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FAMOUS EIGHT"
j ! Ao Areoplaoe from Albany to New
^ York City by Corliss.
BREAKS ALL RECORDS
The American With His Little Ma*
chine Startles World by Flying
i / From Albany to New York in Rec
. ord-Breaking
Tim?.?Will Revolutionize
All Warfare.
The whole world is still talking
of the remarkable flight of Glen. H.
Curtiss, the American aviator, who
last Sunday flew from Albany tc New
York city, a distance of 137 miles, in
152 minutes, creating a long distance
speed record that has astounded not
only those Interested in heavier than
air machines but the public generally
as well. The distance Curtiss
Y* traveled is not so great as that of
Paulhan's recent flight from Manchester
to London, in England, but
the speed he made was remarkable.
He averaged a trifle over 54 miles an
hour, greater than that of the fastest
trains in the country over the
same distance .
Mr. Curtiss wears the laurels he
won by this famous flight very modestly,
declaring that it was the machine,
not the aeronaut, that made
the trip possible. He also makes it
clear that he believes that still greater
feats in flying will be accomplished,
and these in a not far distant
future.
The aeronaut began his flight from
the New York state capital at Albany
at Just 7.03 a. m. Sunday and only
1 - 1 o 1I4_
two stops were muue uuluiw mu m.tle
biplane .glided to its resting place
on Governor's island, in New York
city. The first stop was made at
Poughkeepsle, where an .hour was
spent by Curtiss going over his engine
and refilling his oil and gasoline
tanks.
The second stop was made at Inwood,
where ho made his ofllcial
landing. From Inwood he proceeded
to Governor's Island, where he ended
ills flight. Between Albany and Inwood
the biblane, which is the smallest
that ever figured In the greater
aviation contests, made an average
epeed of 54.06 miles an .hour.
For minutes at a time Curtiss
skimmed through the air at a speed
of 60 miles an hour and the special
train which was following the flight
was hard put to it to keep abreast
of the machine. In fact on several
occasions it was left a mile or two
behind. There wore times during the
flight w-hen the machine soared close
to 700 feet above the winding river.
Curtiss' control of machine was
remarkable. Only once, and then off
the treacherous Storm King, near
West Point, did the biplane get from
under the control of the aviator.
Caught in a sudden puff of wind,
which tilted the planes, it dropped
ii\re> a nlnmrnet for a short distance,
t>uut Curtiss, by skillful handling of
lovers, quickly brought the machine
to a state of flying equilibrium.
The feat of the daring American
aeronaut, in addition to winning for
him the fame it did, enriched him
to the extent of $10,000, the cash
prize offered by a New York newspaper
to the first machine that made
the Albany-New York trip.
In speaking of the things that will
bo revolutionized by airships, Curtiss
declared that all the great battles
of the future will be fought in
g the air. "I have demonstrated that
\ it is oasy to fly over cities and fortifications,"
he said, "and when it
Is possible to do this it is a very
?asy matter to drop dynamite or
picric acid down on them. A few
airships could drop enough explosives
down on West Point or New
York city to destroy it In a very
?hort time. Why even in the little
biplane in which I sailed down the
Hudson I can carry 200 pounds of
* 4 /Inat r iir?.
dy no mile, jusi uuun ui uic
tion this amount would accomplish.
"What could armies of the bravest
men do under a shower of dynaa^
mite dropped from airships travel
dng, say 100 miles an hour. And i
the time is not far distant when
this fearful speed will be easily accomplished.
So I think 1 am justified
in saying that the battles of
the future will all be fought in the
air." *
Tried to Wreck Train.
The discovery of a nine Inch iron
i holt driven firmly into a switch frog
at Balfour on the Southern railway
12 miles from Asheville indicates a
-well-laid plan to wreck train No.
10 for partanburg.
One Man Dead.
