Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 6, 1908, Page 4

CREAT AIRSHIP ATOTAL WRECK Count Zeppelin’s Big Balloon Struck by Lightning. FLAMES COMPLETE RUIN Machine Had Just Finished the Most Remarkable Voyage in the History of Aerial Navigation, Traveling Sev- eral Hundred Miles and Returning to Near Its Starting Point Under Absolute Control of Its Pilots. Stuttgart, Aug. 6.—During a storm the Zeppelin airship broke away from its moorings, took fire and disap- peared in the air. Several persons were injured. Count Zeppelin, how- ever, is safe. 1t appears that the airship exploded during a thunder storm. Previous %o exploding it burst into flames. It is supposed to have been struck by light- ning. The latest report from Echter- dingen says it is completely ruined. The storm blew up unexpeciedly. A fierce gust of wind tore the balloon from its anchorage and drove it in a southwestern direction for some fifty yards, Here the rear end of the great fabric dropped and smoke and flames were seen to burst out from one end to the other. Then in a few seconds came the explosion and a great col- umh of flames shot upward into the air. This was followed by a crashing down to earth of the motors and frames that had been attached to the under side of the airship. Several treaicd 1 the several speechies hé will make in the next thirty days. “The notification speech,” said Mr. “will deal with but few ques- ~Having a letter of ncce;;‘tn.nt write later and several speeches to :x?a;(alun imporlafitstumcs, sflch as the| @nd how the people can be put into tariff, the trusts, the banking ques-| tion, the labor question, impermxs?i 4 ecessary to include s, ?}iz&)iznw:l;s“:;egch T could mot| of all just government being to se- have done justice {o any one ques- 7| tion if I treat a number. TR “our platform declared the ovar: shadowing question to be 'Shall the People Rule? and in this ‘speech I take up the conditions and endeavor | to show what has produced these con- | ditions and how they can be remedied : : P INTERE WOUIA “advocats ‘tha Yllling ot “every : . SMITH WiLL N‘ZT_ INTERF ERE Spaniard in’'Manila, said that the in- Canal Excavations Increasé. yards for July a year ago. Deslarations of Filipino ~ Politician | coclt lacked the slightest hint of| Washinkton, Aug. 6—Month by Purély Personal.’ Manila, Aug. ¢—Governor General flammatory declarations being those of a private cilizen only and not ut- Smith, in reply to the protest made | tered by any ome in an official capac- by the Spanish residents of this city [ ity. It is presumed that this closed against the utterances of Simon Villa, | the incident. a candidate for alderman, who on| A lively municipal campaign is now July 22 declared in the course of a|in progress here and-the American speech that he hated everything Span- | residents are endeavoring to defeat ish and in_cage of another revolution | Villa for alderman of the city. control of their own government. “The only other- subject- discussed is the ‘Measure of Rewards,’ the aim cure to each individual the reward to which his work entitles him.” yards, against 3,056,976 cubic yards |/is a fall of rain. % ‘bystanders were knocked down. Two causes had conspired to make it necessary to land thé airship at Echterdingen, the overheating of the piston box of the forward motor and the escape of considerable gas owing to the fact that the count took the alrship to a height of about six thou- sand feet. The Zeppelin airship had just com- pleted the most remarkable voyage in the history of aerial navigation. It left the Lake of Constance Tuesday morning for a trip to Mayence and return. The flight was successful in & great many ways. The machine re- sponded absolutely to the control of its pilots and was navigated over the Lake of Constance, down the valley of the Rhine, over Strassburg and sev- eral other cities and was expected back at its starting point Wednesday morning. It suffered an accident Tues- day evening, however, and had to de- scend to an island in the Rhine for repairs. These, however, did not take long and the airship was soon on its ‘way again. Again Forced to Descend. Shortly before 8 o’clock Wednesday morning, when the machine was ex- pected at Friedrichshaffen, its point of departure, it came down at Echter- dingen, five miles south of Stuttgart, because the piston box of one of the motors had become overheated and also because the amount of gas in the balloons had been reduced as a re- sult of sailing in high altitudes. Count Zeppelin has devoted his life- time and his personal fortune to the development of his airships. The ves- sel just lost was the fourth he has constructed. When his own money had become exhausted the German reichstag voted him $125,000 to &n- duct further experiments and No. 4 Wwas the result. The German govern- ment agreed to purchase this ship on condition that it fulfilled certain