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PUBLISHED THKEE TE EVAKSINMCTED Ex - Chairman Charged With Accepting Liquor Rebates. A COMPLETE SURPRISE Defendant Immediately Surrenu to Newberry Sheriff and Was Re leased on Bail.?Defpnce Pressed for Immediate Trial.?Sever-1 Re bates Charged. On a bill of indictment, handed out by Attoney General J. Fritrr Lyon and Solicitor R. A. Cooper, tbe grand jury, in the General sessions Court for Newberry County, Tuesday neturned a true bill against H. H. Evans, ex-member and ex-chairiaan of the old State dispensary board of directors, charging him with reviv ing rebates while in office. Immediately following the rerUrn ing of the true bill by the grand jury Mr. Evans surrendered to the sheriff, and upon motion of nis at torney, Eugene S. Blease, Esq , was admitted to bail in tbe sum of on? thousand dollars. Attorney Generai Lyon contended for a bail of at least ten thousand, dollars. Th\? de- j fendant's attorney stated, that it j would be no hardship upon the de-1 fendant to give this amount, as he I was at home among his friends, but hhat he felt such amount was ex- J cessive, and would tend to prejudice the case. Judge Aldrich held that the let-i ter and the spirit of the law was j that bail should not be excessive, and, inasmuch as the maximum fine for the offence charged was only five -hundred dollars, he thought the amount of the maximum fine pro vided would be sufficient. According ly he admitted Mr. Evans to bail in the sum of one thousand dollars. The bail was immediately given, the sureties being Messrs. E. M. Evans, a brother of the defendant; C. White Fant, of this city, and J. E. Norwood, cashier of the Newberry Savings Bank. Mr. Evan'ss attorney, Mr. Eugene S. Blease, pressed for ah immediete trial at this term of the Court. The Attorney General stated that one of the witnesses for the State was in Ohio and another in Virginia, "as the defendant himself, if .his counsel did not," he said, ought to know, and that the State could not go to trial at this term. He said he hoped the defence would be as ready at the next term of the Court as it was now, and that the State would then accommodate tbe defence. Jn reply the attorney for the de fendant said that he would let the next term speak for itself, even as the counsel for the State were bas ing their action upon matters as they presented themselves to them at this term. Judge Aldrich said that, on the motion of the State, he would grant the continuance to the next term, as the Attorney General and the solicitor were in command of the case for the State, as he would have continued it for the defendant upon a similar showing at the- first term at which a true bill was found. ;Mr. Evans was elected a member of the board of directors of the old State dispensary in 1900 and served four years as a member of that board and then for two years as chairman of the board. His home is in New berry, and since his retirement from the board he had devoted himself principally to farming. The indict ment charges two rebates, one of two hundred and fifty dollars and one for two hundred dollars, from M. A. Goodman, who, at the times mention ed in the indictment, had his head quarters in Savannah, Ga., and re presented various liquor houses. It will be recalled that recently in the Richland County indictments against Goodman were nol prossed. Attorney General Lyon said that, from the experience which he .had with similar cases in other counties, he had no idea that defence would be pressing for a trial, and that some of t.he State's witnesses were in other States and the State could not go to trial at this term. The motion, on the part of the State, for a con tinuance until the next term, was, thereupon, granted. This term of the Court for New berry, is only one week, and had t.he | trial been ordered for this term it I must have l^een held this week. Mr. J Evans appeared in excellent spirits when he came into Court, immediate ly following the finding of the true bill, and surrendered to the sheriff. Married by Sign Language. William Dilworth, a deaf mute prize fighter, better known as "Dum my Decker," was married at Savan nah, Ga., Monday morning to Miss Katharine Martini, of Baltimore, the hride also is a deaf mute. She reached Savannnh from her former ibome a few hours before the wed ding. The marriage so.