A GIANT AIRSHIP BURSTS IN THE AI Drops Three Hundred Feet With Sixteen People. 10,000 PEOPLE SEE MACHINE FALL The Big Morrell Airship, the Largest Ever Constructed and Drivem by Six Engines, Collapses on Trial Trip —Gas Bag Bursts and Machine De. scends in View of Thousands. Oakland, Cal. (Special).—Sixteen occupants of the Morrell airship, the largest ever constructed, fell 300 feet when the eraft collapsed on its trial trip. None was killed, but all of the 16 men were seriously injured. They suffered broken legs and arms and several probably have internal in- juries and will die, it is believed. Thousands of persons gathered just before noon to witness the tral. The giant ship, which was 450 feet long and 36 feet in diameter, a com- bination of aeroplane and dirigible air craft, driven by six gasoline en- gines generating 200~ horsepower, rose successfully from the ground to a height of 300 feet. The car was occupied by 16 who had become interested in invention and who agreed to make the trial trip before buying stock in it. All are residents of Berkeley and Oakland. Suddenly the large gas bag, containing illuminating gas, burst, The chine began to settle slowly as gas escaped, and it appeared that it would settle to the ground injuring the occupants of the When it was within 75 feet of ground, however, the remaining was lét out with a rush and whole machine, thousands of pounds in weight, dashed to the ground with terrific force. The occupants of the car were caught under the heavy ma- chinery. ing the ascent were many As the big machine collapsed and dashed to the ground scores of them fainted. The 16 injured men were taken to the Roosevelt Hospital, in Berkeley. The accident was spectacular. A great concourse of men, women and children from Berkeley and Oakland had gathered around a field wherein the great air shaft had been filled with illuminating gas. waiting that made the onlookers anx- ious, the stay ropes were cut and airship rose slowly from earth. six gasoline engines, suspended neath the long gas receptable at in- tervals of about 50 feet, each at- tended by an engineer, were put in operation until the airship were well up in the air. Then two of the en- gines slowly set in motion the long propellers reaching out from them on each side of the ship jefore the ship could be propelled further than a few the forward end tilted downward until the stood at an angle of 45 degrees down- ward. The parently Car. the EAs be- feet craft nose members of the crew were ap unable to run along the can- vas pathway in order to equalize the weight and to right the airship, and they clung desperately to the netting and superstructure. The rush of the gas to the stern of the Jong gas hag envelope to burst with a of a grea airshiy earth. For a looked as though it would down slowly enough to avoid injury to the 16 men. » of them, however, lost their fare the ship could alight suffering broken limbs bruises, Nearing the earth the ship lost gas more rapidly and the overweighted remnant of gus was borne to earth rapidly with great force. Morrell, inventor of the craft, and veral of the engineers were eanght in the understructure and injured by the engines. MET DEATH ON WAY T0 SHRINE A Train Filled With Pilgrims In a Wreck, iy Cable) .——The wors! he annals of Belgian occurred at Cone tich, a station six miles southeast of Antwerp, on the main line. An ex- press train from Antwerp to Brus- gels crashed into a train flled pilgrims on their way to a local shrine. This train was standing on a siding and several of its cars were telescoped and shatiered to match- wood. The total nuniber of dead is placed at 60 and the wounded at over 100 The engineer and fireman of the ex press train were killed outright. Rescuers from Contich were at once on the scene and the succoring the injured and removing the dead was conducted with all pos. gible haste. and jnmped, or severe the Antwerp (I accident in railroad disasters Contich from Antwerp and Brusséls. Thirty-eight dead and 79 have been taken from the wreck. been due to a misplaced switch, The signal man at Contich saw that his switch was not working just as the Antworp express cama thundering down the line. He leaped from the window of his signal station and ran down the track toward the oncoming train, waving a red flag. His effort, however, was too late to avert a disaster. Hen Hatches Snakes, Elwood, Ind. (Special). -— Peter Wige, living near Omega, had the purprige of his lfe when he pulled a sitting hen off the nest that she had made in the edge of a straw stack He had noticed her sitting there for gometime and began to suspect that she was sitting on a door knob or ‘a nest of spoiled eggs. When he lifted ons or a batch of spoiled eggs, thers was a bunch of snakes, little sleek black fellows, each about seven {nch- es long and wriggling furiously, FOUR PERSONS KILLED AND FIFTY INJURED Crcwded Trolley Cars Collide in Philadelphia. Philadelphia (Speclal).