Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 26, 1910, Page 1

VOL. LIL.—NO. 255 - NORWICH, CONN.; WEBHESDRY DMBEH 26, 1910 Battled for Half an Hour With a Fierce Snowstorm Above the Clouds HIS GOGGLES RIMMED WITH FROST Ralph Johnstone, in 2 Headless Wright Climber, Snatched from J. Armstrong Drexel the American Altitude Record Established Monday at Belmont Park Avia- tion Meet—Johnstone Set a New Mark of 7,303 Feet New York, Oct —The American sititude record that J. Armstrong Drexel so proudly brought down out of the clouds yesterday afternoon in his Bleriot monoplane was snatched from his sp today by Ralph John- stone in a headless Wright climber. Direxel reached 7,105 feet, but John- | wtone topped him today by 198 feet h a new mark of 7,303 feet. He vame down chilled to the bone and his xoggles rimmed with frost. For half an hour he had battled h a snow- storm above the clouds, seeking still higher leveis. Wilbur Wright Danced With Joy. The undemonstrative Wilbur Wright danced with joy when he glanced at the barograph. “IU's better than 2,000 " ha cried and began to prance He knew then that the fourth the infernational aviation meat nont Park, Long Island, had him his share of honors. Latham in Aerial Flip-Flaps. Hubert Latham, in an Antoinette moplane, frightened the crowd whan began to do aerial flip-flaps under ~dge of a nasty looking storm cloud mile up in the air. He righted then shot to earth in one steep, ishing swoop. The edges of a tree hrushed his descent and punctured one o his wing surfaces, but he landed with omly miner injurfes to his ma- chine d none to himself, in a potato pateh. Later he flew back to the field wnd passed befors tha grandstand for applause that red. the was freely volun- t« A Collicky Engine. n the meet began with the hour- competition for disiance that regu- rly opens the dav's programme the banging of the bomb found Grahame- White, punctual as ever, out for his <aily promenade around the track. La- cham was hig only competitor and when | »ugine trouble forced Grahame-White's Farman biplane off the fleld it looked as i Yatham in his flying-fish An- toinette would have the event to him- eclf. But White was not to be caught napping. ¥He saw that the scantiest weore whatsoever would bring him sec- ond place, and late in the hour tinker- 4 up his eellicky engine to last two sounds and took down the easfest hun- drzd dollars of the to ent. Two Up for Akitude, Hoxsav and Johnsicne both went up for altitude. Johnstone had entered for distance, but just befors he left +he ground Wilbur Wright instructed bim to g0 after altitude. In the haste of the momeat they both forgot that he was without a barcgraph, the fnstru- ment which records helght, and when Tia eame Cown frem the upper levels fie had nothing to ehow for his effort end was placed unplaced. The Count Teo Lewsens pointed outward much later “han the two Wright pupils, but caught them both and soaring above them ;‘;-mxhl down the prize for the firs: hour. Exciting Pursuit Race. The second hourly distance event was @ pursult race. Grahame-White tri=d his Farman again, found it unre- ble_ took {6 off the field for repairs, wnd during his absence saw the lead he wained Ly his watchful promptness sleadily cut down by speedier rivals who had etarted fater. The issue of the raos hung in doubt to the very last sound end even then the final score belied the apparent rosults. Hopelsss of getting his Farman into running order agein, White took out his fast Blerfot monoplane, the first time ba has besm seen in it here in competition. He gained steadily on MoCurdy in a Curtls biplane, but the Jatter finished first with a lap to the @ooé. It turned out, however, that Me- <urdy had fouled two pyions in trying 1o cut the corrers fine and the forfeit cost him first place. A Picture of Graceful, Assured Poise. In the meantime Hoxsey and John- #tone had zone up for ude again, wocompanied this time by Latham. a fate gtarty, in his Antoinette. The wind had ranged steadily all afternoon t between elght to twelve miles an our, but now angry looking ciouds be- &4n to bank up in the north and soon there was a patter of rain. The An- toinette, most heawiiful of monoplanes, was eoar right at the edge of a particuiarly black cloud, its perfect profila in sharp outline—a picturs of assured poise right over the center of the field, seem:d the higher. though, and Johnstone, far out beyond the back of th d, hidden from those in the <« and on the benches, waz weaving his way in and out of the cloude, now half hidde mist, now fost complately, and again glinting %right in the sunlight Like a Buck and Wing Dancer. | Radley of the British team flashed over | the line in a Bleriot and vanished into | the cast before it was known to any | but the judges that he had started in the cross country race of twenty miles to a captive balloon ten miles east of the course and he had rourded the bal- {Joon. His time seemad incredibly swift and It was agreed that there must be a difference between the chronometer at the judges’ stand and the observers watch at the balloon. While