-, ice _ translated by the finger language the young man and woman. Engineer Hurled from Cab. When the crown sheet of a South ern freight locomotive blew out while the train was running between Lafa yette and Crowley, La., last Tuesday night. Engineer Samuel Colville and Fireman Herb-rt Troy were badly scalded. Colville was entirely blown out of the cab and fell in the ditch beside the track. His injuries may prove fatal. Troy will recover. MCES A WEEK. SHOT DOWN ON STREET DOMESTIC COMPLICATIONS WAS CAUSE OF TRAGEDY. Victim Had Just Left Court House When Met by Kis Assailant, Who Opened Fire Without Warning, W "wo minutes after leaving the ^- House, whir-re ihe had been con ^te + , ^ase in the Criminal Court, S. yfo ?^ - an attourn?y, of the Dillo^^e *<e- shot and almost in stantly *0y R. S. Davis, at six o'clock Tuv ay afternoon. There was a large crowd of people on the streets, and the shooting was done at the corner, where is located the Evan's Pharmacy, one of the busiest parts of town. Three bullets entered the body, either of which would have produced death. A magazine pistol, carrying steel bullets, was used. iMr. Davis was engaged in the in surance business in Dillon, being the junior member of the Dillon insur ance Agency. His wife conducts the Central Hotel, at which Mr. Hursey was a boarder. The shooting ia al leged to be the outcome of unfor tunate domestic complications, Which developed at the hotel some months ago. Upon leaving the Court House, where Dillon's first term of Criminal Court was in session, Mr. Hursey walked across the street, and was passing in front of Evans' Pharmacy, when he was met by Mr. Davis. Eye witnesses to the affair say that no words were exchanged, but when the two met, Davis pulling a gun from his pohket and began shooting at Hursey at close range. The first bul let entered the right side and the second sfhot entered the forehead. As the victim of the tragedy whirled and fell upon the pavement, it is stated that Davis fired at him again, shoot ing him through the back of the head. The affair is deepfly regretted by everybody. Young Hursey was a graduate of the University of North Carolina and was admitted to the North Caro lina Bar, about four years ago. Quite recently he came into an inheritance of $15,000 from his grandfather's estate, and it was his purpose to go Wiest and establish himself in some prosperous city. Davis surrendered himself to the [ sheriff immediately after the tragedy. When seen at the city guard house he said that he had no statement to make. BURIED TREASURE MISSING. Young Man Charged With Appro-j priating Uncle's Funds. After showing her cousin over the I premises and interesting him in the [ calf, chickens and garden, the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Henderson, at Spartanburg, in the absence of her parents, showed her kinsman Monday where her father kept his J money buried. According to the tes-1 timony brought out in the hearing, John Ree\es was penniless, for he had just asked for a loan of 15 cents, before being shown the treasure. Af terwards he returned to the house a while, and then excused himself and went out and unearthed the money and took $5G, it is alleged. He had previously announced his intention of remaining all night with the Hen dersons, but on exploring his uncle's hidden wealth, and helping himself, it is said, he took French have. QUIETLY LYNCHED. Arkansas Mob Overpowered Officers and Took Prisoner. Will Hunter, a negro, was taken from the officers by a mob at Star City, Ark., Tuesday night and lynch ed. The negro had just been arrested for entering the room of a white wo man, near Garnett, Ark., a few days ago. Overpowering the officers, the mob took the negro to a dense wood near by, and after hanging him to a limb of a tree, riddled his body with bul lets, after which it dispersed. So quietly did the mob do its work that nothing was known of the lynching until the body of the negro was found still hanging to the tree Wednesday. Novel Query. A most unusual request for in formation has come to the depart ment of Agriculture. The letter was received from a citizen of Missouri, residing in the town of Wellvillc. After asking concerning the agricul tural possibilities in the Piedmont section of the State, he concludes with the following query: "And are all parts of the State badly infested with saloons, mosquitoes, negroes, and other pests?" Unknown White Man Killed. A man, unidentified at the inquest was killed Tuesday afternoon, across the river from Columbia, in L xing woo County, by being struck by a wu.umbia, Newberry and Laurens train, No. 53. A pint iwttle, half full of