HE NEWS.
Domestic
John I.arley, who had Just finished
Ion term In prison. Bhot Daniel
A. Fenton, a hotel proprietor, of
Mlddletown, X. Y., one of his Jurore
who convicted him, and then ended
his own life.
Dr. Jesse Copo Green, aged 92
yearn, of West Chester, Pa., suppos
fd to be the oldest dentist In the
I'nlted States, has retired after 66
years in the practice of his profes
sion. President Taft has pardoned Man
nlng C. Palmer, former president of
the American Exchange National
Hank of Syracuse, X. Y., convicted of
the misapplication of hank funds.
John Simpson, a well known farm
er of Scottsville, Ky.. was called out
of bed to the door of his home
by a mob of e'.x mankod men and shot '
to death. j
Glfford Plnchot, the government
forestry expert, declares that a trust
In water power, to control all oth
er trusts, In in process of forma- '
lion. !
Orvllle Wright sailed for Europe
to give aeroplane flights for a Ger
man corporation, which will con- '
struct the Wright type of Hying ma
Chine. Robert Womack, who discovered
the Cripple Creek gold regions, died
at Colorado Springs in poverty. i
The constabulary board at Manila i
that investigated the Uavao mutiny
recommended the severe punishment
of the four officers who had charge i
of the mutinous company.
Prof. Wllhelm Bernhardt, former
director of German In the high
schools of Washington, D. C, was
run over and killed by a train near j
Burlington, Vt. ;
J. A. Fugleman, agent of the
yueen and Crescent Kallroad at
Kings Mountain. Ky., was assassina
ted while at work In the office of the
company.
The third attempt to blow up the
Southern Railway viaduct within a
few months was made, causing hun
dreds of dollars damage to build
ings. Thomas Katsnes boardfed a crowd
ed street car In Chicago and shot
and killed Victoria Kawalec, then
shot himself with suicidal Intent. !
The plant of the Reading Abattoir 1
Company was almost totally destroy- j
ed by fire, the loss being placed at
175,000. j
One striker was killed and several
Injured in a riot that took place Just !
outside of Schoenvllle, near Pius- :
hurg,
Five persons lost their lives at !
Hancock, Mich., when the residence !
of Edward Dlonne was burned. I
The Buckeye Rubber plant at Ak- j
ron, O., was partially destroyed by 1
ure, me loss Deing 1200,000
ui!fnn nv
AM EARTHQUAKE
A Great Loss of Life Probable In
Central Japan.
FLOOD ADDS TO THE DISASTER.
NumlMT Of Fatalities Likely To He
Greatly Increased When All The
Districts Affected Are . Ilcnrd
I-Tom The .Mountain Ibukl,
West Of Gifu. F.mltH Hmoke And
Then Collapse With An Awful
Hour Town Of Oznka Partially
Destroyed
PREVIOUS EARTHQUAKES
IX JAPAX.
per-
1703 At Yeddo; 200,000
sons killed.
1900 Mount Ozuma; volcano
and earthquake; 200
killed.
1 891 Island of Honda; 1,000
killed.
1894 Large section affected;
estimated loss of life,
12,000.
Frequent shocks In various
parts of Japan in the last 10
years.
Tokio (Special). Reports receiv
ed here concerning the earthquake
In Central Japan, show that there
were a number of fatalities and that
great damage was done to property.
The dead at present is said to num
ber 30, though It is feared that the
fatalities will be greatly increased
wnen tne outlying districts are hear
from.
The number of persons injured is
sz.
Thus far 3G2 buildings, Includln
many temples, are renorted to hav
been destroyed, and more than one
tnousand others badly damaged.
The shock occurred at 3.30 o'clock
P. M.a and affected a wide area in
the Shiga and Gifu prefectures. The
town of Ozaka. in the Glfu. suffered
terribly. The banks of the Hida Riv
er there were broken and the sur
rounding country was inundated
the people of the district fled to
high ground and remained in the
open all night. Intermittent shocks
were felt throughout Saturday night
ana eany Sunday morning.
The mountain Ibukl. a short dls.
tance west of Gifu, emited smoke in
the early stages of the earthquake
ana men collapsed with a thunder
ous roar. The formation of the
mountain was completely changed.
Slight damage was done at Nago
ya, to the southward of Gifu, and
neignooring villages.
BLOWS IP HIMSELF AND SENTRY
Fire in the East Buffalo nlnnt nf PHi-nt. Trio. T,. rt,.
.t- i . n u ' - - - ' " - " ' , 11 niniiiiiiiiiiiju
uukuu uuiu i-acKinit Lomnanv
caused $100,000 damage.
