The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-03-25
ODD REC0RDSMADEIN'Ol
ALL SORTS OF UNPRECEDENTED
FEATS ACHIEVED.
They Range From Speedy Divorces and
Great Feats of Travel to UnexampIed
Financial transactions and Varied
Forms of prosDerity

Financial transactions and Varied
Forms OF Prosperity.
The first year of the twentieth cen
fury, y. d., 1901. saw many new rec
ordS established in odd lines of human
activity while it left pathway strewn
with old records broken.
To begin at the beginning. on New
Years Day there We're thirty deaths
from violent causes in various parts of
Kentucky. This record set new
high slaughter mark. The matrimo-
NAL mart usually has big things to
show in a year. All nuptal speed rec
ords We're smashed on Sunday. August
TO- at St Joseph. Mich. Chicagos
Gretna Green. when twenty seven
couples from Chicago were deftly
spliccd I'm one hour and three-quarters
each couple thus having less than five
minutes to go through the mill.
The minister who in 1901 claimed the
record with reference to the grand to-
tai of marriages and funerals. con
nected with n long minister's life. is
the Rev. j. NJ. Haughey. of Mason City.
the namesakc of Senator Billy. but not
his home-a little town thirty miles
south of Pekin, Ill. During his career
as a preacher. period of some forty
years, he has married 1857 couples ana
conducted 1900 funerals.
Turning TO the divorce side of matri-
mony-a side peculiarly rich i'm speed
records-one naturally would look to
Chicago. OKLAHOMA or the Dakotas for
winners. The Chicago speedy divorce
calendar for the year found its stellar
rnnt form no., In,
Kruger. 1t took this lady trife less
than ten minutes to convince Judge
Dunno that she ought to he cut loose
from her husband, Henry William
Kruger a saloonkeeper OF the Windy
City.
AT $50 a. m, August %. she fled
her bill in the Circuit Court charging
that Henry. whom she had welded in
the preceding April, was cruel
spouse. AT $40 n. N. the decree had
been signed by the Judge, awarding
freedom to the bride and taxing the re
creant Henry $500 alimony. The
highest speed achievement in former
cases in any part of the United States
was twenty minutes for the legal sep
aration of San Francisco couple. in
1900.
Referring to feats in travel. it Ger
tainly was great year for the auto
mobile. Even in these days of chronic
recOrd-breaking such performance as
that of Henri Fourier. the French
chauffeur, who drove heavy French
racing machine a mile i'm 81 40 sec
onds on the Coney Island Boulevard,
in November was most noteworthy.
The long-dstance records for horse
less vehicles was broken by Arthur ].
Eddy, of Chicago. a former President
of the Automobile Club of that city.
In sixty days from August to Sep
TENDER 80, he covered 1000 miles. trav-
cling through Michigan, Indiana. Ohio.
Pennsylvania, New York. New Jersey.
Massachusetts and part of Canada He
averaged about 100 miles a day and
at times maintained n speed of forty
miles an hour.
Wonders incident to travel were pro
claimed in other classes: for example.
the unchallenged record of Charles
Bellamy, Il Burlington Railroad fire
man, who in eleven years of faithful
service Travelled COG, $40 miles and shov-
eled -, 5O1 tons of coal on the way.
He never lost a trip or received a
scratch through accident. Railroad
men say that it is a case of physical
endurance never equaled.
An engine of the Great Northern
Railway. in England, which was built
in 1870, completed in August an aggre-
gate Of 100000 miles breaking the
English record in this respect
Inc spcediest loug-distance delivery
OF mail ever accomplished in the world
was that of the consignment which
left sydney. Australia, October 10, for
London. England. by the American
route. \ distance Of 1926 miles was
covered in thrty-one days saving
OF four days over the Suea Canal route.
Around the world in sixty days thir-
teen hours and thirty minutes is the
new globe grdling record. which was
completed last July by Charles &.
FitZmoiTis q Chicago high school boy.
This beat the best previous fast cir
cult of the world by several days
The champion gormand of the year
was Elmer pfoifcr. nm Arcola uHJ
youth with an elastic stom0ch-a chap
that Carlyle probably would have
called q patent digcstcT who one hun
cry day i'm February dcvourcd TWEEN
ty-four rat ham sandwiches iu exactly
forty-ci-ht minutes. thereby winning
% wager. with side bets of SO and oe-
iabiishing - record which undoubtedly
was world beaten
Harry : Black OF Chicago and Now
York recently made the largest con-
science contribution to- Uncle sam
known fn tine history oil tine Govern
mcut Tie sent to ,hc proucr official.
S1SGGoG0 representing tnc duty con-
Jewels imported boy his wife which
had escaped tnc vigilance of thc in
sppctOrs
10 was q fruitful years Zoo uuprccc.
dontcd financial commercial and iu
du-tr.al transactions Thc largest
shipment of gold which ever lcft Sow
York iu 90 -iuglcdayvas sent to Europe
November 80 ou bc steamship Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse Tho sum wa.
STOs2 5S319 $50 other Ship u tho
world history has ever been -u richly
laden Another record i- noted m tb,
statement THAT ot tho opening of bust.
ness ou July 81 the United States
Treasury bad Zoo ts possession thc
largest fund OF gold held hy amy nation