Semi-weekly herald., 1909-06-14
reLeeRAp4lc saev,ries.

Naluing ner flesh al 500 pound,
Miss Kitty Plunkette Of Elizabeth has
begun suit in the supreme court in
Jersey City against the Public Serv-
ice corporation TO recover 100000 for
the loss of 200 pounds of 1t in an al
legged fall from a car. She still has
400 pounds left, hut she contends that
is not enough to enable her to earn
her living, as she heretofore has, by
her profession as fat lady"
The noted criminal cases which grew
out of the raiding of sheep camps and
burning of ranches of the Rodney King
Sheep company, and The Guthrie Sheep
company of Moorcroft and Gillette,
Wyo. have been settled out of court
the nine defendant cattlemen paying
the sheep companies all damages. at
torneys' fees and expenses of prose
cution, and agreeing to not again mo
in dispute was also left to the sheep
men,
Andrew Carnegie has founded l,S0C
public libraries. representing dona
tions aggregating s5l $50 963, accord
ing to his own statement in the cur,
rent number of Golfers Weekly Ul
10 Dec. 81. 1908, the philanthropist
says he erected in the United States
959 library buildings, with 20S branch
es, at cost of S34,S75,745 England
and Wales come second, With 32s
buildings and 90 branches, at a cost OF
1883, 500
Six men We're killed, four fatally
injured and ten others more or less
seriously hurt by an explosion las
night of blast furnace at the Wheel
ing Steel and Iron company. The
six killed We're burned 10 crisp
Fifty workmen were gathered about
the furnace, when without moment S
warning there was terrific roar and
great masses of molten iron spurted
from the furnace, sweeping down the
workmen. in which twenty or more
were caught in the onrush, their arms
and legs being burned off and some
showered from head to foot with the
white hot metal. All were foreigners
The cause of the accident has moi
been definitely decided.
With all the weight of Lake Su
perior beDind it, an ungoverned tor.
rent of water rushes through $4,000
goo Canadian canal. built to carry
vessels around the impossible rapids
of ST. Mary's river. The entire fall
of approximately twenty feet is con.
centrated in lock which was wreck.
ed yesterday when the steamer Perry
c. Walker rammed her bow through
he lower gate. The canal, encased
within these walls, last night present.
ed tremendous spectacle including
two waterfalls and giant whirlpool
The ore laden steamer Crescent was
swept down stream like feather and
crashed into the Assiniboa. The for
mer was sunk and the latter damaged
Loss is estimated at S350.00O
The New York Heralds review ot
the silver market is encouraging vide
the following: The silver market
developed considerable activity and
strength during the week, the price
advancing 10 SO cents, which is equal
u the previous high record for the
movement, The strength is due chief
ly TO the reversal OF the position of
China in the market. Recently China
has been seller of the white metal,
for which during the last three or four
days II has entered the market and
has purchased quite large amount
Of the metal. London also has been
large buyer, as stocks at that cen
ter have reached a very low level.
India has not been an important factor
in the situation this week. The opin.
ion of leading bullion dealers in this
city is that the price of silver will
reach n higher level. despite the in
creased output of the Cobalt silver
mines.
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