The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1910-01-07

The dam Of the keystone plsa4 q
the International Harvester Company
In the Rock river At Sterling. Illinois.
vas washed out by high water and Ice
o. the I'd inst. causing loss of $50. 900
and throwing l.50O men out Of work.
James Seaman. one of the several
chanpioa athletes on the New Y0sk
police force. swan half way across
hack agaia. his only difficulty being
In A0dging large cakes OF ice. Scan
Ian bad q wager with another police
man for . swim across the river and
~ his challenger failed to appear.
Seaman started without him.
Charges that some physicians u
Philadelphia deliberately prolong ths
period Of illness OF patients and neg
lect the use Of anti-toxin In order to
increase their income. are made by
DR.. Joseph 8. Ne6. director OF the city
department Of health and charities.
who Offers this reason for the in
crease in diphtheria for the present
year. while all other preventable dis
eases show . decrease.
Colonel James Gordon of Okoloua.
Mississippi. who has been named Unit
ed States Senator ty Governor Neel
as successor to the late A. J. McI.au-
rim, was one Of several Confederate
leaders suspected VI being in con-
spiracy with J. Wilkes Booth to kill
President Lincoln. A reward of S1O,-
900 was offered for his arrest. He
later succeeded in satisfying the au-
thOrities that he Was in no way impli-
Gated In the crime.
Neon. q newly-discovered gas, Is the
cause of the aurora borealis, according
to . statement made at Boston by DR..
w. J. Dudley, head nf the department
Of chemistry at Vanderbilt University.
before the division of physical and in
organic chemists of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of Sci
ence. Dr. Dudley showed what he
claimed to be the only sample of
neon now in this country. 1t requires
over 100 tons Of air to get . pint OF
neon.
Few. II any, of our American col
leges are going to abolish football"
Is the statement of Prof. w. H. p.
Faunce Of Brown University. But
the game must be radically modified.
The spirit of winning at any cost ID
too prevalent these days. It is evi-
dent in all phases of our life. l SIM
cerely hope that the men interested
In the future Of the sport will keep
this in mind. Personally, like the
game"
Messrs. Mattheissen and Voltscheek,
officers of the Russian army. have
purchased at Paris two dirigible bat
looms with capacities of 1,400 and q.
900 cubic meters. with which they will
undertake an expedition to the South
Pole. The explorers plan to convey
the apparatus by ship as far south as
the ice will permit, and thence pro-
ceed in the balloons southwark. They
will keep in touch with their ship,
their base Of supplies. by means Of .
wireless outfit.
Justice Mclean of the Supreme
Court of New York, has signed an or
der making final adjudication Of the
100000 estate Of the late DR.. Thorn.
as w. Evans, the American dentist Of
Paris, who rescued the Empress Eu.
genie from . Partisan mob September
9Th, 1871. four days after the battle
of Sedan. The decision will make 1t
possible for the city of Philadelphia
to proceed with the erection of the
Thomas W. Evans museum and dental
college, which will be DIR. Evans chief
monument. About $6.OO0,000 Is now
available.