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Unknown to anyone a shell with a misprimed fuse was inserted into one of the guns. As the unfortunate gunner pulled his lanyard not only the propelling charge but the high explosive shell charge detonated. The gun burst, killing seven men and wounding eleven others, all skilled in the handling of shells and explosives...
Match play suited Upson until the semifinal. There he became impaled on the putter of W. H. Taft of Dartmouth, who promptly sank back 6 and 5 before the Nordic siege-gunner, Dexter Cummings, defending champion. To the Intercollegiates a two-year victory was unique...
...International Customs Service of that country. But at 26 he was back in the U. S. and had his LL.B. from the University of Michigan. He was admitted to the bar, but within two years had cast law to the winds to serve as a third class gunner's mate on the U. S. S. Yosemite in the Spanish War. He returned to civilian life and entered the Michigan House of Representatives. From there he went to Congress for six years, 1905-1911, where he was a member of Uncle Joe Cannon's machine, stuck by it through the great...
...Story. Master Gunner Peyrol, old Brother of the Coast, white-haired rover of the outer seas, returned to Toulon some years, before Trafalgar with a hoard of gold mohurs, ducats, guineas stowed away in a canvas jacket next his skin and a case of razors looted from an English prize, intending to spend his last days near the village where he was born, the village he had not seen for 50 years. He found lodging at the Escampobar farm-lodging and the strangest adventure of his life...
...Gunner Wainwright Merrill...