James McSorley, the ex-convict
who shot and killed Daniel M. Fen
ton, one of the Jurors who convict
ed him, and then killed himself, had
planned to kill three men.
A loss estimated at $1,000,000,
was caused by the fire which swept
36 buildings from the main street
of the summer resort town of Mon
ticello, Xew York.
Miss Elizabeth Phillips, known to
thousands of Philadelphia poor as
"Miss Santa Claus," committed sui
cide, probably owing to failing
health.
Rafael Cascone, killed in New
York, declared before he died that
he was shot by Amato Santaniello,
whoso brother Cascone had killed
The parade of the Grand Army j
Veterans in Salt Lake City, two
miles long, was reviewed by Cora- j
mander-in-chief Henry M. Xevius. I
Tho United States authorities at j
Honolulu are investigating charges !
or smuggling implicating officers and I
men of the cruiser St. Louis.
Ambassador O'Brien had a long in- :
tcrview with President Taft, al
which, all questions in the far East
were gone over carefully. i
Ralph Crocknell, a leading goll
critic, says that President Taft'l 1
game is absolutely American and bl
.strokes national ones.
Foreign j
The French Minister of Public I
Works has reinstated 80 of the pos-
tal employes who were dismissed for j
participation In the rtrike last May.
Admiral De La Payrere says the i
French Navy is not lacking in the1
numbor of men, but that the system I
of distribution is deficient.
Assurances have been given thai
tho I'uited States will get one-fourth j
of the loan for the construction of :
the railroad in China.
Tho reconstruction of the Antung- j
Mukden Railroad by Japan from An
tung to the .North is proceding with
out friction.
Two dozen men were wounded,
three of them fatally, in the dock
laborers' atrike riots at Fort Wil
liam, Ontario. Troops have been or
dered out and the city placed under
martial law.
In view of the precarious health
of King Menelik, full powers of re
gency have been i-ranted to Ras
Tesama, the guardian of Prince LiJI
Jeassu. helr-presumptlve to the
throne.
The Venezuelan government hav
ing elected Vlncente Gomez, the act
inr president, to be provisional presi
rifcut, a complete reorganization of
the government Is expected.
It Is reported that King Alfonso
of Spain may b challenger fur tho
American Cup.
The Chinese Board of Foreign
Affair has sent a circular note to
the powers, upholding China's atti
tude on the question of the Antung
Aiukden Kallroad.
United States Ambassador Henry
White and Mrs. White had luncheon
with Emperor William and the Em
press at Wilhetmshohe.
Reported In London that the Duke
and Ducbes of Marlborough ar
jibout to become reconciled.
Montagu Holblen. the English
long-dlsunce swimmer, failed lit hli
rcventh attempt to swim across tot
English Channel.
The Turkish government will n.
frm Greece that Its reply to th
Turkish note concerning Crete is un
ra lafuctory.
Hox With Ilachet.
Charleston, S. C. (Special). In
attempting to open a box of ammu
nition with a hatchet J. A. Fish
burne, an ordinary seaman, caused
an explosion at the camp of the first
division South Carolina Naval Re
serves, on the Isle of Palms. He
and Henry Decou, the sentry who,
against orders, had allowed him to
enter the ammunition tent, were
badly injured.
There was enough ammunition In
the tent to destroy a small town,
but only three cartridges exploded.
Both of the wounded men will recover.
CAUGHT CUTTING MAX'S THROAT
Two Supposed Robbers Surrounded
In Building.
New Vork (Special). Robbers
cut the throat of Lewis Lavlni, an
elderly second-hand clothes dealer of
Port Chester, X. Y., who was known
to keep considerable cash about
him, within 10 feet of the passing
crowds on the sidewalk. He will
die.
Pietro Fallltco and Antonio Birzl
were surrounded In the building
and caught.
An upstairs tenant entered the
shop just as one of the men was
drawing a knife across the old man's
throat and gave the alarm.
NO PREACHING ON THE STREET.
No Dancing, No Street-Piano Playltig
In Washington.
Washington (Special). A regu
lation prohibiting open-air preaching
will he adopted by the Commission
ers as an antinolse measure. Un
less the consent of three-fourths of
the resident of the neighborhood be
obtained the religionists will have
literally to "hire a hall."
The regulations will provido alike
against dancing, preaching, the play,
ing of musical instruments in tile
Btreets at any time without the con
sent of residents, and will prohibit
any such noises on the street after
10 o'clock.
