FROM FRANCE TO
ENGLAND BY AIR
Bleriot's Remarkable Flight Across
the Channel,
THE FEAT ASTOUNDS THE ENGLISH,
The Intrepid French Aviator Circles
Above The Cliffs Of Dover Before
Alighting On English Soil=—Wins
£5,000 Prize To First Aviator To
Cross The Channel—Welcomed At
Dover As The Pioneer Of Inter.
national Flight—Machine Flies
Like A Gigantic Hawk,
This sleepy
the
generation
Dover { Special).
seaport town experienced
thrill
when at
white-winged
loudly
from the
ward the
keen-
known in a
ay
est
sunrise Sunt morning a
birdlike«
motor,
machine,
humming swept
haze seuring the sea 1o-
distant French coast, and,
circling twice above the
cliffs of Dover,
soil. A calm
Bleriot, a portly
man of 37,
dle, limping
which had b«
ous overland
Immediately tw
had been wavi
as a sign
fell upon
bracing him,
him on the
soldiers and
by chance
the only pers
ish of a most remarkal
has caused asi
England.
Bleriot left Baraques, three
miles from Calais, ab $.30 A. M.,
on one the monoplanes
ever used. He crossed the Ci
in a little less than an 1}
twice as swiftly as the fastest mall
boat. His speed aver: i more than
£5 an hour, sometimes
proximated 60 He kept about
250 feet above the sea level and for
10 minutes, while mid-ch
nel, was out of sig! both ¢
and the French pe
which followed him with his
and friends aboard.
A Twenty-Mile
The wind was blow
miles an hour and the
py. The aviator was
single garment of dr
ous to the wind, which covered
from the top of his head to his f«
only his face showing. He wore als
life belt.
witness of the landing thus
it:
early
message
al English
ched
gad-
foot,
and
escended fro
band
burned on
tier}
night
’ vt fi 11 ot
OL aliest
half
hait
Yom
miies
miies
about
Jd0 destroy 3
Wind.
about 2
was chop-
in a
ing
sea
swathed
lin rvi
g, impervi
a cork
An eve
describes
ih ry
wirel
Calais that Bleriot intended to
the flight. Then in quick suc
sion came the news that he had
land, that he was flylog |
was fast making Dover.
pected that he would
Dover, but the directio
it was soon evident that
alight to the eastward
minutes after the wireless announ
ing the start, the laconic message
‘Out ght’ was received at Dov-
er. Hardly had this been transéribed
when the
scanning the sea
shouted that Bleriot
sight.”
morning a
from
the
op i
received
in
e888 was
ake
‘CES
jeft
and
§ X=
from
Only
of si
11
i
€ keen-eyved coast guard,
with his telescope,
was within
ALLEGED EMBEZZLER SUICIDE.
School Treasurer Defeated In Elec-
tion Shoots Himself.
York (Special). Theodore
Greenwald, the missing treasurer
a New Lebanon (Conn.) dis-
trict, blew out his brains in the New
York Central Station in the Bronx.
He bad been missing for a week
At the recent election
district treasurer Greenwald was de-
feated, but he refused to allow the
books to be audited before they were
turned over to his successor. When
they were seized he disappeared.
Checking up showed that there was
a considerable shortage, and a war-
rant, charging him with embezzling
$2,600, was issued.
New
of
school
FOR BALLOON TRIP IN AFRICA.
W. D. Boyce To
Animals And Make Pictures,
Chicago (8pecial).—W. D. Boyce
left Chicago on the first stage of his
trip to study the animals of Africa
and take photographs from bal-
ioms,
His equipment consists of three
balloons and several small aero-
{..anes in wheh he believes the mem-
pers of his party can take short
flizhts to photograph at short range
particularly inviting landscapes.
will be taken
tinuous record
to preserve
of the trip.
Machine Guns Useless
Against It,
Rifles And
Mayence, Germany
Successful experiments in the
struction of a balloon with a howitz-
er were carried out here,
an altitude of 4,000 feet on the mili-
tary range at Griesheim. Volleys
from rifles and the
guns were directed against the cap-
tive without the slightest effect, but
the second shell fired at it from a
howitzer totally destroyed the bal-
loon,
Killed By Lightning.
Christiania, Norway (Special),
Captain Engelstad, of the Norwegian
Navy, met a tragic death by light-
ning. He was taking meteorological
observations during a thunder storm
and happening to touch the winch
holding the copper wire attached to
the kite—which was a thousand
yards high-—-he was struck dead on
the spot. Captain Engelstad was an
officer of high scientific attainments.
