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...Morgan's monument has stood for almost 70 years, but Morgan's fate is still in dispute. Anti-Masonic groups claimed that he was murdered and thrown into the Niagara River. They even produced a corpse which was buried with great ceremony-but which turned out to be someone else. Masons believed that he voluntarily left the country. Hie was later rumored to be a hermit in Canada, posing as an Indian chief in the Rockies, and living in Constantinople, having become a convert to Mohammedanism...
Among the Music Hall's scenic effects: rainfall (from pipes high above the stage); Niagara Falls (out of tanks of an agitated soap solution); a full-sized train that can disappear into the hills; a steam curtain that fills the stage with billowing clouds; an ocean freighter that is torpedoed, splits in two and sinks from sight. The stage has also held a swimming pool, a helicopter and 30 trained horses...
...Wings ... In Niagara Falls, the Bell Aircraft Corp. received a letter from an inmate of an Illinois state penitentiary: "How long a warm-up is needed [for a helicopter]? What is the down payment . . .? Will it carry two people...
...Criminal Mind. In Wichita Falls, Tex., Maude Stonecipher reported that someone had ransacked her house, made off with two bottles of vanilla extract. In Niagara Falls, N.Y., Walter Tucker told police that someone had broken into his garage, left three automobile tires and wheels worth over $50. In Brighton, Iowa, Bank Cashier L. B. Luithly reported that the man who broke into the Rubio Savings Bank took nothing more valuable than two fountain pens...
...Niagara 54, St. Bonaventure...