the mat- ter was still being argued Radley was back again. He bad done the twenty miles at better than sixty miles an | hour. His exact time was 19.48 2-5. rly Radley must be Teckoned with in the races for the Gordon Bennett international trophy. Three Airmen Lost for a Aime. Moisant, in his passenger-carrying Bleriot, started almost as Radley fin- ished, and was -shortly followed by MeCurdy in a_Curtiss biplane and in a Bleriot, at intervals of approximately one minute. All three of them got lost and Drexel and Mc- Curdy never finished. Moisant came back in very slow time and reported that he had searched for the balloon in vain through a thick fog. There was alarm- for Drexel and McCurdy, but first one and then the other tele- phoned to the judges that they had landed without damage in distant flelds. It was then too dark to fly back, they said, and they would return tomorrow. Hamilton Takes Out His Man-Eater. While the crowd was waiting for news of them, Hamilton took out his 115-horsepower racer, but had engine trouble and came down. Hamilton be- lieves he can make great speer, but admits in his words, “that his engine is.a man-eater.” Appropriately enough, it has a roar like a dragon and bleches fire in the best mythological manner. First Appearance of New Wright Ra- cers. More interest attached to the first appearance today of the new Wright racer, which was uncrated last night and assembled ‘this morning. With Orville Wright in the pilot'’s chair it was given two trials, one in the morn- ing and one in the afternoon. Garros of fiég French team ‘caught its.time for one lap in the morning trigl at 1.26 and in the afternoon trial at_1.28. These unofficial figures are to be compared with those given out by the judges today for the fastest Jap, made Vesterday—Auburn in a Bleriot, 1.44, John B. Moisant inspected the ma- chine with interest before it went up. “Gee!” he said, in homely fashion, “that thing's got speed!” And the performance proved it. Adyenturous Women Go Up fer Sheort Flights. Quite a little bevy of adventurous women went up for short flights dur- ing the morning and afternoon. De Lesseps took up four during the day and Miss Eleanor Sears of Boston made another trip with Grahame- White at a height of about 150 feet, for four rounds of the course. Allan A. Ryan, son of Thomas F. Ryan, and chairman of the committee on ar- rangements, was another enthusiastic passenger in the care of Hoxsey. He came down exuberant with delight. “If you like it that much at a| height of a few hundred feet,” said Wilbur Wright, “how do_you think you'd Hke it up 7,200 feet?” “I'm going up that far before I get through with it,” answered Mr. Ryan with determination, and added: “I'm coming down here tomorrow take my first lesson.’ ‘The beauty and thrill of yesterday's exhibition showed today in the great: increased attendance. Today’s Events. Tomorrow will begin the first elim- ination heats in the trials for the Gordon BEennett international trophy. BELIEVED HERSELF WORTH 1 A MILLION DOLLARS. Miss Johnson Left Will Disposing of | This Sum, Though Being Possessed of But $100—A Boston Story. | Boston, Oct. 25.—Believing hm;srl\l’ al beneficiary to the extent of $1,000,000 in the will of a rich man fn New York | whose name is not disclose Johnson, who died here a days | ago. left a will disposing of such prop- | erty, though being possessed herself of | but $100 at her death. Johnson, of whom little is| makes several public beuuests 000 each to hospitals and homes to known, of . e B and leaves half a million dollars in ddenly the Antoinette be trust for the benefit of Charles N-{ caver like a buck and wirg - | ward Holbrook, son of Henry Hol- ey Doeble remembere® thal Latham |brook, of Newlon, Masss ihe Boy. to as ricct confidence in himself and |yeceive the. principal at the a ot 25 that he 1a ¢ accidents, The his- | ldars Tl vas e ilIp e iof 35, tory of the Antoinette is h history. If the belief of Miss Johnson mrm‘ iz boasts that he hias broken every |out to he true, and it is said that for t it at 1 twelve times Once fe fell 1,600 et perfectly helpless, but his planes parachuted and saved him. Latham in Very Real Peril. So the crowd thought Latham was only doing somsrsaulis to please them. hut he was not; he was in very real peril. He had started to come down when he felt the rain and had been caught in a wind flaw. Tossed to one €ide und the other. first up and then down, he tilted his planes and shot down in a swoOD as ewift as any fal- con. Tn a matter of seconds the rush of his descent had eaten up the half mile between him and the earth and $o was hidden behind a clump of trees, Flv in a Curtiss biplane went out to re-onoi -r. found Latham with nothing WOr: th u puncty d wing and a broken skid Johnstone Blinded by Frost on His Goggles. Mennwhile JolFistone wae battling \ winter weather in the clouds. He aftervar that he mesnt to try for 4 new world@ record. and that he Lelieved he shonld "have got ic if the frost or lis sogkles ‘had not blinded him. His descent was 50 equably ac- complished that fhere was a cry of