The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-02-17
AFRAID OF POISON.
AND WON'T WEAR SOCKS,
AND ONLY DRINKS AT
PUBLIC FOUNTAIN.

Another Monopoly for Standard
On-The Guillotine in Paris
Masked Men Slaughter Fif-
teen Hundred Sheep
| Other News.
| Paris, Feb. ,6.-Tnat Francis
Reuben Bryan, an American mil
lionaire, who committed suicide in
1902 in Paris, was in mortal dread
of beir G poisoned, has 5een brought
ought by the suit Of relatives who
have been ,contesting his will.
He lived here many years, and
on dying left $1,000 to the Histor-
ical society of Pennsylvania, and
residue of his great estate to the
South Kentuckian Museum in Lon
don, together with large collec-
tion of valuable curios and works
of art.
At the hearing Mr.. De Lagrenee,
the consul-general of France at
Moscow, testified that Mr.. Bryan
believed the Cardinal Richard, the
Archbishop of Paris aud the prefect
of police were conspiring to murder
him and had bribed all the laun-
dresses to poison his socks. Con-
sequently he never wore any.
Whenever he received a pew suit
of clothes from the tailor he soaked
it in a bath for forty eight hours
before wearing it.
He would drink only at public
street fountain, and refused 10 pass
the front windows Of the Jockey
Club, believing that the members
would kill him.
He always carried complete list
of antidot&s to poison, and gave
copies to friends.
The court rendered today a deci-
sion that Mr.. Bryan was mentally
irresponsible at the time he made
his will.
Paris, Feb. 11.-Deibler, the Par.
is headsman, is passing sleeplesi
nights trying to arrange for thu
coming promenade de la Veuve
(widow)," as the Parisians face
tiously speak of putting the guillo
tine in operation.
francois Spino has just been sen
fenced to death, but the question is
Where Can the guillotine be erect
ed?
The last beheading was that o
Peumenez at La Roquette, but sine
that prison has been torn down th'
residents Of that quarter have mad
such vigorous protest against tn
riotous scenes attending an execu
! ton of the death sentence that th
four famous stones on which tn
guillotine used to be put up hav
been removed.
Capital punishment in France i
public, and crowds pass the nigh
before holding points of vantage
Sometimes they dance and sin,
madly about the scaffold durin,
the execution.
Every quarter Of Paris is equall
opposed to having the guillotin
.. and Dsibler would hardly dare t
: erect it in the place de la Concorde
! He hopes President Loubet wi
,mmute the condemned man s sen
: tence, as be has allowed no one t
: be put to death sincs he becam
: president.
Chicago. Feb. 7.-Asbestos, as
s manufactured commodity, is no.
I controlled by the Standard O
{ Company. That corporation ha
5 contracted for the entire output
: the Ontario asbestos mines, fro,
: which comes all but small pc
: cent. of the asbestos of the worlt
s The plan is to make the industr
Z monopolistic as the steel or the o
5 industry.
& Asbestos is to be a material en-
: ployed for hundred new purpe
I ses. Railroad coaches are to
: built from it, tunnels are to be line
{ with it and FIRE proof furniture
5 to be made from it.
s As an indication that there is :
: -'exaggeration in this outlook, tt
corporation has prepared plans tt
Z asbestos cars built with steel frame
/ for the underground system of II
{ Rapid Transit Company CT Ne
Y York. It also has the contract fl
lining with asbestos large part
the tunnels of the same system.
Asbestos planks, experiment
have shown, can be shaped an