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Indiana. The Hoosier taste in corruption seems to have been comparatively dormant lately. Only one unsavory matter was before the Indiana public last week, namely, the apparent possibility that Governor Ed Jackson was planning to liberate his old political friend, D. C. Stephenson, onetime Ku Klux Grand Dragon, now residing in the state penitentiary, supposedly for life, for kidnaping, criminally assaulting and murdering a girl...
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell is a man of 69, with upright carriage and snapping eye, such as become a veteran who has campaigned in Zululand, Ashanti, Matabeleland, at Mafeking, in the Transvaal. King Edward dubbed him Knight, King George dubbed him Baronet, 600,000 American boys call him "Chief Scout of the World," and last week at the 16th annual convention of the Boy Scouts of America, Dan Beard, chief U. S. scout, presented him with a silver buffalo and called him "our contemporaneous ancestor." (Sir Robert protested: "That suggests monkeys...
...eastern railways of this country are preparing a series of celebrations to commemorate the 100th anniversary of steam transportation. It was on Sept. 27, 1825, that George Stephenson- patron saint of the railroad business ever since-first conducted at Darlington, England, his successful experiment. On that occasion his little "Locomotion I" painfully but steadily followed a man on horseback, pulling after it a train of cars, for 25 miles...
Americans had already built railway tracks in many parts of the country, but lacked satisfactory means of locomotion. They soon took up Stephenson's invention. In 1829 the Delaware & Hudson unsuccessfully tried out on its tracks a British steam locomotive, the "Stourbridge Lion." The next year, however, the Baltimore & Ohio proved that steam locomotion was practicable by the successful trip of the "Tom Thumb" at Baltimore. In 1831 the first U. S. steam locomotive, the "Best Friend of Charleston," was running on the first purely steam railway in America-the South Carolina Railroad - from Charleston to HamBurgh...
...into six days. This would account for 360 days. "The remaining 5," said Dr. de Daragic, "could be added to the year as a series of holidays, each feast to be named after a great man-the first after Jesus Christ, the second after Columbus, the third after George Stephenson (part inventor of the locomotive), the fourth after Robert Fulton (perfecter of a paddle-wheel steamboat), the fifth after Henry Ford...