rprise from nds when his ma- chine w Twenty Miles in 19.48 2.5, ‘The last the day was fuli af ymcertainty and Fuspense with very Ultle preliminary manoeuvring. F. W, | vears sh> has'c imed that some day $3,000,000, the effect of the will filed | today will be to bring about the ap- | pointment of William M. Noble, a lo- cal attorney, as trustee for young Hol- brook. Mr. Noble said today that he could say little about Miss Johnson, as she had been his client. He knew nothing at all of the mysterious Ne man. “Pickles” Berg Exonerated by Coro- ner’s Jury. rk, Oct. A coroner's ju exonerated Adolph (“Pickle of all responsibility of the death lof 12 years old Charley Fisher, during a gang fight on Octobers Harry Greenwald. It had peen el fed thar Berg held the child up-as a Shield against Greenwald's bullets, Lut !no evidence indicating this was pre- | [sented. G ald when corneved by | | {the police after shooting the lmgekitl- § ed himsell { &t At Ancwe Kroouland, | 1{x0n| New Y At Liverpool. Lusitania, from New York. At Trieste. Oct. -2 Atlanta from New York: Ostania. from New York. At Marseillek, Oct. 23 Santa Anna from New York | Ehe would become possessed of at least | 3 CAME DOWN CHILLED TO THE BONE| Cebled Paragraphs Lisbon, Oct. 25.—Eight thousand Ereight @and express wagon -dfivers went on strike today. Solders and firemen are being utilized in the trans- portation of the necessities of life. Darmstadt, Hesse, Oct. 25.—August Euler * established 2 German aviation record today by flying three hours six_minutes and eleven seconds in a military aeroplane of his own con- struction. tel 200 sovs. added, distance six furlongs, today and won by Sandwich. r was second, and Prince San third. There were five starters. for two year olds. was run here August Belmont’s H. P. Whitney's Borrow Rome, Oct. 25.—Twelve new cases of cholera and seven deaths are cfficially reported during the past 24 hours. Of the cases one developed in Rome, three in the city of Naples, two in the prov- ince of Naples, five in Caserta; and one in Salerno. Two of the deaths occurred in the city of Naples. Brussels,” Oct. 2 Emperor Will- iam of Germany is now the guest of King Albert of Belgium. The emperor arrived here this afternoon and was met at the railway station by the king and queen. He was accompanied by a large suite and was cheered as he passed through the streets, lined with ten thousand troops. Magdeburg, Prussia, Oct. Tieut. Mente fell with a Wright aeroplane to- day and was instantly killed. The airman was planing to the earth when he started his motor. The strain caused the machine to turn turtle. Tt crashed to_ the ground. carrying the lieutenant beneath it. The aeroplane was smashed to bits. NOMINEE JUDGE BALDWIN AT TORRINGTON RALLY Considers the Ta State a Burning Question. Torrington, Conn., Oct. 25.—Judge Baldwin, democratic nominee for gov- ernor, before a democratic rally here tonight, said that the tariff question in this state was a burning one. be- cause it was vital to prosperity to have a substantial free list. Referring to Representative George B. Chand- ler's saying that he had found noth- ing in Judge Baldwik's books about present-day legislation, Judge Bald- win said that while a_judge he kept his mouth shut on such topics. = The speaker said that he regarded the strengthening of the corrupt practices act one of the most important tasks the general assembly would have to take up. He could not agree with the republican nominee for governor, who said that he believed that the act had thus far been lived up to in letter and spirit. “I cannot,” Judge Baldwin said, “agree with him in the opinion that money has not been offered, mon- ey sometimes refused and sometimes accepted, this yvear, at nominat- ing conventions of the republican par- ty. I believe it has been and that this money: has brought results.” In closing the speaker asked if any republican present could this year vote. for a party “that can try to palm off the Payne tariff as a low tariff; that is keeping the Americdan flag off from all:'seas, -and that is.governing our state from Washingion instead of Hartford > !ENSATION CREATED N FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES Premior Briand Tells of Deliberate Plot to Ruin France by Civil War. Paris, Oc On the re-assembling of the chamber of deputies today aft- er the government had been attacked by the socialists. Premier Briand cre- ated something like a sensation by de- claring that he hac proof, through con- fessions of the leaders of the recent railroad strike, that th was a de- liberate plot to ruin France by vio- lence, anarchy and civil war. In concluding his address the pre- mier said that the cabinet was study- ing a plan to prevent a repetition ot such strikes while at the same time guarding the legitimate rights of wage | earners. The socialist members of the cham- ber made a violent demonstration against M. Lepine, prefect of Pari and the head of the police was forced to withdraw. Then they denounced the ministry for throwing the milita resources of the country to the ser of capital, asserting that such a pro- cedure only increased the war among classes. The discussion went over us- til Thursday. HEAD CRUSHED BY AXE. Body of Cincinnati Woman Found Be- side Railroad Tracks. Cincinnati, O.. Oct. perpetrated near th 25.