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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-02-07

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/ FAIRFIELD, Cal, Feb. e.-Eranls
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his brother Louis and sister Susie, IN the
little town OF Dixon, on the 9tlito OF last
November has confessed. He told how.
he placed rat poisonflntt the ten 4uscdSby,
his brother and sisters and when tho
news came to him that theywere dying
how he had gone to thelrlhome and Wit
messed the dying struggle Of his sister
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for; the crime was revenge on his broth
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"THE. DAZzLER.n

s cosgrove & Grants comedians In
II he Dazzlcr'' nre making their third
annual tour Of the country, ana WILDE
here al the Grand the hrst8haltfoi,thls
week More elaborate changes and
Improvements have been made IN tho.
piece this season than a. any time! liz
the last four years, and The result Is
sFhat even those who have seen Tho.
piece many times before. vii, ( ind ST
this year nsrewg enterta!nmentl to them
The comedians headed by Will West.
Pipes, md Emile: Heusel. q as the
much worried Dutchmah, are an Eexcep-
;tl9nailyE clever; lot. while Ida Rogers,
WITH her dainty presence and beautiful
54soprlan no voice and Agnes q Evans, as
tho dashing Julienne, SiinVc 10 support
them a bunch OF pretty girls, good sing
5eraland graceful dancers as were ever.
seen IN farce comedy. s{S,l5
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a FEW months ago. Mr.. Byron Ev-
cry. of Woodstock. Mich, was badly at
,nictcd with rheumatism His right leg
was swollen the full length, causing
him great suffering. He was advised to
try iChamberlainsP Pain Balm. The first
bottle ofit3 helped him considerably and
the second bottle effected a cure. The
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DARKEST EussI "a u

Darkest Russia" is the announce
.ment Of the attraction that viii appear
at the Opera House Friday evening.
February II. It's is a Russian drama,
Sbutihas been constructed on original
lines with a touch OF real Americana hui
NOR that Is al all times refreshing,
This accounts for the fact that5itsis one
OF the greatest successes OF the stage for
years Everywhere It IS greeted as a
MASTERPIECE OF realism. Its story is In
sterestinglyi told. while the comedy. that
j Is interpersed In liberal quantity lends
rtghtness and cheerfulness5 that IS
all It's own. Close attention has been
paid to all tho details. and the produc.
tions can be appropriately call complete
IN every particular.
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PANIC NARROWLY AvERTE D.
Among Crowd OF Dancers-Balconylo
- ilic Hall Colinp.es.

Among Crowd OF Dancers-Bnlcony of
ihc Hall coiinp,es.
53% CHICAGO. Feb. GA panic among,
200 dancers was narrowly averted last
midnight at the North Shore hall.
Thirty spectators were crowded into the,
little balcony watching the dance. The
supports became loosened and slipped
back 10 the wall. The balcony sank
gradually, allowing the spectators to
slide;topsy- turvy onto the polished floor.
the creaklng aud pulling COM
menced, indicating that the balcony
was falling the large number of per-
sons gathered underneath quickly
stampeded towards the central portion
hall, leaving John Krusc behind.
aKrusc was caught by the falling TIM
bers and had his side crushed in.
s As the north end of the balcony COM
'mcnced to fall, theimusicians became!
panic stricken. and selling their In
struments made q dash for the door.
The dancers followed. Several police
officers stationed at the door. threw i It.
shut and held it against the panic
stricken dancers, thus averting n Scer-l
tain catastrophe in the narrow stair
way. 5f
( OF the thirty persons In the gallery,
Krusc alone sustained serious injuries.
All the others, however. were painfully
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1.-THE HEART OF. cHIc !, i.

