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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
SCIENCE IN BURGLARY.
Modern Discoveries Utilized by
Blowers of Safes-SOme of the
Devices Employed.
From Tit-Bits.

From Tit-Bits.
1t is a proud boast of the present day
safe-breaking fraternity that, whatever
the achievements of the manufacturers
are, no safe has yet been made which
can resist the attacks of burglar who
knows his profession. How true this
is it would be rather difficult to say;
but it is quite certain that, if he is to
battle the modern Bill Sykes, the safe
maker must exert his inventive powers
and ingenuity to the utmost.
The time has passed when the burglar
attacked a safe with a hammer, crow
bar. chisel and a few skeleton keys.
Nowadays he utilizes modern discov-
cries of science to aid him in his ne
farious work. and relies on his knowl-
edge of chemistry and mechanics to
successfully accomplish robbery.
Many experienced burglars, for in
stance, now employ a chemical COM
pound. by which the finest steel can
be pierced. This compound lis called
thermite. which, when mixed with mag
nesium powder, softens the hardest
steel to such an extent that 1t may be
pierced as easily as lead. With the
aid of this compound the burglar can
find his way into the toughest safe. The
ther1nite is placed on the top or some
other part of the safe, and generates
such a fierce heat that the hardest steel
cannot resist it.
One of the most useful and common
scientific appliances which burglars
employ nowadays is an oxy-hydrogen
blow-pipe, which produces such an in
tense heat that the metal against which
the flame is directed is melted. Only a
few months ago a safe in one of the
London postoffices was opened by
means of one of these blow-pipes The
burglars who accomplished the deed
merely had as tools bit of India rub
Der tubing and a cylinder of oxygen
gas. They fixed the tubing to the gas
jet, turned on the oxygen, and obtained
a heat of 1000 degrees, sufficient to melt
the steel of a battleship
Electricity, too, renders most valua-
BILE aid to the modern burglar. Some
time ago the safe of a well-known
wholesale firm of tobacconists was
broken into and robbed of its contents.
The safe was found to have a large
hole melted through the door, and at
first the police were considerably puzr
zled in their endeavors to find out how
this had been accomplished. Ultimately
1t was discovered that the burglars had
torn down the electric light wires
which were installed in the building,
and used the current to fuse the metal.
Needless to say. the men must have
been skilled electricians, provided with
an elaborate apparatus, in order to ac-
complish such a piece of work
About two years a daring attempt
was made to open the safe of a we'll
known firm of Hatton Garden diamond
merchants. Fortunately the burglars
were disturbed in their work and in
their haste to escape left behind an
assortment of beautifully made tools
and an automatic furnace of a kind en-
tirely new to the Scotland Yard off,
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OBITUARY..
capt. Dominick Boyle.

