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ELOPING RECTOR
IS NOW A PAINTER
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Says Ha Gets a Week’s Wages For
a Week’s Work.
ONFROCKED JERE KNODE COOKE
Telia the Story of His Early Life in
Hagerstown, Md., end Baltimore—
His Marriage in Latter City and
Growth of His Infatuation for Floretta
Whaley-Is Back at His Trade.
San Francisco (Special). Jere
Knode Cooke, the unfrocked pastor
of St. George's Church, Hempstead,
L. 1., who eloped about a year ago
'with Floretta Whaley and who, un
der the name of "Balcolm,” is now
occupying a flat on the outskirts of
this city with the girl and their baby,
told the following story of his life:
"My parents died when I was very
young, but young as I was I remem
ber distinctly my mother making me
promise to enter the ministry. As I
grew older the calling appealed to
me more and more and I decided to
enter the church. I was adopted by
a man named Cooke, whom I look
upon as an uncle, and attended the
public schools. When I was 16 years
old I was apprenticed to a painter
and decorator, and there I learned
the trade which I am now following.
The little I earned I saved, and event
ually had enough to allow me to
enter Yale. Life was an uphill strug
gle then. I had to work my way
through college, and on graduating
was appointed curate of a church in
Baltimore.
“While there I met and married
the woman the law calls my wife.
There I made my first big mistake.
When three days after our wedding
she coldly informed me that she had
married me simply as a stepping
stone to social progress and that she
saw in me one who was going to
rise, I recognized the bitterness of
mj lot.
“From Baltimore I was appointed
rector of St. George’s Church in
Hempstead, L. I. The position was a
good one and one that highly pleas
ed my wife. She had there an op
portunity to further her social aims
and it was pleasing to me also, in
asmuch as it was in accord with my
personal ambition to succeed.
“As rector of St. George’s I met
Floretta Whaley. She was a mere
child then and grew up under my
eyqs, I always regarded her as a
child until one day I awoke to the
fact that she was a woman and that
I loved her. At this stage I might
say that, though 16 years old, Flo
retta Whaley was one of the type
that matures early. Her orphan life
anu surroundings had made her re
markably precocious even as a child,
and at IS she was in her woman
hood. I say this in the face of the
criticism heaped on me in regard to
the eloping with one so young.
’-‘I wish it to be remembered that
at this time I was at the height of
my success. The near future prom
ised for me all the sacredotal world
had to offer. I threw aside every
thing and took the girl.
"I knew exactly what the payment
would be. I knew the storm that
would follow. I knew I became a
criminal —I knew it all, and I did it.
“Here in San Francisco I learned
the difference between the East and
West. ~Tn _ tfre East I would have
been stoned and put in jail; in the
West people came to my aid to help
me out. Tney understood that I had
only one course to purse and that
was to Btlck to the mother of my
child. ' I expected a hounding, and
instead I received nothing but kind
ness and offers.
"And now all I ask is to be al
lowed to live my life, not as Jere
Knode Cooke, the unfrocked pastor
of St. George’s Church, but as Jere
Balcolm, painter and decorator, who
draws a week’s wages for a week’s
work.’’
China And Japan Agree.
Tokio (By Cable). —A satisfactory
settlement of the Tatsu Maru affair
was announced. China has conceded
all the Japanese demands. She will
purchase the arms and ammunition
on board the Tatsu and will hoist the
Japanese flag over the vessel. While
the flag is rehoisting.a Chinese war
ship will Are a salute. There is a
general feeling of relief in conse
quence of the settlement of the inci
dent.
Leaps Four Stories To Death.
Washington, D. C. (Special).—
Despondent because of his transfer
from one sub-station in this city to
another, William A. Ridgely, for 20
years assitant superintendent of car
riers in the Washington Postcfllce,
jumped to his death from the fourth
story of his home, at 1104 Thir
teenth Street, northwest. He had
not fully recovered from the inhala
tion of illuminating gas, a fortnight
ago.
Held In Paris As Sharks.
