Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-07-07
FACTS I'M FEW LINES

had twenty-seyen wives.
The value OF the diamonds in the
United States Is estimated to be $780,
100000. or this amount S170,000.O00
worth are owned by residents Of New
York.
London claims during the past year
to have had fewer murders and fewer
burglaries than In previous years.
There has also been no case of murder
In which there was failure to bring the
perpetrator to book.
Warned by the great destruction Of
literary treasures in the Turin fire, the
Italian minister OF public instruction
has ordered that In the new national
library at Florence all important man
uscripts shall be placed In special
room.
Russia bought from the United States
In 1908 nearly s2O.OO0,000 worth OF
goods, which Ii double the average OF
previous years. and sold the United
States nearly s11.O00,0O0 worth, which
is an increase of 80 per cent over pre-
vious years.
The Cuban government has ceased
negotiations with Chicago contractor
for the raising of the Maine. blown up
six years ago In the harbor Of Havana.
| The contractor failed to sign contract
or furnish a guarantee that he would
do the work
Il New Orleans reports the best building
| prospects ever known i'm that city.
Plans are definitely adopted for struc-
| lures which will cost more than $6,O00,-
| 600, the largest single undertaking be.
ing a hotel which will represent the In
vestment OF about $1,000,0O0.
AS means OF defense for women In
case Of attack from rufflan stiietto
hatpin is about 10 be placed on the Eu-
Il ropean market. It Ia made OF fine steel
that will bend but not break, has q
fine, hardened point and a handle with
which to grasp II as weapon.
John Shumaker, aged seventy years,
OF Newcastle, Pa, is held to be the
Oldest active fireman In the United
States. He has been fireman since
he was fourteen years OF age and has
always maintained deep interest IN
the business of fighting the flames
French tobacco raisers In 1000 and
1901 received $1e6 and $170 per ton
while for foreign tobacco the admins
tration paid S270 per ton In 1900 and
S202 lin 1901. In 1893 $340, or exactly
double the price of home raised tobac
co, was paid for the foreign article.
Iloyd's returns show that durini
1908 the total addition to the steam
tonnage of the United Kingdom wa
zoos, 75G tons gross and OF sailing ton
mage 34,595. About 935 per cent o
the tonnage consists of new vessel
nearly all built in the United Kingdom
, The police department Of New yorl
has issued orders that stenographe
1 shall be sent to take In full all speech
! ca made In public by known anar
, chists. The reports will be filed In th
, department records and will be used
necessary In prosecutions that may b
commenced.
: Considerable attention has been pal
: during late years to the buoying an
' lighting OF the upper st. Lawrence al
til today a good, clear channel wit
fourteen feet OF water at any season
clearly marked oil the way. froI
Kingston to Montreal. Modern 90
buoys burning acetyiene gas light q
channel at all needed points.
The number OF suicides In Berlin
alarmingly on the increase. In Ion
the number was 424; in 1901 1t wa
b25: In 1902, 564. and In 1903, 90
Whereas the population In this tin
has increased only 3is per cent the ra
| OF increase In suicides Ia 90 per cen
| In 1900 there were % suicides TO eyel
100000 OF population. In 1903 q
number was 31.
England lis the best customer Fran
has In the wood market. That cou
try also buys woods OF Sweden, NO
| way. Russia and Finland. The cou
try of purchase depends very large
\ upon price The countries above me
\ toned which sell the most cheapiy 9
I / the business of England, whose shi
| are In every port ready to load WI
any kind OF freight for return trip.
il international balloon ascents, DO
J manned and unnamed. were made
November and December, 1905
J, many European countries, the Britt
islands excepted, and kite Observable
: were also made at the Blue Eli Z
~ seryatory In this country. The highs
i attitudes attained were: Trappes, ne
s Paris, 10000 and 14,S00 meters, q
:. Itteville, near Paris, 11s200 and los
J, meters. At Zurich the balloons reach
: 1900 and II. 900 meters.
. According to Philadelphia phy
IA elan, In generation or two the ia
~ will average the same stature as Eu
10 peans. 1t IL only their legs that
70 short, he says, and this comes fr,
their habit OF sitting In cramped ps
ton ON the floor. Western customs
being adopted, and be thinks the III
n brown men will soon lengthen out.
he course some OF his brother physici.
rn poohpooh this notion. They point
off that chairs are almost unknown ams
+. Hindoos, who on the whole are ret
me long legged.
&c In 1875 IL was communicated 70
ID British government that the Khed
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