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PUBLISHED THJREE TI* AWFUL TRAGEDY! Six Ci is and Two Boys Drown When Their Boat Springs a Leak. HERO'S VAIN EFFORT i One of Two Boats Used by Party of Students During Noon Sprung a Leak and in Endeavoring to Trans fer to Safe Boat all Were Thrown into Water. Eight high school students, six girls and two boys lost their lives Thursday while boating on what is known as the Old Paper Mill dam, at Huntington Mills, Pa. The dead are: Maud Sutcliffe, aged 17 years; Caroiyn Koouz. aged 16; Ruth Bon ham, aged IS; Iris Dav-snport, aged 16; Madeline Goad, aied 17; Robert' Minuich, aged 17; R=y Do?son, aged' 17. Twelve students of the Hunting ton High School obtained two boats at the neon hour and started for a row about the dam. The dam is nearly half a mile in width, and when the two crafts had reached the centre of the body of water it was noticed that one of them had sprung a leak. /The two boats were then pulled together by the ycung men in the pairty and an effort was being made to transfer the girls rrom the leaky boat to the safe craft. The last one of the party had successfully set foot in the boat when it began to sink under the weight of the party. The girls were helpless to save themselves and the boys of the par ty, with the exception of Dodson, being expert shimmers, struck out for the shore, which all reached in safety. 'Minnich, in the excite ment, it is presumed, thought that all the young women had succeeded in reaching land. He had no sooner gained the bank than ne noticed the girls hanging to the rapidly sinking boat. The boy dashed into the water and swam swiftly to the water-filled craft. Only two of the girls were clinging to the boat, the others hav ing gone down for the last time. Seizing Miss Davenport, Min nich again started ior the shore, but the exertion was too much for the gallant lad and the two went down together, when they were within a stone's throw of the oank. All the bodies have been recovered. POORLY BALED COTTON. Southern Cotton Reaches Europe in Very Bad Shape. A decision was handed down by the Inner-State commerce commis sion Wednesday with the importance of the proper baling of cotton ship ped from points in the South to Eu- j ropean destinations. In the course of the opinion the commission says: ?"It is not deemed amiss to call the attention of cotton growers and shippers and the railroads to the fact that cotton bales from the Unit ed States shipped to Europe are re ceived in worse condition as to pack ing than cotton bales arriving there from any other country." The case was brougJit by Ander son, Clayton & Co., of Oklahoma, against the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company, and other Inter-State carriers, in which it was alleged that every service, including! the applying of the owners or ship-J pers patches to cotton bales in their | ?yompression, was included in the through freight rate to final desti nation of th? shipment. The commission holds that the facts do not justify an order against the defendant carriers: that the car riers have the right to compress cot ton in transit and that the shippers or owners have the privilege of con centrating cotton at designated com presses, with the right of such ship pers or owners to deliver the cotton I hack to the carriers for transporta tion to its final destination on the: through rate for point of origin. PRISONER GUARDED CAMP. When Guard Got DrunK, Negro Took Things in Hand. News was received at the Atlanta prison commission Thursday that the warden of the convict camp of Cof fee county had left mysteriously, leaving a guard in charge. The guard got drunk and John Simmons, a negro convict, serving a life sen tence on the gang, took charge of the camp and prevented the escape of any of the prisoners. Simmons was sent up from Monroe county and has served twenty-two years. The prison commission has call ed unop Warden Louter for a report upon the affair, and a thorough in vestigation will be made. It is prob able that Simmons win win a parole as a result of his loyalty to the pris on officials. Saw the Comet. In order that all wno find trouble in waking early enough to see Hal ley's comet, which is now so plainly visible in the eastern heavens, the Mayor of Dalton, Ga.. gave orders for the blowing of the fire whistle at three a. m. [ES A WEEK. TELLS ABOUT A FALL TERAL HUNDRED FEET IN CKED BALLOON. Men Says He Could Not l*lie Sensation of the Ter ! flight for a world's dis from Quincy, 111., by Forbes, holder of the L-. s^i^pnd James Carrington Ye \h'e astronomer, both of New Yo ^rhlch began at Quincy on Montray evening, terminated late on Tuesday in a disastrous tumble to the earth from a height of perhaps 3 00 feet.near Center, Ky., was not without its compensations was in dicated by a statement made by Mr. Forbes Thursday night. The bal loon broke the ascent record, it is declared, and some valuable photo graphs of the comet were secured at an elevation of IS,000 feet. ?