—A murder spot where M Anna Lioyd met her death in a_m terious murder on last New Year's day s revealed tonight by the find- ng of the bodv of Mrs. Mary Hockne: 26 years old. with throat cut from ear to ear, ths head crushed in by a blow from an axe and gashes all over her body. According to police information, the Pody was discovered by the husband f the dead woman alongside a rail- road track that runs near their cot- tage. 1 A search revealed the bloody axe i\l'v[h which the deed had been com- mitted, but aside from this clew the police tonight were bafiled. " OBITUARY. Mrs. H. Anna Brunner. Springfield, Mo.. Oct. a result of a surgical operation performed sev- eral days ago Mrs. H. Anna Brunner of Bo: died in Springfield tods vears old. runner was st s husetts for the W. C. T 1 a national director of the Loyal Tem- perance Legion. She will be buried in Mount Vernon, Mo., the home of a sis- | ter. Rev. Samuel Cahill, S.J. Philadeiphia, Oct. 26.—The Rev. Samuel Cahill, 8.J. rector of St. Jo- seph’s church, and formerly prominent as a Catholic educator, died here to- night, aged 64 years He held promi nent positions In Fordham university Loyola college, Baltimore, and Holy Cross college, of which he was elect- ed president in 1887. “Luther League” of America vention af Pittsburg. in Con- Faburg, “Gk 25 BB “Luther letlg of Alaerida open in\ ninth arMBI conventien lierc aemight soout fMe hundred delegares and vis itors nt froi ali seetions of the coun The convention is alse the fiftgentl l'“““isg Apitie league. AT opening Jerenio C. Stoe- sy of Philadelyhia, pxflm of the leagiie, delivered T A d(res Actress Taken Il on Train. Mobile. Ala., Oct —Miss® Adelaid ston, an actress. was sudde stricken with illness today on Ceutral prain while en cola. She was hurried tonight for treatment. te organizer in | ith 116 Year Old Woman Rescued| Simeon Baldwin FOUR PERSONS, EACH OVER ONE HUNDRED, SAVED. HOME FOR THE AGED AFIRE One Hundred and Five Women and Eighty Men in the Home—All Res- cued With Considerable Difficulty. New York, Oct. 25.—Three women and one man, each reputed more than 100 years old, were among those res- cued when fire broke out in ihe cellar of the home of the Daughters of Ja- cob tonight. There were 105 old wom- en in the home, and in an annex were eighty old men. None of the inmates were less than 65 years old and but few were able to make their way to the street without assistance. Carried Down Burning ftairs. Mrs. Esther Davis, who is reputed to be 116 years old, was one of the first rescued by two policemen, who carried her down the stairs. Mrs. B. Marcus, said to be 106 s old. and a donator of the home, and Mendel Diamond, who is recorded as being 108 years old, were also carried out through dense smoke Many of the aged peovle who tried to make their way out of the building were overcome and were dragged out of the smoke-filled halls. Panic in the Neighborhood. The fire caused a small panic in the neighborhood, as a great crowd of rela- tives of the aged inmates collected, and police reserves had to b called out to keep them in order. The fire caused emall loss. PRICE OF COTTON ADVANCED g PRACTICALLY $3 A BALE Prediction of 20-Cent Cotton Before End of the Season. New York, Oct. 25—With an ad- vance of practically $3 a bale in the price of cotton today, seldom if ever has the trade, accustomed as it be- came to rapid fluctuations during the bull campaign of last season, experi- enced such an abrupt transition from wealkness to strength displayed by the staple. The sudden climax followed the publication of the census bureau report showing the amount of cotton ginned to October 18 was practically six hundred thousand bales short of the six million mark which had been estimated by many trader: The r port was made public before the mar- ket opened awvd the first quotation showed an advance over Monday's close. Throughout the day prices worked higher until the close. -The highest point of the day was encour- aged by reports that the reviyal of small crop estimates had stiffened the backbone of wavering southern hold- ers and stimulated the demand from mills. Predictions of twenty cents before the end of the scason were frequently heard in local trade circles and the market -in short reflected a complete revival of the bullish enthusiasm no- ted on the advance of the earlier sea- son. FRAUDULENT REGIS‘I’RA'I"ION IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY. Word Received at New York Republi- can State Headquarters. New York, Oct. 25.