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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-01-25
VALUABLE
DISCOVERY
ALABAMA ELECTRICIAN FINDS
WAY TO HARDEN METALS.
Platinum and Gold, BY His Process,
Take on q Temper Equal to the
Finest Tool steel.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Jan. l7.--Al-
fred DIP. Weaver. OF this city, scien-
fist and electrician of some note and
for many years connected with the
Associated Press, has, In collabora-
ton with John Edward Carney, and
while engaged in laboratory expert
ments in search OF new cobSrer ma
terial for wireless telcgraphy, made
a most valuable discovery OF wide
spread scientific, Industrial and tech
nical interest. The discovery is moth
ing less than the art of hardening and
tempering the precious and semi
precious metals, such as platinum,
gold and the like, without alloying
them with other metals. The charac-
teristic results obtained by Mr.. Weav-
er's process are the enormous reduc-
ton in the fusing point Of those metals
and the imparting to them OF degree
of hardness, in some instances sur
passing that of the best steel when
hardened.
Platinum, one of the most refrac-
tory of metals, heretofore requiring
for its fusion the oxy-hydrogen flame
or the voltaic arc, is after being sub
ected to the new process easilymelted
before an ordinary gasoline plowpipe
and may be cast, again melted and re-
cast indefinitely.
So great a hardness is impaired to
these metals by. Mr.. Viewers process
that a piece of gold or platinum, for
instance, treated by 1t, can, with The
greatest difficulty, be abraded by the
best steel file, and sphere of either
of these metals, of say two milli-
meters diameter, wien placed upon
hardened steel anvil and struck q
sharp blow with an eight-ounee steel
hammer, will resist such a crushing
blow and suffer only the very slight
est alteration in shape.
MIR. Weaver's discovery OF process
at once simple and inexpensive prom
ises to find an extended application in
the dozens OF arts and industries In
which the precious metals are en-
ployed. For example, watch case
made OF solid gold, but OF very thin
section, and consequently quite mex
pensive, will have all the good quail
ties OF the usual gold case, and will
in addition possess the stiffness and
wear-resisting qualities OF case made
OF the best tool steel.
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FLOOD OF
new BILLS
INTRODUCED IN HOUSE AND SEN
ATE TODAY.
suecial to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Jan. 1S.-Amone
the new bills introduced today was
the Nashville Saloon segration meas
ure.
An executive mansion is provided
for in a bill offered by Senator Nc
Rec 1t appropriates $4,000 for
building and furnishing house.
Another measure to prohibit the
shipment of whiskey into dry counties
was offered by Senator Foster and
Senator Pope introduced one to pro
hibit the manufacture of liquor in
dry counties.
The Senate clashed with the
House over the question of having on
"Junketing' committees as many SEN
ators as there are representatives.
The Peabody appropriation bill was
read and referred to the Finance,
Ways and Means Committee, and the
bill to reincorporate Winchester was
amended to become effective March
81 and passed.
Speaker Cunningham announced the
Finance, Ways and Means and Insur-
ace and Building and Loans Commit
tees.
There was another food Of new bills
among which was one by Mr.. Mat
thews to prohibit free passes.
Mr.. Neal introduced a bill appro-
priating 100000 for the University
of Tennessee.
Messrs. Puryear and Holman intro
duced bill providing for 2-cent rail
road rate in Tennessee, and Mr..
Sampson introduced Dill to abolish
the death sentence as punishment
for crime.
The House passed Mr.. Gordon's bill
requiring a Communication OF the death
sentence to life imprisonment when a
verdict Of guilty with mitigating cir
cumstances is returned.
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Record for December, 1889.
Record Of January, 1890.