-——Four per- egons were instantly killed and at least five others were so badly in- jured that there is no hope for their recovery, and 45 or more were fously hurt in a collision between trolley cars on Germantown Avenue, near Chestnut Hill, a suburb, in the northern section of the city. The only body thus far identified is that of Mrs. George D. Wagner, aged 65 years, of Cornwell, Pa. The bodies of an unidentified wom- an about 60 years of age and an un- identified man about 45 years of age are in a hospital near the scene of the accident, Forty-five ser- were taken to the Chestnut Hill and Germantown hospitals, each of which i8 several miles from the gcene of the accident, and many were taken away in auto- mobiles by the wealthy residents of the exclusive Chestnut Hill district, They were treated by private physi- cians and in consequence details as to the injured obtained. Among those who were ously injured were George whose wife was killed; McKay, aged 45 years, leg, The artificial persons danger- Wagner member is said. was caused by cannot live, it The accident a car grade not far The car swung across the southbound track and was struck by a ear on that track. Both cars were filled with passengers, the runaway car containing many per- sons returning from Chestnut Hill Park Among the going down a steep Hill. many pathetic Inci- dents, was that of a little girl who was thrown from her seat and fell the wheels of the runaway The long strands of her hair caught between the hinges of the seat and she was thus held half sus- pended along the side of the running rail until finally she was ground to pleces under the wheels, WASHINGTON or Reyburn, of Philadelphia, against the action of a restaurant Keeper who refused to serve Chief Yoeman Sturtevant of the Navy. Chairman Harry New, of the Na- tional Republican Committee, issued a call for the meeting to hear the contests for seats in the convention The House and Senate agreed to the conference report on the Omni- bus Pension Claims Bill, and also the Fortications Appropriation Bill President Roosevelt will receive the Liberian officials who have come to ask for closer commercial relations The conferees on the Public Build ings Bill reached an agreement which was adopted by both houses The Senate passed an antigraft bill that covers employes and agents of United States The House passed the gaion of part of the offices bill for the Chinese in Fernald, formes rn engine is accused of “ acce] Committee on Banking and Currencs the last step ward the creation of a joint congres- gional commission to pertect a per- nanent stem of bankipg when it reported favorably to the House joint resolution providing for the ap- pointment of such a committee. Former Secretary of the Treasuars address in Chicago, de- clared the trend was toward political bossisin and that the people were now without conservative leadership. Admiral Evans called at the White House for the first time since his re- turn from the Pacific Coast and re- ceived the congratulations of Presi- dent Roosevelt, Fhe House re jected the report on the Postoffice Appropria- tion bill 147 to 15056, which means the deieat of ship subsidy. The Senate passed the bill ing pensions (o the widows of Majo: Carroll and Dr. Lazear, who lost their lives by yellow fever experiments in Cuba and propagation of yeliow fever by mosquitoes, The General Deficiency Appropria. tion Bill, the last of the big supply meoeasures, was reported to the Sen- ate. It carries a total appropriation The House fO0R the Shaw, in an conference grand The of the bill to increase the efficiency militia was passed by makes all men available for Senator Aldrich introduced a joint resolution creating a national mone tary commission, comprising The Military Academy tion Bill was reported to the Senate, total appropriation of $014,967. A national commission on vice and crime was organized, with Dr. Wil lam A. White chairman. The House passed a bill creating a bureau of mines in the Interior The treutiea with Japan to pro- tect American trade-marks, ete, in Japan and to protect Japanese trade- marks, ete, in the United States was reported favorably by the BSenate Committee on Foreign Relations. « All postal stations for the receipt and dispatch of mails that are locat- ed outside the corporate limits of cities will be known as branch offices hereafter, according to an order of the Postmaster General, That Representative Lilley was not warranted in hringing charges against certain of his colleagues is the conclusion of the special com mittee In the Elect Torpedo-boat Com any investigation, e treaty to regulate wireless Colm i will not be acted upon by the Senate Committees on reign Relations at this session. A GIRLS MOTHER: ACCUSES HER PASTOR Rev. R. A. Ellwood is Forced To Resigr. LOVE LETTERS WAS THE CAUSE. He Admitted the Authorship of Love Letters to a Young Choir Girl— Mr, Ellwood Was Formerly Station. ed in Wilmington, Del, and Was a Progressive Worker. Leavenworth, Kan. sensation was caused was announced that Ellwood, formerly of Del, Leavenworth following him by the mother of one of young girls in the church choir. resignation was accepted (Special) .