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The Winslow mail., 1911-07-08
TELLS SPEED OF THE TRAIN
Penny In the Slot Indicator to Satisfy
the Curiosity of Pas
sengers.

A penny in the slot speed indicator.
to be fixed in railroad carriages for
the benefit of passengers who wish to
know how fast-or slow-the train Is
travelling, has now been patented.
The inventor, the New York Amer
lean says. is H. Waymouth France, a
London consulting automobile engi-
neer, who has given some details OF
the new "trainometer."
My idea," said Mr. France, ''is to
provide prompt answer to the ques,
t1on every one travelling by train has
heard so often: It wonder what speed
we are doing now?'
So far as l know, no railroad com.
pany has yet tried to crafty this
wh1m, and my simple appliance, which
is similar to the speedometers fixed
to motor cars. is intended to show the
railway passenger the figures he
wants at once.
My idea is to have a metal case
with knob fitted in each compart-
ment. When a penny is inserted in
the slot it releases a catch and en-
ables the knob to be pushed in This
makes an immediate connection be-
tween the speed indicator and the car.
riage axle. and the exact speed is
shown on the dial is<
The apparatus is easily fitted. It
is merely necessary to attach the in
dtcator case to the wall of the car
riage, carry the tubes containing the
operating wire through the floor, and
to fix the clutch mechanism to the
carriage axle
SO long as the knob is kept in by
the pressure of the passengers finger
the Indicator remains connected with
the carriage wheels, but Immediately
the pressure is released the two; por-
tons of the clutch separate, and the
knob returns to its normal position,
where it is locked by a catch inside
the case.
When this has happened it cannot
be moved again without another pen
ny being placed in the slot, and it is
probable that the passenger anxious
for information and relief from the
tedium of his journey would wish to
know the exact speed at various
points.
Sixty, seventy or more miles an
hour could be shown on the dial, and
the traveller on the fastest express
would be able to ascertain the speed
as exactly as the belated passenger
in the slowest of suburban trains.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-08
SPORT
WESTERN LEAGUE STANDI

''Dago" Mike of Leadville and Ed
die Mathewson of Cripple Creek will
meet in 20-round boxing contest at
Telluride, July 5th.
Maurice Thompson, champion light
weight of the Northwest, and Mickey
O'Brien of Sacramento, fought ten
fast rounds to a draw at Butte. Mont.
Sam Langford, the Boston negro
heavyweight, knocked out Jack Fitz-
gerald, a Philadelphia white hope,"
in the fifth round of a ten-round bou:
in New York
Arrangements are under way to
match Harry Riede, the Aspen Whirl-
wind, and Young" Erlenborn of Den
yer, fo ra 15-round bout, which will
take place at Walsenburg the middle
of July.
Before becoming eligible to play
with any club operating under the Ma
tional agreement, Roland Barrows
must pay fine of S100 and Edward
Hahn $500, according to a decision
promulgated by the National baseball
commission.
Harry B. Davis, Jr., of the Colorado
Springs Country Club won the state
golf championship on the grounds Of
the Denver Country Club in the
eleventh annual state championship
tournament. In doing so he had to de-
feat L. d. Bromfield of the Denver
Country Club, one Of the best Denver
golf players. This the Colorado Springs
man did in easy fashion by three holes
and two to go in thirty-six-hole
match.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-08
Veteran Leaves Service.

After fifty years service on the foot.
plate, Mr.. David Hutchison, an en-
ployee of the North British Railroad
company, has retired from service. A
fine record is his, for during the forty
years he has acted as an engine driv-
er he has never had a single accident.
Nevertheless. his career has been
eventful He recalls a day when a
passenger train ran into the goods
of which he was fireman, with the re-
suit that one life was lost On a lat
er occasion he witnessed smash be-
tween a passenger and a coal train.
when a fireman and three passengers
were killed. Mr. Hutchison drove the
second train that crossed the first Tay
bridge. and he was among the last to
negotiate it. On the morning of that
fateful Sunday-28th December, 1879
ON which the bridge fell he crossed
and he vividly recalls having to keep
a good tight hold of the engine" be-
cause of the violence Of the western
wind He retains in his possession
walking stick which was made of
wood from the wrecked bridge
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-08
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOlNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

