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...moment after the finish excitable Range Finder ran away with Mrs. Whitney, threw her as he crashed through a rail fence, gashed himself badly...
...permission was superfluous; the spur would be a private road, not a common carrier. Last year construction crews were sent into the wild hills near Smiths Ferry. Into the courts marched the lawyers for orders preventing the contractors from throwing the Montour across county highways. The smart contractors threw their crossings on Sundays when legal papers could not be served. Pennsy tried to stop dredging for a barge terminal on the grounds that it endangered the piers of a Pennsy bridge. And for good measure Messrs. Atterbury & Williamson sought a Federal injunction against the entire project. Pittsburgh Coal merely sent...
Last week, Pianist Samaroff threw her music courses open to the public, engaged 17 teachers to help her in New York, eight in Philadelphia, announced besides the rudimentary course, special classes for businessmen and women, classes for opera and orchestra subscribers who want to study programs in advance...
...evening of the fire Marinus van der Lubbe bought packages of patented kindling coal, climbed the outside of the Reichstag building at 9 p. m. and entered a balcony window of the deputies' restaurant. He lit one box of the kindling coal, threw it on a table behind the bar. Next he set fire to a plush curtain, a couple of table cloths and his own shirt. In the men's washroom he had apparently no trouble in causing a pile of used towels and his own vest to burst into flames. Police testimony had shown that...
...unable to do everything he wished with St. Martin's stomach. Shortly after the book's publication the French Canadian returned home for good. Dr. Beaumont ultimately resigned from the Army medical corps, established himself in St. Louis. There his reputation as a peerer into organs threw him into court. He had trephined a broken skull. Hostile doctors testified that he had done so to see what was going on in the dying man's brain. The court acquitted Dr. Beaumont. In 1853, aged 67, he slipped on an icy flight of steps, developed a carbuncle...