He was to have commanded the
Polar exploration ship Fram on the
coming Amundsen Polar expedition,
¢
LR Eo 5 A
MOWED DOWN
“BY THE MOORS
Heavy Losses By the Spaniards in
Morocco.
ACP dry
People In Madrid Clamoring For The
Namss Of The Dead, Which The
Government Withholds As It Did
During Spanish-American War,
General Staff Admits The Losses.
May Be Heavier Than Reported,
Gen, Marina In Command,
The General
its
fighting
shows that
colonel
killed
officers
260
Madrid
Staff Saturday
the
{ Special).
published report
in the
It
heavily. A
were
casualties
front Melilla
Spaniards
of
of
lost
officers
and 12
report
and five other
and a colonel
wounded The
other
says 801.
diers
killed is withheld, on
at the reports are in
people that surround the
Olle
ground th
plete Thi
bulletin boards are clamoring for the
the dead
note 18¢
that the Spanigh
names ol
latey ned
i BAY:
NeAY Is
on
region
Alger:
ntee
nigh sub ied 5
Imparcia
ler
in ore to calm
of the peapie ould
ried
risons
(iS fall
Hendave ped
A VY @rn.
neral
Madrid say
cided
received from
ment h to i
Marina nand of the oper:
t Melilla with the ran}
eneral, promoting
nd Imaz i
a
g Generals
a to be division c«
WOMEN ON POLICE FORCE.
Urged By
Woman's Protective Association,
Minn
Minneapolis, {Spe
That
policemen is
Minneapolis needs 10
the opinion of
na Howard Shaw, president of
National Wom 8 Suffrage
addressed the students
tion, wh
University
would make
1
ditions, BRC
nal needs
: women ‘ the
watchfulness
people who
influence, bax
would prove a
lifting measure
and
their
f their
attention
wholesome
thority
oree Care
need
ked up by
most
to
HED
ful and up
FEWER IMMIGRANTS COMING,
Drop Of 23.860 During Jun», As
Compared With May.
B.* C
immigration
is on the
23,369
Washington,
tide of
United States
falling off approxi-
mately 20 per in number
of imimgrant aliens admitted ints all
ports for the month of June, as com-
pared with May last, is shown by
statistics just ade public at
Bureau Immigration of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor
The total number of immigrant
aliens admitted for June was 85,470,
ag against 107.839 during May A
marked increase, however, is noted
in the number of aliens debarred
for the month of June, as compared
with May, the figures being
against
the
wane, A
into
of or
the
“ooh
cent.
of
italy and
of June, these two
the greatest falling off in the number
of aliens admitted during June, com-
pared with May last
THE DIRT IS FLYING,
Col. Goethals Expects To Have The
Canal Opened By 1915.
Washington, D. C,
progress in canal
the
80,
sion. Excavation work by
now approximates
out by the French during the period
they were engaged in operations
there. Less than 100,000,000 cubic
yards of earth remain to be removed
from the ditch,
Colonel Goethals has estimated
that the great waterway will be
ready for the transit of ships by
January 1, 1916.
a .
TAFT CAUSES A STIR,
S— So —-—
Foreign Bankers Exercised Over His
Message To Prince Chun,
Peking (Special). ~~ The personal
telegram sent by President Taft to
Prince Chun, the Chinese regent, in
behalf of the American claim for
equal participation In the Hankow
8ze-Chuen Rallroad loan of $27.
500,000, has created a sensation
among the foreign bankers and mem-
(NG MLFONSDS
TROCPS MUTINY
—————————
A Whole Batta'ion Refuses to Em-
bark for Morocco
A MILITARY CRISIS (N SPAIN.
Riotous Manifestations The
Departure Of Troops—A Dozen
Persons Wounded Encounter
With Police At
The Moorish Leaders Preaching A |
Holy War—Gen, Weyler, Of Cuba |
Notoriety, May Command Spanisl: |
Against
In
Malaga—Some Of
Forces In Moroeco,
“3 i
Madrid (Speci
King Alfonso and the
thorities realize
VICE CRUSADE IN CHICAGO.