Paris (By Cable). —The Paris
police have arrested three Americans
who gave their names as Schwob and
De Montgomerie, of Pittsburg, and
Howard, of Colorado, and de<jpribed
themselves as “guide interpreters."
The men are charged with obtaining
large sums of money from American
visitors under false pretenses. The
prisoners declare the charges base
less.
5000 Men Return To Work.
Youngstown, Ohio (Special).—For
the first time in seven months nil
the mills in the Mehoning Valley are
in full operation. Every department
at the Valley, Bessemer and Brown
Bonnell plants of the Republic Iron
and Steel Company, the upper and
lower mills and Ohio Works plants of
the Carnegie Company, and the great
plant of the Ohio Sheet and Tube
Company resumed operations at mid
night. ’ The resumption affects about
6000 men.
SOME ODD STORIES
AS TOLD BY WIRE
Otter, Geese, And Carp At One Haul.
-'New York (Special).—Wesley Ja
cobus, a farmer, living on Hook
Mountain, near Towaco, N. J., shot.
Into a flock of wild geese, which rose
from a marshy Inlet of the Passaic
River and brought down two. He
was surprised a moment later to see
another goose rise into the air, thirty
feet, again and again, only to fall to
the ground.
Upon investigation he discovered
that the goose was caught on a set
line nearly five hundred fept long,,
with fifty hooks Set at Intervals. A
section of the line was on the land,
and the goose had swallowed one of
the baits of this section.
Following up the line, Jacobus
found It drawn down Into a hole
under a stump. Pulling the line,
he dragged out of the bole a snap
ing, snarling otter, which in some
way had been caught by one of its
feet on a hook.
But this was not all, for on that
part of the line still in the water
upon the last hook, Jacobus found
an eighieen pound German carp.
Fisherman Hooks A Willing Trout.
Millville, N. J. (Special).—Miss
Belinda Blinks, considered one of
the most adept makers of trout flies
in the local fishing tackle factory,
sent out with a packet of her work
a pleasent little note, which read:
. “If the sportsman -#ho reads this
wants a wife and will throw a hook
to this town he will find a little trout
waiting to jump at the bait.”
The message fell into the hands
of August Bass, of Detroit, who at
once made the longest cast on record,
and after a short time landed Miss
Belinda. She did not put up much
of a fight, and came in so easily that
no landing net was required.
The wedding will take place next
month.
BABY TOSSED DOWN SAFELY.
Thrown From Burning Third Story
Of A Tenement.
Summit, N. J. (Special).—John
MacNabb’s tenement, on the third
floor of a brick building on Summit
Avenue, was burned out. MacNabb
and his wife got out all right, but a
fireman found in bed in a room
where walls were on fire something
which he hastily wrapped all the bed
clothes about and tossed out of the
window.
Policeman Smith, on the sidewalk,
saw the bundle coming his way and
caught it. The bundle began to howl
and Smith, peeling the blankets
away, found that inside was a baby.
It was the youngest MacNabb, 14
months old. He wasn’t harmed.
MR. CORTELYOU WINS.
Court Sustains His Right To Reject
Bids For Canal Bonds.
Washington, D. C. (Special).—
The Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia has dismissed the pro
ceedings instituted some months ago
by George W. Austin, of New York,
to compel Secretary Cortelyou to is
sue to him $3,000,000 worth of Pan
ama Canal bonds. The court held
that the Secretary had the right to
reject any or all bids or to consider
the financial conditions of the coun
try, and that, if the courts were to
enjoin such proceedings, a syndicate
might get control of an entire bond
issue and cause financial ruin. Aus
tin appealed.
THE COLLINWOOD HORROR.
Coroner Burke Declares The Loss Of
Life Absolutely Inexcusable.
Cleveland (Special). —“The loss of
the lives of the little children in the
Collinwood School fire was absolute
ly inexcusable,” Coroner Burke de
clared after making a thorough inves
tigation.
“The poor little children were
caught in a veritable trap and held
and crushed until burned to death,”
he said. “I am not prepared yet to
say upon whom the blame should be
placed. It is a matter so serious that
I must take full time to consider.