A general shooting affair took
tplace on Saturday in the Lydia sec*
Kntiiiann
tion of Darnngion uuu 11 \.y uci ?? uv/i>
two families, Northcutt and Caston,
with the result that one man, Scarborough
Stevens, a negro, is dead.
SIIBSGI
TRAIL OF FRAUD
DEAD HAVKKMKYEIt INVOLVED
IN SUGAR SWINDLE.
Accused Secretary of Trust Seeks
to lay All Blame on His Former
Chief.
Testimony which led directly to
the grave of Henry O. Havermeyor,
late head of the American Sugar Refining
company, was given on the
witness stand at New York on Friday
by Charles R. Heike, secretary
of the company, who is charged with
conspiracy to defraud the government
on undeweights of su.gar.
Helke's defense began Friday.
George S. Graham, who made the
ononlntr address. said he reeretted
? ? * - ^
bringing discredit to a man now
dead, but circumstances of tke case
demanded it.
He Ike, he said, was at a period In
life when a prison sentence, even
if short, would mean a life term.
Therefore, he felt justified in violating
the old quotation "De mortuis
nihil nisi bonum.'
On taking the stand Heike immediately
put responsibility for practically
all his acts upon Havermeyer,
saying the latter had been in direct
control of the Williamsburg refinery,
and declaring ho had acted "at the
direction of Mr. Haverneyer. It was
also brought out through a letter
written by Haverneyer to Gerbraecht
that Heiko had called Hevemeyer's
attention to the "liberality" of the
government sugar (wHighors. The
letter reads:
"Mr. Heike today brings to my attention
his belief that the government
weights are more liberal here
than anyw.here else. Lot the government
weighers do their work. Of
course I know you have no connection
with them, but let me warn
you and any employee of ours
against having anything whatever
to do with them.
(Signed) "H. O. Havermeyer."
Heike denied any knowledge of
the tricky scales on the docks and
said h? did not even know the company
had scales there but thought
they belonged to the government.
One by oue the witnesses took up
his letters previously offered in evidence
by the government and explained
their meanings, always as
having no relation to the frauds.
From present indications the
summing up will begin on Tuesday
or Wednesday. *
DEBTS CAUSED SUICIDE.
1 lie Ifeau Jlltii rtixi in ins * lutir iui
Three Days.
Driven to suicide by inability to
pay his debts George B. Warren, of
Brockwayville, Pa., sat three days in
a chair in his room in a Pittsburg
hotel before his death was discovered.
In his pocket was a note to
his wife stating ho was going where
the "wolves howl." He also left a
check of $100 to pay his hotel bills.
Warren was the general manager for
the fleneral merchandising firm of
R. M. Beadle & Co., of Brockwayville,
Pa. He lived with his wife
and two sons at Shickshinny, Lizerne
county. He came to Pittsburg May
23, on a business trip. To his friends
he appeared moody. *
<imi lt'iLicriT
wiriiii w ?? jr IU vnj av a *
She Was Married at Nine Years ol
Age to Older Man.
Suit for divorce has been entered
by Nellie M. Johnson-Lamar, who
has had her tenth birthday since her
sensational marriage to Newlan L.
Lamar, 3 2 years old, of Memphis,
Tenn., July 15, 1909, her attorney
declaring that her wedding was
brought about through duplicity on
Lamar's part; that he enticed her
away from her parents and married
her when she was at an age too tender
to know her own mind and inclinations.
Probably a more sensational
wedding never stirred 'Memphis
when the facts became known
in New South Memphis following the
night of July 15 of last year. Lamar
having been informed, it ii said, to
violently drive him from the community.
*
Convict Has No Home.
Geo. A. Rose, formerly connected
with the Producers' National Bank,
of Cleveland, was released from tJie
prison Friday after serving 10 years
for violation of the banking laws,
latlon of the national banking laws.
His home has been broken up, his
I wife dying in Cleveland some years
| ago. *
! Shoots Her Husband.
| A dispatch from Honea Path says
S. B. Wright was s.hot and fatally
. wounded by his wife because she was
not allowed to attend a funeral, to
I which her husband was goiag.