EXPRESS MS
CRASH ON CURVE
Eight Dead and fifty Hurt Near
Colorado Springs.
r.nglne t rows Had No Time To
Jump And Four Hundred Pnssen
gcrs Arc Thrown To Car Floors-
Many Hurt In Stampede To Oct
Out Injured Enveloped In
Clouds Of Steam Mistook Freight
ror Passenger,
Colorado Springs, Col. (Special)
Eight are dead and fifty Injured,
some fatally, as a result of a head-
on collision between train No. 8,
northbound, and train No. 1, south
bound, on the Denver and Hlo
Grande at Husted, 13 miles north of
Colorado Springs. The trains, both
running at terrific speed, met on a
curve and their crews had no oppor
tunity to avert tne collision. No. 8,
drawn by two engines, telescoped the
Daggage ear anrt the smoker of No.
1 and all three engines went Into
tne aitcn.
itn more than 400 passengers
on the two trains the excitement fol
lowing the accident was indescriba
ble. All the passengers were thrown
in a screaming mass on the floors
or tne cars and many were hurt in
the stampede to escape. The un
hurt rushed to the aid of the in
jured, but so great was the confusion
that it requred half an hour to clear
the cars, which were enveloped In
clouds of steam from the engines.
It is stated that the officials of the
road place the blame of the wreck
upon the crew of train No. 8, who
were ordered to meet Xo. 1 at Husted.
It Ib claimed the crew mistook a
switch engine and cars for No. 1 and
believed the track was clear.
EXTRA SESSION COST $.VlO,000.
Mileage Alone Itims Close To Two
Hundred Thousand.
Washington, D. C. (Special).
The extraordinary session of Con
gress, which completed one week ago
its revision of the tariff law, cost
the American people, It has been esti
mated by some of the statisticians
around the Capitol, about $500,000.
Many different items enter into this
grand total, the chief of which is
mileage. The House's expense on
this account aggregates $154,000 and
that of the Senate $47,000. Extra
pay allowed to employes on both sides
of the Capitol amounted, It is estima
tde, to about $150,000,, Special em
ployes engaged in compiling infor
mation for Congress and the commit
tees relative to the tariff were paid
good salaries.
The Government Printing Office
has not yet supplied a statment con
cerning the cost of printing of the
Tariff Bill, reports and hearings, but
it is known that this will be large.
MBBT imW DEFEATED
SAYS WILL TRY AGAIN
Judge Mills Holds White's Murderer
Is Insane.
MUST GO BACK TO MATTEAWAH.
The Fight For Freedom Waged By
Man Whom A Jury Declared De
mented Falls Court Traces In
sanity In His . Family Says His
Release Would Ho A Menace To
Society Words Of Charity For
Thaw's Mother Prisoner Un
moved By Decision.
MA XV ASK 111 HAL SERVICE.
Ov er 17,IOO Petit ions Renorted Ad
versely Uy Department.
Washington, D. C. (Special).
On August 2, 1909, there were In op
eration 40,919 rural routes, served
by 40,804 carriers. Six hundred and
twenty-two routes are on a trl-week-ly
basis. In many instances where
there exists tii-weekly service no
more than one rural route out of
an office, one carrier serves two
outes, alternating euch day. This
accounts for the discrepancy between
he number of routes and carriers.
Upon 17,163 petitions for rural serv
ice adverse reports were submitted.
Of 1,432 petitions pending, one has
been signed for establishment Au
gust 16, 1909; 147 for September 1,
190; 54 for October, 1909, leaving
remainder of 1.230 petitions un
acted upon.
White Plains, N. Y. (Special).
The State of New Vork won a com
plete victory over Harry K. Thaw
when Justice Isaac N. Mills decided
that the slayer of Stanford White is
still InBane and sent him back- to the
criminal Insane asylum at Matteawan.
Not one of the many contentions
made by Thaw during the three
weeks of his recent hearing was sus
tained. He Is, however, somewhat
better off than before he brought
the present suit, because Justice
Mills in his decision BtiggeBts and
the Bugegstion amounts practically
to orders that Thaw at Matteawan
be restored to the privileges he en-
Joyed during the first three months
of his stay there and that his moth
er be allowed all possible privileges
and treated with every consideration
when she calls to see him.
The prisoner took the decision
cooiiy. his only statement was a
denial of the assertion In the court's
opinion that he still cherished the
same delusions that drove him to
shoot White.
In concluding that Thaw Is now
insane the court gives first impor
tance to his family and childhood
history. His determination that the
prisoner has not yet recovered Is
based principally on the opinion of
Dr. Amos Baker, assistant superin
tendent of the Matteawan Asylum.
Ail such authorities," says Justice
Mills, "are public officers, with no
conceivable motives except to do
their duties." The court says that
it was more convinced by the testi
mony of the alienists called for the
State than by that of the prisoner's
experts. Regarding Dr. Britton D
n-vans, ne says:
"He experienced great difficulty in
reconciling his present opinion with
his previous attitude In connection
with the homicide trials, and to my
mind did not entirely succeed in so
aoing. "
GIG HAVY TUG LOST
IN A HEAVY GALE
Four Drowned When the Nezinscot
Goes Down.