The children should have escaped,
and would have done so had it not
been for the partition built in the
hall at the foot of the stairway. This
is what cause their death."
| WASHINGTON \
The Supreme Court approved the
$15,000 fines imposed upon the Chi
cago packing companies by the lower
•courts, under the Elkins Act, for re
ceiving “concessions” in rates from
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad on meat for export.
Gen. M. C. Butler, former senator
from North Carolina, denied before
the Lilley investigating committee
that be had ever lobbied in favor of
the Electric Boat Company.
Senator Tillman made a hot attack
on the President, whom he charged
with patching up a truce with preda
tory wealth • and pandering to the
labor vote.
General D’Amada has reported to
the French authorities that 2,000
tribesmen who recently attacked the
French column were beaten off with
heavy loss.
The Senate passed the House bill
appropriating $403,030 to pay the
Archbishop of Manila for damage to
church property during the Spanish
war.
Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury J. H. Edwards has accepted the
position of receiver of the New Am
sterdam National Bank of New York.
The House, by a vote 255 to 5,
passed the bill restoring the motto
"In God We Trust” to the gold coins
of the United States.
The suggestion to make Rear Ad
• miral Evans a vice admiral is not
; received with favor in either house
of Congress.
The bill to increase the efficiency
; of the medical department of the
army was passed by the House.
IS ANXIOUS TO
BE EXECUTED
Orchard Cheerfully Awaits Death
Sentence.
; PARDON WOULD BE RESISTED.
| Self-confessed Murderer of Many Men
and Chief Witness Against Haywood
and Pettibona days He Is Ready to
Take His Punishment—Declares He
Told Only the Truth.
Boise, Idaho (Special).—On the
morning of hla forty-second birthday,
next Wednesday, in the District
Court of Canyon County, Harry
Orchard, confessed murderer of form
er Gov. Frank Steunenberg, who was
killed by the explosion of a bomb at
the gate of his residence, in Caldwell,
on the evening of December 30, 1905,
will face Judge Fremont Wood pre
pared to hear the death sentence
meted out to him.
Harry Orchard, of his own volition
and against the urgent pleadings of
his attorney and others, refused,
when arraigned on March 10, to let
hit previous plea of "not guilty”
stand. He also refused to plead to
a lesser degree of murder than first
degree. He said:
"I am guilty and am ready to take
my punishment. I have told the
truth. I understand fully what
must be the consequences.”
Some expressions are heard that
Orchard has been guaranteed im
munity of some sort. This is denied
by those in authority and by Orchard.
Those who hatfe been in close com
munication with Orchard —prison of
ficers and spiritual advisers —all ex
press the opinion that should an ef
fort be made to commute his sen
tence or pardon him, Orchard will re
fuse to accept the lenity.
It is the general belief that Or
chard expects to die, and that he
wishes to suffer the extreme penalty
for his crimes. Orchard refuses to
make any statement for publication.
He spends much time with books, es
pecially the Bible and 'religious
works.
MURDERER GIVES WARNING.
Before Hanging He Tells Men To
Shun Bad Women And Drink.
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special).—Morris
B. Holmes, 23 years old, was hanged
in the Allegheny County jallyard. 1
He stabbed Nancy Miller, his sweet
heart, to death with a butcher knife
March 27, 1907, at East Pittsburg.
He had been drinking heavily, and
said he never remembered having
committed the crime.
Just before going to the gallows
Holmes said to his former pastor,
Rev. Charles Miller, of the Home
wood Methodist Episcopal Church:
"Please, for me, sound a warning
to all young men to shun, as though
hell, bad wqmen and whisky.”
FRATERNITIES ABOLISHED.
Muskegon Board Of Education Says
They Are Snobbish.
Muskegon, Mich. (Special).—The
Board of Education, voted that all
high school fraternities and sororie
ties must be abolished from the pub
lic schools of Muskegon before March
20.
The three fraternities and two sor
orities in the schools have a mem
bership of about 200. Opposition to
the societies on the ground that they
breed snobbishness and lawlessness
and lower the standard of scholar
ship was brought to a climax by the
action of one fraternity in harboring
a skeleton and bell stolen from the
schools.