FIIBE NO
THE STRAW MAW
Pat Up by President Toft la Foal the
People Into Sapporting
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
Socialism, He Says is the New Menace
that Threatens This Country
and That the Republican Party Is
the Only One That Can Save it
From Great Harm.
In a speech at Jackson, Mich., on
Saurday, President Taft proclaimed
Socialism as the great problem that
confronts the American people, the
issue that is soon to come and that
must be skillfully met.
By its history, he declare 1, the
Republican party had shown itsei!
capable of deajing wit.h the great
question effectively and wisely, and
he predicted that the Ame* '.can people
must soon determine \ hether ii
shall trust the same party with the
solution of that "problem than which
we iiave had no greater in the history
of the country."
Mr. Taft spoke with great earnestness
and Ii is remarks seemed deeply
to impress ?hiB hearers. By many
his words were taken as framing an
issue for the coming campaign.
The President disclaimed any purpose
of making a partisan address,
but the occasion of his visit was the
un,vei!Nng of a bronze itablet com1
n rvv nro f I n or n nro-nn lr?n t l/\?* ^ ? * 1%
U1VU1UI Utillg LUC 17 I tl 11 1 /id LI w H UI lilC
Republican partv "under the oaks"
in 1854, and he could not altogether
(refrain from a comparison of the
party with its opponents, which was
not altogether favorable to the opponents.
He also declared that popular government
must be a government of
parties, and in this connection there
was just a passing hint at insurgency.
The President declared -that unless
individuals are willing to sink
minor eonsiderations to the will of
the majority in a party, there would
come a rule by groups.
"In that event," .he added, "the
Lord only knows where your government
would be, and what it would
aecomiplish."
The President's reference to Socialism
came at the conclusion of a
brief history of what the Republican
party has done.
"He said: "The issue that is being
iramea, as 11 seems to me, is the
issue with respect to the institution
of private property. There are those
who charge to that institute the corjxjrate
abuses, the greed and the corruption
that grow out of those abuses,
the unequal distribution of property,
the poverty of some and the
undue wealth of others and therefore
say "we will have none of it
and we must have a new rule of
distribution that for want of a better
name we shall call Socialism.'
"On the other hand, it is contended
that it is not the institution of
private property that shall be abolished,
but only that the time has
come in which it is necessary to lay
down certain rules regulating and re
stricting the use of that property
which shall not deprive t.he world of
individual effort, but which shall still
keep the law and the opportunity to
use private property under such control
that fhr>sn nhnaoK mnv ho winort
out and the boom of individual effort
still be left open to us.
"Now, my friends, that presents a
great and difficult problem that I
am quite willing to admit we have
not yet solved, and the question
which the country will have to determine
after all, is which party it
is which has heretofore shown sufficient
skill and effectiveness in dealing
with great issues, which party
can be trusted to solve that problem
that which we have had no greater
in the history of the country."
After stating that the Republican
party was born of a moral issue, the
President declared that one of the
characteristics of that party is its
ability to do things and he then proceeded
to enumerate the issues which
had been, he said, met successfully
and effectually.
Continuing he said: "Rut it only
shows that in the running of a government,
we are met somotimes by
unexpected issues and what you need
in compand is an organized force
that has shown itself in the past able
to meet these issues and to have the
effectiveness and the skill and energy
to meet them with credit to the peo
pie of the country. And that ia what
the Republican party has done down
to this."
Killed by Tornado.
A severe storm passed over Elko
on last Thursday night, trees being
uprooted, roads impassable and considerable
damage done to crops by
i trees and trash. Two negroes were
1 killed on Mr. J. D. Whittle's place
above Elko.
W TO
WRECK OF TRAIN
TWENTY OR MOIIK PASSENGERS
ARE BA1>LY HURT.
