Semi-weekly herald., 1909-03-01
1ELEeRAPHIc nREvlrles.

TELEGRAPHic BREvlTiEs.
John ". Gates has become a direc-
tor in company TO buck the Standard
Oil octopus.
Railroads guilty of granting sugar
rebates must pay heavy fines, the New
York Central coming In for fine of
siOS,0O0.
Five Indiana counties which held
local option elections Tuesday voted
dry" They are Grant, Howard, Da-
vies. Adams and Newton. One hun
dred and forty-three saloons were put
out of business.
A landslide covered the track of
the Rio Grande's Heber branch in
Provo canon for a distance of 400
feet and to a depth of Is feet. The
slide narrowly missed passenger
train. It is estimated that it will
take $4,000 and two weeks work 10
remove the obstruction.
Il. II. Gary, chairman OF the United
States Steel corporation, denies the
published announcement that there
would be reduction in the wages of
steel and iron workmen before May
He said: "The statements are mac
curate. The United States Steel cor
poration has never considered such a
thing"
AN act to encourage the prevention
OF race suicide within the state OF
Utah" is the title of bill introduced
In the Utah Legislature by Represen
tatiye F. B. Hammond. 1t provides a
reward for large families, by giving
a mother $3.50 for her twelfth child,
and the same amount for each child
above that number.
The estimated population of New
York is 4,442.6S5, according TO
Health Commissioner Thomas Darling
tons annual report. The increase dur
ing 1908 was 137,25O. The number
of deaths during 1908 was 73,072.
There were 4,140 more births than
the year before and decrease of 49,
596 in the number of marriages.
Merchandise conseryatively valued
al $150,000 was DESTROYED, an express
messengers life saved only by hair
breadth and a long transcontinental
train filled with passengers literally
snatched as a brand from the burning
when blazing car Of the Adams FIX.
press company was finally kicked
in on side track of the Burlington
railroad at Gretna, Neb.. after thrill.
ing run at mile-a-minute speed across
the Nebraska plains Sunday afternoon.
Leon Wachsner, founder of the Ger,
man stock company OF Chicago, and
manager of the Pebst theater, Nil.
waukee, died early Sunday morning on
the Twentieth Century Limited at But
falo. The pioneer German lmpresario,
was seized with a coughing spell and
turning to Isaac ID. Adler of Milwau.
bee, he exclaimed: "This is the end;
am dying" The conductor ordered
the engineer to make dash for the
Central station at Buffalo, but Mr..
Wachsner died before medical aid
could reach him.
AS the result of nine years study
ana experiment, Brooklyn man has
perfected a device to be applied to
the block system of railroad signals.
which he declares will make collisions
impossible and will reduce the ordi-
nary dangers to a minimum. It is an
electrical contrivance which works au.
tomatically. 1t has an Indicator some
what like the dial OF clock and is
placed In the engine drivers cab. Ac.
cording TO the inventor, II will indicate
broken rail. an open switch, an open
bridge, stalled train or any approach.
ing train on single track at least a
mile ahead. Movements of an electric
needle on the dial indicate distance.
-ime is punched on a clock dial and In
cases of danger large gong rings and
red lights glare before the engine
rivers eyes. BY another automatic
contrivance steam whistle on the
locomotive sounds warning. In ad
iition to these safeguards an elec-
ric shoe with a pressure OF $50 pounds
md worked by a magnet acts as n
brake and the engine driver from his
'ab Is enabled to telephone to the
learest tower Of station. provided II |
8 not more than mile away.
COLORADO NEWS.
Fort Collins receives $4,000 to start