Nick Carter Stories No. 11, November 23, 1912: Nick Carter Strikes Oil; or, Uncovering More Than a MurderCarter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 11, November 23, 1912: Nick Carter Strikes Oil; or, Uncovering More Than a Murder
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
With 96 shot wounds in his body, received when a companion mistook his
foot for a squirrel, William Rodenstein, 18 years old, of New
Comerstown, Ohio, is expected to live. With Jacob Beiter, Rodenstein had
gone hunting and stretched out at the foot of a tree. His companion
wandered off and on returning saw something moving near the tree and
shot.
Charges from both barrels entered Rodenstein’s side. Beiter carried the
injured boy a mile to a farmhouse.
Relics of Spanish Armada Found.
Recently a remarkable collection of relics has been recovered in the
course of the hunt for the Spanish treasures, supposed to be at the
bottom of the sea at Tobermory. From the Armada wreck the treasure
hunters have secured among other things large quantities of African oak,
cannon balls of stone and iron, broken pottery and wine flagons,
encrusted cutlasses, daggers, swords and muskets, lead, copper, and
pieces of eight. Metal plate, showing the same embossments as specimens
found last May, have been discovered in comparative abundance. Among the
more peculiar finds were several feet of copper-wire cable, a graduated
brass bar, supposed to be a tangent used for sighting purposes on a big
gun, a hollow shell containing a remarkably light and soft metal, three
exquisitely shaped teeth firmly fixed in a man’s jawbone, and the almost
complete skeleton of a boy of about 14 years of age.
Language of Lower Animals.
Professor R. J. Anderson, of University College, Galway, who dealt with
the so-called speech in lower animals at the meeting of the zoological
section at the British Association, at Dundee, says the “early training
of dogs, horses, and other animals go far to obliterate any tendency to
marked development of original lines of thought.” It is to be doubted,
he says, whether any great advance could be made in the development of a
“dog language.”
Shoots Self During Nightmare.
Sudden fear caused by a nightmare came near proving fatal to Michael
Matthews, 22 years of age, at Madison, Wis., when he shot himself in the
temple with a revolver.
When taken to a hospital Matthews related the story of a dream in which
he was captured by a gang of ruffians who were making preparation to
torture him.
Quickly taking a revolver he pulled the trigger and emerged from his
dream. The revolver had been under his pillow.
Korean Plotters Get Heavy Sentences.
Heavy sentences were imposed on many of the 123 Korean prisoners charged
with conspiring against the life of Governor General Count Terauchi, of
Korea.
Baron Yun Chi Ho, formerly a cabinet minister, and several others of the
more prominent among the accused, were sent to prison for ten years,
while various terms of punishment were inflicted on all the other
prisoners, except nine, who were released.
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