Train Had Just Rounded Curve and
Track Waa Undermined by Heavy
Rain*.
The southeastern limited, on the
'Frisco system was wrecked Sunday
afternoon in Walker county, about
sixty miles west of Blrmi jham,
Ala., and thirty-six people were injured,
twenty of them seriously.
The recent heavy rains are supposed
to have undermined the track
as every car left the rails when the
train rounded a curve near Tawney,
Alabama, at high speed. None of
the cars turned over, but the track
was torn uu for a distance of 300
feet.
The score injured are:
J. H. Kemp, Dora, Ala., arm bruised.
Scott Maxwell, Cordova, Ala., internally
injured.
Mrs. C. Deneen, Ensley, Ala., lacerations.
F. P. Jernigan, Wilburn, Fla., injured
internally.
A. W. Jordan, Saye, Ala., chest
bruised.
C. Snelling, porter on the train,
right side crushed.
J. K. Crocket, news agent, bruised.
W. T. Eade, Birmingham, bruised.
Dr. Gilbert, Carbon Hill, Ala.,
bruised.
Charles Palette, Drake, Okla., badly
bruised.
G. M. Sites, Woodlawn, Ala., bruised.
James M. Perkins, Ensley, Ala.,
bruised.
A number of passengers, among
them J. M. Perkins, of Ensiey, and
Scott Maxwell, of Cordova, claim the
wreck was caused by excessive speed.
"Mr. 'Maxwell and I were in the
observation car," said Mr. Perkins,
"and asked the conductor to slow
down. He said: "We run freight
trains faster than this." Mr. Maxwell
then said if they did not slow
down the train would be in the ditch
in a few minutes. The conductor
went into the next car and was hardly
out of sight of us when the crash
came and I found myself under some
chairs, bndly bruised."
Conductor Mulfor stated that the
train was not running at excessive
speed. "We left Amery, Miss., fifspeed.
"eW left Amery, Miss., fifteen
minutes late, he said, "and
when the wreck occurred we were 15
minutes back of the schedule on a
slow order."
THE STANDARD RAISED.
State Board of Examiners Pass on
I>aw Papers.
The State says that the standard
for admission to practice in t.ho
court under the act passed at the
by the State board of law examiners,
recently appointed by tho supreme
cour under the act passed at the
last session of the general assembly,
was the opinion expressed by
apfplfoants taking the examination
which wis the first to be held by
the board.
The result of the examination was
announced on Saturday. Out of 15
taking the examination, only eight
passed. These were sworn in before
the supreme court as attorneys
to practice in the courts of the
O ttl IC.
The following passed the examination;
John M. Hemphill, Chester;
Simon B. Rich, Orangeburg; W. P.
Tillinghast, Beaufort; H. Campbell
Miller, Greenville; J. VVestley Crum,
Jr., Bamberg; E. A. Brown, Barnwell;
Jas. M. Moss, Jr., Lamar.
The members of the board of examiners,
making report to the supreme
court, are. William I). Melton
of Columbia, F. Barron Grler
of Greenwood, and William Miller of
Charleston.
It is the opinion of those taking
the examination that the requirements
for admission to practice in
the courts of the State will be raised
from year to year. *
His Prediction True.
Samuel Fords announced that he
was to be married Monday night and
that it would cost him his life. When
Catherine Pritchard, whose name was
not mentioned in the announcement,
heard the news, she called on Ford
and killed him with several shots
from a revolver. Jealousy is ailegI
ed to have been the motive. The
tragvdy occurred at Pollock.
Killed by Storm,
Two fatalities and property damage
that exceeds $5 0,000, is the result
of a terrific wind, hall and rain
storm t.hat visited Wilkes county, Ga.
on Thursday night. A pathway one
hundred yards wide was made from
one end of the county to the other
and whatever was in that zone was
swept ?way, regardless of any ''^sistance
that was offered.