—Word was re- ceived at republican state headguar- tres tonight that Justice Tompkins of the supreme court at White Plains had granted Attorney General O'Malle: application for an order to show causs why from the registration rolls In W chester county. The order is retur able Thursday man Prentice of the republican state committee said that the discovery of these cases of alleged fraudulent regis- | tration was the result of investiga- among laborers’ camps on the route of the Catskill aqueduct. eH said that he expected registration lists in Ulster and Orange { counties, where, he charged, the demo- crats have been padding the registra- tion by taking advantage of the army of laborers employed on the aqueduct and the Ashokan dam. When the attention of Chairman Huppuch of the democratic state com- mittee was called to Mr. sertions, he “The republ have tried to keep @ number of men off the rolls who are entitled to vote. SING SING PRISON PHYSICIAN FOUND SERIOUSLY INJURED Beside the Wreck of His Automobile— ing burned to death, as a by gasoline hurled from the wr car had almost reached his body. | a statement made by the doctor | Iucid interval it is believad he was | down by another automobile and left ! MISS LENEVE ACQUITTED. | Jury Finds Her Not Accessory to the H Crippen Murder. After a trial lasting | Tondon, Oct. 2. only a few hours in the New RBailey | eriminal court today. a found Ethel Clara. Leneve not guilty as an accessory after the fact to the murder ! of Cora Belle Crippen. for whose mur- { der Dr. Crippen is to be hanged on Nov. 3. Eluded Her Nurse and Was Found Dead. Weston, Mass.. Oct. 25.—Eluding her nurse tonight. Miss Ethel Hardcastle, daughter of Frank Hardcastle, said to be a wealthy New Yorker, wandered out into a heavy thunder storm and her dead body was found an hour later by searchers besifle the tracks of the Joston and Maine railroad. She h 1 by a train C —Bn?.ndxu, Gieneral Da id rier Hup U,:S. A, retired. 68 vearsld, died at his home today after a lang illness. General fHeap was Formerly chief enginver the depa nt of the Pacific. Dancing Ciass. ic hall on Tuesday evening At Profe: Kennedy arted his begin ners’ class. Tha goad number atten ing showed prosress after their first evening of inatructfon. which incliuded mome of the new novelty numbers. names should not be stricken | Tn giving out this information Chair- | tions by republican campaikn workers | similar clearing of the | Prentice’s as- | Run Down by Another Machine. ining, N. Y., . Robert | T. Trvire, for m on phy- | ian at Sing § nd uncon- ous and bleeding beside the wreck | of his automobile on a country road this afternoon. sOnly the timely dis- coyery of his plight prevente helpless in the debris ‘of his machine. | of § Open Letter to DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF THIS STATE. FROM THEODORE ROOSEVELT Reply to Mr. Baldwin's Demand for Retraction of Statements Made Re- garding Him by Mr. Roosevelt. Roosevelt issued an open letter today to Simeon Baldwin, ex-chief justice of Connecticut and democratic candidate for governor of that state, in reply to Mr. Baldwin's demand for a retraction of statements made regarding him by Colonel Roosevelt in his sp2ech at Concord, N. H,, on Saturday. Colonel | Roosevelt in that speech said that Baldwin stood in a retrogressive atti- | tude toward workingmen's compensii- tion laws. Justice Baldwin in his let- ter said he never had held the view attributed to him. Colonel Roosevelt's Letter. } Colonel Roosevelt's letter is as fol- | lows: “Judge Simeon E. Baldwin, New Ha- not received the letter | which it is said you have sent me, but I have seen extracts from it in the press today, and hasten to answer. | Two or three different versions of what | 1 am alleged to have said appear in different papers. Apparently they in- clude two different and distinct sen- | tences, neither reported at length nor quite correctly, and both combined into one, hat T said in substance is as fol- lows: “I had stated the attitude of the democratic_candidate for governor in the state of New York in upholding the | view that it was unconstitutional fnr! the state to enact legislation prnhlhvnl ing laboring men from hzing required | to work an_excessive number of hours under conditions which the legislature deemed unhealthy T stated that the republican party, in contradiction to | these retrogress views, took in the strongest fashion a progressive posi- tion on all these matters; that we held it was the right of the legislature to interfere with the conditions of labor whenever the hours of labor were so excessive that under the actual hy- glenic conditions In any business they amounted to a menace to the health and welfare of the workman. T con- tinued by saying that many judges in the past and some judgas even in the present had held or were holding the view that legislative bodies could not interfere with what I regarded as the utterly miscalled liberty of laboring men and women to contract for the performance of work under conditions which _jeopardized their welfare and their lives or limbs. I continued by saying that the democratic candidate for governor of Connzcticut also occu- pied a Tetrogréssive attitudé in this matter, T again continued, stating that we on the contrary stand fér what T regard as the only proper progressive attitude, ‘which is that it is not com- petent for the workman who may be driven by dire need to accept any