Joke Even To Filipinos.
Manila (By Cable). —Assembly-
man Juan Villamor introduced a res
olution in the assembly to instruct
the Philippine Delegates at Wash
ington to ask Congress how long it
will be before independence will be
granted to the islands. The resolu
tion met with such ridicule from
practically all of the members of'the
assembly that It was withdrawn.
Seeks Light On Lincoln.
Chicago. (Special).—"Fifty dollars
reward for positive evidence that Ab
raham Lincoln was a user of intoxi
cating liquor or an advocate of in
temperance” was the offer made by
Alonzo E. Wilson at a meeting of
the Young Men’s Prohibition Club of
Cook County. "Lincoln was not an
advocate of strong drink: neither
was he addicted to its use,” he de
clared.
Judge Lochren To Resign.
Minneapolis, Minn. (Special).—
Judge William Lochren, of the United
States District Court, in an Interview
announces that he will resign his
position on the federal bench, the
resignation to become effective on
May 31. Judge Lochreh is 76 years
old, and has been on the federal
bench for 12 years.
1,500 Cotton Workers Idle.
New Orleans (Special).—About
1,500 operatives were affected by the
closing down here of the Lane-Ma
ginnis Cotton Mills. The mills re
sumed work only last Monday after
a week’s suspension. It was stated
that in all probability the present
shut-down would not continue as
long as the last one.
Government Paper Burned.
Carlisle. Pa. (Special).—The latge
stockhouse of the Mount Holly Pa
per Company’s plant, at Mount Holly
j Springs, this county, which has for
j many years produced federal and !
! state bend paper, was burned to the j
| ground. It was fired by sparks from .
a passing locomotive. Several car-
I loads of fine government paper in the
• stockhouse were to have been sent
to Washington tomorrow. The loss
| is estimated at (20,000.
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DOUBLE TRAOEBY
IN GIRLS' SCHOOL
Principal Kills Her Cltum and
Herself.
Boston (Special).—Suffering from
melancholia, due to overwork, Miss
Sarah Chamberlin Weed, of Phila
delphia, shot and killed Miss Eliza
beth Bailey Hardee, of Savannah,
Ga., and then committed suicide at
the Laurens School, a fashionable
boarding school for girls. The Lau
rens Sobobl was established last fall
by Miss Hardee and Miss Weed.
Both were graduates of Wellesley
College, and Intimate friends. On
October 1, the day the school open
ed, Mi£s Weed broke down as a
result of overwork, and was com
mitted to a sanitarium in Newton,
to be treated for nervous prostra
tion.
For a while Miss Weed was con
fined at Dr. Norton’s sanitarium at
Norwood, but she escaped from
there, and was transferred to Dr.
Dutton’s home for convalescents at
West Newton. From there she es
caped and. came directly to Boston,
presenting herself at the school
building at 107 Audubon road be
tween 9 and 10 o’clock P. M.
Miss Hardee greeted her, and feel
ing it impossible to return her part
ner to the sanitarium at so late an
hour of the night, made arrange
ments to keep her at the school
building. Accordingly, the house
keeper put Miss Weed to bed in a
room on the fourth floor.
The sick woman slept until about
3 A. M., when she was heard moving
about in her room by Miss Hardee,
who occupied a room on the front
of the third floor. The latter sought
Miss Weed and brought her down
to the third-floor room and took her
into bed with her'. There the couple
remained until 6.15 o’clock A. M.,
When the housekeeper called at the
room, awakened Miss Hardee and
Miss Weed, and told them that they
were to have an early breakfast so
that Miss Weed might return to the
Newton institution on the 7.35 train.
Then the housekeeper started down
stairs and she had not reached the
street floor before she heard the two
fatal shots. She rushed back to the
room, but both women were lying
pracWcally lifeless. Miss Hardee was
barely breathing with a bullet wound
at the base of the brain, and Miss
Weed was already dead from a well
dirdeted shot at the right temple.
The housekeeper hastened to sum
mon Dr. Joslyn, but both women had
breathed their last when he arrived.