Maximum Temperature III degrees
Minimum Temperature -. 20 degrees
Mean Temperature ......4S degrees
Thin ice on IA, 16, II, Is, Fl, 20,
Prevailing wind west. Warm, warm
warm. Real summer weather. The
papers state that in different parts OF
the State quite number of families
had strawberries on Christmas day.
Some peach blooms on the 9Th. ]
saw quite number OF peach trees
partly in bloom on the 18th. Hya-
cinths and jonquils have bloomed out
of doors. Spirea in full bloom. Roses
have bloomed and buds still MAY be
seen this 14th day. Potatoes left In
the field are two feet high; some say
they have seen blooms. dug some
on the 18th as large as large marbles.
c. Foster Williams, Vol. OBJ.
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DEATHS OF INFANTS S.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1S.--In discuss
Ing the pure milk problem yesterday
before the Woman's Municipal Lea
que, VIM. Writ Mills spoke Of the great
mortality among young children. He
said:
while you are sitting here many
mothers In this city are watching anx-
iously over babies who viii die be-
fore tomorrow's dawn, for the infan-
tile death rate in this city is seventy.
two a day, or over 10000 year.
For every 1000 children born in
this city in the past year there were
233 deaths OF Infants"
Several speakers discussed the milk
situation, and It vas unanimously
agreed that the PasteuriEing method
lie the one solution.
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MANY VICTIMS
OF WRECK
POWDER ExPL osIoN RESULTS IN
DESTRUCTION OF TRAIN
NEAR CHICAGO.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Jan. 20
Twenty-Five charred and mutilated
bodies have been taken from the
smouldering ruins of the passenger
train No. 8, on the Cleveland, Cincin-
natl, Chicago G. St Louis (Big Four).
which was destroyed by the explosion
of a carload of powder as 1t passed 2
freight train at Sanford, nine miles
vest of here, last right The num-
Der of injured will reach at least
thirty-ive.
The entire train was blown from the
track, the coaches demolished and tho
engine hurled fifty feet. The passen-
gers either were blown to pieces, Gre
mated OF rescued Il a more or less
injured condition.
The injured, some OF wnom are IA
tally hurt, are at the hospitals in TerFe
Haute and Paris, ILL.,, and at Sand
ford.
The full extent Of the disaster was
revealed at daylight but the list will
not be complete until the worlxmen
have finished removing the debris.
According to the trainmen Of the
freight, the powder was exploded BY
the passenger train which was slow
ing down for the station at Sanford.
Another theory Is that gas escaping
from an oil pipe nearby entered the
powder car and spark from the pass
ing engine ignited the gas. Others
express the belief that the disaster
was due to tramps or an intoxicated
man firing shot into the car.
Force Of IT,
The car was smashed to pieces by
the force of the explosion. Hugs
masses of iron were found hundreds
Of feet from the track. The tank Of
the passenger engine was hurled near
ly one hundred feet, landing in a grav-
ell bed. Two passenger coaches and ons
baggage car were consumed by FIRE.
The freight train, in which was the
car of powder, was demolished. Sand
ford was badly shocked. Windows
were shattered, dishes and furniture
broken and doors torn from their
hinges.
The entire passenger train was
blown off the track and crushed into
the mud mere mass of debris, pin
ming under it fortv human beings
Fire broke out and before the eyes OF
citizens and rescuers, who rushed to
the scene many burned to death be-
fore aid could be rendered them.
In the darkness, by the light of
burning coaches, the people Of Sand
ford did their best for the injured. Cries
Of the injured and the. cracking of
the flames, together with the odor Of
burning human flesh, greeted the res
euers, who worked frantically. but
soon were forced ba~k by the terrible
heat AS men threw their strength
to the work of diseutangling the hu-
man forms from the wreckage, the
women of Sanford cared for the in.
iured.
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ASSOCIATIONS GOOD WORK.