At recent local option election
Salt Lake, Ogden and Park City, Utah
went wet by heavy majorities. Prove
and Logan are dry.
Aviator Lemar was probably fatally
injured at Coshocton, Ohio, when his
biplane, flying low, struck the roof OF
house
Fire of unknown origin, starting in
the rear of a saloon at Hawthorne,
Mineral county, Nevada, caused loss
of $25,000
Fifty men are working desperately
to rescue two miners imprisoned in
the Whirwind tunnel at American
Fork, Utah, by an earth cave.
Crazed by heat, Mrs. Maud McCrary
of Los Angeles, Cal, killed her three
small children and ended her own life
in a vacant house in Lockney, Texas.
Elijah Clambit, of Ottumwa, Ia,
aged 10, while demented, shot and
killed his mother, fatally wounded his
young sister and attempted suicide.
The crushed bodies of three men
were found near the bottom of a
freight car loaded with lumber at Sc
ward, Neb The men had been steal
ing a ride
Helen Rumbel, IA years old, beaten
for neglecting a task, is dead in her
home near Gridley, Cal. Her step
mother and her stepbrother, were held
by coroner's jury to answer to the
charge of murder.
A farmer of Greenville, Texas, Dan
iel w. Byers, has been arrested,
charged with numbering l.. L. Harris,
at Bonham, fifty years ago. Byers,
who is seventy-nine years old, has
lived in Texas many years. There is
only one witness living.
Buried alive when a bank of earth
caved in on him as he was hiding
from his comrades when playing in
the sand pits at West Fifth avenue, in
Denver, Everett Lefbom, 5-year-old
son of Mrs. Elma Lefbom of 554 Lipan
street, lost his life.
Steamers down the lake from Du-
luth are sending wireless messages
stating that they are late because they
have been held by snowstorm this
side of the Canadian Soo Forty-one
degrees with stiff east wind through
the city streets brought about winter
wraps in Duluth.
The first section of the Oregon ex-
press on the Southern Pacific railroad
was held up and robbed at West
Forks, Ore, in Cow Creek ca6on.
Three masked men stopped the train,
ordered the express and mail cars
separated from the passenger coaches
and dynamited the express car.
Mrs. Ortie McManigal, whose hus.
band is in Jail in Los Angeles under
charge of murder in connection with
the dynamiting of the Los Angeles
Times building October 1, last, ap-
peared before the grand jury and on
advice of attorney Darrow, chief coun-
sci for John J. Mcnamara and his
brother James, who are under like in
dictments, refused to testify.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-08
Thief Jumps Into Balloon.

Sayre, Okla.-Closely pursued by the
town marshal, pickpocket leaped into
the basket of a balloon near here just
as the air craft was leaving the ground
and sailed away to safety. The bal
loon had been filled with gas and the
aeronaut, George Harvey, was in the
basket ready to start when the mar
shall discovered the pickpocket taking
a purse from a pocket of a citizen
whose attention was ccntered on the
balloon. The marshal attempted to
catch the thief and the pursued man
ran and leaped into the basket as it
cleared the earth. He refused to heed
the marshal's warning cry of stop
thief"
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-08
MANY ARE DROWNED WHEN RE-
LIEF is SOUGHT IN
WATER.
RECORD IS BROKEN
SUCH HUMIDITY NEVER BEFORE
kNOWN-NO RELIEF
IN SIGHT.