After an illness lasting scarcely
more than a week, Capt. Dominick
Boyle, died at his home, 4O5 Charlton
street, east, last night. The immediate
cause of his death was heart failure,
though, for week before his death, he
suffered with malarial fever.
Capt Boyle was native of Ireland,
born Feb 2, 1881. at Trentock, County
Meath, ireland. He was Y years Of
age When lad he was brought to
America. He was in the Confederate
service throughout the war He was
lieutenant commander of the Confed-
crate cruiser MinnasonSu, which was
captured off Nassau in 1862. Shortly
after the capture, the Yankee vessel,
captured and all. were shipwrecked,
and Capt. Boyle was one of the four
that survived. He was picked up by
the British frigate Galatea and taken
to Havana. He was at Fort Sumter
when the first gun of the war was
fired
Many years after the war he was
superintendent of the Sullivan's Island
Ferry Company, plying between
Charleston and Moultrieville. He was
shipwrecked off Tybee in the storm of
SO
In 1897 Capt. Boyle, with his family,
moved to Savannah, where he has
since resided. He was owner and mas
ter of the steamer Bachelor. He leaves
Il wife, Mrs. Anne D. Boyle, two sons,
Capt Garry A. Boyle of the u. S. corps
of engineers, Charleston. s. c., and
William 3. Boyle of this city, besides
several daughters. He was a cousin of
Gen. Philip Sheridan.
Capt. Boyle was a devout member of
the Catholic Church A notice of his
funeral will appear later.
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Gals. This automatic furnace was
remarkable contrivance, consisting of
semi-cylindrical shaped piece of met
al, lined with asbestos and fitted with
mechanical blast the fuel used be-
ing coke and charcoal. These furnaces
which produce a keen, biting flame, are
used to heat the sides of a safe, in or
der that they may be more easily
pierced.
A remarkable breaking exploit
was reported from Paris last year,
Which shows with what rapidity the
modern burglar can work. Four men,
under official observation, were seen to
break into an Office and attack
large safe. They bored holes at each
angle of the door, and then knocked
out four rivets. Bending the outside
plate little, it was gripped by Gu
rious instrument with immense gyra-
tory leverage and absolutely rolled up
like the tin of a sardine box. The
lock was thus exposed to view, and
the withdrawal of a few screws allow
ed the door to be opened. The whole
operation only lasted a quarter of an
hour, and it would be difficult to say
who were most surpfised-the burglars
at being arrested as they left the office
or the police who had watched their
operations.
It is a popular belief that the mod
ern burglar relies mostly on skeleton
keys in order to open a safe. AS
matter of fact, skeleton keys are OF
little use to him nowadays, owing TO
the complicated and ingenious system
of locks which has been invented. HIS
faovrite method is that of tearing open
the sides of the safe.
Holes are first drilled into the metal
and then, with a lever, the caslngs
are wrenched apart by main strength
Failing in this, explosives are resort
ed to, the sound being deadened by
felt, in which the safe is first enVel-
oped. The lock is sometimes DESTROY
ed by means of nitro glycerine, ana
even dynamite, which the burglar as
charges by electricity, has been re-
sorted to.
The following device, however, when
the modern burglar sometimes enl-
ploys, is probably the most ingenious s
of all. He fills up the crevice oil tne
door of the safe with putty, leaVlHs
only two openings. By means OF az
air pump applied to one of the open
ings he draws the air from within IIe e
safe. Meanwhile his confederate nous
a card at the other opening on Whicn
he pours gunpowder. The latter -
drawn in between the body OF the So
and the door by the air suction, ana -
then exploded. This results III eitni
the doors being blown from their poi'o
or forced open sufficiently TO alIo"
Jimmy" being used.
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AT a recent meeting of the Astror

AT a recent meeting of the Astron-
omical Society in London striking con-
firmatlon was obtained Of the view
that the canals" In Mars are due for
the most part TO an optical deluson on
tho part of the observer. A drawing of
the planet showing no canals was
placed before classes of boys at Green
witch Hospital school, and they were
required to make copies of il. Those
placed nearest it drew no canals; but
those farther away dalineated canals
closely resembling those observed by
Schiaparelh and others. 1t is explained
that the eye becomes representative by
long gazing at details which are imper-
fectly seen, being al the limit of visi-
bIlity, and that the retinal blood vessels
then convey impressions of canals to
the Vlsion-center in the brain. The boys
We're quite unbiased, being unacquaint-
ed with any drawings of Mars. Prob
ably Mars is not inhabited, and neVe"
will be-" says a recent writer but it
very likely has been II iS now in the
state which the earth will reach in
three or four millions of years" When
the possibility of signaling to Mars was
under discussion a few years ago Sir
Robert Hall. the celebrated astronomer,
pointed out that If flag of the size OF
Ireland was waved from Il polo To
match there was just the ghost of Il
cha: &c that an astronomical Marian
might pore Give the ghost Of q futter
on the earth.
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THANKS TO DENMARK
For the sympathy Shown Mt Sailors
Funeral.

Washington, July 1S,-At the in
stance of Rear Admiral Cotton and
Capt. Hemphill of the Kearsarge, the
Navy Department has requested the
State Department to make suitable &C
acknowledgement to the civil and mill
tary authorities and the people of
Nyborg, Denmark, for the extraordi-
nary manifestation of sympathy ex-
hibited by them on the occasion of the
death and burial at that place on June
10 of Frederick Mckay, an apprentice
on the Kearsarge, enlisted from Bos-
ton.
very large military escort was pro-
vided by the Danish officials. and the
wife of the Mayor of the town walked
three miles in order to place a wreath
on the coffin of the dead sailor.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
WITH THE LEAGUERS.
short Open Air Song Service Great
Feature.