THE HOI
PARDON REFUSED
Peciliar Case Recalled in the Petition
for One Job King
THE NOTED YEGGMAN
Other Men Were Convicted and a
Case of Mistaken Identity Made
i
it Necessary for Gov. Hey ward to
Itelease Three Others.?Petitioner
Said to He a Physical Wreck.
Four years spent behind the prison
walls at Atlanta and over six
months in the South Carolina prison
has made John King, alleged safeblower,
a physical wreck, according
to a petition presented to Gov. Anto
a petition proseuted to Governor
Ansel who refused to pardon
him. In behalf of King
a member of the house of representatives
wrote an appeal to Governor
Ansel, in which the interesting and
pathetic case of the man is set out.
L. M. Masque of Marlon is the attorney
who petitioned the governor.
John King was sentenced to serve
two years in the penitentiary, having.
been convicted of housebreaking
and larceny, and came to serve his
sentence in October, 1909.
Back in February, 1904, the safe
of John L. Dew, a merchant of Lat
ta, wag rinea ana me same nignt
the quantity of stamps and other
property taken therefrom. Not many
days thereafter out in the country
was found a den where three men
resided. In this den were found
stamps and pennies. Apparently
here were the guilty persons, Leonard
Harding and his twoc ompanions,
H. E. Cunningham and T. H.
Marion, were arrested by postoftlce
inspectors. The men were tried by
the State courts and, having been
guilty, were sentenced to serve five
years each in the State prison.
Meantime John McCarthy in a
Vermont prison made a confession,
implicating John King. TJiat was
in 1905. The confession was made
to Postofliee Inspector Gregory who
is well known in this State. The
confession exonerated the three men
who had been tried for the Latta
robbery and made King and McCarthy
t.he guilty persons, according
to McCarthys own statement.
With this confession before him
Gov. Heyward pardoned the three
men, who had been serving their sentence
for nearly one year. Subsequently
in Charlotte one of the men
died. The discovery of the mistaken
identity was made by accident one
day when Inspector Gregory visited
the State prison.
John King was tried in Charleston
by the federal court in April, 1905.
Upon the testimony furnished by McCarthy,
who In the words of the petitioner
"was a confessed criminal, a
aafcblowor," King was Convicted
and sentenced to servo four years
in prison. He immediately went to
Atlanta and remained in prison there
for four years.
_ 1 I I _ I- I _ C t ?
rouowuig iuh release iium uu' /\ilanta
prison, King was immediately
rearrested and tried in the State
courts.
At the time he had been in jail
for a year.
"With five years already served
for one offense," writes the petition- '
er, "King was again brought before
the court." He was convicted
and sentenced to serve two years.
He came to Columbia in October,
1909.
The petition states that King is
now a physical wreck, "worn out
years,* and thatf he haohO"D,lorfl
by his close confinement for six
years" and that he bad never been
in trouble before the Latta case, according
to McCarthy's confession.
The petitioner pleaded to let King
out so that he might become a better
citizen.
"While John McCarthy is enjoying
his freedom, having been pardoned
by the president of the United
States, by the governor of North Carolina,
and by tho governor of Vermnrifr
I^hicr Vina l!n crornfl I ?i nt'imm
lllVU t. i v i I I f-) nuiu IIII^VI vu > I* J' *
and suffered," pathetically states the
petition.
That King had been sufficiently i
punished was Judge Watts' opinion,
he having tried the case. Solicitor
Wells did not agree with Judge
Watts, Raving that the other fellows
w-ho suffered for King's deed were
punished and were innocent. The
reason King stayed in jail one year
before trial was because there had
been a mistrial. 1
Gov. Ansel makes no comment in
I the case except to write on the petij
tion, "Pardon refused, June 3rd,
1010."
Killed for Burglar.
Mistaken for a burglar, Elmer
Frost, a wealthy resident of Middle
a mirieen year oia ix>y oaiuraay.
town, N. Y. was shot and killed by
RRY HEH
' EELLNER MURDER
FURTHER TRACES OF DEED CONFIRM
THEORV.