>n Tuesday morning after meas urement, Messrs. Forties and Yates, in the Viking, passed through a snow storm, at 11.40 o'clock, at an eleva tion of 16,000 feet. An hour later they passed through the second flur ry at a height of 16,400 feet. At 2 o;clock on Tuesday afternoon the balloon reached the extreme alti tude of 20.600 feet, which is 2,000 feet higher than any authorized rec ord ever made in America. Mr. Forbes thus describes their exper iences after reaching the greatest height: "In descending from the great ele vation we had very little sand left, and as t.he gas contracted, the bal loon bag became extremely flabby. Everything, however, went well until we were a few hundred feet above the ground when the appendix line broke loose from the ring supporting the basket. There was so little gas in the bag at the time that the rig ging collapsed and, with the basket attached, naturally dropped. This caused the rip cord, which is at tached to the riging. to rip open the balloon at the height of 300 feet from the ground. "I cannot describe the sensation of that 300-foot fall to the ground. It came so suddenly. I have a faint recollection of seeing men below me in a ploughed field and of subcon sciously trying, it seemed, to tilt up the basket that 'Mr. Yates and I might spring free from the rigging when close to the ground. Sjcaus*e the basket did not tilt as it would have don? under ordinary circum stances was the cause of our injury. I believe the only tning that pre vented' the breaking of our baj'cs when the basket fell bottom squarely down under th? weight cf Lh-* bag was the r.i%er air mattress wa'ih we had pLic.'d in the bottom cf t.:e basket thai e might tie com rovl Vote when we wanted to lie down." A FANATIC CALLED DOWN. He Said That No Virtuous Woman Would Attend Dance. (R. L. Page, Jr., who edits a week ly paper at Quitman, Mass., several days since had a scathing editorial upon a dance of prominent society folk there, in which he called the dancing "public hugging," and inti mated that no virtuous woman would j indulge in such practices. Page has been out of the city *or several days. He returned Wednesday morning, was met by a group of prominent' citizens, forced to eat a clipping of. the editorial, and was then taken inj charge by a constantly increasing crowd. Page managed to escape his assailants and started to running, ap parently making good his escape, al though many threats had been made as to what his fate would be. FOREST FIRES BURN TOWNS. Moshice, Wis., and Grand Marais, Canada, Destroyed. Forest fires have revel the south ern .half of the town of Mcsinee. .Mar athon county, Wis. Just before wire communication was cut off early Fri day word came that ten residences, four general merchandise stores, one drug store, two saloons, the postof fice and a saw mill had been destroy ed. The report said that the fire was under control. Grand Marais, on the north shore of Lake Superior, is believed to have been destroyed Wednesday by the foiest fires which were advancing on it. The wireless operator stated that if the town was not burned he would attempt to communicate with the Duluth station that day. No word , has come from him so far. Gave Him a Watch. l>r. J. H. Wilson, pastor of the Lutheran church of the Ascension, at Savannah, Ga , who was assailed with a whip by Mrs. C. H. Monsees and daughter and who resigned his pastorate, was Thursday called upon by the officers of the church and pre sented with a gold watch as a token of their esteem for him and to show the confidence they repose in him. Ooinind in Hordes. That the United States will receive a million immigrants during the fis cal year ending June 30 is t he pre diction of the officials. During April 133.276 arrived, making a total of S01,225 thus far this year. The last million immigrant year waB in 1907. ARE CUT OFF MANY MIXERS ARE ENTOMBED I IN AN ENGLISH MINE. Tctrible Explosion Shuts Up Oue| Hundred and Thirty-Six in a Coal ; Shaft at White Haven, England. An explosi:n in the Wellington coal mir.