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left-handed pitchers are now on the roster of the Boston Red Sox ofthe American League. John Radloff, of South Chicago, completes thequartet. Radloff's release was bought from the Manistee club of theMichigan State League on the recommendation of Patsy Donovan, a scout.Collins, Leonard, and Coumbe, the latter from the Utica club of the NewYork State League, are the other left-handers.
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Man Buried by Avalanche.
Eli Marfhi, a miner, 35 years old, of Butte, Mont., was buried by anavalanche so that he stood upright in five feet of snow and was held aprisoner for forty-eight hours. When he was found by a party of miners,who saw his head sticking above the snow, he was unconscious, and had adouble fracture in his right leg and two breaks in his left arm. He wasnot frozen.
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Won $10 With a $3 Bill.
A man walked into one of the leading cafes in Middletown, N. Y., andasked the bartender to give him change for a three-dollar bill. Thelatter started to count out the change, then stopped and thought amoment.
"G'wan, there's no such thing as a three-dollar bill," he remarked. Theman who wanted the change insisted that there was, and the bartender bethim $10 there was not. Thereupon the visitor produced a three-dollarbill.
It was a bill issued January 5, 1852, by the Bank of North America, ofSeymour, Conn., which the man had found in the siding of a house towhich he was making repairs. The old bank note was signed by F. Atwater,cashier, and G. F Dewitt, treasurer.
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Parcel-post Extension.
A ruling of the postmaster general, recently approved by the interstatecommission, increases the weight limits of parcel-post packages, in thefirst and second zones, from 20 to 50 pounds; admits books to the parcelpost, and reduces rates in the other zones materially. The maximumweight for parcels in all zones beyond the second was increased from 11to 20 pounds. From the already published rates the reductions are asfollows: In the third and fourth zones, 1 cent on the first pound and 3cents less on each additional pound; in the fifth and sixth zones, 1cent less on each pound sent. Parcels containing books weighing 8 ouncesor less will be carried anywhere for 1 cent for each 2 ounces, and onthose weighing more than 8 ounces, the parcel-post rate for the zonewill apply.
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Radium Fails to Ward Off Death.
Congressman Robert G. Bremner, of New Jersey, who had the entire supplyof radium possessed by Doctor Howard A. Kelly, valued at $100,000 placedin a cancer last December, died. Only the indomitable will of theCongressman kept him alive for such a long period. When told that he wasnear death he said to his brother: "Get me my shoes. I am going to leavethis place with you. I want to get to work."
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House Agrees to Bar All Asiatics.
The Administration is seriously disturbed over the action of the Houseof Representatives in incorporating an amendment, fathered byRepresentative Lenroot, in the Burnett immigration bill, excluding allAsiatics, including Japanese, from the United States, except in so faras they have rights under existing treaties or agreements.
While the vote is subject to change when the bill comes up for finalpassage, President Wilson and his subordinates are gravely concernedover the prominence given to the exclusion question at this juncture inthe diplomatic negotiations now in progress between Japan and the UnitedStates. Fear was expressed that if the House should stand firm on theamendment the result might be a further irritation in Japan and newoutbreaks of the anti-American feeling in the island empire.
The report was adopted following the rejection of an amendment offeredby Representative Hayes, of California, excluding Japanese, Hindus, andalso all blacks without regard to treaty obligations with any country.
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Auto Wheel Wrecks House; Causes Fire.
The wheel of a large automobile going about a mile a minute broke fromthe car and went through the pantry window in Mrs. Isabella Seymour'shome, at South Norwalk, Conn., sending the dishes in all directions.Then it entered the kitchen and knocked the stove to pieces and set thehouse on fire.
The wheel weighed over 100 pounds. The automobile careened to the sideof the road, but the driver escaped serious injury.
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Dies After Living Twenty Years on Cheap Diet.
