Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1903 — SHOWS ODD MACHINE. [ARTICLE]

SHOWS ODD MACHINE.

AN INVENTOR THINK£ HE HAS . SOLVED PERPETUAL MOTION. .Arkansas Man’s Contrivance Exhibited at, Kansas City and Appears to Work t Satisfactorily—Employes of American Company Ordered Out on Strike. J. S. Grimes, a mechanic, who was born in Yell County, Arkansas, and can barely read and write, exhibited a perpetual motion machine in the office of the' Kansas City Journal that runs for hours with no other power than that furnished by the machine itself. The invention is simple, but it is the, result of twelve years’ work. Grimes first took a circular piece cut from a thick board and trimmed down the edge to resemble a circular switchback railway. In the center of this board he fastened a second circular board on a steel post that fitted into a ball-bearing bicycle, axle. To the top board was fastened, by means of a rod, a small wheel, which was so fixed that it would strike at each revolution of the upper board at a point near the top of the incline plane of the lower board, the lower board being slightly inclined. Grimes then placed a weight on top of the upper disk, placed the wheel at the top of the inclined plane, released it and the machine began to more and continued in motion until stopped by its inventor. The machine is started by the wheel running down the incline on one side. This takes the weight on the opposite side away from the center of gravity and it carries the machine around until the wheel strikes the Top of the incline again, when new force is imparted to the revolving upper disk. Grimes says he worked for six years before he discovered a way to force the carrier wheel over the highest point of the circular track, although the distance to overcome was less than an inch. A company is being organized to exploit the invention.

STRIKE AFFECTS 10,000 MEN. All Employes of American Bridge Company Ordered Ont. The Executive Board of the Structural Ironworkers* Union at a meeting in Philadelphia voted to order a strike of all employes of the American Bridge Company throughout the country for the enforcement of the wage scale in the Philadelphia district. By this order 5,000 men will be affected. The board further decided to order all members of the union in the country to refuse to handle any of the American Bridge Company’s product that may be used by any other construction company or contractor. This order will affect 5,000 additional workmen. Philadelphia is the only city in which the union scale is not paid by the American Bridge Company. The demands are 50 cents an hour for an eight-hour working day. League Base-Ball Race. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pi.fsburg ...C» 21 Cincinnati ...42 48 Brooklyns2 43St. L0ui5....42 51 Chicago ....50 42 Philadelphia. 37 56 Boston 46 42 New Y0rk...29 62 The clubs of the American League Stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....51 39 Cleveland ...44 49 St. L0ui5....50 39 Washington. 43 50 Bostonsl 43 Detroit 39 48 Philadelphia 45 .40 Baltimore3B 53 Chicago Murderer Hanged. Lewis G. Toombs, convicted of the foul murder of Carrie Larsen last winter, was hanged in the county jail.in Chicago. The trap was sprung at 11:29. At 11:45 the sheriff s jury of doctors pronounced " Toombs deid, and the body was cut down , and turned over to his widow for inter- ' meat. Chicago Capitalist Killed. Walter A. Scott, reputed millionaire, clubman and president of the Illinois Wire Company, was fatally stabbed by Walter L. Stebbings, a civil engineer, in his Chicago office, as the result of a quarrel over an account. Russian Influence Declining. Itussia is losing influence in Corea: defiance of latter in appointing Kato, a Japanese, as court councilor over Czar’s protest is now explained by Japauese- . British alliance. General Lucas Meyer Dead. The Brussels Petit Bleu announces the sudden death of General Lucas Meyer of heart disease. General Meyer was attacked several times with this illness during the war in South Africa. Michigan Senator Dies. United States Senator James McMillan of Michigan died suddenly of congestion of the lungs, complicated with heart failure, at his summer home at Mauchcster-by-the-Sea, Mass. Attorney General in a Row. Attorney General Knox was assaulted in a case at Atlantic City, N. „J., by Charles T. Schoen, Pittsburg millionaire, and Theodore Cramp, shipbuilder. Boats in Collision. While the schooner Bissell, in tow of the steamer Nipigon, was rounding off Detroit, she was struck by the steamer Presque Isle and badly damaged. Coronation in Westminster Abbey. Edward VII. was crowned King of the at Westminster Abbey in London. ■ Bryan Is Not a Candidate. 'William Jennings Bryan will not be a ■ candidate for President in 1904. He made a declaration to that effect at Mus.Xfttine, lowg, when shown a recent lucent Interview In Mason City, which he declared was unreliable. Government Will Control Cable. President Hoosevelt has decided on the conditions under which the Commercial Cabla Company may Uy its’ cable to China and the Philippines. As arranged the conditions practically give the government control of the cable.