CARRIERS WIN AT LAST.
Salaries Raised To $1,200, Despite
Committee Opposition.
Washington, D. C. (Special).—De
termined and persistent assaults on
the Postoffice Appropriation Bill in
the House of Representatives result
ed in the modification of that meas
ure in many important particulars,
despite the protest of Chairman Over
street and his committee. The letter
carriers finally won their long fight
for (1,200 salaries when an amend
ment by Mr. Goebel, of Ohio, grant
ing the same was adopted. The
House also allowed an additional
(25,000 for clerks in third-class of
fices where the salaries of the post
masters range from (1,000 to (1,200,
and (15,000 additional for contract
stations.
The prohibitionists also had their
innings when, through an amendment
by Mr. Houston (Tenn.), there was
incorporated in the bill a provision
prohibiting the transmission through
the mails of intoxicating liquors,
which later modified so as to include
cocaine and its derivatives. Alto
gether the appropriations carried by
tlje bill were decreased to the extent
of $1,225,000.
An amendment by Mr. Kustermann
(Wls.) prohibiting the use in post
offices of any cancelling machines ex
cept those acquired by purchase
aroused a lively debate as to the
rights of patentees. There was a
great diversity of opinion on the sub
ject. The amendment finally was
ruled out on a point of order that it
changed existing law which express
ly appropriated for the rental of
such machines.
| FINANCIAL |
R. H. Thomas has been nominated
for president and F. W. Gilley for
treasurer of the New Yrfrk Stock Ex
change.
William I. Shaffer was appointed
special counsel for the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company yesterday in the
State of Pennsylvania.
Mill owners of Fall River, Mass.,
have decided that they cannot sign
the agreement of other cotton manu
facturers calling for a curtailment
for three months.
Out of a total of 87,500 freight
cars on the Baltimore & Ohio sys
tem, 19,200 are idle, the largest num
ber out of service at one time in
the history of the company.
The recommendation of the Presi
dent to investigate the speculative
buying and selling in the stock ex
changes throughout the country was
not considered a market factor in any
way.
Canadian textile companies report
an even larger amount of business
than at the same period last year.
The increase at what is considered
a dull time of the year was unex
pected.
United States Steel seems to be
in demand as the result of the fav
orable reports from the steel trade.
The stockholders’ committee of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
meets on Monday to nominate four
directors. It is expected that the
i present incumbents named.
There has been a steady resump
tion of the mills of the United States
Steel Corporation during the past
few weeks. On Monday it is reported
ten mills at the Sharon plant will re
sume, and the remaining ten will
start on the following Monday.
THE GRAFTERS IRE
FOUND 6UITLY
Jury at Harrisburg Convicts Everyone
On Trial.
VERDICT IS HEARD IN SILENCE.
Verdict Against All Defendants in the
Pennsylvania State Capitol Frauds
Case Brought in After Nearly Nine
Hours’ Deliberation —Only Two Bal
lots Were Taken.
PENNSYLVANIA’S SCANDAL.
Those Convicted.
JOHN H. SANDERSON, chief
contractor, who furnished the
capltol.
WILLIAM P. SNYDER, former
auditor general, who approved
the contractor’s warrants.
WILLIAM L. MATHUES, for
mer state treasurer, who paid the
contractor’s bills.
J. H. SHUMAKER, former su
perintendent of public grounds
and buildings, who receipted for
the furnishings.
The Charge.
Conspiracy to defraud the state
of (19,000 in a bill of (50,000
for tables, chairs, sofas and
clothes trees.
The Plunder.
Graft to the amazing sum of
(5,000,000 out of a total of
$9,000,000 of the state’s money
used to furnish the new (5,000,-
000 state capitol at Harrisburg.
Harrisburg, Pa. (Special).—Con
tractor John H. Sanderson, ex-Audi
tor General William P. Snyder, ex-
State Treasurer William L. Mathues
and ex-Superintendent Shumaker of
public grounds and buildings, were
found guilty of conspiracy to cheat
and defraud the commonwealth of
Pennsylvania in the furnishing of
the new state capltol.
