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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-26
THE CHEMICAL HUB
OF THE UNIVERSE
Hydro-Electric Power at Niagara
Falls Has Been Key to Marvellous
Industrial Development.

Niagara Falls. y. Y, June 25.-
The United States leads the world in
elrctro-chenistry, and Niagara Falls
i. the hub of the universe in caeml-
al manufacturing, according to the
Industrial Commission Of this city.
Growth OF chemical indus ries has
taken place simultaneously with, and
has been dependent upon, the devel-
opmont % cheap and abundant power
from the cataract.
The first commercial use OF cleo
tricity generated from Niagara Falls
was in 1895, and the first business
supplied was an aluminium plant,
transferred from Pittsburgh in order
to test the possibilities Of this new
power. At that time aluminium sold
for So a pound. Now it sells for %
cents a pound, and practically all
OF the metal produced in the Uni
ted Sta es-use of which increased
by more than 300 per ZEN from
1905 to 1910-is made at Niagara
Falls. The aluminium industry at Mia
CARA has been followed by a score
Of others. including the making of
such hitherto unknown products as
calcium carbide and artificial graph
lite, until the neighborhood of the
cataract has become the greatest
chemical manufacturing center in the
world.
OF this growth a writer in Metal
lurgical and Chemical Engineering
said recently:
IF Germany may be justly proud
Of having nursed and raised he coal
tar chemical industries. the United
States can claim applied electro
chemistry. as distinctly American.
Ike bulk % these electro chemica.
industries was not imported: 1t was
made, born, nursed and raised At
Niagara"
BEGINNING with $4,000 horse pow
or less than twenty years ago. near
ly 400, 900 horse power is now gene
rated at Niagara Falls. Yet SO vast Is
the flood which pours over the pre-
cipice that the water withdrawn
does not effect the beauty o. grand
eur of the catarac'. This condition,
moreover, which cannot become fully
operative in the United States until
the expiration on March 4, next. OF
the Burton law. permanently re-
~stricts this coun ry TO use of 90
600 cubic feet OF water rer second.
This is only 400 cubic feet more
than is now in use. and diversion of
the additional amount, in the words
of Gen. Bixby. Chief OF Engineers.
United states Army. will be "prac.i-
cally inappreciable." The treaty al
lows Canada use OF $4,000 cubic feet
per second. II also remove the pre-
sent limit of 100, 000 horse power
on electric energy imported from
Canada to the United States. This
res riction was made in 1906 10
safeguard the then unprotected
Horseshoe cataract on the Canadian
Sfdo hint with tha neootiation of the
waterways treaty the need for he
restriction passed.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-26

$500

the heels on his shoes and melted
the eyelets on his shoes and left
streaked lines on his body from the
crown OF his head lo his toes.
AS he took his train out OF Butte
tonight he declared that he felt 10
i'll effects from his encounter with
the lightning.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-26
Mexico in 1882.

Casimiro SCarcz. in his we'll pre-
pared history o. Mexico gives tac
population or Mexico in 1892 as ~
734, :J2 according to the bcs CEN
sus { tainabie at that time. Half OF
tn were white, the remainder in
digenous Indians, with some negroes,
and some Others OF mixed races OF
the primitive settlers.
OF these th:ee-hfths lived on the
high table lands of the central cor
dillera, and two-fifths occupied the
low or coast lands. The whites c.
fcupied the towns and cities. the
others the country. The majority OF
the Mexicans were poor due to the
concentration Of lands into the hands
Of a few.
The boundaries Of the State 0.
Tamaulipas, which is the State that
jofns Texas on the southwest, were
given as: On the east. the Gulf Of
Mexico; on he north, the State of
<yoahuila and Texas; on the south.
Vera Cruz and Queretaro. Its ca?i-
tai was Victoria, which l. the capt.
tai today, and the States popula-
lion 166.S24.
The PIE" Claims.
AS an incident connected with one
who figured greatly but not as d ma
ker OF Texas history. we will here
recoun an incidental side light.
history OF Texas tells OF an almost
international row over a pig which
foraged on the crib OF an American
al Austin. Texas. the American
promptly killing the pig. while its
owner raised Cain. Iii 1897 wa wit
/. messed the amusing scene of a pow
erful nation, snch as france was
In those days as compared 70 unciyi.-
lied, undisciplined Mexico, -rying to
force the latter to Z ay the enorMo,.s
sum OF six hundred thousand dol
lars for those toothsome pastries
called pies"
Mexico was just beginning her Sc
ries Of Observation-Disclosures revolutions
revolutions as numerous as self
extolled presidential candidates: BY
the time thai Porfirio Diaz later as
sumed the reins OF government OF
the Republic, these revolutions lad
grown SO hat the people felt a GER
: tain uneasiness without them, They
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-26
iometimes not at all.