Washington.-A weather record fol
the season was made here July End
The official temperature was SO and
the suffering was increased by the
humidity. No immediate relief, it
was said, is in sight. Downtown ther
mometers registered 107. Twenty
deaths from severe heat and forty
seven from drowning when relief was
sought in the water, were reported
from various sections, with one sui
eide due to the high temperature.
In Chicago there were five deaths
superinduced by heat, three drown
ings and score of prostrations from
the third scorching day of the pres
ent heat waves.
In the weather bureau tower there
the mercury recorded SO degrees. At
the street level the temperature Off
cially was registered at 100 degrees.
The advancing heat wave from the
West struck New York and vicinity
with full force, driving the official
thermometer up to 94.5, and causing
ten deaths and many prostrations.
There were two deaths by drowning,
due to heat, and one suicide.
The temperature in New York is
still well up in the eighties, with little
dimunition of humidity Hundreds of
thousands of city dwellers have been
driven to the parks and beaches.
The city parks are camping grounds
for wilted throngs from the tenement
districts. No relief is in sight
Upstate in New York it is sizzling
hot. At Rochester, go degrees were
recorded, at Syracuse 93, and in Sec
tions of Orange county 101.
The tOrrid temperature tempted
many in New England to take a
plunge in ocean, lake or river to seek
relief Fourteen drownings resulted.
Two deaths from heat, one in Lean
ington, Mas, and one in Providence,
r. l., were reported.
Detroit reported the hottest day
since 1887. Eight persons were
drowned in Michigan waters while
seeking relief from the heat.
At Toronto, Ont, the thermometer
at the observatory registered 101 de-
grees in the shade, the highest on
record. There was one death and
many cases of prostration
In Cincinnati six persons were pros
trated by the excessive heat July End.
-Four persons seeking relief were
drowned in adjacent waters.
All Indiana suffered from the heat
The indianapolis branch of the wealth
er bureau reported an official temper
ature Of 81 degrees, the hottest July
End since 1901, while the government
kiosk on the street registered 10S.
Several cities in the state reported
temperatures exceeding 100 degrees.
In st. Louis a temperature of 81 de-
grees was noted. One death and two
prostrations were reported, as we'll as
a suicide and two drownings, attrib-
uted to the neat.
The weather bureau promises the
coming week will be one of moderate
temperature in south Atlantic and
gulf states and generally over the re-
gion west of the Mississippi river.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-08
Iona Railway Trains.

Engineers of the days of the old
surprised if they could stand at the
Jackson street crossing of the New
York Central these days and see the
strings of cars being drawn by single
engines Yesterday a train consisting
of one locomotive and 101 empty gon-
dolas went west Earlier in the week
one passed west with 1874 empty gon-
dolas. The latter train was $500 feet,
or over a mile long-Batavia News.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-08
SPLENDID INSPECTION CARS
Courtesy Locomotive Engineering)
Railway Inspection Car.

This unique. but effective railroad
inspection car is mechanism from
ing the propulsion mechanism from
from an automobile and combining the
remaining parts of the two. The au-
tomobile engine is geared to the rear
truck of the hand car by means of a
chain drive.-Popular Mechanics.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-08
An Old DeIusion.

Father of the Fair One-How can
you possibly think of marrying my
daughter? You say that by the
strictest economy you can save only
ten dollars a month!
Poor but Worthy Poet-Oh, yes;
but If we both save 1t will be S20!-
Meggendorfer Batter
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-08
Banner Cotton Cron.

Galveston Texas is to have a ban
ner cotton crop this year, unless indi-
cations fall declared E. F. Adams,
assistant general passenger agent Of
the Santa Fe railroad,
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-08

approaching King
ston, Pa. the en-
gine driver saw, a
quarter of a mile
ahead, a boy fight
ing for life in the
middle Of the Sus-
quehanna river
and clut hin 6
frantically at ev-
cry piece of tim
hQr that nQm q
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-08
Walden Gets 4 Eall-

Mineola, L. I.-Dr. Henry NJ Wal
den of New York fell nearly a hun
dred feet in his monoplane, smashing
it to pieces.
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-08

To be without enemies is to be un-
worthy of having friends.-Joubert-
The Winslow mail., 1911-07-08
SHOWED HIS METAL
BRAVERY OF BRAKEMAN IS
WORTHY OF RECORD.
iced That Might Well Be Described
as Heroic Resulted in Saving
Life of Boy Struggling in the
Susquehanna.

While a Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western train at normal speed was
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-04-25
New Proceedings Started.