The jury returned its verdict at
8.50 o’clock P. M., having been out
since 12.19. The greater part of the
time was devoted to going over the
indictment and the judge’s charge.
Only two ballots were required to
reach an agreement. The first bal
lot is reported to have been 9 to 3
for conviction.
immediately after the announce
ment of the verdict motions were
made for new trials for all four de
fendants. The court will allow 30
days for the preparation of the pa
pers on these motions. Meantime
'the defendants will remain out on
bail.
The case, involving tables, chairs,
sofas and cloth trees furnished by
Anderson, on which fraud of $19,-
000 was alleged in a bill of $50,000,
has been on trial seven weeks, hav
ing been started January 27. Ten
other defendants are under indict
ments in 38 cases.
The Penalty.
Only Sanderson and Snyder were
in court when the verdict was given
and neither would talk. None of
the counsel for the deefndants would
say anything about the case. The
state’s attorneys when questioned
said that they were pleased at the
result of the hard work.
The maximum penalty for each
defendant in this case is two years’
imprisonment and SI,OOO fine.
The verdict was received in silence,
and when announced Judge Kunkle
thanked the jury for its patience and
care given.
When the jury retired all other
cases in which the same defendants
figure were continued until March
23, the day upon which the next
trial will begin.
It >vas announced that the next
case to be tried was one Involving
an alleged fraud of $17,789.70 in
bills for metallic furniture. In this
action, which is a charge "of con
spiracy, Congressman H. Burd Cas
sel, Architect J. M. Huston and Sny
der, Mathues and Shumaker are nam
ed as defendants, with Frank Irvine,
a traveling auditor, who made the
measurements of the metal casing.
PRIEST’S SLAYER TO HANG.
No Evidence To Connect Alia With
The Anarchists.
Denver, Col. (Special).—Giuseppe
Alia, who shot and killed Father Leo
Heinrichs in St. Elizabeth’s Church
in this city February 23, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree.
Hanging was the penalty fixed by the
jury.
In the argument just before the
jury took the case Mr. Widdiccmbe
said that the only possible explana
tion of the murder is that the man
is an anarchist or is insane. There
was absolutely no evidence that the
man is an anarchist, and the fact that
he practically was in a starving con
dition would indicate that he was
not a member of any society. Other
wise, he would have had enough to
oof of lpflßt
District Attorney G. A. Stidger in
his closing argument asked:
"When everything ill the life of
the prisoner shows that this man is
sane, is an American jury to find
him insane?” He said that if not an
alienist had testified to the prison
er’s sanity the jury could find no evi
dence of insanity in Alia, unless it
adopted the theory of Dr. Tosti, that
every murderer is insane.
Seven Railroads Sued.
Scranton, Pa. (Special).—United
States District Attorney Witmer, of
the middle district of Pennsylvania,
entered proceedings here against the
Central Railroad of New Jersey,
Pennsylvania Railroad, Buffalo and
Susquehanna Railroad, Williamsport
and North Branch Railroad. Phila
delphia and Reading Railway, New
York Central Railroad and the
Eaglesmere Railroad for violations of
the Safety Appliance law. In all 23
violations are specified.
FLEET ARRIVES FOUR
1 DAYS MEM OF TIME
! Successful Cruise of 13,000 Miles
is Completed.
Washington, D. C. (Special).—The
Navy Department received a message
! from Rear Admiral Evans announc
i ing the battleship fleet had ar
i rived off Magdalena Bay. Admiral
, Evans states the the trip from Cal
lao was made in 11 days and 20
hours, two days ahead of the sched
ule.
The Admiral reports that the fleet,
is In better condition than when it'
left Hampton Roads and that it is,
ready for any service on one day’s
notice. Admiral Evans announces
that target practice will be begun as
soon as ranges can be established.
The news of the arrival of the fleet
in such good condition at Magdalena
Bay was received with great satis
faction at the department.
The run from Callao was one of
the longest of the legs, being over
3,000 miles. The department only’
announced the itinerary as far as
Magdalena Bay, for it was’ intended
that the fleet should remain there
until the target practice had finished.