Lincoln J. Carter, author and owner
of THE Heart Of Chicago" which
comes, TO The Grand the last half OF this
week, also author OF The Fast Mail.ssj
IS one Of the richest amusement man
ayers in America. He houses two hun
;dred families in his nat buildings In;
Chicago. He launched 1.-THE Fast Maiip33
ionsa capital OF 500, and It cleared s53.,i
900 on Its first season. and THE Heart
3of Chicago VIII prove the best money
maker. 9as IT Is his strongest produce
ton. It will be given here in the same
elaborate manner as Ia the big city the
aires.
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p LONDON, Feb. 6.-The correspondent
of. the Times at Kobe, Japan, says:s"The
Korean government having adopted
resolution that no railway concessions
shall, be granted to foreigners, the,
Japanese minister al Seoul, NJ. Kato
:Masuo. will demand that the contract
for the construction Of the ,Seoul--Fusan
railway BY Japan, under an agreement
made in August, 1894. shall be signed
without delay & x, s..
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4 si,eriT, Indicted.

4 CARSON, New, Feb. 6.-sheriff,
Brockliss. OF Douglass county. where,
the lynchipg OF Adam Uber recently oc-
Cured, has beenSindicted for wllful neg
lcct OF duty1n not taking steps to pre-
vent the Illegal execution His trial has
been set for the 10th. A similar! charge.
against the county commissioners was
tpporod ~ -
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snnr.e,l.il,e Emit.

u SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.--Reports
received here from ali sections show
general rain throughout the state. It
will prove of great benefit and will save
the farmers and fruit growers from the
great loss which threatened dry sea-
sons have accustomed. : n
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Z OF the thirty persons In the gallery,
'Krusc alone sustained serious injuries.
All the Others, however, were painfully
bruised 2 & ~ ~ ~
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- q ~ = ~ - 49,
The ITyrant Unmasked.t
a Drama in Three Acts.

The Tyrant Unmasked."
ADrama in Three Acts,
Dramatis Personae.
Count Hartenstein..! Jas. D. Corcoran
Glandoff, his attendant. :. Leo v. Thornton
Prince Leopold - ......... II. ". Gundling
Maurice. Sthe twnodcuttcr...C, NJ Truschel
Hans. his friend +. Rock
Dominic IS. Starrkon, LIZ I. .............
P. Hillenbrand
Capt. Manhoff of the Guards -. 2. 49,.
>. -! ...........!...,.C C. l.. Srodgrass
Fritz, son OF Maurice, Ii years DID,. 9Rfi
Peter, son OF Mauricc, years old.
80. s So. Thos. "a. o MALTA
(. Guards. Peasants, Etc.
The herald., 1898-02-06
Immediate Purpose Was Fulfilled and We
Eastened Back to the Earth