—A here when It the Rev. R. A. Wilmington, Presbyterian Church, The church is one of the oldest most conservative in the city. Since coming here, three years ago, the pas. tor has been a leader in many re- forms. letters alleged to have been written the young choir girl ad- The elders agreed to accept the resignation and let the matter drop One of the elders later declared that there was nothing criminal in the letters, but that in them many pas- sages from the Scriptures were quot- ed and that they were of sn affec- nature, Wilmington, Del. (Special). Rev. Robert A. Ellwood signed his pastorate at Kan., was brought into here by a somewhat sensational ser- mon a couple of days before the burning at a stake near here of George White, a negro, on 1802, for an assault on Helen Bishop, fa young girl who died from juries, Mr. Ellwood came to from Absecon, N. J., about 1889, to assume the pastorate of the Olivet Presbyterian Church, which was his second charge in the Prersbyterian Prior to entering the min- had served in the Spanish- American war and had also engaged in newspaper work. As pastor of Olivet Church, Mr. Ell. wood displayed somewhat sensational methods, including the advertising of special features of his gervices in the was active In chureh work and built up his church from a feeble body tn a iarge and flourishing congregation. He also introduced Lhe innovation of holding religions services in the Opera House, At one time he became in charges of doing violence laws, but was acquitted on trial fore the Newcastle Presb yiOry He left a good record for work in the cause of morality and rel when ie departed two years ago in respo- =e to a call from the church in Leaven- worth The who has re- prominence and temperance involved to church h be- it gion THREE IN AIRSHIP. Knabenshue Makes A World's Rees ord For Dirigibles, Toledo. OO. {81 Roy Knabenshue established a new world’s record when ccessfully flew his big new airship carrying himself and two assistants with him Never be- has an air craft that was diri- been propelled and guided the air In America carrying the driver But Thurs- day night, when the test was made, this new big bird and traveled, and was handled with full control Slowly at first, and more rapidly as it gained momentum, the big bag with human freight, kept on up and assumed a horizontal position and traveled away a distance of five or six blocks Knabengshue then brought her down almost (oo the earth and rapidly ascended again, this time making a circle of several blocks around his aerodrome, finally coming to a full about two blocks ahead of his aerodrome. Then, by means of the aeroplanes alone, Knabenshue descended to within a few feet of the earth and headed the nose straight for the entrance oecial) A. he su fore gible through other than TORE gion CURE FOR HOG COLERA. Government Experts Have Plan To Farnish Serum To Farmers, Washington, D. C. (Special) A conference Of Represenlatives nf {he Department of Agriculture and of the State experiment stations to consider fo supplying scrum for Log cholera will be held at Ames, lowa. next week. The Bureau of Animal agricultural experiment eta- coun~ try of the pest of hog cholera. Expect 100,000 Visitors. Denver, Col. (8pecial), reports now in the possession of C. M. Day, president of tke Danver Cone vention League, it is evident that more than 100.000 visitors will at. tend the National Democratic Con vention in this city in July. Eleven hundred reservations have already been made from New York Siate alone, and the Empire State's dels gation probably will number 2.500, Order For Two Thousand Steel Cars, Pittsburg (Special) Evidence of returning prosperity is furniched by the announcement that the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad has ordered the Standard Steel Company to be. gin construction of 2,000 all-steel cars for that road. The new cars wil! be used to handle the tonnage be tween the coal and coke roglons and the lakes, The order calls for 1,000 000 COUNTED THE HOURS HE HAD TO LIE Wm. H. Mars’, Victim of Hydrophobia, Passes Away. New York (Special). ~William M. Marsh, the Brooklyn man condemned by his gentleness to a pet bulldog to die fn the convulsions or rabies, sed away at 5.30 P. M. He known in lucid moments that was near during the last 24 hours Nothing remained but to await the wearing down of the man’s great nerve and the strength of his body by the racking tortures of convul- sions, For the last 24 hours the patient iad tossed and burned on his bed 74 Ocean Avenue, suf- fering a double torture. Dr. Henry M. Cullinan, the