liquor, probobly tells the tale of the acoident. The bottle was found in the man's pocket. Rebellion in Brazil. Advices received by the German Cablegram Company at Berlin from Rio de Janerio state that insurgents in the prefecture of Jurua, in the acre district of western Brazil, have driven out the governor and declared their independence. liii ORASTGEBU LEAVES A VERY SAD NOTE 'THROAV MY ASHES TO THE FOUR WINDS." Well Known Artist of New York Engaged to Daughter of Boston Banker, Ends His Life. Leon Guypon, well known as an artist and illustrator, shot himself through the head in his studio at New York Tuesday, and was found dead onthe floor, a revolver by his side. SVf. C. Merill, a close friend, ex plaining the tragedy said that Guy pon had been engaged to Miss Agnes Foster, daughter of a Boston banker, but had broken the engagement be cause of til health. He suffered with heart trouble and had been told by physicians that he might die at any time. He could stand it no longer. Before killing himself the young artist sent to his former fiance in* Boston a oheck for $7,212 "all the pennies I had saved," as he express ed it in a letter to his friend, Mer rill. In his letter to Merrill, he wrote: "Since I came back to New York for no apparent reason my heart went all to pieces again. I told you it was throat and my stomach. I suf fer more than words can describe. No doctor can help me and I fully realize that I am doomed. f'l do not want to -poison her brignt, happy life, yet 1 cannot live without her. I have fought manful ly, but I am beaten. So there is but one honorable path open to me and I sihall calmly st??p into it because my conscience is clear." When a heavy envelope on a table near the body was opened the artists' will, written in his own hand, was found. It said in part: "This is my Hast will. I am an orphan and have no blood relatives After my death do not look for my money, as I have already disposed of it. All my pictures and all my be longings I give to Agnes Foster, of No. 41 Winthrop street, Boston, Mass., and to Mr. Hiram C. Merrill, of New York. They may divided them amicably between themselves, or sell them, or give them to friende, or do whatever they wish with tlhem. I desire to be cremated and my ashes thrown to the four winds. ROW IN HOTEL. Alleged Attempt to Throw Young Woman from Window. With her hair hanging down and her person bloody from an encounter with two men in the hotel, Evelyn Jones, a young woman of about 20, was rescued from a second story win dow of the Oregon Hotel in Spartan burg Monday morning, where she had luckily caught a hold, after be ing thrown from the building, as she claimed, by L. D. Crews, one of the proprietors of the house. The young woman was a guest at the hotel. Cases of disorderly con duct (were made 'out against the proprietors of the hotel, and, upon investigation before Mayor L&e, they were each fined $50. Evelyn Jones, who claimed she was on her way to Jacksonville. Fla., and had stopped over in Spartanburg on business, was detained at the police station till the arrival of .her train. It was al leged in the trial that she was con ducting herself improperly at the hotel and that the proprietors were | trying to put -her out. NEGRO LYNCHED. Mob Overpowers Sheriff and Takes the Prisoner. While officers from Arkansas were enroute to Mastoden, Miss., with El mer Curl, a negro, they were over powered by a mob at Como, Miss., Monday night, who took the negro to Mastoden and lynched him. Carl was charged with shooting W. P. Miller, a plantation manager, who attempted to arrest him for writing an improper letter to a white woman. Following the shooting several weeks ago, Curl escaped although he was pursued for three days by a posse with bloodhounds. He was captured at Marion, Ark., Sunday, and the officers and the prisoner were aboard an Illinois Central train w.hen the mob boarded the train at Mc Gees crossing near Como. Bodies Taken From Deep. Five more bodies have been re moved from the French submarine, Pluviose. These include the body of Commander Callot, who was found dt ad at his post, his .hands clutching the periscope. An examination of the bodies by physicians at Calais. France, has disclosed the fact that death was rapid. Assaulted Own Daughter. A Bluefield, W. Va., special says a posse and officers of Lagon county. West Virginia, aro scouring the mountains in that vicinity for L. C Carter, who on 'last Sunday at Stone Branch, assaulted his 16 year old daughter. An officer from that