ness of the engine by whose aid Mr..
Edison was about to undertake the
conquest of another world. But in art,
as in nature, size does not, by any
means, count for everything. 1t was
the principle involved that gave to Mr..
Edison's invention it's marvellous ef-
ficiency.
Acting upon the hint VIII ch had been
conveyed from various Investigations
in the domain of physics, and concen-
trating upon the problem all those un-
matched powers of intellect which dis
tinguished him, the great inventor
had succeeded in producing little i'm
plement which one could carry in his
hand, but which was more powerful
than any battleship that ever floated.
The details of it's mechanism could not
be easily explained without the use of
tedious technicalities and the employ
ment of terms, dia grams and mathe-
matical statements, all of which would
lie outside the scope of this narrative.
But the principle of the thing was SIM
| pie enough. 1t was upon the great
| scientific doctrine which we have since
seen 50 completely and brilliantly de-
Veloped, of the law of harmonic vibra-
| tions, extending from atoms and MOLE
cules at one end of the series up to
worlds and suns at the other end, that
Mr.. Edison based his invention.
Every kind of substance has it's own
Vibratory rhythm. That of iron differs
from that of pine wood. Inc atoms of
| gold do not vibrate in the same time
or through the same range as those of
lead and so on for all known SUBJ
stances, and all the chemical elements.
SO. on larger scale, every massive
body has it's period of Vibration. A
great suspension bridge vibrates, under
the impulse of forces that are applied
to it, in long periods. No company of
soldiers ever crosses such a bridge
without breaking step. If they tramped
together, and were followed by other
! companies keeping the same time with
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their feet, after a while the vibration.
of the bridge would become so great
and destructive that it would fall II
pieces. So any structure, 70 it's vibra.
tion rate Is known, could easily be de.
stroyed by force applied to it in such
"a way that it should simply increase
the swing of those vibrations up to the
point of destruction.
| Now Mr.. Edison had been able to as
certain the vibratory swing of many
well-known substances, and to produce
by means of the instrument which he
had contrived, pulsations i'm the ether
which were completely under his con-
trol. and which could not be made long
or short, quick or slow, at his will. He
could run through the whole gamut
from the slow vibrations of yound in
air up to the four hundred and twenty
five millions of millions of vibrations
per second of the ultra red rays.
Having obtained an instrument Of
such power. it only remained to con-
centrate its enerPv upon a given object
IN order that the atoms composing that
object should be set into violent undu-
lation sufficient to burst it asunder and
to scatter its molecules broadcast. This
the inventor effected by the simplest
means in the world-simply a parabolic
reflector by which the destructive
waves could be sent like beam of
light, but invisible. in any direction
and focused upon any desired point.
L had the good fortune to be present
when this powerful engine of destruc-
tion was submitted to its first test. We
had gone upon THE roof of Mr.. Edison's
laboratory and the inventor held the
little instrument. with is attached
mirror, in his hand. We looked about
for some object on which to try its
powers. On the bare limb of tree
not far away, for it was late in the
fall. sat a disconsolate crow.
Good" said Mr.. Edison, " that will
do" He touched a button at the side
of the instrument and a soft, whirring
noise was heard.
"Feathers, said Mr.. Edison. ''have
vibration period of three hundred and
eighty-six million per second"
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He adjusted an index as he spoke.
Then, through a sighting tube. he
aimed at the bird.
"Now watch" he said.
Another soft whirr in the instrument,
a momentary flash of light close around
it, and, behold the crow had turned
from black to white!
'Its feathers are gone" said the in
ventor; they have been dissipated
into their constituent atoms. Now,
we will finish with the cry"
| Instantly there was another adjust
ment of the index, another outshoot-
| ing of vibratory force, rapid up and
certain range of vibrations, and the
crow itself was gone-vanished in
empty space! There was the bare twie
on which moment before it had stood.
Behind, in the sky. was the white cloud
against which its black form had been
sharply outlined, but there was no more
crow.
"That looks bad for the Martans
doesn't it?'' said the wizard. II have
ascertained the vibration rate of all
the materials of which their war en-
gines whose remains we have collected
together are composed. They can be
shattered into nothingness in the frac-
| tion of a second. Even if the vibration
period were not known, it could quick
be hit upon by simply running through
the gamut."
"Hurrah!' cried one of the onlookers
1--WE have met the Martans and they
| are ours"
mot quite so fast" said Mr.. Edison
1--WE must give a little thought to that
Possibly we may find "a way to over.
come all of their inventions, and to g
greater or less extent turn the enemies
guns against themselves. But at pres
ent let us be satisfied with what we
have actually got"
Such in brief was the first of thu
contrivances which Mr.. Edison In
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| this was only an experimental trip.
BY visiting this little nearby island
in the ocean space, Mr.. Edison simply
| wished to demonstrate t practical
bility of his invention, and to convince,
| first of ALL himself and his scientific
friends that it was possible for men
mortal men-to quit and to revisit the
earth at their will. That aim this
| experimental trip triumphantly at
tanned.
1t would carry me into technical = =
tails that would hardly interest the