sometimes not at all.
To Marconi belongs the credit OF
making A practical success OF the dis
coyeries o. others, but to Hertz be-
longs the credit of making the sys-
TEN Observation-Disclosures News.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-26

Heck-Is il true that your wife
has all hmpediment in her speech
Peck-Yes. she gets sleepy about
IL o'clock and begins 70 yawn.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-26

RomantIc-HOw the trees I'm the
y hard are moaning aud signing.
LiteraI-So would you NY you were
a. full of green apples GA they are
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-26

nNcfNr -''nu are all rnn d5wn.
You need some o. Natures Sweet
Res orer."
Untle FheN--Tn not take il. Doc,
'lumb through with patent med
icines.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-26

There is one class OF business
men who always take the pledge and
generally keep it,"
who are they"
"Pawnhrokers
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-12-24
IMPROVEMENTS REPORTED
IN STRIKE SITUATION
Rcports to Washington indicate iha'
Americans Are Now in No I'M
date Danser--Itailroah
Man Released

Associated Press Special
Washington, Dec. "A -AdYiees
received here today say that res'or-
alton OF order in the Cananea mines
and danger to Americans from Mex
lean miners is no longer expected
Morris, the American railroad man
imprisoned by the rebels, has been
released He says he WAS well
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-12-24
AWE I'LL WASTE Of LIQUOR
AND CHRIST MAS HERE
t.raN>on County sheriff oHii~cdir>
Three, Wagon Loads at feoIe
and po,lrs II INTO the
Street

Associated Pr. - SPECIAL
sherman Texas. Dec. Tjfee
wagon loads 81 beer aud Whtshs
we're couiiscared in sherman @a
Deuson TINS morning by the ~i4efiff
and deputies The iQuld vaz
emptied into the streets b} officers
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-12-24
OHIO MAN WOUNDS WIFE
ANO ENDS HIS OWN LIFE
Iette, Eound i'm A. W. funk poch-
1T Indicated That He Was SICK
and UeNpondeut.

Associated Press Special.
Galveston. Texas, Dee. "A NJ
Funk, OF Columbus, Ohio, this
morning shot and Wounded his vie
and then killed himself in their
room at hotel Funk $ ren-year-
old boy ran screaming from the
room A letter in Funk s pocket TO
his wife's relatives indicates that he
Was III bad health and respondent,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-12-24

Subscribe for the paiN Light
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-17
WOMAN REFUSES HER LEGACY
Fiancee Of New York Mar Turns
$4,000 Over to Heirs-at-
Law.

Newburg, N. Y.-When Cornelius L.
Waring, Republican politician and
lawyer Of this place, vas stricken with
paralysis IS months ago his engage
.ment to Mrs. Margaret Parker was for
mally announced. Waring improved,
but was stricken and died March 20
last. His will was admitted to pro-
bate on April 2, and by it he practical
ly cut off his family, leaving but small
requests to them, while to Mrs. Par
ker, his fiancee, he gave S., 200 and
made Mrs. Julie H. Coles, who lives in
the Amidon apartments, New York
city, ~residuary legatee for nearly $780,
600.
Mrs. Parker, on learning the condi-
tons, summoned her attorney, Ed
ward j. Collins, and instructed him to
prepare a transfer of the amount left
her to the relatives of Waring, to be
distributed as the law directs where
a person dies intestate. She says
she was actuated purely by a desire
to be Just and fair to the heirs-at-law.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-17
GERM Is SLAIN BY HOT AIR
French Physician Discovers New
Method Which May RevoIu-
tionize Treatment.