re- quirements, the principle one being that it remain in the air twenty-four hours and land on terra firma. This stipulation had not yet been fulfilled. The airship was 443 feet long, with a diameter of about forty-five feet. It tapered to a blunt point at the bow, while at the stern were various rud- ders and frames used in steering. It was fitted underneath with two inde- pendent platforms, each carrying a motor capable of developing 140 horse- power. As many as sixteen passen- gers had been taken aloft at one time. Sleeping accommodations ‘were pro- vided for the crew and an apparatus ‘was installed for the dispatch and re- ceipt of wireless telegrams. The in- flating gas was distributed among six- teen separate interior compartments, which were contained within the outer rigld envelope of aluminum, Zeppelin a Civil War Veteran. New York, Aug. 6.—It is not gen- erally known that Count Zeppelin, whose mammoth airship is breaking all flying records in Germany, is a veteran of the Grand Army of the Re- public. He served through the Amer- dcan Civil war as a cavalry officer in the Army of the Mississippi in the brigade commanded by General Carl Schurz. At the battle of Fredericks- burg the young German cavalryman owed his escape from capture.to a brilliant feat of horsemanship which carried him through the line of bay- onets with which he had been encir- cled. Thaw Defendant in Suit. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Aug. 6.— Harry K. Thaw was taken from his quarters in the Dutchess county jail to Fishkill to appear before a referee as defendant in a suit brought against him by Dr. John P. Wilson for $600 for services as an expert witness in the recent habeas corpus proceedings. Thaw disputed the amount of the bill," but is willing to pay about $200. DEALS WITH FEW QUESTIONS Mr. Bryan Outlines His Speech of Acceptance. Lincoln, Neb.,, Aug. 6.—William J. Bryan, Democratic nominee for the presidency, has outlined the subjects ‘which he will discuss in his forthcom- 1ng speech of acceptance. The speech will be confined practically to the questions “Shall the People Rule?” and “The Measure of Rewards.” The other issues of the campaign, such as guarantee of bank deposits, the fariff, the trusts, etc.. will be B H Ll .2} B B 4 B B B | B 2| H | B B | H | | .A H N H | | .| E = | | | N | X - | .| | | | | | A — yards for June -and 1,071,498 Gubié any international: aspect, Villa’s in- month the total excavation of the Twentieth Day of Heat: isthmian canal is increasing. A cable- Chicago, Aug. 6.-—Chicago entered gram received from Colonel Goethals, | upon its twentieth day of continuous chief engineer on the isthmus, shows | intense heat and its fifteenth day that the excavation for July was con: | Without rain. Four deaths over night siderably greater than for Jume, al- | Were reported. Owing to the contin- though the latter was almost a record |/ued drought Fire Marshal Horan has in the canal work. The total excava- | ordered that all lumber yards and tion for July was 3,168,640 cubic | similar places be kept wet until there A CHANGE OF SCHNEIDER BROTHERS CLOTHING HOUSE, BEMIDJI, MINN. s Forced to Sell Everything o Merchandise to be Merchandise to be distributed in the distributed in the homes of the people | [N The Great Quality Clothing Store At a Big Sacrifice | nomes of the peopie at Slaughter Prices. at Slaughter Prices SCHNEIDER WAIT! WAIT! |SCHNEIDER BROS. . BROS. . e wv| Bring this Friday, Aug. 7, at 8 o’clock A, M. [m=wns__ww PRICE CUTS NO FIGURE EVERYTHING IN THE BIG STORE MUST BE TURNED INTO CASH IN TEN DAYS : TO THE PUBLIC: A big change has taken placé in this great enterprise and the new management is forced to place this mammoth stock of Cloth ing, Furnishings and Shoes at a §acrifice before the people of Bemidji and the surrounding country, backed with a reputation of many years of successful business. A BONA FIDE GUARANTEE THAT EVERYTHING WILL BE JUST AS ADVERTISED AND STAND REACY AND GOMPELLED TO TAKE THE LOSS OF THIS SALE MEN’S FURNISHINGS CLOTHING DEPARTMENT Men’s Suits, $10 and $12 $5 90 Spring and Fall Overcoats Men’s white Handkerchiefs, sold 2 Lion Shirts sold for $1.50 89 kind, Foro.q s woesen s . The kind that were $15 for 10cmow, ...\ ............ C DOW ...itiiiiiinns veennns C ] now . . e $ . .’ $8. 75 Red and blue handkerchiefs now 3c 50¢ and 75¢ Balbriggan under- 3 $15 and $18 Suits $ll 75 O o s s s 0 .50 v wenr now . gganmder BGE HOW: . e s Sl * Boys and Buster Brown Suits xfn s fine hose, 25¢ kind 70 Corliss-Coon collars, sell for 90 e te e s e e EEEEEEEE 150!10W $18, $20, $22 to $24 $13.90 iiiiofg:fl, 34 knee pants $2.55 Men’s heavy socks, now. . . .. 4c Kuppenheimer Suits for " AR Men's extra heavy socks for, . 6e Men’s Shoes - B : v Men’s suspend ld for 25 Y Men’ hoes, Men’s Cravenette Rain Coats 35t 96 auita $3.85 row . 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