short Open Air Song Service Great
Feature.
Detroit, Mich, July 1S.-Ten thou
sand Epworth Leaguers gathered on
the Campus Martius in front of the
City Hall this afternoon in the short
open air song service that was the
feature of the sixth international con-
vention of the league and one of the
most unique episodes in the history of
the leagues conventions.
The service was short, merely the
singing of the old Coronation" hymn
and America" led by two cornetists.
Between songs they gave three cheers
for the United States, for King Ed
ward and the league.
To-night's meetings in Tent Onta-
rio, Auditorium Epworth and the De-
troit Opera House, were devoted to adj
dresses on The Church and Civic
Righteousness, THE Church and the
Industrial Masses" and THE Church
and the Liquor Problem"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19

Washington. Ju!y 'N.--Justico Samuel
Lumpkin of the State Supreme Court
died very suddenly this morning at
4:So o'clock ut I've home OF his broth
er-in-lat, a.r :. $ Richardson twelve
miles east of Washington.
The immediate cause of his death
was a violent hemorrhage OF the
lungs which was the first that he had
ever had. He had been sufferer from
rheumatism for the past two years.
but his condition was not considered
serious. Yesterday, Justice Lumpkin
enjoyed a fish fry on Dry Fork creek,
near Mr. Richardson's home, and SEEM
ed to be in his usual good spirits
With his wife he had been visiting
the family of Mr.. Richardson for the
past week and had planned to return
TO Atlanta on Monday.
Justice Samuel Lumpkin was born
in Oglethorpe county. Georgia, Dec. II,
1S4s. He was the son of Joseph Henry
Lumpkin. Jr., and grandson of Sam
uel B. Lumpkin. His granduncles were
Wilson Lumpkin, a Governor of Geor-
gia and United States senator, and
Joseph Henry Lumpkin first chief JUS
tice of the Georgia Supreme Court.
Justice Lumpkin's father was a brill
liant lawyer, but died when very young.
leaving his son an infant. After a pre-
paratory education, Justice Lumpkln
was entered at the University of
Georgia and graduated with first hon
ors in the class of 81.
Immediately after graduation he
taught school for a time, in Georgia
and Mississippi but he was reading
law the while, and in 1868 he was adj
mitted to the bar at Lexington, his
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19

women, and I recommend it to them
especially. during the trying weather of
spring and early summer"
Simple stimulants will not cure such
cases. Neither will so-called tones.
Nothing but a natural nerve invigorator
that restores the mucous membranes to
their normal condition will permanently
relieve such cases. DR.. Hartman was
the first physician in the United States
to accurately describe systemic catarrh.
His remedy, Peruna, the only systemic
catarrh remedy yet devised, is now
known all over the civilized world. A
person having used it once can never be
persuaded to be without it when in need
of such a remedy.
Write for copy of DIR. Hartman's
latest book entitled Summer Catarrh."
Address DR.. Hartman, Columbus, o.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
j. H. Rnrnes. Griffin.

Griffin, Ga, July Isl. H. Barnes,
one of the most prominent citizens OF
Griffin, died this morning after a lin
gering illness. He had been identified
with the business interests of this
place fDr many years, and when strick-
en- down with his fatal disease was
manager of the Rushton Mills, and the
Commissary Mills. He was 60 years
of age and leaves a widow and six
children, Mrs. John w. Wolcott, Will
bur, Walter and Otis Barnes of Griffin,
and Mrs. Floyd Johnson and Joseph
Barnes of Atlanta.
The funeral will be held from his
late residence tomorrow morning at
8 O'Clock, Rev. j. j. Bennett of the
First Baptist Church officiating.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19

Kansas City. No. July 1S.-The Kan
sas City Star has begun successfully
the operation of it's paper mill, built
here within the last nine months. The
capacity OF the mill is forty tons of
white paper daily, all of which will be
consumed by the Star and it's morning
paper, the Times. The paper is made
from pulp shipped from Canada There
is only one other newspaper in the
world that manufactures its own pa
per- the London Telegraph.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
Luther sticringer, California.

Pasadena, Cal, July 1S.-Luther
Sueringer. one of the most eminent
electrical engineers of the world died
here to-day of consumption, aged So
years. He came here from New York
last December. Stieringer, next to
Edison, his friend and associate. was
responsible for the invention of more
electrical appliances than any other
man. He had charge of the electric
lighting of the Pan-American EXPOSE
ton
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
NOT ENOUGH CARS TO
MOVE WHEAT CROP

Topeka. Kan. July 1S.-On the eve of
marketing the great wheat crop of
Kansas a serious car famine exists.
Cyrus Anderson, secretary of the Board
of Railway Commissioners, said to-day
that the wheat crop is so large that it
will require all the available freight
cars to haul the first instalment of it
to the market. He says the railroads
do not even own enough cars to handle
the crops.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
WaddeII Suspended.