Charred Foot of Little Alma Kellner
Found in Basement of Louisville
Church.
The unravelling of the knotty
skein of evidence confirming only too
well the theory that little Alma Kellner
was murdered in St. John's Catholic
Church, Louisville, Ky., where
she went to worship on December 31
last, proceeded rapidly, but nothing
has been heard from the suspected
janitor.
j The charred right foot of the
' child was found Wednesday in a
i > < i .1 ... i
pile 01 aaut'B near uie lurnweo m
the basement of the church and near
it were picked out of the refuse two
women's handkerchiefs. This makes
a total of five handkerchiefs found
in two days, and some of them bore
blood stains.
| The quick lime with which the
body was covered when found was
purchased, it was learned, at a grocery
only a few blocks away. According
to the grocery man the order
for the lime was telephoned in from
St. John's Church, and the barrel
of lime was delivered there soon af,
tor Christmas and turned over to a
| woman. As it was a cash transac
tion, no record was made of it, and
it is, therefore, impossible to give
the exact date.
In police court Mrs. Wendling's
attorney asked Judge Boldriek to discharge
her on the ground that she is
being held illegally and in violation
of Section 1.129 of the Kentucky
statutes, which provides that the
charge of accessory after the fact
docs not exist as to the wife of a
principal in crime. The motion will
be argued.
Mrs. Wendling, who is confined in
the jail, said that she knew absolutely
nothing of the murder, and
that she had no idea as to her husband's
whereabouts.
As an excuse for the disappearance
of her husband Mrs. Wendling
offered this:
"He was French?he was gay?
a Frenchman will 'take his head'
unless he has work that he likes,
and the weather was so cold this
winter, and there was so much snow
and so many fires to make and the
work was so dirty, that, I think, was
why he left. He did not like nouisville
and he wanted to be with the
French people. I never heard my
husband talk about his friends. I
know he deserted from the French
army. He told me so just before
we were married. I think we were
married about two years ago, on
the 18th of December.
Tried to Sell G'.rl.
| 'Max Appel, of New York, was arrested
in Baltimore, last week, and
committed tc await the action of the
Grand jury. He is accused of having
j tried to dispose of Sadie Brooks, 2 2
and pretty, but speaking little English.
In Manhattan and Brooklyn, and
failing, to have taken her to a resort
in Baltimore.
Hud a Koal ?)oy Hide.
Finding that six tramps had broken
into a beer car near Cheyenne,
VVyo., F. W. Hunt, a Colorado and
Southern conductor, seized the door
and sent the car to Cheyenne that
the men might be delivered to the
sheriff. They faced jail cheerfully,
declaring they had enjoyed the ride
and were full of beer.
Freaks of lightning.
While plowing in a field in the
Cedar Planes section of Alabama,
Will Jones, a young farmer, was
struck by lightning and his clothing
burned off and his hair singed, but
he will recover. The two mules he
was plowing were killed, and the
plow demolished.
Took His Life.
At Pittsburg. Pa., John Bovle, a
bridegroom of one week, Saturday at
t\ i n o /\ ?n r\ ?v o f * \ L o to o .t e i\ <1 f K o r*
ci [uaiiu, oaii^ a iv? inns auu i u^u
drank carbolic acid, dying a moment
later.
Duncan in the Race.
John T. Duncan, editor of the Reporter,
Columbia, S. C., is the latest
Gubernatorial entry.. He announced
Saturday that he would be In the
race.
Cotton Acreage Reduced,
Reports from the various cotton
producing states indicate that the
acreage this year will be from 2 to
3 per cent, higher than that of last.
Six Fishermen Dead.
Six fishermen lost their lives when
the brigantine Mauve, of Cancale,
France, struck on Point Blanche,
while entering St. Pierre in a thick
fog early Thursday.
BALD