em- ployment in spite of the conditions im- posed upon his acceptance, to bind himself or to be bound in any way by any of his not to be compen- sated 1lth is damaged or if he i 1oses life or limb in that occupation. “You say in vour letter as printed that the viaw of which T speak would { be opposed to the settled principles of law and no competent lawver could or would take it, and that to ascribe such { a position to vou is caiculated to affect vour standing as a lawyer. If you will anding as lawyers, but I emphatical- | {1y hold that the position they took was and is retrogressive and not pro- gressive. “I have with me the printsd tran- script of one of your opinions which ! was handed to me prior to my making the speech in question, but if the news- paper account of your letter is correct n hold therein that railroad em- | ces who accept benefits fr. the ident insurance, which say the | railroads often style a relief depart- | ment, cannot laok to the company in case of accidents. If vou reported by the press I hold that this no: sive and not progressiv the state has absolutely | enact laws refusing to permit re col this is rotrogres T hold that ! the right to and that | in n i ' existing laws should. in accordance | I the opinions of very many pro- i gressive judges. be construed as not| mitting any m dirzectly or indi-| { rectly, by ‘any action of his own. to| | estop himself frem his rieht to have a railroad or ofher corporation foreed | j to compensate him for any ininry done | of his dutv. auoted in! to him in the performane If you s correctly { the nre matte vou hold t! | the acceptance of a verv small henP"ll“ from the accident insurance any { by a railroad employe would eston him | recovering the substantial amount which he otherwise would be entitled to recover for an injury received. T hold that such a view’ is most emphat- ally not progressive. Cery respectfully vou “THEODOT E r-rm< VELT.” TRUSTED ROOMER WROTE BLACK HAND LETTERS ‘Te His Landlldv And Received $275 —Held in $5,000 Bonds. | Chicago, Oct. —Fear that her daughter would be kidnapped caused Mrs. Eva L. Buffing to pay tribute demanded in a series-of letters which it developed in the United States court today were written by a member of her own household. This was shown when H. H. Downer was arraigned be- fore United States Commissioner Foote on a charge of writing threat- ening letters. Downer had been a trusted roomer at Mrs. Buffing’s home. Two months | ago he married and brought his wife [tO live in the house. hortly att | wards Mrs. Buffing, who had just in- | herited $1.000 from her futher, received | i {a letter sighed “Black Hand." aud de nding $150. Downer sas greatly | uterested and advised Mrs. Boding to | gard all srivulat s and pa Ll {money. Five davs later she recetved | {another demand which Downer ad- | { vised her to p This wae repeated } until she had paid $275. Then she ad- vised postal inspectors and Downer ¥ arrested. He was held to the grand jury in 000 bonds. The Supreme Court Set for Argument on December 5 the Engel case involv- ing the auestion of the constitutional- ity of the private banking act of New York. | covers of such arti | warrants for a number | P ! grand jury Condensed“’felegrams Captaii survey ship McArthur reports tides of 30 feet variation in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Crazed by Drlnk Allen Smith_ shot his wife at Springfield, O., and, think- lng he had killed her, committed sui- cide~~ * Mrs. Mary Kelly, aged 85, was burn- ed to death:in . Hoboken, when her dress'came in, contact with a pan of hot coals. ~ Members of the Psi Upsilon frater- nity at Trinity college are held in quarantine, afflicted with a peculiar eye disease. A Life Size Painting of George ‘Washington has been turneéd over to the National Museum by the interior department. The Justices of the Supreme Court paid their annual visit to’the White House, spending twenty minutes with the president. Martin Robinson Shot and Killed his sweetheart at Lafayette, Ind., and then committed suicide. Jealousy was the cause of the act. Interstate Commerce Commissioners Lane and Clark left for Chicago,where the hearing in the western rate ad- vances will be resumed. Senator Cummins of lowa opened the republican speechmaking campaign in Chicago with an address under the auspices of the Hamilton club. The Supreme Court of the United | States refused to consider the appeal from the district court which declared | the trading stamp law constitutional. Six Billion Board Feet of Lumber, valued at about $15.000,000, were de- stroved in the recent fires upon the national forests in Montana and north- ern Idaho. Inspecting All the Properties owned by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad was begun by a spe- cial commission appointed by the last Massachusetts legislature. John K. Tener, republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, has sworn out warrants for the publisher of the Philadelphia North American charging him with criminal libel. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion suspended advanced rates on grain and grain products from the middle west to eastern destinations, filed by western and northwestern railroads. All the Unallotted Lands of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in Ollaho- ma and the forested area in the Choc- taw nation, amounting to several mil- Hons of acres, are to be sold at public aucnun \ chnrhs McCarthy of Madison, Wis, chief of the legislative reference libra- ry of the Wisconsin free library com- mission, was at the White House in consultation with the president and Secretary Norton. THE APPROACH OF CHRISTMAS, WARNING TO POSTMASTERS Regarding Articles Bearing Nén-Post- age “Christmas” Stamps. Washington, Oct. 25.—The. first ‘of- ficial note of the approach of Christ- mas appeared today when:the post- office department issued a warning to all postmasters that Portugal. Guate- mala and Uruguay refuse to admit to tHeir mails articles bearing non-post- “Christmas” stamps or othér ad- stamps or labeis. Por- objection, however, is limited such stamps as resemble regular age | postage stamps. Other countries, such as Great Brit- ain, Germany, British Bast Africa and a host of British dependencies, will ad- mit articles bearing such stamps when turn to Mr. Alger's little volume called | the Stamps are affixed ta the reverse | “Moral Overstrain’ and read the c ang not to the address sic The pos- ter in which he deals with the dec tal officials announce that articles la- of the courts upholding this so le to be refused admitlance to the liberty of the laboring man to make a | countries mentioned will not be for- contract to his disadvantage you will| warded from the United States, but see that very many judges have taken | Will be returned to the persons mail- | the position to which I object. These {ing them. 5 | judges, T have no.doubt, were honor- | Incidentally, the department has is- able and conscientious men of high |sued the usual annual caution that to avoid delay in handling articles. bear- ing Christmas stamps to be transfer- red in the international mails, the les should bear the ess of the senders. nd ads full name LOST HIS VOTE BY SNORING. Lodger Ordered to Leave House After He Had Registered. New York, Oct, John H. Kearns, deputy state superintendent of elec- tions, applied to Magistrate. Kernochan in the Yerkville police court today for of persons charged with registering illegally. The warrants will not be served unless the persons named in the warranis at- tempt to vote on election day. In one instance a man registered as a voter from a lodging house in the Twenty-first election district of the Twelfth assembly district.: He had been there three nights when he wa ordered to leave hecause he snored so loudiy that he disturbed the slumbers of the other patrons. He will not be allowed to vote. | Deaf, Dumb, and Blind in One Eye, but Not Handicapped. New Haven, Conn., Oct, —An ap- ant today at the Yale bureau of appointmonts and helf help was a col- ored student who has passed into the semior class of the Yale Law school. He bears the degree of bachelor of law as a graduate of Shaw university. He is deaf and dumb. and has lost the sight of one 2ve, the result of injuries received at football in North Carolina, but in his own words proposes “to make good” with the eve that is left. Would Not Accept Bequest of a For- tune. Denver, Col.. Oct. 25.—Tyman P. Brown of Denver, heir to the entire estate of his friend, Charles Burns. a ploneer miner, today anmounced that he would not acceot the bequest, but would try to find a 16 year old daugh- ter of the testator and give the prop- to her. Burns and his wife were divorced when the daughter was a child. She is_now_attending. school somewhere in New York state. Investigation of Los Angeles Timss Building Explosion. T.o8 Angeles, al, Oet. summoned to the destruction of the Los Angeles Pimes build by an_explosion and fire was empanelled toda the su- perior court. Charles Weeks, a lumber was chosen foreman of the jury made up in the main of merchanis, packes ang frujt 'S man, which ranchers ErOWers Campaluqu n New Haven Outlying "Wards., Haven O Charles A, the republican nominee- for governor, .campaigned through the outlying ward® of ihe cify lonight. making geveral specches Amaorg |hos in the party wasz Colonel Shepard. of PFortiand, eongressional nomines. Goodwi New Goodwin. sgarch Siarl n Deck of the United States| | | ing Louis Von Phul and Joseph | ising. REPORT THAT ’AMERlCA .- WAS SEEN AT CHAPEAU, ONT. MILWAI.IKEE WEATHER MAN Believes the Balloon Was Lost in Lake Superior—Idea of Sending Re- lief Balloon May Be Abandoned. St. Louis, Oct. 25.