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...immense weights, one of 1000 pounds for the works, the other of 1500 pounds to strike the gong, fall 80 feet a week to keep the clock going. It is Mr. Walford's duty to lift them up again. Two boxes of sand at the end of steel cables constitute these weights...
...lost their lives. The ship is a complete loss, wedged on the reef with a 100° list, wrecked pilothouse gone, light bulkheads crushed, spar deck swept clean, gun-deck partially under water and littered with wreckage, engine rooms obstructed with wreckage and filled two feet deep with sand and coral, the starboard side crushed, one funnel, topmast and all top hamper down or overboard...
...land of sand, where camels are more numerous than locomotives, traveling is neither comfortable, rapid nor safe-even for Kings. King Hussein of Hedjas set out upon a tour of Arabia some weeks ago. Near Petra in Kerak (Trans-jordania) he was attacked last week by a band of Wahabis, who owe their allegiance to the Emir of Riyadh*, Abd el-Aziz es-Saud. After a long struggle, King Hussein's escort repelled the attackers. The trouble between King Hussein and the Emir of Riyadh is over the demarcation of the eastern boundary of Hedjas, the alleged aspiration...
...counsel for the complainant asked first for a restrictive decree to stop the Blanque Mining Company in the state of Ames from operations which would allow sand and gravel used in their plant to be desposited on the complainants land in the state of Langdell. Secondly, they asked a mandatory injunction ordering the mining company to remove the sand and gravel already so deposited...
...complaint maintains that the Blanque Mining Company so carries on its operations that large quantities of sand and gravel are discharged into a river and deposited on the complainant's land, making this land wholly useless. It is asked of the court, therefore, that the company be restrained from continuing these operations and also be ordered to remove from the land the sand and gravel already deposited...