sec tion states that Carter will be lynch ed if captured. Severed Blood Vessels. .Mr. .1. A. Marshall, who lives about six miles east of Kingstree, while using a hatchet Tuesday, cut his arm above his wrist, severing ?? veral of the blood vessels. Before medical assistance could be reached he had bled considerably. RG, S. C, THURSDAY, J FEARFUL CRASH Probably Thirty People Killed in Montre al Disaster. FIRE ADDED TO HORROR Supports of Sprinkler System Tank on Roof of Herald Building Give Way, Precipitating Masri f Metal and Water, Weighing 35 Tons, to Basement. Between twenty and thirty people lost their lives Monday when the sup ports of the sprinkler system tank, [on the roof of the Herald building, at Montreal, Canada, gave way, and the great mass of metal and water, weighing thirty-five tons, went crash ing to the basement. Fire broke out immediately, add ing its horrors to the disaster. The firemen displayed splendid heroism in rescuing scores of people from perilous positions in the tottering v. alls. Some of the walls had to come down before the work of recovering the bodies could be safely attempt ed, and it was not until six o'clock in the evening that the first body, charred and mangled beyond recog nition, was brought out. All of those who escaped agree that the first warning of the impend ing disaster passed almost unnotic ed. There was a slight creaking, then a little more, somewhat more pronounced, but it was not until the ceiling plaster began to fall that a rush for the stairway began. Before anyone reached it there oc curred a final deafening crash, and then chaos. Some survivors tell of falling one and two floors before awful crash died away, and then they found themselves able to crawl through the dense dust to a place of safety. The majority sought safety by rushing to the front of the build ing. iFortunately all of the floors held for about thirty feet fack from the front wall, and to this is due the fact that the death list does not run into the hundreds, for there were nearly three hundred people in the building at the time. When the first hook and ladder company reached the scene the fire men found the windows of the up per floors crowded with people, and the crowd on the sidewalk urging them not to jump. Not one did jump. Ladders were quickly placed in position and those in danger were brought to the ground. One ladder was hoisted, reaching to the fourth floor, on which the bindery was located. It came, be tween two windows. From one of these a little girl crept along the cop ing until she could reach the ladder. Grasping a ring with one hand and placing a foot on another, she lent a helping hand to eight other girls twice her size. When all the girls had reached the ladder and had been brought down to safety she came down alone. By this time the fire had started and smoke was pouring from the front windows. The little girl fainted when she reached the boctom of the ladder. A dozen injured people were car ried from the ruins by the firemen, many of them with broken limbs. Of the rescued that of Bred Vldal, a stereotyper, was the most daring. Half an hour after the firemen reach ed the building Vidal was heard groaning, and was located under a girder, from which he could not be dislodged. Despite the fact that the flames were creaping near three fire m*en began to cut away and stuck to their task. In the crowd outside was Father Martin. When he heard of the fight against death, he went into the building, and administered the last rites of the church to the semi-conscious man. Finally, however, the beam was cut through and Vidal released, not a moment too soon. Both his legs and some of his ribs were brok en. FOUGHT WITH GAMBLERS. Two Negroes Are Dying as Result of Battle in the Dark. As a result of a Sunday night raid on an alleged gambling house near Waycross. Ga., two negroes are dying, five are in jail and Deputy Sheriff .lohn P. Cason is seriously wounded. Surrounding the house, officers were able to approach without much trouble. When they went inside the house an inmate kicked the light out, after which the negroes began firing. More than fifty shots were exchang ed. The wounded cannot recover. White .Man's Victim Dead. "Crack" Thomas, colored, who shot Saturday night, June 4, at Un ion, in the restaurant run by Julian Hughes, died Sunday night. The verdict of the inquest was that he came to his death by a gun shot wound, at the hand of Julia Hughes. Picnic Postponed. The picnic of tthe Methodist Sun day School