Word: telegraphically
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...port. They resorted to violence. The result was that a million dollars was subscribed to fight the strike. "We went to the District Attorney," continued Captain Dollar, " and said to him: ' If something isn't done about this tomorrow evening you are going to be strung up to a telegraph pole.' There was never another man assaulted on the waterfront of San Francisco...
...Supreme Court of Alabama recently imposed a liability on the Western Union Telegraph Company under rather unusual circumstances. The father of the plaintiff, whose name was Swindle, died, and a friend telegraphed to Swindle: " Your father is dead. Come at once." The telegram was not delivered promptly and the plaintiff was unable to make the proper arrangements for his father's burial. The jury allowed him $500 damages and their verdict was upheld on appeal...
...first clause of the contract on the back of the customary Western Union Telegraph Company blank limits the liability of the company to $500, except in case of repeated or specially valued messages. This limitation is valid because the company will assume full liability in consideration of the payment of a special charge, and a sender thus can insure his message if he wishes to do so. Otherwise it would be of doubtful validity...
...Mitsui Wireless Company (of Japan) is showing marked hostility to the plans of the Federal Telegraph Company of the United States to link America and China by a $13,000,000 wireless system...
...alphabet for radio, cable and telegraph was invented by Major General George 0. Squier, chief signal officer of the U. S. Army. Instead of dots, dashes and spaces of varying lengths of time, used in the Morse and Universal codes, General Squier's system employs three different wave intensities of each half cycle of alternating current (uniform in time), to represent the dot, dash and space, making various combinations for each character. This brings it into line with modern progress in electrical transmission, which has been revolutionized since Morse's alphabet, the development of which has stood still...