physician who had been in close attendance upon Mr, pas- had death death that the the knowledge that ing on him, said was com- man had rack- once course of the disease that was ing him through knowledge he that he had taken. Like a ting in the condemned and lis tening to the striking of the clock, that brings the dawn nearer, My gnosed the advance of that had him In ite hold intermittent cell during the consciousnes One of the that between the times tims are twisted with the stiffening of thelr muscles and the convulsions are attended by a species of hallu- cination, the mental facultie remarkably clear Act testimony of the who were at Mr. per inde of cruelties that its vic ording to the physicians Marsh's bedside, the patient showed unusual mental strength, and during his periods of consciousness he inquired calmly of his symptoms and commented upon the advance of the disorder knowing ily, and with almost a three detached in- Counted His Hours Of Life, True, hydrophobia, medical men explained, bles induced by self- bynotism rare, is almost as certain in the peri- ods of its development add final cul- mination as the march of the clock When Mr. Marsh left the Pasteur Institute on Monday he knew that he must die, and he had been told that 72 hours was almost the deli- nite limit to his life. Since that time the patient had made subtraction of the passage of time from those hours and reckoned the total that was left io him He did not know the approach of the end by several hours, fo with the final paraivsi came a merciful coma When Mr. Marsh house on Monday and told that he had to die he already well advanced in the second stage of rabies The intermittent sions of the larynx, which had firs led him dical advice were more pronounced, the characteristic difficulty of swallowing had grown acute and the sense of unrest and ex. citability that drives a dog stricken with the malady to wander without purpose in the strePs had mad» themselves evident, Dr. Cullinan Wheeler, of the and as the pseudo-rab { - an i - went back to his his family Was convil- 10 see kK ms called Dr. W. L. Pasteur Institute, and Dr. BE. H. Fiske, of Brooklyn, in To the physicians the patient spoke rationally and without fear “Shen the hard.” he said, with opiates.” During Tuesday night Wednesday Dr. Cullinan, left the man’s bed endeavored to make things easier. He administered constant doses of morphia and hyvoscyamine Chioroform he not use, for in it becomes a poison. The forbids a physician committing ciful the stricken partly possible, A A ALARA SAILED 32 MILES IN AIRSHIP. convulsions “make day and all mer man's tortures only Wright Brothers Traveled At Speed Of Forty Miles An Hour. New York (Special) Wright brothers made a flig miles in their airship at Manteo, N C., became known hers, bur Wright the Park Avenue Hotel, he and his brother decla Orville, navigation Mr. Wright said that in periment they traveled not only 32 miles, but went at the rate of nearly 4% miles an hour Other made by the brothers included one of 24 miles and one of 18 miles, FINANCIAL fron business ls improving, say trade papers, Western Maryland 000 cash this year. Total gold exports so far needs $8,000,- this Smelting in two days Reading § Paul § and Union Pacific 41%. Charles E. Ellis was elected a di rector of the American Rallways Company to succeed the late Samuel R. Shipley. All rallroads which have so far made reports for the second week of May show a decrease of over 22 per cent, gross, At the annual meeting of the Pitteburg, Youngstown & Ashtabula faliroad an issue of $15,000,000 of 4 per cent. bonds was authorized. Operating revenue of the Pitts. burg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad in April decreased $859. 256, and the net Josome fell $218, 167. Two years hiner the Pennsylvania 500 of matarl us hiigations. OF tha | & 000 of maturing ol amount $60,000,000 is in the shape d the old 6 American cw roe MR. PLATTS NEMESIS "15 SENT T0 JAIL Judge Denounces Mae Wood as a Wilful Perjurer. WAS ARRESTED WHILE IN COURT. Woman Who “Sued Senator for Breach of Promise Not Only Loses Case, but Is Locked Up to Answer a Charge Made by the Judge Lawyer Turns Pale as Woman Calm!y Walks to the Tombs, New York From the courthouse as plaintiff and accuser to the Tombs as prisoner and accused Mae Wood, for five years has acclaimed herself as the secret wife of United States Senator Platt, walked up Lafa) Street, charged by Justice O'Gorman who had listened to her testimony in Special Term, Part 2, of the Su preme Court in her suit for a divore from the senior senator of New York based on his marriage to Mrs. Lil Janeway, with deliberate per {Special) county Catherine who erie This unexpected terminatio with dramatic had aske concerning her then 1s O'Gorman tened to a gh counsel, Charles opposition 10 Aa 3 ’ . The lawver's som ment ended \ pencil: a delivered hims dangled times and then this