Loaded With Anchors Until Decks
Are Awash Big Sea Hit Craft
And Engine-room Is Flooded
Wife Of Captain Floats Away On
Raft Surgeon Trotter Swept
into Sea And Lost Lifeboats
Chase Raft Through Sens.
ONE DEAD, OXE DYING OK BURNS
Men Hud-Gone To Sleep In Tenement
With Lamp Lighted. '
Cincinnati (Special). A man half
clothed, with his flesh burned to a
crisp in places and screaming with
pain as he ran through the streets,
aroused the neighborhood after a
tenement house fire here.
The sufferer, Michael Hoff. fell un
conscious at the door of the City Hos
pital and died soon afterward. An
other tenement dweller is dying of
burns.
The two left a lamp burning when
they retired. tThey awoke to find the
room ablaze and had to get out by
dashing through the flames.
Women and children were rescued
by police and firemen, who carried
many down the ladders.
CIRCUS STEERS STAMPEDE.
WASHINGTON
BY TELEGRAPH
Hanged Under New Law.
Georgetown, S. C. (Special).
John Jenkins, alias "Slippery JoinC
colored, was hanged there for assault
with criminal intent on a young
white woman of this county. Several
days ago Jenkius confessed his
crime, saying he wus moved to do so
by a dream, in which the Lord told
him to confess. This is the first
execution under the new act making
attempted criminal assault a capital
crime.
Great Britain has 500.000 horsi
r-n'lable tor the purposes of war
far.
la Madagascar every one wean
r'l't. which Is cheaper there thai
I --a.
Sixth Death From Pellagra.
Durham. N. C. (Special). The
sixth death from pellagra occurred
here. Mrs. U. C. Mitchell, a native
Georgian, succumbed to the disease.
She was a member of one of the
best families of this town and the
wife of a large lumber dealei. Phy
sicians attribute the malady to bad
coinbread.
Prohibition Bill Passes House.
Montgomery, Ala. (Special). The
Fuller Prohibition bill, as amended,
passed the House by a vote of 4 5 to
81.
! Machines Luck Finish.
Washington, D. C. (8peclal).
While American mowing and binding
machines seem to have the lead In
the German market, says Consul
Warner, reporting from Leipzig, "it
Is. however. noticeable and much
commented upon fact that the Amer
ican machines do not compare fa
vorably with German machines in
finish and general appearance." In
his opinion American manufacturers
would benefit If they paid more at
tention to details, as the Germans
prefer machines highly finished and'
attractive In appearance.
Seven names of Army officers and
enlisted men who have been awarded
medals of honor since 1904 were
added to the list of Army heroes.
First Lieutenant Frank W. Ball.
who was tried by court martial for
being drunk while on duty. Ms been
ordered dismissed from the n.rmy.
Ambassador Reld, at London, ex
pects to sail for New York Boon.
acording to an announcement made
at the State Department.
An additional $2,500 was sent to
the American Red Cross Rollef Com
mittee at Beirut, Turkey, to assist
massacre sufferers.
The Department of Agriculture has
discovered a successful means of
combatting black rot, a disease
whtcli destroys grapts.
The State Department has been
informed that Oscar Malmros, the
American consul at Rouen, Is dan
gerously ill.
Acting Secretary Wilson withdrew
87,360 acres of land along the Colo
rado River, In Utah.
There are $20,000,000 involved In
pending suits to recover land to the
government.
Over $200,000 was paid by Treas
urer Treat to Receivers Richardson
and Rowe for the transportation ot
Spanish, officials following the lato
war.
The Navy Department will ask for
two aeroplanes, capable of carrying
two men and flying at a rate of 40
miles an hour for four hours..
In a statement furnished the State
Department China claims to be suf
fering from a violation of treaty stip
ulation. The Interstate Commerce Com
mission ordered a cut In the rateb
on coal from Georges Creek basin to
tidewater. - .
During last month 143 sail and
steam vessels, of 25,623 gross tons,
were built In the United States.
The Standard OH Company will
have to pay a duty of 10 per cent,
ad valorem on oil it has imported
into the Philippine Islands since the
new tariff bill became effective.
San Antonio will add Its welcome
to President Dlat when he meets
President Taft at El Paso, October
17.
A court of Inquiry will make a
more thorough investigation Into the
death of Mess Attendant Foster, of
the battleship Vermont, who died as
the result of a boxing bout with
David Williams, another mess , at
tendant. The War Department received a
cablegram from Hegesund, Norway,
announcing the death there of Col.