—Lewis Spindler, representative of the Aero Club of St. Louis in the search for Alan R. Haw- ley and Augustus Post, the missing pilots of the America 1L, which left St. Louis in the international balloon race on October 17, tonight started from Toronto to Chaplean, Ont., according to 4 telegram he sent to the Aero club of- ficers. He said that John S. Rogers, chief of the Ontario provincial police, had assured him of the authenticity of the report that the America I was seen at Chapleau Tuesday night, Oc- tober 18. Acting on this information Mr. Spindler will spend his time at Chapleau and Sudbury, Ont. Relief Balloon St. Louis No. 3 May Not Be Sent North. It is probable that the idea of hay- M O'Reilly, crew of the Million Club bal loon, start from Sault Ste Marie, Mich,, in the 8t. Louis No. 2 as a relief party in search of the New Yorkers, will ba abandoned. There is wide divergency of opinion concerning the practicabfl- ity of the plan to send Von Phul and O'Reilly out in another balloon te search for Hawley and Post. Von Phul said tonight that he was still preparing for the trip. Theory of Milwaukee Weather Fore- caster. Milwaukee, Wis., Oct.. 25.—That the ballcon America Ii. was lost on Lake Superior is the belief of W. C. Dever- eaux, weather forecaster of Milwaukee. “There was a Zow’ moving this way when the balloons started from St. said Mr, Devereaux, “and this used the wind to blow from the south about the time the balloons reached Lake Michigan. This south wind of course took the Amerfca II. directly north, as is proved by mes- sages from Hawley.” Opinfon here is divided as to the possibility of rescuing the men even if they passed safely over Lake Huron and Georgian bay into the vast wild- erness of northern Ontario and Quebec, or the Ungava district,. still further north. Ottawa, Int, Oct. 25.—The black fastness of the north tonight still held the secret of the lost balloonists, Alan R. Hawley and Augustus Post of New York, and their sky ship, the America 11,, which left St. Louis eight days ago with other competitors in the ‘inter. national distance contest. Various ru- roms have réached the buréau estab- lished here by REdmond P. Stratton, represefting the Aero Club of America. but when sifted down they produced nothing that would indicate with anv. degress of certainly the whereabouts” of the aeronauts. ‘What appeared to be a promising clue developed early in the day when a despatch from Huntsville stated that a guide had seen a balloon on Thurs- day twenty miles north of Bisco, Ont. Later in the day. however,it was learn- ed that the guide was mistaken in the day. A second report that a balloon had been seen on Thursday in the district {mmediately north of Georglan bay reached here today from the provincial police in Toronto. Some doubt is also cast upon this story. A third report came from Quebec, but it is regarded as the least prom- Peter Brown, a constable, of the . proviincial force, sent word that he had seen a balloon over Lake Ki- pawa on Wednesday. Both the Ger- manla and the Dusseldorf T passed through this territory. and it is pos- sible that it was either of them that Brown saw. U. 8. STEEL CO. EARNINGS FOR THIRD QUARTER Aggregated $37,365,187—Net Earnings Were $31,048,725. New York. Oc .—Earnings of the TUnited States Steel corporation for the third quarter of the calendar vear as announced today following the regular meeting of the directors aggregated £37,365.187. Net earnin, ter deduct- ing $6,316,462, of which $5,555,555 was charged to “depreciation and extraordi- nary replacement funds” were $31,048,- These figures compara with $40,170,- 760 gross and $33,380,755 net earnings for the previous quarter and $38,246,907 gross and $30,855,019 net for the third quarter of 1909 Total earnings of the steel corpora- tion for the first mine months of this ar amount to V115,153,023 against 90,508,666 for the eorresponding period of 1909, The surplus net income for quarter reported today is $11,078,063, $2,832,030 less than that of the pre\ - ous quarter. Regular quarterly divi- dends of 1 3-4 per cent. on the pre- ferred shares and 1 1-4 per cent, on the common were declared today. No statement regarding trade condi- tions was given out by any of the cor- poration’s officials, but it was intimat- ed that earnings for the current month would compare favorably with those of September, which amounted to $12,- 100,244, the New Haven Man Died as He Was Going Up Hospital Steps. New Haven, Oct. 25.—Feeling ill, Christopher F. Gamber, of 247 Mun- son street, started for the New Ha- ven hospital late today and died as he was going up the hospital steps. Gam per had not been feeling well for sev- eral days, according to members of hid family, and is supposed to have been taken worse while out on the street. The hospital authorities gave pneumo- nia as the cause of death. He was 40 years old and leaves a widow and two children. ¥ Pencions for Massachusetts Baptist Clergymen. Newton, Mass. clergymen of Mass e ars may here- afier e retired on pensions, as a re- sult of a vote passed at the conferenca of ministers of the denomination held this afternoon in connection with the:, 813t sunusl Maseachusecrs Baplist uris attained the age of 62 v niversaries Gceeve National Anemhly Dissolveds Washingion, Oct. A despatch to the state dapartment late today frem United States Minister Moses at Athe ens atated that the king of Greece had signed a decree dissolving the national sscmbly. The despatch statzd that the presant government would IS in_power grenazu new almm LQIT\Q'. he despatch wee hhl 3