short but “The tiff's evidenee as to the riage, and th estimons impresses ] court that §t is support a and perjury The coup itive opin court not credit cannot § there oy marriage, On the merits of every issue has resulted in impression that the plaintiff } mitted wilful perjury in this “Being tiff’s guilt mits her to the city prison unl she furnishes bail in §5, The Wood woman than her lawyers as the Something of what was coming been suspected by onlookers for most half an hour, when Lynch, of the court officers’ s had stalked into the courtroo iy after recess and taken a place arm's length or so from Mrs. Wood Mr. LeBarbler glanced at Lynch out of the and to Joseph woman sg at torney ( reco i hisper a few face tun stened, Lu either 1 when what thes became an actuality, the woman with scared court +} hs ia impressed with the of perjury the cour 40606 flinched les hiow fell. had Capiain quaaq i corner turnea feared iwo lawyers faced the countenances Her and pe Ugalx went the color checks and her bosom aipitaleg bly. But tator might that pronouncement © he courl, brand. ing her as a felon, one who would stoop to perjury to accomplish her blackmailing ends, related not Ww but to some person in whom she no interest beyond iL § Agual spec eh little or CONSERVATION OF FORESTS, House Under Suspension, Ww ashingion, ? ( Under suspension House passed $100,000 to enable Agriculture to co-oiw irate } private owners of lands for the admission and vation of foregis. # also provides for a commision of five Members of the Senate and five from the House to study the whole question of the necessity, dezirability and legality of the purchase of lands by tnited States, and to report to next Congres The il cot ¢ the consent hall be States WOO. conser. forest Siates given Of State for the COUSCTYS supply Threatens A Revolution. Lisbon { By Costa. one of the ers, made a speech in the of Deputies in which he that unless the present Cable) Republican lead. | Chambe a revolution. The Portugese people, | he added, would not tolerate for. eign intervention in thelr domestic affairs, and that any such attempt would be signal for the execution of all traitors, A Steamer Wrecked, Halifax, N. 8. (By Cable). «Car rying LJ passengers and a full carg» of freight, the Plant Line steamer A. W. Perry went ashore in a thick fog early on McMillen's Point, near Port Hastings. The sieamer was pound from Hawkesbury for Char. jottetown. The passengers and crew reached land without difficulty. Ef. forts to float the vessel failed and she filled with water, her bottom being badly damaged. Wei a Elkins Abruzzi Wedding. Rome (By Cable).-It is report. ed here that an ald of the Duke of Abruzzi has just returned from America, where he reached an agree. ment with Senator Stephen B. El king, of West Virginia, regarding the marriage of the Senator's daughter, Katheriue Elkins, to the Duke. Ne- satiation are still progressing, how- RO MILLIONAIRE DRUGEIST 15 SLAIN BY SON Toute Over the Father's Intendzd Marriage. Ed- , president New York ward Bterry, aged 72 year of the Weaver & Sterry Company, druggists, a director of Princeton Theological Beminary, ap elder of the Fourth Avenue Presby- terian Church and a millionaire, was shot and killed at noon as he sat hig desk in his private office, Pine Etrect. His murderer was Lig rerond ron, Ceorge E. Stern Jr., aged 40 vears and war the seg retary of the drug con iter hooting his (Special) , —GeOTHS wholezale before £ ~£ aL {3 a chalr a few wpaper on his into his spot wie There w shooting, 1 uniter vate office found Da bo at ron Wedding Plans Wer splot The Murder Farm 101 More Monday on Guinness ahe re phere, Golf Player Killed, i Special) Ww ~ St. Louis How commission hant, was killed by lightning during 2a vain storm which swept over 81. Louis [ Mr. Howard, who was a member of the Glen Echo Golf Club, left off play and sought the shelter of a tree when it began to rain. The iight- ning ran down the tree. killing him instantly. 20 Passengers Killed. Ban Francisco {Special} Two crowded street cars collided at Davi sadere and Sacremento Strovis, at the foot of a steep hill, kiliing Heary Baer, a traveling salesman, ‘and in. furing 20 other passengers, one prob- ably fatally and several seriously. The car on Devisadere Birect gol be- yond control of the motorman and dashed down the hill with terrific speed, striking the Sacremento Street car just as it rounded a curve, saan iri. gh Large “numbers of raw skins, pa kid, sheep and lamb, dre annually exported from Sicily and from the neighboring provinces of Reggio, on the mainland, viz, to the United States, B38.000; to Franco, 440,000, a large portion of which evonipaily finds its way to the United States, a AI 5 POM it is to be presumed that “shipping subsidies have bencfiied Europeaa or they would not continue pays some anny France and it $5 L000
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