* at White Haven, England, during Wednesday night cut off the exit ' from 136 miners, who were working below the surface. Rescue parties succeeded early on Thursday in saving four men who had been working at the bottom of the shafts, but were prevented by the gas from penetrating to a point where the other men are imprisoned. Every indication was that inner workings of the mine were afire. Dis tracted crowds of relatives surround ed t.he pit head. The colliery is owned by the Er.rl of Longsdale and its Workings extend four or five miles beneath the sea. VTh'3 spot where the 85 hewers and some fifty-odd shiftmen still impris oned were working at the time of t.he explosion is about three miles from the shaft exit. TRYING TO CHEAT JUSTICE. Scheme Being Hatched to Keep Jones Out of Prison. Attorneys for W. T. Jones, con victed for the murder of his wife and sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday went before Judge T. S. Sease and secured an order grant ing a stay of the execution of the sentence. The remittitur from the State Su preme Court, which had confirmed the verdict and sentence of the Court of General Sessions for Union Coun ty, was received by Clerk of Court Peake Wednesday morning. That officer proceeded to make a certified copy of the verdict and sentence of the Circuit Court, which would have been sent to t.he Penitentiary author ities Thursday, and =n officer would have been sent from the Penitentiary to convey Jones to that institution. This is the regular and orderly pro cedure in such cases. The order of Judge Sease stays this, however, until Saturday next, at least, at which time the attorneys will appear before the Judge for a hearing. The affidavits epon which the order is based have not been fil ed, and their nature or by whom they are made is not known. The order recites, however, that affidavits have been submitted to the effect that there was misconduct on the part of jurors who tried the case, and fur ther, that claim is made that there is after discovered evidence, which may offset the merits of the case. GEORGIA STRUCK BY STORM. Rain, Wind and Hail Rrin Crops of That State. A special to the Augusta Chronicle from Culverton, Ga., says a very heavy wind and hail storm there Thursday afternoon was the worst that has ever visited that section. While there were no lives lost, so far as can be. ascertained, there were several houses blown from their pil lars and the steeple of the Metho dist Church was blown down and several bouses were unroofed. One of the R. F. D. Carriers, who has just come in, reports that cot ton and corn along his route are completely ruined ana that there is not enough left to tell what was planted in the fields. The peach; crop from the section will be a com plete failure, as "the main part of the storm passed directly through the peach centre. Several thousand dollars' damage was done in Atlanta Thursday after noon by one of the worst hail and rain storms in its history. The max imum wind velocity was sixty miles an hour, rain of one-half inch was recorded within thirty minutes, and the ground was almo?t covered with hail stones. VERDICT OF MURDER. Rendered in the Case of a V.'lii'e Man at Greenville. Greenville juries seem to know their duty, and do not hesitvo -o do it. After deliberating fiftee-i m-n ?tes, the jury trying .]. O. Lind'ey for the murder of his landlord. Ren Allen. Thursday returned a vq.-i'ivt cf guilty and Lindley was sentonc*-d tr be hanged. Allen was found dead in bed and Lindley and Mrs. Allen reported he had committed su..::<!??. Mrs. Allen later confessed that Lind ley had murdered him. Loved Hie King. At Minneapolis Mrs. Sarah J. P. Mobley, aged 70 years and reputed wealthy, is dead, according to Cor oner Seashore, of heart failure caus ed by reading of the death of King Edward. "King Edward is my ideal of a man," she often said to her neighbors. Politeness Won Bequests. IThe devotion of Miss Mollie K. Mclsaacs, hero nurse, and the polite iv ss of Otto Zerrhan, a bank clerk, brought them bequests from Mrs. Annie Preston Lincoln, of Boston, Mass. The nurse received $50,000 and the clerk $10,000. *G, S. C, SATURDAY, M MEETS DEATH la Sinking Steamer On the Mississippi River on Last Thursday The City of Saltillo Strikes Hidden Rock and Flounders Near Shore. She Had on Board Twenty-Seven Passengers and a Crew of Thirty Men. Eleven persons are missing and two women passengers are drowned as a result of the packet City of Sal tillo striking a rock and foundering in reach of shore at Glen Park, on the Mississippi River, 24 miles sout.h of St. Louis Thursday night. The d'^ad: (Miss Anna Rhea, Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Isaac T. Rhea, Nashville, Tenn., (body recovered.) Missing and believed dead: S\ C. Banker, first olerk of the steamer. 