reader, to describe the mechanism of
Mr.. Edison's flying machine. Let it
suffice to say that it depended upon
the principle of electrical attraction
and repulsion. BY means of a most
ingenious and complicated construc-
ton he had mastered the problem of
how to produce, in limited space.
electricity of any desired potential and
of any polarity, and that without dan
ger TO the experimenter or to the
material experimental upon. 1t is
gravitation, as everybody knows, that
makes man prisoner on the earth. If
ne could overcome, or neutralize. grav-
ftation he could float away, a free
- 'N'NN0'S VI SDtGts MI l<ul-
son in his invention had pitted cleo
trclty against gravitation. Nature.
in fact, had done the same thing long
before. Every astronomer knew it,
but none had been able to initiate or
to reproduce this miracle of nature.
When comet approaches the sun, the
orbit in which it travels indicates that
it is moving under the impulse of the
suns gravitation. 1t is in reality fall
ing in a great parabolic CT elliptical |
curve through space. But while a |
comet approaches the sun it begins to
display--stretching out for millions, |,
and sometimes hundreds of millions of |
miles on the side away from the sun
an immense luminous train called its
all. This train extends back into that
part of space from which the comet is
moving. Thus the sun at one and the
same time is drawing the comet toward
tself and driving of from the comet
n an opposite direction minute parti-
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cles or atoms which instead Of obey
ing the graVitational force, are plainly
compelled to disobey it, That this ener-
gy, which the sun exercised against
Its own gravitation. is electrical in its
nature, hardly anybody will doubt The
he'd of the comet being comparatively
heavy and massive, falls on toward
the sun, despite the electrical repul-
sion. But the atoms which form the
tail. being almost without weight, yield
to the electrical rather than to the
eraVitational influence and so fly away
from the sun.
Nov, what Mr.. Edison had done was,
in effect, to create an electrical Particle
which might be compared to one of the
atoms composing the tail of comet.
although in reality it was a kind Of car.
of metal, weighing some hundreds of
pounds and capable of bearing some
thousands of pounds with 1T in its
flight. BY producing. with the aid of
the electrical generator contained in
this car, an enormous charge Of cleo
tricity. Mr. Edison was able to coun-
terbalance. and a trihe more than
counterba lance. the attraction of the
earth and thus cause the car to Gv
off from the earth as an electrified
| pithball flies from the prime con-
ductor.
AS we sat in the brilliantly lighted
chamber that formed the interior of the
car and where stores Of compressed
air had been provided together with
chemical apparatus, by means of which
fresh supplies of oxygen and nitrogen
might be obtained for our consumn-
tion during the flight through space
Mr.. Edison touched a polished button.
thus causing the generation of the re-
quired electrical charge on the e-.
terror of the car, and Immediately we
began TO rise.
| The moment and direction of OIL,
, flight had been so timed and Drear.
ranged. that the original impulse
! would carry US straight toward the
moon.
When we fell within the sphere O,
attraction of that orb it only became
necessary to SO manipulate the elec.
trical charge upon our car as nearly
but not quite, to -counterbalance the
effect of the moons attraction in orde,
that we might gradually approach il
and with an easy motion, settle, with.
out shock upon its surface.
We did not remain to examine the
wonders of the moon. although we
could not fail to observe many curiou;
things therein. Having demonstrated
the fact that we could not only leave
the earth but could journey through
space and safely land upon the surface
OF another planet, Mr.. Edison's imme
diate purpose was fulfilled, and we
hastened back to the earth, employing
in leaving the moon and in landing
again upon our own planet the same
means of control over the electrical at
traction and repulsion between ths
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respective planets and our car which
l have already described.
When actual experiment had thu:
demonstrated the practicality of the
invention, Mr.. Edison no longer with
held the news of what he had beer
doing from the world. The telegraph
lines and the ocean cables ,abored with
the messages that i'm endless success
sion, and burdened with an infinity OF
detail, were sent all over the earth
Everywhere the utmost enthusiasm
was aroused
Let the Martians come" was the
cry. IF necessary we can quit the
earth as the Athenians fled from
Athens before the advancing hosts of
Xerxes, and Ike them, take refuge
upon our ships-these new ships OF
space, with which American inventive
ness has furnished u.s.
And then, like a flash, some genius
struck out an idea that fired the world
why should we wait! Why should
we run the risk of having our cities de-
strOyed and our lands desolated a
second time? Let US SO to Mars. We
have the means. Let us beard the
lion in his den. Let us ourselves turn
and take possession of that
detestable planet, ana if necessary. de-
stToy in order to relieve the earth of
this perpetual threat which now hangs
over us like the sword of Damo-
cles."
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This enthusiasm would have had but
little justification had Mr.. Edison done
nothing more than invent a machine
which could navigate the atmosphere
and the regions of interplanetary
space.
He had, however, and this fact was
generally known, although the details
had not yet leaked out-invented also
machines of war intended to meet the
utmost that the Martians could do for
either offence or defence in the strug-
gle which was now about to ensue.
1t almost makes me smile when l
recall the apparent simplicity, the eX-
ceeding compactness, the absurd little