One Hundred Indictments
Against Keepers Of Hesorts,
State's At-
Wayman's against |
resulted in 105 in- |
resort keepers and
indicited men were
Chinese gambling!
keepers in the West
“blind pig” keepers
Mr. Way-
Chicago (Special)
crusade
dictments against
gamblers The
proprietors of
houses, resort
Side levee and
According to
is making to
protection
Several
to
and
were
A determined effort
bottom of
system that is said to exist
policemen have been summoned
before the grand jury
the conditions that
found to exist,
the
OVERSTUDY MAY END IN DEATH. |
Probably Deranged, Fires Bul.
let Into Her Head,
New York (Special). —Supposed
to have been made temporarily in-
by overstudy, Miss Eleanor!
Freitag, 18 years old, a student in!
the Bryant High School at Long Is-
land City, shot herself in the head
and probably will not recover. She
taken to St. John's Hospital.
The shooting was done in her room
at 127 Vernon Avenue, where her
stepfather, Mr. Thomas Carrahan,
has a restaurant, The girl had been
study
Girl,
into three.
Cuba May Issue Bonds,
Havana (Special). — Rumors,
founded apparently on good author
ity, are in circulation that it is the
intention of the Cuban Government |
shortly to make a bond issue to the
amount of $5,000,000, as permitted
by the decree of Governor Magoon,
which authorizes an issue of bonds
to the amount of $16,000,000 in
three annual installments for the
purpose of paying the contracts,
a NT ——— 3
Fatally Stabbed By Sister,
Cleveland, ©O. (8pecial). — Miss
Eliza Warren, a well-known actress
and head of a loeal school of elocu-
tion and acting, probably was fatally
stabbed by her sister, Mrs. Mary
Button, who was temporarily de-
mented, The encounter occurred in
Missa Warren's downtown studio, in
the Republic Building, on Euclid
Avenue, and caused considerable ex-
citement In the building. Recently
Mrs. Sutton logt a son and she has
grieved over his death until, it is
bers of the legations here.
&
A
GALVESTON. TEXAS
HIT BY HURRICANE
Greav Sea Wall Saves the City
From Destruction,
Barrvier HBailt After
Withstands Pounding Of Moun-
tainous Waves — Spray Leaps
Across Wall And Water In
Streets Seven Feet Deep —— Barge
Adrift Wrecks Bridge Connecting
City And Mainland — Pier And
Fishermen Drop Into Sea.
Storm Of 1908
sen
Tex { Special) Fi
1 7-foot
Galvesion,
fied
elevated toa poin IVE
goa wall
behind her
ihe
line, Galveston
aurricane tnat
ftrous storm
giand on wii
apgnin
whi
York
sche
A
moorings, was
bridge
Island
the
fle
heavy
single
ton
breaking
carried bs
all manner rumors were
rife throughout the country
effect that Galveston had again
suffered such a storm as that which
partly destroved the city nine years
ago. It was not until communication
was established that these reports
could be denied.
wore
result
sOOn to
the
HAIR TONIC EXPLODED.
Mrs, J. J. Armour, Of Philadelphia,
Dies Of Burns,
Philadelphia
John J. Armour,
of this city, died In a hospital as a
result of burns inflicted In the ex-
plosion of a bottle of hair tonic at
her home in North Clayton, N. J.
She was holding a bottle of the
tonic near a gas flame gver which
she had heated a curling iron. Sud-
caught fire, throwing blazing liquid
IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE
European Government bonds were
weak as a result of the French Cabi-
net crisis,
An advance of from 25 to 60 cents
nounced.
In eight years
added to surplus
share of stock,
has
each
Standard Oil
215 for
“ie
St
for fifteen locomotives,
Forty rallroads in the first week
of June returned a gain of 8% per
cent, in gross earnings,
The head of Republic Iron & Steel
Co. denied that it is planned to sell
out to United States Steel.
Philadelphia national bank loans
are just 50,000,000 greater than
at this time in July, 1907.
There has been taken up $3,000.
000 of the $5,000,000 of Lake Su-
perior mortgage bonds at 90.
For the first time in over two
years more than 30,000 Connellsville
coke ovens are now in blast,
“Jim" Patten, the Chicago wheat
speculator, has put $250,000 of his
profits in Minneapolis bank stocks.
The Batimore and Ohio will now
take over the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton Railroad. Governor Har-
mon, of Ohio, having been discharg-
od yesterday as receiver of the latter
company,
Interest and dividend disburse.
ments in the United States next
month will approximate $80,000,
“If the banks would not buy the
proposed issue of 3 per cent, Panama
Canal bonde, I belleve that inves
Jor ond take the Whole issue at
er than par,” remarked the presi-
dent of a big Philadelphia
cial Institution, : P :
+
What It Means To This Country To
Participate In The
Decided Advance In The
Instituted By The Lats
Of State Hay—Opens The Market
i For American And
| Secures A
}
i
i Big Loan—A
| Policy
i Secretary
Manufacturers
Prest ge.