Paris.-A remarkable new treatment
Of diphtheria has just been communi-
Gated by the distinguished physician,
Robert Rendu, to the Lyons Medical
association.
In the course of his experiments
with the bacilli Of this disease DR..
Rendu found that they were extreme
ly sensitive to heat, and he was able
to kill them in fifteen minutes at a
temperature of so degrees centigrade
(122 degrees Fahrenheit) or in one
minute at so degrees Q76 degrees
~Fahrenheit).
To apply such heat to the mucous
membrane in the throat in which
diphtheria microbes congregate the
inhalation Of hot air seemed a posi-
BILE method, and in experiments with
himself the investigator found to his
own surprise that he was able with
out any difficulty to inhale air at 100
degrees n the boiling point (212 de-
grees Fahrenheit) for two minutes at
q time.
Cases in which this treatment has
already been tried on t%iphtheritic pa
tients are stated to be completely sue
cessful. but some doubts exist as to
the hot air or to the serums. applied
at the same time.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-17
JUDGE MORGAN DEAD
Ex-Chief Justice Of North Dakota
Passes in California.

Fargo, May 13.-David E. Morgan,
ex-chief justice of the supreme court
of North Dakota died at Banning, Cal.
Judge Morgan resigned from the SUI
preme bench more than a year ago.,
owing to a physical breakdown. His
death was not unexpected. His pop
ularity and reputation is attested by
the fact that the Republicans recently
nominated him for judge of the SUI
preme court and his nomination was
Endorsed by the Democratic congress-
men. Judge Morgan was born in
Pomery county, Ohio, Nov. s, 1849.
In 1898 he was elected to the state
supreme court and was later made
chief justice of that body. The re-
mains Of Judge Morgan will be
brought back to his home at Devils
Lake, where the funeral services will
be held. No arrangements have been
made as yet.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-17
SONGS CURING CRAZED MAN
Effect Of Meiodious Rendition Of
Simple Hymns Astonishes Los
Angeles Physicians.

Los Angeles.-A girls sweet sing.
ing is calming into sanity in the coun-
ty hospital here the mind Of a man
demented. Where drastic medical
treatment has been powerless to effect
a cure, her melodious rendition of
simple hymns and pastoral melodies is
producing striking mental improve
ment.
The girl, a young nurse, is no cor
oratura soprano, nor, perhaps, could
she tell c from G on a musical staff,
but her songs are songs of SYM
pathy, and for more than a week
have been the only influence that has
controlled the patient.
May Flynn Is the nurse, a recent
recruit at the county hospital, and
Stephen 8. Stephens the man, who,
but for a brain tangled by wild de.
lusions, is a fine specimen Of the
American workman.
Physicians and internes watching
the effect Of the girls voice on the pa,
tient. declare that she holds out the
only hope q h1s recovery.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-17
BOY BRIGAND is A TERROR
Younqster, Sentenced to Prison, Tells
Of Daring Deeds He Had
Planned to Court.

Dushore, Pa.-When the law through
the fundamentally of Judge Max.
well, put its hands on Peter Striney
and sent him to the Eastern peniten-
tiary at Philadelphia for from five to
ten years, it made short shrift Of a
young bandit who, by his Owl confess
sion, had started on a career Of crime
melted by lurid reading and a natur.
al bent for adventure, and had he not
been captured as he was-and that
was at a point Of a pistol-this part
of Pennsylvania ere this summer was
over would have been infested with a
band of robbers whose leader at least
would have stopped short of nothing,
not even murder.
Even before the court, as he stood
to hear sentence pronounced, Striney,
with not a little braggadocio, declared
that he had spent part Of his money
to buy firearms, SO that he would be
equipped for highway robbery. His
prospective fields Of operations yer
the lonely roads of Sullivan and Brad
ford counties, a territory with which
he is we'll acquainted, having been
reared in Sullivan county, and
before his last ~escapade, for
which he Is now sent to prison, he
was sen to the reformatory at Hunt
ingdon, for a crime committed while
yet only a stripping of a boy.
Striney was sentenced by Judge
Maxwell for robbing the Susquehanna
e New York railroad station at Pow.
ell in broad day.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-17

charge of abducting Irene Lunn from
her home in the same village.
The couple were taken from a train
here when 1t was learned that they
were on their way to Brick church.,
New Jersey, to be married. According
to the girls story, in which Leary con-
Cured, the man, bent and withered by
his sixty years, was the fance OF her
mother long ago. Parental objections
separated them, and each married an
other. Leary's wife died in a lew
years, and in his loneliness he turned
to Mrs. Lunn. He was admitted to
the Lunn home as a boarder, and has
lived with the family for years.
When Irene reached young woman
hood the old man found much in her
to admire, and In their constant com
partnership they became enamored.
The elopement was finally planned.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-17
Guatama Figure, Made Of Carved
Teak, Said to Walk Around tho
House at Night.