New York, July 1S.-President John
SON of the American Baseball League
arrived from Philadelphia to-day and
announced that he had suspended
Pitcher Waddell of the Philadelphia
Athletics for five days for his attack
on one of the spectators in the grand
stand during the game between the ST
Louis and Philadelphia teams to-day.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
Mrs. Knte Henrn.

The funeral of Mrs. Kate Hearn, the
wife of Mr. John ]. Hearn. will take
place from the family residence No. 557
Indian street, this afternoon at 4
o'clock. The burial will be in Cathe-
dral Cemetery. Mrs. Hearn, who was
a native of Savannah, died Friday
night after an illness of several
months. She is survived by her hus-
band and six children. The pallbear-
ers will be Messrs. John F. Canty, Z.
w. O'Connor, Henry Atherton, Hugh
Donahue. Thomas ]. Mooney and F. G.
Jaugstetter
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
FREIGHT TRAIN WRECKED.

Cars Damaged and Traffic Was In
terfered with.
Wrightsville, Ga, July 1S.-A wreck
on the Wrightsville and Tennille Rail-
road of the southbound freight train
yesterday afternoon about two miles
south of here, resulted in considera BILE
damage to cars, the track and a small
quantity Of freight. Nobody was in
jured. Passengers had to be trans
ferred during the afternoon. Trains
are running through to-day. as the
wreck was cleared during the night.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
CUT DlX0N'S THROAT.
viii Griffin Was Arrested and
Placed Behind the Bars.

Joe Dixon was possibly fatally cut
last night by win Griffin. Griffin was
arrested some time after the fight by
Ofioer Eivers.
The row occurred at Ogeechee road
and Thirty-fourth street. Tho two ne
groes had scarcely come 20 hostilities
before Griffin struck Dixon over the
head, telling min. Then Griffin used
his knife.
Griffin is charged with assault Ttth
intent to murder.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
SON FOR CLEVELANDS.

Buzzards Bay. Mass. July lS.-A son
a.Mas born 10 ex-President and Mrs.
Grover Cleveland at their summer home
here to-day. Tho attendants say that
all conditions affecting both mother
and child are satisfactory.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
SHORTAGE OF WATSON.
Fixed by the Report of the Treasury
Experts Mt S73,307.

Experts at S73,397.
Washington, July 1S.-The special re-
port of the treasury experts on their
Petty of the District of Columbia fixes
the shortage in that office, for which
James NJ. A. Watson, a clerk, is now
in JAIL at 1897, the figures hereto
fore announced.
The experts criticise the system by
which the money was handled in the
auditors office and make recommended
tons which, in effect, divorce the funds
from the auditors office and enlarge
the powers of the district discussing
officer.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
FORMER TEACHER ARRESTED.
w. II. Jones Charged with Grand
Larceny ut Phenix City.


Larceny at Phenix City.
Columbus. Ca, July 1S.-Upon war
rant charging him with grand larceny
Prof.. w. H. Jones, until recently su-
perintendent of the Phenix City pub
lie schools, was arrested to-day and is
now in Jail in that city. The Phenix
Board of Education charges that after
the close of school he stole 400 school
books and sold them to a store in CO.
lumbus. A search warrant was taken
out, and several boxes of books were
found under his house. Jones, who
is middle-aged man of respectable APP
pearance, came here a year ago from
Leeds, Ala. At the recent election of
Heachers in Phenix City the School
Board elected another teacher to sue
coed him.
The affair created quite a sensation
in Phenix City, where Jones has been
quite prominent.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19

Augusta July 1S.-The Richmond
Academy trustees to-day elected Rev.
M. H. Houston member oc the facial
ty. vice Prof. John i. Irvine resigned.
and elected Thomas barrett, Jr., mem
Der of tht hoard. vice W. c. Jones',
decenS.C
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Mrs. Hannah Lind, 1872 E. Long St.,

Mrs. Hannah Lind, 1882 E. Long St.,
Columbus. o., says:
ST was for many years victim of
nervous prostration and neuralgia. L
would have spells during which my
suffering was great. All sorts of treat
ment was tried, from which I received
little or no benefit. Doctors were en-
ployed and various kinds of medicines
used Except to give temporary relief,
there was no appreciable change in my
condition. At last 1 was induced to try
a bottle of Peruna, and, after using two
bottles of this medicine, found myself
more improved than from all the other
treatment 1 ever received. l always try
to keep Peruna in the house, as I then
feel safe from my nervous attacks. 1t
is wonderful medicine for nervous
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
X. RossignoI, Augusta, Ga.

