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Evening Star, Issue 14636, 4 August 1911, Page 4

It i 6 estimated that 5,000 tons of dynamite will be required to carry on the work of construction on the canal and the Panama railroad during the fiscal vear ending June 50, 1912. Of this amount, 3,250 cons most be 45 per cent, nitro-glycerine, and 1,750 tons must be 60 per cent, nitroglycerine. For last year the estimate was 6,864 tons. The parapet of a large and recently conetoucted reservoir at Polignano, near Bari, Italy, collapsed and 14 persons fell into the -water. Eight were drowned and the other six -were rescued after great difficulty. The inhabitants attempted to lynch Uae mayor, who was blamed for the faulty construction of the reservoir, and the police arrested the architect. .■■■_.