which was to have been held today at Dukes Fishery has b' en postponed on account of the rains. It has not yet been decided when it will be held, but announcement will be made later. ( UJSE 1?, 1910. POISON WAS FOUND \YTFE AND DOCTOR CHARGED WITH HUSBANDS DEATH. Suspicion Aroused by Alleged Inti nuicy.?Brothers Had Dead Man's Stomach Analyzed. As dark as the act of Henry the Eighth is the terrible accusation that is being brought against two promi nent people of Swainsboro, Ga. Nev er before in the annals of the history of the county has it been so com pletely charged with excitement as it is. Bunches of men are to be seen standing on the street corners talking excitedly and the sheriff of the county and his deputies are pro ceeding in all directions in search of an alleged fugitive. This excitement is due to the fact that the state chemist, to whom the stomach of Mr. Fred Flanders, who died June 4th was sent, has intimat ed that the stomach was full of pois on and that arrests had better be made. The stomach of the deceased was sent to Atlanta because relatives of Flanders felt that he was poison ed and suspicion rested on Dr. W. J. McNaughton and Mrs. Flanders. When the sheriff went to arrest them Monday morning, it was dis covered that Dr. M*. Naught on had sold his place and all his property .had been turned into <"-.sh and that he had left. Mrs. Flanders was ar rested by the sheriff and brought to Swainsboro. 'Mr. and Mrs. Flanders have occu pied the home of Dr. McNaughton since the death of his wife, about two years ago, Dr. McNaughton boarding with them. About two weeks before the death of Flanders, he became violently ill with what Dr. McNaugh ton, pronounced to be acute neph ritis. He was attended by no other physician but McNaughton and nurs ed by no one but his wife. He grad ually grew worse and finally on June 4th passed away. Brothers of Flanders, on account of Dr. McNaughton's attention to Mrs. Flanders before, and after the death of her husband, became sus nicious that there was some foul pjay and Tuesday they had his body ex humed, a coroner's jury empanneled and his stomach removed by Drs. Smith and Chandler and sent to At lanta in order that the state chemist might analyze its contents. Only .Sunday a report was received which intimated that arrests would be in order, however, too late to catch Dr. McNaughton, for he had gone. Flanders was worth four or five thousand dollars and he was insured for about five thousand. Dr. McNaughton had lived in the county for a number of years and was con sidered a good citizen.. BREAKS WORLD'S RECORD. Aviator Soared 4,384 Feet in a Bi plane at Indianapolis. Soaring to a height of 4.384 feet, Walter Brookins, in a Wright bi blane Monday broke the world's aer oplane record for altitude at the av iation meet at the Indianapolis, Ind., speedway. Brookins' high flight, in which he exceeded the record 4,lfi5 fett made by Louis Paulham, at Los Angeles last fall, was also a speed triumph. According to the rigister of the in struments, Brookins was 1,900 feet in the air seven minutes after he left the earth. He rose to that point in a wide circle. Continuing his circles, Brookins rose steadily at a speed of about f>U miles an hour. Thirty minutes af ter he had started he reached his highest altitude and began the de scent, maneuvering at lower levels, until at a height of 100 feet h^ shut off the motor and glided easily to the ground alongsile the start ing rail. DRANK WOOD ALCOHOL. Three Men Are Demi and Two Others Are Probably Dying. A. I. McCasgill. aged 63; Will Mar tin, aged 31, and George Teacbout, VI years old, are dead, and Clarence Smith and Lee White, are believed to be in a dying condition as the re sult of drinking wood alcohol on Sat urday night at the village of Meau wataka, four miles from Cadillac. Mich. Teachout and McCasgill lived in Meauwataka and the others in Cadillac. McGasgill operated a soft-drink establishm< nt in Meauwataka, and when he went home Friday he took four gallons of whisky. The supply ran out Saturday evening and Mc Gaskill is said to have conceived the idea of mixing wood alcohol with sugar water and pop to complete Vas night of drinking. He died during the night and war, to-llowed four hours later by Martin and Teachout. Negro Man Shoots His Son. Tuesday evening James Bullock, colored, was committed to jail at Raleigh, N. C to await superior court trial for shooting his son, Sam Bullock, at his home near Garner The son was reprimanding the father for whipping the wife and mother when the old man seized his gun and shot the son in the abdomen. Fats Moth Ball and Dies. At Mobile. Ala., Jack Harris, lG-montbs-old sou of A. J. Harris, died Monday evening from eating a moth ball, which he found on the floor. Toxiu-.