The st. Johns Ambulance Associa-
ton has placed number of first aid
cabinets in the streets Of Leicester,
England. The cabinets are kept lock
ed but readily can be opened by
breaking glass door in the same
way as fire alarms, They contain
splints, bandages avd smelling salts,
as wen as other nrst aid ahpIicahces.
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start a new enterprise, while such a
scheme proposed before commercial
organization would only result In
lot of hot air and winds and never
materialize. Your Columbia boosters
and promoters can take the above for
whatever they consider 1t worth-as It
is all free, and doesn't cost them a
cent.
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The unusual weather SO far this
winter has been of great value to the
phosphate interests Of this section.
and the amount of rock mined during
December and January win far ex-
coed that of the sans period since the
phosphate discovery, notwithstanding
the great scarcity Of labor.
II is understood that the movement
which was put on foot here sometime
ago to organize club and at up a
handsome suits Of club rooms for so
cial and business purposes win be re-
newed. It Is expected that at least
seventy-five member can be secured
among the married gentlemen and
young men over eighteen years Of age
in Mt. Pleasant, and the plan is TO Mt
up nice parlors, reading rooms, as
sembly room, baths, gynasium, etc.
The route OF the new swan creek
Railroad. out of Mt. Pleasant as far
as the John Long rlace has not yet
been determined; at least, II the en-
gineers for the road have decided up
on the route, rights of way for same
have not been secured Several routes
have been surveyed; one leaving the
Fertilizr factory and running through
the Jackson properties. and parallel
with the Mt. Joy road to Bigby; an
other through the Hinton Kittrell
leaving the main line near
the Camp Ground; another leaving the
main line at Jackson's switch, and
running through TIE Jackson farm
around the creek bluff to Ernest Kit
trell's spring, and still another leaves
the main line on John Kings farm,
runs around the creek bluff at Lewis
Pickards, and through the Smith,
Hoge and Bullock farms. The route
will probably be determined before
many days have passed, and in the
mean time the grading of the road
west of town will be hurried as much
as possible.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-01-25
MT. PLEASANT
NOTES

There is such a demand for office
space in Mt. Pleasant at this time.
that the second story of the Brown
low building on the public square is
being repaired and cut into office
rooms. The steps to these rooms,
which are between Jenkins drug
store and the Bank of Mt. Pleasant,
are being rebuilt, and roof will be
placed over them.
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WEATHER RECORD
OF PAST YEARS

The late Rev. G. Foster Williams
of Ashwood, was doubtless one OF the
most careful and regular voluntary
weather observers In the Union. He
never missed day after taking up
the work and got his reports up In
good shape.
In view of the unusually mild wealth
er since December list, verbatim re-
ports of the months of December 1883
and January 1890, of Mr.. Williams OBJ
servations, furnished the Herald by
his daughter, Mrs. Joe Fleming. will
be Of interest.
Record for December, 1889.
Maximum Temperature IL degrees
Minimum Temperature -. 25 degrees
Mean Temperature ..... 4S.5 degrees
A very warm month. Ice only one
morning 4 iach thick, on 18th. Hya-
cinths, jonquils and spirea in bloom
Farmers all lost their meat and haul
ed it out blythe wagon load.
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Suffered day and night the torment
of itching piles. Nothing helped me
until ] sued Doans Ointment. 1t cured
me permanently. "-Hon. John r. Gar
ret, Mayor, Girard. Ala. eN
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KINGSTON, Jamaica, Saturday, Jan.
1s.-The Government, believing i1seil
able to cope with the situation with
out outside assistance, the American
warships sailed for Guantanamo to-
day.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-20
Mr.. COOK To
INVESTIGATE
County Superintendent of
Education Starts To-day
On His Tour.

n. B. Cook, county superintendent
Of schools, will leave this morQius
for an extensive trip through the
county, visiting the several school
houses, looking after many matters
pertai8ng to his office, and investi-
eating the application : for a new
schOolAouseg ID the NORTHERN part OF
the county. Mr.. Cook started On the
trip last Saturday, but an injury to
his horse at Bluff Springs made it
necessary to postpone the trip. He
expects, however, to start out today,
and Will be gone about week.
Superintendent Cook recently asked
local contractors to submit bids for
the erection of a new Schoolhouse,
to be known as No. 81, near McDavid,
and he expects to have all the bids
in by Thursday, when they will be
opened and the contract let, in order
that the building may be completed
in season for the opening of the fail
term in October.
While on his trip through the coun-
ty Mr.. Cook will investigate the re-
cent application of the residents of
Martins Fork, about headquarters
of a mile from the state line, for a
new school at that place. There are
a large number of families to be
served there.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-20
NEXT MEETING
IN THIS CITY
The Gulf Coast Lumber Ex-
porters Will Gather Here
in Sept.