Augusta, July 1S.-Andrew x. Ros-
signol, member of the brick manufac-
turing firm of Rossignol & O'Keife, died
to-day of heart disease. He was As
years of age and is survived by his
widow, who was Miss Leila Tut. He
was popular and valuable citizen.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19

Some of the Kansas papers are
fond of each other. 1.-THE Williamson
Star came out as an eight-page paper
this week" says the Chanute sun.
Barring the fact that two pages WeLs
upside down and another was an az
solute blank the typographical appear
ance was neat and attractive.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19

The master electricians and 'n'
electrician sergeants of the newly Gre
ated corps of the army will be desis-
mated by a symbol of white metal re,
sembling forked lightning inciosSI
within a wreath of gilt metal the uliI
form trousers of these officers Will sh'"
q scarlet stripea
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
DEATHS.

BOYLE-Died last evening, Dominic
Boyle, in his 73rd year, at No. 4O5
Charlton street, east. Funeral notice
later.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19

The eve Of "a young child is as
transparent is water; that of the youth
"A little less so: In the man OF 90 the
eye begins To be slightly Opaque; IA
the man Of 30 or so il is decidedly
opaque. and in the man OF 70 or so It
is dull and lusterless This gradual
development Of opacity is due 10 the
increase Of fibrous tissue and Deposit
Of waste matter ia the eye.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19

The steamer Ansl~r vi the United
States engineers service is at Isle OF
Hope in connection with the survey Of
Skidaway narlowR.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
SHOT HIS BROTHER.

Negro Used His Winchester without
PrOvOcatiOn.
Louisville, Ga, July 1S.-Ike Scott, a
negro telephone lineman, shot his
brother, Noble Scott, here tonight
with a Winchester rifle, inf1icting a
wound from which he will die. The
shooting was done without the least
prOVOca ton
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
MILLS TO BE CLOSED.
nut Number of Idle Spinners viii
Not BE so Great.

Fall River. Mass, July 1S.-A num-
Der of the Fall River mills will be
closed during next week, but the num-
Der of the idle spindlers will not be as
great as during the past six days. This
week about 1000 operatives have been
out of work, but next week not over s.,
900 will he thrown out. Next month a
more extensive curtailment is expected.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19

She (doubtfully)-"H Have you really
told me of all the sins you ever COM
mitted?" He (stoutly)-"Yes. All"
She (sorrowfully)-"The 1 am not
worthy of YOU. Farewell for-for-
orevcr."-New York Weekly.
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But, after ALL" said the Telegraph
Editor, of all that is great Kansas
affords the greatest-so they say out
there. I can't really believe that this
one is better than all its predeces-
sors.
"One day I was riding through the
northern part of Kansas on a bicycle,
accompanied by a friend, also awheel.
1t was a beautiful day. The sun
shone radiantly from a cloudless shy.
the broad fields of grain waved easily.
Suddenly, from the clear sky, came
tornado-a Kansas tornado. Maybe
you don't know what they are. do.
Ugly clouds blotted the horizon, and
rose slowly to the zenith, and then
descended with dizzing rapidity to the
earth, then swept across il with light
ming like rapidity.
I'VE wheeled into a farm yard and
saw the farmer and his farm hands
scurrying from the fields to places of
shelter. We followed them into the
house and then into the cellar. The
wind howled as in the dead of winter.
then, with increasing volume roared
like an enraged lion.
Soon the house was blown away.
We were just congratulating ourselves
on our narrow escape when the cellar
blew out and went rolling over and
over like a silk hat My friend and I
were easily spilled out We picked
our precarious way back to the teeth
of the wind, intending to take refuge
in the hole out of which the cellar
had blown. when, 10 and behold, to our
ineXpreSsible surprise, we found that
the hole. also had been blown awayl"
This was too much. and the meet
ing broke up in supreme disgust