the editor of the
Memphis appeal, Is the delegate appointed.
Robert Schuyler. the great defaulter,
it is stated, has bought "a place" on the
Rhine, where he now resides, and has sent for
his family to join him. His confidential clerk
clerk came passenger to New Y ork last week
in the Baltic, on his masters business.
Thomas M. Yates, one of the jurors
who granted verdict Of '.not guilty" in the
Ward case. is now on trial before the Hardin
County Circuit Court, at Elizabethtown, KY,
for perjury.