- poison resulted. FOUND MURDERED STRANGER SLAIN IN HIS ROOM IN HOTEL. Instunt Death from Bullet, but No Revolver Found?Supposed Broth er Has Vanished. A man, whose name is given by the police as Frank Stickett, and who is believed to have come from Baltimore, was found murdered Tues day in a Bowery hotel. A revolver bullet .had entered his left temple, causing instant death, physicians said, but there is no trace of the revolver. The victim registered with another man at the hoteO early Tuesday as "John Stickett and brother, Frank." The supposed brother was not to be found w>v? the body waB discovered. The clothing of the dead man ap parently was purchased in Baltimore. The name of that city on his cloth ing and the card of a New York elec trical concern in the coat pocket were the only clues left to aid a search for the man's antecedants. He was apparently an Englishman about twenty-three years old. GIRL'S PITIFUL PLIGHT. Mentally Unballanced Is Found Wan dering in Woods. While making a search in the woods near Greenville Tuesday for a negro wanted on a trival charge, Sheriff Poole came upon a young white girl about 16 years old, who had almost gone back to the primal state. The girl was asleep when found lying on a bank of moss near the river bank, and when accosted by the officer she declared that for several weeks she had made her home in the woods, living on berries and sleeping in the open. The girl's clothing was wet by the continued rains and she appeared in a some what exhausted condition. The sheriff took the girl in custody and placed her in oharge of the au thorities at the emergency hospital ir the Salvation Army citadel. She was later identified as Leonie Ander son, and physicians say she has been suffering from temporary mental ab erration. --f. ? f CLOUDBURST KILLS MANY. Great Loss of Life Among Laborers in Germany. Great loss of life has occurred in the Ahr Valley of the Eifel region, says a dispatch from Cologne, Ger many, as the result of a cloudburst which swept the district late Sunday night. Estimates place the total number of dead at 150. News of the catastrop.be reached Cologne Monday. Numerous storms in the region had the streams un usual!.- high and as a result of an unusually heavy downpour Sunday night the river A.hr suddenly over flowed, the water carrying death and destruction in its path. The greatest loss of life occurred where two barracks containing lab orers employed on the railway were swept away. The inmates were sur prised on t.he railway and many were, unable to help themselves. Thirtv seven bodies have been recovered. FARMER DROWNED. Loses His Life While Helping to Res cue Two Roys. Mr. P. G. Adams, a well-known farmer, living at Penny's pond, near Raleigh, N. C, was drowned Tues day, while helping to rescue two boys. All were bathing in the pond. Adams went to crawl up into a boat in which were the two boys, when the boat capsized. He helped to get the boys out to shallow water and when they reached the bank badly frightened they were horrified on looking back to see Adams sinking for the last time. It was an hour before his body was recovered. No water in his lungs indicates that heart failure may have followed his exertion in saving the boys and that this rather than the actual drowning cans d his death. He was 40 years old and a lache! or. FA I IM K11 ASSA SSI X ATE I >. Slain With Shotgun as He Lay in Red by Unknown Party. I.. W. Deloney, one of the best known farmers of southwest Arkan sas, was assassinated near Ashdown. Ark., Tuesday night as he lay in bed asleep by unknown parties who fired two charges from a shotgun into his body. Deloney recently had a quan tity of meat stolen and under a war rant the property of several white men was searched. This, it is be lieved, was the direct cause oi the tragedy. The people of the section are greatly excited and it -:s for-"' trouble will result if the assassin !t capt tired. "Wealthy Widow Murdered. Dean Erhart, who was arrested at Baston, near Leavens worth, Kan., on Tuesday night in connection with the murder of Mrs. Kathrin Schultz, the wealthy widow whose body was found in her home last week, was taken before the county attorney's office Wednesday and examined. . Erhalt is a fanner forty years