'Mrs. Joe Harris, Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Archie Patterson, Chester, 111. Archie, Patterson, Jr., two years old. I W. J. Pickeit, salesman, St. Louis. Fowler Post, third clerk. Miss Lena Wall, Nashville, Tenn. \Head porter, name unknown. Cabin boi, name unknown. Two rousiabouts, names unknown. Captain Jjarry Crane, in command of the boat, and one or the survivors announced Thursday morning after checking up the passenger list that it was almost certain those reported missing -were dead. The boat carried 2 7 passengers, most of whom were women and chil dren, and a crew of thirty. She left St. Louis at 7 o'clock with a heavy cargo including a number of cat tle and livestock and the voyage was considered precarious because of the amount of driftwood floating in the river due to the annual spring ris?. The known dead were the wife and daug.hter of Isaac T. Rhea, president of the St. Louis and Tennessee river packet company, owners o? tne^boat. Mrs. RheajTwas draggeu from the water alive but died within an hour. The body of Miss Anna Rhea was not recovered. Miss Louise Rhea, anoth er daughter escaped. They were en route to their home in Nashville after visiting friends in St. Louis. Glen Park, the scene of the acci dent is a river landing, the chief buildings of which are a general store, a boarding house and a cement plant. The place is almost inacces sible to- telegraph lines and the news of the disaster came to St. Louis in a roundabout way from Kimmswick and Sulphur Springs. Shortly before reaching Glen Park the Saltillo encountered a shoreward draw, which was fougnt frantically by the pilots. The engines were re versed, but efforts to prevent the collision were unavailing. As the big boat swung from the current inshore despite the reversed engines and the rudder thrown hard over, she was driven with increasing speed toward land and turned completely around. With t.he noise of rending timbers and the shrieks of women and chil dren passengers, the cries of the crew and the bellowing of t he cat tle, the vessel struck a hidden rock and sank almost in reach of land at a point w4iere the water was thirty feet deep. WHITE GIRL SAVED. Two White Women and Their Chin ese Husbands Arrested. At New York, under orders from the district attorney four habitues of Chinatown were arrested in what is described by Assistant District At torney Frank Moss as a new white slave plot. In one of the houses vis ited by detectives, Marcelle Feaure, a pretty 16-year-old white girl, w.hcse home is at Easton, Pa., was seized and sent to the house of detention. The arrests, as Mr. Moss said, foiled a plot to take the girl into Chinatown after she had been lured there from her Jiome for that purpose. Two white women and thetr Chinese hus bands are the prisoners. Mr. Moss said he is confident no harm has yet come to the girl, as it was planned to introduce her slowly to t.he as pect of vice in Chinatown before the sale for fear she would become dis gusted and run away. Seized With Crumps. Kelley Steene. the 7 7-year-old son of Mrs. F. C. Dawkins. living at the Fair field cotton mill millage. Winns boro, was drowned about S o'clock Thursday evening in t.he mill pond, where he had been swimming with several of his companions. It is sup posed that the lad was seized with cramps. Married His Grandmother. William Pounds, of Hetlin. Ala Thursday married Mrs. John T. Bur gess, who is legally his grand mother. Burgess was Pounds' grandfather, and was over seventy years of age. when he married several years ago, dying shortly afterwards. Mrs. Pounds is now twenty-two. 1Y~ 14, 1910. SIX SOLDIERS THOT SHOOTING WAS RESULT OF ROV' WITH NEGROES Two of the Soldiers Arc Seriously I Wounded While the Other l'-mi Are Slightly