The Mobile correspondent Of the
New Orleans Times-Democrat says:
Members of the Gulf Coast Lum-
Der Exporters Association returning
from the New Orleans meeting of the
association are elated over results at
tanned, and predict that at the next
meeting thorough organization of the
interests along the entire Gulf will be
had. The executive board has de-
cided to hold the next meeting in Pen
Sacola, Fla, Sept. IA, instead Of Gulf
port, as previously announced. The
change is brought about through vari-
Gus reasons. At this meeting the chief
inspector will be named.
1t is the desire of members to hold
the annual meeting, Oct. 90, at Gulf
port, because that place Will give an
even break on railroad traffic and at
the same time will cover meetings
in all principal ports identified with
the association. Benjamin Thurley
of this city, has been selected as sec
rotary of the association by the exec
utive board 10 serve until the time of
holding the annual meeting. At this
meeting, it was said today, the New
Orleans Lumber Exporters Associa-
ton will go into the Gulf Coast Lum-
Der Exporters Association, as a body.
Assistant Secretary Elmer OF the for
mer association, will have to be taken
care of. He will be an applicant fer
the secretaryship of the Gulf Coast
organization.
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A PROPOSITION
OF ARBITRATION
Bv Associated Press.

Washington, August ia very in
teresting report was circulated here
Sunday night that Labor Commission
er Neill will have some proposition to
make within forty-eight hours to the
contending parties in the telegraphers'
strike
The proposition will look to arbi-
tration, although not necessarily tech
nically for board OF arbitrators.
If both sides show any desire for
the actual determination or the mat
tiers in controversy it could De effect
ed by a commission tn wnicn would
be representatives of both interests.
The report 10 circumstantiaI enough
TO say that Mr.. NeilFs c41adssion
will be in New York with possibly
visit Of all concerned to Oyster Bay.
The situation takes on a new phase
from the many reports that cable ser
vice will be interrupted, the cable
service being matter Of interna tfonaI
agreement. An interruption of the
international cable might cause the
government to take notice of what
was going on. aside from denying that
Commissioner Neil is at this time a
representative Of the administration
on the strike. Operators here, who
have gone out, seem to think that the
strike this time will involve the
whole world. That opinion seems to
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of the Lakeview Hotel, has arrived in
Florala, and viii take charge OF that
hosiery at once.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. j. Lamar are away
visiting the jamestown Exposition
Contractor Jno T. Johnston is work
ing on an annex to DR.. E. L. Adams
residence
Solicitor L. H. Brassell, Of the city
court of Andalusia, who resides at
this place, has been notified by a
United States deputy marshal to ap-
pear at Montgomery on certain date
to show whether or not he has, in
attending TO his duties, violated the
injunctions granted the L. & \. rail-
road with reference to the reduced
freight and passenger rates.
II mas been decided by the l.. G. y.
railroad that only one depot is neces-
sary in Florala at the present time,
and that one will be combined pas
senger station and freight depot, as
before. The arrangement for getting
freight at present (from freight cars)
is very inconvenient, and the patrons
of that line hope to see work begin
on the proposed new building soon.
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PENSACOLA FLORIDA SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 49,

sumo the function of transmitter OF
teelgrams, just as it long ago assumed
responsibility for the safe transmits
sion of written communications.
Government ownership of the teleg-
raphy would mean we'll paid teleg-
raPhers; and no man with much sense
OF justice can contend that telegra-
pliers have heretofore been well paid
as body 1t would mean telegraphic
communication at least as intelligent
ly and efficiently conducted as the
postal business. WHICH, with its de-
fects land some of them not small)
has attained a standard that is i'm
measurably superior to the standard
of the telegraphy of this country. 1t
would mean that a situation like the
present could not again arise, or, in
any event, would not, for the govern
aneRt employees are too well treated
for them as a body ever to resort to
the dire necessity OF a step such as
this strike Of the photographers. 1t
would mean, promptly and permanent
ly, system Of telegraphy infinitely
more satisfactory in all respects than
anything the United States has ever
enjoyed, or is likely to enjoy as long
as the telegraphy of the country re-
mains the private cinch OF a few piu-
tecrats az the NerganGouEd type.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-20
VENEZUELA
IS INVADED
A Frontier Force from Brit
iSh Guiana Uses Arms
to Recover Gum.
By Associated Press.