Peter Borsetb, at one time governor
of Leyte Province, Philippine Islands.
Dogs Drive Dozen Into Port Huron
Crowd; Girl Seriously Hurt,
Port Huron, Mich. (Special). -A
number ot persons were trampled
on and otherwise injured when a
dozen steers which were part ot a
Wild West show parade charged Into
a crowd at the entrance to St. Clair
Street bridge here.
Several dogs ran barking at the
steers as they reached the bridge ap
proach and stampeded the animals.
Miss Jessie Ingley, of Grallng, was
seriously injured Internally by being
trampled on. i lie otner injured
persons' hurts were ot a minor na
ture. Whole Train Off The Track.
Creston, Ohio (Special) Five per
sons sustained Injuries when passen
ger train No. 2 on the Wheeling and
Lake Erie railroad was derailed at
Burbank, three miles weBt of here.
The entire train left the track, the
engine, tender, baggage and mall
cars overturning and a passenger
coach, with 110 persons, toppling in
to a ditch. The engineer remained
at his throttle and stopped the train.
Hotel Ciuests Flee From Flames.
Mackinac Island, Mich. (Special).
Forty guests had narrow escapes
from death when the Hotel Hessel,
at Hessel, Mich., 18 miles northeast
of here, was burned to the ground.
A number of them escaped in their
night clothes and lost all of their
baggage. John Hessel was the own
er of the hotel and his loss is about
$15,000.
Rockport, Mass. (Special). The
cargo of anchors on board the naval
tug Nezinscot, Captain Ned Evans,
proved too great a burden as she
rolled down the coast from Ports
mouth to Boston, before a northerly
gale, and after the seas had flooded
the engine-room, the tug rolled over
and sank off Cape Ann.
Four of the crew lost their lives,
while nine others, including th cap
tain's wife and boy. reached land
after a hard struggle.
Captain Evans and Machinists'
Mate A. Belfrlc, were taken from
an oak grating by a life-saving
crew, after they had been In the
water nearly five hours and had seen
Dr. Trotter washed off into the sea.
Chief Boatswain's Mate F. R. Bit
ter struggled an hour with Mrs.
i.vans and the boy on a narrow
plank. Engineer Pratt and three
seamen managed to gain the ship's
boat after the sinking of the tug
and righting her, hauled Bitter, Mrs.
Evans and the boy on board and then
rowed ashore.
The Nezinscot left Portsmouth at
3 A. M. with a cargo of anchors,
anchor chains and scearchlights for
the battleship Missouri. The tug
was a boat of low freeboard, and
her cargo brought her down until
her decks were 'nearly awash. She
was manned by five officers and a
crew of about ten men. Captain
Evans, who was in command, hails
from Quincy, Mass., and has been
in charge of many battleships for
the Fore River Shipbuilding Com
pany during their trials on the New
England Coast.
The westerly gale was blowing
when the Nezinscot left Portsmouth,
so Captain Evans hugged the shore
so far as Ipswich. Then he headed
across for Cape Ann. As the tug
went off shore she met rising seas
and began to roll. Off Halibut Point
a big sea bore the little boat over
until the water flooded her engine-
room and she became helpless. Cap
tain Evans ordered the single boat
carried to be lowered and put in It
the second officer and the captain i
wife and little boy. Scarcely ha
the boat touched the water when
the Nezinscot lurched and plunged
under the waves. The captain, sur
geon, engineer and three or four of
the crew managed to haul thenv
selves aboard a life raft. Then
was found that three of the tug'i
men had gone down.
C. F. WiLURO'S
LONG SLIDE TO EARTH
Was 150 Feet in the Air When
Motor failed.
A NOVICE BREAKS ALL RECORDS.
Charles F. Willard, A Beginner,
After Making A Record Cross
Country Flight In An Aeroplane,
Makes The Record Descent In A
Machine Without Power Prac
tlcally His First Flight And Had
Rut One Lesson.
it
Kills Girl Employee.
Chicago (Special). Thomas Kats
nes ooaraed a crowded street car
and shot and killed Victoria Kawa
lec, then shot himself with suicidal
intent, but only inflicted a slight
wound. Katsnes was formerly a res
taurant keeper in Milwaukee Ave.
nue, and his victim was employed for
several months as a waitress in bis
restaurant.
Jap's Meet China's Plea.
Peking (Special). China has
agreed to the Japanese proposal to
reopen the negotiations regarding
the Antung-Mukden Railroad, at
Mukden, at such time as Japan
selects. All the questions relating
to Manchuria between Japan and
China now await the initiative of
Japan.
Three Suffocated In Mine.