Hurt. A special dispatch from Beznj'nri, S.' C.. to the Augusta Chronicie s'?j*? . Six soldiers of the 125th com* pany, coast artillery, stationed at Fort Fremont, on St. Heleua island,) .have been shot by negroes, just out-j side of the reservation lines between nine o'clock Monday night and one' o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Two of the men, Private Quigley and Mc Nally, are seriously, but not fatally wounded, while Privates McCarthy, j Callahan, Stansberry and Sleder are; less badly shot. The negroes who did the shooting1 ?have left the neighborhood, and have ' not been arrested up to this time, j About a week ago, Isaac Potter and ' and soldier from the fort, had aj fight on the road near Cusper City.' on St. Helena Island, which result-1 ed in Potter being cut by the sol- j dier. It is said that at this time j and afterwards the two Potters threatened to shoot the first soldier; caught off the reservation after that night. On Monday night. Privates Cal-| lahan, McCarthy, Stransberry and J Sledvr were shot from the bushes; while walking along a road a short distance from the reservation lines. The weapons used were shotguns and the smallness of the shot was all that prevented fatal results, as t.he men were fired on from close range. Considerable excitement and much feeling was apparent among some of' the men after the shooting. On the next day a party of six soldiers are said to have gone ?o the Potter .house carrying two shotguns along with them, to see the Potters and find out whether or not they had .anything to do with the shooting of their comrades on the previous eve ning. ?It is said that the soldiers began shooting up the house as soon as ?? they came up. As the soldiers enter- | ed the home of the negroes one of| the Potters retreated upstairs, firing into the soldiers as he went, thej first volley striking down Quigley and McNally. DEAD MAN CAME TO LIFE. And the Mourners Are Frightened Nearly to Death. ?Near Carthage. N. C., Uncle Virgil Jones, a typical " 'fore de war" dar key who was recognized at a pa triarch among the negroes of the ; neighborhood, died. Following the I custom prevailing among the negroes in the country, especially, a big crowd sat up with the old fellow's body all Sunday night. They went I to put his body in the coffin Monday I morning, the room being crowded with negroes, mourners and others, one hundred and fifty or more in ail being in the house and waiting in the yard. Suddenly as onic of the watchers went to reach for the body, indicat ing to his aides to lay hold and help lift it, the old fellow's eyes opened, his withered arm went out and up in warning pose and a veritable voice from the dead exclaimed in sepulchral tones that struck terror to the heart of every negro specta tor. "N'ot yet!" It is snid that there was never a more complete stamped.- known. Instead of being overjoyed at the manifestation of returning life for the old partriach, whose dtparture they were mourning, tlie affright, d screams were heard for miles about, the negroes piled out of the place through every conceivable ci1 vice Some leaping right up through the roof of the low cabin, carrying the boards off as they forced then- way out. It was asserted in a letter from a mzsi reputable citizen that it is o r tnin that some of those negroes have not stopped running yet. Tin letter did not say what the extent of the resuscitation of the old negro was or whethi r he is still living. * STUDENT FOUND DEAD. S. (). Fleming, of Davidson, Expired Suddenly. ?At Davidson. N. C, Mr. Samuel 0. Fleming, the twenty-year-old son of Mt. and Mrs. J. 0. C. Fleming, of Laufens, S. C, was found dead in his bed Thursday night. The cause of .his death has not been positively ascertained, but it is supposed to have followed an attack of acute in digestion. He went to his room shortly after dinner to take a nap. having stood a fatiguing examina tion in the morning. He was miss ed from supper and his roommate, seeking to find the cause, ent red the room and found him dead. The death of young Mr. Fleming is par ticularly sad because he was a pros pective honor man of the senior class of Davidson College, with only two examinations between him and his diploma. Alma Kellner Found. |A special dispatch from London, ?Ky., says that Alma Kellner of Louis ville, who was kidnapped last win ter, was found at Gray's, Ky., with a Gypsy