“open door”
aspect a
policy inaugurated
tary of State Hay
pushed hy former Secretary Roo
by Becretary Knox
decided
+
and
DAZZLED, HE STOLE $10,000.
All But 810 Of Missing Package
: Recovered In Chicago.
- Clayton T.
old, a clerk
department of
Company, con-
{ Special)
20 years
Chicago
Zimmerman,
iin the "out
{the Adams Express
| fessed that he stole a package con.
taining $10,000, which disappeared
on July 12, after it was shipped by
{the National Bank of the Republic
i to the Second National Bank of Mon-
i mouth, illinois.
All but $10 of the stolen money
It was found wrap
in a newspaper concealed be
{ hind the molding in the bathroom
| of the Zimmerman home. Zimmer.
| man sald that he took the money
he was dazzled by the
| thought of having so much to spend
His salary was only $50 a month
money”
Two Men Fall 630 Feet,
Pa. (Special) Charles
John Hall, blacksmiths,
ifell 850 feet to the bottom of the
Storre No. 3 colliery They
were repairing a sheave-wheel on top
of the breaker scaffold, which col-
lapsed. The bodies of both were
crushed to pulp. Both men were
Scranton,
| Lewis and
here
Killed Two And Goes Free,
Cleveland (Special). — James Q.
Purvis, of Detroit, the nonunion ma.
ers, Injured one and barely escaped
sympathizers who attempted
lynch him, was discharged by both
The officials found that Purvis acted
in self-defense only.
A Library For Every 15,410,
Washington, D. C. (Special).
There were 15,416 persons to each
library and an average of 72 bound
volumes to every 100 persons in
the United States in 1908, according
to a bulletin issued by the United
States Bureau of Education. There
were 2,208 libraries reporting 5,
000 volumes or over, 3,343 reporting
1,000 volumes or over, but less than
5,000, and about 2,700 re Jens
than 1,000 volumes Riv. og ina this
WASHINGTON
BY TELEGRAPH
total trade of the
ru (3530158 gr
its $03 mting us
HOLD-UP “MAN" OF 10 KILLS,
doy With Shotgun Imitated Picture
Show Desperado
understanding
top
and not
had the
blown off
of her
——— —. —————
New UL 8S. Mininster To China,
Peking har]
Crane, of Chicago
R.
{ Special) Charles
whose selecti
on
. mw
i
a
minister to China by Preside
announced recently, is
to the
The American legation
sentations to the
Board regarding the
Mr. Crane, whom
scribed ag an orientalist and a
er who twice had visited
These were well received and
pointment was communicated to the
Grand Council, which authorized the
Foreign Board to inform the United
States government that China would
gladly receive Mr. Crane,
was
Erata
persona
#
“aa
*
yn
Chinese governmen
made
Chinese Foreign
appointment of
the leegati
th !
the ap-
£100,000 Fire At Long Branch,
Long Branch, N. J
Fire swept across the gouthern pa:t
Branch’s business section
and did $100,000 damage. Starting
in a livery stable near Second Ave
nue, the flames spread rapidly to
frame structures on both gides, de-
stroyving a dozen bulldiugs None
of these, Lowever, were of great
value with the exception of the
Coulter House, a four-story hotel
of modern construction, which had
not been opened this season This
building will be almost a total loss
No one was seriously injured during
the fire,
{Special )
Baby Ate 50 Pills And Died.
Newton, N. J. (Special), — Pifty
quinine pilis swallowed Ly John, the
§-year-old son of Cecil Drake, caus
ed the child's death in a few min.
utes. The baby found the piils !a
his father's pockel snd ran with
them into the yard gad ate them
before they could bo taken away,
Charles 1'. Taft's Meat Contract.
Taft, Tex. (Spocial).—Churies P.
Taft's meat-packing plant at this
place will soon be placed ln operation.
It has secured a contrset to supply
1.600 dressed beeves per month to the
sovernment “employes en the Pana
ma Canal. All the cattle for this
packing plant will be furnished from
Mr Taft's Tovas ronches. lig =aned
bere embraces 160,900 neres and he
owns another one of 200,000 pcres,
gituated about 150 miles west of hore.
Extensive arrangement: sre haing
made at ranch headquarters hore for
the visit of Prasident Taft in October