Tellurlde, Col. Lightning struck
the Liberty Bell mine and indirectly
killed three miners, who were over
come by the smoke that filled the
lower levels after the buldlngs at the
mouth had been set on fire by the
flash. Four other miners are in a
serious condition. Several were over
come while attempting rescues.
'Uncle Tom" Was Sold There.
Lexington, Ky. (Special). Light
ning struck the Courthouse at Wash
ington, Mason County, In which
"Uncle Tom," of "Uncle Tom's
Cabin" fame, was sold, and the
building was destroyed. The build
the sale of the aged negro at this
ing was erected In 1794. It was
place that gave Harriet Beecher
Stowe the basis for her story.
Perished In Hotel Fire.
Vancouver, B. C. (Special).
Eleven lives were lost when .the
Okanagan Hotel, at Vernon, B. C,
was burned. The building contain
ed about 60 guests. Ten bodies
have been recovered. One man died
In a hospital and four others are
severely burned. The property loss
is $25,000.
Shark ' In Fishers' Net.
Long Branch, N. J. (Special).
An elephant shark, said to bo the
first ever caught along the Jersey
coast, was captured at sea bv Cook
and Smith's crew and landed on tho
beach at Galilee after a sham rlcht.
Captain Daniel Gaskln was In charge
of the crew that made the lift of
the nets in which the huge shark
was entangled. The fight Inn mona
tcr did not take kindly to the prongs
In the hands of the fishermen and
the men finally had to kill the big
UBU.
Acapulco Again Shaken.
Mexico City (Special). Acapulco
felt another severe earthquake ac
cording to reports reaching Mexico.
The people were greatly frightened,
hut there was no loss of life or large
property damage. Money for the dis
tressed of both Acapulco and Chll
panelngo is still appropriated from
day to day by the State Legislatures.
Chief Wllkle Decline's.'
Chicago (Special). John E. Wll
kle, chief of the Federal Secret Serv
ice Bureau, declined to accept the
offer of Mayor Busse to make him
chief of police of Chicago.
Educator Killed By Train.
Burlington, Vt. (Special). Prof.
Wllhelm Bernhardt, of Washington,
D. C, a well known educator and
author, was struck and killed by a
train on the Portland Railroad here.
He was spending the summer here,
prof. Bernhardt was about 60 years
of age and for many years was di
rector of German in the Washington
High Schools. fc .
South Carolina Liquor Law Valid.
Columbia, S. C. (Special). The
State Supreme Court refused to de
clare invalid the liquor law passed
at the last session of the Legislature.
The Court will later band down an
opinion stating the reasons for the
rejection ot the petition.
Suicide From Transiort.
San Francisco Special) . The
army transport Logan arrived from
Manilla, by way of Japan and Hono
lulu, bringing the Thirteenth Regi
ment of Infantry, 100 enlisted men
of the Engineer Corps, 38 military
prisoners, DO casuals and 6 of the
Signal Corps. The Infantry regiment
win go into barracks at the Presidio.
Gerald Bennett, a private in the
Marino Corps, committed suicide on
July 16 by leaping Into the sea from
the Logan.
. Two Girls Drown In Millpond.
Havana,' Fla. (Special). Misses
Rebecca Womack and Ella Freeman,
between 15 and 18 years old and
daughters of prominent men of this
place, were drowned here while bath
ing in a millpond near their homes.
The bodies were recovered several
hours later. .f
English Suffragette Coming.
London (Special). Mrs. Park.
burst, the suffragette leader, shortly
will make trip to the United Hist.
and will deliver a series of addresses
In the larger cities there. I
New York (Special) Charles F.
Willard made the only cross-country
flight in an aeroplane in this country,
from Mineola, L. I., with the exception
of the one Orvllle Wright made at
I ort Myen In completing his govern
ment contract. The remarkable feat
ures of this feat of Willard Is that
while he received his first instruc
tions a little more than two weeks
ago from Glenn H. Curtlss, the In
ventor of the Golden Flier. Willard
exceeded the distance record of Or
vllle Wright by about two miles.
Willard covered about 12 miles in
19V4 minutes and attained an alti
tude of more than 150 feet.
The aeroplane was brought from
the shed at. 5.23 and taken Into the
Hempstead Plains back of the race
course, the starting point. The avia
tor at once shot to a height of al
most 100 feet as he started In the di
rection of Garden City. Then he
wheeled and flew over the Meadow
brook Hunt Club and thence to
Westbury and Hicksvllle. A large
circle was negotiated here and Wil
lard started homeward and flew suc
cessfully until, within two miles of
the starting point, he discovered some
trouble with his motor. Willard was
almost 150 feet in the air when the
motor failed. From this height the
aviator made a perfect glide to the
ground, the greatest distance from
which a descent has heretofore been
made without power.