fortune teller. DENOUNCE TBE TARIFF SPELLS RUDI FOR THE REPUBLI CAN PARTY AS IT IS. Senator Dolliver and Cummins, In surgent Republicans, Berate the Low and Those Who Made It. Hinging denunciations of the tar-' iff bill and the men who passed it characterized the speeches made on Wednesday night by Senator Jona than P. Doliver and Albert 13. Cum mins, at Des Monies, in opening the progressive campaign in Iowa. The Colliseum wsa crowded by 10,000 progressives. The meeting followed district con ferences throughout the day, at1 which steps w-.re taken to recon-; struct the old Cummins organization I and to organize the state by conn-' ties and precincts. i [Even President Taft did not escape j the aspersions of the Senators, while Senator Aldrich was named as the: leader of corporate greed and ava rice. Senator Dollivver referred to the J President as tile "titular leader" of j the Republican party, which meant, he said, "a good man surrounded by people who kn w exactly what they wanted." Both Senators declared that if the Republican party continues the pol icy advocated by the "reactionary" Kaders it would spell ruin to the par ty. Among these leacers Senator Al drich was frequently mentioned as the man "allied with the Guggen heims and tlw Ryans and Paul .Mor ton in a mammoth trust, incorpora ted as a rubber company which is al lowed by the aricles of incorporation to participate in any kind of busi ness anywhere on '.he face of the e.irrh, and which is one of the hold ing companies in th- Guggenheim syndicate for the control of the wealth of Alaska." These are the men who w re re sponsible for the tariff during the extraordinary session." declared Sen ator Dolliver. "The bill is only a scheme to rob the people, and to increase the holding of such gigantic syndicates as I have mentioned. "The troubles in tiie Republican party have come not because of what has been said, but of what has been done. It has been said that the tar iff bill is a good law. In fact, we have on hig.h authority, that it is the best tariff bill ever passed. But not only do I denounce such tariff legislation, but 1 am not particular ly enamored of those who passed it." AThe cotton manfacturers' schedule Senator Dolliver stamped as one of the most darin? iniquitious features of the new tariff, in which the rates were either advanced or unchanged on articles of consumtive value of $000,000,000 touching (particularly cotton clothes for women's and chil dren's summer wear." MORE QUAKES. Thousands of People Leave San Jose in Alarm. Heavy earthquakes w-ere felt at San Jose, Costa Rica, Wednesday. Thousands of persons are leaving the city in alarm. A series of severe shocks was experienced Wednesday. While fear has seized a great part of the populace, the authorities con tinue resolutely to wort, among the ruins at Cartago. Many living per sons have been released from the de bris, and some of these will survive. In most instances Identification is impossble. It is reported that the dead include two Americans. The Red Cross organization, the police, the military and members of the foreign colonies are actively engag ed in the relief work. As fast as th y are discovered, the injured ones are removed to this city, where they receive medical attention. The pub lic schools have been converted into temporary hospitals. OPPOSES THE RING PLAN. Thousands of Democrats in Tennes see Talk Out. A dispatch from Nashville, Tienii., says more than ten thousand signa tures from fifty-foil" counties have be n received at the headquarters of the independent judicial candidates in behalf of the mass meeting on Wednesday. Before the convention meets it is likely that 15,000 signa tures will have been secured of rep resentative citizens from all over the State. The meeting will iie held to protest against the action of the S'ate Democratic executive commit tee and Gov. Patterson in regard to the so-called blanket primary plan. Dies from Starvation. ?7... E. Rader, at one time a member of the Washington ? gislaturo died Thursday at Seattle after fasting for thirty-nine days.. Mr. Rader hail been suffering from stomach trouble and upon advice of a woman pnysi cian decided to take the "starvation treatment" War on Foxes. The State Fish and Game commis sion of New Jersey is planning a war of extermination against foxes. They are said to do much damage to crops and are a nuisance in the deer woods. TWO