London.-For months past the at
tendants In the Indian section of the
Victoria and Albert museum have
kept observing eyes or a weird look
ing Guatama Buddha figure, which en-
tered the museum a year age with a
sinister reputation. A lady sold 1t to
the museum authorities on account of
its supposed uncanny ways in her
house. So far the figure, which is
made of carved teak and stands seven
feet high, has exhibited no signs of
unrest in its new home, but the at
t%e-dants, primed with a knowledge Of
its past record, have not yet relaxed
their attention.
Its history, SO far as he knows It.,
was related recently by c.. Stanley
Clarke. the officer in charge of the In
dian section. THE lady from whom
we purchased It," he said, told me
that it belonged to her father, a sea
captain, who acquired it in lower Bur
ma about 1853. He sailed with 1t for
England. Near Liverpool the ship
caught fire and the superstitious sail
ors. believing the Buddha to be the
cause. threw it overheard.
The ship was brought safely to
harbor. Soon after the Buddha wash
ed ashore nea the vessel. The cap
tain succeeded after great difficulty
in satisfying the authorities that tho
figure belonged to him.
When he died it passed to his
daughter. Then the trouble began.
Everybody in her house. she told me,
had become frightened Of the Buddha.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-17
Mans Eyes Open Since Stricken
With Sorrow.
Spends His Nights at Work and Com
plains of No Weariness-Fur.
nishes Puzzle Physicians
Cannot Solve.

Trenton, N. J.-Having been with
Herpin, q Trenton man, at last COM
plains of feeling weary. Mentally he
experiences no WEAKNESS, but he says
he Is physically weak and believes a
nap of only five minutes duration
would give him new life. Physicians
who have been following the sleepless
wonders case for years say he Is
merely suffering from overwork, and
do not agree with the theory that SO
many years of wakefulness has caused
his physical health to fail.
Since the power Of sleep left him
Herpin has never before expressed a
desire to eve doze. He has shown
no lassitude day or night. The only
rest he gets Is when he sits in a COM
Portable chair for several hours each
night, but he does not ever then close
his eyes.
His sleeplessness has brought him
considerable money, as he thought
out inventions during some Of his
resting periods that proved successful.
He works every day, excepting Sun
day, in a local pottery, and he spends
most Of the night working out inven-
tions or decorating pottery for friends.
Herpin Is always in good spirits
and when he reports to his employers
In the morning he seems as fresh as
any of the other wprkmen who had
hours Of sound sleep. Those who
work with the sleepless man assert
that he keeps constantly busy and ex-
hibits not the slightest symptoms of
drowsiness. The only complaint that
Herpin has made because of his con
dition Is that he becomes lonely fire.
quently at night when he has nothing
to keep him busy.
Herpin lost his ability to sleep aft
err the death Of his wife, 80 years ago.
He was then 80 years old. He con-
suited physicians, who studied his
strange condition, but who were un-
able to help him. From time to time
he has been secretly watched at night.
The medical men who undertook this
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-17
AWAKE Q 3OYEARS

task are convinced the man has not
slept a moment since first attacked by
the strange malady from which he is
believed to be suffering.
Experts from all parts of the United
States have visited Herpin's home and
studied his condition and have gone
away convinced that he has been
awake longer than any man in the
world. Herpin enjoys the visits Of
these experts, as many of them remain
with him for nights. He says he never
believes he will sleep again.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-17

Census reports indicate increase in
the number of Indians.
Taft men were overwhelmed by the
victorious Roosevelt hosts in the Kan
sas republican convention.
Methodists declared opposition to
the wearing Of UNCONVENTIONAL insig-
mia in Indian school work.
The house judiciary committee con-
tinued its hearings on the charges
against Commerce Judge Archibald.
The spring wheat country OF West
ern Canada has been visited by a
continuous rain and snowstorm, and it
Is estimated that farmers have been
benefited thousands OF dollars.
The ghost Of "Sockless jerry
Simpson told his widow, a spiritual
list, that Roosevelt and Clark would
be the presidential nominees and
Clark would win.
The state food investigation COM
mittee says that New ork annually
consumes 1.4O0, 900, 900 eggs and
there are 800, 200. 900 eggs in storage.
Harry Turvin OF New York, a IL
year-old hero, stopped a runaway
horse about to dash into a group Of
children, and his reward was 10 cents
given by a stranger.
Louisiana has approximately 1900
persons made homeless by the ere
vase in the Mississippi river levee at
Torras alone. OF this number 10000
are dependent upon the bounty Of the
United States government.
The proposed increased rates on the
plate and sheet metal from easter
points to destinations In the north
Pacific states yer suspended by the
Interstate commerce commission from
May II until September Z.
Oficial recognition Of Vincent Aston
% the new head Of the Aston family
10 contained in Mayor Gaynor's an
nouncement Of plans for the reception
Of the German squadron, which will
visit New York this summer.
Charges Of use OF money in Mary
land by tho Roosevelt forces brought
= heated denial from Senator Dixon.
Judgment against the Denver,
Northwestern Z Pacific railroad (the
9doffat road. Tor $780, S8 was en-.
tered.
business at Chicago apparently was
moved with little trouble by the rail-
roads after the freight handlers de-
elared = strike.
At Plainfield, n. J.. Augustus Moore
closed his butcher shop b~ecsause of
the increased cost OF meat. saying his
conscience wouldn't permit him to
leile ~ pricsa -
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-17
NEWS OF THE Week
COMBINATIONS OF GREATER on
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
4 BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS
national, Political, Personal n Other
Matters In Brief Form for Al
Glasses Of Readers.
Congress.