An examination disclosed that the
cam shaft, which operates the mag
neto, had. broken: that it would he
impossible to resume the flight. Wil
lard had intended to continue his
course over Hempstead, Floral Park
and Hyde Park. The machine was
placed on a big wagon and taken
DacK to its tent. It Is believed that
the repairs can be made within the
next two or three days and then Wil
lard will try a longer flittht.
In making his flights Willard cross
ed eight roads, several clumps of
trees and five lines of telegraph
wires, and crossed three times the
motor parkway. At times he ascend
ed to such a height as to look like
b mere speck in the air, and again
he would drop to 40 feet. He man
aged his machine with great skill
and negotiated sharp turns with ap
parent ease.
L. S. Burridge, president of the
Areonautic Society, to whom this
machine has ben sold, was delighted
with this performance of Willard,
and said:
"I think we have been most for
tunate in securing Mr. Willard as
aviator, for he has more than come
up to expectations. He has both
courage and good Judgment. I am
confident that he is going to make
Bome splendid records for this coun
try with the machine. What he has
accomplished lu so brief a time
seems a little short of marvelous, and
I am Bure it will do much to stimulate
aeronautics as a pasttlme. Now that
it has been demonstrated that a ma
chine can be learned without any
great risk, many will be encouraged
to adopt aeroplanlng as a sport."
BIG BALLOON FLIES
OVER HE (lu
i ,
iur me saieiy ot the voyager, L.
they have been dispelled by lh
celpt of a report that thov Mt
The Sirius Reaches Altitude
18,373 Feet.
M. Spelt.
Ami Three . Companion, 2
JNenr Locarno At A UvTZ
.40) Feet And !,,, A
PMh To Traverse On KontlJ"
Chamnolx, France (Special)-.
balloon Sirius has succeeded In J.
over the Alps. The airship ett h
last Sunday under, the pilotage of
Spelterlne, who had with hlra ,hr
passengers. Fears were ot "
anded safely at a point "
Locarno at an altitude of j4il
feet. The four men, however '.till
have a dangerous Dath ir, ..' "
foot from the place where they lJJ
ed Into Locarno. y
The Sirius traversed Mnm m...
and soared over the Alguiiio du n!.
and the Aiguille Verte. The hlRh
altitude attained on the voyage ,
A successful bal'onn trin
Mont Blanc and the Alps was mifo
in November of 1006 by two I'nu
aeronauts in the balloon Mllano. Tb
greatest altitude reached on this trh
was 20,500 feet and the rarlflej ,2
mosphere made it necessary for tb
men to resort to their supply i
oxygen to keep alive. The Mliana
which went up from Milan, came
down at Aix-Le-Balns after havlm
covered a distance of 175 mllei
three hours.
The record for height In a ballooi
would appear to belong to two Eng.
llshraent, Messrs. Coxwcll and Glsis.
cher, who, In 1862, ascended to aheighl
of 37.000 feet or about seven mile.
In 1875. M. Tlssandler, a Frenchman,
rose more than five miles into tht
air. He was accompanied by a frlenl
who died on the way. A self-rir
tering balloon sent up without a pa
senger from Paris in 1893 reacheJ
an altitude of 52,490 feet.
Zeppelin Very Much Alive.
Berlin ( Special ) . Rumors ema
nating from London that Count Zep.
pelin, the inventor of the dirigible
balloon which bears his name, hti
died, is without foundation. He il
not only living, but he is quicklj
recovering from the effects of the
minor operation for an abcess on hi
neck. The daring aeronaut had n
iar recovered that he was out walk
ing yesterday.
3,000 GET POSITIONS.
Through Department Of Commerce
And Labor. ,
Washington. D. C. (Special).
Work has been secured for 3,000
persons during the past six weeks
through the information division of
the Department of Commerce and
Labor. Most of them have eone
to the wheat fields of the Northwest,
although according to a statement by
the department labor is much In de
mand In lactories as well as on the
farm.
The division of Information, under
a ruling by Assistant Secretary Mc
Harg, Is confined In Its operations to
unskilled labor, the labor organiza
tions having protested against any
activity on the part of the govern
ment looking to the employment of
skilled labor.
WANTED WIFE TO DIE FIRST.
Man Shot At Her And B..by, Tlin
Killed Himself.
Cordova. Ala. ( Si ecinl). Walter
Glpson shot and killed himself after
attempting to kill his wife and yen
old boy. Three shots were fired it
Mrs. Glpson, and penetrated her
arm. Glpson then fired at the chili,
the bullet going through its clothei,
after which he fired a bullet Into bil
own breast. His last words were:
"I would die easy if I knew Mai
was dead."