CENTS PER COPY THEY LAND HARD Walloon Fell Like Plummet cf Lead lo the Earth With Two Men * BOTH ?SE BADLY KURT; . ) % The Daring Voyagers Descended in," a Desolate. Isolated Region, Re mote from Telegraph, After Mak ing a Flight of Four Hundred Miles, Enduring Many Hard. h.i;>s. After a thrilling flight of rourj hundred miles, during which they as cended to an altitude of 20,600 feet and encountered two snowstorms, A. Holland Forbes, of Bridgeport, Con-' necticut, vice president of the Aero* Cub of America and V. C. Yates, oC New York, lost control of their bal loon, the Viking, Tuesday afternoon^ and descended with such precipita-^ tior. that both aeromants were badly bruised and the balloon partially wrecked-. The balloon came to earth near Center, Ky., a hamlet ai>out 20 miles ftom Horse Cave, and dropped the final one hundred feet of space like a stone. The escape of t.he halloon ists from instant death was little short of miraculous. A representa tive of the Associated Press visited the injured balloonists at the farm' of Tilden Boston, where they were removed after alighting, and found both men suffering from severe bruises and sprains, but not serious ly injured. Although confine'd to their beds they expect to he able to travel with in two or three days "We left Quincy, 111., at 6.f>."? o'clock Monday evening," said Mr. Forbes. "We were hoping to strik: favorable air cur rents from the west that might give us a chance at the long distance re cord. We were carried in a semi '?i-cle, however, passing over parts of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky. Tuesday morning we encountered intense cold and a severe snow storm at an altitude of 16,000 feet. On Tuesday afternoon, at an altitude of 16,000 feet, we ran into another snow storm. Shortly afterwards we shot up to 20,000 fett. From that tame on the cold was so intense that we became benumbed and half stupid and gradually lost power to control the balloon. I cannot tell what the altitude was but just before we made our final drop, an 'effort to let out gas by the valve .had not succeeded in bring ing us to tbe ground as fast as we desired. Finally, I decided to use the rip cord before we lost conscious ness entirely. In some manner, yet unexplained the cord did its work entirely too well and ripped the bag almost from top to bottom. The descent was terrific, and I judge for the last hundred feet there was very little gas left in the balloon, as it fell like a stone." PRAISES BRYAN'S SPEECH. Before the Meeting of the Farmer's: Union at St. Louis. A dispatch from Atlanta to The Augusta Chronicle says President Charles S. Barrett, of the Farmers* Union, back from the meeting at St. Louis, talked enthusiastically of the session there Friday. "The meeting was a great success and we started a movement which will be felt throughout the country," said Mr. Barrett. "T.nere was one of the largest crowds in attendance yet se n at a convention of the union. Representatives of the various labor organizations of the country were in attendance. "We have not yet made any al liance with the la.b r organizations. A resolution was passed to the ef fect that the Farmers Union and tho American Federation of Labor would stand together on matters that were lo their mutual interests." 'Air. Barn tt was loud in his praises of the speech made by Mr. Bryan he lore the convention. He s.tid: "The speech which created the most enthusiasm of uny made was that of William J. Bryan. Hie speech greatly overshadowed that of Mr. Taft, although the president was well received. Bryan completely captivated the audience, and it was evident that they were with him from beginning to end." Robbed the Passengers! At Seattle three highwaymen held up a "pay as you enter" street car on the South park line of tho Seat tle Electric company Thursday morn ing and escaped with money and oth er valuabl s estimated at between $1,500 aim $2,000. Their victim! v,ere twenty male passengers. Coming in Hordes. Florence Heynerman, of Sacra mento. Cat., formerly a chorus girl, and divorced three weeks ago from Otto Heynerman. drank poison in her room in a New York hotel last week and was taken unconscious to a hospital. She will die. Committed Suicide. Seated in front of a mirrow In his room, David Belinsky shot him self in the head. He was employed in Buffalo, N. Y.. but a note gives his plate of residence as Boston, Mass.