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