Mark M. Woods, a farmer philosopher, of Webster, Mass, who has existedfor the past twenty years on four cents a day, is dead at the age of 75years. Death was caused by chronic bronchitis. Woods, in the face ofincreased living cost, continued to show the public year after year,that it was possible to survive on an amount of money that seemedincredible.
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Hiccoughs for Two Months.
Since it became known that physicians are unable to relieve Hilda Caine,11 years old, who had had spells of hiccoughing every day for twomonths, scores of suggestions to help her have been mailed to Sea Cliff,N. Y., the child's home, but so far none has proved effective. Some ofthe seizures, which occur several times each day, last an hour or more.It is said the girl cannot live long unless she gets relief soon.
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Closing Gas Wells.
A gas well in Louisiana that had run wild for six years and had beenwasting from 10,000,000 to 20,000,000 cubic feet of gas a day duringthat period was successfully closed recently by a method that isprobably unique in the history of the gas industry. A relief well wasfirst bored close to the old well, and to the same depth. Water and mudwere forced down the relief well under heavy-air pressure until the gasstratum was choked and the flow of gas shut off. The old well, which hadmade a crater 225 feet in diameter and 50 feet deep, was thenpermanently closed with concrete.
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University Bars Boy Slayer.
Chancellor Samuel Avery, of the University of Nebraska, announced thatKenneth Murphy, 21 years old, serving a life sentence for murder inNebraska penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb., who was paroled by GovernorMorehead to enter the State university, cannot register in theinstitution because of his criminal record.
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Sells Rare Stamp for $390.
H. C. Watts, of Estill Springs, Tenn., recently sold a postage stamp for$390. It was a Philippine stamp, which he obtained while in thoseislands a few years ago, and is known as an "Inverted Surcharge." Theword "Philippine" is printed upside down. It is thought to be the onlyPhilippine stamp of its kind in existence.
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Two Weddings Cause Mix-up.
Through two marriages, at St. Johns, Mich., a father becomes thebrother-in-law of his daughter; a sister becomes the mother-in-law ofher brother; one man's father-in-law becomes his brother-in-law, and awoman's sister-in-law becomes her stepmother. Charles Jones married MissEmma E. Ellwanger, of De Witt. A few weeks ago her brother, WilliamEllwanger, married Jones' daughter, Miss Cora Jones.
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Trying to Photograph Bullets as They Whiz.
A bullet speeding at a rate of 3,000 feet a second, which is more than2,000 miles an hour, makes a great disturbance in the atmosphere andcreates air waves which, of course, are invisible to the naked eye.Attempts which have been made to take photographs of bullets going atthis speed have been unsuccessful, but scientists are still trying. If aphotograph could be taken, they say, the print would probably show aspace like a body of water marked by what looked like speeding waterbugs, each having a ripple in its wake.
Photographs of a bullet going at a rate of speed less than 1,200 feet asecond show no air waves at all. But anything cutting through the air ata greater rate than this causes much disturbance. If you draw a stickthrough the water it causes little eddies and waves to trail behind it.The faster you draw the stick the more waves and wider the angle it willleave. Just so with the bullet
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"Saved" Slayer; Sue for Pay.
Two Boston surgeons, Doctor John L. Ames and Doctor Davis D. Brough,want pay for their services in saving the life of Clarence V. T.Richeson, that he might die in the electric chair for the murder of AvisLinnell. The surgeons have filed suit against the estate of Fred H.Seavey, who was sheriff at the time Richeson mutilated himself, and thedoctors were called in. This is the second attempt to collect the billwhich totals $710.
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Saves Girl, Loses Own Life.
Louis Levine, a young salesman, of New York, died a hero from injuriesreceived in saving the life of his sweetheart, 19-year-old JessieOrlain.
Miss Orlain, Levine, and two companions were returning from the home ofa friend, when the girl suddenly ran ahead to cross a car track. Midwayof the street the sound of the gong, of an approaching car alarmed herand she stopped, too terrorized to move. Levine rushed toward her andpushed her out of danger with such force that she fell on her face,breaking her nose. The car caught