Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1907 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Capt. Henry Brown, a veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars, and inventor of fne bell buoy, as now used at American ports, died at Charleston, S. CL. aged 80 years. He served during the '6os under Farragut and Porter. By utilizing the principle of the farmer’s hatbed, exposing pipes of ether to the rays of the sun under glass cases, Frank Shuman, a Philadelphia engineer ■nd cbggjrst, claims to be able to turn the sun’s xaye directly into power, sufficient for commercial «««•-