o'.d, and the husband of a niece of Mrs. Schultz. TWO CENTS PER COPr A GREAT FLIGHT Charles K. Hamilton Flies From New York to Philadelphia. HE THEN FLIES BACK Left Governor's Island in Aeroplane f Monday Morning and Reached Philadelphia One Hour and Fifty one Minutes Later, Covering a Dis tance of Eighty-Eight Miles. A dispatch from New York says Charles K. Hamilton arose from Gov ernor's Island in an aeroplane Mon day morning and sped without a break 88 miles to Philadelphia In a successful cross-crountry flight under the auspices of the New York Times and the Philadelphia Public Ledger. He made the trip in one hour and 51 minutes, leaving Governor's Is land at 7.35 and the landing at Philadelphia at 9.36. Alighting at the aviation field, he delivered letters from Gov. Hughes and Mayor Raynor to Gov. Stuart and Mayor Reyburn, accepted mes sages of congratulation from them to bear in return and started for New York again, with only brief in termission for food, fuel and oil. .He had flown appoximately 70 miles of his return journey when a sluggish motor drove him to descend in a swamp near South Ambe/, N. J., at 12.55 p. m. The propeller was broken there in landing, but after repairs had been made Hamilton re sumed his ight at 6.20 and landed at Governor's Island 6.3 9. Thus the trip was made in one hour and 36 minutes at an estimated speed of 54.96 miles an hour, which breaks the record made in the Curtiss flight from Albany to New York. That Hamilton did not make the return trip as easily as the outgo, ing trip was due only to haste. He neglected to clean his spark plugs, they fouled, the engine balked, and -he had to come down on the hanks of the Raritan river, two miles above South Am boy. Curtiss stills holds the official re cord for speed, but Hamilton Monday took all American records for cross country distance and duration, and, using his own figures for the return, his average speed is a new figure. The broken propeller was the se cond mishap of the kind during the day, but he secured a new propeller and with a new set of spark plugs the aviator was able to finish within 12 hours, although 24 hours were allowed in the terms of his contract. During the whole of his first lap Hamilton never varied more than two minutes from his time card and came down on the handkerchief laid down to mark his landing spot with the precision of a homing pigeon settling on its perch. It is an interesting coincidence that Hamilton won his honors with the same biplane that won the inter natonal speed trophy for Glenn R. Curtiss at Rheims last year and that he was driven by the same propeller with which Curtiss recently made hi3 historic flight from Albany to New York. The weather was ideal for flight. as Hamilton wheeled his aeroplane from its tent on Governor's Island a special train, chartered by the New Yo:k Times and the Philadelphia Public Ledger and carrying his moth er, h!a wife, his chief m chanican, Albert C. Doty and Mrs. Doty, stood on a siding of the Pennsylvania ter minal in Jersey City waiting for the word. PERILOUS TRIP. Roy Aeronaut Severs Parachute and Grabs Clutch Rope. Clyde H- ekle, eighteen years old, made a terrifying 6,000-foot balloon ascension Sunday night, clinging for a part of the time to the clutch rope of the air craft. He landed a half hour after the start in the middle of a shallow lake at a summer resort, near Lincoln, Neb. Adolph Wei berg, an aeronaut who gives exhibitions at the resort by as cending and dropping in a parachute, had mad- preparation for his regular trip. Young Heckle with others was holding the ropes. The boy had ask ed to he allowed to make the ascent, but was refused. Just as the aeronaut seated in his parachute attachment called to his assistants to let go. Heckle, with a knife severed the two ropes holding the aeronaut. ' The air bag leaped upward and Heckle grasped the clut ch rope of the balloon. Welberg. with his parachute, was left on the ground. For possibly a thousand feet Heck le w nt upward like a recket, cling ing only with his hands. Then he managed to swing himself astride the pQjjg an(j after an ascent of .- ? mile, came down without a ssfsfeap. Former Sheriff Poisoned. A special from Oneida, Tenn , says Frank Hughett, ex-sheriff of Scott county and a candidate for the election as sheriff, was poisoned, pre sumably by whiskey given him by a supposed friend. This is the sec ond alleged attempt upon his life in recent weeks. Hughett's condi tion Es critical, but it is thought he will recover.