TERRIBLE FATE OF BALLOONSTS Big Gas Bag Breaks Away in A Hurricane. MACHINE FINALLY DROPS INTO SEA Three Prominent Germans Per- ish in Waters. Others In The Party Rescued By A Tugboat—HBalloon Blown Loose At Stettin, Germany, Before It Had Been Properly Ballasted— After Dashing Into Telegraph Wites And Chimney It Ascends 6,000 Feet, Then Drops Into The Baltic Sea, Stettin, Germany (Special).—The German balloon Pommern, which made an ascension here, met with a series of accidents which ended in a disaster under most tragic elr- cumstances in the Baltic Sea. Three men lost their lives, including the radical member of the Reichs- tag, Werner Hugo Delbrueck Herr Delbrueck and another member of the party were drowned, a third oc- conscious and died from his injuries, while the fourth was rescued in serious condition. The Pommern, brueck, who was acting banker, Herr Sommelhardt: chitect, Herr Benduhn, named Hein, ascended afternoon at i wind at the cane, and the before she had lasted A chapter of ac mediately The with telegraph almost overturning then dashed in boring smokestack ing wildly, a: the balloon tude and 4d at a terrific speed Rises 6,000 Thousands of a detachment had assisted the roads, break away, Was not Swinemunde Stettin, over w height of 6.¢ of the sea. track, and outdistanced irectly unde balloon fell steamed to work re ready Delbruec) disapepared, Hein were clinging they were tel Deacr ences, had b “Our lines an most 1} brueck a y dubn Hein head recovere I had # The netw was torn feared would slip ou to the earth feet, to which a flash. a carrying the gi i time Pom been fact Feet, nf Been i one the of drages een re Awaited Their Fate. “Delbrueck, condition, vainlj the valve, which tangled. We knew no hat but merely awaited “In the tir Swinemunde at soon found We thought land in caught in a in spite of to open COME en to do. fate meat aver passed altitude and above the sea. that we might balloon was rain cloud, which drove us down unti}] we were within 150 feet of the water Delbrueck was suffering agony, but he succeeded in pulling the ripping into the water 11 aged to get clear of the basket I. with Helin, swam and canght hold of the network, but Delbrueck and Ben. dubn sank. I remembered no more until I found myself in the which rescued us.” Hein died soon on the tug, and wag washed ashore Oofirzsel ves possibly Sweden, but the te a log All after being taken Delbrueck’s FREE RIDES FOR LADYRBUGS. Insect Pests, Los Angeles, Cal. (Special) lions of ladybugs are receiving free transportation on insectary at Sacramento to melon fields of the Imperial Valley Three cons'gnments have passed through Los Angeles on the way to El Centro and other where they will be turned loose to browse upon aphides and other sect pests that harm the melon crops. There are on hand sectary at Sacramento ladybugs weighing in the aggregate more than a ton. These are to be distributed free among farmers who apply for them. in the in Freed On Condilion Of Exile, Florence, Ala, {Epesinl). «Deo Ehelton, charged with murdering Lylia Ross by strangulation last August and burying her body under a pile of straw, was given his Hberty in the Circuit Court here on agreo- ing to leave the Btate forever. The Jury in tho cose stood six for acquit- tal and six for conviction. The pris. ener, who hod undergone his sixth murder trial. loft here this aftarnnon 4 WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH Sonn m————— In honor of the late Representa- tive James B. Perkins, of New York, eulogies were delivered In the House. A House committee began an in- vestigation into the existence of a ship subsidy lobby. Appointments and promotions of secretaries of the American legations abroad, recently made by the Presi- dent, were confirmed by the BSen- ate President Taft and members of the Supreme Court attended the fun. eral service over the body of the late Justice Brewer. President Taft notified the Sccre- tary of the Treasury to give all na- tions the benefit of the minimumu rates of the tariff bill. The Department of Agriculture is. sued an order forbidding the bloat- ing of oysters. Ferdinand von Stumm, third sec- retary of the German Embassy, and Miss Constance Hoyt, daughter of Counsellor Hoyt, of the State De- partment, were married at the Hoyt residence. President Taft attended the wedding. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad filed with the In- terstate Commerce schedules of increase rates, due to the in its advance in Root, in defended railroad bill tant amendments wepe the Committee in merce. Senator the tration an address the adminis- Some impor reported by Com- Senate, on terstate President Civil Taft Service Commis: whether Chief marshals referred to ion the Deputy included ques United with- Serve States are ice law Representative resolution in the of any i tees of ction IN FIRE, ail Horror disaster , and ween 1j1 re. +006 (ried 100 others A public ball had be lace at the coach houze ballroom It + ike structure, decorated June branches left from =a entertainment, which added for the other decorations and Chinese lanterns While the dancing was in full swing a pine branch caught fire and fell to the floor. It blazed furiously. and almost instantly the dresses several of the women burst into flames, which spread with astonish- ing rapidity. A der dry previous to were occasion a of them, with flames shooting out from their garments, rushed toward the barred exit, where a surging mass were jammed together, Women and men fell and were trampled under foot, NEW WAY TO TREAT RABIES, gerous, Says Discoverer, Ann Arbor, Mich. (S8pecial).—Dr. James G. Comming, director of the 300,000 COAL MINERS 60 OUT ON STRIKE All Union Men in Eleven States Drop Their Tools. THEY DEMAND AN INCREASE IN PAY, 01d Wage Seale Expired March Thirty-First, Hundred Thousand Pennsylvania And Hlinois~—Business Suspended At Midnight Pending A Read just ment Of Wages—Miners Ask In. crease Of Five And Ten Cents A Ton—Conferences Are Now On To Adjust Matters. Men Out In 75,000 Out In Indianapolis, Three hundred the bituminous Ind. (Special). thousand miners coal flelds of the United States suspended work and demanded higher wages, according to the official statement given out at the headquarters in this city of the United Mine Workers of America Coincidentally, the national officers of the organization, who had In secret session here departed for their respective to advise the miners In the conferences with the mine operators President Thomas J. Lewis made the following estimate of the num! miners affected the suspension in been states district ver ofl by and Central Penn sylvania } G00 Indiana West Vir: [inols fowa Michigan L0G aan a 000 y DOO Kar Oklahom: iorado ry ern merely suspen Lorain hio, down and threw the n age of coi The firs an Ind. coal one steel plant out 4.000 workn announcing a tf victory of the men ea Brazil, Indiana block WAH Annonnc- for a five » granted iE} in announcement from the center of the district, where it ed the m cent increase would leviewing the situation Lewis said: “When the board adiourn prospect was the miners now only a n's Presi don national executive we felt that very satisfactory in many districts ft question of the od all for is and talking over business “In Eastern Ohio it is renorted to us that three of the largest com- panies are ready to sign the contract we formulated at our recent meeting in Cincinnati ‘In Indiana and the Hocking dis- trict of Ohio we will reach a set- tlement during the week.” KILLED ON WAY TO WEDDING. Train Strikes Cab Carrying Young Couple. Waverly, Mass, {8pecial)., - The treatment, Dr. Cumming says, eliminates many of the dangers at- tending the former methods and animal, tient, The virus is sald to have been used in several cases recently with marked succesa. a Shackleton For (bok. New York (Special).—A plea for ersy as to whether or not Dr. Cook reached the North Pole was made by Sir Ernest H. Shackleton in his address at the dinner of the New York Transportation Club, given in honor at the Manhattan Hotel. Sir Ernest gave the impression that he believed Dr. Cook should be given credit for his work in the north, whathar or not he reached his goal. | | driver, were killed and Dr. Bryer's wife, Katherine, was probably fatal. were on the way to a wedding was f was abruptly postponed when news of the accident reached the church. Mrs. Bryer js 21 years old and was married only a year ago. Her hus- band’s age was 28 years. Plot Against King, Lisbon (8pecial).