Lansing Apr. 24.-F'rom the filing of
bill of complaint by Charles M. Tur-
ner Stuart +. Ganung. Bessie NJ. Tur-
ner Ida V. McCabe and Cora Pope
Gaming, all residents of Lansing
against the Calumet & Hecla Mining
company and the Osceola Consolidated
Mining company Judge Wiest has is
sued restraining order setting May
% as the date for the Osceola Mining
company to show cause why ii should
not be restrained from taking any
action on the proposed consolidation
of the Osceola company with the Call
umet & Hecla company or any other
corporations, according to the plan
outlined and proposed by said COM
panies. The complalnants are owners
of stock i'm the Osceola company and
they allege that the proposal to give
them one share of stock i'm the pro-
posed new company for two shares
Of their present stock will work in
jury to them. The complainants
charge that the Osceola company is
in prosperous condition with many
years Of profitable business i'm sight
while the Calumet & Hecla property
will be practically exhausted i'm fif-
teen years according to the statements
of its officers.
The phraseology of the decree is
sued by Judge Weist i'm tho state
courts OF Michigan is patterned so
closely after the decree of Judge Swan
in the federal courts ISSUED to G. M.
Hyams) restraining the holding of
any special meetings of the Calumet &
Hecla companies to perfect the mer-
ger, that the opinion is entertained in
some quarters that both actions are
to all intents instigated by the same
parties.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-04-25
CONFERENCE ON
CHILD WELFARE
NATIONAL CONGRESS OF MOTH
ERS AND PARENT
ERs' ASSOCIATION MEET
AT WASHINGTON.

Washington. April 25.-The presence
of many men and women information
ally prominent I'm the child study
movement, at the opening here today
of the second International Congress
OF Child Welfare lent added dignity
to convention the importance of
which to the world at large can scarce
ly be overestimated The congress
meets under the joint auspices of the
National Congress of Mothers and the
Parent Teachers Association. The re-
lations and duties of home, school,
church and state to the welfare of the
child are to be the principal topics of
discussion.
During the six days of the conven-
tion addresses will be delivered that
will command the attention of the ma =
tion, not only because of the timeli-
ness of the subjects OF the addresses
hut because of the prominence of the
men and women who will make them
Foremost among the scheduled speak
ers are Mrs. Frederic Schoff of Phila-
delphia. president of the National Con
gress Of Mothers James Bryce tho
British ambassador i'm Washington;
Mrs. B. l.. Carroll. wife of the governor
of Iowa: DIR. Elmer II. Brown, United
States Commissioner of Education;
Mrs. Clarence d. CLARK. wife OF formei
Senator Clark of wyoming:' Mrs. Fret
It. Du Bots, wife of former Senatoi
I)u Bois of Idaho; Mrs. Charles d
Carter wife of Representative Carte
of oklahoma; Mrs. A. l.. Hamilton
OF California; Miss Helen Mckinney
of West Virginia. and Mrs. Cornell;
Branch Stone of Texas. former presi
dent OF the United Daughters OF tn,
confederacy.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-04-25
FAIL IN THEIR ATTEMPT.
Straight and kaImbaeh Not Able 70
Force Trial Of Russell.

Lansing, Mich, April 25.-Represen-
tatives Straight and Kalmbach who
steered the attack upon Warden Rus
sell of Marquette prison and who put
through the impeachment proceedings
which would have cost Michigan some
$4,000 are still busy trying to find
some way by which the senate may
be forced to carry on the trial.
Thus far nobody has been able to
tell them any way To force the issue
so now they seem to have entered
upon the Journal of the senate their
protest against the action of saving
S5O. 900 for the state. They argue that
even II il would be expensive. the Inn
peachment should not have been
drorped on the ground of no juris-
diction until the issue had been rails
ed either ny the warden or the house
managers.
II Is hardly likely they will be able
to get anything upon the senate jour
nal since the only opportunity TO do
so would be on the day OF the final ad-
iournment May I. ana the resolution
of adjournment specifically declared
no business should be transacted after
April 49,
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-04-25
TRY ALLEGED MURDERER.
Vermont Youth Charged With Killing
Mother and Sister.

Maidstone. VT, April 25.--A special
grand jury convened here today TO
take up the case of Arthur Bean. the
.1S-year old youth who has been con-
fined in Jail for some time on the sus-
picion of having murdered his mother
and sister. The tragedy occurred at
the Bean home on March last. on
the day of the murder young Bean,
with a rifle slung over his shoulder.
entered the home OF a neighbor and
calmly told the persons there that his
mother, Mrs. George Bean. and his
sister Miss n ma Bean, had been shot
and killed. Neighbors rushed TO the
Bean home and found the body OF
Miss Nina in a pool OF blood on the
floor of the front hall. while that OF
Mrs. Bean was in a bedroom on the
upper floor of the house. There were
bullet wounds in both bodies. Young
Bean was taken into custody day or
two later. but all efforts TO induce him
to make a confession failed.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-04-25
.CUDAHY- Y-BRfWER
WEDDING TODAY
CENTRAL FIGURE IN PAT GROVE
KIDNAPPING CASE BECOMES
BENEDlcr-cEREMoNY
is QUIET.