PKNNSV" TO SPENti $7,000,001).
Philadelphia 'Special). OfRciali
of thePennsylva-'Hrliroad announc
ed that Improvement amounting M
about $7,000,000 are about to be
made on the lines of the company
west of Pittsburg. Of this sum J3,
000,000 will be expended on Improv
ing the Pittsburg, Jhi .ago, Cincinnati
and St. Louis railroad, and $4,000,-
000 In double-tracking the line be
tween Richmond and Irvlngton, Ind.
Killing Follows A Joke.
Chaska, Tcnn. (S p e c 1 a 1). Jot
Bui nfln, aged 30 years', was shot and
killed by Brandon McMahon. Mo
Mahon In a playful mood, knocked
off llurnfin's hat. .Angered at this,
Bi'.rnfln attacked McMahon with
stick of wood, knocking him down.
While lying on the ground McMahoa
drew his revolver and fired thret
shots. One bullet struck Burn 6a
near the heart, killing him instantly.
McMahon . surrendered. He Is 30
years old.
Wild Honrs For Gi-iscoin.
New. York (Special). Six wild
boars, a present from the King of
Italy to Lloyd C. Griscom, former
United States Ambassador to Italy,
who recently returned to this coun
try from Rome, arrived here by the
Italian liner Duca Dl Abruzzi. Klnf
Victor, knowing that Mr. Crlseon
had a hunting camp lu Canada, tent
the tuskers as a token of his ap
preciation of the Ambassador's work
.v. !,i . in veuevinz me sunerers nr run Met
by smoke, were rescued by firemen. I Blna earthquake. They wMl he ship-
I Iea io iinaaa.
Heroic Girls Save Cash.
Buffalo, N. V. (Special). Fire In
the East Buffalo plant of Jacob Dold
Packing Company caused S100.000
damage. The fire started In the ho
and beef dressing department. The
office buildings were threatened for
time. The office force, made ud
largely of young women, fought
through dense clouds ot smoke to
remove $5,000 In cash to a place of
saiety.
Elephants Stampede,
Clay Center, Kas. (Special). For
two hours the people of this town
were terrorized by 11 elephants
wnicn escaped rrom a show and
stampeded through the streets. The
trouble started when a small dog bit
the leg of one of the elephants. The
beast at once began to trumpet and,
breaking from its keeper, ran away.
Ten other elephants followed. Be
fore the animals were finally
tured a showman was seriously hurt.
Pressing Club Was Very Wet.
Birmingham, Ala. (Special). The
first arrest In Birmingham under
the new Carmichael law was made
when a pressing club was raided
under the section of the law which
prohibits the storage of liquors. Half
a dozen cases of whisky, several
casks of beer and two tubs of ii-erf
beer were con fl scat d, as well as 1 ously
me proprietor s cash drawer and its
contents. His bankbook showed de
posits of over $100 a day for some
time past.
2 Boys Club Third To Death.
Brownsville, Texas (Special).
That both .id a part in clubbluf
to death their 10-year-old companion,
Ellsee Cantu, was the confession of
Idalfono Gomez and Angel Cervcrat,
14 and 10 years old. The trio had pf
taken freely of "mescal," nod Canto
was attacked with a heavy stick whei
he became abusive. Friday Corverii
asserted that Gomez alon'e did the
clubbing.
OUUH AND UN ltd
Wilmington Woman Dies At 108.
Wilmington, Del. (Special). Mary
Munroe died at the county hospital,
aged 103 years. She was a native
ot Ireland, but had lived here many
years. Bbe was in good health until
u year ago.
To Sell Cruiser Enterprise.
Washington, D. C. (SpeclsD.
The United States cruiser Enterprise,
recently used as a schoolshin. wc
ordered to be sold. The Enterprise
was lauViced in 1876. She was the
third naval vessel ot that cam
Opalescent glass for the use In the
manufacture of stained glass win
dows is made in this country In
manner which cannot be duplicated,
and this material Is shipped all over
Europe.
Many tigers In India live entire
ly on domestic cattle, and the upkeep
of one which does so has been vrl-
estimated at from $330 '
nearly 10 times that sum.
Some authorities sny the flounder
Is only a codfish with a tluttened
head.
' The Norwegian government l re
quiring the employes of ' its railroads
to attend ambulance tlasaci to give
them a knowledge of first aid In case
of accidents.
Arkansas produced 2,07M!
short tons of coal last year, a greater
decrease from the previous year's
output than was shown by any other
Southwestern State.
The Woman's Sabbath Alliance cf
New York has addressed a circular
letter to women prominent socially
sWi them to refrain from glvlag
entertainments that ' deprive tbeit
-viit of rest on Sundays. 1