SS'SA~S~
The house passed a Joint resolution
continuing the national peace COM
mission for two years.
The house passed a bill appropriate
Ing 100000 to equip army transports
with lifeboats and RATS.
The agricultural expenditures COM
mittee of the house was urged by Rep
re%sentative Nelson to investigate the
bureau OF animal industry.
Senator Cummins said he would try
to prevent early adjournment or re-
cess Of congress until after tar1ff
schedules had been passed.
The Titanic inquiry was reopened
In the senate, M. l.. Farrell, news edi-
tor Of a Wall street ticker, testifying
regarding misleading reports.
The house passed the bill empow-
ering the president to invite mari
time nations to conference in Wash
ington to consider ocean travels.
Representative Dyer introduced a
bill to appropriate 100000, 900 for pro-
lection against floods along the Miss
lssippi river and tributaries.
The senate appropriations commit
tee favorably reported a joint resolu-
ton appropriating $1.238,179 for Mis-
sissippi and Ohio valleys flood suffer-
ers.
The senate agreed to the confer
ence report on the general service
pensions necessitating an average in
crease OF $22. 100000 a year for five
years.
Chairman Pujo Of the so-called
money trust investigating committee
Of the house, announced that banks
were responding fully to the commit
tees inquiries.
Senator Watson introduced an
amendment to the steel tariff revision
to authorize the president by prOcla-
nation to admit free Of duty any ar.
ticles for n year.
President Taft sent a message ap-
proving the economy commissions
plan for retiring government en-
ployes at 70 years on annuities OF
one-half their salary.
The senate agriculture committee
ordered favorable report on Senator
Thornton's bill to provide for emer-
gency crops on overflowed lands In
south Mississippi valley.
The house agriculture expenditure
committee resumed Investigation of
North Carolina swamp lands devel-
opment and Wednesday will begin in
vestigation of meat inspection serv-
ice.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-17
Personal.

Roosevelt will have the delegates
from Maryland.
Congressman have no hope OF ad.
tournment before August or Septem'
Der.
The Hill interests deny any inten'
ton OF cutting ore prices.
Chicago editors worked on presses
during the pressmen's strike.
Six delegates from Nevada will be
for Taft in the national convention.
President Taft sent to congress q
offering q federal pension
bill.
Former Attorney General Bohsparte
says Roosevelt 10 correct on the Har.
vester trust dispute.
Retirement Of Count Paul Woln-
Metternich from the post OF German
Ambassador Ct London II semt-of1cial.
" annQuncsd
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-17
Boy Killed In a Riot Of Miners.

Scranton, PENNSYLVANIA riotous
demonstration made by foreigners at
Olyphant Colliery No. 1, Delaware and
Hudson company, resulted in the kill.
ing Of George Robareszki, a ~14-year-old
boy. by the state troopers. The troop
ers were riding down a crowd OF
rioters, who were desperate in their
manner, displaying firearms and hurl.
Ing stones and clubs at the state DO.
lice. The boy was standing in the
front yard of his home, the mob near.
by defiantly daring the troopers to
come On
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-05-17
Idol Has Bad Reputation

The servants stated that at night It
walked about the house; friends who
stayed with her declared that its eyes
haunted them and at times appeared
to move. Her children were scared
out of their wits. She was therefore
compelled to part with it. Its be-
havior here, however, has so far been
exemplary"