San MateO, Cal, April 25.-Edward
!. Cudahy, the young millionaire club
man of Omaha who some years ago was
the central figure In a sensational kid
naping case, was married here today
to Miss LeonOra Brewer, a prominent
society girl OF the Burlingame set,
The ceremony was performed in ST.
Matthews Catholic church I'M the pres
encc OF relatives and a few friends.
After a brief wedding journey the
young couple will take up their resi-
dence in San Francisco.
Todays wedding was the culmina-
tion of a long engagement that was
marked by many vicissitudes. About
three years ago Mr.. Cudahy came west
for a visit with his sister, Mrs. Jack
Casserly. and shortly after his arrival
she entertained at an elaborate musi-
Gale at her beautiful Eli Cerrito in his
honor. II was on this occasion that
ne first met Miss Brewer. His atten-
tions to the attractive society belle
were marked from the first moment
of their acquaintance, and little sur
prise was expressed when their en-
gagement was announced few months
later. Almost upon the eve of the
wedding day, however, came the news
of Mr.. Cudahy's Illness and the inde-
finite postponement of the wedding.
1t was assumed by society that the
engagement had been broken when,
last summer, it was learned that Miss
Brewer was visiting at the home of
Mr.. Cudahy's parents Again last fall
il was reported that the wedding was
about to take place, but again the
event was postponed on account of the
health of the bridegroom elect. Dur
ing the past winter, however. Mr..
.Cudahy's condition was greatly i'm
proved by his residence in California,
and with the impediment of his illness
removed it was decided that the mar
riage should take place without further
delay.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-04-25
ARE CHARGED
WITH CONTEMPT
THREE CHICAGO BANKERS MUST
EXPLAIN REFUSAL TO TESTIFY
IN BRIBERY lNvES-
TiGATION.

Springfield, H., April %. The Sem
ate bribery investigating committee
held an executive session this morn
ing While the committee was in ses-
sion the attorneys representing Ed
ward Tilden had a conference with the
committee. Among the witnesses here
today are c. E. Wiehe, former state
Senator Downing and former Repre-
sentative Charles McMackin.
The committee decided that Ed
ward Tilden and George NJ Benedict
and William e. Cummings, Chicago
bankers, be summoned before the SEN
ate to show cause why they should
not de held in contempt of that body
for refusing to appear in response to
subpoenas Immediately uron reach
ing this decision the committee adj
journed until afternoon.
The committee reported to the Sem
ate asking Tilden. Benedict and Cum
mings be compelled TO appear before
the Senate. The matter was made n
special order for tomorrow.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-04-25
ESCAPES FROM
u. P. HOSPITAL
INSANE MAN WALKS ALL WAY TO
CALUMET AND rs ARRESTED
BY MARSHAL TRUDELL
TODAY.

After walking from the Upper PEN
lnsula Hospital at Newherry to Calu-
met, n distance of more than 205 miles
John Boleg of Wolverine, who escaped
from that institution about two weeks
ago. was placed under arrest by Mar
shal Trudell this morning. He will be
returned to the hospital at once
According to the story told to Mar
shal Trudell this morning by Boleg. he
walked the entire distance from New
berry to Calumet, sleeping at night
wherever he happened 10 be and eat
ing whatever he could find. If very
fortunate. he secured bread to eat and
II not he did not hesitate to chew
bark or anything else he could find.
The entire journey required several
days.
Boleg was arrested at Wolverine
about February /, charged with the
careless use of firearms. He appear
ed before Justice Fisher and was SEN
fenced to serve ninety days at the
county Jail. After he had completed
about ten days of his sentence. he was
examined for his sanity and was sent
to the Newberry hospital. This was
the hast heard of him until last night
when his wife, whom it is said. he
had threatened TO shoot on the pre-
vious occasion, notified Marshal Thu
dell that he was again I'm town and
that sire was very much afraid he
would try to kill her. Sheriff Byers
was communicated with and he in
turn called up the U. p. Hospital by
long distance telephone and was in
formed that Boleg had not beer dis
charged but had made his escape.
Marshal Trudell Immediately went TO
Wolverine and made the arrest, the
man having been found not far from
his former home.