Georgetown, British Guiana, Aug.
19.-Much excitement is caused here
by the invasion of Venezuelan terri
tory by Captain Calders, in command
OF a small frontier force from British
Guiana and the seizure of quantity
of balata. the gum of d tree, used for
insulating wires, etc, which, it is al
legged, had been collected on British
territory. Captain Calders' force went
down the Berina river, crossed the
boundary and interviewed in VeneZue-
Ian territory, where Captain Calders,
at the point of a revolver, demanded
the Venezuelan commissioner 70 sur
render to him 1000 pounds of balata
The commissioners gave up the gum,
but made protest to President Cas-
trO and the British consul here
against the seizure and invasion.
Fears are entertained of retaliation at
Morawahanna, the British frontier
headquarters. There is much trouble
over the balata trade sometimes, and
British officials made strong attempts
to prevent Illicit trading in gum.
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dian Pacific railroad. spent TWO hour
at our Astor House headquarters sat
urday. He wanted fifty operators fol-
railroad service in Canada He said
they would work under union Confs
tons and agreed to pay their fares Il
Montreal. His references We're noi
satisfactory, and he agreed 10 returc
today with a written guarantee, which
we demanded.
Nothing has been seen of the mar
since he left the office. and We believe
be was an agent of one Of the teIa-
graph companies We think ne vold
have headed our men for Buffalo and
after getting them away from the CITY
endeaVored to persuade them TO be-
come strike-breakers in the West
The document which was ISSUED
Saturday, warning strike breaker +
they persisted mankind would md
them guilty Of treason, brought seven
of them into the union fold Thu
summons was handed to strike
breakers as they left work and sIfrna8
under the doors of their rooms il
hotels. Tomorrow brokers' operator:
will spread the warning broadcast
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-20
RAILROAD SCHEME
TO HELP COMPANIES

New York, Aug. 19.-F'rom Vice
President Z. j. Nally, of the Postal,
came a statement Sunday which the
strike leaders considered encouraging.
Daniel l.. Russell, of the strikers
board of strategy, declared that the
officers of the union had discovered
two carefully planned schemes to get
union operators away from New York
with the assistance of friendly rail-
road officials.
The railroad telegraphers along the
Erie were TO be sent to New York to
man the more important wires, he
declared, IF the railroad could secure
strikers to take their places" 1t was
represented to US that our men were
wanted as vacation refers and two
weeks was the time specified We
refused to help out the railroad
Ernest A. Heller, who represent
ed himself as an agent of the Cana
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AS a Starter" for
Park Improvement.

We have no III ley" is the plea
which has always been advanced by
those in authority when the public
has demanded park improvements in
this city. 1t is WORKOUT, illogical,
and incompetent plea, but neverthe-
less it has always served its pur-
pose and, up to this very time, is
still doing duty in city government
service.
Now, however, the plea will no
longer hold good. We could always
have had the money by the regular
have it by the same method, but
there Will be available this year a
new and additional fund which can
easily be devoted to park improve
1nent without burdening the taxpayer
who is always the object of so much
solicitation when any really needful
tax levies are TO be made.
We refer TO the fund which the city
will derive as interest on its bank de-
posits-a new. separate, and distinct
sezsed. This fund viii amount to
from $500 to $1,000 per annum, de-
pending. Of course, on the size of the
city's average daily deposits.
Why not use this fund as a start
or" for park Improvement? We say
-'starter," because it would not
amount to much more than that, but
wnan that amount has been expended
and the benefits of park improvement
become apparent, the demand for adj
ditiCual money will be so great that
10 city council will ever be able to
deny il. and We shall ultimately,
therefore, get, in part, at least, what
Pensacola has SO long suffered for in
that respect.
This suggestion is thrown out simp- |
y AS ii suggestion. If anyone has a |
better suggestion, we should like 10 |
hear It,