Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1899 — HIS SHELL A SUCCESS [ARTICLE]

HIS SHELL A SUCCESS

foShM**** Gaa Cottow Projectile Twated st s‘esb Hook. lattes- Garhmunn. the Chicago inventor, ariktoted a remarkable triumph at Sandy Hetek. A big cannon loaded with a gun ewrtoik shell, to- which was attached one of him special fiuses. «is tired. Thu gun was Mmkb t»< poors. but the shell remained intnact. sitowins that through the device of Mr- tkathmann- gun cotton shells can be silfirty used tn war as engines of destrucfftota. The experiment further detnonstnrared! that gun rsttoo will not detonate writae* dfachiarged by means of a high presjan. It ata befievrd tte cruiser Vesuvius had ■taifti a new era in naval warfare when gnat (sMtu* she Ito were discharged by pneu■Mgur pressure. In the Sandy Hook expil t iiiurnr the- gun was purptwely expksied * ecdhw t» dfemoastrate that gun cotton aaafti be need with the minimum of daugar- The eteanent es safety was introdue•4 tor the tfothmaim fuse. Br to ntwanted that stock of awpl hist 3Mb years longer, and North AanHtoa's <WW yea r*. It to not bkejy, however, that these supplies wilt be needed, v to to paafiaMe that before many yean have nasaadl power and heat, more econaaatoil atol batter, will be secured in other A warranty deed for an Stt-acre tract of ■awuraff toad to Jasper County. Moi~ which was terearty filed with the recorder at CInHdMKSe. htee revenue stamps aggregating 13Ml The price paid for the J<pd