A few days ago, the itinerary for
the trip from Magdalena Bay to San
Francisco was announced. It con
templated five stops—the first at San
Diego (Coronado Beach), Santa Bar
bara, San Pedro, Santa Cruz and San
Francisco.
It is expected that the fleet will
remain at Magdalena Bay engaged
in target practice for at least a
month, and that it will take the
ships -three weeks longer to go up
the coast of California and make the
stops named, and it is not expected
that they will reach San Francisco
before the first week in May.
Secretary Metcalf, who is going to
San Francisco to welcome the fleet,
will leave Washington about April
25 and reach the Coast a few days
before the fleet arrives at the Golden
Gate. The department is perfectly
satisfied with the cruise and declares
that as a practice cruise it has come
up to expectations and has afforded
opportunities for drills, evolutions
and other naval tactics, and for care
ful and exacting seamanship in wa
ters of which many American naval
men are comparatively new.
The trip has been made without
accident to any of the vessels. The
naval officials declare that there is
genuine cause for congratulations
over the manner in which the fleet
has completed its voyage.
AN AEROPLANE’S FLIGHT.
Prof. Bell’s Redwing Makes Record
For This Country.
Hammondsport, N. Y. (Special).
—Prof. Alexander Graham Bell’s new
aeroplane, the Redwing, in the pres
ence of a committee of the Aerial
Experiment Association and a num
ber of other spectators, flew a dis
tance of 318 feet 11 inches at a
height of from 10 to 20 feet.
The machine is equipped with an
eight-cylinder motor. The distance
traversed is said to be a record for
this country.
The aerodrome was propelled by
a 4 O’-horsepower eight-cylinder air
cooled gasoline motor weighing 145
pounds. The propeller was made of
two blades of steel measuring 6 feet
2 inches in diameter, having a pitch
of four feet and weighing 19 pounds.
The aerodrome proper weighs 195
pounds, the engine and apparatus
about 200 pounds and the operator
175 pounds, thus giving tho entire
machine and operator a weight of
560 pounds. The total supporting
surface, including tail and rudder,
was 453 square feet, which gives a
flying weight of 123 pounds per
square foot.
Was In Famous Fight.
Atchison, Kan. (Special). Fred
erick W. Foster, machinist and gun
ner on the Confederate cruiser Ala
bama during the Civil War, and one
of 40 men who escaped when that
vessel was sunk by the United States
cruiser Kearsarge, died here. Fos
ter kept his connection with the Ala
bama’s career a secret until less than
a year ago.
Roosevelt May Visit England.
London (By Cable). —A persistent
rumor that President and Mrs.
Roosevelt will visit England next
year is current in American circles
here. It is said that he will stay six
months in Loudon with his family
and will study the organization of
the navy and the management of the
dock yards.
Federal Judge Clark Dead.
Knoxville, Tenn. (Special).—Judge
C. D. Clark, who was appointed to
the federal bench by President Cleve
land in 1895 as judge of the Eastern
and Middle districts of Tennessee, is
dead at Chattanooga, aged 61. He
had been in Asheville, N. C., for
sometime, for his health, and only
Saturday was removed to Chatta
nooga. He was a native of Tennes
see.
British Dentil Duties.
London (By Cable). —The injus
tice of the British death duties was
illustrated. Canon Barker received
£155,000 on the death of a sister, '
who came into possession of this
money as legatee of her husband,
who died four days before she did.
The government, therefore, takes a
double duty of £27,700, or 14 per '
cent, of the estate.
Millionaire Dies In Hospital.
Los Angeles, Cal. (Special).—Ed
ward L. Day, millionaire head of a
breakfast food manufacturing com
pany at Cleveland, 0., died at the
Good Samaritan Hospital of uraemic
poisoning. Mr. Day, with his wife,
had been for sometime a guest at
a hotel.
Japan Is Greatly Pleased.
Tokio (By Cable).—-The final re
ply from Washington regarding the
immigration question has greatly
.pleased Japan.